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The electric vehicle space is one that Kia isn't new to exploring. Here in the US, however, the South Korean auto manufacturer has yet to get its foot in the door. But if all goes according to plan, Kia will soon debut i...

Now that the court documents have been unsealed, there's no need to guess whether Lavabit shut down because of Edward Snowden.

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Yahoo has been hit with a new class-action privacy lawsuit which claims that the company is effectively intercepting and reading emails of users as it scans incoming emails for keywords in order to deliver more targeted ...

Autophagy, a key cellular auto-cleaning mechanism, mediates the formation of amyloid beta plaques, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. It might be a potential drug target for the treatment of the disease, conclu...

In an important Stratechery post titled “Overstating the Consumerization of IT,” Ben Thompson argued there is a critical difference in how consumers and enterprises (or more broadly, business) approach technology. Co...

Staff at the former company of Marina Shifrin, the woman who danced her resignation, respond on YouTube (by dancing and taking their pants off). Were they all told to dance or else?

Requiring a password to download apps on a smartphone or tablet is meant to keep you from getting ripped off. The problem is that not everyone who knows how to log in understands what really happens when you click to "bu...

Singapore's telecoms regulator says M1's 3-day service disruption caused by a power fault was due to poor electrical installation practices which set off a water sprinkler, and inadequate risk assessment practices.

As Baby Boomers age, many experience difficulty in hearing and understanding conversations in noisy environments such as restaurants. People who are hearing-impaired and who wear hearing aids or cochlear implants are eve...

Breast cancer incidence rates increased slightly among African American women from 2006 to 2010, bringing those rates closer to the historically higher rates among white women, according to a new analysis by American Can...

Naturally, Google's new purchase has everyone buzzing about whether or not the new tech is going into everything from the Nexus 5 to Glass.

American authorities say they have busted an online black market for drugs, hitmen, hacker tools, and more, arresting the suspected mastermind of a nefarious bazaar called Silk Road.

IBM Senior Vice President John E. Kelly says the company has entered a new era in computing, and announces the company's plans for future partnerships.

As the Middle East country beefs up its cyberforces, Mojtaba Ahmadi, the head of its Cyber War Headquarters, is said to be found with two bullet wounds near his heart.

The most pleasant surprise to come out of Dell's press conference the other day wasn't its line of new laptops or the silly Android tablets it's trying to foist on weary consumers. To my utter shock it was the Venue 8 Pr...

The viral video showing one of Tesla's cars on fire, might not be a major safety problem for the car maker. But it could be a significant issue for the company's brand.

Just a few years ago, BASE jumping (Buildings, Antennas, Spans, Earth) existed on the very fringes of action sports. Wingsuits were only worn by a handful of brass-balled sky divers the world over. But times have changed...

Hadoop startup WibiData has updated Kiji, its open source project that aims to make HBase a better (or easier) database for serving real-time applications. Among the updates in its latest SDK is an improved version of th...

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As you may or may not have heard, a University of North Carolina professor claims to have found a major mistake in Lincoln history. Some blurry, sepia-skinned dude in the photo who we'd believed was Lincoln was actually ...

Less than a month after announcing its plans to go public, Twitter has today made its S-1 filing with the SEC public, offering the most detailed look yet at at the inner-workings of the company. The company is looking to...