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Good news, everyone: a safer and more robust version of Google Chrome has just been tipped for the masses. Like we've previously seen in the beta release, the stable version of Chrome 25 brings support for the Web Speech...

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.

First things first: We still haven't seen the PlayStation 4. That said, if you'd like to see someone other than a Sony rep or developer putting their hands all over that DualShock 4 with touchpad and share button -- we a...

US-born mobile payment methods like PayPal Here and Square haven't had much traction in Europe, due in no small part to the continent's frequent reliance on chip-and-PIN credit cards over North America's (slowly outgoing...

LG is about to kick its currently slow, worldwide Optimus G deployment into high gear. Right in time for Mobile World Congress, the company has confirmed that its late 2012 flagship is about to reach Europe. Sweden gets ...

Much of the firestorm surrounding remote phone diagnostics in late 2011 ultimately enveloped Carrier IQ and the providers that used it, but HTC was also scorched by accusations that its phones' software flaws (including ...

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...

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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.

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.

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...

Newly received images from the surface of Mars confirm that NASA's Curiosity rover successfully extracted the 1st ever samples collected by drilling down inside a rock on another planet and transferred the pulverized ali...

Because Earth can sometimes look like an Impressionist painting from space, NASA added colors to the Mount Etna volcano eruption to separate what from what. The false-color image combines shortwave infrared, near-infrare...

It's a good time to be a particle physicist. The long-sought Higgs boson seems to have been found, and scientists are now hot on the trail of another tiny piece of the universe tied to a new fundamental force of nature.

When AP reporters walked through turf where Islamic terrorists had been driven out by the French military, they found a curious photocopied document: a list of 22 tips for avoiding UAV death. But you can use them, too! M...