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Google just barely dodged a bullet. The NASA team booted up their D-Wave Two just days before the federal government shutdown would have put a complete stop to the project. But with NASA and Ames almost completely shut down, it’s …

Computer H14 isn’t shy about telling you how great he is.

A new algorithm developed at Stanford University could give computers the power to more reliably interpret language. Called Neural Analysis of Sentiment — or NaSent for short — the algorithm seeks to improve on current methods of written language analysis …

CenturyLink — the third largest telecommunications company in the U.S. — announced today that it will expand its forthcoming gigabit fiber internet service into Las Vegas this fall.

Inside Mozilla’s new data center in Santa Clara, California — about an hour south of San Francisco — the machine was sitting against the wall, all by itself.

It looks like the National Security Agency’s $1.5 billion data center in Utah just got even more expensive. Chronic electrical surges have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, according to documents cited by the Wall Street Journal, …

Amazon is one step closer to building private cloud services for the Central Intelligence Agency, after a federal judge rejected a call from IBM to re-open bidding on the agency’s $600 million contract. On Monday, as reported by Bloomberg and …

When the FBI seizes millions of dollars in cash from some warehouse at the heart of an urban drug cartel, the money winds up in a government building somewhere, and eventually, it finds its way into a government bank account, …

A team of engineering students built a custom-designed circuit board called the Tessel, and they’ve now “open sourced” the board’s designs — made them free for anyone to use — giving people everywhere the power to fashion their own …

The FBI seized over $3.3 million in digital currency after busting up the online drug marker known as The Silk Road, and on Friday morning, someone spotted what is likely the online address where the feds are keeping all that …

Watch this video — a gem from the archives of tech giant AT&T — and revisit Microworld. William Shatner will be your guide, in all his tanned, toupee-ed, early-’80s glory.

Nobody really knew how big a part of the Bitcoin economy the Silk Road really played. But then the feds shuttered the Silk Road this past Wednesday, and now it’s pretty clear, thanks to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Christopher …

Matt Galligan is reinventing the way news works, ripping apart the traditional news story, rebuilding it, and delivering it through a new kind of mobile software application. This mobile app, called Circa News, doesn’t give you articles. It gives you …

Facebook is now using a nifty tool that’s designed to make it harder for hackers who break into a single computer to then have the full run of corporate networks. It’s called the Yubikey. But there’s another side to the …

Bitcoin, world’s most popular digital currency, had a roller coaster ride today after the federal government shut down the Silk Road, an online marketplace where millions of bitcoins were swapped for drugs and black market products over the past two …

Last month Nirvanix — the company that powered IBM’s SmartCloud Storage service — told customers and partners that it was shutting down on September 30, giving them just two weeks to migrate data. Nirvanix finally broke its silence …

In 2004, Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos decreed that any software built by an Amazon engineer must be shared with every other engineer at the company. Google does something similar, and it makes good sense. The idea is to ensure that …

When Jordan Penchas started hacking some electronics hardware so he could play an absurdist surgery game with his Wii Nunchuk controller, he had no idea it would lead to a ride on the International Space Station.

Earlier this year Google announced that Austin, Texas would be the second city to receive its ultra-fast Google Fiber service. AT&T quickly followed Google’s announcement with news of its own: It would offer gigabit fiber internet in the city as …

France’s national law enforcement agency, the Gendarmerie, is now running 37,000 desktop PCs with a custom version of the Linux operating system, and by summer of next year, the agency plans to move all 72,000 of its desktop machines to …