The New York City Police Department is the latest law-enforcement agency to test the wearable technology
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California One Step Closer to Mandating That All Smartphones Have Kill Switches
Details of a related bill will be revealed in San Francisco on Friday morning
‘Snitching’ Instagram Account Shut Down
Removes user who purportedly exposed names and addresses of people cooperating with police
Should All Cell Phones Come With “Kill Switches”?
Lawmakers seek to curb increasing smartphone thefts
Even Robots Get Sad
TIME’s Denver Nicks reflects on efforts to determine whether Samantha West is real or a robot, and the deep questions the experience has for us all.
Regulating E-Cigarettes Could Have Unintended Consequences
In the absence of federal regulation of e-cigarettes, states have started to make their own rules, but not without controversy
8 Power Hacks to Keep Your Gadget’s Battery Going
Apps, gadgets and cases that will help your smartphone battery run faster and longer
Anti-Revenge Porn Legislation Proposed in New York
The law would make the non-consensual publishing of sexually explicit images punishable by up to a year in prison and a $30,000 fine
Alleged Black Market Operator Indicted in Murder-for-Hire Scheme
Accused Silk Road proprietor Ross William Ulbricht is being arraigned Thursday
The Latest Tech Frontier: Electronic License Plates
Fast-moving technology and slow-moving bureaucracies may stop them from ever becoming widely adopted, but electronic license plates aren’t as far-fetched as they might sound
Web Privacy Worries Growing: Study
Pew study finds half of American internet users are concerned about the information available about them online
New York Times Outage Caused By Security Breach at Australian IT Firm
Hackers got user name and password from domain registrar
Hey, Maybe the PC Isn’t Dying
But it’s about to get harder to categorize