How Netflix uses the 76,897 micro-genres it assigns to videos
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood — If you use Netflix, you've probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it's absurd. Emot...
Happy Re/new Year!
We are thrilled to announce that we are forming our own new and independent media company, Revere Digital, with a pair of respected investors and partners — the NBCUniversal News Group and Terry Semel...
Facebook faces suit for allegedly intercepting private messages
Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly violating its members' right to privacy. The social network is being sued by members who claim that the company intercepts private messages, wi...
It's Not a Church, It's Just an Apple Store
Attention fanboys and fangirls: Your favorite tech hardware, software and services are not religious objects. And the companies that make them aren't cults or faiths. They are capitalist enterprises...
Nest Raising Huge New Round From DST, Valuing Smart Home Startup at Upwards of $2 Billion
Nest Labs, the innovative smart home startup, is close to completing a deal to raise upwards of $150 million in a new round of financing that values it at more than $2 billion, according to sources cl...
LG's webOS TV revealed in leaked image
LG has been rumored to be planning a webOS resurrection for a TV, and now a leaked image appears to offer the first look at the upcoming television. Evleaks has posted a photo of the rumored LG webOS...
Moto G coming to Verizon Wireless on January 9th for $99.99 off-contract
Verizon Wireless prepaid customers will be able to order the Moto G starting January 9th for $99.99. Motorola's budget handset will be available first online and will appear at the carrier's retail s...
Mandiant, which rooted out Chinese hackers for the NYT, acquired by FireEye for nearly $1 billion
Mandiant, which rooted out Chinese hackers for the NYT, is being snapped up for nearly $1 billion — The past year saw the dramatic rise of information security firms in the face …
Wearable tech at CES 2014: Prepare your body parts for an onslaught of options
Wearable technology. It's an exploding product category in desperate need of a category-defining product. And now, with the Consumer Electronics Show upon us, we get to see whether some company, any...
PopCap CEO to retire, cofounder will take over the Plants vs. Zombies studio (exclusive)
John Vechey, cofounder of PopCap, is its new chief. — Dave Roberts, chief executive of Electronic Arts' PopCap Games division, is retiring from the game studio that he joined almost nine years ago.
Samsung's Galaxy Camera 2 starts to refine the Android point-and-shoot
Samsung is unveiling the Galaxy Camera 2 today, its second take on the idea of a truly smart point-and-shoot. Like its predecessor, the Galaxy Camera 2 runs Android, has wireless connectivity, and is...
YouTube goes 4K, Google signs up long list of hardware partners for VP9 support
YouTube will be demonstrating 4K video at CES in Las Vegas next week, with a twist: The Google-owned video service will be showing off ultra high-definition streaming based on VP9, a new royalty-free ...
Coinye West, a Kanye West-themed cryptocurrency announced by unknowned persons nonetheless gathers attention
Kanye West Now Has His Own Cryptocurrency and It's Called Coinye West — Kanye West Now Has His Own Cryptocurrency and It's Called Coinye West “We ain't minin, we pickin” …
Singer Alicia Keys to leave BlackBerry after year-long collaboration
WATERLOO, Ont. — BlackBerry is parting ways with singer Alicia Keys, after a year-long collaboration with the smartphone maker. — The Waterloo, Ont.-based company says Keys will be leaving her role...
With $130M of bitcoin wealth and plans to sell, the FBI could rattle the virtual currency cage
Like any marketplace, the value of bitcoin is driven in large part by supply and demand. New bitcoin is added to the system at a mathematically controlled rate, but buying and selling activity varies...
Snapchat Says It's Improving Its App, Service To Prevent Future User Data Leaks
Snapchat has released an official post about the recent leak of 4.6M usernames and phone numbers from its servers. The post blames what it says was ‘abuse’ of its API on the leak, but acknowledges …
Cody Wilson Rattled Lawmakers With Plastic Gun, Now on to Bitcoin Transactions
AUSTIN, Texas— Cody Wilson rattled lawmakers and law-enforcement agencies with a plastic gun created from a 3-D printer, home computer and blueprints he posted online for anyone to download.
Replacement and new Surface Pro 2 devices being sent out with upgraded specs, includes newer CPU
Microsoft's Surface Pro 2 has been the center of attention since the December 2013 firmware update release. Numerous Surface Pro 2 owners were facing issues installing the update, poor battery life, ...
AT&T to offer $200 credit to T-Mobile switchers, in preemptive jab at rival
T-Mobile CEO John Legere. (T-Mobile Photo) — AT&T plans to offer a credit to T-Mobile customers who switch to AT&T — jabbing at its smaller rival and attempting to get out ahead of T-Mobile's rumor...
Surface, Kindle Fire are likely holiday winners, but iPad still rules the web surfing roost
It's a safe bet many people bought or received a new smartphone or tablet for the holidays. Which ones did they get? That's difficult to say for sure, but with some data from Chitika, we can get a p...
China's Xiaomi sells 18.7 million smartphones in 2013, up 160% from a year earlier
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has outdone itself — by selling 18.7 million smartphones in 2013, up 160 percent from a year earlier and more than its initial target of 15 million devices.
Nokia says final sayonara to Symbian and MeeGo apps as store freezes updates
Summary: Nokia Store for Symbian became a time capsule on 1 January. — Liam Tung — Nokia's Symbian and MeeGo app store entered a state of suspended animation yesterday, ahead of the store's total ...
The top four tech legal cases to watch in 2014
While we're all wiping the champagne-induced sleep from our eyes, inevitably we have to sober up for 2014. The new year will mark new beginnings for all of us, but it will also mark the continuation ...
Firms Offer Re-Engineered Phones,Encryption After NSA Revelations
A crypto war is coming to your pocket. — In the Paris area, two security contractors are jumping into a burgeoning market for secure mobile phones and encrypted communications as revelations of wide...
Meatspace, A World Of Animated Gifs, Human Robots And The Ephemerality Of Snapchat-Like Apps
Meatspace, an addictive new web service and mobile app is part Snapchat, part Twitter and part animated gifs. It works like this: You write an update in 250 characters or less and then pose for the c...