IBM creates 9-nm carbon nanotube transistor
IBM has created 9-nm transistors from carbon nanotubes, the same versatile material that the world's lightest material is constructed from and can also camouflage objects. In contrast, silicon has a theoretical limit of 10-nm, and...
Publishing industry looks to Barnes & Noble to save it from Amazon’s onslaught
The publishing industry is in the midst of a massive decline, with sales of physical books dropping year after year, and Borders, the second-largest bookstore chain in the US, closing its doors last summer. The rise of ebooks &mda...
How crowdsourcing will give Hilton Head better mobile coverage
Hilton Head is an island full of sandy beaches, manicured golf courses and lush green trees. But one thing the island community doesn’t have is good cellular coverage. By working with RootMetrics to crowdsource testing of its local cellular networks, it hopes to change that.
Data Privacy: What Bill Gates Said 10 Years Ago
Today is International Data Privacy Day, an event backed by companies like Intel, Ebay, Facebook and Microsoft, and dedicated to educating data owners about best practices in protecting the privacy of consumer data.
The need to keep people from being ...
Google launches Sprint Galaxy Nexus information sign-up page
We first head about the Galaxy Nexus coming to Sprint through a poorly-timed advertisement, but the carrier made the device official several days later. What we still don't know is when the phone will be launching, but things appe...
BSR corrects NYT piece on Apple labor practices in open letter
It's no secret that Tim Cook isn't happy about the recent New York Times piece on Apple's labor practices, but Apple isn't alone in disputing the claims and conclusions of the report. Aron Cramer, the CEO of BSR, a company which c...
Google, Facebook, Privacy — And You
Like millions of other people, I got an email from Google this morning. It was entitled “Changes to Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service”. The first sentence describes the intent of the changes as shortening 60 policies into one,...Twitter database reveals the 4,411 takedown notices it received last year
Twitter has been tap-dancing around foreign governments’ demands to remove tweets, as VentureBeat’s Jennifer Van Grove reported this week. Now the company has made public the 4,411 takedown notices Twitter has received in the U.S. under the Digital Millennium Copyright …
Curebit Apologizes for Copying 37Signals: “Stupid, Lazy, and Disrespectful”
That's awkward: Just as it was announcing a $1.2 million round of funding, online referral startup Curebit was caught lifting designs and code from 37Signals, the company behind popular collaboration tools Basecamp, Highrise, and others.
The copying was called out on Twitter...Microsoft goes after fake Halo 4 beta site
If you get an invitation to sign up for the Halo 4 beta, don’t fall for it. The site associated with the invites, Halo4beat.net (pictured), is a fake.
Halo 4 is one of the most anticipated games of 2012 and …
Making sense of the connected TV craze
Connected TV was front and center at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month: Panasonic, LG, and Sharp all shone spotlights on Internet-enabled televisions, along with just about every other TV manufacturer. MySpace even decided to resurrect itself at CES …
Manage Roommate Logistics with Shared Google Documents and Calendars [Roommates]
Privacy issues aside, we're fans of most Google services. If you have a roommate, sharing editable documents and calendars is a great way to collaborate on expenses, chores, and when you're having guest...
