Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos previews half-hour shipping from Amazon
Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can deliver ...
Bitcoin will only succeed if legitimate transaction volume ramps up
Thoughts on Bitcoin — Maybe bitcoin will be the world reserve currency, maybe it will totally fail, or maybe it will survive in some niche capacity. I don't know how to weight the probabilities …
Secret Weapon in Mall Battle: Parking Apps
Phoebe Scott of Orange County, Calif., has a new routine before heading to the mall. — She checks the parking lots on her ParkMe smartphone app “so that I can see what I'm up against, or if I need t...
What Piracy? Removing DRM Boosts Music Sales by 10 Percent
For more than a decade the music industry has been struggling with online piracy. — To prevent music from spreading like wildfire all the major labels have experimented extensively by adding DRM to ...
Bitcoin's success is putting it under growing strain
Bitcoin under pressure — Virtual currency: It is mathematically elegant, increasingly popular and highly controversial. Bitcoin's success is putting it under growing strain — From the print editi...
How Google is transforming disaster relief
Sony SmartWatch 2 review: attractive design let down by frustrating and clumsy software
Sony SmartWatch 2 review — Baby steps towards the watch of the future — Time and again we've heard the same story: wearables are the next big thing in personal technology.
A Fond Farewell to the Craziest, Longest, Most Eventful Console Generation Ever
He called it the “HD Era.” — On March 9, 2005, the gaming press crowded into a ballroom in the Moscone Center in San Francisco to witness the birth of a new era of game machines.
Sold To Telefonica For $207M In 2009, Now-Neglected VoIP Provider Jajah Is Shutting Down
Chalk up another casualty in the consolidation of Internet voice services. Nearly four years to the day after getting acquired by Telefonica for $207 million, VoIP provider Jajah has announced …
Silk Road Competitor Shuts Down And Another Plans To Go Offline After Claimed $6 Million Theft
When a black market calls itself “Sheep,” it's no surprise when someone gets fleeced. But the effects of a purported theft of thousands of bitcoins from the drug-selling site Sheep Marketplace …
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram's utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm
In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer …
Profile of Aaron Levie, Who Is Trying to Make the Startup Box Vital for Work
The CEO of Box is building an online file storage system designed to reshape industries. — Aaron Levie bounds onstage with the swagger of a standup comic. But he's not performing at the Comedy Stor...
Tech Giants Like Apple and Amazon Building Monuments to Digital Domination
Technology giants in the United States are building bombastic new headquarters to immortalize their grandiose ambitions, while inside they plan to turn traditional office culture on its head.