Kingdoms of Amalur developer lays off entire staff
Fri, 25 May 2012 19:10:46 +0000

Rhode Island officials step down amid funding calamity.

Activists in UK plan to trash crop experiment
Fri, 25 May 2012 18:50:39 +0000

They claim the test of genetically modified wheat must be stopped.

Kim Dotcom lawyer blasts US government's "pattern of delay"
Fri, 25 May 2012 17:32:07 +0000

And wants NZ courts to punish unauthorized transfer of Dotcom hard drives to US.

Celebrating author Douglas Adams: it's Towel Day!
Fri, 25 May 2012 17:10:07 +0000

Avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal!

Realizing people don't want "business tablets," Cisco kills the Cius
Fri, 25 May 2012 16:51:12 +0000

Businesses don't buy tablets, people buy tablets.

SpaceX Dragon berths with International Space Station
Fri, 25 May 2012 16:30:28 +0000

World's first commercial spacecraft passes her tests and links to the ISS.

Hands-on: app lets you "Bump" smartphone pics to your computer
Fri, 25 May 2012 16:10:26 +0000

The latest update to the proximity sharing app also sends pics to the cloud.

Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome
Fri, 25 May 2012 16:00:31 +0000

Dunning-Kruger study today: The uninformed aren't as doomed as the Web suggests.

Blizzard delays Diablo III real-money auctions indefinitely
Fri, 25 May 2012 15:46:44 +0000

The company also responds to concerns over account hacking.

App Store's new sections still don't solve discovery problems
Fri, 25 May 2012 15:13:40 +0000

Apple has added Editors' Choice and Free App of the Week to its App Store.

Developers behind webOS Enyo framework reportedly leaving HP to join Google
Fri, 25 May 2012 05:28:54 +0000

It's not yet clear whether Google will continue Enyo development.

Film company Gaumont says Hadopi eradicated illegal downloads of French films
Fri, 25 May 2012 01:20:06 +0000

Apparently, in the last half of 2011, no French film was illegally downloaded.

Fox, NBCUniversal sue Dish over ad-skipping DVR service
Thu, 24 May 2012 23:32:32 +0000

Fox lambasts AutoHop, saying it will destroy the "broadcast TV ecosystem."

Tape lives! Supercomputer to be built with 380PB of tape storage
Thu, 24 May 2012 22:45:14 +0000

My, what a big tape library you have.

RealNetworks creates settlement fund for allegedly unwilling subscribers
Thu, 24 May 2012 21:40:41 +0000

The company allegedly charged customers for services they weren't subscribed to.

Accusations that climate science is money-driven reveal ignorance of how science is done
Thu, 24 May 2012 20:58:49 +0000

Some bogus arguments take on a life of their own.

The politics of Black Ops 2's rogue drones
Thu, 24 May 2012 19:56:33 +0000

Studio head says game examines "consequences" of rapid tech change.

No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8
Thu, 24 May 2012 19:46:11 +0000

You won't be able to use the free Visual Studio Express to develop desktop apps.

Google names names on copyright takedowns; Microsoft is #1
Thu, 24 May 2012 19:39:18 +0000

Google reveals the 250,000 takedown requests it gets each week.

Africa developing its first supercomputer outside South Africa
Thu, 24 May 2012 18:42:00 +0000

The first 24-node HPC cluster should launch at iHub in Nairobi this summer.

New Jersey mayor, son, arrested on charges they nuked recall website
Thu, 24 May 2012 18:25:04 +0000

The father and son used a low tech hack—password recovery—to take down the site.

Carbon in rocks from Mars comes from volcanoes, not life
Thu, 24 May 2012 18:00:18 +0000

Nearby minerals confirm a high-temperature origin deep within the planet.

Report details Tim Cook's changes at Apple, for better or worse
Thu, 24 May 2012 16:55:11 +0000

Apple is still Apple, but apparently more open, and more corporate.

Scammers fined for fake Angry Birds Space apps
Thu, 24 May 2012 15:57:25 +0000

Malware disguised as popular titles charged users through SMS.

First look: ÜberConference lets you manage conference calls visually
Thu, 24 May 2012 15:51:36 +0000

Can a project from former Google Voice devs ease the pain of conference calls?