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It's always nerve-wracking the first time you talk to an attractive stranger. Tinder is a new mobile app that's used by millions of people to meet singles nearby. It's the equivalent to Hot or Not, but if both Tinder use...

Facebook today updated its main iOS app, adding free VoIP calling in the United States and Canada. Facebook previously beta tested the feature in its Messenger iOS app, which received an update to allow voice calling in ...

The latest report released by FixYa suggests that although Apple's iPhone comes with a premium price tag, you do get what you pay for in terms of reliability.

According to a document found by the Associated Press in Timbuktu, members of al-Qaeda in North Africa were in possession of a fairly detailed instruction manual for avoiding drone attacks. The document, which includes a...

Several security analysts issued warnings today that hackers were distributing malware from the website of NBC, one of the top four TV networks. Brian Krebs, a former Washington Post reporter and well-known internet secu...

Framebench is a newly launched platform for creative collaboration, specifically aimed at those working in digital agencies and other creative design firms. There are a number of tools already available serving this indu...

We have a tradition of treating players like children, even while we pay them millions of dollars for their skills, perhaps because they make their living competing in games we played as kids.

Obscure references and even more obscure records. If you've followed LeBron James of late, you've heard him make plenty of the former and take runs at plenty of the latter. Thursday, after shooting 11-of-15 to score 26 p...

As one of the world's biggest news organizations, the Associated Press is a bellwether for changes in society. Now, that bellwether is saying that gay men and women in lawful marriages should be described by the same ter...

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As someone who already owns and loves a Chromebook, I've been trying to wrap my head around why Google dedicated R&D, manufacturing and marketing effort to the Chromebook Pixel. The Pixel is clearly not a cheap, simple p...

Tumblr, Pinterest and Twitter have become the latest in a long list of companies to be hacked. And this time, some user information appears to have been compromised.

Google filed a patent application last year to refine their news-ranking algorithm for third time in the past nine years. The Google News algorithm has long been a mystery, with few details publicly available. Computerwo...

At the same time as Pope Benedict XVI leaves office on February 28, his Twitter presence as @Pontifex will also come to an end, according to Vatican Radio.

More than half a million new customers joined South Africa's biggest bank in less than a year thanks to SAP Mobile Platform, helping unbanked populations meet their banking needs. Almost half of South Africa's 51 million...

Winners of the 2013 IT Leader Awards by Singapore Computer Society give nods to how ubiquitous mobility and user expectation of immediacy have pushed companies to relook customer engagement.

Chumby Industries may have folded back in April 2012, but the community has been keeping the widget platform up and running ever since. Last month, news came that funding for the project had all but dried up, and the 40,...

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Revenue for Hewlett-Packard's personal systems was off 8 percent year over year, but Meg Whitman reiterated that the company is devoted to this margin-stretched business.

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The last few weeks have seen a flood of companies being hacked or otherwise attacked online, and the latest is customer-support company Zendesk and some of its clients -- including Tumblr. In a post on its blog, Zendesk ...

Quadrocopters can do more than take part in elaborate dances -- they're making the jump into gymnastics. Dario Brescianini, a student at ETH Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Controls, has programmed the mini-dr...