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High school senior arrested for hacking his school’s report-card system
A Miami high school student is facing felony charges after allegedly hacking into his school website and changing students' grades, according to WFOR-TV in Miami. Jose Bautista, 18, was charged Friday with multiple...
Cops are looking to crowdsource investigations using mobile apps
Citizen-provided evidence is clearly on the up. With the amount of cameras knocking about, this is hardly surprising. However, when something goes down at a large public event, the mass of well-meaning user-submitted...
Zenimax accuses John Carmack of stealing tech to create Oculus Rift
The parent company behind Bethesda Softworks and Id Software, Zenimax Media, has taken legal action against Id Software founder and former employee John Carmack, Oculus VR and its parent, Facebook. Zenimax...
Google releases two new productivity apps for iOS
Until today, you had to use the Dropbox-like Google Drive app or web interface to access Google Docs on iOS. But now Google has official apps to work on documents and spreadsheets,...
Engineer creates working smartphone using Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi — is there anything it can’t do? The tiny computer has helped inventors and hackers create a media streamer, outer space camera, games console and cocktail-mixing robot in its short lifetime, and you...
Study suggests that speed reading apps are bad for comprehension
Speed reading apps like Spritz are a nifty way to plow through text at a breakneck pace, but they’re not perfect. Such apps might rob you of your comprehension, according to new research. In a study by University of...
Facebook funds a police substation in Menlo Park
Facebook has given some of its money and a bit of its open-source attitude for a new home for Menlo Park's officers in blue. A new Menlo Park Police Department substation and neighborhood service...
Researchers use ancient DNA to track the evolution of the chicken
Durham University researchers have used ancient DNA to study how a jungle bird transformed into the domestic chicken. According to the researchers, chickens that lived 2000 to 3000 years ago looked...
Dutch glowing highway is going offline temporarily
Luminescent powder in paint has given a glow to 500 meters of Dutch highway, resulting in a trial section of glow-in-the-dark road. Designer Daan Roosegaarde, who won best future concept for...
KMel Robotics creates a band out of flying drones
It turns out that hobby drones are good for more than just buzzing around tech shows and generally creeping us out. They can also play a pretty cool version of...
Computer security researcher claims Apple left users open to threats
Notable computer security researcher Kristin Paget, who worked on Apple's security team before leaving for Tesla in early 2014, has taken to her blog to criticize Apple for fixing more than a...
Ubuntu 14.04 will be coming to tablets in the near future
Has it truly been six months already? It feel like just yesterday we were kicking the tires on a fresh install of Saucy Salamander. Now Canonical is pushing out the latest...
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