It looks like LulzSec are back at it again, and this time they have News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch in their crosshairs.
The off-again, on-again hacking group has just announced via Twitter that they have hacked two Murdoch-owned publications in the United Kingdom: The recently shuttered News of the World and daily tabloid The Sun. …
NBC announced today that Meet the Press will team up with Facebook to host the final GOP primary debate before the New Hampshire primaries.
The event will take place at 9 a.m. ET in the Chubb Theatre at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, NH, and air live on MSNBC and New England Cable News (NECN). It will also be streamed …
It looks like the kind of gadget you’d see CGI’ed into a sci-fi show (in fact, similar CGI flying spheres did appear in Doctor Who not all that long ago). But this particular flying object is very real, very cool, and very coming to a battle zone near you in the not-too-distant future.
This radio-controlled spherical flying drone is …
The first tweet ever sent out by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2006 read “just setting up my twttr.” Thankfully, he and business partner Biz Stone had the sense to add discernible vowels to what we now know as Twitter— the rest, as they say, is history.
But in a new interview with WNYC News, Dorsey reveals a few alternatives …
Dual-screen computing junkies may finally have a portable solution in GScreen’s Spacebook, a laptop with two screens that’s now available for pre-order. Although I’ve yet to see it up close, I’m already terrified by this monstrosity. The main attraction is a pair of 17.3-inch displays that slide into a side-by-side view, sitting in a …
Are patent infringement lawsuits endangering app development?
PaidContent is reporting that developers are withdrawing their apps from both the U.S. Apple and Android app stores for fear of being sued over intellectual property rights that they may not even be aware of. The report describes a mass exodus of European developers from …
LimeWire may have shut down last year, and finally settled its five-years-long lawsuit with the RIAA this May, but that doesn’t mean that its troubles are over. Now, the former file-sharing company is being sued by a representative of more than 12,000 independent record companies that feel the RIAA settlement unfairly favored the big …
The whole point of Apple’s iOS 4.3.4 update was to put the kibosh on a serious iOS security defect that allowed hackers to jailbreak iPhones, iPads and iPod touches (as well as surreptitiously remote control them), but it seems the fix may have already yielded to hackers.
Hack group ‘iPhone Dev Team’ (not to be confused with Apple’s …
So far Activision’s only shown a handful of single-player levels from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, one of this year’s most anticipated games. I talked about two levels from the solo campaign–”Hunter Killer” and “Mind the Gap”– in my E3 2011 coverage and a comparison between Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, and recently got the …
We all know that college is expensive, and outside of convincing someone to marry you (which, according to our friends at Moneyland, can save you up to $80k in tuition costs), debt-ridden students need all the financial help they can get.
Today, Amazon announced a new textbook rental program that can help students save as much as 80% …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Acer Iconia Android tablet: $398 at Amazon
The Acer Iconia made news for being the first Android 3.0 tablet to break the $500 price barrier. Originally selling for $450, it’s now been priced at around $400 at several retailers.
The tablet has a 10.1-inch touchscreen, …
If you can’t join ’em, try and beat ’em—that’s the gist of the reaction by notorious hacker group Anonymous to several of its members’ accounts feeling the banhammer from Google’s new social network site, Google+. But instead of hacking Google+ in retaliation for the bans, Anonymous says it’s launching its own social networking site, …
