The social network shares details on its finances and users for the first time, Instagram will begin to show ads, and hackers steal data on 3 million Adobe customers…….

‘No way they’re gathering dust this time, honest!’……

An anonymous reader writes “Valve has revealed their first Steam Machines prototype details. The first 300 Steam Machine prototypes to ship will use various high-end Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs while running their custom SteamOS Linux distribution. The Intel Haswell CPU + NVIDIA GPU combination should work well on Linux with the binary drivers. Using…

Later this year, 300 prototypes of Valve’s recently unveiled Steam Machine living room boxes will go out to select users for a beta test. Here are the specs at last…….

Those in charge urgently need to understand that the free flow of information is the core of the country’s infrastructure……

Latest secret documents provided by Edward Snowden and published by Guardian show that National Security Agency has been trying to break through online anonymity provided by popular tool…….

In this latest offering of discounted iPhones from a big box retailer, Walmart cuts its price — again — for the “cheaper” version of Apple’s smartphone…….

On a recent UK trip, I got to visit the factories of high-end speaker company B&W, speaker and electronics company Meridian, and the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Here are those adventures, in pictures and words…….

New submitter _0xd0ad sends this news from the CS Monitor: “The activities of bantam water droplets in just one region of a power plant could make a significant difference in the output of power plants, scientists say. … When a water droplet forms on a sheet of metal coated with a superhydrophobe, the droplet can…

Silicon Valley is so busy inventing the future that it hasn’t noticed that not much has changed in Silicon Valley itself. Public schools are failing and its communities struggle with the same problems as elsewhere…….