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The Skylanders aren't just evolving into combinable characters in their next entry, they're also heading to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Skylanders Swap Force was given an October 13th release date today, alongside news o...

After details of a government program called PRISM with alleged hooks into the servers of major internet companies became public this week, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper decided it was necessary to reve...

I have been told that I am the analyst with the longest history of professionally covering Apple. I think this is a polite way of saying that I am old. I started covering Apple in 1979 and began covering ...

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Before the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 barred all aboveground, subsea, and orbital nuclear weapons testing, the world's nations were popping off nukes like champagne bottles on New Years. Surprisingly, that sprinklin...

You know how it goes, you buy a phone on eBay, and it comes with a developer / pre-release version of a major mobile OS. Well, if these images are to be believed, that's at least what happened to one bargain-hunting Wind...

The personal computer as we know it has changed drastically. For decades the industry was defined as a computer with a large screen, a keyboard, and a mouse. That era is over and a tablet shaped future is upon us. To ...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. Printing can take many forms these days, it seems. It's a term we see pulled in another direction this week, but one we thi...

Your Nexus 7 is Wi-Fi-only, but if Verizon thinks that you're ponying up $10 a month just for the privilege of tethering it to your phone, they've got another thing coming. Fact is, wireless Internet access is increasing...

It's been a long and tumultuous week. The revelation that the NSA is and has been spying on everyone and anyone through one of the must insane, high-tech espionage systems of all time has been one hell a ride, but we've ...

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper has put out a press release about all this PRISM stuff. In short: 'a lot of this stuff isn't accurate but I can't correct you because it's classified.'

Listen, you probably shouldn't be here. The iPad is a pure and carefully honed machine. If its designers wanted you to use some kind of ludicrous hybrid contraption that fused a tablet with a physical keyboard and double...

Does the NSA have any secrets left? First there was PRISM --the network that's collecting real-time data on American's everywhere--and now The Guardian has turned up "Boundless Informant" which is indexing surveillance a...

One of the things I am excited to do with our Tech.pinions Insider content, is dive into subjects that may be more controversial than things we want floating around in the public sphere. So that is what I hope ...

"We're not scanning every object in the collection," Adam Metallo tells me, offering up the information almost as soon as we set foot in the Smithsonian's Digitization office. It's an important piece of information he wa...

There's been a lot of speculation that maybe PRISM doesn't take data directly from private company's servers, and that all the denials you've heard are carefully worded to deny only direct access. According to this new P...

The Financial Times recently released a special report titled "Digital and Social Media Marketing." The folks at Social Commerce summarized the lengthy release and drew out several bullet points I find especially interes...

In 2001, the Segway hit the market. VCs like Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr fawned all over it pre- launch. Even Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos were enthralled when they saw it. To its inventor, Dean Kamen, it represented the ne...

If you want to make music, you've got a plenty of different instruments to choose from. But if you want to make really unique (or weird) music, you've got to find something off the beaten path. That's why Joseph Bertoloz...

We're starting to get a pretty clear picture of the smartphones that Sprint has in its pipeline, which include an LG Optimus F3, a new Windows Phone from HTC, the Moto X, the Kyocera Hydro Edge and the Sprint-branded Vit...

Softbank and Sprint have been on pins and needles ever since January, when the US Department of Justice asked the FCC to delay the carriers' merger as it scrutinized the deal over national security concerns. The two netw...

Intel confirmed its all-in for this whole streaming TV thing early this year, and since then we've heard that plenty of the big content providers are slowly but surely getting on board . And how did that happen? Accordin...