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Google has entered into a $17 million settlement with 37 states and the District of Columbia after the company was found to circumvent privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser. Between 2011 and 2012, Google secretly stored web tracking cookies in Safari, overriding Apple’s default settings that forbid third-party cookies from being installed. “By tracking millions Continue Reading →

Yahoo recently announced that it will encrypt webmail by default, and on Monday Marissa Mayer shared that the security measure will be applied across all Yahoo products “by the end of Q1 2014.” In a post on the company Tumblr, CEO Mayer outlined three specific measures to protect user data: Encrypt all information that moves Continue Reading →

The problem with lithium ion batteries is that the more discharge cycles you put them through, the less efficient the negative electrode becomes at holding electrons. This just won’t do in our mobile future, so researchers at Stanford University have developed a battery that actually heals itself. It’s nearly alive. Researchers have been working to Continue Reading →

Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed US government computers and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago, the FBI warned this week. The hackers exploited a flaw in Adobe Systems Inc’s software to launch a rash of electronic break-ins that began last December, the Continue Reading →

In response to the longtime, alarming proliferation of photos and videos containing child pornography on the Internet, Web search giants Google and Microsoft plan to introduce measures to block the content from their search results. The modifications will prevent more than 100,000 search terms from generating results that link to images and videos associated with Continue Reading →

Meet the Qualcomm Toq. The $350 smartwatch will be available come December 2nd directly from Qualcomm. The watch packs some interesting features including Qualcomm’s own low-energy screen technology called Mirasol that should make it more readable in direct sunlight. The smartwatch race just got a bit more interesting. Qualcomm designed the Toq to bring Android Continue Reading →

The Retina iPad Mini can’t compete with its bigger brother at showing the same wide range of colors, according to tests run by tech review site Anandtech. Putting the new Mini through its paces, Anandtech discovered that its color gamut hasn’t changed since the first model was introduced in 2012. Further, the Retina Mini’s sRGB Continue Reading →

Programmers who are fighting with Aereo, the Web TV service, have already threatened to move their shows from free broadcast TV to paid cable TV if Aereo wins its court battle. Now the guys who sell sports are chiming in. If Aereo wins, say goodbye to Saturday night baseball or Sunday afternoon football on broadcast Continue Reading →

Amazon on Monday announced the release of Fire OS 3.1, which includes new features for its Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX devices. You can download the free update now directly from here or get it over-the-air automatically “in the coming weeks.” First and foremost, Amazon has added Goodreads integration, which isn’t much of Continue Reading →

Sony’s next-gen PlayStation 4 console is off to a good start. The company announced on Sunday that it has sold over 1 million consoles in just 24 hours. Sony’s PlayStation 4 only launched on Friday in the US and Canada, so it’s an impressive start for just two regions. (To learn everything you need to Continue Reading →