Microsoft hands out 20GB of free SkyDrivestorage to Windows Phone owners
Right in the middle of the busy holiday period, Microsoft has stepped up to offer Windows Phone owners an extra bit of cheer. No doubt to account for the many...
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Does the IRS know how to tax Bitcoins?
It's someone's money and the IRS wants its cut. However, it doesn't seem like anyone knows how virtual currencies are going to be handled by the tax authorities. Despite a...
Nintendo now selling ‘high-capacity’ Wii U GamePad battery
The Wii U GamePad's wireless nature is kind of a figure of speech, what with how often its out-of-the-box battery life requires a charge. Nintendo's high-capacity GamePad battery hasjumped shores to offer a...
Overstock.com will accept Bitcoin, immediately exchange for dollars
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne made waves in the imaginary money world when he announced the retailer will start accepting payment in bitcoin sometime next year. In interviews, Byrne made his confidence in...
Google Shopping Express starts selling gadgets straight from Google Play
Good news for Bay Area residents, Mountain View's hoping you'll bring its online shop your business instead of braving the crowds for some last-minute holiday shopping.Google's Shopping Express will continue doing same-day deliveries...
Half-cow, half-machine artificial heart implanted in first human
This week, French surgeons implanted a Carmat artificial heart in a human patient for the very first time. The device, which combines mechanical components and heart tissue derived from cows, is...
Japanese bridge inspection robot has magnetic wheels
Most wall-climbing robots rely on advanced forms of suction to keep them adhered to a flat surface, but Japan's latest wall crawler employs a different method: magnets. Hailing from the Osaka City University Graduate School...
iFixit tears down Valve Steam Machine and gives it high repairability score
The iFixit handymen have managed to get their hands on and disassemble one of the 300 Valve Steam Machine beta consoles that were released to testers only a week ago, awarding...
Japanese robot crushes competition in robot olympics
If you are ever trapped in a collapsed building, SCHAFT is the robot you’ll want by your side. The a bipedal robot, built by a Japanese team, just took the top score in...
Swiss researchers created a cube that can sit, jump, and walk
Swiss researchers have created a metallic cube that can "walk" across a surface. Staff at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich crammed a series of inertia sensors and constantly-spinning rotors into a...
Sony’s PS4 is the most Googled tech gadget of 2013 in the U.S.
The PlayStation 4 was Google's most-searched-for item this year in the Tech Gadgets category in the US. The data is according to the Google's Zeitgeist, which rounds up and compiles the...
Amazon workers demand company addresses ‘demeaning’ staff conditions
A recent exposé from Bloomberg Businessweek painted a critical picture of Amazon’s work environment for executives, but a petition currently gaining momentum in the UK suggests that things are far worse for some of...
Researchers find a way into MacBook cameras
Jeff Gamet at The MacObserver tells us in a piece titled Researchers Hacked into MacBook Camera, but that Doesn't Mean They're Spying on You that two researchers have found a way to...
Honey Badger Hedge Fund: Hackers predict stock market with open source mojo
Can an algorithm successfully predict great stock moves? That’s the premise behind Honey Badger Hedge Fund, a super-secret Twitter stock-picker that was put together with a little economics know-how and some exploring with...
T-Mobile’s next move could be devastating for AT&T and Verizon
An unnamed source tells TmoNews that T-Mobile is planning an initiative that would pay off subscribers’ early termination fees if they switch from a rival carrier to T-Mobile. Specifically the source said that the...
Xbox One and PS4 could consume more energy annually than Houston
A recent study from the National Resources Defense Council tested the next-gen consoles, specifically the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, to see how much energy the systems used. The results show that, despite some...
Foxconn will develop some BlackBerry phones in wake of quarterly loss
BlackBerry is turning to Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, to jointly develop and produce some models of handset, the two companies said on Friday. The deal, announced as...
Netflix releases trailer for ‘Fireplace For Your Home’
Ordinary wood logs burning in a fireplace or important piece of cinematic history? Netflix put a twist on the familiar burning fireplace on television and released a trailer to gear up for its...
AT&T to issue “transparency report,” denies widespread sharing of location data
Amidst the ongoing controversy over phone carriers’ role in a surveillance scandal, AT&T says it will publish data about government requests for customer information. AT&T has joined Verizon Communications in...
How Google Glass copycats will plunge you into interactive 3-D worlds
Helped along by a sci-fi-style concept video, a new Google Glass competitor called the Atheer One shot halfway to its $100,000 crowd-funding goal in just a day. “In a few years,...