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Google Sets Its Sights on the Under-12 Set

Google soon will begin targeting kids 12 and under with tailored versions of its products, likely including its search functionality, along with offerings such as YouTube and Chrome ...

Orion’s Test Flight Triumph Fuels Mars Hopes

NASA's Orion spacecraft on Friday successfully completed its first test flight, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California at 8:29 a.m. PST after orbiting the Earth twice in roughly four and a half hours ...

Hawking Sounds Alarm Over AI’s End Game

Artificial intelligence eventually could bring about mankind's demise, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview published earlier this week ...

HP’s New EliteBooks Target Enterprise Sweet Spot

HP on Tuesday unveiled the EliteBook Folio 1020, a new family of business-oriented notebook PCs it claims are the thinnest and lightest in the industry so far ...

Journalist-Tracking Uber Exec Gets Vague Hand Slap

Uber has disciplined the company executive accused of using an internal tool to track a journalist's whereabouts, it confirmed on Monday. The company offered no details about the nature of that reprimand, however, or about the possibility of taking similar action against another executive who publicly suggested the possibility of targeting journalists with a smear campaign...

Lollipop’s Encryption Takes a Hefty Toll

The new full-disk encryption feature that's enabled by default in Android 5.0 Lollipop comes at a hefty price in terms of performance, according to a recent benchmark report ...

Google Dips a Toe in Ad-Free Waters

Google on Friday unveiled Contributor, an experimental service that lets users make a donation to support the websites they visit instead of viewing ads ...

Russian Site Exposes Thousands of Private Videocam Streams

A Russian website has been posting live video streams from unprotected webcams in homes and businesses around the globe, Britain's Information Commissioner's Office warned on Thursday ...

BitTorrent Sync Goes Pro

BitTorrent on Wednesday announced new plans for its Sync peer-to-peer Dropbox competitor, including a premium subscription option, along with other new paid products ...

WhatsApp Battens Down the Hatches

WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption and enabled it by default in the latest version of its Android messaging application, partner Open Whisper Systems announced Tuesday ...

GOP Caught With Fingers in the Twitter Jar

The Republican Party and at least two outside political-spending groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data in the months leading up to this year's midterm elections, CNN reported on Monday ...

Microsoft Widens Skype World

Skype on Friday announced Skype for Web, a new version of its VoIP service that can be used in a browser rather than through the dedicated application ...

Nvidia Flips Grid’s Game-Streaming Switch

After close to a year of beta testing, Nvidia on Thursday officially launched its Grid on-demand game-streaming service. ...

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Rosetta Plants 1st Human Kiss on a Comet

The European Space Agency's 1.4 billion-euros Rosetta mission on Wednesday achieved a first for humankind by successfully landing its Philae probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Now, the lander's fate hangs in the balance following a tense descent and the apparent failure of several key anchoring systems ...

Firefox Develops a Case of Selective Amnesia

Roughly 10 years to the day after the release of Firefox 1.0, Mozilla on Monday announced an updated version of its open-source browser, complete with a new Forget button aimed at protecting users' privacy ...

Are Tiny Internet Satellites Twinkling in Musk’s Eyes?

Elon Musk, CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla Motors, soon may be venturing into new territory: the Internet satellite sector ...

Phishers’ Attacks Pay Off Nicely: Report

The most successful phishing attacks manage to dupe their victims a full 45 percent of the time, according to a study released last week by Google ...

Foodini: Presto Chango, Your Dinner Is Printed

Natural Machines this week took to the stage at the Web Summit in Dublin to demonstrate Foodini, a 3D printer that can be used to create pizza, pasta, burgers and a wide range of other savory and sweet foods ...

New Jawbone Fitness Trackers Stretch High and Low

Jawbone on Wednesday announced two new fitness trackers: the high-end Up3 wristband and the entry-level Up Move clip device ...

Android Hoards 84 Percent Smartphone OS Market Share

Google's Android stole share from all of its major mobile OS rivals over the past year to achieve a whopping smartphone market dominance of roughly 84 percent in the third quarter of 2014, according to a new Strategy Analytics report ...

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