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The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, January 9

CISPA is back! ... Snowden says hack-backs are a bad choice ... Google wants a cut of the US insurance market... and more news of the day.

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, January 8

The top US telecoms regulator is pulling in the same direction as President Barack Obama ... Samsung’s strategy to capture market share with lower-cost smartphones appears to be cutting into profits ... the FBI is sticking to its story: North Korea w...

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, January 7

Beat out of a windfall?

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, January 6

The tech industry's center of gravity is still at CES in Las Vegas, where the annual consumer electronics extravaganza officially opens its doors Tuesday.

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, January 5

Will 2015 be the year that the "connected home" hyped at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas finally establishes itself in reality?

Meet Google’s 'Project Tango'

Google has been working over the past year on developing 3D technology for smartphones, but it has the potential to go beyond those devices.

In Pictures: Spotify's artful digs

Spotify hopes the art inspires their employees

Digital surveillance programs in other countries trigger controversy

Last week's disclosure of massive data collection efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency has generated heated debate in the U.S. and across the world about privacy. The NSA is collecting metadata on U.S. residents' phone calls made on Verizon's...

BBVA moves to real-time banking

The story "BBVA moves to real-time banking" incorrectly referred to the value of an Accenture contract rather than to the cost of the BBVA project. The first sentence of the second paragraph should read:

China's newest supercomputer uses homegrown chips

China has built its first supercomputer based entirely on homegrown microprocessors, a major step in breaking the country's reliance on Western technology for high-performance computing.

Text of Steve Jobs' letter to Apple employees

Steve Jobs sent the following letter to Apple employees and board members upon his resignation as CEO Wednesday.

Digital Equipment Corp. co-founder Ken Olsen dies at age 84

Kenneth Olsen, the computer industry pioneer who co-founded minicomputer maker Digital Equipment Corp., died at the age of 84 on Sunday.

Qualcomm to build $1B e-reader display factory in Taiwan

These ones will be in colour

Reports: Facebook raises $500 million, faces SEC inquiry

But it's not all good, it seems...

A Defcon badge unlike anything you have ever seen

It's unlike any conference badge you've seen before. Sleek, stylish, programmable, and made out of metal. It's the Defcon 18 conference badge. Unveiled at the annual hacker conference in Las Vegas, here's a first look at this year's badge.