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This Twitter account alerts you whenever Congress edits Wikipedia
There’s now a real-time record of Wikipedia edits made by US lawmakers. Congress-edits (@congressedits), a Twitter account started earlier this week, is positioning itself as a sort of digital watchdog....
Apple has turned the FTC’s eye towards Google over in-app purchases
It wasn’t too long ago that Apple landed themselves in a spot of trouble over in-app purchases, something which they were quick to correct and even offered refunds to parents...
Apple’s new iMac cuts 50% of the performance to save 19% of the cost
When Apple launched its new entry-level iMac last month, many were happy with the price, but concerned about the system’s notably less powerful hardware. To save costs and simplify production,...
Android L uses 36% less battery power than KitKat
As you may or may not know, Google has a knack for focusing on one particular "project" during the development of each major Android release. Jelly Bean had Project Butter,...
OEMs won’t be able to alter the design of Android Wear, Auto, and TV
At Google I/O this year, the company unveiled a trio of new operating systems, Android TV, Android Auto, and Android Wear. All of these operating systems, of course, run with...
Over 86% of Android devices are at risk due to a new vulnerability
A serious code-execution vulnerability in Android 4.3 and earlier was patched in KitKat, the latest version of the operating system. Researchers at IBM this week disclosed the nature of the...
The Senate is trying to legalize cell phone unlocking again
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have reached a bipartisan deal on legislation that would allow people to “unlock” their cellphones when changing providers. The bill, which will be considered...
Sony thinks Valve’s Steam Machines will be a legitimate threat… eventually
When it comes to gaming in the living room, consoles are currently dominating because that’s usually how it has been all this while. PC gaming, on the other hand, was...
BoringSSL is Google’s new, independent “fork” of OpenSSL
With developers still struggling to plug vulnerabilities in the open source OpenSSL crypto library, Google has spun off a new fork of the project based on its own, internal work...
An anonymous Bitcoin miner is threatening the security of the entire system
A single bitcoin mining network has repeatedly supplied more than half the computational power necessary to mint new bitcoins, undermining the decentralized nature of the digital currency and creating new...
A proposed Senate spending bill would provide $17.9 billion to NASA
NASA’s massive Space Launch System development effort gets a lift while its Commercial Crew Program gets more scrutiny in a proposed Senate spending bill that provides $17.9 billion to the...
Hackers can now see private discussions thanks to an OpenSSL bug
The world hasn't yet recovered from the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL and now there's news of a new bug affecting the popular open-source security package. This recently announced, and already patched, exploit...
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