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US Senator demands the restoration of 10 years of online public records

Sep 14, 2014

The head of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee is urging the federal bureaucracy to restore a decade's worth of electronic...

Yahoo was threatened with a daily $250,000 fine for protecting user data

Sep 12, 2014

Back in 2008, in the days of the BlackBerry Storm, netbooks and well, yes, Yahoo, the internet company was threatened...

Google has agreed to refund $19 million in app purchases made by children

Sep 5, 2014

Google has agreed to issue at least $19 million in refunds to consumers whose children made app purchases from its...

Why does the decade-old TI-84 Plus still dominate the US market?

Sep 4, 2014

The TI-84 Plus graphing calculator has a 15 MHz processor, 24 kilobytes of RAM, and a 96x64 black and white...

The FCC’s next CTO is an expert on net neutrality

Sep 1, 2014

The CTO position at the FCC demands a person who is technically proficient in networks and the Internet, and also...

A SpaceX rocket blew up over Texas in mid-flight during a test

Aug 22, 2014

A SpaceX F9R rocket exploded during a test over Texas today after an anomaly was detected. The rocket’s software automatically...

The US Navy is testing exoskeletons from Lockheed Martin

Aug 19, 2014

While it may not be a full suit of high-tech gadgetry like Iron Man dons, the US Navy is set...

The FCC wants to protects civilians from “Stingray” devices

Aug 12, 2014

Devices known as Stingrays, which can secretly track and record phone users by mimicking cell phone towers, have been a...

The FCC has condemned Verizon’s plans to throttle “unlimited” LTE users

Aug 9, 2014

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler isn't happy with Verizon's reply to his strongly worded letter, which chastises the company for its...

Russia’s anti-freedom “blogger law” has come into effect

Aug 1, 2014

The new law requiring Russian bloggers to register as media entities and hold themselves to the same standards as a...

Google Street View cars are being used to detect gas leaks

Jul 17, 2014

Trundling along the streets of Boston, Staten Island, and Indianapolis in recent months, Google’s Street View cars haven’t just been...

The vast majority of NSA-intercepted data came from non-targets

Jul 6, 2014

Late Saturday night, the Washington Post dropped a bombshell of a report related to a trove of documents leaked by...