The heads of eight of the U.S.’s largest tech companies have started a campaign for new limits on how the government collects user information
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Bungie’s Destiny Has a Date with Itself in September 2014
The genre-bending sci-fi game from the ex-Halo studio will launch at the close of summer 2014.
The Cable Industry Wants to Remind You: You Really, Really Love Cable
“The Hole Saga” makes the case, quirkily, that TV and Internet access are good.
Retailer Predicts Wii U Will Outpace PS4 and Xbox One this Holiday, but Read Carefully
That may not be what the retailer in fact claimed.
Europol, Feds and Microsoft Torpedo ZeroAccess Botnet Servers, but P2P Version Lives On
Down go several key servers, but ZeroAccess is a many-headed beast.
That Flashlight on Your Phone Was Watching You
FTC slams Android app maker over location-tracking
Gmail and Google Calendar Are Now Downloadable (Just Not Your Brain — Yet)
Love letters, job offers and cat video confabs, check, check and check.
Non-Contract AT&T Customers, You’re About to Get a Break
New mobile sharing plans to arrive this Sunday, December 8.
Hackers Steal Two Million Passwords from Facebook, Gmail, Twitter
Oh, and some 93,000 other sites
Why You Want to Be Tracked Online
Tracking by online marketers can be annoying and even feel like an invasion of your privacy. But before you decide to go incognito, there are a few good reasons you may want to be tracked online.
High-Tech Mimo Onesie Tracks Baby’s Vitals and More
We still don’t know a lot about the specific causes of SIDS, but there’s hope that new monitoring technology can help parents better combat it.
“The commercial use of drones is an interesting technology and we’ll continue to evaluate it.”
— A spokesperson for UPS, speaking to the Verge about the use of drones for package deliveries.