Category: Tech news

 Former Secretary of State, Senator, and First Lady Hillary Clinton isn’t big on Edward Snowden. Clinton excoriated Snowden recently, hitting him for leaving the country, not availing himself of whistleblower protections here at home, and for asking Russian President a now widely mocked softball question. Read More

 What’s the haps, Pappy Van Meatsack? Still keeping your juices on the inside? Good, because we’re still not quite at the robot dystopia stage but we’re getting there. Our first contender for TIDWRTWHUFOO of the week is this robotic gecko that, aside from looking cute, can scuttle up walls and glass. The Gecko uses van der Waals’ forces to stick to surfaces thanks to tiny… Read More

 Apple has launched a new program to help iPhone 5 owners affected by a fault that may render their sleep/wake button ineffective or unresponsive. The problem affects what Apple calls “a small percentage” of iPhone 5s made from March 2013 on, Apple says, and you can find out if yours qualifies and apply for the replacement hardware by inputting your iPhone’s serial number at the… Read More

This week Leena Rao, Colleen Taylor and I sat around the Round Table to discuss the precipitous exit of Google’s Vic Gundotra and the violently abusive CEO of RadiumOne. Gundotra’s departure from the Google – and we’re still trying to find out if he was fired — leaves Google+’s future in doubt. When it comes to the leader of RadiumOne, there is only one… Read More

Samsung’s latest flagship phone has some great features. But it’s all undermined by needless and confusing software.

It’s been a banner year for credit card thieves. That’s why one startup wants to give credit card users full control over when, where, and how their cards are used.

Facebook already tracks your every move online. Now, with the acquisition of the fitness app, Moves, it wants to track your workouts, too.

Xapo, a company that offers online bitcoin wallets, says it’s two months away from introducing the first debit card that will let you spend your bitcoins at any place that takes Visa or MasterCard.

Space Kit is a little box filled with Lego-eque components that allow anyone to conduct NASA-approved experiments.

Leica is celebrating its 100th birthday by launching an entirely new camera system. Born out of a design partnership with Audi, the unibody Leica T is an APS-C-sensored minimalistic masterpiece.

Could a spinning human slow down the Earth? Theoretically, yes. But in practice, the amount of spin you’d have to give would be so monstrous that it is nearly impossible.

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are teaming up to prevent another Heartbleed. Going undetected for a good two years, the Heartbleed bug threatened to reveal some of our most sensitive information. After researchers finally identified the bug earlier this month, most major websites have patched this flaw in a popular form of online encryption, but one […]

A productivity tool concept that combines the spatial immediacy of sticky notes with the encyclopedic recall of the web.

The Silk Road, for all its clever uses of security protections like Tor and Bitcoin to protect the site’s lucrative drug trade, still offered its enemies a single point of failure. When the FBI seized the server that hosted the market, the billion-dollar drug bazaar came crashing down. If one group of Bitcoin black market enthusiasts has their way, the next online free-trade zone could be a much more elusive target.

During a conference this week in Washington D.C., enthusiasts are attempting to rouse support for a manned mission to Mars sometime in the next two decades. NASA is there, as are many key players in the spaceflight community. But there continue to be major obstacles to manned Mars missions. A new study highlights one of […]