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If you want to prolong your email's stay with the NSA, just encrypt it Among the documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden is one describing the National Security Agency's treatment of communication it intercepts authored by U.S. citizens. In short, if the domestic communication is in plain text, it has a five-year shelf life. If it's encryp...

The National Security Agency tried to crack the encryption protecting the Tor network -- known as a bulletproof vehicle for anonymous communication -- but was unable to do so, according to news reports based on revelations provided by former NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden Undaunted, the agency and its British counterpart, GCHQ, then repor...

What appears to be a service manual from LG was leaked on the Web over the weekend, replete with details about Google's upcoming Nexus 5 smartphone The document is listed as an internal service manual for the LG-D821, and it was first published by Android Police....

Researchers at JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, have demonstrated quantum entanglement between the motion of a minuscule mechanical drum and a microwave field ...

Following its launch earlier this year of a 55-inch OLED TV display, LG on Monday announced that it is working on bringing similar technology to mobile devices. The company's first handsets to feature the new OLED technology will arrive on the market next year, it said, following rival Samsung, which has announced that it will bring out a special...

Russia's FSB security service wants to ensure that every ounce of electronic communication is monitored at next February's Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi, according to a team of Russian investigative journalists The journalists reportedly unearthed documents and tenders from Russian communication companies that suggest the FSB will ma...

A Tesla S caught fire last week. I have a lot of experience with cars, with lithium-ion batteries -- and with both cars and batteries catching fire. For a time, I was the lead battery analyst in the U.S., and my house nearly burned down when a lithium-ion battery pack decided to fail while charging. (Thank goodness I'd also been trained to fight fires). ...

Over the next couple of months Instagram will begin incorporating the "occasional ad" in U.S. users' feeds, the company announced on Thursday The ads will include high-quality photos and videos from a few brands that are part of the Instagram community, the company explained. Users will have control over the ads, including hiding the ones they don'...

Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system may become an option on HTC's Android-based smartphones, Bloomberg reported Terry Myerson, head of Microsoft's operating systems unit, made the request to HTC last month, according to unnamed sources, and will meet with senior HTC executives in Taiwan later this month to discuss the idea....

In France, members of parliament unanimously supported a bill designed to restrict Amazon's ability to discount books In particular, the lawmakers want to prohibit Amazon's practice of packaging a 5 percent discount with free delivery, a deal so tantalizingly awesome that France is worried about the livelihood of independent bookstores....

Adobe on Thursday announced what has become depressingly familiar news to consumers and security experts: It has been hacked, and on a large scale "Very recently, Adobe's security team discovered sophisticated attacks on our network, involving the illegal access of customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe products," said Brad ...

Twitter filed documents with the SEC for its initial public offering, giving investors a first glimpse of its financials on Thursday. Trading under the ticker symbol "TWTR," it aims to raise US$1 billion in its IPO Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has grown from a microblogging novelty to a social network with 215 million monthly active users, 100...

Intel on Thursday announced Galileo, a microcontroller development board made jointly with open source hardware company Arduino for the education and maker markets Based on Intel's recently announced Quark system on a chip, the Galileo board will be available by the end of November for less than US$60, Intel spokesperson Kari Aakre told TechNewsWor...

U.S. law enforcement officials have shut down Silk Road, the online marketplace that allegedly facilitated the anonymous sale of illegal drugs as well as illicit services such as murder for hire FBI officials also on Tuesday arrested the site's alleged founder, 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht, at a public library in San Francisco. Until the arrest, Ulbri...

No one expects a free lunch. So when people use a free webmail service, many assume they will be bombarded with advertising. Why? Obviously, because the webmail services make money by commercializing the content of the webmail! Actually when you sign up for free webmail, and click "I Accept," or something similar, contractually you are acknowled...

Microsoft has topped the Reputation Institute's Global CSR RepTrak 100 Study for the second year in a row The institute surveyed 55,000 consumers worldwide about their attitudes toward the reputations of companies in terms of corporate social responsibility....

LiveHive is available for free in the Google Play store....

This week's All Things Appy takes a look at the five best, free geo-oriented apps for the iOS platform. To keep your costs down, we're concentrating on those tracking apps that don't require additional hardware, like sensors....

Employees at the National Security Agency received a memo telling them that they, too, would not work because of the government shutdown taking place as Congress does whatever it is Congress is doing (or not doing) right now In the memo, penned by the NSA's associate director of human resources and sent to thousands of NSA staffers, employees are t...

Three major Microsoft shareholders are pushing the board of directors to have the company's founder, Bill Gates, step down from his role as chairman, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday that cites unnamed sources The reported push comes at an inopportune time for Microsoft, as it is currently searching for a CEO to take over for newly retired ...