IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant[ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:18:30 GMT ]The ACLU has obtained internal IRS documents that say Americans enjoy "generally no privacy" in their e-mail messages, Facebook chats, and other electronic communications. [Read more]

See ya, Segway! We've got a suitcase electric scooter now[ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:23:40 GMT ]A designer with sports car design street cred creates a sleek, easy-to-pack electric scooter for commuters. [Read more]

Foxconn sees sales drop 19 percent in first quarter[ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:45:40 GMT ]The company draws between 60 percent and 70 percent of its revenue from assembling iPhones and iPads and working on other Apple products. [Read more]

Apple bans digital comic over gay sex images, say its creators[ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:57:06 GMT ]Writer Brian K. Vaughan claims that issue 12 of his Saga comic has been removed from the all iOS apps "because of two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex." [Read more]

Computer + banana = fun[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:02:06 EDT ]To understand Jay Silver, it helps to go back 10 years, to a night he spent flying kites on a beach in his native Florida with the woman who would become his wife.

Smartwatches: Failure, a new hope[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:39:16 EDT ]In that never-ending search for "the next big thing in tech," talk has turned to wearable gadgets, especially in the form of a smartwatch that syncs with your smartphone.

North Korea website hacked[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:36:28 EDT ]Kim Jong Un was dressed as a pig on North Korea's government website after it was hacked. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

Map apps & driving: against the law?[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:11:26 EDT ]It's weird out there and getting weirder: A California court just ruled that screwing around with your phone's map app while driving ought to be as illegal as texting or using the device without a handsfree solution.

That Twitter account might not be who you think[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:49:56 EDT ]Barack Obama is a busy man, what with budget negotiations, gun control issues, international crises and the ever-present back-and-forth political foolery of Washington.

Green meteorite's age casts doubt on claims that it came from Mercury[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:21:15 GMT ]By Mike Wall Space.comA strange green space rock hailed as perhaps the first meteorite ever discovered from Mercury may be too old to have come from the solar system's innermost planet, some scientists say.Last month, scientists announced that the green-hued meteorite NWA 7325 shares many chemical similarities with Mercury, suggesting it may be the first known visitor from the small, sun-scorc...

Rare hermit crab specimens caught live for the first time in Caribbean[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:21:15 GMT ]By Douglas MainOurAmazingPlanetA recent submarine dive turned up a species of hermit crab that was previously only known through dead, dried specimens procured more than a century ago.The sub collected a few of the animals, known as Pylopagurus discoidalis, from the Caribbean and brought them back to an aquarium, where they were photographed. These are the first pictures of the live animals ev...

Pre-caffeine tech: Princess Avengers, Google spam[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:04:55 GMT ]Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.At any moment on a regular weekday in 2011, about 660,000 people across the U.S. were sitting in the drivers seat and talking on their cell phones. Thinkit's getting any better? Texting while flying is also deadly, at least in this case. Virgin Mobile is offering $100 to T-Mobile switchers a...

Six U.S. Air Force cyber tools designated as 'weapons'[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:33:56 GMT ]COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force has designated six cyber tools as weapons, which should help the programs compete for increasingly scarce dollars in the Pentagon budget, an Air Force official said on Monday. Lieutenant General John Hyten, vice commander of Air Force Space Command, which oversees satellite and cyberspace operation, said the new designations would help normali...

Pressure is on for private manned Mars mission[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:28:25 GMT ]By Mike WallSpace.comProgress made during the next year or so will determine whether a private manned Mars mission can get off the ground in 2018 as planned, its organizers say.The pressure is on the nonprofit Inspiration Mars Foundation, which intends to launch two astronauts on a flyby mission around the Red Planet in January 2018. If the team misses this window, the next one won't open until 20...

Mozilla brands Persona as password killer[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:11:53 GMT ]An update to Mozilla's beta login system lays the groundwork for using preferred Web mail username and password to sign in on multiple sites. [Read more]

Redesigned Google Play app plays up entertainment[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:00:00 GMT ]Launching today, the marketplace makeover offers improved content discovery, cleaner layout. [Read more]

Apple's fifth-gen iPad hits factories this summer, report says[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:25:49 GMT ]The device reportedly will come with a 9.7-inch display and will be lighter and thinner than the fourth-generation model Apple offered up last year. [Read more]

iPhone 5S to offer multiple screen sizes, analyst says[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:27:39 GMT ]Apple's next iPhone will be available in two or three different screen sizes and launch in July, says an analyst with Topeka Capital Markets. [Read more]

Poll: What's stopping you from getting a projector?[ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:55:00 GMT ]Price, complexity, brightness, space -- why don't you have a projector? [Read more]

Computer + banana = fun[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:02:06 EDT ]To understand Jay Silver, it helps to go back 10 years, to a night he spent flying kites on a beach in his native Florida with the woman who would become his wife.

Smartwatches: Failure, a new hope[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:39:16 EDT ]In that never-ending search for "the next big thing in tech," talk has turned to wearable gadgets, especially in the form of a smartwatch that syncs with your smartphone.

North Korea website hacked[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:36:28 EDT ]Kim Jong Un was dressed as a pig on North Korea's government website after it was hacked. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

Map apps & driving: against the law?[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:11:26 EDT ]It's weird out there and getting weirder: A California court just ruled that screwing around with your phone's map app while driving ought to be as illegal as texting or using the device without a handsfree solution.

Map apps and driving -- should they be illegal?[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:10:50 EDT ]It's weird out there and getting weirder: A California court just ruled that screwing around with your phone's map app while driving ought to be as illegal as texting or using the device without a handsfree solution.

Watch where you point your head! Google Glass begs for new etiquette[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:39:19 GMT ]It's reasonable that Google Glass — the futuristic headgear from the search engine giant — will be banned in places that ban cameras. It's also understandable that people will be uncomfortable around a gadget that can snap photos, chime in with messages and cause untold other social disruptions.So it's at least some small comfort that the first people to get the invention — the so-called "Glass Ex...

Pre-caffeine tech: Google Glass, Internet cats![ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:02:22 GMT ]Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.Google's futuristic Glass headgear will be available before year's end ... and judging from our early look, Google Glass won't be welcome in lots of places.So it's at least some small comfort that the first people to get the invention — the so-called "Glass Explorers" — are already thinking ...

Ultradense dead star warps light of stellar companion[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:17:56 GMT ]By Mike Wall LiveScienceNASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has witnessed an ultradense dead star bending the light of its larger companion, marking one of the first times this phenomenon has been observed in a two-star system.Kepler detected a large drop in the brightness of a red dwarf star called KOI-256, leading astronomers to believe initially that a Jupiter-size exoplanet had crosse...

When DNA pioneer's Nobel Prize and mementos are sold, science profits[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:35:03 GMT ]The descendants of Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix, are likely to receive a seven-figure sum from this week's sales of the late researcher's Nobel Prize and a handwritten letter describing the structure of the DNA molecule — but the geneticists who are carrying on Crick's legacy will win a dividend as well."We'll probably be giving more money to the Francis Crick Institute than ...

Microsoft is planning a 'special event' for next Xbox in May, reports say[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:04:02 GMT ]After several months of complete and utter silence from the current generation video game console market leader, new hints have begun to surface about what Microsoft's successor to the Xbox 360 will look like and when it will arrive.Speaking on the latest "What the Tech?!" technology podcast, veteran tech blogger and Microsoft watcher Paul Thurrot said that the company is planning to reveal its ne...

Mozilla takes a fresh look at Google's WebP image format[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:49:23 GMT ]The Firefox developer hasn't committed to support WebP, but it's investigating after large Web sites expressed interest. Also: Google upgrades WebP with new version 0.3.0 release. [Read more]

Successor to Nokia Lumia 920 reportedly in the works[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:55:31 GMT ]The Lumia 928 will allegedly be slightly thinner than the 920, switch to an OLED screen, and add a xenon flash, according to The Verge. [Read more]

Wikileaks launches searchable archive of government records[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:26:46 GMT ]The searchable database includes a new collection of diplomatic records from the 1970s and more recent State Department memos. [Read more]

Mozilla seeks to integrate payment system into Firefox OS[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:46:02 GMT ]The organization is working on a common web API designed to make payments "easy and secure...yet still as flexible as the checkout button for merchants." [Read more]

NASA plans to kidnap an asteroid[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:51:14 GMT ]The White House confirms the space agency is planning to snag a space rock and bring it closer to Earth for study. [Read more]

On Twitter, Ebert found new voice[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:06:50 EDT ]It was on the pages of newspapers and in the coveted aisle seat on television's "At the Movies" that the world met Roger Ebert, the passionate lover and sometimes combative critic of film who virtually defined cinema critique for a generation.

Computer + banana = fun[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:02:06 EDT ]To understand Jay Silver, it helps to go back 10 years, to a night he spent flying kites on a beach in his native Florida with the woman who would become his wife.

Smartwatches: Failure, a new hope[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:36:53 EDT ]In that never-ending search for "the next big thing in tech," talk has turned to wearable gadgets, especially in the form of a smartwatch that syncs with your smartphone.

North Korea website hacked[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:36:28 EDT ]Kim Jong Un was dressed as a pig on North Korea's government website after it was hacked. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

Smartwatches: A history of failure and a new hope[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:36:04 EDT ]In that never-ending search for "the next big thing in tech," talk has turned to wearable gadgets, especially in the form of a smartwatch that syncs with your smartphone.

NASA chooses all-sky planet hunter, neutron star watcher for liftoff in 2017[ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:47:17 GMT ]NASA has selected two new space missions for launch in 2017: a satellite that can scan the entire sky for exoplanets and a space station experiment that can monitor cosmic X-ray emissions. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) won out at the end of a selection process that took more than two years."With these missions we will le...

Guns and garden gnomes: 3-D printer revolution is now[ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:11:25 GMT ]Addressing a packed auditorium at Austin’s South by Southwest festival last March, Bre Pettis, keynote speaker and co-founder of MakerBot, one of the leaders in desktop 3-D printers, described the increased interest and affordability of his company’s product as heralding the “the next Industrial Revolution.”"Revolution" is often used even when the result doesn't match the definition — a complete ...

A new rocket rises: Orbital's Antares prepared for its first test launch[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:45:41 GMT ]Orbital Sciences Corp. raised the first fully integrated Antares rocket on its Virginia launch pad on Saturday, setting the stage for its maiden flight to orbit later this month. A successful test launch would mark a giant leap toward using the Antares and Orbital's Cygnus cargo capsule to resupply the International Space Station.If the current schedule holds, Virginia-based Orbital would become t...

Hackers target Israeli government websites[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:23:35 GMT ]JERUSALEM -- A weekend cyberattack campaign targeting Israeli government websites failed to cause serious disruption, officials said Sunday. The attacks followed warnings in the name of the hacking group Anonymous that it was launching a massive attack.Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, of the government's National Cyber Bureau, said hackers had mostly failed to shut down key sites. "So far it is as was ex...

iTunes is out of date and out of touch — so what's next?[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:18:42 GMT ]I was at a Starbucks last weekend, and I grabbed one of those "Pick of the Week" cards, one for Jeremy Piven's new show. I felt a momentary flutter of excitement — sweet, free TV episode! In HD! But then I realized that I would have to download some huge file, and even then, I could only watch the show on the device I downloaded it to. The concept suddenly seemed awkward ... antiquated, even.And i...

Twitter, hate speech, and the costs of keeping quiet[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:00:00 GMT ]commentary Purging mass media of hurtful opinions would deny everyone important knowledge. Simply put, says author Greg Lukianoff, it's far better to know that there are bigots among us than to pretend all is well. [Read more]

Facebook Home and the next stage of iPhone vs. Android[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:00:00 GMT ]analysis Facebook Home signals a new era in the war between Android and iPhone, and right now Google has the advantage. [Read more]

Witness the birth of 'Jurassic Park' dinosaurs[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:00:00 GMT ]How did special-effects whiz Stan Winston create the beasts of "Jurassic Park"? As moviegoers experience "Jurassic Park 3D" we reveal the inner workings of the dinosaurs in the film. [Read more]

At what age did you start thinking about sound?[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:06:00 GMT ]Audiophiles -- or anyone who occasionally listens to music without multitasking -- may fall in love with sound. [Read more]

EA the worst company in America? Again?[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:30:08 GMT ]Electronic Arts CEO attempts to express understanding of why his company is again in the Final Four of the Consumerist's Worst Company awards. Is the company really so bad? [Read more]

How the Post-it note was born[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:44:40 EDT ]It's been described as the solution to a problem nobody realized existed.