The 300 prototypes will feature a variety of Intel processors and Nvidia graphics cards inside…….

snowdon writes “The World Solar Challenge started today, and the top teams are now camped in the Australian outback more than 600km south of Darwin. You can follow the event live in real-time using satellite tracking at worldsolarchallenge.org.”……

The tablet landscape is better than it has ever been. Having used tablets in my work for over a decade, it’s amazing to look back to see how we got to this point…….

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes “Arik Hesseldahl writes that James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, says that the NSA tried to penetrate and compromise Tor, but it was only because terrorists and criminals use it, too and our “interest in online anonymity services and other online communication and networking tools is based on the undeniable…

Video games have mimicked real life for years. Not even trading stocks on Wall Street is safe from virtual attempts to cheat at getting rich…….

theodp writes “In a classic example of parody coming to life,” writes GeekWire’s Todd Bishop, “a newly published patent filing reveals Google’s ambitions to solve one of the most troublesome challenges known to humanity: Splitting the bill at the end of a meal.” In its patent application for Tracking and Managing Group Expenditures, Google boasts…

In the the arrest of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht the FBI seized around 26,000 Bitcoins. The FBI’s ‘wallet’ has been identified and is now the target of micropayments with pointed messages…….

MajikJon writes “The BBC junking policies of the ’60s and ’70s resulted in the loss of hundreds of episodes of the classic series in its earliest years. Through the work of ardent fans over the succeeding decades, dozens of these lost episodes have been painstaking recovered and added back into the BBC archives. Now, it…

Dave Ross takes us through why the Toyota Auris isn’t the Corolla it should be…….

In a dreadful sign of the times, the man behind Facebook browser plugin Social Fixer has capitulated to legal threats from the social media giant, who demanded he remove its key features…….