The United States Department of Justice says that streaming TV service Aereo is violating copyright law. Aereo, unsurprisingly, disagrees. In five days, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments from both sides. The former has already made its case to… Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/m4GvspPICOg/Tags: Cuonzo Martin   the masters   Angelina Jolie Oscars 2014   pharrell   […]

After composing some of the most memorable songs in gaming for Bungie games including most of the Halo series, Myth and Oni, Martin O’Donnell tweeted tonight that he has been terminated “without cause” by Bungie’s board of directors. It’s not… Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/Qk923fjjww4/Category: irs forms   Wichita State   bruce pearl   daylight savings   seattle […]

What happens after we die? It’s a question that has plagued the human mind since we first developed the concept of "death." The search for an answer—and, more importantly, a means of circumventing its effects—has encited organized religion and served to shape one of the foundations of human culture. Read more…      Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/CpJNf9Smzcw/why-freezing-yourself-is-a-terrible-way-to-achieve-immo-1552142674Category: Dancing […]

Microsoft bills its Bing search engine as a social one, and to keep it that way it’s renewing a partnership with Twitter to keep tweets appearing in Bing search results, the companies said Friday. Tweets have been featured prominently in Bing for a few years, as part of Microsoft’s effort to incorporate plenty of information […]

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Cairo, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013. Kerry is in Cairo pressing for reforms during the highest-level American visit to Egypt since the ouster of the country’s first democratically elected president. The Egyptian military’s removal of Mohammed Morsi in July led the U.S. to suspend hundreds of millions of […]

The MQ-1 Predator UAV is one of America’s most prolific and productive drones, having notched more than a million hours of flight time since its introduction in 1994. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for continued improvement to the platform. In fact, General Dynamics has also been hard at work with a slightly less […]

The crazy month we call October has finally come to an end, and it’s been one of the most hectic in recent memory. This week, we saw the Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 officially come out, and there was a bit about the iPad Air as well. Our guest on this week’s podcast is Taylor […]

Email providers Silent Circle and Lavabit are proposing a new email standard that would make it harder for governments to snoop. Strictly speaking, Darkmail, as the proposed standard is called, would keep individuals and governments from spying on email metadata. Traditional email can never be fully secured, as the standard requires some metadata to be […]

The Xbox One’s launch is moving ever closer, but we still have yet to see many of its vaunted software features running live in the wild. While there are a number of stories about why that is (unfinished / buggy software, licensing issues etc.), this video taken on a dev kit shows the console’s … […]

NREL to research revolutionary battery storage approaches in support of ARPA-E RANGE program PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 29-Oct-2013 [ | E-mail ] Share Contact: David Glicksondavid.glickson@nrel.gov303-275-4097DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) has announced that a project at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is among 22 projects that will […]