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SmartAboutThings writes "Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there's still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your...

There's been more pushback on privacy from the private sector ever since leaked documents revealed the existence of massive NSA spying programs that tap into consumer services. But the owner of XMission, a small ISP in U...

Reports that the US National Security Agency is spying on European allies and bugging embassies have been met with strong condemnation in Germany, where chancellor Angela Merkel angrily denounced the agency's activities ...

Categories: Finds Post-Processing Tags: animationdevicephotoshopphotoshopcs5photoshopfilterstribute Photographers are intimately familiar with the myriad filters available to them through Photoshop. Nothing like the Inst...

Flexible circuitry is frequently a one-way affair -- we've seen bendy displays and touch layers, but rarely both in one surface. UC Berkeley is at last merging those two technologies through a plastic skin whose display ...

The prospect of iPhones supporting game controllers is cool. But why is Apple giving away the opportunity to seize the initiative and make a new cool new add-on of its own? It feels like a big mistake, one symptomatic of...

It has only been a few months since Samsung announced the Galaxy S4 smartphone, its latest Android flagship device. Soon after that rumors started circulating online that the company was going to release a "faster" versi...

Categories: Culture Finds Tags: blastfromthepastgandcentralstationgrandcentralgrandcentralterminalnewyorknewyorkcitynewyorkcitysubwaynewyorksubwaysubway In the past, we've had occasion to share some great color film foot...

Sports Illustrated is launching a standalone football website, MMQB, tomorrow morning. The site's name comes from star Sports Illustrated writer Peter King, who writes a weekly column, Monday Morning Quarterback. King sa...

So you met someone, things became serious and you both decided to get married. Congratulations! But remember what they say: You don't just marry a person, you marry their whole family. Oftentimes, a weird, dysfunctional ...

It's probably fair to say that Adam Savage has more resources available to him than the average Comic-Con attendee. The special effects designer / Mythbusters co-host has built models for films like Star Wars: Episode II...

Facebook is floundering under the weight of its own scorched earth policy towards privacy. This policy has created a growing base of disenchanted users that could cause the company to come crashing down a lot sooner than...

The tale of Walter White's metamorphosis from meek high school chemistry teacher to drug kingpin and meth cook is finally coming to a close, and in honor of the occasion, the cast and producers of the highly acclaimed "B...

Every year, a handful of people see every sword, spear, gun, and hammer that makes it to the floor of Comic-Con - and a few that don't. Halfway down the convention center, at a small booth labeled "costume weapons check,...

SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe will leave his post in May 2014 to become a member of the enterprise software vendor's supervisory board, leaving Bill McDermott as sole CEO. Snabe's election to the board is dependent on th...

Abandoned mines from the 19th-century gold rush could contain rare earth metals, elements vital for the production of smartphones, TVs, hybrid cars, and other electronics. The Associated Press reports that dumps of disca...

Browser histories are very personal. Only you should know how much time you spend staring at cat GIFs, watching YouTube videos of screaming goats and Googling home remedies for weird skin rashes. So now that the National...

When the original iPhone was released in 2007, Greg Packer waited on the street for more than 100 hours to ensure that he would be the first in line to get it at Apple's flagship store in New York. Since then, Packer has...

Joerg begins today's video by saying, "As you know, I don't like witches." And in fact, I did not specifically remember this preference of his. But I can believe it. After watching a Harry Potter rerun this week, Joerg f...

Carl Sagan's legacy makes a return in a major television event happening in 2014.

After a month-long delay, the Android-based portable gaming device will ship to preorder customers at the end of the month.

There's a lot to know about Dubai's towering Burj Khalifa. Every creak and every inch is constantly monitored and explored. But sometimes you just want to see something lit up in all its glory. And that's the point where...