Google is in the process of buying DeepMind, a startup company that works on artificial intelligence. According to DeepMind’s website, which only consists of one page and is essentially just your traditional “AboutR...
In a new paper, Stephen Hawking has proposed the idea that black holes operate in a way that is different to what was previously thought. Previously it was believed that nothing could escape the pull of black hole. In a new, short...
The awkward misstep by Nintendo, that is the Wii U, continues to hurt the legendary gaming giant. Despite the fact that Nintendo saw a net profit of $93 million for the last months of 2013, the projections the company have set for...
Rovio, the Finnish company behind the massively successful Angry Birds franchise, has denied any collaboration between themselves and the NSA. In yet another bit of information released by Edward Snowden, he claims that the NSA us...
Charlie Shrem, the CEO of BitInstant, a bitcoin exchange, has been charged with supplying bitcoins to the Silk Road. Shrem was apparently using his bitcoin exchange business as a front for a money laundering scheme, one that was i...
The Freedom Hosting bust made by the FBI led to the capture of the TorMail email database, and it seems that they are now using it for other unrelated cases. The bust was part of an investigation into a child porn ring, one headed...
David Drummond has publicly stated that President Obama is not doing enough to change the way the NSA does things. Drummond, who is Google’s chief legal officer, believes that the government needs to alter the way they colle...
Due to Sony’s recent poor financial performance, Moody’s has brought down their rating from Baa3 to Ba1. This rating will make it more difficult for Sony to borrow money as it is just underneath an investment grade. De...
A new report written by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has slammed the FDA for allowing dangerous antibiotics to remain in the feed for livestock. The report states that the US Food and Drug Administration let 18 dru...
Because of a glitch with Google’s search engine, David Peck’s Hotmail email account received around 10,000 emails a day. The cause of the glitch — which has now been fixed — is unknown, but if you typed Gma...
A group of developers are working on a project that they hope will one day decentralize the internet and they are calling it Bitcloud. The idea revolves around similar principles to bitcoins, but instead of corporations or interne...
Shape Security it hoping to strengthen the security of websites with the ShapeShifter, which uses code that constantly changes. They believe that their product, which is compatible with JavaScript, HTML and CSS languages, will tur...
Apparently Apple’s CEO would like to disclose just what data Apple has shared with the American government, but can’t due to the gag order. Apple and other companies have received a lot of criticism over sharing data w...
Sony Pictures have just bought the film rites to Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Sandberg, who is currently Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, released the book in 2013 and it is an exami...
A man and woman in Britain have been given jail time for sending tweets that were of an abusive nature. The two in question are John Nimmo, 25, and Isabella Sorley, 23. Their Twitter-hate campaign began as a response to the decisi...
