Facebook, the company that makes billions from connecting people to each other, is about to make it harder to have a conversation. In the coming weeks, Facebook’s mobile app will be losing its chat feature, a move that will no doubt annoy many regula
The severity of the Heartbleed bug means that rushing to change passwords could backfire
Amid the shiny, happy announcements of new features and new apps this week, file-sharing startup Dropbox quietly revealed another piece of news.
When ex-government contractor Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s widespread efforts to eavesdrop on the internet, encryption was the one thing that gave us comfort.
When ex-government contractor Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s widespread efforts to eavesdrop on the internet, encryption was the one thing that gave us comfort.
Stephen Henson is responsible for the tiny piece of software code that rocked the internet earlier this week.
Companies that provide WiFi on US domestic flights are handing over their data to the NSA, adapting their technology to allow security services new powers to spy on passengers. In doing so, they may be in violation of privacy laws.
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Earlier this week, engineer Antti Karjalainen was simply doing his job when he stumbled upon one of the biggest security holes the Internet has ever seen — the Heartbleed bug.
Gogo, the inflight Wi-Fi provider, is used by millions of airline passengers each year to stay connected while flying the friendly skies.
Tens of millions of servers were exposed to a security vulnerability called “Heartbleed” in OpenSSL, software used to encrypt much of the internet. While an emergency patch has been released, sites like Yahoo have raced to fortify security.
Meet The Google Engineer And Occupy Wall Street Organizer Who Wants Silicon Valley To Run The Country
Privacy-loving search engine DuckDuckGo has started displaying price quotes on bitcoin-related search queries.
Search Engine DuckDuckGo Is Taking On Google By Doing The One Thing They Won't Do
Microsoft took an enormous step forward this morning. It unveiled a free version of its Windows operating system.
It’s terribly evil, because all the reports about it when the crypto-challenged learned of its existence from the media following Ulbricht’s arrest said so. A kinder description would be the eBay for those with mad computer skilz outside the control
At an event in New York City today, Amazon showed off a new streaming set-top box, Amazon Fire TV for $99.
Privacy is dead—or so we’re told, both by those who would mourn the loss and by those who would dance on its grave.
Amazon announced today that six more shows from its Amazon Originals program will be made into full series, following viewer input on the pilot episodes the company released last month. The big surprise? That the right shows made the cut.
Should censoring search engine results on the internet be protected as free speech? A U.S. court ruled the Constitution ensures the right to block news stories. China's most popular search engine, Baidu, also operates in the United States. Even in A
"The best possible birthday gift for Brazilian and global web users" is how Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the world wide web, which turned 25 this month, described Brazil's "internet bill of rights" in an open letter on March 24th.
Brandon Wade has built a controversial online dating empire based around the concept that it's perfectly OK for people — men, mostly — to pay women for dates and relationships. Wade even believes in bribing women to go out with you.
If anyone tries to tell you that government grants play no role in technology innovation, point them to the field of software-defined networking.
Control the environment and you control human behavior and, ultimately, the destiny of humanity
Mark Zuckerberg is putting together a lab where a team of Facebook engineers will build flying drones, satellites, and infrared lasers capable of beaming internet connections to people down here on earth.
Did company hire web trolls to game comments after Oculus purchase?
I’ve always maintained that OneNote is Microsoft’s most under-rated product.
Before most people had ever heard of the digital currency bitcoin, Brian Armstrong, a 27-year-old engineer at the home-sharing website Airbnb, thought it could make him a lot of money.
Now that most major Web browsers have similar features, users are looking instead to security and privacy features to determine which program they'll use.
Spending your inordinately over-valued 'currency' on an ever-reaching (and increasingly over-valued) portfolio of dreams may have been the stuff of expanding multiples and social media stock-lovers; but for the creator of Minecraft (among the world's
