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The Facebook privacy settings that you now need to change

Oct 11, 2013

It seems that whenever we finally get an understanding of how to position our Facebook settings for maximum privacy, they...

Disney touchscreen technology lets you feel textures

Oct 9, 2013

The technology world just got a bit weirder (and more amazing) after Disney announced that they invented a touchscreen that...

Should the NSA report vulnerabilities to tech companies?

Oct 7, 2013

They want to know as much about us as possible and sometimes that requires them to find vulnerabilities. At what...

Silk Road owner solicited murder for hire

Oct 2, 2013

As we learn more about the FBI bust of the deep net financial arm of parts of the underworld, Silk...

Bezos officially owns The Washington Post

Oct 2, 2013

Nobody was expecting anything to go south, but it's always good when it's official. The Washington Post has a new...

France will impose sanctions on Google for missing privacy policy deadline

Sep 27, 2013

We always knew that Google was getting powerful enough to take on entire countries when it came to policy. Now,...

Sudan government blocks internet

Sep 25, 2013

The internet is down. That much is known in Sudan. What is not certain (but highly likely) is that the...

Scientists create first carbon nanotube computer to eventually make iPhones ‘huge, clunky devices’

Sep 25, 2013

If you compare today's computers to the ENIAC, you'll see the biggest difference is size. We may be saying the...

The neutral issues of net neutrality

Sep 21, 2013

There are very few debates in which absolutes play a role. It's normally not a matter of black or white....

White House petitions FCC to require carriers to unlock mobile devices

Sep 17, 2013

Several months after calling for legislation to unlock cellphones, the White House filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission...

Google in a race vs the NSA to encrypt data

Sep 8, 2013

Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a...

Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying

Sep 7, 2013

Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a...