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McGruber writes "Over at Bloomberg Businessweek, Paul Ford explains that the debacle known as healthcare.gov makes clear that it is time for the government to change the way it ships code: namely, by embracing the open s...

You know those gadgets that you can buy at drugstores? Back in the early 2000s it was all portable CD players and PC speakers. Now it's MP3 players with 2GB of storage and wimpy tablets. And if you've ever done last minu...

Liquid gold takes form as an iPhone 5S in Apple's first TV advertisement for the device The spot debuted Sunday during an NFL broadcast on FOX, according to The Verge. It also played on CBS's NFL coverage later in the da...

Money laundering is increasingly becoming a cybercrime. Gone are the days when the bad guys would pop down to the casino and hope to convert their loot into a clean win on the roulette table. And less popular is the old ...

The thing about race, class, religion and gender is that, for the most part, it is out of people's control. This all-encompassing feeling of lack of control is why when chronically underpaid service professionals like te...

If/When you download a torrent full of juicy copyrighted content (shame on you!), you're not paying anyone; that's part of the appeal. But there's money to be made off sharing stuff for free, otherwise why would anyone d...

An anonymous reader writes "NFTables is queued up for merging into the Linux 3.13 kernel. NFTables is a four-year-old project by the creators of Netfilter to write a new packet filtering / firewall engine for the Linux k...

When the San Francisco Department of Public Health banned Virginia Ramos in June from selling the handmade tamales she'd been peddling for decades in local bars, the office of her city supervisor was inundated with calls...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of John Carpenter's They Live, Piero Glina has created two magazines that pay homage to the cult classic. Called "THIS IS YOUR GOD," the two volume set faithfully recreates the prop from...

Having plugged the iPhone 5C hard, Apple launches a new ad for the gold iPhone 5S during Sunday's NFL broadcasts. It's slightly familiar.

All-new dial-in experience! See below -- do not call into Talkshoe, we won't be there. Be sure to set up Fuze Meeting before the show if you want to join in live. It's Sunday, and it's time for the TUAW talkcast! Looking...

Technical glitches have plagued the new health insurance exchanges since their launch on Oct. 1. But in a blog post Sunday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it's called in the "best and the brightes...

The Sony SmartWatch 2 doesn't mind a little dunk or three There seems to be a little confusion out there among wearable enthusiasts and soon-to-be wearable enthusiasts about the Sony SmartWatch 2 and any level of water r...

Apple revealed its first magazine ads for the iPhone 5s this past week and they were gold, featuring the gold iPhone 5s. During today’s football games, Apple released its first TV ad with the same affinity for the ‘M...

(American Association for Cancer Research) LEE011, a small-molecule inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) 4/6 being developed by Novartis Oncology, showed promising results in drug-resistant melanoma and drug-resis...

chicksdaddy writes "More than six months after hacked Emergency Alert System (EAS) hardware allowed a phony warning about a zombie uprising to air in several U.S. states, a security consulting company is warning that ser...

Jack Dorsey seems to be at the tech world's center of attention over the last few weeks, thanks to a series of articles and an upcoming discussing the early days of Twitter, and whether or not he screwed over friends and...

Ten years ago we could have foreseen choppy waters in the not so distant future. But little could we envisage some of the horrors that we face today. Here are 13 of the scariest, most terrifying tech trends of the 21st c...

At the annual Y Combinator startup school event, the Facebook CEO revealed that a comical tradition from the early days of his social network persists to this day, within the bounds of the law.

Early reports from e-commerce companies like eBay signaled that economic uncertainty could portend a slow holiday season, but analysts cautioned that it was too early to tell.     

Windows RT users looking to upgrade their copies of Windows RT 8 to Windows RT 8.1 will have to wait. Some users are reporting that the update is bricking their Surface machines, so Microsoft has pulled the upgrade from ...

I've written a lot of reviews of cases and bags over the years, but this is the first time I've actually had the opportunity to review luggage that is electronics-friendly. ECBC recently started producing the B8 Luggage ...