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DHS warns of vulnerability exposing employee social security numbers
The Department of Homeland Security found a vulnerability in one of its vendor's software solutions that keeps information on background check investigations.
Peter Thiel’s venture firm to invest in space (exclusive)
Peter Thiel's late-stage venture firm Mithril Capital Management has just hired two space industry experts to evaluate opportunities.
Yahoo continues spending spree by jumping into the bidding fray over Hulu
Yahoo has officially placed a bid to acquire popular video streaming service Hulu, along with Time Warner Cable, Amazon, Guggenheim Digital Media, and former News Corp. President Peter Chernin.
Google and Microsoft agree to play nicely on a new YouTube Windows Phone app
It's all sunshine and lollipops over in Windows Phone land today.
OK, new Flickr, you got me. I’m back.
Sure, it's Pinterest-ic and Tumblr-y. But if you love images and imagery, the new Flickr displays photos immeasurably better that the previous iteration.
How St. Louis became a tech town
Guest Post The perception of St. Louis is a nice, conservative Midwest town, possibly waiting for a rebirth of the industrial revolution. But over the past two-plus years the region’s business and entrepreneurial ecosystem has begun to drastically evolve and flourish.
Erply raises $2.15M for cash registers in the cloud
Erply provides POS system and inventory management software for commercial retail and e-commerce businesses. Today the company announced raising $2.15 million in its second round of funding.
Collegefeed promises to better the college job search — here’s one soon-to-be grad’s experience
Collegefeed aims to help college students present themselves professionally online, explore career options, and connect with employers. In order to test how well they accomplish these goals I recruited a current college senior to help me out.
Pressure to perform: A closer look at web performance metrics
Guest Post In this month's startup shootout, Keynote Systems looks at how web performance affects site visitors and the best practices for creating the best user experience.
With 50 percent better battery life, Intel’s Haswell will drive laptops that won’t burn your lap
When idle, the new fourth-generation Core chips will use 20 times less power than the predecessor chips.
Want to make money & change the world? An idiot’s guide to ‘social entrepreneurship’
Silicon Valley's tech startups are increasingly using business process to drive positive social or environmental change. But what constitutes a "social entrepreneur?"
iPhone 5S near? Best Buy offers $50 off iPhone 5
The first rule of iPhone is that it never, never goes on sale. The second rule of iPhone is that when iPhone does go on sale, it's only last year's model, or even older. The third rule of iPhone is that when this year's model goes on sale, a new model is coming soon.
Why can we send people to the moon but still can’t predict the weather? (video)
Science has come a long, long way in the past 100 years. So why can't tell which way the wind is going to blow in an hour?
What do PayPal, Shazam, Trulia, Poshmark and Fjord have in common?
Few companies truly understand how the consumer thinks, and even fewer are able to successfully translate this understanding into an integrated mobile experience.
Home automation via your face: Here’s Google Glassware for Nest
Developer James Rundquist has just unveiled Glass Nest, an app for Google Glass that controls your Nest home thermostat directly from your nerdy, nerdy face.
The future is here, and it belongs to white, male dorks. You heard it first …
GamesBeat weekly roundup:Xbox One unveiled, Yahoo acquires a game company
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Foursquare gives it up (your check-ins, that is) to Gnip
Realtime firehose access will give Gnip data about every checkin that happens on Foursquare. Gnip then bundles and re-sells the data, mostly to big brands.
Check out this time lapse video showing all Curiosity’s work on Mars so far
The real hero here is Karl Sanford, the enthusiastic fan who took the time to put it all together. On the YouTube page for the clip, he says, "This is my first attempt at this process and hope to update and refine these videos as more data becomes available."
Good deed for the day: Check out these insect pics to help a museum project
"We need you to help us transcribe that data and make it available for further use in biodiversity and conservation research. Along the way, you will possibly be finding species that have never been observed anywhere else!"
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s employee approval rating dips, but still high in spite of issues
Which doesn't mean that working at Apple is easy. Or, that working for Tim Cook is easy.
