Twitter vows to “improve our policies” after Robin Williams' daughter is bullied off the network
Twitter has promised to improve and expand its policies after Robin Williams' daughter is bullied off of the social network. Internet trolls bullied Robin Williams' daughter off of Twitter …
Comments sent to FCC were overwhelmingly pro net neutrality, most opposing came from templates
A Fascinating Look Inside Those 1.1 Million Open-Internet Comments — When the Federal Communications Commission asked for public comments about the issue of keeping the Internet free and open, the r...
Facial recognition tech leads feds to fugitive after 14 years
A cold case comes back to life after facial recognition software recognizes an alleged US outlaw who'd been hiding out in Nepal. — Facial recognition technology used on the photo in the Neil Stammer...
Apple considering sapphire glass screens for more expensive models of new iPhones this fall, producing sapphire displays for smartwatch
Apple Considers Using Harder Material in Pricier Models — Apple Inc. created the blueprint for a smartphone when it covered the touch screen of its first iPhone in glass, instead of plastic.
Ask.com Buys Ask.fm, an Anonymous Q.&A. Start-Up
Ask, and ye shall receive. — Ask.com, the Oakland, Calif.-based company owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp, announced on Thursday it had acquired Ask.fm, a highly popular question-and-answer website. — ...
Canada's Desire2Learn raises $85 mln for global e-learning push
Canada's D2L Inc said on Thursday it raised $85 million in venture capital funds, the country's biggest such deal this year, as the fast-growing owner of educational software maker Desire2Learn looks ...
PGP, which hasn't fundamentally evolved since the 1990s, needs to die
What's the matter with PGP? — Last Thursday, Yahoo announced their plans to support end-to-end encryption using a fork of Google's end-to-end email extension. This is a Big Deal.
Tech executives Zuckerberg, Nadella, Costolo, Schiller, and others take “ice bucket challenge” to raise ALS awareness
Ice Bucket Challenge: Zuckerberg, Nadella and More — The “ice bucket challenge,” a campaign to raise awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …
Berlin bans Uber app citing passenger safety
The mobile taxi app Uber has been banned in Berlin by the city's State Department of Civil and Regulatory Affairs. — In a statement, the authority said it had banned the app on passenger safety grou...
Square Just Released A Blog Post Listing The Top 10 Negative Myths About It
Square just published a defensive blog post about the Top 10 negative myths about its service. — The post comes only a few days after Amazon launched a new product that puts it in direct competition...
FISA Court judge criticized NSA for ‘systemic overcollection’ of internet metadata
Surveillance Court Judge Criticized NSA ‘Overcollection’ of Data — Decision Offers Scathing Assessment of Agency's Management of Internet-Surveillance Program
Spring, David Tisch's Latest Venture, Is Instagram For Shopping
For the past year, investor and serial entrepreneur David Tisch has been working with his brother Alan to build an enjoyable way to shop on mobile. Today, that fruits of that labor springs onto the s...
YouTube refreshes television app for set-top boxes, game consoles and smart TVs
If you use YouTube's app on your TV, get ready for a new UI (finally!). The app has a much cleaner look now, in line with Google's Material Design, and includes features that you're used to seeing on...
Motorola plans Sept 4 event to debut Moto 360, Moto X, G sequels
The company is hosting an event in Chicago for the eagerly anticipated smartwatch, with an array of other products in tow. — Motorola Mobility's Moto 360 smartwatch will finally get its official lau...
Q&A: Lenovo CEO on How It Plans to Grow With Smartphones
Last year, Lenovo Group became the world's largest personal-computer maker, overtaking Hewlett-Packard. Now, the Chinese company is trying to repeat the success with smartphones, competing head-on wi...
Meet the 6-inch Samsung Galaxy Mega 2
Samsung is getting ready to launch a successor to the Galaxy Mega 5.8 and Galaxy Mega 6.3 from last year: a new device that should be called Galaxy Mega 2. While we heard about it several times befor...
Retailer leaks Galaxy Note 4 specs: 4GB of RAM, Snapdragon 805, 4K video and more
While it won't be terribly long before Samsung lets us in on their little Samsung Galaxy Note 4 secret, we're eager to find out what's in store for their second half flagship ahead of its September 3r...
UberTaxi hits the streets of Hong Kong
Two months after Uber rolled its app-connected limo service into Hong Kong, the US-based startup is today launching UberTaxi in the city. This allows people to grab a conventional, licensed Hong Kong...
Dash app, which analyzes data from your car's On Board Diagnostic port, arrives on iPhone
Dash's Smart Driving App Arrives On iPhone — The Dash smart driving assistant that made its debut earlier this year on Android has launched on iPhone answering one of the most frequently heard reque...
Best Buy's smart home hub “Peq”: $9.99 a month for service, hardware bundles start at $120
Meet Peq, The Next Smart Home Hub — As if we didn't have enough smart home hub entrants, Peq appears poised to launched. Pronounced “peek”, we believe this newcomer is Best Buy's answer …
Flipboard will introduce video ads in September with Chanel as an initial partner
Social reading service Flipboard is the latest US social network to go down the route of video advertising, following the path of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (soon) and others.
Girls Who Code has grown from 20 students at Facebook in 2012 to 380 at 16 companies in 2014
No boys allowed: Girls Who Code takes on gender gap — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Each morning this summer, Jazmine Fernandez hopped the subway to downtown Oakland and boarded a shuttle bus bound for Silic...
Humin, The App That Organizes Phone Contacts By How You Know Them, Is Now In The App Store
Humin, the app that aims to replace your iPhone contacts app is now in the App Store. Will.i.am, Richard Branson and Angry Birds creator Peter Vesterbacka were all part of the private beta launch a f...
FAA needs to speed up U.S. drone policy development and R&D strategy to compete globally
We Need to Reform Our Drone Policies (But This Isn't About Privacy) — Last week the United States launched airstrikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria using F-18 fighter jets and predator dron...