Full disk encryption on Nexus 6 leads to 62.9% drop in random read performance
Encryption and Storage Performance in Android 5.0 Lollipop — As alluded to in our Nexus 6 review, our normal storage performance benchmark was no longer giving valid results as of Android 5.0.
Passwords don't just protect data, they reveal our hopes, dreams, secrets, fears, and memories
The Secret Life of Passwords … Play Videos — Howard Lutnick, the chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the world's largest financial-services firms, still cries when he talks about it.
Internal NSA debate led Obama to consider plan to stop gathering US phone records in 2009
AP Exclusive: Before Snowden, a debate inside NSA — 1 photo — WASHINGTON (AP) — Years before Edward Snowden sparked a public outcry with the disclosure that the National Security Agency …
Behind PayPal-owned mobile payments app Venmo, which processed $700M in payments in Q3 2014
Mobile Payment Startup Venmo is Killing Cash — Kristen Geil, a writer for an Internet marketing firm in Chicago, heard about Venmo for the first time two summers ago.
How Twine, a creation tool for text-based video games, brought more diverse voices to gaming
Twine, the Video-Game Technology for All — Perhaps the most surprising thing about “GamerGate,” the culture war that continues to rage within the world of video games, is the game that touched it of...
Eyes-on with Streaming Photoshop: Adobe's plan to bring PS to the cloud
We have seen Photoshop work in a browser, and it looked pretty good. “Streaming Photoshop” is Adobe and Google's plan to bring the incomparable photo editor to Chrome OS and the Chrome Browser.
Assembly raises $2.9M for a platform letting anyone contribute to projects and share profits
With Assembly, anyone can contribute to open-source software and actually get paid — A new startup wants to evolve open-source methods, adding a wide range of skills and profit sharing
The Oral History of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop to America)
Everyone's favorite emoji began in Japan. But without Google, it may have stayed there. — If the story of the poop emoji's rise were told in emojis, it would look like this: