Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired Over Tasteless Comments on Santa Barbara Shooting
Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam has been fired from the annotation service after posting appalling comments on the memoir of mass murderer Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in a shooting spre...
Amazon is inviting some customers to try its Fire TV set-top box free for 30 days
Amazon Now Has Plenty of Fire TVs, and May Let You Try One for Free — Remember when Amazon sold out of its Fire TV boxes, just a few days after introducing them? — Now they have more.
Apple Said To Be Prepping Smart Home Software Platform For WWDC Reveal
Apple is going to make a big play in the connected smart home space, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The company is planning a platform that would turn its iOS devices, including ...
Google releases VirusTotal Uploader for OS X, hopes more malware submissions will beef up Mac security
Google today announced the release of VirusTotal Uploader for OS X, allowing Mac users to upload suspicious files for scanning. You can download it now directly for OS X 10.8 and 10.9 from VirusTotal...
Google considered acquiring connected camera maker Dropcam through its Nest division, in a push into home security
Google Eyes Home Security, Dropcam — Google's Nest division is plotting a move into the home-security market and has considered acquiring connected camera-maker Dropcam …
DARPA proof-of-concept lets cyberwarriors visualize and attack networks with the Oculus Rift
Darpa Is Weaponizing Oculus Rift for Cyberwar — For the last two years, Darpa has been working to make waging cyberwar as easy as playing a video game. Now, like so many other games, it's about to ...
Why security is terrible: computers, software, and the people who use them are broken
Everything Is Broken — Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it.
Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart raises $210 million, following its acquisition of rival Myntra
India e-commerce giant Flipkart last week bought up smaller, fashion-focused rival Myntra, and today it has more news after announcing a new $210 million round of funding.
HTC One mini 2 review: A worthy new addition to the premium One clan
HTC created what was undoubtedly one of the best smartphones of last year with the original One. That was later followed up by the One mini, which was surprising in the sense that the handset maker h...
Browser-based encrypted email service ProtonMail launches beta, aims for Gmail-like simplicity
The Only Email System The NSA Can't Access — When the NSA surveillance news broke last year it sent shockwaves through CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Switzerland.
Torrentz.eu Domain Suspended After UK Police Request
Over the past few months City of London Police have been working together with copyright holders to topple sites that provide or link to pirated content. — The police started by sending warning lett...
Line sees growing sticker adoption across Asia and Latin America, still struggling to crack US
No Time to Text? Apps Turn to Stickers — On the messaging app Line, a late-afternoon conversation between colleagues might involve a series of colorful icons, or stickers …
A Bot Named Willy: Did Mt. Gox's Automated Trading Pump Bitcoin's Price?
There is more speculation today that bitcoin's November 2013 surge and Mt. Gox's trading volume's were built in part on fraudulent trading activity - specifically via a bot that serious traders have d...
Researchers transmit data from Earth to Moon at 19.44mbps, 4800 times the previous record
Wireless broadband can reach the moon, and maybe Mars — Aside from air, water and fresh vegetables, what would need to survive on the moon? One thing that would likely of feature high on the list i...