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Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday introduced a bill aimed at reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by imposing more requirements for prosecuting violators. Representatives Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., introduced a revised draft of the Act, naming it f...
France plans to propose a law that would prevent Amazon from offering discounts and free delivery for books in France. Amazon's discounts amount to unfair competition and threaten booksellers' business model, culture minister Aurelie Filipetti said. France is not alone complaining about Amazon's agg...
In a remarkable display of creativity, the University of Maryland has portrayed a prototype nanobattery created by researchers as being made of wood, sending the blogosphere into a tizzy. "A sliver of wood coated with tin could make a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmentally friendly batter...
There is no issue more polarizing regarding the subject of nuclear power than nuclear waste and what to do with it. The United States has 103 nuclear power reactors at 65 plants in 31 states. Thousands of tons of radioactive commercial spent fuel are permanently stored at these reactor sites -- abou...
Facebook's Instagram on Thursday launched a video app, as had been widely expected. Instagram video is available now in the iTunes App Store and on Google Play for iOS 4.0 and Android 4.0 respectively. "130 million people from day one are going to have access to video the way they have access on pho...
Roughly a week after being effectively shown up at E3 by Sony's more gamer-friendly approach with its PlayStation 4, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it had revised some of the relatively restrictive policies it had originally announced for its own Xbox One. Microsoft pulled the proverbial plug...
Feedly, one of the services vying to fill the void once Google's Reader is gone, launched its RSS infrastructure Feedly Cloud this week. Feedly was already on the scene before Google announced its popular Reader would expire on July 1, but it required a plug-in and was available only on the Chrome, ...
After a routine firmware update was reported to "brick" some users' PlayStation 3 devices, Sony on Wednesday pulled the update until it is able to resolve the problem. "Hi guys, we're aware of reports that the recent PS3 update (4.45) has caused," wrote PlayStation Europe in a Wednesday tweet. "We h...
France's data protection watchdog, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes, says it will fine Google if the company doesn't rewrite its privacy policy within the next three months. The CNIL will fine Google up to 150,000 euros, or about $200,000, and double that if it fails to act...
Google is asking the secretive U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to let it disclose information about its orders. Such disclosures would be made without violating FISA or the Court's rules of procedure, Google said. Google's petition to the FISA Court follows revelations that it and other...
Many of us are now at the point where we're trading in old smartphones for new. The big question is often, what to do with the old one? Possible solutions include leaving it in a drawer; trading it in; downloading maps and creating a dedicated in-car GPS navigator (Google Maps are now downloadable, ...
The United States and Russia are going to cooperate more closely on cybersecurity, the White House has announced. They are setting up a new working group under the auspices of the Bilateral Presidential Commission, set up in 2009 by President Obama and then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, to asse...
HTC's latest handset has emerged from the proverbial cocoon, but it's no tiny newborn. Rather, the Android-powered Butterfly S has "phablet" proportions, meaning it's larger than the traditional smartphone but smaller than a tablet. Packed with a quad-core 1.9GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, a 3,200mAh...
A cyberdrill for financial services companies that was originally to be conducted on June 28 has drawn such a strong response that the organization sponsoring it has had to reschedule the event. "Given the industry's robust interest in this program and the expanding number of individuals who wish to...
Money: It makes the world go 'round, as they say. This week, All Things Appy takes a look at the five best free Windows 8 apps related to money. If you need to keep on top of your finances, these five are must-haves and will get the job done not just efficiently but, in all cases, elegantly, too. Ap...
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