Courtroom verdicts and government crackdowns have so far done little to stop users with even a sliver of determination from using the Pirate Bay site. But now a mystery denial of service attack has knocked down the site for around a day.
Japanese researchers have developed Wi-Fi that breaks the three gigabytes per second barrier. The scientists were able to transmit data at three gigabytes per second and at frequencies up to 542GHz. They have broken into the terahertz band which is currently unregulated.
Nvidia is putting graphics rather than standard processors at the heart of two different projects. One is to bring high-spec gaming to ordinary mobile devices, while the other is to produce the world’s most powerful computer.
Google may be about to evolve the Android platform with plans to sell multiple Nexus devices directly to consumers.
If you view Twitter as nothing but an endless stream of passing comments that belong in the moment, you may be bemused by the company’s latest tweak to its service. It’s launching a weekly e-mail newsletter, custom-made for each user.
The International Space Station (ISS) is expected to continue operating until 2020, which is four years longer than the previous estimate. But the ISS is getting long in the tooth and with the decommissioning of the Space Shuttle fleet, the United States, at least is looking to private companies like SpaceX to take over resupply and astronaut travel to and from the ISS. Soon a private company, Bigelow Aerospace will be providing inflatable habitats that are larger than the ISS and can be leased for a variety of purposes.
It turns out Ashton Kutcher does have the ability to look like Steve Jobs. It’s just a shame he’s a terrible actor.
Surely Siri, which resides on the iPhone 4S, would consider the iPhone 4S the best smartphone ever. Or the Nokia Lumia 900. Whatever.
The billion dollar Facebook take over of Instagram could be delayed as much as a year thanks to the Federal Trade Commission launching an investigation. The probe appears to be routine, but is awkward timing giving the imminent Facebook IPO.
To date the app business on Facebook has been on the hard drugs model: the first few hits are free and then you have to pay to feed your addiction. Now the site is to allow developers to charge for applications straight off the bat.
Rovio has announced that Angry Birds has racked up 1 billion downloads in total. And it’s not stopping there in its quest to rule the mobile gaming world.
There’s no way of knowing if MySpace will even exist in the year 2032. But if it does, the Federal Trade Commission will be closely monitoring it thanks to a new settlement.
Driverless cars may well be the future. Nevada certainly thinks so, and has issued the first ever vehicle license to a self-driving car. One of Google’s, naturally.
There are two situations in which you can call yourself a billionaire, one even more impressive than the other. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is a dead cert to achieve one, and looks set to briefly achieve the other.
Tumblr is being sued by by a porn company over copyright infringement related to some of its images. Industry watchers consider this is a potentially important case with implications for the whole photo-sharing industry.
Several major automakers have agreed a standard for fast-charging sockets for electric vehicles. It will take as long as five years to take full effect, but should mean a 20 minute charge is possible at all charging stations.
Samsung finally took the wraps of “the next Galaxy,” which, as expected, is the Galaxy S III, at an press event in London earlier today. Here are all the details you need to know, along with some you probably don’t.
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