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This story was originally published on Sept. 30, 2013, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series ...
Isopropyl alcohol is widely used as a solvent and a cleaning fluid, as well as in rubbing alcohol products, but researchers at two universities in Canada and the UK recently managed to use it to transmit a text message ...
Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are selling close to 70 million shares of Class A common stock, which carries one vote per share, in advance of the company's being listed on the S&P 500 index this month ...
Delta Air Lines this week announced that it will ban in-flight cellphone calls amid growing opposition to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's proposal to allow them ...
A task force set up by President Obama to review the United States National Security Agency's surveillance activities has suggested a list of what it calls "significant" reforms, including restrictions on spying ...
Facebook this week announced the rollout of video ads in the mobile and desktop News Feeds of some of its members ...
Google on Tuesday released XE 12, the latest update to its Google Glass product. One of its new features lets users take a photo with a wink, something that previously could be done by using a third-party app ...
Tesla plans to debut its Model E electric vehicle, with a price tag south of US$40,000, at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, according to reports that surfaced Monday on GreenAutoblog.com -- based on an Autobild interview with Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla's chief designer -- and theLos Angeles Times ...
A federal judge has ruled that the United States National Security Agency's collection of telephone metadata is likely a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adding another point of debate to this volatile issue ...
NSA official Rick Ledgett, who has been with the agency for 25 years, suggested offering whistleblower Edward Snowden amnesty, but agency head Gen. Keith Alexander squashed the idea, CBS reported ...
Corporate America has been quaking in its boots since Microsoft announced in August that CEO Steve Ballmer would retire within 12 months and launched its search for a replacement ...
NASA on Wednesday shut off one of the two external cooling loops on the International Space Station and has been struggling to fix it since ...
Red Hat on Wednesday launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 into beta ...
Nothing stirs up speculation like success, and right now questions about Bitcoin are on everyone's lips. Is it headed for the moon after once again breaking the US$1,000 mark on Wednesday? Or is it, as former United States Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said, overpriced, lacking in intrinsic value and, essentially, a bubble? ...
The United States National Security Agency is using at least one type of Google cookie -- PREF, which stores a user's preferences -- to home in on the PCs of targets it wants to hack, according to a Washington Post report. ...
Viber on Monday launched v4.1 of its eponymous VoIP chat application. It includes Viber Out, a feature that lets users call anyone mobile phones or landlines anywhere. Calls to other Viber users are free; otherwise, a fee is assessed. ...
The Linux Foundation on Tuesday announced the formation of the AllSeen Alliance, a cross-industry consortium working on a standard of interoperability among devices connected to the Internet of Things ...
Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., plans to soon introduce legislation that will restrict the bulk collection of Americans' cellphone data by United States law enforcement agencies ...
Eight major United States high-tech companies have called on governments worldwide to reform surveillance practices ...
Microsoft announced last week that it had disrupted the ZeroAccess botnet, which has been around since 2011 ...
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