Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown
After making its debut during the WWDC 2013 Keynote, the reimagined, reformulated Mac Pro finally arrived at iFixit's doorstep. Join us as we turn the (very) Late 2013 Mac Pro inside-out. Step 1 — M...
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher reflect on AllThingsD, tease new company launching January 2
You Say Goodbye and We Say Hello — This is the last day of the All Things Digital site, which began life in April of 2007 as a year-round extension of the D conference we launched in 2003.
The Mac Pro Review (Late 2013)
The year was 2004. I was enrolled in ECE 466 at NCSU, a compiler optimization/scheduling class. I remember walking into the lecture hall and seeing far too many white MacBooks. This was the compute...
Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone Backdoors, Is Unaware Of Alleged DROPOUTJEEP Snooping Program
Apple has contacted TechCrunch with a statement about the DROPOUTJEEP NSA program that detailed a system by which the organization claimed it could snoop on iPhone users.
Pirate Bay Uploads Surge 50% in a Year, Despite Anti-Piracy Efforts
2013 has been an eventful year for The Pirate Bay, to say the least. — The site celebrated its tenth anniversary, but with pressure from copyright holders mounting, it had to switch domain names no ...
Why I'm interested in Bitcoin
Some people assume that all Bitcoin advocates are motivated by a libertarian political agenda. That is certainly not my agenda. I'm a lifelong Democrat who supported Obama in the last two elections....
If You've Got Google Music All Access, You Can Get Glass Now
Google Music All Access users are reporting that they've received an email inviting them to join the ranks of Glass Explorers. (Here's the sign up page you can try if you didn't get the email.)
Cash machines raided with infected USB sticks
The thieves focused on high value notes to minimise the time they were exposed — Researchers have revealed how cyber-thieves sliced into cash machines in order to infect them with malware earlier th...
Reddit's 2013 stats: page views grow over 50% to 56B, with 41M posts
2013 has come to a close and it's been another amazing year for the vast network of communities that is reddit. 2013 Overall reddit Stats (approximate) 56 billion pageviews 731 million Unique Visitor...
LG's new Windows 8 PCs include Tab-Book 2 sliders, ‘ultra’ laptop and an all-in-one
Next week at CES LG will show off a few new devices running Windows 8, like the Tab-Book 2 line (above) that hides a QWERTY keyboard underneath its 11.6-inch screen, 13Z940 “ultra PC” laptop (pictured...
Social media is not a zero-sum game and Facebook isn't going anywhere so get used to it
This has been a particularly rich year for internet hoaxes, but no less rich for the hoax's less malicious but equally damaging cousin: the inaccurate report that goes viral on social media before the...
Sony may release a Windows Phone in 2014, according to The Information
Sony is considering launching a Windows Phone sometime next year, according to a new report from The Information. If true, such a move would break Sony's current loyalty to Android and give Nokia som...
Sprint Wants To Revive Nextel As A Business Brand, Merge Boost + Virgin Mobile Into ‘Sprint Freedom’
It was only six months ago that Sprint decommissioned and shut down the Nextel iDEN push-to-talk network, and while the carrier has no plans to bring that legacy service back, the brand is another sto...
Silicon Valley Hustle: Former Motionloft CEO Accused Of Defrauding Investors
Thanks to a series of high-profile exits and a generally frothy financing environment, it's not unusual to see startup founders spending money lavishly these days. But the story of Motionloft and its...
Days of the holiday mobile game gold rush are fading, says new report
Although this holiday period saw the biggest spike in mobile app and game downloads to date, the rate at which mobile is growing has slowed significantly, according to a new report from Flurry.
Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn discuss future of Internet governance in light of Snowden revelations
Viewing Where the Internet Goes — Will 2014 be the year that the Internet is reined in? — When Edward J. Snowden, the disaffected National Security Agency contract employee …
All jacked in and nothing to play: chasing the perfect VR game
A little over a year after appearing on Kickstarter, Oculus has turned the far-fetched '90s science fiction of virtual reality into a wildly successful prototype device: the Oculus Rift. As of this w...
Schemer, Google's invite-only service for sharing goals, to be discontinued
Schemer to Be Discontinued — Schemer was launched two years ago as an invite-only service for sharing goals and discussing them with other people. “A scheme is ‘a secret or devious plan’ (American ...