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High school senior arrested for hacking his school’s report-card system

May 5, 2014

A Miami high school student is facing felony charges after allegedly hacking into his school website and changing students' grades, according to...

Cops are looking to crowdsource investigations using mobile apps

May 4, 2014

Citizen-provided evidence is clearly on the up. With the amount of cameras knocking about, this is hardly surprising. However, when something goes...

Zenimax accuses John Carmack of stealing tech to create Oculus Rift

May 2, 2014

The parent company behind Bethesda Softworks and Id Software, Zenimax Media, has taken legal action against Id Software founder and...

Google releases two new productivity apps for iOS

Apr 30, 2014

Until today, you had to use the Dropbox-like Google Drive app or web interface to access Google Docs on iOS. But now...

Engineer creates working smartphone using Raspberry Pi

Apr 27, 2014

The Raspberry Pi — is there anything it can’t do? The tiny computer has helped inventors and hackers create a media...

Study suggests that speed reading apps are bad for comprehension

Apr 27, 2014

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...

Facebook funds a police substation in Menlo Park

Apr 26, 2014

Facebook has given some of its money and a bit of its open-source attitude for a new home for Menlo Park's...

Researchers use ancient DNA to track the evolution of the chicken

Apr 26, 2014

Durham University researchers have used ancient DNA to study how a jungle bird transformed into the domestic chicken. According to the...

Dutch glowing highway is going offline temporarily

Apr 26, 2014

Luminescent powder in paint has given a glow to 500 meters of Dutch highway, resulting in a trial section of...

KMel Robotics creates a band out of flying drones

Apr 26, 2014

It turns out that hobby drones are good for more than just buzzing around tech shows and generally creeping us...

Computer security researcher claims Apple left users open to threats

Apr 23, 2014

Notable computer security researcher Kristin Paget, who worked on Apple's security team before leaving for Tesla in early 2014, has taken...

Ubuntu 14.04 will be coming to tablets in the near future

Apr 17, 2014

Has it truly been six months already? It feel like just yesterday we were kicking the tires on a fresh...