Over the weekend, a new detail about the NSA was published, and it shows why every previous NSA revelation leaked by Edward Snowden is relevant and important to everyone.
When was the last time Yahoo released a product on par with Apple and Google? When was the last time you wanted to replace your Android home screen with a third-party application? Remarkable things happen sometimes, and with Yahoo's recent release of the incredibly smart Android launcher Aviate, it just did.
This week, the “study hit the fan” for Facebook, as the world of online media picked up on the controversial Facebook emotion research that we reported early last Saturday and a privacy group filed a formal complaint with the FTC. Meanwhile, Twitter could introduce an integrated “Buy Now” button, Vine added “Loop Counts” and YouTube was found to be more popular than television.
Even with the Supreme Court limiting cell phone searches with last week's ruling, if you're stopped at the border, the Fourth Amendment still doesn't apply.
The Fourth of July is almost upon us, and like any summer celebration, it's a great opportunity to hang out with friends outdoors, listen to music, set off some fireworks, maybe do some grilling, and show off some new gadgets you bought just for the occasion. Here are some of the coolest and most useful, gadgets for keeping the music flowing during 2014's Fourth of July.
The Fourth of July is almost here, and like with every summer celebration, you'll probably want to spend it outdoors with friends, most likely in front of the grill, with a beer in one hand and a spatula in the other -- a tale as old as time. But this is 2014, and there are some fun and useful apps and tech gadgets to make sure your Independence Day grilling is flawless this year.
For soccer fanatics, nothing gets them more passionate than every four years when the World Cup takes place. For 2014 World Cup fans in Brazil, apparently that passion is spreading beyond the stadiums, where location-based dating apps like Tinder and Grindr have erupted in popularity since the start of the world's biggest sporting event.
The original HTC One, launched in early Spring 2013, quickly became a darling among tech critics. But the phone struggled to catch the attention of the premium smartphone-buying public, to the point where HTC went into the red later that summer. With the 2014 HTC One (M8), the Taiwanese company doubled down on the premium smartphone feel and features, but is it enough to warrant a big purchase?
Last Tuesday's keynote at Google I/O 2014 -- the company's developers conference -- introduced a lot of changes coming to Android, Google Cloud, and, importantly, Google Drive. Now Google Drive and its suite of productivity apps are more powerful than ever, and worth downloading, especially for the price. It's free.
The lack of diversity in Silicon Valley has been a recent topic of concern, as large tech companies Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and, most recently, Facebook release not-so-stellar diversity statistics. One thing has become clear from the recent influx of diversity reports from these companies (each of which deserves credit for at least starting the conversation): White men rule Silicon Valley.
A roundup of the biggest, most interesting or weirdest social media news from the week. This week in social media, Facebook released a diversity report in line with the rest of Silicon Valley -- i.
Alibaba, the Chinese Internet commerce giant coming to U.S. markets soon in the form of an initial public offering, just unveiled which exchange the much-anticipated stock will trade on. The New York Stock Exchange won the big name in yet another step toward a huge IPO.
The keynote address starting off Google I/O 2014 - this year's edition of the Mountain View giant's annual developers conference - was a rapid-fire demonstration of Google's ambitious plans for Android: everywhere you can use it, a single, continuous Android experience will be there. This includes wearable devices, cars, homes, and your living room.
The Supreme Court effectively destroyed Aereo's fundamental business strategy Wednesday, but Aereo's technology could survive and make Internet media better.
Much like the Apple WWDC event every year in June, Google has its own developers conference, called Google I/O, where it showcases new devices, initiatives, and software. It also holds developer workshops, but who cares about that when the Google Keynote might unveil the next big Android device - or something even more fantastic?
The annual developers conference and showcase of all things Google starts on Wednesday. Like previous years, the opening keynote address will likely include several announcements about Google initiatives. Here's what to look for at Google I/O 2014.
Facebook has been trying to capture some of Snapchat's magic for a while now. While Facebook has been losing its appeal with young, active teens (an incredibly important demographic) over the past few years, Snapchat has caught fire with the same crowd. Now, in its third attempt at regaining that audience, Facebook has released "Slingshot," a Snapchat clone with a twist, which will either be the app's forte, or its fatal flaw.
This week was big in social media, especially for Facebook, which announced new features in some of its apps, an entirely new stand-alone app and expanded the amount of information it can collect from you. Twitter, meanwhile, finally enabled tweeting GIFs, LinkedIn faces a lawsuit for violating privacy, and Snapchat got more social with a new sharing feature. It's time for Social Media Saturday.
After a contentious year of debate over whether and how to implement smartphone "kill switches" -- applications that allow users to disable their lost or stolen devices remotely -- it looks like most smartphones will come with that option in an attempt to deter smartphone theft. Here's good news from Apple: They work.
Amid slow economic growth and a housing market that hasn't fully recovered, U.S.-born Latinos have accounted for the majority of U.S. Hispanic job gains.
Chairman Tom Wheeler, of the Federal Communications Commission, has hinted that the agency might be interested in increasing Internet broadband competition by stopping local and state laws, often imposed with pressure by big incumbent Internet service providers, that outlaw municipal broadband.
On Wednesday, at a much-anticipated event in Seattle, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the "Fire Phone," surprising no one, after a series of leaks and teasers all but gave away the existence of the online retail giant's new device. Here are the details.
