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The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems are just PCs, and now hardware hackers have started doing some very cool things with at least one of these systems. Console-hacking group Fail0verflow has cracked the PlayStation 4 and loaded it up with a version of Linux. This is a big step in the process to get […]... →

Disney Research and the research group at ETH Zurich have created a car that can drive, fly, jump, and ride up walls. By using propellers and wheels, the robot can fly over obstacles and then smack against walls for a little vertical action. Called the VertiGo, the robot’s wheels are actually unpowered. All of the motion comes from the propellers which send it rolling across the ground… Read More... →

Microsoft experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing the hackers to continue their campaign, according to former employees of the company.... →

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The Star Destroyer, one of the largest ships in the Star Wars universe, has been recreated in excruciating detail in the form of a two-foot long 3D-printed ship consisting of thousands of small parts. It was, as the creator suggested, a big job. You can check out a set of images here but, sadly, there aren’t plans just yet. Using a PowerSpec 3D Pro printer and three rolls of filament… Read More... →

Microsoft has released a new photo app designed to feel better about your selfies. It’s a simple service, really: you snap or choose a photo from your iPhone’s camera roll and then process it right in the app. Just like the editing features in Instagram, Microsoft Selfie (that’s the name of the app) is geared […]... →

Yahoo Kids died a quiet death two years ago, but to BJ Heiney (who worked on the product from 1996 to 2000) the shutdown was a “travesty,” depriving kids and parents of a valuable place to find fun, safe content. He’s aiming to fill that hole with a new search engine called Thinga. Heiney’s been building Thinga for the past year under the umbrella of The Bear James… Read More... →

Ian Murdock – the ‘ian’ in Debian – was found dead at his home in San Francisco on Monday. The cause is yet unknown. Murdock was an integral figure in the open source movement. His Debian Project – and his work at Docker – were groundbreaking. Announced in 1993 and released in 1996, Murdock named the distro after his then wife, Debra, and himself. Debian… Read More... →

Rapidly expanding car service startup Uber says it has driven its one billionth ride. Launched in June 2010, it took the company 5.5 years to reach this milestone. Uber trip number one billion took place in London on Christmas Eve. The company says that the lucky rider, Marvin, has been gifted free Uber for a year. To further commemorate this benchmark, driver Ara has been given an… Read More... →

NEW YORK (By Jonathan Stempel for Reuters) — A federal judge has certified two shareholder class actions accusingFacebook Inc of hiding concerns about its growth forecasts prior to the social media company’s May 2012 initial public offering. U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan said retail and institutional investors who claimed to lose money from buying […]... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

CES is a bit like the auto shows of yesteryear, back when carmakers simply came to flex their muscles and show what they were capable of, as opposed to unveiling products that are destined for dealership parking lots. In the same spirit, Samsung has unveiled three products that will be on the showroom floor at CES 2016 next week. The first, and the strangest, is a ‘smart wearable… Read More... →

On Christmas, Steam broke and caused all kinds of strange errors. Now, Valve is coming out to explain more of what happened. The PC-gaming giant took to its blog today to help us all better understand what happened. It turns out that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack caused a caching error which in turn caused […]... →

As the latest year of the future folds into the next, the most bombastic/annoying/entertaining of CEOs sets his gaze on the technologies that will define the wireless space and the company he is at the helm of. Just as he did last year, T-Mobile CEO John Legere published his list of predictions for tech in 2016. Though most of his predictions won’t… Read More... →

When it comes to phones, the word “flagship” was tossed around a lot in 2015. We saw it get attached to devices that are priced at the midrange, as well as certain top-performing devices that were priced far lower than the usual “flagship” phones. Read More... →

Remember Carrier iQ? In the years before Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseen monitoring of everything that you do on a smartphone on behalf of carriers and phone makers — allegedly in the name of better user experience. Now the company appears to be no longer. TechCrunch has confirmed that AT&T has… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Life.SREDA инвестировал в филлиппинский финтех-стартап Ayannah. Компания привлекла $1 млн в раунде А. Также в сделке приняли участие 500 Startups, лондонская венчурная компания Blue Compass и другие инвесторов. Стартап разрабатывает 2 продукта – Sendah Direct и Sendah Remit. Первый представляет собой SaaS-платформу для ритейлеров, которым предлагает такие услуги, как внутренние переводы, онлайн-кредиты для игр и другие. Sendah Remit – это SaaS-платформа для международных и внутренних переводо... →

Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup’s technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He was 42. A cause of death was not provided in the blog post announcing the news. Docker declined to comment. Murdock’s Twitter account […]... →

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If I told you that the hottest person on social media right now is a rap producer telling fans that eating egg whites and drinking a gallon of water a day is the key to success, would you believe me? What if I told you that the same person regularly has over 2 million people view each of his snapchats, with the first 500,000 people watching it within 5 minutes of him posting? Read More... →