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You know what they say – better late than never. If that is the case, Sprint has certainly stayed true to this particular saying, by rolling out BlackBerry 10.2.1 for their subscribers. Verizon as well as T-Mobile subscribers already dished out this particular mobile operating system update last mon
A group of French scientists has developed a method of shielding cities from the force of an earthquake, and after devastating earthquakes in Chile, the idea is drawing some much-deserved attention. It works on the principle of refraction, planting an array of boreholes to redirect the reverberation
Raspberry Pi plans later this year to ship new hardware in the form of a smaller board that plugs into a custom motherboard slot, which could appeal to a new audience of makers, enthusiasts and enterprise users. The new computer has similar circuitry from the current Raspberry Pi design, which is an
AOL on Monday named William Pence as chief technology officer. Pence is a veteran of WebMD and Napster. At AOL, Pence will oversee the company’s technology strategy around the world. At WebMD, Pence was focused on automating technology and operations, cloud computing, mobile products and data
Data storage firm Seagate on Monday launched what it claims to be the “world’s fastest” 6TB hard disc drive. The Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 boasts an operating speed of 7200 rpm, making it around 25 percent faster than any competing 6TB drive on the market, Seagate said
The number of federal government data breaches involving personal identifiable information such as Social Security numbers and patient health data has more than doubled since 2009, according to a report released Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office. For the report, GAO officials examine
Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose says that his San Francisco home was visited by protesters today, who held up a banner calling him a “parasite” and distributed leaflets with the same message. What did he do to deserve this? Well, he invested in startups. While Rose didn’t sound happy about the pr
Vox Media, the online publisher that runs SB Nation sports blogs, launched its general news site Vox.com Sunday, providing a forum for renowned blogger Ezra Klein’s experiment in broadening explanatory journalism. Klein, who led The Washington Post’s public policy blog, Wonkblog, left to
Qualcomm has just revealed the specifications for its 2015 mobile chips—and if you thought this year’s offering sounded good, you are in for a massive treat when you read about these newer slabs of silicon. The two new Snapdragon chips, known as the 810 and 808, are both 64-bit, and billed as
It’s happening again. After viewer demand for the “True Detective” finale overwhelmed HBO’s streaming service last month, HBO Go customers took to the Web again Sunday night to complain that they couldn’t access the fourth season premiere of “Game of Thrones.” Like it did wit
Everyone has probably day-dreamed of launching a space-ship from their backyard at some point. Well, now that NASA plans to release over a thousand of its software systems into the public domain, your idle musings could become a reality. On April 10th, the outfit is dropping a ton of free code for t
The International Finance Corporation, the investment arm of the World Bank, has agreed to commit $5 million to round out a $21 million Series C financing for the ultracapacitor manufacturer Ioxus. According to an email, the IFC was interested in applications for Ioxus’ technology in China’s hybrid
