A federal appeals court for the first time ruled Friday that U.S. border agents do not have carte blanche authority to search the cellphones, tablets and laptops of travelers entering the country -- a "watershed" decision in the court's own terms and one at odds with the policies of the Obama administration.
The latest BlackBerry 10 handsets could have been really cool dual-screen smartphones. Instead, they?re the same ol? rectangle everyone else is using.
Autodesk's CEO sees the possibility of the powerhouse 3-D design software firm getting involved with hardware. No, they're not planning an imminent launch for a new phone or a set of architecture-analyzing glasses. But Carl Bass, who's helmed the two billion dollar corporation since 2006, admits that the delineation between making virtual and physical products is eroding, and that has created opportunities for companies who have traditionally focused on developing and selling software.
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its interim report on the investigation of a fire on board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in January. The report does not yet specify a root cause for what caused the lithium-ion battery to catch fire, but does point to several potential contributing factors.
The experiences of eight platoons during the Afghanistan troop surge become an immersive experience with the Army's first interactive iPad book.
Cloud computing company Heroku may soon face a class action lawsuit after a New York startup uncovered some big performance problems with the online service where the company helps software coders build and run their software applications.
From the properties of dark matter to how the universe took shape shortly after the Big Bang, some of the universe?s oldest and best-kept secrets could soon be exposed as construction moves forward on three ?extremely large telescopes,? each with an expanse of mirrors bigger than a basketball court.
Watch as chimpanzees who have spent their lives undergoing medical research in laboratories step outside and see the sky for the first time in their new home at Chimp Haven.
A new contest, the 3D Rocket Engine Design Challenge, asks people to design open source 3-D printed rocket engines. The contest's sponsors hope to spur innovation and drive down costs. Whether or not this will truly be possible remains to be seen.
The harshest punishment an Air Force "superstar" convicted of molesting a sleeping woman will face is remaining a lieutenant colonel. Servicemember advocates are outraged.
Every time you throw food into a blender, you?re doing science. This seemingly mundane appliance is actually a cavitation chamber. Watch how the rips and explosions inside your blender transform chunks of veggies into a smooth mixture.
The internet sees your bloated webpages as damage and it's taking steps to route around them. Both Chrome and Opera have recently added an option for mobile users to connect to proxy servers, which slim down webpages before sending them over constrained mobile connections. The rise of proxy servers will likely mean that, in the future, developers will have even less control over how users access their sites.
Last year, NASA's Ames Research Center announced plans to launch an Google Android-powered nano-satellite into space. A test unit has already been sent into suborbit, and a space launch is set for April 4. But a team of British researchers has quietly beat Ames to the punch.
A large-scale study of a biomedical intervention that potentially offers novel options for women to protect themselves from HIV infection has, to the surprise of many researchers, failed. But the results say more about the participants' behavior than the effectiveness of the products being tested.
?Sitting has become the smoking of our generation.? I argued this in my recent talk at TED2013 and elsewhere while advocating for the concept of ?walking meetings? because we spend more time sitting than sleeping. The solution seems so obvious, yet it raises all sorts of ?But?? questions: ?How do you take notes?? ?Can we improve mobile meeting technology?? Technology was meant to facilitate meetings, not drive them. Technology was meant to connect us, yet it more often it disconnects us.
If you?ve been following the news this week, you could be forgiven for wondering why there have been so many stories about products that don?t yet exist, namely streaming services from Google and Apple. There've been so many stories about this because whatever deals are struck will define the music market for quite some time.Apple ...
Ten years ago, finding a rash or bump "down there" might have provoked a wave of panic, a mental listing of sexual partners, and a frantic Google search for the symptoms for gonorrhea or the difference between a genital wart and an ingrown hair. Today, there's an app for that.
Tomorrow sees the release of Oz The Great and Powerful, but does Sam Raimi's prequel miss the point of L. Frank Baum's original Oz stories?
For all its transformative potential, the high costs of 3-D printing continue keeping it from achieving mass consumer adoption. Now a new, open source device may change that with its ability to create plastic filament at a fraction of current prices.
Ubuntu -- possibly the most popular distribution of the open-source Linux operating system -- is striking out on its own. Canonical, the commercial company that oversees Ubuntu, has made a habit of building new Linux components from scratch, moving away from tools built and used by the larger open source community. That's rubbing many Linux developers and users than wrong way, and now, Canonical may have finally alienated these hard-core open sourcers.
After more than a decade and $1.4 billion, Taiwan can now see missiles and warplanes from 3,000 miles away with its ultra-advanced new radar system. Which is good, because China's pointing a lot of missiles at it.
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Follow Underwire's up-to-the-minute coverage of this year's South by Southwest interactive, film and music festival.
This week on the Gadget Lab Show, the gang talks Facebook's new News Feed, and Path version 3.0.
A car-shopping service Google is quietly testing in Northern California offers a revealing glimpse of how close the site is to becoming the place where you make one of the biggest purchases of your life.
YouTube is big on clips of puppies riding skateboards, but less bullish about video producers infusing outside advertising into their uploads. One product design company, however, has managed to skirt that guideline while turning their doggie videos into $750,000 worth of pre-orders for an unlikely product.
There's a chance folks at South by Southwest this year might experience a bit of d?j? vu -- here's why that's totally cool.
One thing that makes the beautiful game beautiful is the way the ball moves so effortlessly from foot to head to chest and back. But those skilled and deliberate headers may be ever so slightly but very definitely decreasing the player's cognitive skills.Even repeated light blows to the head can harm cognition, according to a ...
EA, a technology company with a market capitalization of over $5 billion, could not muster the online servers necessary to handle an influx of players looking to build their cities in
That iPhone in your hand? You can trace its roots all the way back to the late '60s, when two researchers at the famed Bell Labs built a computer operating system they called UNIX.
As Microsoft continues to push , its subscription software-as-a-service offering, a new survey underscores Redmond's diminishing hold on enterprise users. And the problem will only get worse as younger users enter the workplace, if a recent study at Princeton University is any indication. and received responses from 2719. There are a lot of interesting data points in the survey results, but here are the ones relevant to Microsoft and its growing struggle in the enterprise: OK, you might say. Many, maybe even most, of the respondents likely come from smaller businesses. Large organizations with a lot invested in licenses for Office software and a workforce hooked on Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other Redmond apps understandably would be more willing to stay the course.
For as long as I can remember, WordPress has been synonymous with blog hosting—mostly consumer blog hosting. Although the company offered Pro plans for users who need more than the basics and enterprise options for the big boys, there was nothing in the middle for the SMB crowd. caters to small businesses needing a domain, storage, and a wide selection of themes for building a Web site. Essentially a bundle of premium upgrades, WordPress business includes not only site hosting and a free domain, but also live support (via chat, or email when chat isn't available), unlimited storage, and your choice of unlimited premium themes.
With Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales, you can hear the grousing of PC makers get louder. The latest complaints come from Jun Dong-Soo, president of Samsung's memory chip division, who had no kind words for Windows 8 during a meeting with reporters in Seoul. . "I think the Windows 8 system is no better than the previous Windows Vista platform." , who found that PC sales declined during the holiday shopping season. Jun added that Microsoft's Surface has seen "lackluster demand," and that demands for thinner Ultrabooks by Microsoft and Intel failed "mostly because of the less-competitive Windows platform."
There never will be a perfect computer or network defense. Computer security is a constantly elevating game of cat-and-mouse. As quickly as you address the latest threat, attackers have already developed a new technique to access your network and compromise your PCs. But if you focus on the fundamentals, you can and defend against most attacks. Small companies have limited IT resources, and can’t possibly defend against every possible exploit or attack. How do you know what to prioritize? Start with the report, written by the Center for Internet Security (CIS), the SANS Institute, and the National Security Agency (NSA). To help businesses and governments, they have defined the security controls that block the most frequent attacks. Speaking recently at the RSA Security conference, Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of , cautioned against mistaking compliance for security. He stressed that security should facilitate rather than impede business goals, naming the report as a valuable starting point. John Pescatore, director of the , drew a comparison to the Pareto principle. The axiom commonly referred to as the “80/20 rule” says essentially that 20 percent of the effort or input results in 80 percent of the output.
"I was just getting ready to empty Windows' Recycle Bin when I noticed that it's full of apps! These are apps I use regularly on my iPhone. What are they doing in the trash, and how do I get them out?" Have no fear, Anthony, what you're witnessing is a normal and natural part of iDevice ownership. See, when you update apps on your iPhone (or iPod or iPad), then sync that device to iTunes on your PC, the earlier versions of those apps get replaced by the updates.
Video surveillance isn't just for governments. With a simple webcam, you too can keep a close eye on what's happening in your home or office. Developerinabox's iSpy is an open-source application that lets you connect to a number of cameras and microphones, monitor them for movement and sound, and automatically start recording whenever something interesting is detected. Although iSpy is free to use, some of its features (such as remote viewing) cost money. The free features provide plenty of functionality, though.
Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated what could be the first app for Google Glass—and yes, it's a little bit creepy. Dubbed InSight, the system recognizes people by the clothing they wear, so someone using Google's high-tech glasses could pick out friends in a crowd even if their backs are turned. As , the system is partly funded by Google, and was demonstrated last week at a technology conference in Georgia. InSight's offers more details. The system requires friends to have a companion app on their smartphones that takes “a few opportunistic pictures” while the user is doing ordinary things, such as checking e-mail and browsing the Web. These photos create a “self-fingerprint” of the person's clothing, which can be shared with Google Glass users via Bluetooth or the Internet. At that point, Google Glass could match the clothing it sees against the system's database of self-fingerprints. The paper describes other possible methods to improve accuracy, such as such as snapping a short video to determine a person's “motion vector.” Also, once the system recognizes someone, it can add information to the fingerprint, making that person even easier to pick out in a crowd.
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owners. . Nook users are accustomed to getting freebies from the bookseller through Barnes & Noble’s Free Fridays promotion. Until now, however, Barnes & Noble focused on offering free e-books. Now the company will offer one e-book and one app each week. every Thursday for iPhone and iPad users.