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Unless you’re Ted Kaczynski circa 1985, living deep in the woods of Montana far from one of the roving homeless 4G connections we so conveniently enjoy here at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, your illusion of privacy is a sad, pathetic, ridiculous joke.

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The folks who brought you Robonaut have teamed up again to create a robotic glove that helps factory workers and astronauts get a grip with less effort.

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: More than 100 environmental and social-action groups say synthetic organisms shouldn't be let out of the lab until a new regulatory framework is in place.

MyFox Houston

AT&T offers iPhone user a settlement in throttling case CNET by Marguerite Reardon March 13, 2012 3:38 PM PDT Follow @maggie_reardon AT&T wants to sit down to talk to the iPhone user, who recently won his case against AT&T for slowing down his unlimited data service. AT&T has offered a settlement to the iPhone ... AT&T offers quiet settlement for iPhone data throttling lawsuitSlashGear AT&T offers quiet settlement with iPhone userWall Street Journal AT&T Gets Dirty, Threatens Plaintiff With Termination Of Service Unless He ...TechCrunch all 111 news articles »

Wired News

ARM Wants To Put Internet In Your Umbrella Wired News By Caleb Garling Chip designer ARM wants to put the internet in your fridge. And it insists this cliche of tech prognostication is no longer just talk. Really. On Tuesday, the company unveiled its new ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, a low-power chip designed ... New computer chip seeks to create an "internet of things"GlobalPost Arm's latest processors aim to stretch internet's reachBBC News ARM Unveils Ultra-Efficient Embedded Chip for 'Internet of Things'PC Magazine Engadget -eWeek -SlashGear all 94 news articles »

Bloomberg

Apple Said to Be Subpoenaed by US on Google Mobile Search Bloomberg You need to enable Javascript to play media on Bloomberg.com Play Apple May Be Subpoenaed by US About Google Search The US Federal Trade Commission subpoenaed Apple Inc. (AAPL) as part of its antitrust probe of Google Inc., seeking information on how ... FTC questions tech companies on Google practices-BloombergReuters Apple subpoenaed in US antitrust probe of Google, sources sayWashington Post Apple Said to Be Subpoenaed by US in Google InquiryBusinessWeek BetaNews -San Jose Mercury News all 453 news articles »

Gizmodo UK

Apple TV Set: Production to Start This Spring? PC Magazine By Chloe Albanesius The recent iPad event included an updated Apple TV but no mention of that rumored Apple television set. That will likely have to wait until year's end - perhaps as a "one more thing" at the iPhone 5 launch? Production of Apple television expected to begin in May/June for late 2012 launchApple Insider Jefferies' Peter Misek went to Asia and thought he saw iTVCNNMoney Apple iTV components shipping to suppliers, due for Q4 launchSlashGear TG Daily -Hot Hardware -AppAdvice all 35 news articles »

Attleboro Sun Chronicle

Goodbye, cruel Google--an ex-employee's lament CNET by Charles Cooper March 13, 2012 3:23 PM PDT Follow @coopeydoop As James Whittaker pines for a passing golden age, we offer a few reasons why he ought to smell the coffee. It's not quite a Google version of the now famous peanut butter manifesto, ... Google's Focus On Beating Facebook Is Wrecking The Company, Says This Former ...San Francisco Chronicle Google Refreshes Mobile Google+ DesignInformationWeek Google+: The newest social sphereAttleboro Sun Chronicle GeekWire -NEWS JUNKIE POST all 17 news articles »

Brisbane Times

Sometimes I Talk to Siri Like a Robot PC Magazine Having trouble getting Apple's voice-activated digital assistant to understand what the heck you're asking her? Just talk to your iPhone 4S in the modulated, inflectionless tones she loves. By Damon Poeter I have a confession to make. Siri gains improved weather and time functions in CanadaApple Insider Siri creates legal woe for AppleWashington Post Apple Sued Over Siri's ShortcomingsPCWorld Ninemsn -InformationWeek -Mashable all 157 news articles »

USA TODAY

New iPad prompts app tweaks by developers USA TODAY By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES – Software developers are salivating over prospects for the new iPad, which sold out online within two days of its unveiling and won't ship now for up to three weeks. By Jeff Chiu, AP People who order the new ... Letting Your Fingers Do the Photo EditingWall Street Journal Apple Launches Configuration Tool For iPad, iPhone ProjectsCRN Capital Region residents develop iPhone, iPad apAlbany Times Union CNET -Computerworld -PC Magazine all 112 news articles »

The Guardian

Samsung Supplies Apple With New IPad Screen After LG-Sharp Miss San Francisco Chronicle March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Samsung Electronics Co. will supply the touch screen for Apple Inc.'s new iPad after LG Display Co. and Sharp Corp. didn't meet the US company's quality requirements, according to an analyst with iSuppli. Survey: iPad Leads Corporate Tablet AdoptionThe Mac Observer Samsung Supplies Apple With Touch Screen for New IPadBusinessWeek Apple's new iPad features touchscreen supplied by SamsungLos Angeles Times CNET -PC Magazine -Digitaltrends.com all 1,156 news articles »

Telegraph.co.uk

Why Mark Cuban Is Rooting For Yahoo In Facebook Fight Forbes Mark Cuban wrote a nifty little blog post today on the Yahoo patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook that is almost certain to be taken the wrong way by casual readers. But make no mistake: there is a serious message that he is trying to deliver ... Facebook Is Ready To Fight Back Against Yahoo (YHOO)San Francisco Chronicle Yahoo stock fails to find traction in wake of Facebook lawsuit announcementSan Jose Mercury News Yahoo lawsuit complicates looming Facebook IPOComputerworld WTVR -BGR -InformationWeek all 1,002 news articles »

NASA is set to begin delivering its retired space shuttles next month to museums for their public display.

Space Exploration Technologies, a privately held firm founded and run by entrepreneur Elon Musk, has signed up two more customers for launches on its Falcon 9 rockets, the company announced on Tuesday.

The volcanic caldera on the picturesque tourist island of Santorini is showing signs of unrest. But researchers detecting the caldera's movement say it doesn't necessarily mean an eruption is imminent.

NASA will launch five rockets in five minutes Wednesday to study fast-moving winds at the edge of space, and many skywatchers along the United States' mid-Atlantic coast will be able to watch the show.

Telescope images captured of the sun on Monday show what appears to be a planet-size shadowy object tethered to the sun by a dark filament. In the image sequence, a burst of brightly lit material can be seen erupting from the sun's surface surrounding the dark object, after which the orb detaches from the sun and shoots out into space.

Fan-made movies based on video games are a staple of YouTube, but until now they've remained within the confines of the Internet. "The FP," based on "Dance Dance Revolution," is a rare example of such a film getting a big-screen release.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook's efforts to make its social network a friendlier place for businesses and popular brands are off to a strong start, the company said.

Cognitive scientists hope to bottle up a baby's brain — and the imagination and air of possibility that comes with it — and use the result to make computers more savvy.

Apple has released a massive security update to its Safari Web browser, patching a record number of flaws, nearly 90 percent of them leaving a critical component open to attack.

Oceangoing robots have broken a distance record by reaching Hawaii from San Francisco, braving 26-foot waves and gale force storms along the way.

It's not every day that online crooks come out from behind the computer, but when they do, they can make an ordinarily preventable scam much more potent, especially when your bank account is at stake.

AT&T is offering to discuss a settlement to an iPhone user who won a small-claims case that alleged the company was slowing down his "unlimited" data service.  In a letter dated Friday, a law firm retained by AT&T is threatening to shut off Matthew Spaccarelli's phone service if he doesn't sit down to talk.

Antitrust regulators investigating Google for potential antitrust violations have asked Apple how it incorporates Google search on its iPad and iPhone, Bloomberg reported citing two people familiar with the matter.

Feminist writer Irin Carmon knows how icky it is to be the target of an all-out Internet flame war. But, she says, sometimes it can open up a space for a conversation that might not have occurred otherwise.

Chinese cybercriminals have crafted a sophisticated, robust malware attack that exploits growing political tension and fear over Iran's alleged covert nuclear weapons program to infect PCs.

A new social media site has millions "pinned in" and Wall Street watching. NBC's Chris Clackum reports. (NBC News)

Fossils of tiny lobsters nestled together in a seashell suggest the fearsome-looking crustaceans were sociable far earlier in their evolution than known.

Sony's first 2012 camera to have a transculent mirror is the Alpha A57, successor to the two-year-old A55 and available in stores in April.

Looking to backup your DVD and Blu-ray collection and convert them to virtual copies for playback at home and on your mobile devices? Walmart will let you purchase virtual copies of your existing DVDs and Blu-ray discs through its new Disc to Digital service for Vudu, using the UltraViolet service.

Imagine swimming in crystalline ocean waters shot through with sunlight when one of Earth's most notorious predators swims into view — a very close view.

The iOS 5.1 update brought — among other things — Japanese language support to Siri. Unfortunately, the personal assistant appears to be struggling with the language.

PayPal, the online payment service owned by eBay Inc., is backtracking on its policy against processing sales of e-books containing themes of rape, bestiality or incest after protests from authors and anti-censorship activist groups.

Stroll along a newly paved stretch of downtown Bellingham, Wash., and you'll be excused if you think you put your foot in a toilet. The sidewalk contains 5 tons of crushed potty.

Many of those with Xbox 360s Tuesday morning were horrified by the discovery that their Gamerscores had been reset to zero. The problem has since been fixed, claims Microsoft.

It is generally a really bad idea to pour water onto your electronics. A really, really bad idea. Understood? Great. Now let me tell about how you can turn your iPhone into a microscope by dripping water onto it.

You might say this car is small and fast. The same words would apply to the machine that manufactured it — a 3D printer, developed at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, that can print nanometer-scale objects at record speed for the technique it uses.

Will next year’s SXSW Interactive feature competing hordes of economically displaced Americans roving the mean streets of Austin, vying for the online connectivity of privileged out-of-towners?

A snail transformed into a living battery has moved the world one step closer to having tiny cyborg spies underfoot.

Beneath the Earth's crust, the outermost hard shell that makes up just 1 percent of the volume of the planet, lies a hot, viscous layer of rock called the mantle.

This week Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky, are making for an inspiring sight, drawing all eyes toward the western sky as night falls and outshining all the true stars in the sky.

"Kony 2012" has been viewed more than 112 million times in just over a week, making it the most viral YouTube video ever. But it hasn't been all good news for the film's maker, Invisible Children. The CEO of the activist group has released a new video defending its spending practices and strategies after coming under attack.

Every South by Southwest Interactive confab is afflicted by an obnoxious industry catch phrase. This year it’s “solmolo,” which is Annoyese for "social, mobile, local," and Highlight is the "it" app.

The clearest view yet of the famous Apollo 11 landing site on the moon was captured by a NASA spacecraft in orbit around our planet's natural satellite.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion launched a keyboard on Tuesday that will couple with its poor-selling PlayBook tablet, and it hopes the potential for improved productivity earns it kudos among key office workers who have embraced Apple's iPad.

Scientists have long known that extended spaceflight is bad for astronauts' bones and muscles. Now evidence is building that it may cause vision problems as well.

Sir Jonathan "Jony" Ive, Apple's Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, recently agreed to a rare interview, in this case with a U.K. publication. He spoke at length about how Apple's approach to product design, its focus, and its obsession with detail differentiate it from everyone else.

Supply concerns over Apple Inc's new iPad are "overblown," Jefferies said in a note, adding that the company is expected to produce 12-15 million tablets this quarter.

Every year at SXSW, a new app seems to steal the spotlight. This year, that brief bit of fame goes to Highlight, a location-based service that tells you when friends, or people with mutual interests, are nearby. (msnbc.com)

Some Internet users are posting a photo of "Predator" star Carl Weathers in hopes that others will think he's Uganda's Joseph Kony.

As if things couldn't get any worse for the hacktivists of Anonymous, the self-described patriotic hacker who calls himself The Jester has struck another blow.

Yahoo stepped up its feud with Facebook on Monday, suing the social-networking giant and accusing it of infringing on 10 patents tied to an array of Web technologies.

Any author or filmmaker seeking ideas for a sci-fi yarn about the implications of artificial intelligence -- good or bad -- would be smart to talk to Ray Kurzweil.

Podcasting saved Kevin Smith's career.

In the early days of the Internet, there was hope that the unprecedented tool for global communication would lead to thoughtful sharing and discussion on its most popular sites.

It might look like science fiction but the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) hopes to turn this humanoid robot into a seafaring fact in an effort to improve firefighting capabilities on board military vessels.

In the lush rainforests of Africa's Congo Basin, hundreds of thousands of indigenous people live as hunter gatherers, depending on the forest's natural resources for their survival. Yet most have no legal rights to the land that has been their home for millennia.

The Guardian

Astronauts' eyeballs deformed by long missions in space, study finds The Guardian Brain scans of Nasa astronauts who have returned to Earth after more than a month in space have revealed potentially serious abnormalities that could jeopardise the future of long-term space missions. Doctors examined 27 astronauts who had flown ... Long space missions 'may damage eyesight'BBC News NASA astronaut brain study shows space flight may damage eyesightNEWS.com.au Space travel 'may damage eyesight', brain study showsFox News msnbc.com all 149 news articles »

A 12-year-old girl was reduced to tears while school officials and a police officer looked at her Facebook postings after forcing her to surrender her password, an ACLU lawsuit alleges.

It might look like science fiction but the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) hopes to turn this humanoid robot into a seafaring fact in an effort to improve firefighting capabilities on board military vessels.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is developing a grenade-throwing robot to fight fires on naval vessels.

"Bad Astronomer" Philip Plait explains to Helen A.S. Popkin why rumors of the end of the world have been exaggerated, and why he feels it's his job to fix the inaccuracies. (msnbc.com)

You might excuse Ben Silbermann, co-founder and CEO of photo-sharing site Pinterest, if he looks a little overwhelmed these days.

Maywa Denki, a Japanese art unit that's part electrical engineering project, part performance art project, shows off their unusual trove of nonsense machines. Nobumichi Tosa, the "President" of the company, explains why it's important for him to wear a uniform and appear like a company man. (msnbc.com)

Any author or filmmaker seeking ideas for a sci-fi yarn about the implications of artificial intelligence -- good or bad -- would be smart to talk to Ray Kurzweil.

The music of Luke Rathborne at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan does not prevent some from going online.

"Journey take you into the desert where you can randomly meet complete strangers and solve puzzles. In-Game's Todd Kenreck reports. (In-Game)

Any author or filmmaker seeking ideas for a sci-fi yarn about the implications of artificial intelligence -- good or bad -- would be smart to talk to Ray Kurzweil.

Instagram, the iPhone photo-sharing app that turns almost anyone into an artful photographer, is growing at an astonishing rate.

When speaking to the tech-savvy attendees of South by Southwest Interactive, it doesn't hurt to lead with a Web reference -- even if you're the former vice president.

More cars are including integrated mobile technology. But some fear these vehicles could be hijacked by hackers.

If you find yourself unhooked from your digital life support, you may need to ask those five little words: "Can I use your computer?" Here are some subtle guidelines to keep in mind whem borrowing a friend's computer or tablet.

Here's a challenge: Make like our forefathers (or, you know, us, five years ago) when they had a spare moment and take a look at the whole damn world around you -- instead of where your ex just checked in on Foursquare.

I spent a week testing out the Vita on a handful of games. My verdict: It's a powerful and promising device, whose ultimate success will depend on whether developers make enough worthy games for it.

Is that app you just downloaded surreptitiously gathering data to push targeted ads to your 6-year-old? Quite possibly.

Ahh, yes, February 15, the joyful day when singletons can finally collapse in exhaustion after weeks of maintaining a nonchalant front. Finally, you think, finally, the incessant stream of hearts and cupids and reminders that romantic partnership is the apogee of human achievement will come to a merciful end.

The online realm is replete with a vast cornucopia of information. So asking the masses something that you could have easily looked up yourself is just plain lazy, especially when said query makes you look like a full-on idiot.

The Internet is home to millions of pages of unwanted or abandoned debris, swirling slowly in the churn of search results and spider-combing.