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CNET is reporting that a "former government official who is intimately familiar with [the] process of data acquisition" detailed in the leaked PRISM slides says that the NSA had no direct access to tech company servers. ...

The Skylanders aren't just evolving into combinable characters in their next entry, they're also heading to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Skylanders Swap Force was given an October 13th release date today, alongside news o...

After details of a government program called PRISM with alleged hooks into the servers of major internet companies became public this week, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper decided it was necessary to reve...

Categories: News Rumors Tags: cameraphonegalaxys4zoomleakopticalzoomrumorsamsungsamsunggalaxys4zoomsmartphonecamera With a mechanical shutter and a 41-megapixel PureView sensor, the leaked pictures and video of the upcom...

NASA's largest rocket yet, a vehicle under development called the Space Launch System (SLS), is on track for its first test flight in 2017, according to experts who spoke at the Space Tech Expo in Long Beach last month.T...

The danger of creating data sets that would permit a foreign government or non-state actor to wreak havoc on Americans.

The high-profile documentary We Steal Secrets:The Story of Wikileaks expanded into wider release in theaters and video-on-demand on Friday. Which would seem to be fortuitous timing, given this week's revelations that the...

Microsoft is a profitable, successful company that makes some great products. But it's held back in consumer electronics by its reputation as a stodgy, boring company. Take the better Windows Phone devices made by Nokia,...

The NSA may have wanted full firehoses of data from Google, Facebook and other tech giants, but the companies attempted to protect innocent users from monitoring via compliance systems that segregated data before securel...

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Games, tools and widgets -- we've got them all here Welcome back to yet another edition of our Apps of the Week post, where we highlight apps from the Android Central writers. Now these aren't always the newest or most p...

Before the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 barred all aboveground, subsea, and orbital nuclear weapons testing, the world's nations were popping off nukes like champagne bottles on New Years. Surprisingly, that sprinklin...

Soldering creates some nasty fumes that smell bad at best, and cause chronic asthma over time. If you do it often, you can keep yourself safe though with this portable, USB-powered fume extractor.

You know how it goes, you buy a phone on eBay, and it comes with a developer / pre-release version of a major mobile OS. Well, if these images are to be believed, that's at least what happened to one bargain-hunting Wind...

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While his Hong Kong colleagues such as Chow Yun-fat, Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh -- who each took a crack at Hollywood in the late '90s -- have all slowed their tempo, Jackie Chan, at 59, seems to be busier than ever. "I ha...

Surf Report has scouted some quirky gadgets for your summer trip.

The personal computer as we know it has changed drastically. For decades the industry was defined as a computer with a large screen, a keyboard, and a mouse. That era is over and a tablet shaped future is upon us. To ...

Categories: Finds Ideas Products Tags: carcarphotographycarscommercialphotographersflashdriveflashrodharddriveideaimpressionstoragetip Here's a cool product that could help the car photographers out there leave a memorab...

Rdio, one of the leading streaming music services, is said to be hunting for a new chief executive as Google and Apple ramp up competitive efforts. Drew Larner, Rdio's CEO, told Bloomberg in an interview that he'll be st...

Sunday's shocking "Red Wedding" on Game of Thrones left fans with so many emotions they had nowhere else to properly express them but on the Internet. The web was abuzz with fanatic GOT chatter, from funny and angry fan ...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. Printing can take many forms these days, it seems. It's a term we see pulled in another direction this week, but one we thi...