Officials Say U.S. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
WASHINGTON — American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden extra...
Google acquires Boston Dynamics, maker of BigDog, Petman, and other research robots
Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots — SAN FRANCISCO — BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie. — Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed …
Facebook collects metadata on “self-censorship”, updates you begin typing but don't publish
Facebook wants to know why you didn't publish that status update you started writing — Facebook wants to know why you didn't publish that status update you started writing.
Ford Unveils Its First Autonomous Vehicle Prototype
Ford has thrown its hat into autonomous car ring with the debut of its Automated Fusion Hybrid Research Vehicle, the latest in a series of steps the automaker is taking to realize its grand vision of ...
Apple's iOS nabbed 76% of small & medium business device activations in 2013, study says
According to SMB email management company Intermedia, some 190,000 iPhones and iPads were activated on its network in the first ten months of 2013, grossly outpacing No. 2 Samsung's 29,000 activations...
Twitter Test Shows ‘Nearby’ Tweets
Twitter has an eye on your location — and is testing ways to share it with other nearby users. — The short-messaging service appears to be testing a new timeline for its mobile app, called “Nearby.”...
Boston Police indefinitely suspends license plate reader program
The Boston Police Department currently has 14 license plate scanners, which are often mounted on police cars. — cle0patra — The Boston Police Department (BPD) has indefinitely halted its use of li...
As tech companies embrace urban life, many in San Francisco remain closed off from their city
What Tech Hasn't Learned From Urban Planning — SAN FRANCISCO — The tech sector is, increasingly, embracing the language of urban planning — town hall, public square, civic hackathons, community enga...
The Golden Era Of Spam Comments Has Ended
The search engine optimization community has spent the last two years in a panic. SEO people flood our Internet with spam links and fake Twitter bots and paid traffic, to help bad websites look more ...
New Google Tips is surprisingly helpful
Google has launched Google Tips, a site which uses clickable cards to explain the features and capabilities of Google's biggest products. The cards explain concepts such as sharing photos with specif...
Instagram senders can delete their messages from recipients' phones
The Instagram Direct interface, which allows you to share photos directly to a subset of those you follow, rather than to all your followers. — The surface read of Instagram's announcement of a mess...
As Software Eats The World, Non-Tech Corporations Are Eating Startups
Netscape founder and VC titan Marc Andreessen famously wrote back in 2011 that software is steadily eating the world, disrupting industries like music, retail and more. Now large corporations in thes...
Evernote for the enterprise: Huddle rolls out notes feature alongside redesigned iOS app
Huddle Note is now generally available. — Over the last few years, cloud-based services like Google Drive and Evernote have changed the way people create and collaborate on documents.
Google's Niantic Labs opens up location-based augmented reality game Ingress, plans ads, APIs
The everywhere arcade: How Google is turning location into a game platform — Niantic Labs' Ingress project will expand to support new games — and ads — Every week, players …