The Internet Archive launched a campaign to preserve classic console games a little over a year ago. In that short amount of time, the non-profit digital library has amassed quite a collection of titles which are playable right in your…

Tencent Holdings, China's largest publicly traded Internet firm, has launched the country's first online-only bank. Dubbed WeBank, the financial institution is named after the company's popular messaging app WeChat, and is operating under a pilot program that aims to expand…

In the coming weeks, Google will be adding support for 360-degree video uploads to YouTube.

There’s no shortage of services that let users watch TV and movies over the web but the one hurdle that has kept many from cutting the cord is sports. Up to this point, there hasn’t been a reliable way to…

New Year’s resolutions can be tough to keep without constant motivation and support but that shouldn’t be an issue for Mark Zuckerberg.

Netflix has begun blocking users' access to the service when it detects that a geolocation bypassing utility, such as a proxy or VPN, is being used. Although these blocks are currently limited in scope, it could be a precursor to…

Nearly a year since the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy, after losing a total of 850,000 bitcoins in what it claimed was a hack attack, Japan's police has found evidence that around 99 percent of the lost bitcoins disappeared…

Lizard Squad, the hacking collective that took credit for the recent Xbox Live and PlayStation Network outage, is now selling the DDoS service they used in the attacks to anyone who is willing to pay for it.

In an effort to make up for the recent PlayStation Network outage, Sony will be offering all PlayStation Plus members a five-day extension on their memberships. Terming it as an "appreciation for your patience," the company said the extension will…

With 691 horsepower on tap, we’ve known for a while now that Tesla’s Model S P85D was a beast (at least on paper) but how does that performance translate in the real world? Pretty damn good, as some newly published…

Gmail users in China are slowly regaining access to their accounts following a four-day outage. It’s still a work in progress as some are still reporting issues with receiving incoming messages while others remain down completely.

There’s something oddly appealing about porting games or apps to platforms in which they don’t belong. In the clip above from Finnish programmer / artist Pekka Väänänen who managed to create a demake of the classic first-person shooter Quake to…

Nearly a couple of years after Kim Dotcom, founder of file hosting service Mega, first unveiled his company's plans to offer an encrypted video-calling and chat service, the internet mogul has announced that the browser-based service will launch soon.

Game of Thrones is the 'most-pirated TV show of the year' for the third consecutive time. This according to estimates compiled by TorrentFreak, which says the HBO drama’s season finale was torrented 8.1 million times during 2014. The Walking Dead…

Apparently, the gamble Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) took by releasing The Interview online has paid off, as the company has revealed that the film, which was made at a budget of $44 million, grossed over $15 million in online sales…

China has long had complicated relationship with Google, and for the past six months, several of the company’s services have been experiencing disruption as a result of censorship believed to be related to the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square…

Just over a month after Aereo filed for Chapter 11 protection, a bankruptcy court in New York has granted the now-defunct video streaming service permission to sell off its TV streaming technology assets.

Social media has become an indispensable part of many people’s lives. The one trend that piqued our interest this year is social activism or “clicktivism”. I was recently asked to be a guest on a TV show to talk about social media, and thought I’d share some of the Q&A and my notes.

German astronaut Alexander Gerst recently returned from a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station. Between conducting various experiments in Lower Earth Orbit as part of his Blue Dot mission, the astronaut managed to capture 12,500 strategic images of our…

A US judge has denied Facebook’s request to dismiss a class action lawsuit accusing the company of violating its users’ privacy by scanning the content of their private Facebook messages for advertisement purposes.

Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, the online services for Microsoft's and Sony's game consoles, are experiencing intermittent outages apparently due to a malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

If nothing else, Sony Pictures is determined to mitigate the damage stemming from the attack on its computer systems last month. After reportedly launching a DDoS attack to slow the spread of stolen data shared on certain websites, we’re now…

Up until now, one of the main reasons people preferred Uber when traveling in groups was that the ridesharing service allowed passengers to split fares through its mobile app, a feature the company released back in July last year. But…

Google has released its latest transparency report, revealing that the company received a total of 3,105 government requests to remove 14,637 pieces of content between July and December 2013, down from the 3,846 the search giant received in the first…

Marcus “Notch” Persson captured headlines late last week by outbidding Jay-Z and Beyonce for the most expensive mansion ever sold in Beverly Hills. Unsurprisingly, it took the Minecraft community less than a week to recreate Notch’s new pad in the immensely…