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Salesforce.com Drops $1M to Make Hackathon Results Fair

Salesforce.com has taken an interesting step in stemming the fallout from its recent hackathon by deciding to award a second prize of US$1 million to another team of developers ...

The Sky Is Falling – No, Wait, It’s Just a Package From Amazon

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is looking to the skies for his company's latest splashy venture, with a plan to start making deliveries by drones within the next five years ...

2014: It’s a Tablet, Tablet, Tablet, Tablet World

2014 may be the year when tablets muscle into dominance in the computer marketplace ...

Samsung Gussies Up Phablet Line With Galaxy Grand 2

Samsung has unveiled the latest model in its line of phablets, the Galaxy Grand 2, bearing a string of enhancements over its predecessor ...

Intel Chief Lays Out the Game Plan

In his first meeting with investors since taking over as Intel's chief executive officer in May, Brian Krzanich presented a road map for the company's future ...

Water-Resistance Breakthrough Makes a Splash

Scientists may have just created the most water-resistant artificial material in the world ...

Xbox One Party’s On

Just one week after its biggest rival hit the market, Microsoft's new console, the Xbox One, will go on sale with a series of splashy events to mark the launch. From the stroke of midnight on Nov. 22, a new war will be under way, with all three major consoles of the new gaming generation in the market ...

Samsung Crowns Galaxy Gear Most Popular Smartwatch

Samsung has claimed Galaxy Gear smartwatch sales exceeded 800,000 in the last two months, but it is unclear how many of them are actually on consumers' wrists. ...

PlayStation 4 Launch Dampened by Dearth of Hot Games

Sony's first new console in seven years, the PlayStation 4, has finally hit the market. It started retailing Friday, but the launch was not without its glitches ...

Snapchat Deletes $3B Facebook Bid

The furor around popular technology startups shows no sign of letting up. The latest big-money rumor centers on Snapchat, the company behind the eponymous 2-year-old smartphone messaging app that has yet to earn a cent. Its would-be suitor, Facebook, reportedly made an all-cash US$3 billion offer in recent weeks. However, Snapchat turned it down ...

New Netflix TV Look Clears Out the Clutter

Netflix has refreshed its user interface for game consoles, smart TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players, striving toward a unified user experience across all devices ...

iRobot’s New Roomba Leaves Older Models in the Dust

The upgraded Roomba robot vacuum cleaner promises to make consumers' lives a little easier ...

Model S Burns, Tesla Stock Goes Up in Smoke

The third fire in five weeks in one of Tesla Motor's Model S cars could prompt safety regulators to take a closer look at the electric vehicle ...

French Ruling Puts Google Between a Rock and an Orgy

A French court has ruled that Google must automatically block links to nine images of Max Mosley participating in an orgy, according to press reports. Mosley is the former president of the International Automobile Federation ...

Kepler’s Search for Life: Cosmic Haystack Just Got a Lot Bigger

Around a fifth of the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way are orbited by Earth-sized planets capable of sustaining life, suggests a study of data obtained by NASA's Kepler spacecraft and the W. M. Keck Observatory ...

HGST’s New Hard-Drive Isn’t Full of Hot Air

Western Digital subsidiary HGST has found a novel way of packing more storage capacity into a standard 3.5-inch hard disc drive: filling it with helium instead of air. Now, it is bringing the first product of this type to market ...

Google, Partners Caught in Patent Lawsuit Blizzard

A consortium of technology companies is suing Google and Android manufacturers in its first patent lawsuits after it outbid the search giant for thousands of patents previously owned by Nortel ...

Hyperloop Project Revs Up

A project to build a super-high-speed transportation system in California is gaining traction. JumpStartFund on Thursday revealed its users had voted to select the official name, "Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc.," for the company undertaking the challenge ...

Ashton Kutcher Joins Lenovo, Keeps Day Job

Lenovo's newest product engineer got a higher-profile introduction to the world than many of the company's other employees. Perhaps that's because he's also famed actor and investor Ashton Kutcher ...

Motorola Launches ‘Have It Your Way’ Smartphone Project

Motorola's making a big splash with the launch of Project Ara, an ambitious, open source hardware initiative that allows consumers to customize their entire phone, down to the specific components and display ...

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