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Imagine this: You’re sitting in your living room watching the season premiere of “Game of Thrones” when suddenly you get a text message from your 2-month-old daughter saying her diaper needs to be changed. No, she’s not a super-smart infant who learned how to text at birth — but her diaper is pretty smart and Continue Reading →

Researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing attack that infects home and small-office wireless routers from Linksys with self-replicating malware, most likely by exploiting a code-execution vulnerability in the device firmware. Johannes B. Ullrich, CTO of the Sans Institute, told Ars he has been able to confirm that the malicious worm has infected around 1,000 Continue Reading →

Google is working on technology that will provide data transfer speeds over the Internet that are many times faster than its current Google Fiber service in Kansas City, an executive at the online search giant said on Wednesday. Google Fiber offers data transfer speeds of 1 gigabit per second currently. But the company is already Continue Reading →

Is Amazon underestimating how many Amazon Prime subscribers it will lose if it increases the subscription price as much as it says it may? Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak dropped a bit of a bomb on the company’s recent earnings call when he told Wall Street analysts that Amazon was considering raising the price of its Continue Reading →

The iPad 2 was released in March of 2011, and has since managed to maintain a place in Apple’s product lineup through the release of no fewer than five additional tablets. The third- and fourth-generation iPads have already come and gone, and now AppleInsider reports that Apple is finally ready to discontinue the iPad 2 Continue Reading →

The U.S. technology giant Microsoft has rejected allegations that its Bing search engine censors Chinese language results for users in the United States. Bing on Wednesday denied the censorship accusations. In a statement, Bing said it does not apply China’s legal requirements to searches conducted outside of China. It did acknowledge, however, that an error Continue Reading →

Google’s intentions with its Chromebooks have always been clear: disrupt Microsoft’s Windows monopoly. The approach of low-cost devices and a modern cloud-powered OS has left Microsoft a little nervous, but Google is now launching the next stage of its continued attack: the enterprise. In a deal announced quietly this week, Google is partnering with VMWare Continue Reading →

LG on Wednesday took the wraps off of its new G Pro 2 handset in South Korea. It’s a large 5.9-inch “phablet” that borrows some features from last year’s smaller LG G2, while adding some nifty new capabilities like 4K video capture. The G Pro 2 has a 5.9-inch, 1080p IPS display, which works out Continue Reading →

Square Cash’s sheer simplicity has made it my go-to service for sending money to friends, and now Square’s hoping to make requesting money just as simple. Starting Thursday, you can cc request@square.com in an email (instead of cash@square.com like usual) to request money from one or more friends. The recipients of your email, assuming they’ve Continue Reading →

Facebook on Thursday announced it has added the ability to select a custom gender on your profile, a change it has made after working closely with LGBT activist groups. The feature will only be available to people in the US for now, but Facebook plans to expand availability “in the future.”  A custom gender on Continue Reading →