Nexus 6 review: great display, top-of-the-line processor, more unwieldy than other big phones
Prepare to pay for the biggest Android Lollipop powerhouse — The Good The Google Nexus 6 has a razor-sharp and expansive display, a top-of-the-line Snapdragon 805 processor …
YouTube announces YouTube Music Key subscription service; free invite-only beta starts Monday, will cost $7.99/month after 6 months
YouTube announces plans for a subscription music service — Ad-free music and music videos starting at $7.99 a month — After spending months on revisions …
Samsung unveils Project Beyond, a 3D-capturing camera for Gear VR
Samsung has just unveiled a sneak preview of a new camera called Project Beyond, which is a 3D-capturing 360-degree camera designed to capture videos designed to be displayed on the Gear VR.
91% of US adults say consumers have lost control over how their personal info is collected and used by companies
Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era — Summary of Findings — Privacy evokes a constellation of concepts for Americans …
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Tells Silicon Valley He's Open To Obama Net Neutrality Plan
WASHINGTON — On Monday, President Barack Obama went public with his support of an aggressive approach to protecting net neutrality. Shortly after that, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom ...
Facebook launches Say Thanks, a tool for creating personalized video cards for your friends
Introducing Say Thanks — Millions of people use Facebook every day to connect with the people and things that matter to them most. Your friends are at the core of your Facebook experience …
Twitter Will Onboard Users With “Instant Timeline”, Inject Top Tweets From “While You Were Away”
Twitter has 500 million logged out users it's trying to squeeze value out of, but now it has a plan to fix its growth problem, which is really a new user retention problem.
NOAA's weather system hacked by Chinese, which the agency then covered up, says congressman
Chinese hack U.S. Weather systems, satellite network — Hackers from China breached the federal weather network recently, forcing cybersecurity teams to seal off data vital to disaster planning …
Microsoft to open-source server side .NET; positions Visual Studio for cross-platform mobile development of Linux, OS X, iOS and Android apps
Microsoft shocker: Open-source .NET, free Visual Studio, support for Linux, Mac, Android and iOS … In a major strategy change designed to expand …
AWS has 1M “active” customers, adds new database, an automated deployment tool, a source control service, an encryption keys management service, more
AWS: With more than 1 million active customers, we're your stack — Summary: Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services …
Handy, an on-demand cleaning and handyman startup, sued for allegedly misclassifying workers as independent contractors
Handy Sued For Being a Hellscape of Labor Code Violations — Handy, the on-demand “handyman” and house cleaning startup, is facing a class action lawsuit for violating an impressive amount of labor l...
Amazon Is Expanding Its R&D In Cambridge, U.K., With A Focus On Prime Air Drones And Speech Tech
Amazon is expanding its R&D operations in Cambridge, U.K., with a plan to staff out a large research lab — expanding on the foothold it acquired when it bought Cambridge-based speech tech …
Republicans signal demise of internet sales tax bill
Bricks-and-mortar retailers have become the first US business group to be disappointed by Republicans since their midterm election gains, as party leaders indicated that a bill to end tax-free interne...
European Antitrust Regulators to Hold Discussions With Google's Rivals
European antitrust regulators will hold discussions with the companies most concerned by Google's business practices before deepening existing investigations or resolving them, the new competition com...
Top Yahoo shareholders, unhappy with Marissa Mayer, make direct plea to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to explore merger
Exclusive: Some unhappy Yahoo investors asking AOL for rescue — (Reuters) - At least two top-10 Yahoo Inc shareholders are so unhappy with Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's turnaround efforts …
DJI introduces the Inspire 1 drone, shoots 4K video and 12MP photos; $2,900, preorder now, ships end of November
DJI Inspire 1 takes flight with a 4K camera — There are quadcopters with cameras out there that could be considered nothing more than toys. The DJI Inspire 1 is no toy.
Report from conservative think tank finds Uber is increasingly used by congressional campaigns
Uber Has Powerful Customers in Washington — Popular car service Uber is making powerful friends on Capitol Hill. — A new study out Tuesday finds that Uber rides have become the transport option …
‘Proximity’ is Samsung's equivalent of Apple's iBeacon, coming to a mall near you
Tired of only seeing adverts 99 percent of the time? While Apple's already announced intentions to take over the final one percent with iBeacon, Samsung's just today getting in on the action.