Instagram Founders Were Helped by Bay Area Connections
SAN FRANCISCO — Past midnight, in a dimly lighted warehouse jutting into the San Francisco Bay, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger introduced something they had been working on for weeks: a photo-sharing ...
Asus to Ship Quad-core Transformer Pad 300 Tablet on April 22
Asus' latest Transformer Pad 300 will start shipping in the U.S. on April 22, the company said Friday. The tablet is being pitched as a laptop replacement with 4G LTE network capabilities. — The ne...
Apple CEO Tim Cook spotted at video game designer Valve's headquarters
Apple's chief executive Tim Cook reportedly visited the Bellevue, Washington headquarters of Valve Corporation earlier today, inciting questions about new potential for collaboration between the two c...
New Draft Of CISPA Announced: Some Progress, Still Big Problems
The House Intelligence Committee has published a new draft of CISPA (pdf and embedded below), which includes the two amendments that were already approved, plus several other additions and changes.
EXPLAINER: Everything You Need To Know About Google's Weird Stock Split
Yesterday, in the second paragraph of the press release announcing its Q1 2012 earnings, Google said its board had unanimously approved “a stock dividend proposal.” — But as the company explained in...
U.S. says MegaUpload's hosting service is no innocent bystander
MegaUpload's U.S. legal team leaves courts following a hearing about preserving the company's data servers. From left to right: Jared Smith, William Burck, Derrick Shaffer and Ira Rothken. — (Credi...
Valve reveals mystery hardware project: wearable computing
This morning, Valve Software set the world of gaming news abuzz by attempting to hire hardware engineers. Now, Valve developer (and well-known programmer) Michael Abrash has revealed what kind of har...
Scientists Build First Working Quantum Network
Scientists at the Quantum Dynamics division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany announced Wednesday that they have built the very first, elementary quantum network...
Pirate Party Ordered to Shut Down Pirate Bay Proxy
After two Dutch ISPs were ordered to censor The Pirate Bay earlier this year, there was an influx of visitors to Pirate Bay proxy sites. — These proxies render the court order useless, which is a th...