Nokia says it's cutting 10,000 jobs and expects its second quarter to be worse than the first. This is bad news for Microsoft, which has teamed with the company formerly known as the world's largest cell phone maker in hopes of finally capturing a piece of the mobile market.
The Air Force's F-22 Raptor stealth fighters poison or suffocate their pilots nearly 27 times per 100,000 flight hours -- a rate at least nine times higher than other fighters and far worse than anyone outside of the military previously realized.
This week, Apple delivered the highly anticipated MacBook Pro with Retina Display ? and the tech world is buzzing. I because I run iFixit, a team responsible for high-resolution teardowns of new products and DIY repair guides. We disassemble and analyze new electronic gizmos so you don?t have to ? kind of like an internet version of Consumer Reports.
So, your Kickstarter project went viral and raised a cool six figures. There's a mob of eager funders already checking their watches, demanding to know when you'll ship. Pull it off and you?ll be a design star. Fail and you're in for a highly public facepalm. You were only planning on making a couple dozen units, you say? The closest you've gotten to manufacturing in Asia is ordering take out? Whoops....
The Pentagon doesn't have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the U.S. Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and sensor operators. And that's before the military carries out its plans to more than double its armada of remotely-operated Reaper aircraft by 2015.
JR Raphael has posted his take?over at Computerworld?on the new Chrome OS and Chromebooks after spending the last two weeks with his head in Google's cloud.His personal perspective on the Chromebook's evolution:After two weeks of using Google's evolved Chrome OS on the new Chromebook and Chromebox, personally, I'm sold.??I have no doubt that I'll replace ...
Still using an old version of Internet Explorer? It could cost you. One online retailer is making IE7 visitors pay an additional fee to cover the extra development costs it claims are necessary to support the aging browser.
The clever mashup of Instagram photos with a Pinterest-type interface, Pinstagram, is now available on the iPad as a native app. It's only taken a day for the app to the #8 free iPad app in the App Store.Pinstagram is a great way to digest and swipe through large swaths of your Instagram feed while ...
A recently published Apple patent application shows that for photography-focused iDevice users, options to change the optical configuration of a device through a swappable back plate could be in the cards.
Russia's fleet of aging strategic bombers has seen better days. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin said he's serious about developing a new stealthy bomber -- and $13 billion worth of drones.
European cave paintings are older than previously thought, raising the possibility that Neanderthals rather than humans were the earliest painters.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been ordered to return to Sweden to face sex-crimes allegations after the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom rejected a bid to re-open his appeal case there. But judges have given him a two-week reprieve before extradition proceedings will begin, saving him from being immediately ejected from the country.
The Hubble space telescope spots a chance alignment that makes it appear as if two massive galaxies are sitting right on top of one another.
TV just got super boring. are over and the summer weather means it's a wonderful time to save some money on digital services -- like cable television. Here are some tools you can use to kill your cable service.
The U.S. military's most controversial aircraft has crashed -- again. An Osprey tiltrotor belonging to Air Force Special Operations Command went down over Florida Wednesday evening, injuring five people aboard and likely destroying the aircraft. It's the second crash in three months for the controversial V-22 tiltrotor.
Aiming to build on its enterprise cred, Amazon on Thursday rolled out free basic support for all Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, and improved its premium support services while also cutting prices.
When a tank is made of 5,000 chocolate cupcakes, the only logical ordnance to fire is more cupcake. And so it was that the U.S. Army watched in the Pentagon's courtyard as its newest confectionary delivery system shot cupcakes 20 feet into the air.
Opera Software's latest desktop release is faster and packs in support for some cutting-edge web standards. Opera may not be the most popular browser on the web, but it's one of the best.
Most cases of rabies in Latin America are caused by vampire bats, which bite victims at night and feed on their blood. In addition to infecting humans, the bats also do more than $30 million worth of damage to livestock each year. Governments have typically responded by culling bat colonies, but new research suggests that this approach doesn?t work and might be backfiring.
In the dark, chilly tropics of Saturn's moon Titan, the Cassini probe has spotted what appears to be a lake of liquid methane, fueling speculation that caverns below might harbor life.
SimCity game files could help estimate the complexity of an actual city. Mathematician and Social Dimension blogger Samuel Arbesman explains how in his latest research.
Barraged with funding offers, startup founders are enjoying posh retreats, demanding hard work from investors, and taking on dozens of backers at a time in so-called "party rounds."
Regardless of what you think of it, there's no denying that Wii U was the biggest story of E3. Nintendo's Wii console came screaming out of the gate in 2006, besting the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with an unlikely combination of low-powered graphics (and low pricing) and revolutionary motion controllers. Nintendo has sold 95 million Wiis so far, but those sales have dropped off dramatically as those of its rivals have picked up steam. After a shaky start for the new Nintendo 3DS portable, industry watchers are looking at any new Nintendo proposals with something of a jaundiced eye.
This is the story of two men who are building their own rocket to launch themselves into suborbital space. Their idea is risky, their strategy is scrappy and their budget is tiny. But people are starting to believe they might actually succeed.
Pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian launched a Kickstarter campaign a few days ago in hopes of raising $6,000 to make a series of feminist-critique videos about the roles women play in videogames. She ended up getting a bit more than she bargained for: She raised more than $120,000 while generating wrath among the online hordes, who have been harassing her in the crudest possible terms.
SAN FRANCISCO — "We're kind of like a Nascar pit crew," Wade Liles, the head technician in TaylorMade's Tour Truck, says of his job. Liles is busy stripping grips from the golf clubs of former University of Nevada golfer Scott Smith, who played his way into the US Open in a series of qualifiers. "A ...
The dot com era may soon draw to an end, and that could lead to some unexpected headaches on corporate networks around the world.
In her book , photographer Hana Jakrlova explores an internet sex club in Prague where the clients get to have sex for free as long as they agree to let their exploits be filmed and broadcast live across the web.
A New York attorney sees the future of American pop culture and publishes the first incarnation of what will soon become .
Earlier this year, Twitter purchased at least two companies solely for their engineering talent: blogging company Posterous and security startup Whisper Systems. In each case, Twitter wasn?t looking to buy a product or service. It was merely looking for brains. Both sets of engineers have been consumed by the Twitter collective.
Thunderbolt ports have reached Windows PCs with Acer's Aspire S5 ultrabook, expanding the availability of the technology beyond Macs.
New legislation in the U.S. Senate would outlaw most third-party charges on wireline telephone bills in an effort to combat unauthorized billing.
A shift is afoot in the global tablet market, IDG Connect's survey data suggests.
SAP technology chief Vishal Sikka has reaffirmed that the company will have its core ERP (enterprise resource planning) software running on the HANA in-memory...
Microsoft will host media events in Los Angeles on June 18 and in San Francisco on June 20. Best guesses so far focus on Windows 8 RT tablets and/or Windows Phone 8 announcements.
MIT engineers develop an implantable fuel cell that pulls electricity from glucose to power neural implants.
Although taking a few months longer than expected, Automattic and the volunteer developers have finally released version 3.4 of the widely used WordPress...
The SD Association has informed Eye-Fi CEO Yuval Koren that his company's intellectual-property claims on the iSDIO standard have been reviewed, but Eye-Fi is waiting for the results of the review.
Love the game Portal? Then you really need to watch the gun in action around a typical home.
Oracle has issued an "urgent bulletin" asking desktop administrators to immediately turn off the Java Runtime Environment auto-update option "for all Windows...
Nokia is betting on camera functionality, navigation technology and further price reductions for its Windows Phone-based products to turn the company around...
Amazon has revised its support pricing for Amazon Web Services, expanding basic free support and lowering the cost of premium support.
Some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software programs are vulnerable to local privilege escalation attacks when running on Intel processors (CPUs)...
Best known for its hard drives, Western Digital today launches a line of Wi-Fi routers designed with streaming media in mind, including one with built-in network storage.
Critics are thrilled by the ultra-thin, fairly light, power-packed Apple laptop, with its 2880-by-1880 resolution "Retina" display.
Microsoft issued a patch to address the vulnerability in IE, but the flaw triggering the warning message was not addressed.
Evidon's Global Tracking Report says the biggest Web trackers are Google and Facebook.
Your nagging Windows license questions, answered.
Users can now see more previews, links and video from desktop or mobile devices.
Samsung said it's working on updating its Family Story service that is aimed at families sharing photos and video across smartphone, tablets and Internet-connected TVs.
Blizzard is letting gamers sell virtual items for actual cash. We check in on the Auction House's first day.
Panasonic will launch smartphones that sync with its household appliances, including its ovens and rice cookers, from this summer.
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and AOL have joined an alliance that has been set up to counter "bad ads," including those that deliver malware.
Nokia said Thursday that it plans to cut up to 10,000 positions globally by the end of 2013.
A worker at a Foxconn facility in southwestern China fell to his death on Wednesday, just a week after a dispute erupted with company employees in the same city.
Verizon defends its new 'Share Everything' data plan that would require unlimited data plan customers to pay the full unsubsized iPhone price of $649 to keep their existing plan, among other things.
A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted Ryan Cleary, a British citizen, accusing him of orchestrating a hacking rampage last year that victimized Sony Pictures...
Salesforce.com announced Wednesday a deal with Twitter that will give the enterprise cloud computing company access to Twitter's "firehose" feed of public...
Even as Facebook goes public and nears 1 billion users, Google+ still has a chance to become a major contender if it simply plays to its own strengths.
AT&T's Toggle service for creating work-only sectors of Android phones is expanding to Apple iOS and will let workers put their work-related data usage on a separate account.
AT&T plans to extend its dual-personality software for mobile devices, called Toggle, to provide a walled-off and encrypted work environment within PCs and...
Twitter announced partnerships with several media outlets on Wednesday that will allow users to see a preview of the website being linked to in their Twitter...
The Microsoft Xbox Live iOS app also is upgraded.
Microsoft is trying to move toward the cloud while propping up Windows, Office and other client-based money-makers. As the software giant moves in those two...
What do you do when you've stolen content from someone else's website? If you're FunnyJunk.com, you sue them for defamation when they call you a thief.
The new Verizon Wireless Share Everything plan unveiled Tuesday shocked and angered many longtime Verizon customers, including those with unlimited data plans.
Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook told the audience at the AllThingsD D10 Conference that Apple likes to "put all of our wood behind a few arrows."
While the cross-platform markup language HTML5 won't be finalized by the W3C until 2014 there are significant reasons to get the bandwagon now.
Prices on new versions of slim Ultrabooks get closer to the prices of standard laptops.
Thunderbolt can transfer a full-length, high-definition movie in less than 30 seconds.
LinkedIn has brought the encryption applied to all user passwords up to a more secure standard after last week's hugely embarrassing password hack, the company has announced.
This time, it's not payment card data but personal information on merchant applications.
A hitherto unknown hacking group claimed responsibility for a hacking attack on a county school system in Tennessee that may have exposed the names, Social Security Numbers and other personal data belonging to about 110,000 people.
Amazon Wednesday announced a licensing deal with MGM studios to bulk up its Amazon Prime Instant Video.
Running what they believe is the world's largest Hadoop-based collection of data, Facebook engineers have developed a way to circumnavigate a core weakness of...
ICANN reveals its list of applications for top-level domain names such as .blog and .windows.
Linux creator earns top honor and 600,000 euros in recognition for the global importance of the free and open source operating system.
The U.S. Department of Justice has contacted affected companies about potentially anticompetitive behavior of cable companies toward online video services...
Skout has shut down access to minors following a string of alleged sexual assaults related to using the flirting app. Social apps can be useful, but you have to use discretion.
Google may soon bring business-to-business "social ads" to its Google+ social networking platform, according to a recent job listing for a product marketing...