NSA statement does not deny ‘spying’ on members of Congress
Spencer Ackerman in Washington and Martin Pengelly in New York — The National Security Agency on Saturday released a statement in answer to questions from a senator about whether it “has spied, or i...
Jeff Bezos flown from cruise in Galapagos islands by Ecuadorian navy after kidney stone attack
Billionaire Bezos Flown out of Galápagos — Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of the popular Amazon.com shopping website and current owner of the Washington Post …
Rap Genius begins to recover its Google search ranking, details SEO strategies, apologizes
Rap Genius is Back on Google — In this post we give more details about our misguided SEO strategies and how we got there. We also explain our process and the tools we used to fix the problem and re...
Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs
Apple has acquired the one-man photo technology startup SnappyLabs, maker of SnappyCam, sources tell me. The startup was founded and run solely by John Papandriopoulos, an electrical engineering PhD ...
Evernote wants to help you “Remember Everything”, but is a bug-ridden elephant
Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant — To say this post pains me would be an understatement. More than any other technology, Evernote is part of me, having evolved from habit to instinct over several ...
Thousands of visitors to yahoo.com hit with malware attack, researchers say
Two Internet security firms have reported that Yahoo's advertising servers have been distributing malware to hundreds of thousands of users over the last few days. The attack appears to be the work o...
Google Buys Timely Alarm Clock Developer Bitspin, Premium IAP Content Is Now Free
In an odd bit of M&A news, the developers at Bitspin announced that the small company will be joining forces with Google. Whether Google has purchased the company outright or merely hired …
Samsung chairman in New Years address urges more R&D, less of a hardware focus
Samsung's New Year's Resolution: Get Rid of Old Habits … In his annual speech at the start of the new year, Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Kun-hee highlighted how tough the competition has been ...
Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's Role in His Son's Death
After his son was arrested for downloading files at MIT, Bob Swartz did everything in his power to save him. He couldn't. Now he wants the institute to own up to its part in Aaron's death. — There...
Barnaby Jack, Hacker of ATMs and Pacemakers, Died From an Overdose
The celebrated hacker Barnaby Jack, who spectacularly demonstrated his ability to cause ATMs to spit out cash and pacemakers to crash, died from a drug overdose, San Francisco police revealed, months ...
Zynga Links Up With BitPay For A Bitcoin Payment Test In FarmVille 2, CityVille And Other Web Games
Gaming giant Zynga has started to accept the cryptocurrency as a payment option for those buying tokens for virtual goods on the web versions of FarmVille 2, CastleVille, ChefVille …
File-sharing service Droplr to discontinue free accounts
Changes coming to your Droplr account — Droplr began as an idea between two geeks who wanted an easy way to share files with each other. So we set aside some weekends and evenings and built an app ...
Obama Administration may ease hiring rules for tech specialists after HealthCare.gov fiasco
U.S. Weighs Tech Fixes After Health-Site Woes — Administration Considers Looser Hiring Rules, New Federal Unit … The Obama administration, stung by the failures of the HealthCare.gov rollout …
Palm's abandoned webOS plans at HP included phones and tablets, major UI evolution
The lost secrets of webOS — LG is about to unveil the future of webOS — but there's a past we never saw — Next week, LG will unveil new televisions running webOS, the ill-fated operating system it...
Pandora begins targeting ads by musical taste
Listen to Pandora, and It Listens Back — Pandora, the Internet radio service, is playing a new tune. — After years of customizing playlists to individual listeners by analyzing components of the s...