SXSWi gets an international slant with presence from more countries and global-facing panels
Foreign Influx Gives Annual Tech Event an International Flavor — Going to the South by Southwest technology, music and film festival has long been about discovering the next big thing.
Based on inconclusive evidence, Newsweek's Dorian Nakamoto story is theory, not fact
The Satoshi Paradox — Newsweek wanted a scoop for its relaunch cover story, and boy did it deliver: it uncovered the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin. Who then promptly came ou...
Lyft Funding Official: Documents Filed for New $150 Million Round
Lyft, the ride-sharing app that is locked in an expensive competition with rival Uber, is at least part of the way to its next round of funding. — The company filed a document associated with a Seri...
Three years later, Facebook is bringing back its F8 developer conference to San Francisco on April 30
At SXSW today, Parse co-founder and CEO Ilya Sukhar announced Facebook's F8 conference will be held this year on April 30 at the San Francisco Design Concourse.
Aereo's internet TV service in Denver and Salt Lake City shuts down today
Aereo's streams in Denver and Salt Lake City hung on for a while after the US District Court of Utah granted its opponents a preliminary injunction on February 20th, but today they're shutting off.
Mozilla stops development of authentication system Persona, transfers project to community
Mozilla makes authentication system Persona Community Project — When Mozilla launched Persona under the name BrowserID back in 2012, it had big plans for the authentication service.
Future of gaming microconsoles in question as Ouya pivots to become a software platform
The indie game console may already be dead — Last year, I predicted that the rising tide of Android gaming would raise all boats — that indie game consoles like the Ouya, the Shield …
Microsoft received 35,083 government requests for data impacting 58,676 accounts in the second half of 2013
Microsoft today revealed the number of data requests it received from various law enforcement agencies around the world in the second half of 2013: 35,083.
Austin Police Department Warns SXSW Attendees Not To Use Uber
Here's something you might not have noticed if you were partying it up at SXSW and using Uber to get around: Uber is not legal in Austin, and the police department wants you to know that. — In a pos...
HTTPS attack analyzes subtle differences in encrypted traffic to identify pages viewed
New attack on HTTPS crypto might reveal if you're pregnant or have cancer — As the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the Internet, HTTPS encryption has seen its share of attack...
Next week Medium is launching an iPhone app for reading but not writing posts
With Medium, Evan Williams Is Tackling the Future of Writing Online — As a founder of both Blogger and Twitter, Evan Williams helped change the way people write online. Now, with his latest start-u...