This amazing interactive 6GB photo of our galaxy took NASA 10 years to capture
The photo you see above is one minuscule portion of a staggeringly massive infrared panoramic photo captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope that manages to squeeze …
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Steve Jobs happily got a Google employee fired for trying to recruit Apple engineers
Pando’s Mark Ames has been doing a terrific job covering fresh revelations about the probably illegal collusion between Apple and Google to not recruit one …
Comcast won’t force you to rent its modems
While there are certainly many reasons to gripe about Comcast, being forced to rent its modems shouldn’t be one of them. As Ars Technica, Stop …
Ad watchdog agrees that Google customers are getting ‘Scroogled’
Take a victory lap, Microsoft: Your claims that Google is “Scroogling” its customers have stood up to scrutiny. The Guardian reports that the Advertising Standards …
Microsoft employees already like new CEO Nadella vastly more than Ballmer
Glassdoor this week came out with its list of employees’ most highly rated CEOs for 2014 so far and the usual suspects in the tech …
BlackBerry’s big moment: Can it make money with BBM?
The messaging app market has really started to heat up after Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion and after Alibaba’s investment in the far more obscure …
Google denies snooping on Gmail users to hunt down leaks
Responding to allegations from TechCrunch former editor Michael Arrington that Google had accessed his Gmail email address to trace a leak from inside the company, …
AT&T Mobility CEO says Netflix should pay a traffic tax, not customers
AT&T pulled in a staggering $128.8 billion in revenue in 2013. The company’s operating income for the full year totaled more than $30 billion. According to the …
On Oculus Rift and Facebook’s grand acquisitions
So… Microsoft buys Nokia, Yahoo buys Tumblr, Twitter buys Vine, Google buys Nest, Facebook buys Instagram, Facebook buys WhatsApp, Facebook buys Oculus Rift. Notice the pattern …
Watch a man narrowly escape death in heart-pounding rescue video from Houston apartment fire
A massive new apartment complex still under construction in Houston, Texas caught fire on Tuesday. Footage all over every news channel showed the huge complex …
BlackBerry sues exec to stop him from escaping to Apple
BlackBerry has probably not been a fun place to work for the last couple of years for rather obvious reasons. So when a company that’s …
Yet another survey shows Comcast and TWC are hated by their customers
Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes and rock-bottom customer satisfaction ratings for America’s two largest cable companies. Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy …
Spotify cuts subscription prices in half for college students
As the music streaming market becomes increasingly crowded, each service is finding new ways to stand out. iTunes Radio teamed up with NPR, Samsung’s Milk Music …
New app lets you search through Google without being tracked
After Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks, Internet privacy is on everyone’s minds. One way in particular that people are looking for privacy is through their search …
Facebook to buy virtual reality gaming company Oculus VR
Wow. It seems Facebook’s ambitions are growing by the day. Little more than a month after his company bought messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion, …
Google is reportedly cleaning up Android’s security flaws for a major push into the workforce
Is Google finally getting ready to take enterprise customers’ concerns about Android security seriously? Two unnamed sources tell The Information that Google is planning a …
Achievement unlocked: EA escapes a third year as the ‘Worst Company in America’
It’s still up for debate whether EA took anything away from being named the worst company in America for two years straight, but the company’s …
HTC One (M8) review: The smartphone that changes everything… again
It is considered poor form to begin a review with the conclusion, but there’s really no reason to drag this out: the HTC One (M8) …
Live coverage: HTC unveils the all new HTC One (M8)
The sequel to what was arguably the best Android smartphone in the world last year is finally about to be unveiled, and BGR is on hand …
Video: Here’s some amazing footage of a man B.A.S.E. jumping off One World Trade Center
This year has brought us some amazing footage from cameras plummeting from terrifying heights, including a plane crashing into the ocean off the coast of …
We’ll be live from the new HTC One press conference today at 11:00AM!
Is it the All New HTC One? Is it the HTC One M8? Is the HTC One 2014 edition? Is it just the “HTC One” …
The biggest barrier to an Apple-Comcast deal
Apple customers are some of the most fanatically loyal tech fans on the planet. Comcast customers, not so much. For this reason, the two companies might …
Anyone who browses with Chrome will soon be able to use one of Android’s best features
Google has been experimenting with putting its voice-enabled Google Now personal assistant onto desktop versions of Chrome for the past couple of months and now it …
Nest CEO: Google, not Apple, is building ‘the technology we are going to need’
Nest shocked and disappointed many an Apple fan earlier this year when it agreed to get bought out by hated rival Google for $3.2 billion. …
Microsoft finds surprising new ways to undermine Windows hardware
It seems increasingly likely that Microsoft Office will be announced for the iPad within days. This could be a substantial blow for Windows tablet manufacturers …
It’s not just Microsoft: Apple and Google can also read your emails
People concerned with online privacy had a field day last week when it was discovered that Microsoft accessed a French blogger’s Hotmail account and read …
How to kill the DRM in your old iTunes purchases in 4 easy steps
Less than a decade ago, digital rights management (DRM) debates were as common and heated as online privacy debates are today. Apple’s iTunes was, of …
BlackBerry scores big early win against arch nemesis Ryan Seacrest
Every protagonist needs an arch enemy: Sherlock Holmes has Moriarty, Batman has the Joker and BlackBerry has Ryan Seacrest, the American Idol host and onetime BlackBerry …
