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The "other shoe" in the Edward Snowden NSA leaks has been the potential effect of all these disclosures on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's efforts to force the government to account for itself in court.    

"I was working in a small tavern in Moscow, Idaho, when I got the call... I took the next pickup truck to California." From Real Stuff #2 (Fantagraphics, March 1991).    

Slowing down the Seinfeld theme by 1200% turns it into a David Lynch soundtrack, full of nightmares and menace, as Gorge Catanda demonstrates with this 8 minutes youtube.    

Composed by Edward Elgar between 1898 and '99, Variations on an Original Theme for Orchestra ("Engima"), Op. 36, has long been my favorite piece of classical music.    

Molly sez, "I wrote this short essay over at iO9 on what the future of civil disobedience could look like. Though in the past civil disobedience was enacted in the streets, with people placing their bodies in harm's way for their cause, now online activists can engage in digitally-based acts of ...

Life's getting faster, and so are movie trailers. Just look at how the number of cuts has increased over time. Yeah, we actually counted. That wild outlier in 1964? Dr. Strangelove -- with an epileptic 136 cuts per minute.    

When a senior FBI official told Congress the role the NSA's secret surveillance apparatus played in a San Diego terror financing case today, nobody was more surprised to hear it than the defense attorney who fought a long and futile court battle to get exactly the same information while defendin ...

The Airbus A380 is among the biggest stars of the Paris Air Show, but no less impressive is the sleek electric aerobatic trainer that is it distant cousin.    

Google filed a legal challenge today against gag orders that come with the FISA court orders it receives from the FBI and NSA, on grounds that the silence orders impinge on the company's First Amendment rights to speak freely about the data requests it receives for user data.   &n ...

A federal hearing today on NSA surveillance programs leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden produced some interesting numbers about the scope of the data collections and other issues. We've produced a roundup below of some of the interesting stats and intelligence gleaned from the discus ...

Life's getting faster, and so are movie trailers. Just look at how the number of cuts has increased over time. Yeah, we actually counted. That wild outlier in 1964? Dr. Strangelove -- with an epileptic 136 cuts per minute.    

When a senior FBI official told Congress the role the NSA's secret surveillance apparatus played in a San Diego terror financing case today, nobody was more surprised to hear it than the defense attorney who fought a long and futile court battle to get exactly the same information while defendin ...

The Airbus A380 is among the biggest stars of the Paris Air Show, but no less impressive is the sleek electric aerobatic trainer that is it distant cousin.    

Google filed a legal challenge today against gag orders that come with the FISA court orders it receives from the FBI and NSA, on grounds that the silence orders impinge on the company's First Amendment rights to speak freely about the data requests it receives for user data.   &n ...

A federal hearing today on NSA surveillance programs leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden produced some interesting numbers about the scope of the data collections and other issues. We've produced a roundup below of some of the interesting stats and intelligence gleaned from the discus ...

Airliner cockpit panels by decade's end could resemble giant iPads, as the current dizzying array of knobs and switches gives way to touch screens, suppliers at the Paris International Air Show say.

Dish Network said it won't submit a new offer for Sprint Nextel by its Tuesday deadline, a move that appears to clear the way for the third largest U.S. wireless carrier to be bought by SoftBank of Japan.

Wal-Mart is creating a vast new logistics system that includes building warehouses for Web orders, but also uses workers in stores to pack and mail items to customers.

Two of the largest independent U.S. high-frequency-trading firms are in early merger discussions, as a downturn in trading opportunities has spurred cutbacks and tie-up talks among rivals

Two-year-old design website Fab is now worth more than $1 billion, thanks to a $150 million venture-capital round led in part by Chinese Internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings.

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.

(Reuters) - Rhode Island remains on track to make a $2.5 million interest payment next year on bonds that were used to finance the facilities of 38 Studios, a now-bankrupt videogame company founded by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. The state's House Finance Committee approved ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Acer Inc, the world's No.4 PC vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects notebook and tablet PC shipment to be flat in the second quarter from the first quarter, versus an prediction of 0-5 percent growth made in April. Acer Chairman J.T. Wang made the comment to reporters ...

Welcome to the NASA Grand Challenge, where everyone from government agencies to citizen scientists will compete to figure out the best way to detect and study earth-threatening asteroids. This is a real thing that is happening, and it's all complimentary to the agency's initiative to l ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings, whose unflinching reporting ended the career of a top American army general, died early Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles, his employer and family said.

AT&T has come up with a very clever way to keep New Yorkers’ mobile devices powered up throughout the day. The New York Times reports that AT&T is building 25 solar-powered charging stations throughout New York City that will give wireless users the ability to recharge their phones in places whe ...

Like your iPhone? What about your speed bike? With the GoRide bike mount, you can combine both -- with style. More About: Gift of the Day, Lifestyle, health and fitness, holidays 2012, iOS, iphone

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has discovered a new layer of the solar system that scientists hadn't known was there, researchers announced today. More About: NASA, space, voyager 1

The Nielsen company's latest report shows that social networking has become ubiquitous while watching TV and while using the bathroom. The report says that one-third of Twitter users in June tweeted about TV shows -- a 27% increase from five months earlier. "Twitter has become the second scr ...

More Button A More button now appears beside the Reply, Retweet, and Favorite options at the bottom of each tweet.Click here to view this gallery. Twitter has started rolling out the ability to email tweets from its website. Announced mid-Novemb ...

Your workout is not the time to disconnect from your gadgets. Keeping track of important details like steps, perspiration and blood oxygen levels can be key to figuring out the best workout for your body. There are a number of well known fitness, health and wellness gadgets on the market that ...

Months after Hurricane Sandy left New York scrambling for power, the city is unveiling 25 solar powered charging stations in parks and public spaces throughout the five boroughs, starting today. The pilot project between AT&T and the city of New York is officially called AT&T Street C ...

Instagram is planning to launch video functionality in two days. But don't go deleting Vine just yet. Before shoving Vine's into the deadpool, let's just calm it down a second. Vine has been declared by many as the "Instagram for Video." Instagram's own video product is likely already too la ...

It happened to me. Yes, I once uploaded a pic of my friend to Facebook from my phone, forgot to change the setting from "Public" to "Friends" and had the friend get told that day by a random person: "Hey I just saw a picture of you on Alexia from TechCrunch's wall!" So now I'm circumspect. Ap ...

More and more jobs deal in the virtual realm, and are done by people sitting down at desks at computers. Desk work can be made interesting in its own ways, but it's always fun to visit a company that's actually making physical stuff. So for this episode of TechCrunch Cribs, we jetted over to ...

As it promised it would, Google is fighting the government's gag order on releasing how many users are monitored by the National Security Agency. Unlike Facebook and Microsoft, Google and Twitter publicly rejected a government deal to disclose the total number of spying warrants for user data, w ...

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Ellyne Phneah / ZDNet: Huawei to invest $30M on branding in India  —  Summary: Chinese telecoms gear maker to spend on building its brand, strengthening its retail presence in country and also targets sales of 1 million smartphones in the next 6 months.  —  Ellyn ...

Ryan Tate / Wired: The Price to Pay for Facebook's Free Wi-Fi?  A Scrap of Privacy  —  The idea of offering people free Wi-Fi in exchange for their physical coordinates began at Facebook as a one-off experiment, a project by two engineers during an all-nighter in May 2012.& ...

Michael Lee / ZDNet: Researchers able to predict Apple iOS-generated hotspot passwords  —  Summary: Although iOS generates seemingly random passwords for its hotspots to eliminate the use of ‘default’ passwords, researchers at a German university have found that they ...

Alina Selyukh / Reuters: FCC nominee Wheeler says will promote competition  —  (Reuters) - Tom Wheeler, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, on Tuesday pledged to champion competition in the telecommunications industry and said an upcoming ...

Janko Roettgers / paidContent: Netflix will launch in the Netherlands in late 2013, as its international expansion slows  —  Love Amsterdam?  So does Netflix: The streaming service revealed that it's going to launch in the Netherlands later this year.  —  Ne ...

curtwoodward writes "Driverless cars. Balloon-based wireless networks. Face-mounted computers. Gigabit broadband networks. In recent months, Google has been unveiling a series of transformative side projects that paint a picture of the search pioneer expanding far beyond an online advertising co ...

DeviceGuru writes "Researchers at the Biorob lab at Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), have announced a cat-like robot that is claimed to be the fastest quadruped robot under 30 kilograms. The Cheetah-cub Robot, which runs real-time Xenomai Linux on an ...

An anonymous reader writes "A German computer scientist is taking a fresh look at the 46-year old Amdahl's law, which took a first look at limitations in parallel computing with respect to serial computing. The fresh look considers software development models as a way to overcome parallel comput ...

wwphx writes "According to Wired, 'German researchers have created a new DRM feature that changes the text and punctuation of an e-book ever so slightly. Called SiDiM, which Google translates to 'secure documents by individual marking,' the changes are unique to each e-book sold. These alteratio ...

An anonymous reader writes "Today in a blog post, NVIDIA's General Counsel, David Shannon, announced that the company will begin licensing its GPU cores and patent portfolio to device makers. 't's not practical to build silicon or systems to address every part of the expanding market. Adopting a ...