Google Launches Maps Gallery To Make Public Data Maps More Discoverable

Google today launched the Google Maps Gallery, an extension of the Google Maps Public Data Program it announced last October. The new galler...

Senator Warns Unregulated Bitcoin Leaves Americans Holding A “Valueless Currency”

Senator Joe Manchin is calling for either strict regulation or an outright ban on the controversial digital currency Bitcoin. He argues in a...

Amid Carl Icahn’s Attacks, eBay Chairman Pierre Omidyar Defends Board Members Cook And Andreessen

Activist investor Carl Icahn has been getting more aggressive with his proposal that eBay spin off PayPal as its own company, issuing open l...

UK Spy Agency Collected Webcam Images From Yahoo Users With The Help Of NSA, Report Says

In yet another stunning revelation about digital espionage (though how stunned can we continue to be at this point), The Guardian reports th...

Best Buy To Layoff About 2,000 Managers Amid Poor Holiday Sales

Uh-oh. Even though Big Blue squeaked out a profit last quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations, the retailer is planning its biggest lay...

Dash Restaurant Payments App Nabs $1.2 Million In Funding, Launches iOS 7 Update

Dash, the mobile payments service for bars and restaurants, has today secured a $1.2 million seed-2 round from Mike Germano, CEO of Carrot C...

How Not To Be A Glasshole, Part 2

Remember when Google released a handful of guidelines explaining how to properly behave while wearing its new “face computer,” Google Glass?...