The US has a big and rather complicated internet speed problem. Its broadband infrastructure is woefully behind in speed and price compared to a broad swath of other countries,
Almost 48 hours after an unnamed hacker announced the breach of Hacking Team, exposing more than 400GB of secrets, the Italian surveillance tech company is investigating what happened, and coming out of its radio silence.
Whenever I end up on a flight that offers internet service, I can't help but buy it. Despite being in relatively early stages and a fairly poor state, in-flight Wi-Fi is one of the most "futuristic" technologies I interact with on a regular bas
The red-hot market for rides is getting hotter, with a surprising new entry in the race. Google-owned online mapping company Waze is piloting a carpooling service in Israel, focusing on commuters who pay drivers a fee for a ride to or from work.
Last Friday came the unpleasant news that Ross Ulbricht, the 31-year-old former operator of the Silk Road site, has been sentenced by a federal court to life in prison without parole.
Start-up satellite Internet provider OneWeb LLC, in a move that will quiet, if not silence its doubters, on June 25 announced that it had raised $500 million in equity from sources as varied as Indian telecommunications network provider Bharti Enterp
Voice recognition technologies are part of the future, but should trigger concern that IT companies are essentially building "listening networks" which can be exploited by the likes of the NSA, Swedish Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge told RT.
he public is finally starting to learn what security experts have been warning for years: the US government has no idea what it's doing when it comes to cybersecurity.
More than any other social network, Pinterest embodies aspiration. Each month, an army of 70 million users loyally pins items to more than 1 billion boards on the platform.
One distinction between renewable energy technologies and their nonrenewable counterparts is their popular appeal. Surveys have found a majority of Democrats and Republicans support increasing government funding for renewable energy research and tax
A simple and relatively cheap graphene upgrade has the potential to boost the speeds of future computer processors beyond current limits, according to research presented this week at the Symposia
U.S. weapons industry executives say they are disappointed and frustrated about a massive U.S. cyber breach that exposed sensitive information about millions of Americans, including many thousands who work on high-security arms projects.
Republicans on Capitol Hill want to use the 2016 federal budget to blow up the US government's new open internet policy--and now the White House is pushing back.
An Interview with Harry Ullman of Bytecoin. Unfortunately, I can't tell you that I'm one of the first people who discovered Bitcoin from Satoshi's whitepaper. But I might as well be seen as an early adopter.
A software vulnerability on hundreds of millions of Samsung Galaxy phones allows hackers (civilian or government) to "look through the phones' camera, listen to the microphone, read incoming and outgoing texts and install apps," according to re
Now that the US government's historic open internet protections have taken effect, many of the activists who pushed for the landmark rules are aiming to turn their victory into a new political force.