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Qualcomm releases Gimbal sensors for short-range tracking
The company is using Bluetooth to build location-based marketing systems.
Facebook takes a look back at 2013's biggest moments
From Nelson Mandela to the Harlem Shake, Facebook recaps the year's most-discussed topics around the world.
Ubuntu 13.10: The good, the bad, the ugly, and the mobile
The newest release of Ubuntu, dubbed Saucy Salamander, doesn't offer much in the way of new features – except for the introduction of Ubuntu Touch for mobile platforms.
NSA spied on World of Warcraft, Xbox Live, and Second Life gamers
Justice wears an orc helmet.
Clean up your public Internet profile
Maggs2378 found personal information "on one of those 'people search' web sites" and wants to know how to get it removed
Wikileaks exposes secret, controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
The US exerted 'great pressure' in previous negotiation rounds, the documents indicate
Big storage in a little space: Samsung's 840 EVO is the world's first 1TB mSATA SSD
The Samsung 840 EVO mSATA SSD packs 1TB of storage into hardware a full inch thinner than traditional notebook drives.
Short on holiday music? Slip into the stream
If your tree isn't trimmed or egg fully nogged until it's accompanied by oceans of holiday music, we can help you find the stuff by the stockingful.
Opera 18 review: This browser's seen radical changes… perhaps too radical
The newest version of Opera has a brand new engine and a stripped-down feature set. Sorry, Opera, but bookmarks aren't significant extras.
In-flight entertainment: Which airline offers the best?
The piano bars of 1970s-era 747s are history. High-def video and on-demand cocktails are the new standard, so let's grade airlines from A to F.
Microsoft's most monumental hits, misses, and moments of 2013
Windows 8.1 and Xbox arrived. Ballmer's leaving, but he bought part of Nokia first. Just another year in the life of a company struggling to stay relevant.
Tech companies ask governments to reform surveillance practices
Eight companies, from Apple to Yahoo, want world governments to revisit their surveillance laws.
Anatomy of a hack: Team meets a professor's challenge
An NYU professor challenged a team of hackers to break into his online world. They did, but it wasn't easy or cheap.
Industry group rallies to fight bots, protect the cloud
Distributed denial-of-service attacks are mounting, so the Cloud Security Alliance formed the Anti-Bot Working Group to help fight this threat.
Researchers propose stories for password retention
Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed a way to use stories and pictures to help users easily create and remember passwords.
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