$1,099 iMac review: lose 50% of your performance to save 18% of the money
MacBook-turned-desktop isn't bad, but only makes sense if you're buying in bulk.
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In-Depth Reports
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Men would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit quietly
Anything but spending time thinking.
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These bricks are like Lego for full-sized buildings
A company called Kite Bricks is making a bid to increase construction efficiency.
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Shocker: 30 “Bigfoot” hair samples actually from cows, bears, porcupines
RIP, "anomalous primates."
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PSA: Japan’s biggest ‘00s RPG series, Monster Hunter, finally on iOS
The series that saved PSP in Japan lands on iOS as a years-old port.
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Gallery: Cars Technica’s favorite concept cars
Unencumbered by practicality, here are some of the most stunning concept cars.
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Feds unmask mystery hacker who “hamburgled” Burger King Twitter account
Serial hacker is tied to breaches involving Twitter, police, and Paris Hilton.
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Controversial HIV test replicated, but we still don’t know how it works
Protocol offers an HIV diagnosis via the color change of a solution.
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Accused Facebook scammer’s defense: Zuckerberg hacked him
Defendant claims half of Facebook, which has a market cap of about $170 billion.
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Report: Rare leaked NSA source code reveals Tor servers targeted
NSA says it only gathers such data for "valid foreign intelligence purposes."
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Back to the future: A visual tour of my day in FreeDOS
We visited the world of decades-old tech... but wouldn't want to live there.
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Old school: I work in DOS for an entire day
Open source MS-DOS alternative lives—but using it nearly killed me.
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Tri-band Wi-Fi chips for multi-gigabit streaming coming from Qualcomm
Qualcomm's purchase of Wilocity brings 2.4, 5, and 60GHz bands together.
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Op-ed: E-sports cannot fight segregation with segregation
The reversal of one "men-only" tourney isn't enough to save e-sports.
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Order restored to universe as Microsoft surrenders confiscated No-IP domains
Of 23 addresses taken in controversial legal action, 18 have so far been returned.
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IRS policy that targeted political groups also aimed at open source projects
Op-ed: IRS denied tax-exempt status to nonprofit organization on dubious grounds.
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Tibetans’ altitude tolerance may have come from our extinct relatives
A combination of mutations is found in Tibetans and Denisovans.
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Shocking! Obama’s privacy board OKs massive NSA surveillance
191-page report is largely condemned by civil liberties advocates and scholars.
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Quantum state may be a real thing
Physicists summon up their courage and go after the nature of reality.
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Windows 8.x, Internet Explorer both flatline in June
Windows 8.x's growth halted completely in June.
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Supreme Court orders top patent court to re-think patent on online ads, again
Do-over comes after high court banned "do it on a computer" patents.
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US sues T-Mobile, says carrier made millions off “bogus” cramming fees
FTC: T-Mobile buried SMS charges in 50-page bills, should pay back victims.
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Examining Project Volta: We put Android L through our battery test
Do Google's power optimizations work in the real world?
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Cassini’s decade at Saturn in pictures
On July 1, 2004, the Cassini orbiter was inserted into orbit around Saturn.
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Time Warner Cable customers beg regulators to block sale to Comcast
Fears of monopoly power, data caps, and price hikes raised in public comments.
Feature Story
A day in the new Porsche Macan, an SUV that wants to race
Porsche says the mixed lineage of the Macan will appeal to a new type of buyer.
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On The Radar
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Call connected by the NSA
New Snowden leak: Of 160,000 intercepted messages, only 10% from offical targets
Washington Post reports that NSA uses vague rules to decide if a target is foreign.
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Sales like frozen fractals
Nielsen: 2014 digital music sales plummet compared to 2013’s first half
Streaming numbers don't compensate for numbers slump; full-length LPs fall, too.
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and cut!
Video: Taking curves with torque vector control, descending slopes with hill control
We've got a couple of outtakes from our day with the Porsche Macan.
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EXXXCLUDED
Google bans porn in ads
The changes have been a long time coming, but they take effect now.
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Grey Face (no space)
Year-long e-sports site ban shows the dangers of gaming reddit
CBS-owned onGamers banned after editor asked redditors to post articles on his behalf.
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Crysis crisis
Report: Crytek UK staff not getting paid, leave studio en masse
"Around 100" staffers quit in protest, leaving new Homefront game in limbo.
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flying blind
Airbus submits patent application for windowless jet cockpit
Fully opaque cockpit would let pilots navigate with viewscreens and holograms.
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A cold day
Blizzard CCO, lead WoW designer Rob Pardo retires
Ends 17-year run that began with the original Starcraft, hints at future.
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Osama bin Torvalds
The NSA thinks Linux Journal is an “extremist forum”?
XKeyscore code for tracking Tor users also caught visitors to that website.
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life imitates art
Lindsay Lohan sues makers of GTA V over look-alike complaints
Self-absorbed celebs, reckless driving—wait, we're talking about the game, right?
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"unsend"
Goldman Sachs: Google blocked access to that mis-sent e-mail
Google won't delete Gmail message without a court order, but it will block.
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Coming soon: BeOS support
Microsoft wants Visual Studio to be your one-stop cross-platform dev shop
Microsoft buys, gives away, the UnityVS plug-in for cross-platform game development.
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e-mail, how does it work
Goldman Sachs demands Google unsend one of its e-mails
A court order is on the table for Google to undo Goldman Sachs' mistake.
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protect your investment
Keep thieves from stealing your 2013 Mac Pro with a $49 lock adapter
When you're already paying $3,000, what's another $50?
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KEYS UNDER THE DOORMAT
Private crypto key stashed in Cisco VoIP manager allows network hijacking
Update closes backdoor allowing unauthorized control of sensitive messaging gear.
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Fines? no thanks.
Amazon would go to court to avoid FTC restrictions on in-app purchases
Apple agreed to similar restrictions, $32.5m in refunds earlier this year.
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Scrambled Content Unscrambled
Court-approved wiretaps defeating encryption, feds say
Authorities are likely to confront growing number of encrypted devices.
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worker flight control
Amazon sues ex-employee who went to work for Google Cloud
Lawsuit comes at a time of increased debate over "non-compete" deals.
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can it be?
Google asks Hangouts users to “migrate” their Google Voice accounts
Google Voice may be put to modern use after all.
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You down with IAP?
British regulator: EA “misled” by calling Dungeon Keeper free-to-play
UK authority soundly rejects EA's defense of how Dungeon Keeper is monetized.
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Open during renovation
OpenSSL speeds up development to avoid being “slow-moving and insular”
Post-Heartbleed changes aim to improve security and code review.
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So a Wii U controller?
Nvidia “Shield Tablet” spotted in FCC documents
A new Shield is coming, and it will apparently be bigger than ever.
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Chump change
Famed investor Tim Draper wins auction of Silk Road’s 29,655 bitcoins
Draper to partner with Vaurum, which offers "secure storage solutions" to banks.
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Breaking the law?
UK data watchdog to probe Facebook manipulation study
Were users given the opportunity to give their informed consent to data use?
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SNAFU + DDOS = FUBAR
Microsoft issues mea culpa to No-IP, but service reportedly remains down for many
A DDoS on the heels of Microsoft's takeover of 22 No-IP domains makes things worse.
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Playing with fire
Amid sexual harassment allegations, dating app Tinder suspends co-founder
Plaintiff alleged being told that having a female co-founder "devalued the company."
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THAT'S LIKE, 3 MORE "K"S THAN MY CURRENT TV
Tuesday Dealmaster has a 50-inch 4K TV for $449
With an original price of 1,499.99, that's 70% off!
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STARTTLS
Microsoft expands the use of encryption on Outlook, OneDrive
Perfect forward secrecy, 2048-bit keys used for mail transfers, Web traffic.
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REMOTE UPLOAD, NO AUTHENTICATION REQUIRED
WordPress plugin with 1.7 million downloads puts sites at risk of takeover
Sites running MailPoet should install update ASAP.
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Golem? I hardly know 'em!
The Witcher coming to iOS, Android, WP8 as a free-to-play MOBA game
Battle Arena devs "don't want to fight with League of Legends or Dota."
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Torrents Galore!
Anti-piracy music industry site hacked, turned into Pirate Bay proxy
Payback for music group winning injunction blocking 256 Pirate Bay IP addresses.
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Spooks Are Everywhere
New Snowden docs: NSA spies on pretty much everyone abroad
All the world's a stage for US spies, according to secret American memos.
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Android Wear software review: Smartwatch software that doesn’t suck
It still requires a phone, but there's no better way to deal with notifications.
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Android Wear hardware review: Sometimes promising, often frustrating
The Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch aren't as essential as they want to be.
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Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid
Custom-built with privacy in mind, this handset isn’t for (Google) Play.
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Flying—and crashing—a $1,300 quadcopter drone
Stabilized GPS drone is amazing. Also, I crashed one into a tree and destroyed it.
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