Yahoo will encrypt all information moving between its data centers by the end of Q1 2014
Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information — We've worked hard over the years to earn our users' trust and we fight hard to preserve it. — As you know, there have been a number of reports …
Meet The ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins
As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it'll soo...
Dropbox Seeks Another $250 million and $8 billion valuation
Dropbox has always had a flair for the dramatic. Its CEO and co-founder Drew Houston, for example, appeared on a YouTube clip in 2012, belting out “Rocket Man” with a pint in hand at a Swiss bar—just...
Google is working on a new Android camera API, supports Camera RAW
Could a new API with many new features shore up one a big Android weak spot? — The Nexus 5 camera was a huge disappointment, especially after comments from high-ranking Googler Vic Gundotra stating ...
Salesforce.com buys cloudconnect just in time for Dreamforce
Salesforce.com has purchased cloudconnect, a startup founded by Heroku and Salesforce.com alum Adam Gross who is now, I guess, back in the fold. — The news was posted — with scant details — on cloud...
NFL, Major League Baseball Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts
The National Football League and Major League Baseball are urging the Supreme Court to grant broadcasters' petition to hear their challenge to the legality of Aereo, the startup that features unauthor...
CIA and DOD seek to block Russia from building US-based monitoring stations for GPS competitor
A Russian GPS Using U.S. Soil Stirs Spy Fears — WASHINGTON — In the view of America's spy services, the next potential threat from Russia may not come from a nefarious cyberweapon …
Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch flops with just 50,000 units sold - report
Since its debut in late September, Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch has mustered sales of just 50,000 units, suggesting the device has not managed to gain sizable interest from the mass market.
Microsoft's Office Remote lets you control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with a Windows Phone
Microsoft has just unveiled Office Remote, a new app that lets users control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint presentations with any Windows Phone 8 device. It's basically SmartGlass …
Inside Google's Driverless Car
Has the self-driving car at last arrived? Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow ...
Google to pay $17M to states in Apple cookies case
State attorneys general accused the company of circumventing cookie-blocking defaults in the Safari browser — Google has reached a $17 million settlement with 37 U.S. states and the District of Colu...
Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce1
Salesforce.com is launching Salesforce1, its next-generation CRM platform that it has designed for developers, independent software vendors and customers to connect apps …
Twitter Expands Its Alerts Service To The UK And Ireland To Push Out Critical Info From The Met Police And 56 Others
Twitter Alerts - a service that Twitter launched in September for emergency, relief and charity organizations from the U.S., Japan and Korea to send out critical messages …
Special report: Apple's ground-breaking bet on its clean energy infrastructure, with exclusive photos
Last week a utility in North Carolina announced something seemingly mundane on the surface, but it was a transcendent moment for those that have been following the clean energy sector.
Nokia Lumia 1520 review: the best Windows Phone device yet
Windows Phone has never looked this good. The latest update to Microsoft's mobile operating system, known as Update 3, added support for 1080p displays, large smartphone screens and state-of-the-art ...
Google blocks child porn in 100,000 searches, plans filter for YouTube
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt today said his company's search engine has made it far more difficult to find images of child pornography and that Google is developing a technology that will identify chi...
Sling overhauls its TV-streaming app for iOS, adds Roku channel; Windows 8.1 app planned for December
Sling only refreshes its TV-streaming set-top boxes once every few years, and indeed, the current models only came out 13 months ago. So, it's a bit early for new hardware …
Apple wins another chance to ban Samsung phones for infringing its patents
In a ruling delivered today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has given Apple another chance at halting sales of Samsung smartphones that infringe on its patents.
SurveyMonkey Releases Business Version of Popular Questionnaire Software
Corporations have a few questions for you. And then a few more. That trend is likely to increase, thanks to the way they are trying to make sense of your every move. — SurveyMonkey, which makes th...
Qualcomm's Toq smartwatch available December 2nd for $350
Where mobile devices are concerned, Qualcomm's normally a behind-the-scenes player, but that's all set to change next month. The company has announced that its Toq smartwatch is coming to the market ...
Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks
Update:On Monday afternoon, vBulletin Technical Support Lead Wayne Luke issued a statement that said: — “Given our analysis of the evidence provided by the Inject0r team, we do not believe that they...
DNI Clapper Declassifies Additional Intelligence
In June of this year, President Obama directed me to declassify and make public as much information as possible about certain sensitive programs …
Google Completes Upgrade of its SSL Certificates to 2048-Bit RSA
Google announced today that it has completed the upgrade of all its SSL certificates to 2048-bit RSA or better, coming in more than a month ahead of schedule. — “We have completed this process which...
Engadget is getting a whole lot bigger: profiles, forums, product database, and so much more!
A few days ago we launched the best designed version of Engadget ever, and today we're about to get bigger. A lot bigger. — Years in the making, today we're launching dozens of new features to Enga...
Bitcoin surges to all-time high of $900, then drops below $650 in 30 minutes
The value of Bitcoin has skyrocketed in the past five days. Graph via Bitcoincharts.com. — It's Bitcoin-madness today. — On the same day the U.S. government began discussions about Bitcoin, the v...