Halo Fans Hunt for Truth, Microsoft Hunts for Hearts
Xbox and 343 Industries on Sunday released two live-action trailers for Halo 5: Guardians to encourage Xbox One owners and holdouts alike...
Proposed Amendments to US Cybersecurity Laws Under Scrutiny
The White House in January proposed updates to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that have stirred controversy within the cybersecurity ind...
GitHub Defenses Hold in 4-Days-and-Counting Battle
After battling a DDoS attack for four days, GitHub has restored normal service levels. The primary target of the assault is GreatFire.org,...
Compliance Mindset Can Lead to Epic Security Fail
The recent data breach at Premera Blue Cross -- in which the personal information of some 11 million customers was compromised -- raises q...
YouTube Fiddles With 4K
YouTube on Friday announced that it would begin supporting Ultra High Definition 4K video content. YouTube officially unveiled the news vi...
Retiring in a Tropical Paradise: Risks May Outweigh Rewards
One of the really attractive options for retirement is moving to another country and, for a fraction of the cost of living in the U.S., li...
Gadget Ogling: Shooting Flames, Flowing Time, and Locked-Up Temptation
Someway, somehow, it's apparently legal to own the XM42 flamethrower in the United States, unless you happen to live in California or ...
Big Money Helps Cyanogen Go for Android's Jugular
Cyanogen this week announced the completion of a follow-up round of Series C financing that brought $80 million in new funds to pay for mo...
Facebook Invites App Devs to Join in Messenger Family Planning
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week told an audience at the F8 conference for Facebook developers that the company's future lies in...
The Internet's Split Personality
The Internet has been good for education but bad for morality, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. Researchers conducted face...
Twitter's Periscope Allows Live Stream Replays
Twitter on Thursday unveiled Periscope, the live-streaming app developed by a company it acquired earlier this year, reportedly for just u...
CAPTCHAs May Do More Harm Than Good
If an annoyance contest were held between passwords and CAPTCHAs, passwords would probably win, but not by much. CAPTCHA -- Completely Aut...
Bodacious Bodhi Broadens Linux Desktop
Bodhi Linux 3.0.0 RC3's implementation of the Enlightenment desktop, makes an awesome desktop computing platform for office or home. B...
Ford Tech Could Put an End to Speeding Tickets
Ford Motors on Tuesday unveiled a new technology that can scan traffic signs and automatically adjust a vehicle's speed accordingly. T...
Leap Motion Faceplate Lets OSVR Head Talk to the Hand
Open Source Virtual Reality, a platform that aims to unify virtual reality input devices, games and output, and Leap Motion, a company tha...
What's in an Apple Name?
Apple has chosen some iconic names in the past, like the "iPod" and "iMac." Apple even managed to take "iPad...
Over-the-Air Tinkering Keeps Tesla's Model S New
Tesla CEO Elon Musk last week said that the company's line of high-end electric cars will get some autonomous driving capabilities via...
Docker's No Flash in the Pan
Docker -- the open source application container technology that has drawn broad interest from the enterprise IT industry -- recently marke...
Magic Leap Allows a Peek Into Its Crazy-Cool AR World
Its 90-second promo video showcasing its augmented reality product got the Web talking, but Magic Leap itself isn't quite ready to dis...
Glass Is Still a Twinkle in Google's Eye
Google hasn't killed Glass, its controversial Internet-connected eyewear, CEO Eric Schmidt said in an interview published Monday. In f...
The Big Implications of the Google, FTC Antitrust Scandal
A 160-page report that was far more complete than the FTC no doubt wanted last week was leaked to the media, clearly showcasing that the F...
Gadget Ogling: Cute Robots, Secure Tablets and a Conscientious Can
PLEN2 is simply adorable. A robot to seemingly fix all the world's problems, if its Kickstarter project is anything to believe, PLEN2 ...
Mars One Could Turn Out to Be Mars Zero
Mars One, a Dutch nonprofit organization aiming to land the first humans on Mars and establish a space colony by 2025, appears to have run...
How Secure Is the Apple Watch?
Apple typically has impeccable timing for its new product introductions, but that may not be the case with its new smartwatch. In a gala e...
En Garde, Apple! The Luxe Android Smartwatch Is Coming!
By the end of this year, Apple fans won't be the only ones who can flash a smartwatch worth thousands of dollars on their wrist; Andro...
Musk: Technology May Revoke Your Driver's License
There will come a time, in a future not so far away, when it will be illegal for the average person to drive a car, predicted Tesla CEO El...
The Road Ahead for Self-Driving Cars
While several automakers are currently in the process of developing autonomous vehicles, the road ahead for self-driving cars could be lon...
Windows Hello Waves Off Passwords
Microsoft on Tuesday announced Windows Hello, a feature that allows users to access computers and devices running Windows 10 via face reco...
Q4OS Is a Bare-Bones Business Tool
Q4OS has the potential to become a new attention-getter among up and coming Linux distros. But this distro has a way to go before its deve...
Talking Barbie Says Hello, Parents Say Goodbye
Barbie, who turns 56 this year, finally may get a voice of her own -- but opponents are working hard to keep the talking version of the ic...
Big Robo-Bird Trains to Be Fastest on 2 Feet
Becoming the fastest of its kind is just a byproduct of the ATRIAS robot's primary objective. Oregon State University's biped is t...
Facebook Talks Tough About Online Harassment
Facebook on Monday issued a new set of community standards, including provisions designed to clamp down on revenge porn, bullying, threats...
The Micro Bit's Mega Promise
The BBC last week announced that it would give programming PCs to 1 million students through its Make It Digital initiative, an effort to ...
Survey: Surveillance Is Fine as Long as It's Not on Me
Growing concern over surveillance in cyberspace has people changing their online behavior. Nearly 90 percent of 475 adults recently survey...
Apple Drifts Away From Jobs
Steve Jobs' Apple displayed a rather fascinating balance between design and utility. Granted, it often shifted more toward the design ...
Gadget Ogling: Falling Apples and Magical Pancakes
Apple dropped a few new facts about its Watch at this week's presentation. The hardware is interesting in that Apple is limiting what ...
Asus to Sport Powerful New Nvidia GPU
Nvidia on Thursday launched the latest in its GTX 900s series of mobile GPUs -- GTX 960m and 950m -- designed to make a gaming laptop as f...
Twitter Tries, Tries Again to Reduce Abuse
Twitter this week updated its rules to combat online abuse and revenge porn, in the wake of continuing outrage among netizens. The most si...
Apple's Researchkit Could Be Gold Mine for Hackers
Apple earlier this week announced ResearchKit, an open source framework that will let medical and health researchers gather data through i...
Apple Sinks to Selling a $10K 'Douchebag Detector'
Movie star Anna Kendrick managed to say something in a single tweet that instantly nails anyone who would buy a gold Apple Watch Edition: ...
The CIA Has Been Hacking iOS for Years: Report
The United States' Central Intelligence Agency for years has been working to break iOS security, according to a report published Tuesd...
The Linux Kernel's New 'Play Nice' Patch
Some 60 Linux kernel developers last week adopted a small "patch," called the "Code of Conflict," that attempts to set...
New MacBook: Computing Rethought
The Apple Watch may have dominated Apple's Spring Forward event earlier this week, but an unexpected new MacBook could herald the futu...
Security Experts Rap Clinton's Email Practices
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in hot water over her use of a private email server to handle emails for official business. T...
No Fuel? No Problem - Solar Plane Completes 2nd Leg in Round-the-World Trip
Fueled solely by the sun, the Solar Impulse 2 has completed the second leg of its historic journey around the world, landing in Ahmedabad,...
Evolve OS Is a Clean and Light Work in Progress
I am always interested in new desktop approaches. That's what drew my attention to Evolve OS. Normally, infant releases are too undeve...
What Mobile World Congress Delivered Besides Same-Old Smartphones
The latest handsets and tablets received their typical share of headlines at this year's MWC, but their mindshare shrank considerably....
Schumer to FAA: Straighten Up Cybersecurity and Fly Right
The United States Federal Aviation Administration should implement cybersecurity upgrades recommended by the U.S. Government Accountabilit...
Gadget Ogling: Slick, Dull and Outlandish Smartphones, a Powerful Shield and Invisibility Glasses
Samsung is trying something a little different while simultaneously positioning its S6 and S6 edge as the market's dominant Android sm...
Apple Springs Bevy of New Products at Watch Event
The Apple Watch wasn't the only new product to take the stage at Apple's media event on Monday -- Apple also introduced an all-new...
