In a direct statement castigating the press for misleading coverage, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper provided some background on why the Intelligence Community tracks online communications tools and technologies…….

Toyota, Honda, and Nissan were all present at Japan’s biggest tech expo, showing off their own highly distinctive concepts for the future of mobility…….

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DeviceGuru writes “At the Maker Faire Rome this week, Arduino announced a next-generation Arduino single board computer featuring a dual-processor architecture, and able to run a ‘full Linux OS’, in contrast to the lightweight OpenWRT Linux variant (Linino) buried inside the Yun’s Atheros WiFi module. The Arduino TRE features a 1GHz 32-bit TI Sitara AM335x…

It’s not spying, it’s an attempt to “understand online communication tools”……

Good news/bad news in latest Snowden leak……

An anonymous reader writes “Soured by his attempt to acquire a quote from healthcare.gov, James Turner compiled a short list of things developers can learn from the experience: ‘The first highly visible component of the Affordable Health Care Act launched this week, in the form of the healthcare.gov site. Theoretically, it allows citizens, who live…

Jellyfish shut down a nuclear power plant in Sweden, Google’s Project Loon rides the wind, and Nokia tries charging smartphones with lightning…….