Mark Zuckerberg on NSA spying: ‘The government blew it’
Facebook CEO calls for more transparency in interview at TechCrunch Disrupt — The federal government has done a bad job recently in balancing its job protecting US citizens from terrorism with its r...
New Apple TV in development, could arrive as soon as next month
Apple is working on a new version of the Apple TV, and according to MG Siegler, it could arrive as soon as next month. We have independently heard that a new version of the Apple TV is in development...
Apple: New iPhone Not Storing Fingerprints, Doesn't Like Sweat
Apple's new iPhone 5S, which comes with a fingerprint scanner, won't store actual images of users' fingerprints on the device, a company spokesman confirmed Wednesday, a decision that could ease conce...
Exclusive photos of Amazon's completely redesigned next-gen Kindle Fire HD
There really isn't much mystery remaining as Amazon prepares to unveil its second-generation Kindle Fire HD tablets and its third-generation Kindle Fire slate in the coming weeks.
No warrant, no problem: US gov't uses travel alerts for warrantless electronics search
Summary: The ACLU has released documents showing how the US government uses border searches to take citizens' electronics and rifle through private data to its heart's content. — Violet Blue
New Haswell Chromebooks from Acer, HP, ASUS, and Toshiba arriving in coming months
A fresh mix of Intel-based Chromebooks — something for everyone — Chromebooks were designed to make computers faster, simpler, safer and much more affordable for everyone.
NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whis...
Apple Introduces New ‘Space Gray’ Colors for iPod Touch, Nano, and Shuffle
Apple today debuted a new “Space Gray” color for the iPhone 5s and has made the color available for the iPod touch, nano, and shuffle as well. In addition to their standard colors, each of these devi...
China Licenses Apple's iPhone With China Mobile's Wireless Standard
BEIJING—A Chinese regulator has given the final license necessary for Apple Inc.'s iPhone to run on China Mobile Ltd.'s mobile network, another indication China's largest carrier will soon be releasin...
iCloud Keychain Removed in iOS 7 GM
Apple appears to have removed iCloud Keychain support from the iOS 7 Golden Master (GM), which was seeded to developers yesterday. While iCloud preferences previously listed iCloud Keychain, the opti...
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Is... Layer!
After three days and some truly incredible pitches from each of our 30 Battlefield competitors, the time has finally come to crown a Disrupt Battlefield champion. Competition among this year's pack o...
With 64-bit A7, Apple avoids future memory constraints, paves way for ARM-based Macs
The real reasons Apple's 64-bit A7 chip makes sense — Don't swallow Apple's marketing lines that 64-bit chips magically run software faster than 32-bit relics. What the A7 in the iPhone 5S does do ...
Valve: “Family Sharing” for up to 10 devices coming to Steam
Valve today announced that it will launch a Family Sharing feature to allow Steam users to share their game libraries with other accounts on up to 10 additional devices. — Steam Family Sharing, whic...
AppDirect raises $9M, acquires Standing Cloud to help businesses adopt a hybrid network in the NSA's wake
Over the last three months the Washington Post, New York Times, and the Guardian have revealed government programs through which the National Security Agency is able to collect data …
The IPhone's Secret Flights From China to Your Local Apple Store
As Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled new iPhones yesterday, a complex operation had already kicked into gear behind the scenes to send millions of the handsets to store shelves worldwide. — The process st...
Yahoo Monthly Active Users Are Up 20% To 800M, Including 350M On Mobile, Says Marissa Mayer
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt that Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800 million globally, including 350 million monthly active users on mobile.
Lavabit's Owner Appeals Secret Surveillance Order That Led Him to Shutter Site
The owner of the encrypted email company Lavabit has formally appealed the secret surveillance order that led him to defiantly shutter the site last month. But the details of the case were immediatel...
Google+ brings Snapseed-powered photo editing tools to desktop Chrome (video)
Google added Snapseed photo editing to its Google+ apps on Android and iOS back in March, and now it's bringing them to the desktop. The new tools include Auto Enhance, selective adjust editing, and ...
McDonald's Testing Mobile Order App for U.S. Stores
Americans will soon be able to order and pay for Big Macs from their mobile phones. — McDonald's Corp. (MCD) is currently testing a mobile payment application in Salt Lake City and in Austin, Texas,...
Patent Trolls Are Killing Startups — Except When They're Saving Them
Except When They're Saving Them — Kate Endress was living the startup dream. Two years out of Stanford's business school, she was running a website, Ditto, that offered a way of trying on glasses wi...
Apple TV Software Refresh Coming September 18
Nope, Apple didn't show off new Apple TV hardware yesterday. — And Apple didn't talk about new software for its Web video box, either. But it's still coming. — People familiar with the company's ...
No warrant, no problem: US gov't uses travel alerts for warrantless electronics search
Summary: The ACLU has released documents showing how the US government uses border searches to take citizens' electronics and rifle through private data to its heart's content. — Violet Blue
Machines Made to Know You, by Touch, Voice, Even by Heart
How does a machine verify the identity of a human being? Irises, heartbeats, fingertips and voices, for starters. — Authentication has been a tough nut to crack since the early days of the Web.
With iBeacon, Apple is going to dump on NFC and embrace the internet of things
At WWDC in June, Apple quietly announced iBeacon, one of the more prominent features of iOS 7. Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, mentioned nothing about about it...
DARPA reinvents peer-to-peer for battlefield with tactical “torrents”
A soldier uses a biometric data capture device on patrol in Afghanistan. DARPA's CBMEN project aims to let soldiers share biometric data, images, and other tactical information locally without needin...