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Seattle bar bans Google Glass due to privacy concerns
The 5 Point Cafe in Seattle announced via Facebook that they would be banning Google Glass from its premises, even before the device is officially on sale to the public. “For the record, The 5 Point is the first Seattle bus...
Check out these awesome payphone of the future designs, the finalists of NYC’s payphone design contest [Video]
Last December, the city of New York announced a challenge for people to reinvent the old payphone. Now they’ve announced the six finalists of the Reinvent Payphones challenge, offering us a look at what the competing designe...
US Congress gets off its fat ass, introduces bill to make cellphone unlocking legal
There has been a lot of unrest regarding cellphone unlocking since the Librarian of Congress declared it illegal to unlock cellphones in the United States without the explicit permission of carriers. First, over 100,000 Americans ...
AT&T attacked T-Mobile with ads. T-Mobile is now striking back with their own clever ad campaign.
Last week, AT&T attacked T-Mobile in an ad campaign that saw full-page newspaper ads highlighting the disadvantages of going with the carrier. According to the ads, compared to AT&T, T-Mobile has “2x more dropped cal...
White House and F.C.C. want unlocking cellphones to be legal in the US, throw the ball in Congress’s court
Remember that petition that asked the White House to make unlocking cellphones legal? You know, the one that more than 100,000 Americans signed? The White House has issued their official response — they not only agree, they&...
Students use their laptops as umbrellas to protect themselves from the rain [Image]
Rich, spoiled, or just stupid?
The empire strikes back: United States is hacking Chinese military websites, according to China
We have seen plenty of accusations whirling around the interwebz blaming China for state-sponsored cyberattacks, the most significant being the report of US-based security firm Mandiant which detailes a specific unit in the Chines...
Judge reduces damages awarded to Apple in Apple vs Samsung trial from $1.05 billion to $598 million, plus orders a new trial
Apple is having what can best be described as a crappy week. First they are forced to pay $368 million to a patent troll. Then they are taunted by Samsung vis-a-vis Samsung’s lawyers hiring the UK judge that ruled against Ap...
Search warrant reveals just how much the government (or anyone else) can find out about you from your cellphone
Drug dealers, watch out! The government can find a whole lot about you if they seize your phone. As for everyone else, you probably wanna know just how much data your phone is carrying about you regardless of if you have committed...
This is what Samsung’s new $300 million campus in Silicon Valley will look like
First Apple was building a crazy spaceship campus in Silicon Valley, with NVIDIA most recently joining in. But now Samsung has revealed plans to do the same, and their design is definitely keeping up with the trend of being very d...
Over 100,000 Americans sign petition asking White House to make unlocking cell phones legal
As dotTech pointed out last month, it is now illegal to unlock your cell phone in the United States without approval of your carrier. This decision was made by the Librarian of Congress vis-a-vis interpretation of the Digital Mill...
Play tug-of-war with tigers at Busch Gardens Zoo in Florida [Amazing Photo of the Day]
As dangerous as they may be, we have seen plenty of instances of humans interacting safely with tigers (and lions). And this applies to playing tug-of-war, too. The following photos are of Busch Gardens Zoo in Tampa Bay, Florida (...
Mother learns of her missing son’s death 2 weeks late because police told her on Facebook
Anna Lamb-Creasey discovered that her had not only gone missing but died through the worst possible way. Local police in Clayton County for some reason decided that to inform a mother of her child’s death through a Facebook ...
Cyberattacks on the US have been traced, and all signs point to the Chinese military and a single building in China [Report]
According to report by the BBC, the origins of the unusually numerous and high-profile attacks on US companies has been found. It is indeed coming from somewhere in China — Shanghai to be exact. But it doesn’t stop the...