NASA has announced the discovery of 715 more planets outside of our solar system. These discoveries bring the total amount of exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) to 1,700. 95% of the planets are only four times larger th...
David Barker recently got into an interesting altercation with a US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent who wanted to inspect David’s bag for Bitcoins. During an enhanced screening, which Barker wrote about la...
The Tor Foundation is developing the Tor Instant Messaging Service (TIMB), which allows its users to remain anonymous using the Tor browser while they message each other. The development of TIMB started back in July of 2013, after...
In an effort to promote coding to both the young and old alike, Code.org has started a new initiative that allows people to learn how to code by building their own version of Flappy Bird. The initiative is aimed at anyone who does...
Gen. Keith Alexander, who is soon leaving his position as the head of the NSA, said to a Senate committee that he was open to the idea of “narrowing the focus” when it comes to gathering metadata. Alexander talked abou...
A German court has dismissed the $2.2 billion lawsuit filed against Apple by IPCom, a known patent troll company. They were suing Apple and claiming that they were owed damages for the inclusion of technology, for which they own t...
Due to the lawsuits that have been filed against the National Security Agency (NSA), the American government wants to keep the records from the NSA bulk metadata collection program past the five years the NSA is allowed to keep an...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled on Wednesday that stated police officers have to get a warrant before searching a person’s cell phone once they (the person) are in jail. Unfortunately the issue of police officers s...
Apple wants to be able to set up retail stores in India. However, Apple first wants the Indian government there relax a regulation saying that Apple products have to source 30% of their components from companies in India in order ...
Google has donated $6.8 million to the Free Muni for Youth Pilot Program, which provides youths living in low-income households with free transit in San Francisco. The money will help fund the program for the following two years. ...
King, the company behind the massively successful game Candy Crush Saga, have filed for “express abandonment” on their trademark for the word candy. The company claims that the reason they abandoned their attempt to co...
Facebook has altered the way their news feed works and soon you will start seeing posts from pages that you don’t follow. The news feed to now include posts which mention pages that a person has “liked”. Faceboo...
President Obama is currently reviewing four alternatives to the mass surveillance carried out by the National Security Agency (NSA), according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The deadline for this decision is March 28th, t...
Google is currently attempting to block legislation in several states that would restrict the use of Google Glass while driving. At the moment eight states are thinking about legislation which would regulate Google Glass. So far G...
Mt Gox, which was one of the major Bitcoin exchanges, has shut down due to large-scale robbery and DDoS attacks. Right now, when you go to the Japan-based company’s site, you only get a message saying that they have “c...
