A federal court rejects Aereo's request to argue it's a cable company
Aereo's seemingly last-ditch argument to save itself won't be given an airing in court, according to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. — Instead, if the shuttered streaming video company wants to...
Secret Users Have Started Hosting Secret Dinner Parties, and They Are Brutal
Secret dinner party, said the intriguing post on Secret, an anonymous sharing app. — Invitations were application only, the host wrote in the comments. As instructed, I used an anonymous account to...
Security researcher claims over 30% of all mobile spam messages are sent through iMessage
Apple's iMessage Is Being Taken Over by Spammers — Apple's iMessage system is a great way to send texts from phone-to-phone without the paying fees to your mobile carrier.
Savvy Imgur user builds working 1KB hard drive inside ‘vanilla’ Minecraft
Imgur user smellystring has officially changed my view of Minecraft - and he'll change yours as well. Below is a fully functional 1KB hard drive, created within Minecraft and it's incredible.
Google to include temporary steering wheel and pedal system when testing autonomous cars in response to new California DMV rules
A Google Car Without a Steering Wheel? Not So Fast, California Says — Google caused a stir earlier this year when it unveiled a self-driving car without …
GoDaddy Acquires MailChimp Competitor Mad Mimi To Beef Up Its Email Marketing Service
GoDaddy has closed on the acquisition of MailChimp competitor Mad Mimi, the companies are announcing this morning. The move is meant to further expand the web hosting provider's product suite aimed a...
Google Asked to Remove 1 Million Pirate Links Per Day
In the hope of steering prospective customers away from pirate sites, copyright holders are overloading Google with DMCA takedown notices. — These requests have increased dramatically since Google b...
Google Rolls Out App Promotion Ads On Search And YouTube
App install and app re-engagement ads are now available globally. — Last spring, Google took the first step in upping its offerings for app developers in introducing app install and app re-engagemen...
Microsoft set to unveil Windows 9 on September 30th
Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software maker is tentatively planning its...
Apple removes Secret app from Brazilian App Store for not conforming with local laws
Following a recent ruling that Apple would have ten days to remove the anonymous social app Secret from its Brazilian App Store, Apple has complied with the order. The justification for the removal …
Report: eBay telling candidates for PayPal CEO role it may spin off the unit as early as next year
EBay considering spinning off Paypal - report — (Reuters) - EBay Inc is considering spinning out its fast-growing payments unit PayPal as soon as next year, news website The Information reported, ci...
SoundCloud to incorporate ads, allow artists to collect royalties, prepares to introduce paid subscriptions
Popular and Free, SoundCloud Is Now Ready for Ads — SoundCloud is the ubiquitous wild child of the digital music world. Without paying artists or record companies …
White House cybersecurity czar brags about his lack of technical expertise
Michael Daniel is the White House's cybersecurity coordinator, the man who “leads the interagency development of national cybersecurity strategy and policy” for the president. And in a recent intervi...
Wikipedia blocks edits from Congressional IP address again after edits from “obvious transphobe”
‘Orange is the New Black’ fight sparks new House Wikipedia ban — For the third time this summer, computers in the House have been blocked from editing Wikipedia due to a string of controversial edit...
Product Hunt raises $1M seed funding, launches iOS app
Silicon Valley darling Product Hunt gets $1M, launches app for its tech-fanatic community — Two days ago, Product Hunt, one of the buzziest communities in recent times, graduated from the most highl...
The state of Android updates: Who's fast, who's slow, and why
Android 4.4, KitKat was released on October 31, 2013, or at least, that's what you can say about one device: the Nexus 5. For the rest of the ecosystem, the date you got KitKat—if you got KitKat—vari...
Minecraft players build working hard drives
Players of the pixelated building block game have taken its virtual simulation tools to an unprecedented level: building functioning hard drives that can read and write data. — A fully functioning 1...
T-Mobile gives you a year of unlimited data if your friends convert from Sprint, AT&T, Verizon
T-Mobile offers a year of unlimited LTE to those who throw Sprint friends a lifeline — Summary: T-Mobile is serious about taking the third place spot away from Sprint and is coming …
Report: Most popular Android apps in Google Play store open users to man-in-the-middle attacks
Most popular Android apps open users to MITM attacks — An analysis of the 1,000 most popular free Android apps from the Google Play store has revealed a depressing fact …
Xamarin raises $54M in funding to bring Microsoft's programming language to other platforms
Xamarin, the San Francisco-based company that allows developers to code applications for a variety of different platforms using Microsoft's C# programming language, announced today that it has raised ...
Court orders Facebook to respond to EU data usage and privacy class action suit, now joined by 60K users
European Facebook Class Action Suit Attracts 60K Users As It Passes First Court Hurdle — Some developments around the class action suit filed against Facebook in Europe earlier …