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The menacing robotic mechanisms that comb our skies, crawl our lands, and surf the waters of the world are known to be great tools for spying and killing. One CEO hopes to take advantage of the technology, only from a commercial perspective. In 3D Robotics CEO Chris Anderson’s future vision of the w
You don’t need to know the secret code word or subscribe to their exclusive partner internet providers anymore. Now, Netflix is opening up their highest quality service to anyone. Months after introducing its “Super HD” streaming option, Netflix’s highest-definition picture f
How many of the Yelp reviews you read would you guess are forged by the companies being reviewed? MarketWatch reports that 20% of Yelp reviews are fraudulent, typically written by freelance writers from the Philippines, Bangladesh and Eastern Europe who receive between $1-10 for each review. New Yor
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, one of the world’s hardest-charging executives, was moved to tears Thursday as he led what is likely his last annual meeting with employees. Ballmer, choking up near the close of the roughly seven-hour meeting, told more than 10,000 attendees about his love of Microsoft
Bill Gates said that a convoluted login screen was a big design flaw for Windows, but he’s not taking credit for it. The Microsoft co-founder revealed in a speech at a Harvard University fundraiser that forcing users to use the control-alt-delete key combination to log into their PCs was a mis
Sometimes, huge forces of good or evil can be brought down by a single person. Such is the case with a larger hacking group that was taken down by one. The pranksters who exposed the credit reports and Social Security numbers of dozens of prominent Americans used a hidden identity-theft service that
Are there more unidentified flying objects in the skies? Are there more people hallucinating or telling lies? Are there more people being truthful and open about what they’re seeing? For whatever reason, UFO sightings in the United States rose 27% last year. The night was clear, a perfect back
Just when you thought that the whole country was online, a recent study shows that there are still plenty of adults who don’t have an internet connection, don’t want an internet connection, and that believe the internet is irrelevant in the whole scheme of things. At least they’re
If you’re eager to get your hands on a smartwatch (or rather, get a smartwatch on your wrist) then a popular Kickstarter project is rolling out for AT&T tomorrow. Purchasing a Pebble smart watch has not been easy in light of the device’s record Kickstarter success and limited supply.
The news keeps getting better and better for BlackBerry’s competitors. It’s not that the company has been competitive for years, but every time a company like T-Mobile stops stocking its shelves with their products, it’s just another nail in their coffin. T-Mobile US Inc, the No. 4
They aren’t as big as their competitors yet, but file-sharing startup Egnyte is poised to try to take advantage of the privacy concerns stemming from the NSA and other spy organizations sticking their noses where they don’t belong: enterprise file-sharing. File-sharing startup Egnyte is
The man who tried to stand up to the Joker in The Dark Knight is now standing up to another bully. The difference is that this particular bully, the NSA, isn’t fictional and clearly much more dangerous than the Joker. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the powerful chairman of the chamber’s Judiciary Committ
