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Google has a barge. They’re not telling anyone what it’s for. Now, there’s a new rumor floating around about what it actually is. The U.S. Navy had its share of secrets on Treasure Island, but few were better kept than what’s taking place on a mysterious barge just off the island.
Speculating about next year is hard enough. Trying to look ahead 37 years is almost impossible, but they’ll give it a try. Last weekend in NYC John La Grou was a keynote speaker at the Audio Engineering Society convention. He based some of his assumptions about how recorded music will evolve o
Lock it down. Encrypt it. If you get hacked or your information gets stolen, it’s your fault if you don’t take the right precautions. Your smartphone is your most portable computer. It’s also a treasure trove of personal information. You wouldn’t leave your laptop unlocked in public, so
The government just doesn’t like its own rules sometimes. When they get in the way, they simply move them aside. The Justice Department for the first time has notified a criminal defendant that evidence being used against him came from a warrantless wiretap, a move that is expected to set up a
Most 7th-graders are busy playing Grand Theft Auto V or discovering how their voice changes through puberty, but one in Montreal was hitting the internet and causing mayhem. A 12-year-old boy in Montreal has pleaded guilty to breaking into multiple government and police websites in the name of the h
Temporary chat provider Snapchat and image sharing network Pinterest have hit the big time. Now they need sales people to help them get to the next levels. Earlier this week, AllThingsD broke the news of two major fundings of a pair of hot startups: Scrapbooking service Pinterest and messaging servi
The Facebook IPO was one of the worst in history. It has rebounded since then but the New York Stock Exchange doesn’t want a repeat so they’re practicing for the big day with Twitter. The New York Stock Exchange on Saturday did a test run of Twitter’s highly anticipated market debu
The harder you try to stifle innovation, the harder it will be to try to achieve it. This is a statement that sounds elementary, but the entertainment industry doesn’t seem willing to grasp it. Soon after the death of SOPA, we wrote about a great post from entrepreneur Tyler Crowley (which, sa
It’s not the million man march, but there are clearly a lot of people upset with the government over their domestic spying addiction. Thousands gathered by the Capitol reflection pool in Washington on Saturday to march, chant, and listen to speakers and performers as part of Stop Watching Us,
There’s a good thing about getting hacked. It gives you an opportunity to show that by using OAuth, your clients won’t have their private information or passwords exposed. That’s of little benefit to Buffer right now, but it’s something. Users of Buffer — the tool that allows
It isn’t just the NSA. It isn’t just the local police. Now, you are being spied on by your own peers and it’s a lot easier for them than it is for the authorities. The documents leaked to media outlets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden this year have brought national intellig
It started skyrocketing at the beginning of last year, then Pinterest started leveling out again. It hit another stride this year and growth has been spectacular once again. Pinterest is one of the hot social media sites to emerge over the past year or so. Need a stat rundown on who uses it (hint: m
