If you’re one of those people who’s paranoid that the government is reading your personal correspondence, turns out you should consider getting an iPhone.

An internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration states “it is impossible to intercept iMessages between two Apple devices,” according to CNET who saw the document, even if the investigators have a federal judge-issued search warrant.

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While both Apple and the DEA are declining to comment on the claim, CNET says the “intelligence note” goes on to explain that the problem first came to light when a San Jose, California office of the DEA sought to obtain a record of text messages under the U.S.’s Federal Wiretap Act. The text message records were apparently incomplete, evidently because the messages between the parties being investigated were sent using iMessage.

When iMessage was announced in 2011, Apple said that it would use “secure end-to-end

Skype's helped to change the world (Getty Images)

Anyone that's spent lots of time online over the past decade knows a few immutable facts: there's always new applications to learn, you're always in a race to upgrade your digital devices, and Skype is truly a beautiful thing.

Ever since two Estonian software developers released the free Internet-based phone service a decade ago, Skype's brought video calling — once thought to be relegated to the obscure worlds of futuristic sci-fi films — to the masses in a big, big way.

The world has taken to Skype in such dramatic fashion that the service revealed this week that its users now spend an astonishing two billion minutes each day communicating with one another on its VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calling and messaging service.

That's a huge number, all the more incredible given that Skype has become a go-to for more than just video calls. The service continues to expand its range of offerings, and with Microsoft planning to phase out its Windows Live Messenger service in favour of

There’s been rumour that the next generation of Xbox console will require users to always be online, meaning that if you lose connection to the Internet, you risk not being able to play your game, even in single player.

While many people are very against the idea, Adam Orth, creative director of Microsoft Studios came out on Twitter last night saying he didn’t understand what the big deal was:

Orth’s Twitter account, @adam_orth, has since been locked down, but Redditor MrWill4466 managed to get a screenshot of his exchange with another Twitter user before that happened, and posted it to Reddit:

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Sixteen hours after being posted, the image had garnered almost 1 million views on Imgur.

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Interestingly, the other person in the exchange is also involved in the gaming industry. Manveer Heir (found at @manveerheir on Twitter) is a senior gameplay designer at BioWare and working on the

If an excerpt from Paul Allen's autobiography Idea Man wasn't enough to prove he has mended fences with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the recreation of an iconic photo of the two is sure to prove the hatchet has been buried.

During an event this week at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, Allen tweeted a photo of the once-estranged duo posing among several early model computers, just as they had done some 30 years ago.

According to a staff member at the museum, the original computers were tracked down in anticipation of Gates' visit, Geekwire reports. The recreation was not quite perfect, but the PCs coupled with Allen's suit and Gates' casual sweater were close enough to dub the effort a success.

The two tech icons had fallen out of touch after Allen accused Gates and present CEO,

It isn’t a Facebook Phone, exactly, but for the time being, it's the closest that anyone — well, at least Android users — are going to get.

Social media giant Facebook has debuted Facebook Home, a series of apps designed to provide what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls the best Facebook experience available. Starting April 12, Android users on compatible devices will be able to download Facebook Home from the Play store.

Zuckerberg and other Facebook representatives demonstrated running the set of apps on Android devices at its Menlo Park presentation. While the apps are integral to the success of Home, however, Zuckerberg emphasized that they’re simply there to help better connect people.

“Putting people first, and then apps, is one small but meaningful change with our relationship in technology,” said Zuckerberg.

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The presentation led with Cover Feed, the new way people can interact with their News Feed on

Speculation is running rampant that today will be the day Facebook unveils its oft-discussed "Facebook Phone." Follow along with the announcement live as we find out exactly what Facebook has up its sleeves.

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It’s been 40 years since Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, made the first mobile phone call. According to Gizmodo, Cooper called a rival at AT&T and said he was phoning “to see if my call sounds good at your end.”

Now, four decades later, smartphones are as commonplace as wrist watches (even more so, in many cases, as smartphone users just end up checking the time on their phone, anyway), and more people in the world have access to a cell phone than access to a toilet.

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Cooper’s first phone call was made on a Motorola DynaTAC, nicknamed the “brick” for its nearly two-and-a-half pound weight and massive size. It measured 9-inches tall, had 30 circuit boards, and 10 hours of charging it resulted in about 35 minutes of talk time.

Mike Short from the Institution of Engineering and Technology told The Guardian that the ten years that followed Cooper’s phone call were a very experimental time for the

The season premiere of Game of Thrones appears to have been the most simultaneously downloaded torrent ever, but at least one HBO exec doesn’t seem bothered that people are getting their content for free.

In less than a day, there were more than a million downloads from the popular torrent site. According to Torrent Freak, 163,088 people were sharing a single torrent file at its peak late Sunday night. The previous record was the season premiere of Heroes, which had 144,663 people sharing a torrent.

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HBO programming president Michael Lombardo spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the massively pirated show. Game of Thrones was reported to be the most pirated show in 2012, but according to Lombardo, that hasn’t translated into a negative revenue impact.

“I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts,” Lombardo said to Entertainment Weekly. “The demand is there. And it certainly didn’t