It's all losses and delays for Research In Motion (RIM), the struggling mobile company best known for its once popular BlackBerry devices. The latest bad news: BlackBerry 10 will be delayed, and 5,000 employees are destined for unemployment.
FreedomBox is intended to be a dead-simple router to bring to the people the encryption and privacy tools used by hackers. But it's in danger - not from the feds, but from lack of code.
Health care is a morass, but perhaps complexity science can help chart a path forward. Today the New England Complex Systems Institute released an eight-step prescription of network theory for America's ailing health system.
Apple's patent filings provide a glimpse into the past, present, and maybe-future of its products and how they work. On Thursday, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a handful of interesting patent applications ranging across a variety of topics including current Apple software, autocorrect functionality and camera imaging technology.
Walt Disney never wanted his park to be completed. "It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world," he said. Today the heirs to Disney's legacy continue to push the limits of what is possible, redesigning?the whole theme park experience from roller coasters to ice cream to tchotchkes. In 2012, this is the state of the imagination.
Congress has voted, and Attorney General Eric Holder has been held in contempt for failing to hand over documents related to the disastrous gun-walking plan Operation Fast and Furious. Problem is, at this point, there's almost nothing left for Congress to do.
The outcome of the Supreme Court's 2011-2012 term, which ended Thursday, was largely favorable when it came to the justices' Wired-worthy opinions surrounding surveillance, the First Amendment, intellectual property and even profanity. But the term's overall outcome was mixed at best.
In October, the Army will do something it's wanted to do for more than a decade: send a pair of combat brigades to a warzone equipped with a new data network, and the hardware to operate it. It'll let more than a thousand troops rapidly send voice, text, imagery and data across a warzone and to a soldier on patrol. It's a milestone, following years of aspirations, setbacks and adjustments. And it arrives pretty much too late for the wars.
Day One of Google I/O 2012 was big day for big G with the launch of a new 7-inch tablet, a streaming media device for the home and Android 4.1 Jellybean all out of the bag.But for cloud watchers, Day Two is also moving the needle. High on the Richter scale, "Google Plugs GDrive Into ...
This stunning time-lapse video reveals the making of a three-story high mural, painted in tribute to scientists' quest to find the Higgs boson. The wildly colorful mural is the artist's fanciful depiction of what the hypothetical particle might look like.
Microsoft has detailed Windows 8 upgrade options, including for users who are running older versions of Windows, such as Windows Vista and Windows XP.
The Chrome browser won't be limited to Android devices and the desktop anymore. Google announced today at its annual I/O conference that Chrome is headed to iOS, and will be available on the iPhone later today, in fact.
Google has unveiled a service akin to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, offering developers and businesses run applications atop virtual machines running on its the same sweeping infrastructure that underpins Google's own applications and web services.
It's become standard practice in games to plead with players to tweet about their progress, but most games at least have the decency of leaving players alone if they choose not to participate. Not .
I've only been using it for about a day now, but the Nexus 7 is already the best 7-inch tablet I've ever tested. Without question, it out-classes the hugely popular Amazon Kindle Fire.
The apocalypse arrives in the final, and perhaps freakiest, installment of writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill's comics series. But who knew the nastiest weapon of the end times was in the Antichrist's pants all along?
Cable-modem hacker Ryan Harris has been sentenced to three years in prison for helping users steal internet access that authorities say involved a $1 million scheme to defraud cable companies of business.
Red Hat is gearing up to deliver products to build hybrid clouds in coming months, the company announced at its conference on Wednesday. Will they be cloud game-changers?
Amazon isn't just working on a new Kindle Fire 2; the retail giant is also readying the launch of a 10-inch, quad-core slate.
Google has plugged its Google Drive online storage service into its Chrome OS operating system as well as Apple's iOS, the operating system that runs the iPhone and the iPad.This means that you can synchronize files stored on your Chrome OS and iOS devices with GDrive and across various other devices, including Windows machines and ...
It's a practical embodiment of profound challenges in artificial intelligence and robotic engineering. It's also robots playing soccer.
Today, the Australian winery Penfolds is announcing the world?s most expensive wine sold directly from a winery. The price of a wine influences people?s enjoyment of it, research shows. In one study, wines thought to have higher prices activated the brain's pleasure centers more.
Locals say African fairy circles -- bare patches of soil up to 40 feet in diameter -- are the footprints of the gods. Scientists have thrown their hands up in the air, but now a biologist has discovered something no one else has.
SketchUp lets you plot out everything from a closet reorganization to a new home addition. But instead of picking up the program, you've been spending your time puzzling over some half-formed treehouse plans. Don't worry. We brought Matthew McKee, an interior designer with San Francisco bike companies like Mission Workshop, Specialized?s Globe Bicycles and Bicycle Coffee, in for a pep talk.
Mathematicians have uncovered evidence of vast magnetic vortices spinning in the atmosphere off the Sun.
Is it illegal to lie about being a military hero? The Supreme Court on Thursday answered, no. The justices ruled 6-3 that a 2006 law making it a federal criminal offense to lie about being decorated for military service was unconstitutional.
The American government's bid to extradite copyright infringement king Kim Dotcom to the United States was dealt a body blow Thursday, when a New Zealand High Court judge ruled that the raids on Doctom's home earlier this year were "illegal." The decision may doom the entire prosecution of the founder of the file-sharing site Megaupload; New Zealand authorities are appealing.
The B612 Foundation aims to build and launch a space telescope dedicated to searching for killer asteroids. The project will be the first privately funded deep space mission and greatly expand the catalog of known near-Earth objects. The foundation estimates it will cost several hundred million to build the telescope and hopes to be ready to go by 2017 or ?18.
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If you're planning on hanging out with any cool geeks this summer, you definitely won't want to admit that all you've read lately is So here's a list of some of this summer's most buzz-worthy geek science fiction and fantasy books. Drop a few of these into casual conversation, and it'll establish beyond any doubt that you're a true geek who's up on the latest trends.
Research In Motion is delaying the launch of its BlackBerry 10 operating system due to delays in completing the software.
Google's Chrome OS-based laptops could now be on the shelves of a nearby Best Buy store.
Polaroid is bringing instant photos back (again) with its new Z2300 instant digital camera.
The size of a keychain, the Sensordrone gives your smartphone a whole new range of senses.
At US$199, Google's Nexus 7 may seem like a tempting tablet, but some potential buyers and analysts say that it lacks hardware features and is a feeble attempt...
A version of Chrome for iOS also was announced during the second day keynote for the company's Google I/O conference.
Some 310 million active users have already embraced the popular browser, Google says.
Japanese researchers develop a rock-paper-scissors-playing robot that wins 100 percent of the time...by cheating.
The online industry doesn't need new privacy legislation because it is doing a good job of protecting users' privacy, an executive of an advertising trade group...
Web development and open standards have triumphed, while the JavaFX framework is merely a last gasp.
The government agency famous for Tang and memory foam has also fostered the development of open-source could computing.
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How does the Nexus Q compare against the current living room superstars such as Apple TV? Here is a feature rundown.
Expanding its portfolio of cloud computing services, Google is launching an IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) package, called Google Compute Engine (GCE).
Lawyers for Samsung Electronics have petitioned a U.S. court to suspend a preliminary injunction that has blocked its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer from sale...
Google rolled out a series of improvements to some of its core web products on Day Two of its giant developer conference in San Francisco.
Qualcomm on Thursday said it had restructured its business operations, adding a new unit to handle the chip business as the company tries to protect its...
Salesforce.com experienced system problems in a number of regions on Thursday, starting at 3:34 a.m. PDT, according to an online status page.
Prepaid plans range from $35 a month for 300 talk minutes and unlimited text and data to $55 a month for unlimited voice, text and data.
Boosting its line of open-source middleware, Red Hatis in the process of acquiring open-source integration software vendor FuseSource from its parent company...
There are 17 apps and games available for App Player on OS X, and most of them run without any issues.
If you can't be there, here's the next best thing. Watch the keynote video from the Google I/O developer's conference here.
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is coming up on his five-year anniversary at the helm, following his arrival in December 2007. Under Whitehurst's leadership, Red...
As the era of MobileMe draws to a close, we review the alternatives to some of its historical cloud services that will — and won't — be making the trip to iCloud.
How do you get your Google+ app featured at Google's blockbuster I/O conference? According to Bjorn Haugland, the CEO of Symphonical, you just invite product...
Let’s look at how the specs of the Nexus 7 compare with the Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0).
Google has added the ability to run App Engine applications on a cluster located in Europe, in order to improve performance for local users, the company said at...
A quick look at what's new with Google+.
BlueStacks is teaming up with a number of developers to bring Android Apps to the Mac, so you can have the best of both worlds.
Danish vulnerability intelligence and research firm Secunia has launched version 3.0 of its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) patch management program, which can...
The Dutch government was unprepared to handle an SSL hack that caused the government's communication infrastructure to be vulnerable for months, the Dutch Safety...
Hewlett-Packard's new Velocity software helps IT staff optimize network performance for users who work on its thin or zero clients, the company said on...
Qualcomm has expanded its augmented reality platform with cloud-based image recognition, and announced a new SDK for adding contextual information to apps and a...
Nokia has started rolling out a Windows Phone software update for the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710, which includes Wi-Fi tethering and a feature that silences...
Several Japanese government ministries were investigating minor Web breaches Thursday, after what appeared to be threats of cyber attacks by the hacker...
Warrants used to seize external hard drives, laptops and phones from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's mansion in January are illegal, a New Zealand High Court...
Sony said Thursday it will sell its chemical products business to a government-backed bank for ¥58 billion (US$730 million), as part of the company's ongoing...
There are serious violations of worker rights at Apple's other suppliers in China, even as Foxconn tries to improve working conditions, according to a labor...
A new mobile application for Apple devices called Wickr lets people exchange files and messages without leaving digital traces that could be examined by law...
New, faster Google Chromebooks coming to Best Buy and other stores. Also: Google Drive for iOS arrives today.
Google Wallet launched support for recurring subscription payments and has begun automatically assigning the lower of two fees for processing payments, Pali...
Android still has a long way to go to best Apple's iPad. But the arrival of the Nexus 7--with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean as its operating system--may shake up the tablet market.
Starting on June 28, all new Verizon customers will have a single data plan for all their wireless devices. But the devil is in the details.
The hedge fund that owns most of troubled mobile startup LightSquared has been rocked by securities fraud charges filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
It's hard to one-up skydivers flying into a tech conference while being live-streamed through Google's computerized glasses. But Google's Vic Gundotra might have...
We found both plusses and minuses in our initial test drive of Google's lightweight, inexpensive tablet.
China is seen as the next global technology innovation center replacing Silicon Valley, according to results of KPMG Global Technology Innovation Survey released on Wednesday.
Just days after Ottawa asked for input on how to spend $400 million in new venture capital funding, a new study suggests government programs have almost no influence on entrepreneurs launching startups in Canada.
While social networks such as Facebook famously started out as a way for young adults on a university campus to connect with each other, the growth of these services has meant that teenagers are now heavily involved in them.
Tough criticisms heard this week from researchers about the effectiveness of two-factor authentication, especially as it's used in its token form for one-time passwords and smartcards, suggest advances need to be made to restore its luster as security protection.