With only a single machine that still has a DVD drive, Apple is close to finishing something it began nearly six years ago…….

Taco Cowboy writes “Salesforce has announced that it will be shutting down its task management software Do.com on 31 January 2014. ‘Salesforce acquired the social productivity company back in February 2011, when it was called Manymoon. At the time, Manymoon served over 50,000 companies.’ The announcement was made in an email to customers yesterday. The…

The new iPad mini is an upgrade that has some significant improvements over the first generation model. Even so, it’s not good enough to get me to upgrade…….

An anonymous reader writes “At a robotics conference in Santa Clara, California, the head of Google’s autonomous car project presented results of a study showing that the company’s autonomous cars are already safer than human drivers — including trained professionals. ‘We’re spending less time in near-collision states,’ he said. ‘In addition to painting a rosy…

The Audiophiliac spends some quality time with this portable digital converter/headphone amp, and loves the sound!……

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Apple continues to sell a tablet nearly three years old, but what happened to those devices released in between?……

SonicSpike writes “An FBI official notes that the bureau has located and seized a collection of 144,000 bitcoins, the largest seizure of that cryptocurrency ever, worth close to $28.5 million at current exchange rates. It believes that the stash belonged to Ross Ulbricht, the 29-year-old who allegedly created and managed the Silk Road, the popular…

A Vancouver coffee shop will see the first of five ATMs expected in major Canadian cities…….

An anonymous reader writes with this news from the Guardian: “GCHQ lobbied furiously to keep secret the fact that telecoms firms had gone ‘well beyond’ what they were legally required to do to help intelligence agencies’ mass interception of communications, both in the UK and overseas. GCHQ feared a legal challenge under the right to…