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Icecube sez, "Earlier this month, a flier was released by the FBI saying that TOR users might be terrorists. It seems that there is another article that was recently published that says that if you see someone paying for a cup of coffee in cash, they too could be a terrorist. I wonder how much [ ...

Speaking of animals doing people things, here's a fox queuing for an ATM. You may cry shoop! When I lived in South London, however, foxes were quite approachable and friendly. They did not, however, get short on cash. [Ash Warner via Teresa Nielsen-Hayden]

Jo Walton, author of the incomparably wonderful novel Among Others is on tour with the paperback, and she's stopping in Toronto at BakkaPhoenix Books on Feb 25 at 3PM.

Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My hosts on episode 38 are Dean Putney, Boing Boing’s coding and development wizard, Rob Beschizza, Bo ...

RJ Palacio's new book Wonder is a middle-grades novel about August ("Auggie"), a young boy born with severe facial abnormalities who, at the age of 10, leaves the safety of his parents' homeschooling and begins attending a New York private school. August has cleft palette, no cheekbones, asymmet ...

Energy Conversion Devices filed for bankruptcy protection with a plan to slash its debt and sell its business at a court-supervised auction.

Apple is working with component suppliers in Asia to test a new tablet computer with a smaller screen as it looks to broaden its product pipeline amid intensifying competition.

South Korea's biggest Internet-service provider agreed to resume providing access to Samsung's smart TVs, after regulators urged the companies to iron out differences.

Samsung Electronics is considering spinning off its liquid-crystal-display operations into a separate company.

For nearly a decade, hackers enjoyed widespread access to the corporate computer network of Nortel Networks, a once-giant telecommunications firm now fallen on hard times.

Previewing search results pages before clicking on them is now available through Google on Android and iOS.

Thousands of Gmail accounts wiped last week have now been fully restored.

Employees under 25 are sending company data over webmail to bypass restrictions placed on their work email.

Here's our look at the phones and tablets that have been unveiled during the first half of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Over 30 per cent of Brits fell victim to viruses at the end of 2011, despite having security software.

You know what you'll be doing in 2011? Everything that you've ever wanted, that's what, 'cause the world as we know will unquestionably end in 2012. Amazingly enough, one of those bucket list items that you'll be able to achieve is to change the channel on your tele without ever slipping a batte ...

Ready for yet another way to watch TV? Sezmi has just gone on the air in Los Angeles, offering its unique blend of premium OTA and internet delivered video to a few limited trial users. $5 a month brings whatever local networks you can pull in, basic IPTV (YouTube, OnNetworks, podcasts) and inte ...

Good news for folks who against all odds don't have a home theater Netflix streaming option yet, and yet inexplicably own an internet-connected Sony BRAVIA TV: Netflix just went live. It just takes applying the latest software update and you're in business. BRAVIA owners were promised the update ...

Sony and Panasonic are both hellbent on convincing us their forthcoming super-duper 3D television sets are the future, but before we all start selling off the children and re-mortgaging our homes, how about a little taster of what it might be like? Channel 4, the British answer to a question nob ...

Yamaha seems to be pushing its newly unveiled yAired technology pretty hard, with the second system to sport it unveiled just weeks after the first. The $399.95 MCR-140 is far from being the most stylish mini stereo we've seen -- in fact, it's probably one of the ugliest -- but it is available i ...

AP - Zynga will show whether it was able to further boost its rapidly growing number of followers, as well as its profit and revenue as a publicly traded company, when the online game maker reports fourth-quarter results Tuesday.

Reuters - Between 2011 and 2016 the amount of mobile data traffic will grow at a compound annual rate of 78 percent as the number of mobile devices connected to the Internet exceeds the number of people on Earth in four years' time, according to a study by Cisco Systems Inc.

Appolicious - Hot on the heels of a rumor that Apple was planning to announce the latest iPhone in the early part of next month come a few more possible tidbits of information, including something new about potential versions of Apple’s popular tablet.

Appolicious - Love is in the air and on your Android device this Valentine’s Day. Boldly declare your intentions with Powow: Text Messaging, feed the flames of your desire with Fireballs HD, and cross your fingers that you don’t get played in Hearts Free.

Appolicious - It’s Valentine’s Day, and if you’re looking for a little support for your planned festivities with your significant other, give Valentine’s Day Special and its love poems and romantic ideas a shot. It leads today’s Fresh iPhone Apps selections, followe ...

Cupid’s big day is upon us again, and Google is celebrating the Feb. 14 holiday with an animated Doodle that demonstrates the limitations of th…

The popular multi-platform game Angry Birds is now available on Facebook, hours ahead of the official launch in Jakarta at 12 a.m. EST. The Face…

Love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is upon us once again. And one thing we definitely adore about the holiday is Google‘s love-themed Doo…

In honor of Community Manager Appreciation Day on Jan. 23, we asked several leaders in community management about the apps and tools they swear…

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world…

Amazon is opening a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Middletown, Delaware, which is the e-commerce giant's second facility in the state. Amazon says that the new center will create 850 full-time jobs, and will cost $90 million. Amazon’s fulfillment centers enables the company and t ...

There are few aspects of growing a business that are easy. But when you think about the big picture, one of the most significant challenges -- besides hiring attractive, productive interns -- is customer acquisition. Not every business scales like Facebook; many have to fight tooth-and-nail for ...

No, silly, this isn't about murder - it's a program to remove people from a photo! Scalado has created a photo-taking system that allows you to selectively remove people in a photo. How does it work? It basically interpolates the "clean" version of the scene by watching the moving, live objects. ...

The Linux Foundation today posted their first ever Linux Jobs Report, created in conjunction with tech job site Dice.com. The report examines the current demand for Linux talent, and identifies a few interesting trends. Of the 2,300 survey respondents, eight in ten said that hiring Linux tale ...

Digital audience measurement company comScore this morning reported its earnings for Q4 and full year 2011. Last quarter, comScore says it achieved record revenue of $62.6 million, a 22 percent increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2010. However, comScore posted a net loss of $3.3 millio ...

Regis Philbin might no longer be a staple on morning television, but he'll soon appear in primetime on "Hot in Cleveland."

Meryl Streep says she's always enjoyed playing difficult women — something that's underlined by her latest film.

A protest outside the Westminster dog show aimed at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has drawn about a dozen demonstrators and a few pooches.

Scavenging scrap metal to sell enables 28-year-old Milissa Scarberry and family of seven to get by. She advertises on Craigslist offering free pickup, knocks on doors when she sees piles of metal outside, or helps herself to junked metal left on the curb for trash removal.

An Iranian opposition website says security forces in Tehran staged a major clampdown following calls for protests to mark the anniversary of pro-reform leaders being placed under apparent house arrest.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: New Service Will Stream Local TV Stations in New York  —  A online television company has come up with a way to stream local television stations to paying subscribers on the Internet, potentially forming a new cord-cutting threat for cable and sate ...

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: Exclusive: Yahoo Asia Deal Talks Off for Now  —  According to sources close to the situation, the discussions between Yahoo and its Asian partners have hit a potentially deal-breaking impasse over the efficacy of the centerpiece of the complex negotiat ...

Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat: Did Google Just Disable Privacy-Friendly Scroogle?  —  Not long ago, Google changed its privacy policy to give itself more liberties with user data.  Every time a major Internet company gets media attention for privacy issues, search volume goe ...

Jeremy K. Chen / The Official Google Blog: Google Public DNS: 70 billion requests a day and counting  —  We launched Google Public DNS in December 2009 to help make the web faster for everyone.  Today, we're no longer an experimental service.  We're the largest public ...

Liana B. Baker / Reuters: Proxy adviser ISS slams Facebook share structure  —  (Reuters) - Facebook diminishes shareholder rights with its dual-class share structure and limits the accountability of its board of directors to investors, proxy advisory group Institutional Sharehol ...

An anonymous reader sends this quote from CBC News: "Hackers based in China enjoyed widespread access to Nortel's computer network for nearly a decade, according to ... Brian Shields, a former Nortel employee who launched an internal investigation of the attacks, the Wall Street Journal repor ...

FleaPlus writes "NASA and the White House have officially released their FY2013 budget proposal, the first step of the Congressional budget process. As mentioned previously on Slashdot, the proposal decreases Mars science funding (including robotic Mars missions) down to $361M, arguably due in ...

AZA43 writes "Amazon.com has blocked its Instant Video streaming service on BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, in an apparent effort to make its Kindle Fire device more attractive to tablet buyers. And it says Apple is the reason why it blocked the service. But the company hasn't blocked comparable ...

An anonymous reader writes "Following up on yesterday's story about the Canadian government's internet surveillance legislation, one of the bill's proponents is now accusing those who oppose it of standing with child pornographers. Those against the legislation include: Law professor Michael G ...

An anonymous reader writes "Back in early 95 I registered a domain name and built a website for a hobby of mine. Over time the website (and domain) name have built a small but steady stream of traffic but my interest in the hobby is essentially gone and I've not been a visitor to my own site i ...