To find the future of the smartphone, a startup is reaching 500 years into the past when the most advanced gadget told you only the time. Monohm, based in Berkeley, Calif., plans next week to officially introduce a device dubbed Runcible. Named after a nonsense word by an English poet, Runcible was created by Apple …

Watch out, HBO and Netflix: Dish’s new Internet video-on-demand service Sling TV plans to give its subscribers more than just sports and basic cable. Sling TV lets consumers bypass traditional cable TV service but still get their favorite shows. Sarah Tew / CNET Sling TV, an Internet streaming video subscription service that launched last week, announced on Monday it plans …

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft unveils new browser Project Spartan 1:07 Never mind that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has far more consumers using it than Google’s Chrome. Microsoft’s got a new browser, and it’s gunning for Google. Microsoft officially introduced its next-generation browser, code-named Project Spartan , at its coming-out party for Windows 10 in Redmond, Wash., on Wednesday. The software …

President Obama holds a press conference during which he discussed Sony Pictures’ decision not to release “The Interview” in the wake of the alleged North Korean hacking scandal. Leigh Vogel, WireImage Fallout from the destructive breach of Sony Pictures’ computer network on November 24 and the struggle against the deluge of leaked internal documents has stretched from Tinseltown to DC …

Protesters gathered to protest Internet censorship in 2012. Google on Thursday attacked Hollywood and a state attorney general for attempting to achieve the goals of years-old Internet censorship law. The search giant said the Motion Picture Association of America — Hollywood’s primary lobbying arm — secretly conspired with the attorney general of Mississippi to force changes to the trade of …

A security guards walks past the entrance to Sony Pictures Plaza in Los Angeles, California on December 4. Investigators do not yet know the full extent of the breach, although the FBI confirms it will meet with Sony employees this week. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images The FBI will advise Sony Pictures employees on how to manage the leak of their …

BitTorrent Sync 2.0 will arrive in early 2015 with advanced features to take on the biggest cloud storage providers. BitTorrent BitTorrent wants to make it easier for you to control your data. The company, best known for helping people share large files incredibly fast, is now applying the technology to syncing very large files across devices. BitTorrent announced Wednesday a …

US Marshals Service The next time you use your cell phone in a crowd, the US Marshals may be listening in. The way it works is through a specialized box affixed to an airplane flying overhead, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. That box is designed to trick mobile phones into communicating with it, sending all sorts …

Verizon’s supercookies track the websites you visit and links you click on. CNET It’s bad enough that Verizon and AT&T have unleashed a new breed of “supercookie” that can track your every online move, even as you switch between your smartphone, tablet and TV. Far worse is the possibility of abuse by advertisers, governments and hackers, privacy experts warn. “Any …

A general view of GCHQ in Scarborough, England. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The new top spy at Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters has a message for Silicon Valley: Stop helping terrorists. Robert Hannigan, the newly appointed director of Britain’s equivalent to the US National Security Agency, wrote a column the Financial Times denouncing tech companies’ efforts to protect against spying without legal …