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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...

Colorful banners go up at Apple Town Hall

Ahead of tomorrow’s iPhone-relate media event on Apple’s Campus, banners promoting the proceedings have gone up at Apple’s 4 Infinite Loop Town Hall. The banners are nearly identical in design to the...

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,...

PlayStation announces smaller Vita and a set-top box device

Sony has announced an updated version of its Playstation Vita game console at the Tokyo Game Show in Japan. The company also revealed a new device called PS Vita TV,...

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...

Microsoft’s new song: Xbox Music expands to Android, iOS devices

Microsoft Corp. is making its Xbox Music service available on Android and iOS devices to compete with Apple Inc.’s iTunes, Spotify Ltd. and Pandora Media Inc. The $9.99-a-month Xbox Music...

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...

Oyster’s “Netflix for books” may be the service avid readers have wanted

Oyster has already established a compelling elevator pitch: “Netflix for books.” Pay a monthly fee, get access to an unlimited number of 100,000 titles available in Oyster’s app. The app is...

Apple’s next unveiling could make or break a business

These annual iPhone unveilings have become a sort of Creative Destruction Day in Silicon Valley. Remember all those companies that were making nifty little digital video recorders? There aren’t many...

Sony beats Samsung to the smartwatch punch but will anyone care?

It’s too bad for Samsung this time because Sony has revealed its latest version of the SmartWatch. Samsung was just a few hours late when it announced its new Samsung...