A teacher from Maumelle, Arkansas, has disclosed how he lost his job after his Dropbox account was hacked and a video of him having sex with another guy was posted to a school website. Twenty-nine year-old Brian Cody Bray disclosed to the Washington Blade that the first he knew of the hacking was when a ...

Disgraced former U.S. Secret Service agent and Silk Road Bitcoin thief Shaun W. Bridges is back in the news after it was disclosed by the government that they believe he may have additional bitcoins stashed somewhere, and may have an unknown accomplice. The revelations follow Bridges’ arrest early this month after authorities say he was ...

Apple, Inc. is a company that is easy to dislike, from their secretive nature, non-open app store, through to their sycophant fans. And then they do something that makes you think, wow, maybe they are really cool after all. The New York Times reported Wednesday that in the face of legal pressure from the Federal ...

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. has begun to roll out a new “reactions” option that allows users to respond to items in their news feed with more than its traditional, and simple “like.” Under the new reactions options, users are able to hold down the existing like button to obtain six new options: Like, Love, ...

Media and advertising firm Synacor, Inc. has acquired San Francisco-based advertising firm Technorati, Inc. for $3 million. Founded in 2002, Technorati was one of the early darlings of the then “Web 2.0” movement and tracked and ranked the then nascent blogging space. Towards the end of the decade it shifted its focus away from being ...

Nationwide protests were held outside Apple Stores and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building in Washington D.C. Tuesday, as it was revealed that the Justice Department (DoJ) had demanded Apple unlock at least a dozen iPhones. The controversy around the issue first came into the public spotlight last week when the DoJ demanded via ...

In a coup for Google, Inc., music streaming firm Spotify AB has announced it’s moving its service to the Google Cloud. Founded in 2006, Spotify has until now hosted its service by itself in data centers in its native Stockholm, as well as the United Kingdom and the United States, but has decided that the ...

Sony Corp.’s education division Sony Global Education has announced that it has developed a Blockchain-based platform for secure sharing of academic proficiency and progress records. The new, unnamed platform leverages the Blockchain to allows the distribution of these records, which are often required to be shared not only across a single educational institution, but across ...

AT&T, Inc. and Intel Corp. have teamed up to test technologies for drones that will allow them to communicate over the 4G LTE network. The announcement, made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Monday, detailed that the utilization of the 4G network would not only allow drones to fly further than they are currently ...

Oracle Corporation has acquired cloud application hypervisor provider Ravello Systems, Inc. The price of the acquisition was not officially disclosed but VentureBeat put the price at $500 million. Founded in 2011, Ravello bills itself as “the industry’s first Cloud Application Hypervisor provider,” and allows enterprises to encapsulate their multi-VM applications and run them anywhere – ...