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Landsat 8 Pushes the Earth-Monitoring Envelope

Landsat 8, loaded with several technological advancements for better data-gathering, blasted off Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California using an Atlas V rocket. The latest satellite in the 41-year-old Landsat program has enhanced capabilities to record the changes happening on the planet ...

Nemo, Early Reviews Freeze Out Surface Pro Launch

Microsoft scrapped plans for Friday night's launch of its Surface Pro tablet at the Best Buy store in New York City because of an impending blizzard meteorologists have dubbed "Nemo." ...

EU’s Cybersecurity Plan Requires Members to Report Attacks

The European Union on Thursday announced a strategic plan designed to prevent and respond to cyberdisruptions and attacks. The heart of the plan: a requirement that all member states and key Internet enablers -- including some U.S.-based companies -- must report attacks ...

No Easy Explanation for Racial Bias Found in Google Ads

Google ads appear to have a racial bias, according to a study conducted by a Harvard professor. Google AdSense ads relating to the word "arrest" tend to appear more often in the search results for names commonly identified with black people than for those more often associated with white people, Latanya Sweeney found. ...

Facebook May Be Mapping Out a Location-Tracking App

Facebook, which already has a long history of skirmishes with privacy advocates, may be heading toward another fight following reports that the company is working on a mobile location-tracking app ...

Secret Review Gives Obama License to Cyberkill

President Obama can order a preemptive strike if there's credible evidence of a pending major cyberattack from abroad, a secret legal review has found, according to The New York Times ...

Netflix Rolls Out the Red Carpet for ‘House of Cards’

Netflix on Friday made the premiere episode of House of Cards, its in-house political drama, available free for one month to the public with no membership requirement ...

Google Adds Cross-Platform Notifications Brick to Chromium Build

Google appears to have taken a step toward integrating Android's Google Now notification feature into Chrome. ...

Microsoft Cuts Ribbon on Low-Rent Office

Microsoft this week announced the worldwide availability of Office 365 Home Premium, a cloud-based version of its flagship Office productivity software that consumers will lease instead of purchase ...

Z10 Adds a Little Zest to BlackBerry Lineup

The handset maker previously known as RIM on Wednesday launched its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones: the Q10 with the familiar QWERTY keyboard, and something new for the company -- the touchscreen-based Z10 ...

HP Horns In on the Chromebook Action

The brief appearance of a spec sheet on HP's online shopping website Monday seemed to indicate the company has joined the list of Microsoft partners offering Chromebooks ...

French Court Orders Twitter to Name Names of Racist Tweeters

A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over data that could help identify users who posted racist messages on the service's website, acting on a complaint filed in October by the Union of French Jewish Students ...

Google Plans Mysterious Wireless Network Project

Google has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a new or modified radio station for an experimental radio service other than broadcast. The initial base station will be deployed on Google's campus in Mountain View, Calif ...

Fleet of FireFlies to Probe Space for Mineral-Rich Asteroids

Deep Space Industries on Tuesday announced plans to launch a robotic fleet to scour space for asteroids that can be mined. The company will send out its FireFly spacecraft in 2015 on journeys of two-to-six months ...

Mozilla Lures Devs to Firefox OS With Shiny New Toys

The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday announced that smartphones running its Firefox OS will be available to developers in February ...

Lenovo Chromebook Starts School Fight With Tablets

Lenovo on Thursday announced the ThinkPad X131e Chromebook for schools ...

Cisco Lets Virtual Desktop Users Get In on Its Jabber

Cisco on Thursday announced the Virtualization Experience Media Engine (VXME), new software that will extend its Jabber unified communications application to virtualized workspace environments ...

2 Buyers Shell Out $5K for Java Exploit

An entrepreneurial hacker has found an exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability in Java and has sold it to at least two buyers at US$5,000 a pop, KrebsOnSecurity reports ...

Leap Motion Jumps Into Best Buy’s Arms

Leap Motion, which makes a 3D controller that can track movements smaller than the tip of a pin, on Wednesday announced that it has entered a limited exclusive agreement with Best Buy ...

‘Red October’ Cyberspy Attack Hits Diplomats, Governments, Scientists

Kaspersky Lab on Monday announced the discovery of a massive cyberespionage operation that has been active for at least five years and has infiltrated computer networks at diplomatic, governmental and scientific research organizations in Europe, North America and Central Asia ...

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