Missed connections: Limbo in high tech's culture clash[ Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:00:00 GMT ]The term "Google bus" has come to symbolize very real tensions between tech companies and the communities they call home. Here's a look below the surface. [Read more]

Like? Facebook turns 10[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:13:43 EST ]As Facebook turns 10 years old, we look back on how the social network has changed how we communicate.

Your Facebook life in 62 seconds[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:12:34 EST ]If you're on Facebook, a new video about your life went live online Tuesday.

The maddening pull of 'Flappy Bird'[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:58:31 EST ]A tiny bird is frustrating game players in record numbers, again.

Headset beams video to your eyes[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:48:23 EST ]Forget about the big screen, the small screen and even the second screen.

Google's doodle sends message of support [ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:11:38 EST ]Google has made a bold statement against discrimination on its home page.

Syrian Hackers Mess with Facebook's Domain. Nothing Happens.[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:20:15 GMT ]http://recode.net/2014/02/05/syrian-hackers-mess-with-facebooks-domain-nothing-happens/

Music to Your Ears: New Gadget Turns Dumb Speakers 'Smart'[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 23:14:00 GMT ]Beep, a new gadget that turns any speaker into a "smart" device, wants to make it a lot easier for users to stream music.

Hotels Manager Knew of Breach for Two Weeks[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 23:35:23 GMT ]White Lodging Services, the company that manages hotels in eight states victimized by a customer data breach, said in a statement Thursday that it first learned of the nine-month malware attack on Jan. 16, more than two weeks before the news was made public.

Facebook Grants Father's Wish to See Dead Son's Video[ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 01:01:32 GMT ]Facebook has granted a Missouri father's tearful request to unlock his dead son's social media page and give him access to a video compilation of photos and posts he had been unable to view.

Google Protests Russian Anti-Gay Law With Rainbow Homepage[ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 01:28:24 GMT ]Google has made clear its stance on the Russian anti-gay law marring the Sochi Olympic Games by giving its search page a rainbow makeover — and a link to the part of the Olympic charter that bans "discrimination of any kind.

Sochi hack report 'fraudulent,' security researcher charges[ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 05:50:15 GMT ]NBC News report that attendees at the Winter Olympics were being hacked immediately is "wrong in every respect," Errata Security's Robert Graham says. [Read more]

Google said to invest $750M in Lenovo as part of Motorola deal[ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 06:42:33 GMT ]Web giant buys 5.94 percent stake in Lenovo as part of its $2.91 billion to unload its Motorola unit. [Read more]

Is Sony disowning Microsoft and Windows? Not quite, says CEO[ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 06:48:24 GMT ]Sony is leaving open the possibility of products using Microsoft's mobile operating system. [Read more]

Crave giveaway: London 'laptop purse' from Graceship[ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:00:00 GMT ]Graceship, maker of laptop bags for women, is offering a stylish computer case that could easily pass for a luxury purse. [Read more]

Can Samsung phone trade-in values ever match Apple's?[ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:00:00 GMT ]In this edition of Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon asked the trade-in site Gazelle to offer some data about which smartphones retain their values best over time. [Read more]

Like? Facebook turns 10[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:13:43 EST ]As Facebook turns 10 years old, we look back on how the social network has changed how we communicate.

Your Facebook life in 62 seconds[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:12:34 EST ]If you're on Facebook, a new video about your life went live online Tuesday.

The maddening pull of 'Flappy Bird'[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:58:31 EST ]A tiny bird is frustrating game players in record numbers, again.

Headset beams video to your eyes[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:48:23 EST ]Forget about the big screen, the small screen and even the second screen.

Facebook answers grieving dad's emotional plea[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 17:07:47 EST ]It was a desperate plea from a tearful dad, tossed like a message in a bottle into the vast sea of the Internet.

New Bionic Hand Restores Sense of Touch[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 19:53:14 GMT ]A new bionic hand has for the first time helped a man feel the objects he is holding and tell how big they are and whether they’re hard or soft.

Twitter Beats Earnings Estimates, User Growth Weak[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 22:02:21 GMT ]Twitter reported quarterly results that exceeded Wall Street expectations Wednesday, but shares still slumped sharply in extended-hours trading on its anemic user growth during the final three months of 2013.

Byte Me: How Our Gadgets Track Our Every Move[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 22:39:49 GMT ]The sheer volume of data sucked out of us every minute is creating a digital duplicate of our lives that can be exploited by the nefarious. Follow an NBC News reporter through one day in his life to see how much and how often he unknowingly leaks data.Cell phones tell stores you are walking by.

North Korea's Own OS Goes From Copy of Windows to Copy of OS X[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 23:33:35 GMT ]Red Star OS, the official (and only state-approved) operating system of North Korea, has gotten a brand new look — or at least, a look that was brand new on Macs about 10 years ago. Red Star once imitated the look and feel of Windows, but has moved on to copying Apple's OS X.

Report: Target Hackers Slipped In Via Vent ... Maintenance Company[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:00:12 GMT ]The latest intelligence on the Target breach saga suggests that the hackers got in through the A/C vents... but not the way you think. Instead of creeping in through the vents themselves, they supposedly used a HVAC maintenance company's credentials to gain access to Target's internal networks.

Snowmaking with computers and an iPhone[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 03:00:00 GMT ]To prepare for the Sochi Winter Olympics, organizers have hundreds of snowmaking machines ready to go. It's the same type of equipment being used at Northstar California ski resort in Lake Tahoe, where CNET got a look at its automated snowmaking system. [Read more]

Amazon acquires game studio Double Helix Games[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 03:54:50 GMT ]Acquisition comes less than a week after a report that the Internet retailer was planning to launch a game console later this year. [Read more]

Sony agrees to sell PC business, revises forecast to loss[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 06:21:08 GMT ]Sony plans to sell it Vaio PC operations to an investment fund, cut 5,000 jobs, and revises full-year forecast from a profit to a loss of $1.1 billion. It will also spin off its TV business. [Read more]

Mozilla revamping Firefox OS's app launcher[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 07:18:01 GMT ]Firefox will still use EverythingMe's app discovery, but will marry it more closely to the browser at the heart of Mozilla's mobile OS. [Read more]

'New Kind of Science' falls short of its iPad e-book potential[ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:37:30 GMT ]New support for Retina graphics helps a lot, but Stephen Wolfram's magnum opus about math, computing, and physics could be so much more. [Read more]

Like? Facebook turns 10[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:13:43 EST ]As Facebook turns 10 years old, we look back on how the social network has changed how we communicate.

Bill Gates' impact on computing[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:07:47 EST ]To ask what impact Bill Gates has had on computing is, in a way, too small a question. For millions of people in the nearly four decades since he co-founded Microsoft, Gates has defined the entire field.

Your Facebook life in 62 seconds[ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:34:45 EST ]If you're on Facebook, a new video about your life went live online Tuesday.

The maddening pull of 'Flappy Bird'[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:58:31 EST ]A tiny bird is frustrating game players in record numbers, again.

The maddening pull of 'Flappy Bird'[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:58:31 EST ]A tiny bird is frustrating game players in record numbers, again.

Crash! Dummies Risk 'Lives' to Save Yours[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:35:03 GMT ]According to research by WardsAuto, in 2010 the number of cars in operation around the globe grew to more than 1 billion for the very first time. That many cars means a lot of accidents.

Petition to Let Beer Drone Fly Needs 99,937 Signatures[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:35:03 GMT ]The Internet cheered when Minnesota-based brewing company Lakemaid Beer demo-ed a new way to deliver their seasonal special to thirsty customers fishing on a faraway frozen lake: by drone! But the FAA quickly shut down the plan.

Sold Out: Aereo Runs Out of Capacity in New York[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:35:04 GMT ]http://www.tomsguide.com/us/aereo-hits-nyc-capacity,news-18271.html

Four Bombs Rock Central Baghdad, Killing 13[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:02:48 GMT ]BAGHDAD -- Four bombs struck near Baghdad's heavily-fortified "Green Zone" and a busy square in the center of the capital on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, security sources said.

Privo Gets $3.2m Grant to Tackle Collection of Kids' Data Online[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:13:03 GMT ]Collecting kids' data online is a sticky problem for Internet companies, which are required to obtain consent from parents first. One company is trying to make the process easier, thanks to a $3.

Alleged Silk Road creator indicted on 'kingpin' charges[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 02:41:51 GMT ]Ross Ulbricht, who allegedly went by "Dread Pirate Roberts" and operated the black market drug site, is charged with hacking, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and operating a criminal enterprise. [Read more]

Microsoft taps Scott Guthrie to replace Nadella as cloud chief[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:07:46 GMT ]Leader of Windows Azure platform team to take over Cloud and Enterprise Group. [Read more]

As new Microsoft CEO makes entrance, Sony mulls PC exit[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:21:47 GMT ]Sony has been one of the top laptop players in the Windows market. But the Japanese company is now in talks to sell off the Vaio line. [Read more]

British spy unit reportedly hit Anonymous with DDoS attacks[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:30:26 GMT ]Unit of the U.K.'s communications intelligence agency used the cyberattack method against hacktivist groups, according to documents supplied to NBC news by Edward Snowden. [Read more]

Too much Facebook can make you unfaithful[ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 07:05:23 GMT ]A study suggests that the human candy store that is Facebook can be too much for those of weak flesh. [Read more]

Google may have to relocate mystery barge[ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:07:27 EST ]Google might need a find new home for its giant floating showroom in San Francisco Bay.

"Likes", "Pokes" and more: Facebook at 10[ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:39:20 EST ]As Facebook turns 10 years old, we look back on how the social network has changed how we communicate.

Windows, Xbox and more: Bill Gates' impact[ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:09:54 EST ]To ask what impact Bill Gates has had on computing is, in a way, too small a question. For millions of people in the nearly four decades since he co-founded Microsoft, Gates has defined the entire field.

Your Facebook life in 62 seconds[ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:34:45 EST ]If you're on Facebook, a new video about your life went live online Tuesday.