The PayPal 14, as they have come to be known, are a group of loosely connected people who are being charged after they (allegedly) participated in a protest against PayPal and others. They have recently been given a plea deal, but...
In this past quarter Nintendo has suffered an 8 billion yen loss ($81 million), almost negating the 8.6 billion yen profit from the previous quarter. Much of this can be attributed to the poor sales of it’s newest console, t...
Earlier this week the Federal Avionics Administration (FAA) announced that it was changing the policy regarding whether or not you had to shut your cell phone off prior to take off and landing. No longer do we have to power down j...
If you thought that the social network giant that is Facebook knew too much about you already, then you probably won’t be happy about this latest development of Facebook looking to gather even more information about you. Des...
The US government has been the target of a media storm these past few weeks over their monitoring of other countries and their leaders. John Kerry, US Secretary of State and former presidential candidate, believes that the surveil...
Patent wars rage on, and with the unsuccessful acquisition of Nortel in a 2011 auction, Google may be losing the battle. The consortium ‘Rockstar’ owns thousands of patents and is targeting Google, Samsung, and other c...
Robots are getting quite smarter as the years go by, so smart to the point where they can create a web of threads quite neatly without a hitch. Researchers at ETH Zurich are the folks behind this new robotic implementation, and it...
The time to power down your personal electronic devices during takeoff and landing during an airplane ride has come to an end — at least in the United States; regulations have changed, and just in time for the winter travel ...
As part of an initiative to move towards energy that is renewable and clean, a new solar power plant has been completed in central California. The project was started back in 2011 and built by SunPower in San Luis Obispo County, t...
Vladimir Kats, one of the seven men associated with creating Liberty Reserve (an online bank), has pled guilty to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. He has admitted to creating the digital mo...
What if you could control a car using only the power of your awesome mind? Well, this is possible thanks to Alejo Bernal, a recent graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven. He created a toy car that can be moved forward by thinking wh...
It has always been a mystery to some on how to blow up a planet. Obviously the methods used in Dragon Ball Z is not possible in the real world, so that’s out of the question. However, the method used in Star Wars could work, but i...
BBM for Android and iOS is finally available for free of charge, but there’s a catch to all of this. In the not too distant future, BlackBerry plans to place advertisements inside the app for both platforms along with other featur...
Nokia is well known for making strong and sturdy devices that capable of withstanding rigorous use. But who would have thought that a Nokia phone, not designed to be waterproof, would actually fair better underwater when compared ...
It appears that the NSA’s foothold into the world of digital communication is not just phone taps on cellphones. On the contrary, there is evidence to support the claim that the NSA also has links in Yahoo and Google. Meaning user...
