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AT&T on Friday announced plans to start testing 5G technology, with a possible limited commercial rollout before the end of 2016. 5G offers the promise of besting the speeds of today's fastest wireless networks by a factor of 10 to 100, through the...

The Tor Project last week claimed the FBI paid Carnegie Mellon University $1 million to crack the anonymity of Tor users.
Tor's claim appears to have been triggered by areport last week in Motherboard that said the FBI's arrest of an alleged member of the Silk Road 2.0 drug ring was based on "information obtained by a 'university-based research institute' that operated...

Google on Wednesday began streaming content from certain mobile apps in its search results, with no download required.
The company is working initially with nine partners, including Weather, Chimani, My Horoscope, New York Subway and Hotel Tonight.
Technology Google acquired when it purchased Agawi lets it stream virtual versions of mobile apps....

Thoth Technology last month won patents in the U.S. and UK for a space elevator -- a 12-mile-high tower that could herald a new era of space transportation.
If all goes as planned, the freestanding ThothX Tower will be the tallest structure in the world by far. Dubhai's Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest building, is a mere half mile in height....