Gmail makes it easier to email photos automatically backed up from your smartphone
The photos from your phone, now one click away — Unless you're a budding Ansel Adams, odds are you take most of your photos using your phone. And whether it's photos of your hiking trip or a night ...
Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when
Ever since Heartbleed was made public there have been questions about who knew what and when.
Twitter acquires social data provider Gnip, plans to offer more sophisticated data sets
Twitter welcomes Gnip to the flock — Every day Twitter users share and discuss their interests and what's happening in the world. These public Tweets can reveal a wide variety of insights …
Amazon's 4.7-inch 720p smartphone to have glasses-free 3D UI, four head-tracking infrared cameras
This is Amazon's smartphone — BGR gives the world an exclusive first look at the unannounced smartphone Amazon is set to debut in the coming months — After years of development …
Yahoo's Q1 Earnings as Meh as Expected, But China's Alibaba Doing Great!
Yahoo pretty much came in on target in the first quarter with what Wall Street had been expecting, earning 38 cents a share on $1.087 billion in revenue. Minus traffic acquisition costs, that meant a...
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF's Housing Crisis Explained)
A hearse rolls up to a Yahoo bus at the BART MacArthur Station in Oakland. A protester who had climbed on top of the bus later vomited on the vehicle. (From Indybay) — The Santa Clara Valley …
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and Carriers Back Anti-Theft Measures for Smartphones
With several states and municipalities considering various mandatory “kill-switch” laws for mobile devices, the wireless industry announced a voluntary commitment to include new anti-theft technology ...
Building blocks: how Project Ara is reinventing the smartphone
A handful of Google engineers and designers are building a phone the DARPA way — In a spare, drab office park in Sunnyvale, California, a bunch of two-by-fours and foamboard have been nailed togethe...
NY state senator: NY Post story on hookers using Airbnb points to gambling, drug activity next
New York Lawmaker Warns That AirBNB Could Be Used For Gambling And Drugs Next — New York State Senator Liz Krueger issued a statement saying a New York Post report published Monday …
Anyone Can Buy Google Glass Today, Starting Now
If you've long lusted over a pair of the world's geekiest glasses, today all your Christmases come at once. For one day only, Google is allowing any United States resident to buy Glass. — The folks...
Teardown Shows Samsung's Galaxy S5 Costs About $256 to Build
The Galaxy S5, Samsung's new flagship smartphone, costs about $256 to build according to a teardown analysis by market research firm IHS that will be published later today. — Released over the weeke...
Inside Google X: lab reveals it experimented with space elevators and hoverboards
The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors — Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad. Or maybe it's something good. At Google X, it's sometimes...
Zebra Technologies to buy Motorola's enterprise business for $3.45B
Zebra to Buy Motorola Solutions Unit for $3.45 Billion — Zebra Technologies Corp. (ZBRA) will acquire the enterprise business of Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) for $3.45 billion, adding mobile comput...
Tails: the privacy-focused Linux version Snowden, Greenwald, and Poitras used to communicate
Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA — When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden first emailed Glenn Greenwald, he insisted on using email encryption softwa...
Microsoft Announces New Tools Bringing The Cloud To The Internet Of Things, Uniting Hadoop And SQL
This morning in San Francisco, Microsoft announced several new data-focused tools in front of a cadre of customers and partners, not to mention a decent-sized grouping of press.
Google plans major expansion in New York, is seeking space for more than 3,000 workers
Space Quest: Google Needs More Offices in New York City — Internet Giant Launches Search for Room to Hold More Than 3,000 Workers — Google is doing a search: It wants to expand further …
Quantenna promises to deliver 10-gigabit Wi-Fi in 2015
Today's fastest 802.11ac routers deliver throughput speeds on par with hardwired gigabit-ethernet connections. That might seem slow by next year, when Quantenna Communications launches its new Wi-Fi ...
TrueCrypt audit finds “no evidence of backdoors” or malicious code
On Monday, after seven months of discussion and planning, the first-phase of a two-part audit of TrueCrypt was released. — The results? iSEC, the company contracted to review the bootloader and Wind...
Google Invents Micro Camera System for Future Contact Lenses
Last month Google surprised the market with a new wearable Glass off-shoot project relating to future smart contact lenses. Our report that was titled “Google Takes their Glass Vision to Smart Contac...
New CEO Nadella pushes data culture at Microsoft
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp needs a “data culture” to thrive in the new computing environment, according to chief executive Satya Nadella, in his third public appearance in three weeks putting his impr...
FCC plans to reserve up to a third of licenses for small wireless carriers in spectrum auction
Bidding Rules Becoming Clearer for Upcoming Airwaves Auction — Federal officials plan to reserve up to a third of licenses sold in a TV airwaves auction next year for smaller wireless carriers under...
Intel Meets In Q1 With Revenue Of $12.8B, EPS Of $0.38 On Back Of Recovering PC Market
Following the closing bell today, Intel reported its first quarter results, including revenue of $12.764 billion, and earnings per share of $0.38. The results roughly match analyst expectations …
AngelList's Newest Experiment: a $25 Million Fund to Invest in Angel Investors
A new experiment in startup funding could have widespread ramifications for the way venture capitalists place bets on young companies. — On Tuesday, crowdsourced fundraising site AngelList unveiled ...
Exclusive: Automattic seeking to raise more than $100 million
The round will value the company behind WordPress.com at north of $1 billion. — FORTUNE — Automattic, the company that runs blogging platforms WordPress.com and WordPress VIP, is out raising between...
Mt. Gox founder won't appear in U.S. for questions about bankruptcy case
(Reuters) - Mark Karpeles, the founder of Mt. Gox, said he would not come to the United States to answer questions about the Japanese bitcoin exchange's U.S. bankruptcy case, Mt. Gox lawyers told a fe...
Twitter Taps Google Maps Director Daniel Graf for Product VP Role
Twitter announced Tuesday it had named Daniel Graf as its new vice president of consumer product. — Graf most recently comes from Google, where had he led efforts on the company's Google Maps projec...
YouTube using traditional advertising to promote star content creators
Exclusive Interview: Susan Wojcicki's Plan to Make YouTube ‘Stars’ Real-Life Famous — And Guaranteeing Audiences In Bid to Pry More TV Dollars Away In the Upfront — How Advertising Performs in a S...
LaCie's online store was compromised for nearly a year, exposing credit cards and contact info
Hardware Giant LaCie Acknowledges Year-Long Credit Card Breach — Computer hard drive maker LaCie has acknowledged that a hacker break-in at its online store exposed credit card numbers …
Amid Reports Facebook Is Eyeing Up Financial Services, TransferWise Hits £1 Billion In Transfers
A million pounds isn't cool, you know what's cool? — In the midst of reports that Facebook could be about to get into financial services, one of the startups it's rumoured to have talked to …
Red Hat Announces OpenShift Marketplace
Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), a leading provider of open source solutions, announced at its conference this week OpenShift Marketplace, a one-stop shop that will enable customers of all sizes to find and try s...
Fon Launches Gramofon, A Router With Facebook And Spotify Built-In
Today, crowd-sourced Wifi network operator Fon launches its rumoured new product, the Gramofon. But unusually for a large tech company with healthy revenues, it's launched the product with 30-day cro...
Google targeting Project Ara modular phone for January 2015
The company wants a base “gray phone” model of its Project Ara modular smartphone available by early next year. — Google's Project Ara project coordinator David Fishman and team leader Paul Eremenko...