A core issue: young women are not embracing tech in key development years as often as men
Girls Who Code — I feel badly for Paul Graham because he's being made out to be something I am sure he is not. But the brouhaha that he unleashed about women founders, women coders …
NSA Tailored Access Operations unit specializes in “getting the ungettable”, intercepts hardware shipments to plant malware
The NSA Uses Powerful Toolbox in Effort to Spy on Global Networks — The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon.
Chromebook Sales vs. Web Traffic Share
Gregg Keizer, reporting for Computerworld: … If these reports are right, we should soon see a corresponding surge in web traffic share for ChromeOS. But I'm having trouble finding a web traffic sourc...
Google to partner with Audi for Android-based dashboards, will compete with iOS in the Car
Google, Apple Forge Auto Ties — Consumer Electronics Show to Spotlight In-Car Digital Race … Technology giants Google Inc. and Apple Inc. are about to expand their battle for digital supremacy to a ...
It's still unclear if Bitcoin can be a reasonably stable store of value
Bitcoin Is Evil — It's always important, and always hard, to distinguish positive economics — how things work — from normative economics — how things should be. Indeed, on many of the macro issues ...
Kindles saw 24x bump in activations on Christmas vs. other Dec. days, Apple saw 2.3x bump
Amazon Delivers A Great Christmas For Its Kindle — In less than a decade, connected devices have become an integral part of Christmas. They are commonly wished for and given as gifts …
New Law All but Bars Russian GPS Sites in U.S.
WASHINGTON — Tucked into the mammoth defense budget bill that President Obama signed into law on Thursday is a measure that virtually bars Russia from building about a half-dozen monitor stations on A...
Facebook's Cutesy Annual Report To Partners Reveals First Country-By-Country Mobile Stats
TechCrunch has obtained never before published metrics showing Facebook's international growth. Facebook sent some partners a playfully illustrated eMagazine called The Annual …
Qualcomm says its first commercial neuromorphic (brainlike) processor is coming in 2014
Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digita...
How Jesse Willms built an e-commerce operation the FTC says scammed consumers out of $467M
Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet — How one of the most notorious alleged hustlers in the history of e-commerce made a fortune on the Web — If you want to get a sense of Jesse Willms …
Uber, LeCab And Others Now Have To Wait 15 Minutes Before Picking You Up In France
At first, it was just an idea, but this bill is now very real — urban transportation services like Uber and LeCab will now have to wait 15 minutes in France before letting a customer in the car.
LG to Soon Unveil webOS-Powered TV
South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. will soon take the veils off a television model that will run on the “webOS” operating system, highlighting its ambition of creating a prominent operating system for ...
Exclusive: Hacker took over BBC server, tried to ‘sell’ access on Christmas Day
(Reuters) - A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access t...
How would in-flight calling actually work?
The technology's already here — someone just has to flip the switch — Making phone calls from 35,000 feet in the air has been a hot-button topic of late, spurred on by recent comments made by Tom Wh...