The BBC irked many UK iPlayer-users a few months back, when it quietly removed the ‘Favourites’ feature from the Android app. All it said at the time in the iPlayer help section was: “Favourites has temporarily been removed from the BBC iPlayer Android App, but will return in an update at the beginning of...
New information about a gas leak that occurred at a Samsung plant in Korea last month has emerged, conflicting Samsung’s own version of events which caused one fatality and four injuries. One Samsung worker died after a pipeline melted once, leaking the gas, before it leaked a second time, affecting those that were working to contain the...
The more things change the more they stay the same. With the strike of his pen Tuesday, President Obama signed an executive order aimed at bolstering the nation’s cyber defenses and improving security. Later that night, in his State of the Union address, the President preached about the need to protect the country from...
Remember when everyone used to run Windows? Hardly a week went by when a friend or colleague lobotomized their machine with a virus. Some of this may have been a matter of Microsoft’s architecture, but much of it came down to Windows being a massive, juicy target. Given how much of our computing has...
Microsoft is all-in on mobile with Windows Phone. Which is good, because it really doesn’t have much of a choice. The Windows Phone mobile operating system has been on the market for three years. It’s been a year and a half since Nokia released its first Lumia device running the OS and nearly a...
The FCC’s third and most recent broadband quality report has determined that some types of broadband is still better than others, with fiber to the home and satellite generally offering more than the promised upload and download speeds at times of peak usage. But of course, that’s not the only stat users might care...
Clocks are pretty boring — unless Apple is rumored to be making one. Tom Krazit ticks off the details on the iWatch. Then Derrick Harris explains how big data will play a role in your future doctor’s visit. And finally, fresh from the D: Dive into Media conference, Janko Roettgers talks about the big...
Before this week, you may have been forgiven for thinking of Opera as a worthy but dull fading player in the browser space. No longer. Not only has the Norwegian firm caused quite a bit of upset by dropping its own engines and frameworks in favor of WebKit, Chromium and V8, but now it’s...
Fragments of a meteor reportedly crash landed in Russia, causing an explosion that injured over 100 people. Amateur video of the meteor streaking across the sky (below) have gone viral and the Interior minister has confirmed that 102 people had called for medical assistance, “mostly for treatment of injuries from glass broken by the...
Facebook announced in an SEC filing that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns 29.3 percent of Facebook shares (NASDAQ:FB), up from a 28.2 percent stake on the day of the IPO. With 632.7 million shares currently trading at $28.50, it represents a bit more than $18 billion. Remaining the largest shareholder is one...