Technology

Chatham-Kent OPP say a driver has been charged with racing a motor vehicle after the minivan he was driving was clocked at 71 km/h over the limit. Read More »

Scientists with a cyber security firm say they have uncovered that a hacker used access to a Canadian Internet provider to hijack large foreign networks, stealing more than US$83,000 in virtual currency. The U.S.-based Dell SecureWorks says the hacker operated between February and May this year. Read More »

You may remember hearing about the Google barge project. Last year, Google anchored barges in Portland, Maine and San Francisco, California. It was rumored that it would be a moving showroom for Google’s products or as a classroom-like experience to teach consumers about Google’s technology. Read More »

President Barack Obama signed a bill into, law on Friday making it legal once again to unlock a cell phone without permission from your wireless provider, so long as the service contract has expired, according to The Associated Press. Read More »

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled on Thursday that Microsoft Corp. should turn over copies of its customers’ emails stored in an Ireland-based server to the American government. The case had drawn a great deal of concern from major tech companies and privacy groups. Microsoft along with other companies in the U.S. challenged a search warrant for the emails. They ... Read More »

BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is now fully available to Windows Phone users following a period of beta testing as the company looks to boost its presence in the mobile market. Read More »

Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced 2 new measures that give the green light for driverless cars to take to UK roads from January 2015. Read More »

The iPhone 6 has generated plenty of buzz and a large chunk has been focused on its rumored sapphire crystal display, but what if that was a false rumor? According to a new report from the Telegraph, Apple may not be able to use sapphire glass to cover their new handset’s full display. Analysts with Trendforce’s LEDinside told the newspaper ... Read More »

Amazon dives into the smartphone game with the Friday release of Fire — a device that doesn’t let you stray far from the e-tailer. Read More »

Hoverbikes aren’t yet ready for your daily commute, but in pushing to get closer to that point UK-based company Malloy Aeronautics has perhaps made the next-best thing: a drone version. Drone 3 is a functioning drone in its own right, but it’s also a 1/3-sized scale model of MA’s real, human-sized Hoverbike. Read More »

Lyndsay Kirkham, A freelance coder, was having lunch in downtown Toronto yesterday when she claimed she overheard some IBM executives discussing why they have concerns with hiring women. “They were talking about how they weren’t going to be hiring any new women – specifically any young women – that they were only going to be hiring mature women, because young ... Read More »