For those looking for an easy way to unlock your Android device, look somewhere other than the Google Play Store. CyanogenMod recently received notice from Google that their CyanogenMod Installer application had to be removed from...
He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. He knows what you’ve been shopping for so beware for goodness sake. Santa’s not the only one watching you this time of year. Businesses are doing the same surveillance ...
China’s online censorship system currently blocks many popular online destination, with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube among the list. It also bans sites hosted in Taiwan and rights groups. Apparently, China feels that, with this cens...
Sometime in 2014, Virgin Galactica plans to take flight. The Galactica will fly 100 kilometers into the air and give travelers a near-weightless experience, for a few minutes anyway. At $250,000 a pop the only ones planning on fly...
Earlier this year Apple was found guilty of fixing prices on ebooks. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote determined that the company needed to be monitored for the next two years to make sure they didn’t revert to their old ways...
Drawing a circuit out can give you an idea of how it works and help you visualize the end result. Too bad there isn’t a way to test it before you actually go through all the trouble of building it. That problem is actually a thing...
Walgreens is no off the grid. Well, at least one of its stores is. The new store is the first retail Walgreens store that generates all its own energy on-site, meaning it doesn’t use the electricity provided from its local e...
The fight for equal rates is over, for now anyway. Pandora, one of the most well-known online music streaming sties, has given up its quest to get congress to pass a law that would put them on more equal footing with AM/FM station...
Not many companies can take on a full grown troll and live to tell the tale. Newegg has just discovered this, after a Texas jury ordered them to pay $2.3 million in damages in a lawsuit that was over a patent concerning encryption...
Bad news for the Google-backed genome start up 23andMe, the Federal Drug Administration has officially shut them down by telling them they can’t sell the one product they make. The FDA’s problem, after six years of operation 23and...
Just because it can be done, doesn’t mean it should be done. At least that is what the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) chairman is saying now. Last week, Tom Wheeler announced a proposal that would lift the FCC ban on usi...
According to the Dutch media outlet NRC, courtesy of National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, it was revealed that the NSA didn’t stop at reading your mail or listening to phone calls. The latest information sa...
Feeling overwhelmed by all of the social media out there? That’s okay, you’re not alone. Google believes that there are a lot of people that can’t seem to keep up with social networking and has taken out a patent on a program that...
It’s not news that in recent weeks the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has lifted the ban on most electronic devices during take-off and landing. While the FAA now allows tablets and e-readers to be used throughout the entir...
Flying to the moon is so 1960’s. Today, space explorers should shoot for something a little further away. Like, say Mars. That’s what billionaire Dennis Tito wants to do with his Inspiration Mars organization. The problem? His tim...
