The US Army has developed a laser that can shoot down drones. The laser weaponry, named the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator, has been put onto a vehicle and the Army has successfully tested it out by shooting down mortar she...
Ross Ulbricht, who was arrested earlier in the year and is allegedly the man behind the website Silk Road, is demanding that $30 million in Bitcoins that were seized from him be returned. When he was arrested in San Francisco, aut...
According to the New York Times the data that had been stolen from the hack on Target is now rolling into the black market. In early December the hack Target suffered resulted in data stolen from roughly 40 million debit and credi...
Oculus VR has just announced that they are going to launch a publishing division, and hope to use to help bring over game developers. Heading up this publishing division will be David DeMartini, who used to be Electronic Arts̵...
Justine Sacco, who up until Friday was one of the top PR workers at InterActiveCorp (IAC), has been fired for sending out a racist tweet. The tweet in question was, “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!...
On Thursday, Brian Jorgenson, who is an executive at Microsoft, and his business partner friend Sean Stokke have been charged with insider trading. They are being charged for making a total of $393,125 USD from insider information...
It has been claimed in the past that NSA collects metadata on around 75% of phone calls made in the United States. According to Geoffrey Stone, who was one of the five members on the panel reviewing the National Security Agency (N...
During a press conference of Monday in Moscow, Valdimir Putin came out and said that he believed that the National Security Agency’s actions were needed to fight terrorist activities, though there should be more clarity in h...
The goal for the next round of CPUs from Intel involves the development of more processing cores inside a single silicon, reports the VR-Zone. While the most up-to-date processors from Intel, those of the Haswell line, have CPUs w...
Kevin Smith, the director of movies like Clerks 1 and 2 as well as Dogma and several others, has come out against YouTube for cracking down on “copyright violations” on gaming videos. Smith spoke out about this after b...
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg will be paying around $2 billion in taxes this year and that is twice what he paid last year. The man who started Facebook will be selling 41.4 million of its shares, which is in the ball park of $2.3...
A 28-year old man in Sweden has just been fined the equivalent of US$652,000 for uploading one film, Beck – Buried Alive. This verdict comes after an investigation performed by anti-piracy group Rights Alliance, who found th...
A new study done by students at Johns Hopkins University illustrates the way in which a Mac’s iSight camera can be turned, on without the little green LED indication light being on as well, essentially allowing it to spy on ...
Disney Interactive has just announced that they will be having a closed beta of the newest Star Wars: Attack Squadrons game sometime in the first few months of 2014. “In Star Wars: Attack Squadrons, players will enter exciti...
In what can only be considered a landmark win for pro-privacy advocates, this past Monday US District Court Judge Richard Leon has ruled against the NSA in a lawsuit brought by activist Larry Klayman against the mass collection of...
