Verizon sends Netflix cease and desist over streaming quality warnings
Verizon has sent a cease and desist order to Netflix demanding that it stop presenting its subscribers with messages blaming Verizon's network for poor streaming performance, according to CNBC.
Swift: Apple's next-generation programming language 4 years in the making
Swift, Apple's new programming language billed as taking the C out of Objective-C, was one of the biggest surprises at WWDC 2014. The Swift project started at Apple roughly 4 years ago as one of seve...
Still reeling from Heartbleed, OpenSSL suffers from crypto bypass flaw
A researcher has uncovered another severe vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library. It allows attackers to decrypt and modify Web, e-mail, and virtual private network traffic protected by t...
Twitter acquires Namo Media to boost native mobile ads, will integrate it with MoPub
We are excited to announce that Twitter is acquiring Namo Media! — We started Namo Media with the belief that mobile banner ads don't work for users, publishers, or advertisers.
UK proposes life sentences for hackers who threaten national security
Life sentences for serious cyberattacks are proposed in Queen's speech — Any cyberattackers who cause ‘loss of life, serious injury or damage to national security’ could face full sentence
A look at Google's Tegra K1-powered 3D-mapping Project Tango tablet dev kit, available for $1024 later this month
Google's secretive 3D-mapping project now has a tablet: here it is — Comprehending the world around us is something we humans take for granted, but it's not so easy for our technology.
Barnes & Noble Taps Samsung As Hardware Partner For New NOOK Tablets
Barnes & Noble's e-reader and tablet division has been in a bit of a tailspin over the past couple of years, but today it announced that it'll be taking a different approach through a new partnership ...
Cover story: behind the scenes with Greylock Partners
How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook — One sunny day in March, Gagan Biyani, the young and hugely ambitious CEO of Sprig—a company so new you probably have never heard of it—stepped into th...
Tinder introduces “Moments”, allowing users to share self-destructing photos with their matches for 24 hours
With Moments, Tinder, Too, Decides Photos Shouldn't Always Last Forever — While Tinder has made quite a few romantic matches, the hot new dating app has long …
Microsoft Touts New PCs, Windows Phones at Computex
At Computex in Taiwan on Wednesday, Microsoft touted the over 40 new Windows PC and Windows Phone handset designs showcased by its hardware partners at the show. As you might imagine, the devices var...
Microsoft: Software update unlocks more GPU bandwidth on Xbox One
The system update does not turn the system white... only the employee models do that. — The June system update rolling out to Xbox Ones worldwide this week includes surface-level features like exter...
Inside the new Healthcare.gov set to debut at the beginning of the next enrollment period, November 15
Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time — The drama of the HealthCare.gov Ad Hoc team is now a modern tech fable: a small cadre of young geeks from Silicon Valley …
How Sabu as FBI informant directed hackers to attack Brazilian government and corporate sites
Exclusive: How FBI Informant Sabu Helped Anonymous Hack Brazil — In early 2012, members of the hacking collective Anonymous carried out a series of cyber attacks on government and corporate websites...
Amazon to use modified version of OKAO Vision face sensing technology for its new 3D smartphone
This Is The Face Tracking Tech Powering Amazon's New 3D Smartphone — Rumor has it - and we've confirmed - that Amazon will launch its first smartphone on June 18.
Twitter Buys Mobile Native Ad Startup Namo Media For Around $50M
Twitter has made another acquisition to build the social network's ad tech business — specifically in the area of native ads. It has acquired Namo Media, a specialist in “native ad” content that inte...
Virginia DMV sends Uber, Lyft cease & desist letters; companies continue operation regardless
Virginia officials order Uber, Lyft to stop operating in the state — This post has been updated. — The war between app-based ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft and the state of Virginia is escal...
Facebook Says Your Organic Reach Would Be Worse If It Showed Everything In The News Feed
Facebook's Brian Boland wrote a lengthy blog post about the much talked about decline in organic reach of Facebook Page posts. It's happening for two main reasons, he said: more and more content …
EU Court Of Justice: Just Viewing Stuff Online Isn't Infringing On Copyright
It's kind of ridiculous that it's taken this long, but the EU Court of Justice has now made it clear that viewing stuff that is legally on the internet is not copyright infringement.
Dropbox Acquires Stealth Messaging Startup Droptalk
Dropbox has swallowed up another early stage startup, this one a stealthy company called Droptalk which was developing a tool that allowed you to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extens...
Google Public Alerts now include Tweets to help answer important questions
Google Public Alerts now include Tweets to help answer important questions — Tech giants Google and Twitter have had difficulties seeing eye-to-eye since the end of their partnership in 2011 …
Microsoft: Windows Mobile Device Prices to Dip Below $200
Consumers can expect prices of tablets and smartphones running Microsoft's software to dip below $200 this year, says the company's vice president of OEM partners Nick Parker. — “We'll reach price p...
Grab the remote: Chromebooks can now watch Play Movies, TV shows offline
After what seemed an eternity, Google Chromebook owners can finally watch Google Play video content offline on their devices. Earlier last month Google announced this requested feature was coming and...
Kobalt Raises $140M To Scale Up Its Digital Royalty Collection Business
Apple's $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a possible IPO from Spotify and a review of music licensing rules by the Justice Department are some of the big developments that have put the stre...
Fab to Buy European Company, May Create New Furniture Shopping Site
Fab's board of directors has approved yet another new strategic plan for the e-commerce company that will include the purchase of a European furniture company and the likely creation of a new shopping...
Marc Andreessen: Snowden is “obviously a traitor”, secrets he revealed have damaged US tech companies
Snowden a ‘traitor’: Andreessen — NSA leaker Edward Snowden is a “traitor,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen told CNBC. The secrets he's revealed have hurt Silicon Valley …
LinkedIn upgrades its search engine and ditches an array of open source extensions
LinkedIn has overhauled its search engine infrastructure in favor of a new system dubbed Galene, a homegrown engine designed to improve search results and problems with maintenance, the company plans ...