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Battlefield 4 will have multiplayer women

Girl gamers are starting to emerge as a larger portion of the first-person shooter world. Now, they'll finally be able to play multiplayer Battlefield as their own gender. "Yes, but...

The US Navy puts Linux to work

The open source software adored by geeks around the world will be loved by naval officers and their crew as the latest and greatest defense technology prepares to hit the...

New Facebook like button spotted in the wild

Okay, so it's not a HUGE change. They're just taking the familiar light blue and matching the standard Facebook blue. Oh, and the thumbs up are gone. Do you like...

How Twitter made it this far

They started off as a side project for internal communications for a small startup. It's now about to go public. Here's Twitter's story so far... In the fall of 2010,...

Narrative meets interaction in Device 6

If you're a gamer that likes a strong narrative and games that immerse you, Device 6 might be your next mobile download. Mobile games typically fall into one of two...

Former VP Cheney thought terrorists could hack his heart

There's a fine line between having respect for the possibilities available through modern technology and being completely paranoid. Former Vice President Dick Cheney crossed that line... or did he? Dick...

Twitter music app is probably dying

It's always tough to pull the plug on a project, but Twitter Music has been on life-support since it was launched half a year ago. Just six months after launching...

Windows RT 8.1 gets yanked

Something's wrong. Nobody knows for sure what that "something" is but apparently we have a situation with Microsoft's latest software update. Microsoft took its Windows RT 8.1 update offline until...

The gold iPhone 5S had a working title of “Kardashian”

Apple knew the gold iPhone 5S would be a hit, especially amongst "diva" types. Thus, they named it Kardashian. The nickname, in honor of socialite Kim Kardashian, was first revealed...

Could the US lose power if the electrical grid is hacked?

Infrastructure is arguably the most important component holding together western society. The utility and transportation grids keep us from falling apart in many ways. Could hackers cripple the country with...

MIT prize winning invention regulates body temperature

Sometimes you're too hot. Other times you're too cold. This little device is designed to make you just right all the time. Heating or cooling certain parts of your body...

Corruption at Wikipedia?

It isn't just homework assignments that are getting influenced by the rise of Wikipedia. The donations themselves might be getting some improper treatment according to an outgoing chief. When Wikipedia...

#Video: Drones used to protect wildlife by scaring them

The World Wildlife Foundation has a new use for an old weapon in their fight against poachers. The drones that they once used in vane to scare away poachers are...

Obamacare website problems expanding

It's hard to get on the government's healthcare website. If you can get on, it's hard to stay on. If you can stay on, it's hard to get the information...

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone had mini-blogging ideas before microblogging became a thing

Biz Stone knew all about blogging. He wondered, however, if people would like the concept of mobile blogging that took shorter snippets of information and sent them to their blog...

Will LiFi replace WiFi?

Chinese scientists are working on a way to have wireless internet connections flowing through lightbulbs. A microchipped bulb can produce data speeds of up to 150 megabits per second (Mbps),...

Is the US losing control of the web?

After revelations pointed to the NSA and other spy organizations as using worldwide communication tools, including the internet, to spy on the rest of the world, many organizations decided that...

Finally, a win against patent trolls

No, it's not the minor win of fighting back a patent troll. It's an overarching victory that could force patent trolls to have "skin in the game" if they lose,...

Snowden may have had access due to NSA tardiness

There was anti-leaking software that may or may not have prevented Edward Snowden from being able to leak sensitive data, but the software was late in being installed at his...

Two iPhone releases head in opposite directions

The C is pushed down while the S is getting pushed up. Apple has the prototypical good-news, bad-news scenario on its hands, with soaring sales of its flagship iPhone 5S...