Anonymous has called off its feud with Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas following the return of one of its members, who was kidnapped by the Zetas during an Operation Paperstorm protest in Veracruz. The hacktivist group had vowed to launch a retaliatory attack of exposure of taxi drivers, journalists, and members of law enforcement working with the cartel today, November 5, unless the member was released. The member was freed over the weekend, but carried with him a warning from L...
A new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 live-action trailers, The Vet & the n00b, has hit the web, and despite the lack of gameplay footage, movie stars Jonah Hill (Superbad) and Sam Worthington (Avatar) have made the video an Internet hit.
The Nest - the so-called 'iPod of thermostats' - barely touched down on the marketplace before selling out; the smart thermostat is so popular that you won't be able to get your hands on one until early 2012.
Samsung's Galaxy S2 has sold millions of devices around the world in 2011, and now the world's number one smartphone manufacturer is set to release two more high end devices this week - the Galaxy Nexus and the Galaxy S2 Skyrocket.
The phone will ship with the current Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) but will receive Android's newest OS, Ice Cream Sandwich, when it is released to the wild early next year.
A group of scientists working with NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found a very powerful, fast rotating star that is far younger than others of its type previously discovered.
When Web sites require people to agree to their terms of service agreements, it is often to prevent children from accessing the site's content.
Google's Galaxy Nexus, the next generation Android-powered device, will be the first smartphone to run the latest software from the search giant, nicknamed Ice Cream Sandwich. Android 4.0 will debut on Google's self branded Samsung device, and then be pushed out to other high end smartphones on an as yet unpublicized time frame
The Kenyan government made a move this week to begin laying down a framework for regulating bio-prospecting by foreign groups, discouraging bio-piracy and spurring commercialization simultaneously.
Once Apple unleashed the iPhone 4S on the world Oct. 14, it started selling its older models of iPhone for drastically reduced prices. iPhone 4S famously broke sales records that weekend, but there's no numbers on how many of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS the company sold
Best Buy is offering those who are purchasing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,which launches Nov. 8, a free HTC smartphone with their gaming purchase.
Since the recent iOS update for Apple devices, users have noticed a decrease in battery life. Apple is working on the issue, with two betas released this week and an update expected soon.
Samsung's Focus Flash and Focus S are the company's latest smartphone offerings running on the Microsoft system instead of the Google Android system they have done so well with.
The much anticipated trailer for the game premiered Nov. 2. It looked more like a movie trailer showing off sandy beaches, golf courses, jets flying around a huge L.A. like city while a disembodied narrator talks about his wish to get out of the business.
Kindle-Fire has a been hit so far for Amazon, but an unexpected contender showed up on shelves a bit earlier than announced, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.0 Pro. It was supposed to debut in the U.S. Nov. 13, but is now available on Amazon.
The Elder Scrolls is a series of fantasy role-playing games known for giving their players an incredible amount of freedom. Skyrim comes out Nov. 11 and developers have released a musical tour of the new game.
Hewlett-Packard announced today that it was getting back into the tablet business with the launch of the Slate 2, a Windows 7-based device geared specifically towards enterprise users, with its expanded touch capabilities enhanced multitasking performance and embedded security. Pricing for the Slate 2 starts at $699, with the tablet expected to be available worldwide later this month.
Research in Motion (RIM) launched BBM Music this week, a music-sharing app a spokesman for the company has said evolves the mixtape. Seeking to capitalize upon - and perhaps revive - its BlackBerry Messenger network of 45 million users, RIM's newest app allows users to choose 50 songs from an extensive cloud-based library of content licensed from music giants Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI, as well as from smaller independent labels.
NASA scientists find the more habitual parts of Mars were subterranean where most of the water was warm and wet.
The new Ultimate update releases only a year after the original MvC3 was launched and adds 12 new characters and a host of modes and gameplay balances.
Apple's Siri technology from the record-selling iPhone 4S has been only intermittently available today for hundreds of people, and the twitter-verse predictably went a bit crazy. People began tweeting earlier today that the Siri voice recognition would launch, but it would not answer questions or perform its other functions
iPad 3 could launch in early 2012, but the slew of competing tablets released this fall and anything that's already out there are having a tough time competing with the first two iPads
The new Modern Warfare offers some very familiar gameplay mechanics with perks but adds in Strike Packages and a new mode: Kill Confirmed.
HTC, the Taiwan based smartphone maker, is set to debut three new devices in the next week, the HTC Titan, HTC Vivid and the HTC Rezound. All three have distinctive characteristics and are really meant for three different types of customers, not a bad strategy with the shopping season closing in
Yahoo's new iPad app, Livestand, is now available in the App Store, and it's designed to be a one stop magazine content aggregator that lets you share what you're reading and discover new magazines.
Executives from some of the largest players in the supercomputing industry gathered in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss the future of high performance computing (HPC) at the HPC Industry Roundtable, hosted by AMD and moderated by Carl Claunch, VP & Distinguished Analyst at Gartner.
Asteroid 2005 YU55 is scheduled to skirt Earth on Nov. 8, giving astronomers an unparalleled opportunity to make observations about the space rock. Over four hundred yards across, the asteroid is large enough to cause damage on a regional scale if it were to make contact. Luckily, it will just miss Earth, whizzing past at the decidedly cozy distance of 201,700 miles - closer than our own Moon.
A new trailer for the Devil May Cry reboot released Nov. 2 and was spectacularly creepy. The new game is set in a creepy and twisted contemporary backdrop.
Nightwing will join the cast of “Batman: Arkham City,” in new down loadable content released Nov. 2. Nightwing is the older version of Batman’s first sidekick, Dick Grayson, when he tired of being Robin and went solo.
A human tooth fragment unearthed nearly 100 years ago has given anthropologists a new window into the earliest time period of modern human existence in Western Europe.
