The U.S. Federal Communications Commission adopted rules at a meeting on Wednesday to allow wireless networks of microstimulators designed to treat paralysis and...
Several members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voiced support Wednesday for legislation that would allow states to collect sales tax on...
Netflix designed its cloud architecture so that it has the option to move to an Amazon Web Services competitor, but doesn't expect a real competitor to emerge...
The latest Kindle Fire software update removes root access from the device.
Samsung on Wednesday said it has started shipping test units of its latest dual-core mobile chip based on ARM's new Cortex-A15 processor design, which could...
Rolling Stone, Last.fm, Pitchfork and others are launching HTML5 apps with the streaming music service.
Cloud computing consulting firm GlobalOne Wednesday released the first of three CRM packages that aim to help financial services firms and banks transition to...
Best Buy has the Nikon Coolpix S8100 pocket megazoom camera on sale for only $150.
A new bill introduced by senior members of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee would allow intelligence agencies to share classified...
In 2003, Atir Raihan began work on a product that has gone on to gain infamy in the world's security industry. His idea: to build a spyware program for mobile...
The cloud is awesome and provides a variety of benefits, but getting gigabytes--or terabytes--of data from the drives in my office uploaded to the cloud is a full-time job that can take days, or even weeks.
An old serial console gets used as a terminal for a Mac Pro.
Intel is reportedly offering subsidies to manufacturers to get the price of Ultrabooks lower.
After all its stumbles, can the social network change its image involving how it treats user privacy?
Olive hopes be the first smartphone filmed movie to be shown in theaters.
The reason why the iPhone belched smoke and glowed red is under investigation.
Hacktivist groups Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN have joined together in a new campaign that involves compromising credit card details and using them to donate money...
Spotify on Wednesday launched a development platform designed to let third parties create applications that integrate with its popular digital music-streaming service.
Amazon is selling Panasonic's 3D Wi-Fi Blu-ray player for only $139, with free shipping
I can has eMac? The eSleeper is the latest in cat bed technology, turning an old Mac into a cozy--and decidedly geeky--kitteh retreat.
Box has enhanced the Box for Android app, and teamed up with LG to offer 50GB of free storage for all LG Android tablets and smartphones.
Best Buy has the Apple iPod touch on sale for $275, with free shipping.
Sony's PS3 flips over to firmware 4.00, but you'll probably only care if you live in Japan.
News Microsoft is quickly losing its chance to bring a Windows 8 tablet market are exaggerated. Here's why.
Temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona -- one of the most arid places in the U.S. -- routinely exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). That's about the...
Adobe Systems has acquired Efficient Frontier in order to boost its abilities to power advertising campaigns that use social networks and search engines to reach...
HTML5 demo lets you take Microsoft's Metro UI for a spin.
Salesforce.com on Wednesday rolled out the Radian6 Social Marketing Cloud, a new set of services that builds on its core CRM (customer relationship management)...
Microsoft has beefed up SkyDrive, its free online storage services, with a host of handy new file management features for sharing, uploading, and swapping data via social networks.
If Microsoft is working on an iPad version of Microsoft Office, it's long overdue, and would be a welcome tool for the Apple tablet--hopefully.
Google is redesigning its navigation bars, buttons, and links featured on Google.com. Here is a look at its first big design change.
Spotify says it will announce a "new direction," but it's not clear why, or which way it will go. Here are a few educated guesses on what the 10-million-member service has up its sleeve.
For my 30 Days With the Cloud journey I have to give up my trusty Quicken Home & Business, and venture out to find some cloud-based tool to manage my personal finances.
So you're at the company Christmas party, and you've drank too much. The next day, an unflattering photo is on Facebook, but you don't know it since you haven't...
Apple is seeking to stop Samsung Electronics selling the modified Galaxy Tab 10.1 that it released in Germany in an effort to dodge an earlier injunction...
MobileIron hopes to help businesses prepare for what it believes will be an onslaught of Android phones in 2012 with an updated version of its mobile device...
Acer expects to meet its target of shipping 250,000 to 300,000 ultrabooks in the fourth quarter, it said Wednesday, after struggling with declining PC sales this...
HTC has won a case in the U.S. that alleged the Taiwanese smartphone maker had infringed on several digital camera patents controlled by FlashPoint Technology.
BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, announced Tuesday, isn't just Research In Motion's first entry in the race to manage enterprises' whole mobile environments. It's also...
Today GeekBytes takes a look at some useful or cool gadgets you can make or buy, including steampunk glasses and a retro way to read the news...
All the pieces are in place for a surge in laptop sales next year--from new Intel chips to the planned launch of the Windows 8 operating system to sleeker designs.
Max Ivins, visual effects supervisor for Look Effects, explains how his team's work on 'The Muppets' might go unnoticed--unless you're a Muppeteer.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has allowed AT&T to withdraw its application to buy the mobile licenses owned by T-Mobile USA.
This hack lets you control an Etch-a-Sketch with an NES game controller.
Developers rejoice! The BlackBerry PlayBook has finally been rooted, giving access to tinker away.
The First Amendment may not apply overseas, but a high school student in Kansas reminds us of its importance at home.
The knock on managing Macs in business environments has long been Apple's ambivalent attitude toward providing significant enterprise support.
Millions of Hewlett Packard Co.'s LaserJet printers contain a security weakness that could allow attackers to take control of the systems, steal data from them and issue commands that could cause the devices to overheat and catch fire.
The service isn't live yet...but the offer is.
TheInfoPro study finds Cisco and Juniper down, Check Point and Palo Alto up in a firewall popularity contest.
A long chain of events led not only to the collapse of a scientist's hypothesis, but it landed her in jail -- and brought death threats upon some of the researchers who debunked her ideas.
This is it. Actually, these are them. The Toyota GT 86 and Subaru BRZ. They are awesome.
In an effort to streamline and simplify the maturity ratings of software in mobile app stores, CTIA, the international wireless industry association, yesterday proposed a ratings system that store owners could voluntarily adopt. Google and Apple basically told the CTIA to stuff it -- they're sticking with their own rating schemes.
HP tried to reinvent itself as Apple. But it didn't work out, and now, new HP boss Meg Whitman has freely admitted that Apple could replace her embattled company as the world's top PC maker sometime next year.
Three giants of the IT game have invested big money in Puppet Labs, an outfit that develops open source software for automatically configuring and managing machines inside the data center.
The Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane just got a little more mysterious. The 29-foot-long reusable min-shuttle was designed to spend up to 270 days in orbit. The 270th day of the winged spacecraft's second flight is today, but the military has no intentions of bringing the billion-dollar robotic vehicle back to Earth just yet.
Sometimes it seems like dark matter is intentionally trying to drive physicists mad. New research using observations from dwarf galaxies has set a lower limit on the mass of dark matter particles. But the results directly contradict findings from several previous experiments, which observed dark matter particles with masses below this threshold.
Honda rolls into the Tokyo auto show with an electric roadster just as slow as it is gorgeous.
Engineer and inventor Greg Leyh tells us about his new Kickstarter project -- constructing two ten-story Tesla coils designed to create a lightning bolt 260 feet across.
When the sun goes down, Scott Martin's job begins. He's a night photographer and instructor in San Antonio, leading workshops to teach curious photogs the nuances of shooting in the dark. Martin was nice enough to share a few tips with us that we're passing on to you. Try these out the next time you've got the itch to stalk the night with your camera.
Google on Wednesday launched an analytics tool for YouTube, the better to convince "premium" content creators to host their material on the massively popular online streaming video site still somewhat dogged by a reputation of being primarily a source for clips of piano-playing cats and surfboard-riding?squirrels.It's a bump up from Google's previous YouTube analytics tool ...
Spotify on Wednesday revealed the ?new direction? at which it has been hinting: a new API (application programming interface) that will let developers create apps that are powered by the freemium music subscription service. In other words: We were right (for the most part).
A dance and music video project to accompany mashup artist Girl Talk's 2010 album is complete, has a trailer and will be premiered in New York at the start of December.
Very few new e-book editions warrant their own press releases. But only one novel about the end of printed books has sold 10 million copies.
If Google hasn't fully convinced you that the future is in the cloud, other smaller online storage services are erasing all doubt whatsoever. Take, for example, Box.net, a cloud-based storage and file-sharing site. The company has partnered with electronics manufacturer LG to offer a whopping 50GB of free storage for anyone who purchases LG Android smartphones. The storage giveaway begins this Wednesday, and continues through the end of March 2012.
When we see a little bit of flesh on someone, it instantly changes how we perceive the person's mental faculties, a new study suggests. Frontal Cortex blogger Jonah Lehrer explains.
Kristian von Bengston, a do-it-yourself space architect and Rocket Shop blogger at Wired Science, shares his flowchart for leaving the Earth.
A&E released seven exclusive videos from its upcoming mini-series . The website serves as an artful homage to Stephen King, with well over a hundred references to his life and works riddled throughout its pages.
For years, military live fire exercises have relied on targets that just sit there, waiting to be shot. These targets, newly developed for the U.S. Marine Corps don't; they move, behave, and react just like real combatants. Combatants who ride Segway scooters.
Microsoft has released an experimental developer preview of its coming Internet Explorer 10 web browser, but at least for now it only works on the equally experimental Windows 8 preview.
Have you ever wished that you had somehow invested in Facebook, Twitter, or Google before those companies became billion-dollar brands, back when they were first getting started? The sad truth is that under our current laws, you never even had the chance.
Just one of the most successful game show contestants ever. The software engineer wins 74 straight games on , and walks off with $2.5 million.
The State Department wants to hire Pakistani security guards to protect its diplomats. Yes, now. Right after a U.S. military accident killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and stoked a new wave of anti-Americanism.
Forget stickers or a crummy joke. Just think of what you might find in a Cracker Jack package two or three decades from now ...
From lunar landers and rovers to satellites space stations, NASA's engineers built super-cute scale models that will melt your heart. Here are some of our favorites.
Keyless entry and push-to-start are for squares. True kings of the road rely on the same tech you saw inside Burt Reynolds' Pontiac Firebird.
Technologist Christopher Soghoian likes to reveal the security flaws of large entities, highlighting transgressions he sees as unacceptable violations of privacy.
Guaranteed in stock through 12/24/2029: The Quinn doll, for which you choose the fashion, profession, body type, and even gender!
The Miskatonic School for Girls has a slight problem: all the faculty and staff are either ?mind-rending creatures or insane cultists.? The knowledge that they impart to the students is the sort of thing that will drive you to insanity.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.