We’re one step closer to widespread availability of self-driving cars — at least, if you live in Nevada.

The state today passed regulations for self-driving cars that were approved by insurance companies, car manufacturers, police, and others, reports Physorg. The …

Japanese newspaper Nikkei (the first to break news of Kazuo Hirai’s appointment as CEO, which Sony denied and then later confirmed) is reporting that developers are abandoning PlayStation Vita projects in favor of supporting the Nintendo 3DS.

The PlayStation Vita …

Applied Materials is the bellwether of bellwethers for the electronics industry, as it is the world’s largest maker of chip manufacturing equipment. So it’s good to know that the company beat earnings expectations today for its first fiscal quarter ended …

Nintendo’s Wii game console gained some significant ground as a streaming video set-top box today with the announcement of a new Hulu Plus channel launching today.

While the Wii does have a channel that allows you to browse the internet, …

The apple of Apple’s eye, Twitter will soon be the default social graph and social network for all iOS and Mac devices, as Facebook once again gets the shaft.

Apple has integrated Twitter into OS X Mountain Lion, the next-generation …

Amazon is buying up real estate in three city blocks in Seattle and plans to build a million-square-foot office tower on each block.

The Seattle Times says this is the biggest real estate deal Seattle has seen in years.

The …

WebMobi, a new mobile application builder for businesses, has added integration with Box to easily collect customer information.

WebMobi helps businesses create apps for all the major platforms without the need to understand coding, all you need to do is …

In a strategic move toward Microsoft shops, Rackspace has acquired SharePoint911, a SharePoint consultancy.

With this acquisition, Rackspace will be adding more SharePoint support to its already robust suite of cloud tools, bringing even more revenue opportunities to the company.…

Groupon is in the process of testing a new VIP service that will run $30 per year and give users early access to deals, easy refunds, and more, according to a Business Insider report.

The company reported poor-to-mixed results with …

No nanny? No problem. Modern-day parents are increasingly employing tablets to entertain, teach, and occupy their children, according to survey data gathered by analytics firm Nielsen.

Seven out of 10 children (70 percent), in tablet-owning households with kids under 12, …

In addition to the announcements about Apple’s next operating system Mac OS X Mountain Lion, the company rolled out a beta edition of its iMessages chat app today.

Apple previously launched its iMessages for the iPhone and iPad as an …

Apple is no stranger to the patent wars, and today it actually won two disputes in Germany against Motorola Mobility for its “slide to unlock” patent.

It seems like a daily tale, one company is mad at the other for …

Saeed Malekpour, an Canadian resident who designed and maintained a photo-sharing web app, may be executed at any moment in Iran.

According to a site about Malekpour’s case, the programmer’s death sentence, which was issued by the Iranian Supreme Court …

Dropbox Automator, a cloud-based service that will process files for you when you add them to your Dropbox account, just got updated with new features.

Dropbox has become a very popular place to storage files off your hard drive for …

In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware today, Intellectual Ventures, which has made a business of producing, collecting, licensing and litigating over patents, has made its boldest claim yet. Intellectual Ventures sued AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, accusing …

Sensing slow momentum with Ice Cream Sandwich and a growing push for Microsoft’s Windows 8, Google might launch Android 5.0, a.k.a. Jelly Bean, in the second quarter of 2012, according to Tiawanese publication DigiTimes.

Based on its previous launches, it …

Intel has told partners that it plans to delay shipments of its upcoming Ivy Bridge processors  for notebook computers, according to DigiTimes. That could disrupt product launch plans for notebook computer makers and throw off Intel’s plans to promote its …

From the minds that brought you Kik, the ultra-fast mobile messaging app, comes Clik: a new platform that will let developers create smartphone apps that can control just about any screen with a web browser.

To prove the value of …

The Sony PlayStation Vita goes on sale in stores next week, but the folks at iFixit have already torn one apart to figure out what’s inside.

If the device takes off, then the teardown will give a clue as to …