PRISM 2.0: From 9 to ‘thousands’ of technology and finance companies

When Edward Snowden leaked the news about PRISM, we thought it was just 9 U.S. companies that were sharing customers' data with the National Security Agency (NSA). Now it looks like literally thousands of technology, finance, and manufacturing firms are working with the NSA, CIA, FBI, and branches of the U.S. military.

Intel Capital creates $100M fund to invest in perceptual computing

Intel has a strategic interest in making perceptual computing successful, since the future of the PC depends on it.

Government releases ‘unprecedented amount of data’ for National Day of Civic Hacking

Tomorrow is the National Day of Civic Hacking. The goal of the initiative is to build solutions that address issues in neighborhoods, cities, states, and the country using publicly-released data

Forget the Xbox One and PS 4 — the most powerful gaming device is your PC

The high-end PC is already a step ahead of the consoles. In six months, it will be even further ahead.

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.

AMD launches series of chips that get it into low-power laptops and tablets

Advanced Micro Devices is launching two new families of mobile chips today for faster and more power efficient laptops.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD wants to become more competitive with its larger rival Intel, and it is doing it by creating all-in-one …

19-year-old Romanian wins Intel science fair with cheap, self-driving car tech

For his entry in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, this teen created a realistic design for a car like Google's self-driving cars. The big difference is that his version would be viable around the world, not just in super-rich enclaves like Silicon Valley.

The Jolla ‘Other Half’ is the Nokia version of an Android smartphone. Sort of

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a Finish mobile company was working on a ground-breaking game-changing world-shaking new smartphone operating system based on Linux rising from the ashes of Intel's Moblin and its own Maemo projects.

Cloud data-protection firm PerspecSys raises $12M, plans for global sales push

PerspecSys, the Toronto-based cloud data protection company, has closed $12 million in its second round of funding. The company plans to use the capital injection to further develop global sales and marketing efforts and continue product development.

41 of the Fortune 500 companies are tech companies (and here they are)

Apple’s in the top 10 for the first time ever, Facebook hits the list, and Dell sells more than Google as Fortune Magazine released its Fortune 500 companies today, ranking the top 500 companies by global income.

Notable this year …