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The battle between Uber and its taxi booking app equivalents is a more regional and global concern. What happened in Vietnam and how does that pertains to Uber's success around the world?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has laid out her vision for the future of the internet, and net neutrality proponents won't be pleased. In comments on Thursday in Berlin, Merkel argued for a two-lane internet. One lane f...

The Sony A7 Mk II doesn't seem to have any big differences that would make us sell our A7 yet. But there are notable improvements.

Uber just launched in Portland, Oregon on Friday, and it's already raising the ire of local officials. Ars Technica reports that the City of Portland plans to levy hefty fines against Uber drivers operating within the ci...

On Aug. 15, 2012, a group calling itself the "Cutting Sword of Justice" hacked into the network of Saudi oil giant Aramco, and destroyed all data on 30,000 of its computers. Less than a year later, another mysterious gro...

Nicki Minaj as Queen Bey is here to help you celebrate the holidays On Saturday Night Live, musical guest Minaj starred as Beyoncé in a mock MTV special called "Jingle Ballerz: Hip Hop Nativity." In SNL's retelling of t...

 Citations of Moore’s Law are growing exponentially. In fact the number of articles with some mention of the law, which has come to mean computing capacity doubles every 10 months, are accelerating. TechCrunch alone r...

In the country dubbed the "Hermit Kingdom," just how do the cyberelite operate?

@AstroTerry - Terry W. Virts This storm looks amazingly dangerous - praying for the people of the Phillipines...

[From In-Car Tech] Testing the 2015 Toyota Yaris back-to-back with one of its prime competitors, the sales-leading Nissan Versa Note, has been an interesting experience.

dkatana points out an article arguing that the governments should stop further auctions of 4G spectrum because it reduces infrastructure investment from carriers and makes net neutrality more difficult to regulate. Quoti...

While the supply for some configurations of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus has opened up, other models remain scarce. Here's the latest availability roundup for the major carriers and retailers.

The iBill is a compact plastic device that has a slot where a corner of a bill can be inserted. Once the user presses one of the buttons located at the top and bottom of the device, a blip sounds and a voice announces th...

If Patrick and Lee from Fstoppers and landscape/travel photographer Elia Locardi‘s goal was to get our hearts racing, they’ve succeeded in spades with the drone footage they just released from their time in Iceland. ...

With these five apps, you're not cheap, you're thrifty.

China Sunday put into orbit a satellite jointly developed with Brazil after the 200th launch of its Long March rocket family, state media reported.

The No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA developed by Google is better at preventing robots and scripts from accessing websites, while at the same time making it easier for humans.

(University of New South Wales) UNSW Australia's solar researchers have converted over 40 percent of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported.

When Tim Cook published an open letter in September to address iCloud privacy and security concerns, he said free online services treat you, the consumers, as product. Even newcomer Ello, which is dubbed the anti-Faceboo...

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After nearly nine years in space, New Horizons finally gets a wake-up call.

For the first time, an international team of astronomers, led by Dr. James Geach from the University of Hertfordshire, has revealed the dramatic 'blow out' phase of galactic evolution....