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Siri exits beta with iOS7

With the iPhone 4S launch nearly two years ago, Apple introduced the Siri voice control system to its customers. At launch, Siri was a gimmicky feature at best, being released...

Google, Facebook see no significant impact from NSA revelations

Edward Snowden's unprecedented exposure of U.S. technology companies' close collaboration with national intelligence agencies, widely expected to damage the industry's financial performance abroad, may actually end up helping. Despite emphatic...

How to spot a fake iPhone

Counterfeiters sell $700 billion worth of fake products every year, says Craig Crosby, founder and CEO of the Counterfeit Report, a site dedicated to stopping them, And when it comes to...

The crew that hacks you… for the police

In 2001, a pair of Italian programmers wrote a program called Ettercap, a "comprehensive suite for man-in-the-middle attacks" — in other words, a set of tools for eavesdropping, sniffing passwords,...

Why Zynga is on its last leg

In Zynga's July 2011 prospectus to future shareholders, company founder and CEO Mark Pincus outlined his firm's ambitious plan to take over the gaming world. "My kids decided a few months ago...

Can Twitter co-founder Evan Williams fix content curation with algorithms?

Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an...

Justin Bieber in new Batman vs Superman?

As our lovely reader Nerdgazm pointed out to us, pop star Justin Bieber Instagrammedsomething most unsettling today: a script that suggests he may be auditioning for the role of Robin in Zack...

Argentina ‘superhacker’ arrested for stealing $50,000 a month

Police in Buenos Aires have taken a 19-year-old man into custody on charges of orchestrating a hacker ring that stole $50,000 a month. The teenager, who has been dubbed a...

Netflix uses pirate sites to figure out what shows to buy

This week Netflix rolled out its video streaming service in the Netherlands where it hopes to build a massive user base in the years to come. One of the keys...

Teen creates 17 minute video on his computer screen

These words are probably unfurling inside one of many open tabs on your computer screen. Perhaps one tab is for work, one is for chatting, and another is for Twitter....

Facebook news feed’s new feature

If you've been on Facebook and noticed that videos in your Newsfeed are playing automatically, you're not imagining things. Facebook announced yesterday that it is experimenting with a new feature it says makes watching...

FBI controlled Tor servers in mass malware attack

It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of...

Google may have been an unwitting pawn of an NSA “Man in the Middle” attack

There's a reason why CNET, Techdirt, and Slate didn't make much noise when it was revealed that the NSA or Britain's GCHQ may be using a "man in the middle"...

Flight 666 to HEL flies on Friday the 13th

The internet is chuckling over a quirky news item which uncovered, perhaps, the most ominous flight plan ever: Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th. It’s a series of...

How Wal-Mart is slipping around Apple’s price controls on the new iPhones

Wal-Mart Stores plans to sell the newest iterations of iPhones at a discount, a pricing strategy that Apple has managed to squash for years. The cheaper iPhone 5c will be...

Flying frog caught by NASA

NASA's unmanned LADEE rocket headed to the moon with an unexpected passenger, a small frog which was caught on camera launching into the air from its home in the marshy...

Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world

If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password. Considering how many Android devices there are,...

Eric Schmidt on spying: ‘the nature of our society’

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, reiterated the tech industry's call for greater transparency from the US government over surveillance on Friday, but declined to "pass judgment" on American...

PayPal revamping its policies to better support crowdfunding

PayPal's commerce system wasn't built for crowdfunding, and that has created problems for some startups -- the company recently (if briefly) froze $45,000 of Mailpile's assets, for example. The PayPal...

Google jet fleet loses a Pentagon fuel perk

Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have to dig deeper to operate their fleet of private jets, after the U.S. Department of Defense ended a little-known arrangement...