Dachannien writes "Patently-O and Ars Technica report that Lodsys has filed suit [here's the complaint] in the Eastern District of Texas against seven iPhone developers, asserting that the defendants are infringing two patents. Apple had previously indicated their belief that ...

Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. ...

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and our ...

Did Congressman Anthony Weiner really tweet a photo of his, well, wiener? It's possible, but he also might have been "hacked" via an image ...

Tennessee governor Bill Haslam has signed legislation that for the first time makes the theft of subscription entertainment services like Netflix a crime on ...

"The past three weeks have been the longest weeks of my life with the PlayStation. I really appreciate the support you have given us," ...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is set to debut June 8 exclusively at Best Buy's Union Square store in New York City, Samsung announced ...

The Security Update 2011-003 that Apple released on Tuesday directly addressed the Mac Defender malware threat in two ways: it changed the way malware ...

A number of malware-encumbered applications were found in the Android Market back in March, but the infestation was brought to a swift end when ...

Meet Roy Olmstead and Charles Katz—one was a Prohibition era bootlegger, the other a '60s gambler. Neither did anything earthshaking ...

Matthew Inman never wanted to be a hardass. He just wanted to write his unique webcomic, The Oatmeal, but only ...

Why is it against the law to sell chewing gum or to not flush a toilet in Singapore, but completely legal to smoke pot ...

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In a surprise announcement at Computex in Taiwan, AMD unveiled its plans to produce a Bulldozer-based APU, codenamed Trinity. The company also launched its ...

At the D9 conference today, Steve Sinofsky, President of Windows and Windows Live at Microsoft, gave the first look at ...

In an effort to avoid costly patent litigation, Microsoft has become the first company to sign up to a crowdsourcing service that seeks to ...

Scammers based out of China have been hijacking the personal Gmail accounts of "hundreds of users," Google revealed on Wednesday. The company wrote in ...

In a lopsided 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday held that "willful blindness" to the existence of a patent will not save you ...

Yesterday I joked on Twitter that I was already excited about seeing Aliens: Colonial Marines at E3, but Sega should ...

Windows 8 tablets will be tightly controlled by Microsoft, according to insiders speaking to Bloomberg. The company is pressuring chip manufacturers to partner with ...

Is that shiny new laser you got for Christmas (literally) burning a hole in your pocket? Feel the need to take it out and ...

HP's planned iPad killer, the HP TouchPad, popped up among the booths at the Computex show in Taipei this week, and an enterprising reporter ...

Apple's soon-to-be-announced iCloud service may or may not include movies and TV by the time it's introduced to the world next week, and Apple ...

Mantle hotspots are believed to explain unique geological phenomena—like the formation of the Hawaiian island chain, and the history of volcanism that has culminated ...

Lodsys threw down the gauntlet on Tuesday, filing patent infringement lawsuits against seven independent mobile developers in the patent litigation-friendly Eastern District of Texas. ...

As we enjoy the outdoors through various summer activities, we also have to deal with pests like mosquitoes, which are potential disease carriers, on ...

The first chapter of the StarCraft II trilogy launched late last year, and it'll likely be quite some time before we can finally play ...

Hulu fans will soon be able to watch a plethora of films from Miramax, but most will only be accessible to

The best cover songs aren't the ones that follow the original. Instead, they do something new: successful covers make a song their own. The ...

Google chairman Eric Schmidt took responsibility for the search titan’s failure to counter Facebook’s explosive growth, saying he saw the threat coming but failed ...

Yong Zhang, a third-party Android application developer who sold a number of highly popular video game console emulators has been locked out of the ...

Last week we reported on the story of Dr. Ken Cirka, a Philadelphia dentist who required his patients to sign ...

If you want to stop spam then going after the banks and payment processors that enable their lucrative trade may ...

Samsung's latest maneuver in what appears will be a long, drawn-out legal battle with Apple over mobile device copying is a bold one. The ...

Looks like the Federal Communications Commission wants a lot more data from AT&T before the agency will green light its ...