Sling TV opens the floodgates, accepts sign-ups without invites
Credit: Janko Roettgers / Gigaom — Credit: Janko Roettgers / Gigaom — Sling TV, the online TV streaming service from Dish Networks, is now available to everyone: The service ended its invitation-o...
Teen charged with murder after posting selfie with victim's body to Snapchat
Jeannette 16-year-old faces murder charge in teen's shooting death — Although officials have not described a motive in the shooting death of a Jeannette teen Wednesday, the young man charged with mu...
Netflix starts offering service in Cuba for $7.99 a month
Netflix Is Available in Cuba — Cubans Will Gain Access to A Broad Range of Original Series, Movies, Documentaries, Stand-up Comedy Specials and TV Shows Starting At $7.99 — Los Gatos, California, ...
Apple's iOS 9 to have ‘huge’ stability and optimization focus after years of feature additions
Following the success of OS X Snow Leopard for Macs in 2009, one of iOS 9's standout ‘features’ will be a directed focus on stabilizing and optimizing the operating system.
Senate report: vulnerabilities in cars' wireless systems can let hackers take control of vehicles' electronics and collect personal information on drivers
Report Sees Weak Security in Cars' Wireless Systems — WASHINGTON — Serious gaps in security and customer privacy affect nearly every vehicle …
KickassTorrents loses .so home to domain name seizure, reverts to .to domain
KickassTorrents Taken Down By Domain Name Seizure — With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) is one the most used torrent sites on the Internet. — The site's popularity …
Exclusive: Qualcomm nears $1 billion deal resolving China antitrust dispute - source
(Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) is likely to pay China a record fine of around $1 billion, ending a 14-month government investigation into anti-competitive practices, after the U.S. chipmaker and th...
China's Alibaba to invest $590 million in smartphone maker Meizu
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said in a statement on Monday it will buy a minority stake in domestic smartphone maker Meizu Technology Co for $590 million. Alibaba didn't disclos...
Ecuador is the first country to roll out a state-run electronic payment system; digital currency will be tied to the US dollar
Ecuador becomes the first country to roll out its own digital cash — In 2000, Ecuador moved to ditch its stumbling currency for the U.S. dollar.
Samsung's SmartTV privacy policy warns that spoken personal or sensitive information captured by voice recognition may be transmitted to a third party
5 things to know today Parmy Olson / Forbes : Samsung's Smart TVs Share Living Room Conversations With Third Parties Help Net Security : Be careful when talking in front of a Samsung SmartTV Graham Cl...
LinkedIn, American Airlines, and other major developers begin to adopt Apple's Swift, report improved productivity and fewer errors
Apple's new Swift programming language takes flight with Getty Images, American Airlines, LinkedIn, and Duolingo — Apple's new Swift programming language …
Twitter transparency report: worldwide requests up 40% for government info, 84% for content removal
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Inside Chinese factories that mine 4050 bitcoins/month, equivalent to about $1.5M, with computing power that amounts to roughly 3% of the bitcoin network
Inside the Chinese Bitcoin Mine That's Making $1.5M a Month — In October of last year Motherboard gained access to a massive …
Palantir Buys Fancy That To Add Retail, Shopping Data To Its Analytics Platform
Palantir is known for its data analytics platform that is used extensively in areas like law enforcement, financial and insurance research and healthcare. Now you can add retail and shopping data to ...
The FCC isn't afraid of AT&T's legal threats over net neutrality
Lawyers dissect AT&T's claim that broadband can't be a common carrier service. — AT&T will probably be one of the first companies to file a lawsuit if the Federal Communications Commission follows t...
Dell Venue 8 7000 review: a $400 Intel-based Android tablet with solid build, thin bezels, nearly 10 hours of battery life
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Some techies with DIY mentalities choose to homeschool their children
Jason Tanz / Wired : Tweets: @mims , @toughloveforx and @mat Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : America's education system can't equip kids for the 21st century == hope you can afford to homeschool y...
How Slack makes sure the work conversations of 365K people stay private
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How Waterloo recovered after BlackBerry's decline and avoided a talent exodus
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Profile of John B. Goodenough, who invented the lithium-ion battery and is now trying to build a powerful new super-battery
Steve LeVine / Quartz : Tweets: @dtunkelang and @fmanjoo Tweets: Daniel Tunkelang / @dtunkelang : It's not everyday you hear someone dismiss @elonmusk as an incrementalist. http://qz.com/... Farhad M...
VPNs increasingly used to circumvent geo restrictions, access content on sites like Netflix
Quentin Hardy / New York Times : Tweets: @jonrussell and @digiphile Tweets: Jon Russell / @jonrussell : As many as 20 million people worldwide use VPNs http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/ ... a real must-...
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