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$50 Android smartphones are coming this year. They've actually existed for quite some time, but this year they will be more "mainstream", and you'll see a lot more models (in poor …

It's amazing how many "full operating systems" want to support something as weak as Raspberry Pi, and how many things can be done with it. I can't wait for Raspberry Pi to come to …

Yet another reason for why electric cars have so much potential in the long run compared to gasoline-powered cars, and that's besides the fact that batteries themselves can double …

This should hit home with those that read the Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator's Solution. IBM sold their PC business years ago to Lenovo because of "low margins", and they moved …

I get 1 Gbps for less than $20 where I live (Europe), and unlimited bandwidth, but I'm not bothering with the extra speed yet because I'm going to need a good 802.11ac router and a…

They wouldn't be doing this if they didn't think more people are interested in Windows 7 than Windows 8. That would be a pretty silly reason to "get their name in the news", otherw…

Looks cool, but I don't think it should be using MtGox values as the default.

I don't think that's been their motto since Otellini took over. Look where they are now in the mobile market. Otellini put the profitability of their Core chips above improving Ato…

Intel is one of the least ethical tech companies around. Have they even paid their 1 billion euro fine to the EU Commission yet for trying to force OEMs to not use AMD chips in the…

I agree it's very obnoxious, and it's actually why I stopped watching Parks & Rec.

They did with SOPA. Because there were millions of them. But how do millions of phones calls get sent? By having each and everyone of us calling.

I'm pretty sure EFF, DemandProgress and the like are doing exactly that. Or are you saying they should form a Super PAC? But in that case, it won't exactly be "traditional lobbying…

I hope you guys won't stop at pushing just for the USA Freedom Act, which sounds pretty decent, but not like it's going far enough. To me Rush Holt's Surveillance State Repeal Act …

Relevant news: NSA and GCHQ activities appear illegal, says EU parliamentary inquiry http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/09/nsa-gchq-illega...

I feel this is obligatory: https://www.aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-a... Also, if you think them knowing your location like this is scary, wait until we have self…

This is the Virtuix Omni, if others haven't seen it yet (second version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5UTkLIh76U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H75BT43uT0

I hope that while they're putting the finishing touches on the current product, and work on deploying it soon, they will also keep in mind what the guys at Avegant are doing, and e…

Here's the video I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0VCj7VKvFk&feature=youtu.be...

Carmack has been talking about OLED for VR headsets for quite some time, and I'm sure Palmer and the rest were considering it, too. But I think it wasn't very accessible to them un…

I saw a video of some of the Verge guys trying it out at CES, and pretty much all of them were like "I don't want to take this off" at the end. It sounds like Oculus Rift will chan…

Snowden docs make it official: The NSA can crack 30-year-old A5/1 crypto http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/archaic-but-widel... Does anyone know if LTE security is that mu…

No worries, once the Google-backed EME passes through the MPAA-infested W3C [1], thousands of sites will begin utilizing the OS-level DRM Google and Microsoft have been baking into…

> The paranoid view is that Google is an NSA frontend. The sad thing is that they don't even have to be that on purpose. They collect so much data on every person, that NSA is goin…

Read the article? They've trying to kill the EU Data Privacy law through lobbying and such PR statements. It's not just them. It's also Facebook, probably Microsoft, too, the US go…