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Can Bitcoin Save The NBA's Most Beleaguered Team?
The Sacramento Kings announced yesterday that they will be the first professional sports organization to accept Bitcoin as payment for team-related transactions. Having pitched the league on on a...
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Want To Hack On The Internet Of Things? Meet WunderBar
WunderBar is a sensor and software kit for which you don't need a degree in electronic engineering. We have seen a number of DIY kits lately which allow users with no technical background to build...
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This Is What A Robot Brain Looks Like
The ascendence of microcomputers is nigh, but hackers working on robotics projects have never had a robot brain that works out of the box. Now a new board called Rex will allow tinkerers to build...
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Major League Baseball Is Outsourcing Their Reviewed Calls, Will There Be Riots?
In an unprecedented expansion of its own video replay program, Major League Baseball is giving team managers authority to challenge on-field rulings by sending them to officials outside the stadium....
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The State Of The "Smart Grid" Today, And Google's Future Role In It
Google's acquisition of Nest provoked a wave of uncertainty about all the personal data acquired by Nest's smart thermostats. So what happens when our homes are connected to a "smart grid," and what...
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Tepid China Mobile iPhone Launch Isn't Necessarily A Bad Sign
Tim Cook flew to China to help court China Mobile's 760 million subscribers, but unlike the iPhone's well documented U.S. launches, about a dozen people lined up to buy the newest iPhone early Friday...
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How This Tone-Deaf Startup Redeemed Itself After Founder's Comments About Bay...
One of the things that perpetually ignites anger among longtime San Franciscans about the tech-infused change sweeping the city, isn't just that tech entrepreneurs dislike the city's homelessness...
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Twitter Gets Serious About Social Shopping
Have you ever scrolled through your Twitter feed and spotted that shiny, must-have new gadget? Next time, you might be able to just click "Buy," thanks to a new deal between Twitter and payments...
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Confirmed: Your Web-Savvy Kids Are Outsmarting Your Parental Controls
Think you're keeping track of your 13-year-old's online habits? A new study suggests they may be outsmarting you every step of the way.The Ofcom Report on Internet safety measures validated every...
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Beats Can't Save The Music Industry, But This New Business Model Could
On the eve of Beats launching its streaming music service, it's hard to feel anything other than disappointment. Music services keep popping up promising a new era for digital music, but no one has...
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How VCs Are Coping With The Startup Boom
Until recently, venture capitalists and early-stage investors had to rely on their intuition and hand-rolled spreadsheets to know which companies were worth funding. But with a glut of new companies to...
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Why Everydisk Might Make You Ditch Dropbox For Good
We've all been there: on the move with a laptop, only to realize you need a file on your desktop. Now a team of former Apple employees calling themselves Avatron thinks it has the answer. The product...
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How This Team Built Their Own Secure Version Of Google Chrome
The folks behind WhiteHat Security weren't satisfied with the security and privacy found in exiting web browsers, so they decided to make their own--and quickly encountered a huge design challenge. The...
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Microsoft Reveals Secret Ability To Remotely Uninstall Programs From Your...
Last August, the Tor browser network received a massive spike of 4 million signups. As it turned out, a botnet was installing Tor on victims' PCs and using the browsers to start mining Bitcoins....
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What Is Polymorphic Code?
A traditional form of attack by cyber criminals, polymorphic malware, has the ability to hide itself, changing variations with each new device while keeping its original algorithm. Since the code is...
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South Korea's "Robot Land" Will Open In 2015
Back in 2009, the South Korean government publicized plans for a robot theme park slated to open in 2012, but it never took shape. Now the Masan Robot Land Park is resuscitating plans by breaking...
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Is HP Really Shunning Windows 8, Or Is This Just A Cheap Marketing Ploy?
This week, in an attempt to boost lackluster PC sales, Hewlett-Packard began promoting Windows 7 PCs to lure customers who may be leery of Windows 8's bad rap. The company claims that Windows 7 is...
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Inside The Robot Internet
Twenty-five years ago Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the World Wide Web--perhaps man's greatest source of shared knowledge, connecting several billion users worldwide. Now robots are getting their...
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Where Is Indie Gaming Going?
Nearly 100 people laughed and cheered as they watched an anthropomorphized coconut run across the projector screen, evading meats and cheeses on the attack. The game is called Organic Panic, and it's...
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Under The Hood Of The New NYTimes.com
For media companies, the pace of technological change can be unforgiving. The New York Times, well-staffed as it may be, is no exception. To meet rapidly changing business goals and reader...
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