S     The last time we put a human on the moon was 1972, over four decades ago. Since then we’ve learned a lot about it. Our probes and robots have revealed it’s a harsh, barren space boulder with a nightmarish environment. But, you know what else we’ve learned? In the last 40 years we’ve also learned that …

  A disgraced lawyer, sitting in jail, obsessed with a kooky theory that the government tracked him by sending secret rays into his house… ends up discovering a secret government cell phone tracking program. Sounds like bizarre noir, right? But it’s true. It happened to Daniel Rigmaiden, who found out that the government had used Stingrays-covert surveillance devices that act …

It’s about damn time. Now that about half the states in the nation have passed laws banning revenge porn and several people have been convicted under those laws, Google says it will finally give revenge porn victims the option to get said revenge porn removed from searches. The search giant made the announcement today on its public policy blog. The …

  Here’s some bad news for Android users. Security researchers have discovered 100+ more apps that fail to encrypt your login data properly, making it frightfully easy for hackers to steal your password. What’s worse: the vast majority of the app makers aren’t doing anything about it. The specific issue, an HTTPS vulnerability, is hardly a new problem. In fact, …

      Change is in the air over at Twitter. Last week, the social media giant’s CEO stepped down, and earlier this week, we heard reports of the company’s forthcoming “Project Lightning,” a Snapchat-esque feature that’ll make it easier for you to keep up with trending events. Twitter’s latest upstart idea? Shopping. As announced yesterday in a blog post, …

Most people who have a basic understanding of, and experience with, a computer know about or have at least heard about PowerPoint. Beyond mere presentations that can be very powerful, PowerPoint also has several other tricks under its package. One of the tricks that most people may have noticed, but never think about, is that PowerPoint allows you to export …

AMD has announced four new graphics cards based on its Radeon R9 Fury GPU, the first to use integrated stacked high-bandwidth memory (HBM). Codenamed ‘Fiji’, it as previously assumed that the GPU would be launched as the Radeon R9-390, but AMD has chosen a distinct name outside the usual numbered series for its new flagship.HBM promises more than 3X the …

Amazon on Wednesday refreshed its Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader with an improved display and some new software features. The Kindle Paperwhite will continue to retail at Rs. 10,999 for the Wi-Fi only variant and Rs. 13,999 for the 3G variant. The new models will start shipping on June 30. Interestingly, the previous generation Paperwhitemodels continue to be listed on Amazon …

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has hinted that future smartphones by the company might come without a bundled charger. The hint comes in the form of a question asked by him via his Weibo account. Jun in his Tuesday’s Weibo post mentioned that, for reasons of environment protection, the company has been considering shipping future devices without a charger. He said …

One of the standout announcements from E3 2015 was Microsoft revealing that you can play your Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One. And if you were expecting Sony to follow suit, think again. Speaking to games industry website MCV, PlayStation Europe’s Jim Ryan confirmed this. The company will invest in software updates like SharePlay, Play as you Download, and …