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The long-awaited iOS 7.1 update is now available. While this is a point release, Apple has made several tweaks to the iOS user interface, alongside the usual bug fixes and some feature additions. The main visual changes can be found in the phone dialer and power off features. iOS 7.1 switches to rounded UI elements Continue Reading →

Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer’s big media push is getting under way. On Monday, Katie Couric announced her official debut with Yahoo, slated for Friday with an interview with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Couric is just one of a handful of high-profile journalists in a talent grab Mayer made recently — a Continue Reading →

NSA leaker Edward Snowden addressed a packed auditorium at South by Southwest on Monday, speaking via livestream from Russia. In response to questions from ACLU program director Ben Wizner, Snowden called on internet service developers to thwart the NSA by making strong encryption ubiquitous. “They’re setting fire to the future of the internet,” Snowden told Continue Reading →

Google on Monday launched the Google Apps Referral Program in the US and Canada. The referral program lets you share Google Apps with other businesses, and pocket a $15 bonus for each new user that signs up. Here’s the fine print: You can refer an unlimited number of customers. You’re rewarded for each referral customer’s Continue Reading →

Netflix must be really laughing right now, as everyone trying to watch the season finale of True Detective complain about HBO GO not being available. HBO GO has crashed—it’s been deader than Rust Cohle’s soul for the last three hours. I’ve tried it at least two dozen times—both through my computer and Apple TV—and it Continue Reading →

Comcast customers can now buy access to “House of Cards” season 1 through their cable set-top box and watch it across multiple devices — no Netflix subscription required. The cable giant struck a pact with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, giving Comcast rights to sell the Emmy-winning first season of “House of Cards” through the recently Continue Reading →

T-Mobile said late Friday that it is doubling the amount of data included in its basic plan and also including international text messaging at no added cost. It’s $50-per-month Simple Value plan will now come with 1GB of high-speed data, up from 500MB, with some other plans also getting a boost. However, T-Mobile did hike Continue Reading →

The Bitcoin community has been angrily pressing for details on what the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has described as a massive hacker attack that stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of its users’ bitcoins and left the company bankrupt. Mt. Gox’s staff isn’t talking. So another group of hackers say they’ve broken into the Continue Reading →

Hot off the launch of Beats Music, does the world need yet another music streaming service? Samsung’s about to find out. In January, Samsung actually shut down its streaming service for US customers — but now, it’s coming back as something completely different. Today the company’s introducing Milk Music, a free streaming radio service designed Continue Reading →

For the moment, commercial drones are, unequivocally, legal in American skies after a federal judge has ruled that the Federal Aviation Administration has not made any legally binding rules against it. The judge dismissed the FAA’s case against Raphael Pirker, the first (and only) person the agency has tried to fine for flying a drone Continue Reading →