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Are the Feds Still Tracking Your GPS? One Senator Wants to Know
The Supreme Court thought it settled the issue in January, but the debate over warrantless GPS searches won't go away. Now, one U.S. senator is concerned that the Department of Justice hasn't fully...
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Read/Write Daily: Face-Eating Cannibals & Other Scary Stories
Today's theme is bad news. Let's face it: Tech news tends to describe the world through rose-colored glasses. Things are kind of hairy out there. Here's a round-up to remind us of the challenges we're...
View ArticleMicrosoft Offers Windows 8 Release Preview as an Upgrade
The worst-kept secret in Microsoft’s history may well lead to a surprise anyway. This afternoon, the company made available a program that prompts curious Windows users to download the latest Windows 8...
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Kayak Has Much More Than a Derailed IPO to Worry About
The decision by online travel service Kayak Software to delay its initial public offering has been blamed on Facebook's botched public offering a couple weeks ago. But while Facebook's roughly 25%...
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The United Nations Could Seize the Internet, U.S. Officials Warn
Several emerging countries are rallying behind a campaign to have the International Telecommunications Union, the U.N.'s global standards body for telecommunications, declare the Internet a global...
View ArticleKnight News Challenge Awards $1.37 Million to Projects That Should Already Exist
The Knight Foundation has announced six winners of the first round of this year's Knight News Challenge. Past winners have been ambitious projects, broad in scope, many of them as part of major parent...
View ArticleInternet Buys Bus Monitor A Vacation After She's Viciously Abused By Kids
After a video of middle school students attacking 68-year-old bus monitor went viral, a Reddit user started a campaign to raise money to send her on a "vacation of a lifetime." In only two days, the...
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Huffington Post Puts a Subscription Magazine on the iPad Newsstand
At a swanky launch party last week, Huffington Post unveiled a new iPad-only magazine called simply Huffington. It's a new outlet with a new business model, an upscale departure from the loud, lewd,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Loses Appeal of EU Antitrust Judgment From Another Era
Right on schedule, the European Union General Court rejected Microsoft's appeal to dismiss $1.12 billion in fines for allegedly not complying with a 2004 antitrust order. The judgment, which leaves...
View ArticleFIFA: Soccer Refs Might Use Sensor Networks to Keep Score
Should computer-controlled sensor arrays be used to keep referees from making bad calls? Officials of FIFA, soccer's international governing body, have called a special meeting to decide. Whether...
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[Infographic] Donuts Inc. Dominates Applications for Generic Top Level Domains
A new wave of change is coming to the Internet. It is not the subtle change caused by the rise of the mobile application ecosystem or the cloud redefining the nature of data. It is more practical than...
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These Designers Did for Fun What News Sites Can't Do to Save Their Business
A Web design studio built the first news site I’ve ever read from top to bottom two days in a row, and it did so as a side project. Mule Design is not in the journalism business. It builds sites to...
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[Chart] Is There A Bottom To Netflix' Incredible Year-Long Free Fall?
While "Over The Top" technologies like Netflix and Hulu are clearly the wave of the future, the market has bludgeoned Netflix over the past 12 months, knocking 75% off its value. Is this punishment for...
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Energized: New Batteries Could Triple Drone Airtime
With the drone market projected to double to $1.2 billion by 2020, two recent innovations to extend battery life could significantly propel the drone ecosystem forward. Thanks to a Congressional bill...
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Kippt Lets You Build An Automated Archive for Links You Like
On Wednesday, the personal link library Kippt rolled out its own syncing services. You can now connect your accounts from Twitter, GitHub, Pocket, and Readability to automatically save the links you...
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Evernote & Moleskine Merge Paper & Pixels in "Smart Notebook"
Evernote signed a treaty with Moleskine Friday at the Evernote Trunk Conference, formally declaring a truce in its war on paper. It announced the Evernote Smart Notebook from Moleskine, along with a...
View ArticleI Am A President -- Obamamania Shuts Down Reddit
In another social-media first, President Barack Obama took to Reddit today to become the first sitting head of state to moderate the site's "AMA," or, ask me anything, series. The chat lasted an hour,...
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Hobbyists Embrace Open-Source Concept For Drones
Drone hobbyists can buy their craft complete out of the box, but many are going the open-source, DIY route to radio-controlled flight. With legislation on the way to clear drones for flight in U.S....
View ArticleHow U.S.-China Tensions Could Affect Your Next Smartphone
On Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence report explicitly called out Chinese electronics corporations Huawei and ZTE as potential national security threats for the...
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Flipboard Adds iBooks To Its Virtual Magazine Stand
Well, so much for light reading. Social news stalwart Flipboard is expanding beyond feeds like RSS and Twitter, introducing a Books category today for its iOS app. Flipboard’s most literate new...
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