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On my way to Dallas-Fort Worth airport today, I snapped this picture of the sticker on the inside of the back-seat passenger-side window of my taxi. It warns "The method used to authenticate credit card transactions for approval is not secure and personal information is subject to being intercep ...

Wired Science's Dave Mosher investigates elastomeric soft robots -- air-powered origami creepers that can go places that challenge their rigid metallic kin. Getting the soft robots to perform a particular action is a feat of origami: Folded in just the right way and glued in the right spots, for ...

Absolut has commissioned Jamie Hewlitt (co-creator of Tank Girl and Gorillaz) to do a limited edition vodka bottle celebrating London's public drunkenness. It's a rather nice piece of work, too -- suitably grotesque. All it's missing is the grimy, mutilated pigeons squabbling over puddles of las ...

Kader Arif is the former EU official who served as rapporteur on ACTA (the secretive copyright treaty pushed by the US Trade Rep) on Europe's behalf. He made headlines when he handed in his report on ACTA and his resignation, which damned ACTA as an undemocratic, overly broad and ill-conceived t ...

Here's Part 2. And here's Part 3. Juliette says: Following The New York Times Sunday profile on VICE's in house drug aficionado/chemist, Hamilton Morris and his original web series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, VICE today premieres the latest episode where Hamilton travels to Amsterdam to discover th ...

Regulators said they plan to pull the plug on LightSquared's proposal to build a new national wireless network, a blow to the firm and its chief backer, Philip Falcone.

Apple's gargantuan size is prompting some equity analysts to cut Apple out of the big-picture view of corporate earnings and find a dimmer outlook for the broader market.

Zynga swung to a fourth-quarter loss as stock-based compensation costs masked a stronger-than-expected profit on strong bookings growth.

Yahoo's attempt to sell a portion of its stakes in Asian Internet companies has stalled, and hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb said he would launch a proxy fight.

The toy industry is tapping into children's fascination with tablets and smartphones by rolling out new playthings that connect with touch-screen devices.

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 - Online game maker Zynga Inc. reported a net loss for the last three months of 2011, weighed down by hefty stock-compensation expenses and other costs in its first quarter as a public company.

Reuters - Zynga Inc failed to boost the ranks of its online gamers in its first quarter as a public company, fanning worries that it will have to rely on new games and other ways to squeeze more revenue out of existing users.

Reuters - Websites of exchange operators Nasdaq and BATS have been attacked by hackers over the last 24 hours, causing ongoing disruptions for those trying to use the sites, spokespersons for the companies said on Tuesday.

Yahoo! News - A full year of classes at famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology costs a whopping $40,460. But just for being a faithful Tecca reader, we'll let you take a class at MIT in the comfort of your own home for the low, …

Yahoo! News - Harder, better, faster, stronger? The new iPad 3 devices on their way to store shelves could be all of those, with emphasis on faster. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new iPad 3 will come ready to run on fourth-generation LTE networks. …

Talk with any digital textbook publisher and they’ll tell you why their competitor Inkling won’t cut it: The startup’s interac…

Perhaps they should call it Words With Friends With Benefits. On the face of it, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot that’s romant…

Looking for love on Twitter? Your special someone is no further than a click away thanks to Twit Amore, an app that’s launched just in tim…

HTC smartphones might be one of the first to get PlayStation certification, Pocket-lint reports, citing unnamed sources. The official announcem…

It doesn’t matter whether you’re taking photos at a cheesy tourist trap or at the Golden Globes — there’s always a risk tha…

When Siri was announced strictly for the iPhone 4S, the mod community likely took that as a challenge. Before long, the service had been hacked and shortly thereafter ported to a number of potentially compatible devices. The problem, of course, is that Apple gets to decide what devices are co ...

Most of us know the guitarist and singer-songwriter Bob Weir as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. But Weir is also the founder of Tamalpais Research Institute (TRI), a state-of-the-art performance studio which offers musicians the opportunity to distribute their work in high-end digital form.

But, more importantly, it's Valentine's Day, and in the spirit of love, affection, and all things heart-shaped, Desmos (at abettercalculator.com) is offering a special V Day gift for all those geeky lovers out there. Today, Desmos users can choose a romantically-themed graph, add their own capti ...

Earlier today, Barry Diller introduced Aereo, a company backed by IAC, at a press conference in New York City. Aereo streams broadcast TV to your browser and provides a DVR in the cloud by miniaturizing TV antennas and packing them in equipment that sits on the network. In the video above, which ...

As we mentioned in our coverage of Zynga's fourth quarter earnings, mobile has been one of the fast-growing parts of Zynga's business. On the company's earnings call, CEO and founder Marc Pincus revealed that mobile users have grown five-fold to 15 million daily active users in 2011. That's up f ...

Trail Blazers All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge sprained his left ankle early in Portland's game against the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night.

No. 11 UNLV let up again, and it cost the Runnin' Rebels big time.

Arron Afflalo scored 20 points, Ty Lawson had 17 and the Denver Nuggets broke open a close game in the third quarter to beat the short-handed Phoenix Suns 109-92 on Tuesday night.

A New Zealand court Wednesday halted the first ever sale of dairy farms to Chinese investors, the latest twist in a saga that's dividing a country reliant on agriculture for much of its export earnings.

William Buford scored 24 points to spark No. 6 Ohio State, and Jared Sullinger backed him up inside with 23 points and eight rebounds to guide the Buckeyes to a 78-68 victory Tuesday over Minnesota that moved them a half-game ahead of Michigan State in the Big Ten standings.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Clear: Why This Simple To Do List App Has Everyone Talking  —  Clear, the heavily-anticipated touch-based to-do list app, is launching in the iTunes App Store tonight.  And by heavily anticipated, I mean this app was getting tech blog coverage base ...

Horace Dediu / asymco: Tim Cook on the “Law of Large Numbers”  —  Q: 37 million units of iPhones shipped.  When do we run into the Law of Large Numbers?  What are the growth opportunities coming up?  —  A: 37 million is a big number.  I ...

Om Malik / GigaOM: Exclusive: HTC rumored to be working on a streaming music service  —  HTC Corp., one of the earliest champions of Android-based smartphones seems to have fallen on hard times, thanks to growing power of Samsung and Apple.  But the Taiwanese phone maker is ...

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: Siri leaks her own upcoming ability to speak Japanese  —  Siri is many things, but it seems she is not a good secret keeper.  A few tipsters reached out and told us that Siri now speaks Japanese.  Rumors earlier this month said Apple's AI spee ...

Mat Honan / Gizmodo: Happy Valentine's Day, Tech Bloggers  —  There's been so much hate and self-righteous indignation in tech blog circles lately.  Name calling.  Ugly accusations.  Petty bickering.  It's even divided good friends, brother against brother.&n ...

Sparrowvsrevolution writes "In the wake of news that the iPhone app Path uploads users' entire contact lists without permission, Forbes dug up a study from a group of researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the International Security Systems Lab that aimed to analyze h ...

An anonymous reader writes "In what can only be described as a case of the pot calling the kettle black, Zynga has launched and settled a lawsuit against Brazilian game developer Vostu after accusing Vostu of copying their games. The settlement resulted in the loss of jobs for many Vostu emplo ...

ananyo writes "Two years ago, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that it would release details of about 13,500 molecules that had already been shown to inhibit the malaria-causing Plasmodium falciparum parasite to some degree. The molecular structures were published in May 2010, along with simila ...

xwwt writes "In response to a paper by Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics, PEGA Design & Engineering has developed a new product that is intended to replace plastic shell material in computer equipment and electronics. The product contains a combination of paper and polypropylene (P ...

An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers led by McGill neuroscientist Terence Coderre, who is also affiliated with the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, has found the key to understanding how memories of pain are stored in the brain. More importantly, the rese ...