IRS wants your medical records

It seems that US authorities are desperate to populate its Big Brother databases on its citizens.

Wi-fi speeds get turbo boost

A team of German researchers from the Fraunhofer Instiute at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has come up with a new technique to boost wi-fi speeds, much like MW-50 injection on interceptor variants of Kurt Tank’s FW-190.
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Financial Times gets bitten by Syrian hack

The Syrian Electronic Army, which is basically the cyber branch of Assad in Syria, has managed to hack the Financial Times.

Chinese telcos get taken to the cleaners

While Chinese telecom makers are facing a  security purge in the US, in Europe they have fallen foul of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.

COBOL is alive and well at IBM

IBM has been tinkering under the bonnet of its ancient COBOL server platform and updated the mainframe platform so it can host cloud based applications and services.

Suicides continue at Foxconn

Just as it seemed the Foxconn suicide saga was winding down, reports have emerged that three more workers have killed themselves over the past three weeks. 
Yahoo HQ

Yahoo-Tumblr deal is a goer

Yahoo's beleaguered board has written a rumoured $1.1 billion cheque to buy the social blogging site Tumblr.

Software developers' pay checks hit hard

The US software jobs market might have grown by nearly 64,000 jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers' pay checks declined by nearly two percent.

Could there be a sequel to Dredd one day?

It’s taken a long time for a legitimate Judge Dredd movie to come along, and we finally got one with Dredd last year.

Stephen King's Cell is back

Even though we cover a lot of technology here on TG, I for one would like to state for the record that I hate cell-phones. It also infuriates me that with so many cell phones, Blackberrys, and iPhones out there, you still can’t get your messages returned or get anyone to pick up the phone to save your life.

Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) heads to Google TV

After languishing on an ancient customized version of Android for quite some time, Google TV is finally set to get a long-awaited upgrade with a new version of the operating system.

The creator of Beavis and Butthead takes on Silicon Valley

I still have very fond memories of Beavis and Butthead, and used to watch it faithfully every night on MTV when it was the hottest thing since sliced bread. Creator Mike Judge was clearly no one hit wonder, going far beyond B & B with King of the Hill, Office Space, Idiocracy, and more.

Cassini forms first global topographic map of Titan

Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earth-like and interesting worlds in the solar system. The map was recently published as part of a paper in the journal Icarus.

Video: LEGO expands Mindstorms EV3 model kit lineup

Lego has confirmed it will be rolling out three new Mindstorms model kits just in time for the summer.

Can math models of gaming strategies be used to detect terrorism networks?

Can math models of gaming strategies be used to detect terrorism networks? The answer is yes, at least according to a paper in the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.

The fall of Apple and rise of Blackberry - what comes around goes around

Blackberry was the most powerful smartphone vendor just a short decade ago. Indeed, the corporation managed to translate its massively successful two-way pager business into what was ultimately dubbed the Crackberry, simply because people were so addicted to them. 

Adding boron to make better batteries

Frustration led to revelation when Rice University scientists determined how graphene might be made useful for high-capacity batteries.

Storage market continues to boom

IDC's worldwide storage tracker has noted that the personal and entry level storage market has shot up 73.4 percent year on year - reaching 20.2 million units shipped in Q1 2013, with shipment value growing 54.1 percent at $1.8 billion.

Opening a window into the nature of the universe

A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford University that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the cosmos.

NASA's asteroid sample return mission moves forward

NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.