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Google Bus Protests Take a Paranoid, Dystopian Turn

Anthony Levandowski is a Google employee who has helped develop Google's futuristic self-driving cars. He lives in the Bay Area, where he normally commutes by self-driving car about 43 miles to the Googleplex, Google's headquarters in Mountain View. Earlier this week though, Levandowski couldn't get to work on time, after protesters blocked his driveway for 45 minutes.

Pope Francis Calls the Internet a "Gift from God," Points Out Problems Including the Digital Divide

Latinos are one of the fastest growing segments of internet users, which also happens to be predominantly Catholic. For Catholics, if there was any doubt that Pope Francis like the internet (he tweets from his account @Pontifex), there isn't now: Pope Francis has called the internet a "gift from God."

Google Glass Explorer News and Rumors: Man Brings Google Glass Into Movie, is Detained by Homeland Security

Authorities were trying to stop counterfeiting A man claims that law enforcement officers questioned him after he wore a pair of Google Glasses into a film.

GTA 5 Online Cheats for PS3 and Xbox: New Infinite Money Glitch Found Despite Rockstar Games Update

Despite Rockstar Games' efforts to prevent Grand Theft Auto Online gamers from using cheats and glitches to get bundles of GTA$, reports say that gamers have discovered a new infinite money glitch.

GTA 5 on PS3 & Xbox 360: PC Release Imminent?

Amazon did it again? The online retailer, which has been known for accidentally leaking some products before release dates are even announced, reportedly posted Grand Theft Auto 5 for PC on its European websites.

iPad Pro Release Date, Features, Rumors: 12-Inch Device To Launch by Late 2014

The most recent iPad Pro release date rumors say that it will be out by the latter part of 2014, as shared by an analyst.

Samsung Galaxy S5 Release Date, Features & Specs: Device Included in the Best 2014 Smartphones Watchlist

Apart from the latest news that the Samsung Galaxy S5 will have a home screen that looks the same as Google, the upcoming flagship phone of the Korean tech company has been included in the list of the best 2014 smartphones worth watching out for.

Google Glass User Pulled from Movie, Questioned by DHS, Is Pretty Cool About It

Google hopes its wearable computing eyeglasses, Glass, is poised to revolutionize our daily interaction with technology and the internet, but it's already proved a challenge to laws and societal norms. Just two days after Glass Explorer Cecilia Abadie got out of a ticket she received for "driving with [a computer] monitor visible to driver" while wearing Glass, another Explorer has run into the long, outmoded, arm of the law.

Titanfall Xbox One Release Date & Update: New Limited Edition Controller Available by March

Xbox One’s first ever limited edition controller looks like a homage to ‘Titanfall’ gamers worldwide and it’s coming to US fans by March 11 of next year.

T-Mobile Wants To Be Your "UnBank" Too, Reaches Out to Latino Families with Mobile Money

T-Mobile has now become notorious for upending the wireless industry with its "Uncarrier" plans (plus other shenanigans from CEO John Legere), and now the company is planning to "un" bank your finances. After surveying the market and finding that banks were charging too many fees and weren't appealing enough to customer needs - including U.S. Latinos - T-Mobile has decided to shake up the banking industry as well with a service called "Mobile Money".

30 Years After Macintosh, Does Apple Have the Same Core?

Most people wouldn't remember whether the Raiders or Redskins won Super Bowl XVIII, but they would remember one particular commercial that played that year. Thirty years ago, on Jan. 22, 1984, Apple Computer Inc.'s iconic Nineteen Eighty Four-inspired commercial aired for the Apple Macintosh, ushering in a new kind of desktop computer and declaring Apple's identity as a revolutionary smasher of conformist technology.

GoDaddy Seizes on .UNO Domain, Expanding into Latin America

GoDaddy is the first major domain sales company to take advantage of the new .UNO domain extension, the new global web extension dedicated to Spanish-speaking businesses and internet users. The company, known in the U.S. for its "racy" Super Bowl commercials, is using the .UNO domain to expand its business into Latin America, hoping to grow in tandem with the expected wave of internet commerce as Latin America progressively arrives on the internet.

Mars Rover Mystery Rock: Donut Rock With Strange Chemical Properties Appears Out Of Thin Air [BEFORE AND AFTER PICS]

The appearance of the debris has yet to be explained A mysterious doughnut-shaped piece of rock has appeared on Mars, which leaves the scientists at NASA shocked because the same spot when photographed two weeks earlier did not have anything in it.

iPhone 6 Release Date, Specs, News, and Rumors: Apple to Debut Phone in June Says Analyst

According to the latest in tech rumors, Apple will debut its next iPhone (presumably called the iPhone 6) in June.

PS4 Problems, Bugs & Fixes Update: What is CE-34878-0 Error? Corrupts Saved Data; Sony Offers Solution

A PlayStation forum post confirms that PS4 users who are getting the CE-34878-0 error are not alone and Sony has released a fix to the supposed app-related problem.

Amazon Reportedly Planning Internet TV Service as Intel Sells Theirs

Just as word of the demise of one carrier-independent internet TV prospect, Intel TV, hit the internet, another promising prospect took its place: Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly in the early stages of working on its own new online pay-TV service.

Streaming TV Online? Not From Intel, as Verizon Buys Intel TV Project

Intel, which had been planning a service to provide TV over the internet, announced that it sold its TV division, Intel Media, to Verizon. The deal, and the fact that Intel couldn't get its Cloud TV off the ground, suggests that the future of internet TV may not be able to cut ties with companies already offering television services.

Twitter Begins to Emphasize its Diversity, Starting with Latinos

Twitter, which went public in an IPO late last year, is looking to differentiate itself and find more users - and more importantly, advertisers - now that it has to generate revenue for shareholders.

Most Common (Worst) Passwords of 2013: Are You Securing Your Data?

The annual most common (i.e., worst) passwords list has been released, and there's good news and bad: the most egregiously obvious password has been downgraded from the number one slot, but its replacement isn't that much better.

Call of Duty Ghosts on Xbox One and PS4: How Next-Gen Versions Compare To Xbox 360, PS3 Versions

Call of Duty: Ghosts is arguably the best game on the market, but is the next-gen version of the game really that much better?