The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon is expanding its hardware offerings with a whole new line of gadgets, including a lame-sounding "audio streaming device" and a pair of next gen smartphones.
You can tweak the settings; you can educate yourself about the settings; but you cannot opt out of Google's data collection. That is, unless you stop using Google altogether. Let us show you how.
You might be sad to learn that Facebook sends an average of 16 percent of the things you post on Facebook to your friends' news feeds. Then again, you might be glad.
The hallways were impassible outside the daily Page One meeting of the senior-most editors at The New York Times on Wednesday afternoon, due to an unfortunate series of events that has almost 600 journalists up in arms.
The Pentagon's top researchers are getting nervous about the smartphones and tablets civilians are carrying around in their pockets, backpacks and cars, calling the devices dangerous for national security.
After news broke that Davy Jones had died of a heart attack at a hospital in Florida on Friday, the Internet lit up with sad words and thoughtful remembrances of the Monkees singer.
After more than a month of being detained by authorities, Sam LaHood will be allowed to leave Egypt's borders. We're guessing he's going to head straight home, to the old U.S. of A.
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse for James Murdoch and his (literal) parent company News Corp., police are now saying that they felt like News International employees obstructed their investigation.
Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying, and why it matters. This week: Nintendo wakes up, Volkswagen gets emotional and Harley-Davidson posts pretty pictures
Rupert Murdoch's youngest son is stepping down from the company's British newspaper division as revelations about phone hacking and bribery continue to emerge. Here's a look back at Murdoch's years-long tumble.
The fanboy blogs are abuzz with thinly sourced reports about what Apple will unveil at next Wednesday's new product party in San Francisco, but after reading some of Apple's recent patent filings, we have one of our own: iPad 3D.
Depending on the time of month, developers and tech bloggers tend to be either upset about the supposedly overly strict rules in Apple's App Store or concerned that the company doesn't better police its own standards.
Richard Branson, Edward Norton and National Geographic's Sylvia Earle are lending their likenesses to The Antarctic Ocean Alliance (AOA), a new initiative set up by environmentalists powerhouses like Greenpeace and WWF among others.
Twitter's new plan to start offering business access to at least the past two years of tweet data reads like an attempt to start generating some revenue for the company.
After months of turmoil, the last of the old school TechCrunch staff is stepping down and handing off the keys to a new set of hands.
Mother Jones has published an in-depth look at a 718-page document supposedly leaked from intelligence forces inside the Bashar al Assad's regime that they're calling the "Syria hit list."
Only four days after Virginia shot down a similar measure, the Alabama State Senate is moving forward with a law that would require women to go through an invasive vaginal ultrasound procedure in order the get an abortion.
There are about 150 million good reasons (read: $) why everybody's talking about Kickstarter lately.
When Julian Assange took the stage at the Frontline Club in London today, there were 25 media companies' logos behind his back. The New York Times was not one of them.
Tension remains high years after shady lending practices at banks pushed America into a recession, and most recently, a class action lawsuit is going after Wells Fargo for allegedly colluding with insurance companies to rip off borrowers.
Three cheers for the Standard & Poor's, whose S&P 500 index closed on Friday at 1,365.74, its highest level since June 2008.
While Newt Gingrich must be a pretty smart guy with his Ph.D. and everything, the presidential candidate -- or, more likely, his campaign staff -- blundered some figures in his latest very, very long YouTube video.
After a short break from daily bad news, AOL's management is once again being needled in public.
After the International Red Cross opened up talks with the Syrian government, aid workers started to evacuate sick or wounded women and children from Homs on Friday.
Haiti's prime minister Garry Conille submitted a letter of resignation (sans a suggested successor, evidently) to the country's president on Friday, barely two years after a devastating earthquake ripped apart Port-au-Prince and environs.
News of Apple's acquiring the app recommendation startup Chomp strikes us as interesting for exactly three reasons.
With a new in-house consulting firm in the works, Wired U.K. is the latest publication to knock holes in the wall that traditionally stands between editorial and business departments.
On Thursday, the White House pulled back the curtain on its "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights," a presidential attempt to clamp down on the misuse of online user data.
The more scientists tinker around in muddy ponds, filthy mines and, yes, laboratories, the more methods for producing clean energy they discover.
In an assertive but unsurprising move, the Obama administration threw a road block between Wall Street and some of the world's most prominent organized crime gangs, including a yakuza godfather and his deputy.
As 30 or so protesters rallied for workers' rights outside on Thursday, Apple chief executive Tim Cook led the company's first shareholder meeting since the death of Steve Jobs and, more than once, dropped the F-bomb.
Among the many reasons to do your taxes this year is the distinct possibility that you're owed a few bucks from years past and, potentially, a little piece of the $1 billion in unclaimed refunds that's just hanging out at the Internal Revenue Service.
As yet another jousting match goes down between a member of the New York City media elite and a Silicon Valley-based blogger dude, we're starting to get concerned that journalists covering the tech industry have no idea what they're doing.
Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying, and why it matters. This week: A&E discovers shooting games, Chrysler rides the Clint Eastwood express and Mattel puts a classic game in a soda can.
Those in range of Gannett's community newspapers will be sad to learn the publisher will soon erect a paywall around the websites of its 80 small-town titles, while keeping USA Today free online.
Even though it's less than two years old, the iPad's role in transforming every industry from aviation to education to media is nearly complete.
On the gut level, reactions to Google's recently leaked top secret augmented reality eyeglasses can be split into two broad camps: the WTF!?! crew (concerned with privacy) and the WHOA!!! crew (excited about the future).
We're sure it's been tough in the slammer, but now that a New Zealand judge finally granted him bail, we doubt MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom is going to suffer too many hardships while he's awaiting trial in his $30 million mansion in New Zealand.
We can't wait to check out the military's new DARPA-funded reenactment of the insanely successful James Cameron movie Avatar.
Corporations that do business overseas—which frequently involves gifts, baksheesh, and other kinds of behind-the-scenes favors—are wondering just how strictly anti-bribery rules will be enforced.
As more and more consumers move to cut the cord, Comcast is the latest major media company to announce its entrance into the streaming video business.
Everyone's favorite law-dodging, file-sharing site The Pirate Bay isn't bothered one bit by a recent High Court decision that threatens to ban the service in the United Kingdom.
Since the downfall of LulzSec, hackers have been busy coming up with wild ideas to outdo their many attention-grabbing stunts from 2011.
Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock and three of his fellow board members bowed out of their roles at America's former homepage on Tuesday afternoon.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's not the most beloved man in America (just ask Occupy types, Tea Partiers, and Ron Paul supporters), and his comments today at the Senate Budget Committee's hearing probably won't improve his popularity any time soon.
It's unclear exactly how or why one of America's largest oil energy companies ever decided to require its employees to use Canadian smartphones, but starting this year, Halliburton is going to switch from BlackBerry to iPhone.
On Monday, The New York Times reported on a new study that reveals a sad fact: The United States Constitution is no longer cool.
As far as shows go, Sunday night's Super Bowl halftime bonanza was a pretty fun one, what with gladiators, glitter, and all that weird 3D stuff happening to the field.
After an infection ravaged her jawbone, an 83-year-old woman in Belgium became the world's first human being to receive an artificial jaw made with 3D-printing technology. It's made of titanium, and it is awesome.
Only a few weeks after a team of commandos stormed Kim Dotcom's compound outside of Auckland, the file-sharing site BTjunkie is shutting its doors.
A week after news broke that Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta was facing foreclosure, the financial giant is thinking about selling almost all of its real estate.
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