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An anonymous reader writes "When encrypted email provider Lavabit shut down in August, it was because U.S. authorities demanded the company release encryption keys to get access to certain accounts. Lavabit's founder, La...

At Photo Plus Expo 2013, we were able to get some fondling time with Sony's new superzoom compact for enthusiasts and videographers, the RX10. (Visited 1 times, 1 visits today) The post First Impressions: Sony RX10 appea...

The new iPad mini is an upgrade that has some significant improvements over the first generation model. Even so, it's not good enough to get me to upgrade.

At Photo Plus Expo 2013, we were able to take a first look at Zeiss's upcoming Touit 50mm f2.8 macro lens for Sony E- and Fuji X-mount cameras. (Visited 12 times, 12 visits today) The post First Impressions: Zeiss Touit ...

Always busy, The Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann responds to the simple question of "How are you?" in preoccupied fashion. He's "in the middle of a group of swirling ballroom dancers," he tells Mashable by phone, work...

A crowd of about 5,000 people, chanting "stop spying, stop lying" and "hey, ho, mass surveillance has got to go," marched through Washington, D.C., Saturday to protest the U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillanc...

A good User Experience doesn't end with just a good product. When you provide amazing customer experience or you stand for a cause that your users relate to, they actually enjoy using your product more

The holiday season is quickly approaching, and if your (or a client's) online storefront needs to be ready for seasonal discounting, we've put together The Complete Web Designers' Fall Bundle from Vandelay Premier to eas...

Let’s admit it: Sony’s A7 is one of the hottest things announced this year. At Photo Plus Expo 2013, we got to have a demo of the brand new camera as well as a full explanation of how it work from Sony’s very own M...

Disrupt Europe: Berlin kicks off on Monday, October 28th. TechCrunch has put together an incredible array of offerings from our partners to make your Conference experience better than ever. As always, Disrupt EU will be ...

Brazil said Friday it is working with other countries to draft a U.N. General Assembly resolution that would guarantee people's privacy in electronic communications. That follows a series of reports of alleged U.S. eaves...

The United States Attorney in New York says about $28 million worth of bitcoins have been seized from a man charged with operating a notorious online drug marketplace known as Silk Road.

Africa's lion kings, clouds spawned by wildfires and cool high-speed photographs are just a few of the amazing images we found this week.

The wearables market is slowly growing, with the likes of the Galaxy Gear and other smartwatches and Google Glass kicking off an industry anticipated to grow in the coming years. Analyst firm Berg Insight has gone elbows...

B612 Foundation CEO and fmr. NASA astronaut Ed Lu talks about why an infrared space telescope is needed to search for hundreds of thousands of undocumented near-Earth asteroids and why they are doing it privately.

Of all the major camera manufacturers, Sony has the most new products on show at the Photo Plus Expo in New York, after the flurry of new Alpha and RX-series cameras released in the past couple of months. We had a fascin...

Harry McCracken / TIME When I was most intensely interested in toy race cars — which would be back in the 1970s — there was no question what the state of the art in that particular category of plaything was. It was I...

He was born in the darkness. He was thrown out of the League of Shadows. He is pure evil. And now he has a Vine account. Introducing: BaneDad. See also: Family and Fun Always Comes First for BatDad BaneDad, played by New...

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You know when the CEO wants people to just calm down already about his company's soaring stock, we're in a strange new world. So it was that Netflix announced Q3 numbers this week that exceeded expectations, sending its ...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. In the red corner, we have quantum theory. In the blue, it's relativity. But, if new experiments are to be believed, the tw...

An organized crowd of protesters numbering more than a thousand have convened outside the U.S. Capitol in protest of mass surveillance programs by American spy apparatuses. The rally, which was organized by Stop Watching...