Quirky Cameras, Quick Charges and Racing Robots

HTC is stepping so far out of the box with the RE Camera, it's almost as if there was never a box to begin with. Instead of making us ...

The E-Label Act Will Remove Those Silly FCC Symbols From The Back Of Future Gadgets

You know all that crap that’s listed on the back of your smartphone and tablet? It looks something like this: A jumble of letters and words,...

The One Really Important Apple Watch Thing

While the cellphone nearly killed the wristwatch, the Apple Watch gizmo actually will revive it. In fact, I think the attention that the A...

WWI's March on Technologies

When the "Guns of August" began firing 100 years ago, few expected it to be a long war, and fewer still expected it to be a ...

This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: BlackFriday!

We’re bringing this podcast to you a little early so you can arm yourself before going into Black Friday! Join Greg Kumparak, Matt Burns, an...

'Elegant' Regin Malware Linked to Brits, NSA

A sophisticated malware program called "Regin" has been used in systematic spying campaigns against a range of international tar...

Wristband Heads Off Password Headaches

Has software glut got you down? Do you reuse passwords because creating unique ones for all your online accounts would cause a memory over...

Black Friday May Be Losing Its Mojo

Some $13.1 billion in sales are anticipated this Thanksgiving weekend across all manner of channels, from mammoth shopping centers to onli...

The One Really Important Apple Watch Thing

While the cellphone nearly killed the wristwatch, the Apple Watch gizmo actually will revive it. In fact, I think the attention that the A...

Pop-Up Shops Startup Appear Here Raises $7.5M, Led By Balderton Capital

Appear Here, a marketplace for retail space aiding and abetting the fashionable craze of ‘pop-up’ shops, has raised a significant $7.5 milli...

'The Practice of Cloud System Administration' Brings Network Management Down to Earth

The Practice of Cloud System Administration, Volume 2 is a look into IT gone bad in some companies, and how doing it right can salvage en...

Lollipop's Encryption Takes a Hefty Toll

The new full-disk encryption feature that's enabled by default in Android 5.0 Lollipop comes at a hefty price in terms of performance,...

'Elegant' Regin Malware Linked to Brits, NSA

A sophisticated malware program called "Regin" has been used in systematic spying campaigns against a range of international tar...

Wristband Heads Off Password Headaches

Has software glut got you down? Do you reuse passwords because creating unique ones for all your online accounts would cause a memory over...

Thoughts of Thanksgiving for All That Is FOSS

Well Thanksgiving week is upon us here in the land of stars and stripes, and in anticipation of all the social events soon to besiege us, ...

Lollipop's Encryption Takes a Hefty Toll

The new full-disk encryption feature that's enabled by default in Android 5.0 Lollipop comes at a hefty price in terms of performance,...

EFF Spearheads Safer Web Initiative

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced a nonprofit organization that will aim to secure the entire Web. Let's Encrypt, start...

Gadget Ogling: Dueling Tablets, a Smart Scale, and Slooow Games

Welcome, dear readers, to our weekly look at the latest, greatest, and poorest gadgets to be revealed to the world. Hark as yours truly ex...

A View of the Future: Demo 2014

I attended Demo in Silicon Valley last week and, as always, it showcased things likely to mature in the market 12 to 14 months into the fu...

Another Bleak Black Friday for Apple Fans

Apple is a company that bucks trends, that does things its own way, that manages its business through highly tuned cycles. One thing Apple...

Marketplaces Are Eating Firms

If software is eating the world, then marketplaces are one of the agents of destruction. Marketplaces are eating every type of firm on the p...

Gadget Ogling: Dueling Tablets, a Smart Scale, and Slooow Games

Welcome, dear readers, to our weekly look at the latest, greatest, and poorest gadgets to be revealed to the world. Hark as yours truly ex...

NotCompatible Mobile Malware Gets Badder

A new version of the NotCompatible malware, which first appeared in 2012, is bigger, badder and pretty much indestructible, Lookout Securi...

Another Bleak Black Friday for Apple Fans

Apple is a company that bucks trends, that does things its own way, that manages its business through highly tuned cycles. One thing Apple...

IncuBus — The Tech Startup Incubator Based On A Double-Decker London Bus

IncuBusLDN is literally an incubator and co-working space on wheels, based on a renovated, red ‘double decker’ London bus, parked close to t...

Citadel Trojan Adds Keylogging to Arsenal

Cybercriminals are using a new version of the dangerous Citadel Trojan, which has been employed to attack the financial and petrochemical ...

Cinnamon Desktop Spices Up Makulu Linux

The Makulu Cinnamon Debian Edition 1.1 marks a new path for Makulu. This latest release has numerous new features that could make it a top...

Russian Site Exposes Thousands of Private Videocam Streams

A Russian website has been posting live video streams from unprotected webcams in homes and businesses around the globe, Britain's Inf...

Twitter Opens Entire Multibillion-Tweet Gold Mine to Searchers

Twitter this week began indexing every public tweet posted since it began operating in 2006. "Our long-standing goal has been to let ...

Will Apple's Next iPhone Capture DSLR Quality With 2 Lenses?

The Apple rumor mill never stops spinning, and even though the iPhone 6 is barely here and the next version ages away, the most interestin...

Tyba Pulls In Another $3.1M To Scale Up Its Graduate Recruitment Platform

Tyba – a “junior recruitment market” aimed at allowing companies like tech startups to more efficiently hire university and college graduate...

Jolla's Open Source Tablet Gets Crazy Crowd Love

Jolla, the company set up by former Nokia executives to keep the Meego operating system alive, raised more than $841,000 on Wednesday, the...

WhatsApp Battens Down the Hatches

WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption and enabled it by default in the latest version of its Android messaging application, partner Ope...

GOP Caught With Fingers in the Twitter Jar

The Republican Party and at least two outside political-spending groups reportedly used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polli...

Google Glass May Be Saved by Obscurity

Whatever happened to Google Glass? In the early days -- was it just a year ago? -- people got punched in bars, bounced from movie theaters...

China Suspected in Attacks on USPS, NOAA

The U.S. Postal Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week confirmed that their computer systems were targeted ...

Toyota's Mirai Aims to Kick Fuel-Cell Tech Into High Gear

Toyota on Monday officially unveiled its fuel cell sedan in an Internet video featuring Toyota Motor Corporation's president and CEO A...

US Marshals Have Their Own Cellphone Data Slurpfest

The United States Marshals Service reportedly is grabbing data from thousands, if not millions, of Americans' cellphones using high-te...

Prezi Secures $57M Growth Round From Spectrum And Accel, Passes 50M Users

Prezi, the cloud presentation platform that has been gradually eating away at Microsoft’s Powerpoint market share for the last few years, is...

GOP Caught With Fingers in the Twitter Jar

The Republican Party and at least two outside political-spending groups reportedly used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polli...

When Microsoft Went A-Courting

FOSS fans perhaps may be excused if they've felt a bit confused over the past few days. Dizziness, headaches and vertigo also have bee...

Toyota's Mirai Aims to Kick Fuel-Cell Tech Into High Gear

Toyota on Monday officially unveiled its fuel cell sedan in an Internet video featuring Toyota Motor Corporation's president and CEO A...

US Marshals Have Their Own Cellphone Data Slurpfest

The United States Marshals Service reportedly is grabbing data from thousands, if not millions, of Americans' cellphones using high-te...

Finexkap, Offering Working Capital to SMBs In France, Raises $22.5M

Finexkap, a web platform offering working capital to small businesses in France, has now raised $22.5 million, comprising of a $7.5m Series ...

WeMail Raises $1M From Twitch, Reddit Founders For Intelligently Designed Mobile E-mail

Sure, there have been plenty of attempts at re-thinking e-mail on mobile devices. But that’s no reason not to try, try again. A pretty exper...

Video: Nokia’s New Small Tablet, The N1, Is A Showcase For Its Z Launcher

Nokia unveiled a new tablet at Slush today in Helsinki. The part of Nokia that did not get sold off to Microsoft launched the N1, a iPad-Min...

Nvidia Launches a New Mobile Device Age

There was an announcement last week that I think is far bigger than folks realize: Nvidia's free Netflix-like streaming gaming service...

When Microsoft Went A-Courting

FOSS fans perhaps may be excused if they've felt a bit confused over the past few days. Dizziness, headaches and vertigo also have bee...

Intel’s MICA Smart Bracelet Will Be In Stores Before Christmas For $495

Intel today debuted the Intel MICA bracelet (short for “My Intelligent Communications Accessory), which was developed in collaboration with ...

Toyota's Mirai Aims to Kick Fuel-Cell Tech Into High Gear

Toyota on Monday officially unveiled its fuel cell sedan in an Internet video featuring Toyota Motor Corporation's president and CEO A...

Gadget Ogling: A Creepy Echo, Clever Home Connections, Bizarre Smartphones and Flexible 3D Printing

Echo, Amazon's newest attempt at a smart personal assistant, is set to take pride of place in your home. The black tower is voice-acti...

Microsoft Widens Skype World

Skype on Friday announced Skype for Web, a new version of its VoIP service that can be used in a browser rather than through the dedicated...

Nvidia Launches a New Mobile Device Age

There was an announcement last week that I think is far bigger than folks realize: Nvidia's free Netflix-like streaming gaming service...

Obillex Secures £3M, Led by Dawn Capital, To Disrupt Small Biz Financing

There are two big problems waiting to be solved in small business finance. Small businesses find it hard to access working capital at good r...

Gadget Ogling: A Creepy Echo, Clever Home Connections, Bizarre Smartphones and Flexible 3D Printing

Echo, Amazon's newest attempt at a smart personal assistant, is set to take pride of place in your home. The black tower is voice-acti...

CAINE Provides Sturdy Support for Forensic Specialists

CAINE is a professional-grade digital forensic Linux distro. It uses an old-school desktop environment hardened with top-notch specialty t...

Microsoft Widens Skype World

Skype on Friday announced Skype for Web, a new version of its VoIP service that can be used in a browser rather than through the dedicated...

Nexus 6, the Star Destroyer of Phablets, Goes on Sale

Google's Nexus 6 phablet on Friday became available for sale at Sprint stores, as well as on its website and through other Sprint sale...

Who Knew Tim Cook Would Fight for the American Way?

Ninety-one percent of Americans believe they have lost control of their personal information -- and many also don't trust companies th...

Nvidia Flips Grid's Game-Streaming Switch

After close to a year of beta testing, Nvidia on Thursday officially launched its Grid on-demand game-streaming service. Due to become ava...

Ex-Reddit CEO Wanted To Move The Company To Daly City Instead Of SF

As we detailed this morning, Reddit CEO Yishan Wong has resigned from the company after what Y Combinator President Sam Altman called a “dis...

Rosetta Plants 1st Human Kiss on a Comet

The European Space Agency's 1.4 billion-euros Rosetta mission on Wednesday achieved a first for humankind by successfully landing its ...

Americans Flip-Flop on Personal Data Privacy

Despite the publicity about Edward Snowden's controversial leaks, only 43 percent of 607 English-speaking adults surveyed in January h...