Google extends Android to wearables with Android Wear project, launches developer preview
Sharing what's up our sleeve: Android coming to wearables — Most of us are rarely without our smartphones in hand. These powerful supercomputers keep us connected to the world and the people we lov...
Dilemma for music streaming services: labels demand twice what listeners are willing to pay
The Price of Music — Will the recorded music industry ever grow again? Since 1999, the industry has been in rapid decline as CDs became unbundled into downloaded singles.
Sony reveals Project Morpheus, its VR headset for PlayStation 4
Sony has revealed that it is working on virtual reality technology for PS4. Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Worldwide Studios, made the announcement at an ongoing Game Developers Conference 2014 ev...
NSA system can record 100% of a foreign country's calls, store every conversation for 30 days
NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls — The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” …
Apple CEO Tim Cook: New book on company is ‘nonsense’
Apple's course after Steve Jobs — Yukari Kane, author of “Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs,” discusses her book where she recounts the final years of Steve Jobs at Apple and focuses on the sta...
Google plans to kill Google Voice in coming months, integrate features into Hangouts
We've heard that Google Voice is getting dragged to the trash can and most of its functionality will be incorporated into G+ Hangouts apps on both Android and iOS. This has already happened to an ext...
10,000 Linux servers hit by malware serving tsunami of spam and exploits
Two-year-old Windigo may also have infected kernel.org Linux developers. — Researchers have documented an ongoing criminal operation infecting more than 10,000 Unix and Linux servers with malware th...
Microsoft researcher Leslie Lamport wins prestigious 2013 A.M. Turing Award
Microsoft Researcher Wins the “Nobel Prize” of Computer Science — The Association for Computing Machinery has named Microsoft Research's Leslie Lamport the recipient of the 2013 A.M. Turing Award, c...
Facebook's AI research group reports major improvement in face recognition software DeepFace
Facebook Creates Software That Matches Faces Almost as Well as You Do — Facebook's new AI research group reports a major improvement in face-processing software.
Nitrous.IO scores $6.65M to eliminate messy development set up
Nitrous.IO, the startup that aims to free developers from the gruntwork of configuring, patching and otherwise futzing with workstation-based development environments, now has $6.65 million in A Serie...
Sam Altman, Y Combinator's new president, profiled as always-on advisor and forceful dealmaker
Y Combinator's New Head Startup Whisperer Sam Altman Is Quite a Talker — It's not crazy for Sam Altman's phone bill to rack up 6,000 talking minutes in a month. He talks a lot, to a lot of people.
Apple doesn't accept Steve Jobs-themed apps
Quoth Steve Jobs, but Never in the App Store — Since he died in October of 2011, people have looked for a myriad of ways to remember Apple legend Steve Jobs. — That has included a recent mosaic by...
Dropbox will let you switch between work and personal accounts next month
Dropbox will let you manage separate work and personal accounts on all of your devices next month, The Verge has learned. In advance of an April 9th press event, the company has notified users of its...
Project Spark Goes to Open Beta on Xbox One
Our friends at Team Dakota have just announced that Project Spark is now in open beta on Xbox One. That means Xbox One owners can join the existing community of Project Spark players and creators wit...
GOG will bring classic PC games to Linux this fall
GOG.com, a site that specializes in selling classic PC games for modern computers, has decided to support Linux after all. — GOG says it has been working on Linux support for the last few months, an...
Cloudera snatches a massive $160M to lead the business of big data
Wowzers. Bloomberg's report about big data company Cloudera raising big money was no joke. — Today, Cloudera announced a heavy-duty $160 million round of funding. T. Rowe Price led the round, alon...
YouTube is reportedly building a version for kids under 10 years old, asks creators for child-oriented content
As the biggest video sharing site by a landslide, YouTube attracts people from all walks of life, for better or for worse. Yet the Google-owned company is reportedly developing …
Mt. Gox gets its login page back, but only lets users check their Bitcoin balance
Wondering where your Bitcoins are? Looks like Mt. Gox is giving you an official way to check. The fallen Bitcoin exchange has updated its homepage with a sparse login screen, inviting users to sign ...
Out Early: 67% of Tech Exits in 2013 Went to Early-Stage Startups
Unicorns garner the headlines but 67% of investor-backed tech exit transactions last year came after the company raised just a seed or Series A round of financing. — The headlines may obsess over th...
Cloudera Said to Raise at Least $200 Million in Funding
Cloudera Inc. is raising at least $200 million in a new round of financing from investors including Intel Corp., according to people with knowledge of the situation. — The fundraising values the mak...
Vimeo Buys Video-Making App Cameo, a Few Months After Its Debut
Vimeo has bought Cameo, a video-making app that launched last fall. It's the second time in the last year that IAC's video site has acquired a video app. — Cameo is supposed to offer easy-to-use vi...
Facebook's security chief talks encryption plan
Summary: For Facebook, ensuring the security of its users worldwide starts with improving the security culture and dialogue within the company itself. — Facebook has built its business upon the shar...
Google extends Android to wearables with Android Wear project, launches developer preview
Sharing what's up our sleeve: Android coming to wearables — Most of us are rarely without our smartphones in hand. These powerful supercomputers keep us connected to the world and the people we lov...
Apple introduces 8 GB iPhone 5c in five markets to help boost disappointing sales
Update: Apple has now added the 8 GB 5c to its European online stores. In the UK, the device is priced at £429 unlocked — a difference of £40 between it and the 16 GB model.
Viacom and Google settle 7-year-old YouTube copyright lawsuit, sources say no money changed hands
It's Over! Viacom and Google Settle YouTube Lawsuit — Viacom, which been suing Google over alleged copyright violations at its YouTube unit since 2007, has settled out of court, the two companies a...
Apple re-introduces fourth-generation iPad in 16 GB model starting at $399, discontinues iPad 2
Today it was rumored that Apple had plans to bring the previous-generation iPad back into production to replace the aging iPad 2. As expected, the fourth-gen iPad is now available once again …
Foursquare CEO: How We'll Tell You Where To Eat And What To Order
Dennis Crowley's vision for Foursquare extends way beyond the check-in. — The cofounder and CEO of Foursquare envisions a future where our mobile devices learn our behavior and provide suggestions f...
Pandora CTO Tom Conrad stepping aside, transitioning to advisory role
On a personal note... Back in the early days of Pandora, I was frequently the person who would post to our blog with news about the latest product enhancements and company milestones.
Clinkle Revealed: Here's What the Embattled Startup Is (And Isn't) Building
For a company that hasn't publicly launched its product yet, Clinkle has received a ton of media coverage, not much of it flattering. — Here's a recap: Last week, the company's biggest hire to date ...
Sonos introduces universal search across music services in new mobile controller app
Five years after launching its first iOS app, internet-connected speaker maker Sonos is finally getting ready to give its mobile experience a complete overhaul. The new controller app features …
Google Play Movies expands availability to 37 new markets
Google today has announced a pair of expansions for its Play Movies and TV app. First off, the app itself has been updated with support for 40 new languages. The update has also added the ability to...