NY's Undercover Crackdown on Phony Online Reviews
A perfect hotel? An amazing restaurant? Teeth whitener that leads to romance? Such things may only truly exist in online reviews, and New York's attorney general says many of them are fakes, just as...
View ArticleProtecting Routers and Networks from Hackers
Hackers are no longer content to just go after computers. Now they want to go after networks' nervous systems."There are special kinds of malware that attack the router and reconfigure it," says Erik...
View ArticleBlackBuried: Last Gasps of a Computing Pioneer
BlackBerry's calls have dropped for good. This week's $4.7 billion bailout bid by Fairfax Financial Holdings, a Canadian insurer, isn't going to save the company's consumer handset business. In the...
View ArticleJeff Bezos Wants To Revolutionize Tech Support
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos couldn't care less how old your Kindle is. "We don't need people to be on the upgrade treadmill. If I see people using a 5-year-old Kindle, I'm delighted," Bezos says. Of course,...
View ArticlePlants Send Signal Attracting Birds When Insects Attack
Plants can't flee voracious insects. But a new study says plants under attack can call in their own version of an airstrike: Trees waft special odors into the air, which attract birds eager to perform...
View ArticleMaker of Dangerous Pain Pills Is 'Ghost' that Can't Be Found
A Mexican dietary supplement called Reumofan has gained a loyal following in the United States as a "100% natural" treatment for arthritis and joint pain. It's supposedly made by a company called Riger...
View ArticleFDA To Regulate Some Mobile Health Apps
In a move that many medical companies are applauding, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued final guidance for developers of mobile medical apps designed to perform the same functions,...
View ArticlePew Study: 15% of U.S. Adults Not Online
In 2000, Pew Internet came out with a report showing that half of all American adults do not have access to or do not use the Internet. Well, to say the least, a lot has changed since 2000. Pew...
View ArticleSpacecraft Delivers Three Astronauts to Space Station
A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts successfully docked with the International Space Station early Thursday, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting outpost to six. The new crew's six-month...
View ArticleeBay Buys Payment Platform Braintree
eBay has taken a big step toward better positioning itself for the growing market of financial transactions on smartphones and tablets. On Thursday, the company announced that it is buying global...
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