After six years in off-and-on development, Mozilla's Electrolysis project is finally coming to users with Firefox 48. | Continue reading
Fifteen months after Superfish, Lenovo still hasn't learned its lesson. The company's latest hardware is still shipping with critical security flaws, and the company is still trying to protect itself by claiming it only affects its consumer product lines, not business or enterpri … | Continue reading
Promoted by Qualcomm® Snapdragon™With a Snapdragon LTE Modem in your phone, you'll experience epically fast LTE downloads, fewer dropped calls, and long battery life.Futuristic as it sounds, 2020 is a mere blip away. But in an age of fast and furious technological advances, that … | Continue reading
Gone are the days where a humorous picture or phrase will get your site’s 404 page noticed. In a version of the internet where GIFs are the new text and videos are the new photos, it’s going to take a lot more than a witty phrase to stand out amongst the crowd.But, we were surpri … | Continue reading
As if you didn’t need more proof that your darn kids need to get of the computer and into the back yard, researchers at the University of Helsinki and Department of Psychology have found that excessive Internet use – essentially bordering on addiction – leads to school burnout in … | Continue reading
Making friends in a city like New York can be really hard, but thankfully there now apps for thatMashable Associate Tech Editor Isabelle Chapman tries out Tea With Strangers, a website that organizes meetups at cafes.More details from Isabelle: http://on.mash.to/1OLzbXy Read more … | Continue reading
It’s not uncommon for me to power through work, cram in a run and cook dinner before realizing I haven’t really connected with anyone that day.I'm up to date with my Instagram feed and exchange banter with coworkers in between meetings, but some days I look back on the conversati … | Continue reading
Since the beginning of the Internet, the gambling industry has always been an adopter of all new online technologies that have been coming around. However, for some time now, the online gambling industry has been dealing with heavy regulatory impositions all over the world and ma … | Continue reading
Poznań, 6-7 October 2016. Call for papers now open. Deadline for submission: 30 May 2016 The Digitisation Days are a major event in text digitisation field organised by the Succeed project and the IMPACT Centre of Competence. This event includes: the DATeCH (Digital Access to Tex … | Continue reading
It’s the height of rush hour and all the freeways are clogged but you still have to visit a client across town. You enter the destination into you GPS but you navigation app sends you into the worst of the gridlock where you spend the next hour edging your way down an on-ramp. So … | Continue reading
Berlin, 30 August - 1 September 2017 Venue and Date: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Berlin - August 30- September 01, 2017. Call for Papers and other key-information will be published soon.Digital Meets Culture has been appointed as Media Partner of the International Conference. Some v … | Continue reading
In the near future, every inanimate object we interact with may not only have the ability to see, but could also improve our lives. In order for this visibility to happen, objects will need the assistance of visual sensors and cameras. Though hotly debated in privacy sectors, exp … | Continue reading
Microsoft's Wi-Fi Sense feature was controversial last year, thanks to initially poor communication regarding how the feature worked. Now the company has announced it's discontinuing Wi-Fi Sense in future versions of the operating system. | Continue reading
The "Sign in with Facebook" and "Sign in with Google" buttons have been a fixture on the web for years now, allowing Internet surfers to quickly create accounts on tons of websites with one click. No new usernames or passwords required.SEE ALSO: How to master Slack at your office … | Continue reading
Girona (Spain), 16 - 18 November 2016; deadline for submissions: 15 June The Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) of the Girona City Council and the Association of Archivists of Catalonia, are calling the 14th Image and Research International Conference, which will be h … | Continue reading
Advertisements used to power websites, but as ad-blocking extensions like AdBlock continue to gain popularity, content creators are losing out on that once-reliable revenue stream. The Internet is changing, and in order to keep the lights on, websites need to find new ways to bri … | Continue reading
God Mode can make your computer more powerful with a batch of handy shortcuts, but the same trick is now being exploited by malware. | Continue reading
Every company needs at least one terrible product. Apple's parvum opus turns 13 today. | Continue reading
ToyTalk, the startup that mashed together Barbie and the Internet of Things and let your kids chat away with Thomas the Tank Engine for hours on end, is cashing out on the bot craze with a slight realignment of philosophy — and a new name. The company developed a whole toolset — … | Continue reading
Barcelona, 11-12 May 2016 The Major Stakeholder Conference (MSC) “Co-creating Agendas for Culture in Europe. Memory, Inclusion, Creativity” will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on 11-12 May, 2016 in the framework of the CulturalBase project, funded by the European Commission’s Horiz … | Continue reading
When President Obama announced his support earlier in April for a Federal Communications Commission plan to open the market for cable set-top boxes — a big win for consumers, but also for Google — the cable and telecommunications giants who used to have a near-stranglehold on tec … | Continue reading
Amazon has always given Amazon Prime customers perks, but apparently "basic product availability" is one of those perks these days. | Continue reading
The pepper-spraying incident at UC Davis in 2011 made headlines around the world -- and the university's efforts to scrub its own online reputation are bringing those images and references back into the public eye. | Continue reading
San Francisco (US), 6-7 December 2016 About the Conference FTC attracts researchers, scientists and technologists from some of the top companies, universities, research firms and government agencies from around the world. Join us for FTC 2016, the world’s pre-eminent forum for re … | Continue reading
Facebook is working on bringing better Internet connectivity to the world in three major ways, and one of them is aiming to bring faster and more reliable connections to urban areas.Called Terragraph, the system is an antenna-based Wi-Fi delivery system designed for urban connect … | Continue reading
Leaked documents point to Verizon's deliberate campaign to shove home customers off copper networks and into fiber deployments, whether they're interested in using those services or not. | Continue reading
Madrid, 11-13 October 2016; deadline for submissions: 3 May 2016 Authors are invited to submit papers related to the Topics of Interest for the Cloud Forward 2016 Conference: From Distributed to Complete Computing Following the successful CF2015 conference organised by Promoter … | Continue reading
Dries Buytaert and Matt Mullenweg recently posted calls to arms in defense of the “open web.” I, too, am a believer in the open web. It delivers on the promise of the Internet: a world in which everyone is connected, and you can command as much attention as your content deserves. … | Continue reading
The Internet is at once global and local. The nature of internetworking means that the global Internet is built only of other networks. There is a small but key point of coordination on the Internet, called the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The U.S. Department of Co … | Continue reading
Are anonymous Tor hidden services really anonymous? This tool can find out by checking for common problems. | Continue reading
Australians want data. Lots of it.The country consumed about 50 percent more data in the last three months of 2015 than in the same period in 2014, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) twice-yearly Internet activity report, which was released Wednesday.That's 1 … | Continue reading
On April 2, the folks responsible for the entries in the Associated Press Stylebook announced that the word “Internet” will no longer be uppercased, thus breaking my heart and making some of our writers very happy. Read More | Continue reading
The end of an era is coming: As of June 1, Internet will no longer be capitalized.No, there's no law mandating the change, and the Internet will still be a thing, you'll just start to notice a difference in the way the word appears on many websitesSee also: AP Stylebook Finally C … | Continue reading
The Internet is now officially considered a necessary component of American society after a landmark move by the Federal Communications Commission to provide subsidies for broadband access for low-income Americans.SEE ALSO: Mashable House presents: The Internet of the FutureThe F … | Continue reading
Passwords transmitted in the clear, stored in Google Docs, and handed over to advertisers. Yikes. | Continue reading
Russian government officials want to exert complete control over the Internet in the country, Although that will be quite the challenge, there are plans in motion to make the usage of currencies not issued by the central bank punishable by law, and the Russian watchdog has blocke … | Continue reading
India’s e-commerce space might be about to get a shake-up after the government appeared to open the door to overseas companies owning majority stakes in domestic internet sales companies. Read More | Continue reading
Google Fiber may be the holy grail of Internet service for many, but many people still rely on landlines for everyday communication purposes or emergency use. In order to allow its subscribers to sever connections with the old local ISPs and telecoms completely, Google will soon … | Continue reading
This encryption fight is over, but if government statements are to be believed then we won't have to wait long for Round 2. | Continue reading
Netflix's library has shrunk by a third in recent years, and while the company is producing critically acclaimed original content, it's still lost access to multiple high-profile movies and TV shows. | Continue reading
I occasionally meet people who think the Internet is going to go away someday. Yes, some of its pieces do move around a bit. Bye, Friendster! Hello, Peach!* But its core benefit — your ability to find any information any time, and to build relationships around common interests at … | Continue reading
Apple is reportedly considering building its own servers to keep the government from intercepting and infecting them with various kinds of malware. Such a move would almost certainly raise the stakes in the company's ongoing battle with the FBI and NSA. | Continue reading
The US congress is striking a working group on encryption -- it needs to understand that its job is to enshrine best practices, not compromise. | Continue reading
In a panel at SXSW Interactive last week, Congressman Michael McCaul, Admiral Bobby Inman, and security industry experts Joe Ross and Dena Graziano discussed a broad range of cyber threats – to the military, U.S. businesses, and the public. | Continue reading
Amazon is now reselling Comcast’s Internet and television service on its site, via a newly launched section called “Amazon Cable Store” – a branding that implies Comcast may be the first of other cable providers yet to come. The Cable Store allows customers to browse a variety of … | Continue reading
The FBI made waves last week when it told Apple it could compel the company to reveal the source code to iOS but have thus far refrained from doing so. New evidence suggests it's far from the first time the DOJ has either made or followed through on that threat. | Continue reading
It's becoming increasingly clear that when autonomous cars really become mainstream – in reality, years away – they will be nothing less than a revolution. | Continue reading
The latest weapon in the War on Terror uses corporate-style analytics to direct the unseen hand of government propaganda. | Continue reading