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Texas court rules that police cannot search your phone after you’re jailed
Expanding the notion of privacy rights in the digital age, Texas' highest criminal court ruled Wednesday that police improperly searched a Huntsville student’s cell phone without a warrant, even though...
NASA reveals insane mission that could have saved space shuttle Columbia
In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was lost when an accident at launch conspired to destroy it upon re-entry. It was a great tragedy, and one that spurred NASA to develop a...
Twitter returns a $50,000 username to its original owner
A coveted and allegedly valuable Twitter handle that was reported stolen last month has been reacquired by its original owner. Naoki Hiroshima, the owner of the Twitter handle @N, reported in...
Hands-on with Samsung’s three Tizen-powered Galaxy Gear successors
Samsung was so excited about its new Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches that the company couldn’t even wait for its Mobile World Congress press conference on Monday to unveil them. Instead, Samsung announced the new...
14-month-old boy’s life is saved by a 3D-printed model of his heart
3D printers are really going to change the world, with the technology being used more and more in the healthcare industry. 3D printed human tissue, prosthetics and much more are...
Comcast and Netflix may have made peace with each other
With net neutrality in flux, disputes over the path of web traffic have taken on an unexpectedly high profile — but at least one high-profile fight may be coming to...
Samsung wants $9.4 million from Dyson for making it look bad
Samsung has filed a lawsuit demanding $9.4 million in compensation from the British appliance maker Dyson because it claims it was depicted as a copycat. The lawsuit, filed last week in...
J.P. Morgan concludes that Bitcoin is not a solid investment
JPMorgan Chase thinks investing into Bitcoin is an audacious idea. The financial services goliath wants its forex investors to know that bitcoin isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. So...
Florida prosecutors charge three men who used Bitcoin in illegal operations
State authorities in Florida on Thursday announced criminal charges targeting three men who allegedly ran illegal businesses moving large amounts of cash in and out of the Bitcoin virtual currency. Experts say...
Apple has faced nearly 100 lawsuits from patent trolls in the last three years
Turns out that for Apple Inc., being one of the most innovative companies on the planet does have at least one big drawback. The Cupertino, Calif., company says it is the No....
Why Google needs to license its gigabit network knowledge to municipalities
Building a gigabit network is unfortunately not a fast proposition. It takes time and money to dig trenches or string fiber. But in an op-ed over at Ars Technica, the CEO...
Google must pay 1.35% of AdSense revenue to some tiny company
Google could end up paying out 1.35 percent of the money it makes off AdWords in the US after losing a patent suit. On Tuesday, Virginia judge Raymond Jackson set...
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