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David Miranda was in possession of around 58,000 "highly classified UK intelligence documents" when he was detained at Heathrow Airport under anti-terrorist laws last week, according to The Telegraph. In statements prese...

Apple's long-awaited in-store iPhone trade-in program begins today. Apple will give you store credit in exchange for your old phone, but you have to sign a contract in order to get it.

Norway is getting at least 6 Tesla Superchargers, enabling 90 percent of the country's inhabitants to live with a 200-mile driving range of the Superchargers.

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Design thinking, also known as human-centered design, has been the hot topic as of late, at least among the forward-thinking tech and business scenes.

mspohr writes "The Guardian has an article by Charles Arthur who predicted over two years ago that Microsoft's purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion was 'a gamble unlikely to pay off.' Arthur has penned a followup providing...

Microsoft doubles its cloud email storage capacity for users and streaks ahead of Google Apps.

A five-month old flaw allows hackers to bypass authentication protocols by altering clock and user timestamp settings.

It's no secret that Nine Inch Nails' frontman Trent Reznor likes to do things a bit differently. He and long-time art director Rob Sheridan have assembled a crew to make the group's festival dates this year as visually s...

One of the biggest knocks against cellphones is they require small amounts of rare earth elements: gallium, indium and arsenic, for example, that are both scarce and expensive. But what if you could make a phone out of a...

There's a mobile ecosystem battle raging, with Apple and Google racing to build end-to-end mobile monopolies. According to VisionMobile, "The triumph of iOS and Android is a testament to the superiority of ecosystems eco...

We're at an HTC event in London today taking a look a pair of the company's new smartphone accessories. First up is the Fetch, an NFC and Bluetooth tag that helps you keep track of your phone. To locate your phone, you c...

In some of this planet's driest regions, where rainfall is rare or even nonexistent, a few specialized plants and insects have devised ingenious strategies to provide themselves with the water necessary for life: They pu...

IDC expects worldwide PC shipments to decline even further than first thought, partly in due to a PC market decline but also a further expansion in tablet and smartphone sales.

The U.S. government has decided to release data annually on its secret spy orders and the number of people affected by them, the country's intelligence chief said Thursday. The government will release the total number of...

NASA's latest dream? Delivering solar power to Earth via satellites. Agency veteran John Mankins is spearheading the project, which is still in its developmental stages It's called the Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrari...

First time accepted submitter Tekla Perry writes "In 'The Augmented Reality America's Cup' Stan Honey and Ken Milnes describe the positioning, communications, graphics, and augmented reality technology they developed tha...

Will VMware's NSX network virtualization effort finally push Cisco and VMware to divorce? Stay tuned.

Target's answer to Walmart's Vudu, Netflix, and iTunes, is preparing to launch. Employees at the Minneapolis-headquartered retailer were told this week that Target Ticket, as the service is called, will soon be offered t...

Two Brown University scientists are a step closer to solving a four-decade old mystery about some unusual looking craters on Mars.