Apple decided against Google-glass like product
The devices were described by Fadell in an interview with Fast Company's Co.Design blog as "visors" that make the wearer feel as though they are "sitting in a theater." He went on to...
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CA school district to track students’ social media accounts
The Glendale School District in California is facing some backlash from the recent news that it has retained the services of Geo Listening to track its students' social media activity. The...
Apple announces iPhone 5S with fingerprint sensor
At its media event today, Apple introduced the new iPhone 5s. In line with expectations, the iPhone 5s will be the same size and design and the current iPhone 5 but will feature...
Hands on with the Apple iPhone 5C
Wait, Apple unveiled two completely different iPhones on the same day? In the same year? The answer is a resounding yes, though we have a feeling Tim Cook's little surprise wasn't...
Watch out for US border laptop searches
Documents released today as a result of the House v. Napolitano settlement document the systematic use of laptop searches at the US border to evade the need to get a warrant to read Americans'...
Business Insider CTO forced to resign because of tweets
Pax Dickinson has been forced to resign as chief technology officer at Business Insider following an online firestorm over his long history of controversial tweets, according to a source who has...
If the new iPhone has fingerprint authentication, can it be hacked?
And fingerprint readers have a long history of vulnerabilities as well. Some are better than others. The simplest ones just check the ridges of a finger; some of those can...
Apple has some catching up to do
When Apple introduces new iPhones on Tuesday, as everyone expects them to do, the company that practically created the smartphone will face an unusual task: keeping up with the competition. There's...
PayPal introduces hands-free payments
In a bid to dominate the physical retail experience, PayPal unveils a Bluetooth communicator that takes in-store payments hands-free. PayPal unveiled another cornerstone in its vision for the future of...
‘The Internet Must Go’ – a mockumentary
A new "mockumentary" called The Internet Must Go launched today, in conjunction with the latest court hearing in the Verizon case against the FCC over the FCC's net neutrality rules....
The beast is back: The FCC’s net neutrality case gets its day in court
Lawyers for Verizon and the FCC are stepping up Monday to argue over the future of network neutrality before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday. The case, which...
105 years in jail for posting a link?
A few months ago I passed along the story of Barrett Brown, a young journalist/activist who relentlessly followed up on documents leaked by Anonymous, was targeted for this by the FBI,...
Yahoo intern’s logo design was way better
Yahoo unveiled a new company logo last week, but it appears one of the designers who helped come up with the concept may have had other ideas. After the new logo...
The most expensive video game ever made
Budgets for video games are a bit of grey area, but if this report from Scottish newspaper The Scotsman is to be believed, then Grand Theft Auto V is the most expensive...
500 tweets could land you in jail in China
China is in the middle of yet another crackdown on what it terms "online rumors", as the government tries to rein in social media, increasingly used by Chinese people to discuss...
Man remodels internet as one giant computer
Google runs its web empire on computers the size of warehouses. Inside the massive data centers that drive things like Google Search and Gmail and Google Maps, you’ll find tens of thousands...
Instagram pictures itself making money soon
Instagram has grown to more than 150 million users, and there are big changes planned for the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service in the year to come. In the last six months...
Opera debuts new iPad browser
Opera Software has long innovated in the browser space and, on Monday, brought its way of thinking to the Apple iPad. Though Opera already offered its traditional Opera Browser to...
iPhone 5C: everything we know so far
It's almost time for Apple's latest, highly anticipated media event, where the tech company is expected to reveal a new batch of iPhones, new iPads -- and hopefully a few...
NSA backdoor to domestic emails reopened secretly in 2011
Up is down and down is up if you’re watching closely enough to what has been happening at the NSA and with the Obama administration the last few years. The...