The US Marshals Service is once again auctioning a collection of Bitcoins seized from Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht. A total of 50,000 Bitcoins, worth roughly $11.47 million as of writing, will be made available to the highest bidders on…

Many questioned Facebook’s intentions when it shelled out $2 billion to buy Oculus VR nearly a year ago. During a recent interview, the company’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, shed some light on their virtual reality ambitions outside of gaming…

The foundation of data communication on the web is set to get its first major update since HTTP 1.1 was adopted in 1999. Today the IETF HTTP Working Group has announced it formally approved the HTTP/2 specification, which will now…

There are many situations where organizations, companies and groups of people work within a single Twitter account. This, in many cases, can lead to security issues considering everyone has to use/have access to the same master password for that account.…

Over the years, we’ve come to accept the fact that Mario is quite the gifted plumber. For example, he’s able to leap tall buildings in a single bound… wait, no, that’s someone else.

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have unearthed a suite of surveillance platforms that can hide within the firmware of hard drives from more than a dozen manufacturers. The attackers, which Kaspersky is calling the Equation Group due to their complex…

AT&T on Monday announced the launch of its fiber Internet service in the Kansas City area, the same market that Google targeted in its initial fiber rollout more than two and a half years ago. While AT&T’s service checks in…

Apps like WiFi Analyzer are excellent tools for troubleshooting pesky wireless issues but even still, wouldn’t it be much easier (and cooler) if you could visually see what’s going on? Thanks to the ingenuity of YouTube user CNLohr, it’s now…

Sling TV on Monday announced it is bolstering its offering even further via an agreement with EPIX to bring its channel lineup and on-demand movies to its new over-the-top streaming service.

If you’ve ever wondered what a smattering of Android devices would sound like as part of a massive ensemble, wonder no more. Google’s Japanese team recently wired up a mix of 300 smartphones and tablets – each with their own…

Vint Cerf, often described as the Father of the Internet, believes we may be on the fast track to a digital Dark Age as a result of our heavy reliance on rapidly-changing technology.

After moving its productivity suite of apps over to the web a couple years back, Apple is now offering the cloud based versions to anyone. Announced on Thursday, Pages, Keynote and Numbers are now available for free even to those…

Google has announced that it is shutting down Helpouts, the online platform that allowed everyday people to sell their skills and services online via video chat.

Pinterest is working on a 'Buy' button that would allow users to make purchases from within the social bookmarking service, according to a report from Recode. The feature is expected to launch in three to six months, although it may…

Waze is a community based traffic and navigation app that allows it users to pinpoint where police cars and speeding radar set-ups are currently located (among other things). This particular feature isn’t go over well with law enforcement, so police…

If you happen to be in the market for a streaming media device and/or are also interested in checking out Sling TV, Amazon and Roku are currently offering a handful of compelling deals that knock a significant chunk of money…

The fact that mobile apps now generate more money than Hollywood is no doubt enticing to enterprising entrepreneurs. Yet even with a great app, the odds of it catching fire and becoming a success are extremely slim which highlights one…

Less than a month after shelling out $280 million to buy Travelocity, online travel booking specialist Expedia today announced intentions to purchase Orbitz for $1.6 billion in cash. At $12 per share, the buyout price represents a 25 percent premium…

Facebook is rolling out new options that will allow you to choose a person to maintain your account after your die. The feature will initially be available in the US, with other countries to follow later.

4K resolution may be the next big thing for the television industry but it hardly holds a candle to this breathtaking timelapse video shot in 10K with an 80-megapixel (if you were wondering, that works out to a resolution of…

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Department’s technology research arm, is hard at work on a project called Memex that, among other things, will make it easier to locate hidden services on the so-called Dark Web. …

Many of the largest tech companies have, for the most part, always dealt with security threats and vulnerabilities privately without sharing much data with each other. But all that appears as though it may change if Facebook has anything to…

Financial news site Forbes - and as a result, some of its readers - fell victim to cyber attackers late last year. It’s possible that Chinese hackers are to blame although Forbes notes that there isn’t yet enough evidence to point…

Target Ticket, the retail giant’s video-on-demand service designed to compete with Best Buy and Wal-Mart, will soon be closing down.

In the early days of building and selling tech products, life was relatively simple. You came up with a cool idea for something you believed people or companies wanted to buy, you determined how much it would cost to build,…