Apps and Software

One of the most iconic New Year's Eve celebrations around the world is the annual bash in New York City's Times Square.

Around 1 million people will crowd into the center of Manhattan to watch the ball drop during 2014's final seconds, but many more will watch from the comfort of their homes

We've rounded up the ways you can watch the ball drop — while staying warm. Check them out, below:

TV

The easiest way to watch the ball drop is to just turn your television on. ABC, NBC, Fox, CNN and other stations all have their own shows. For its part, Fuse is broadcasting a New Year's Eve dance party ...

Information security — or the lack thereof — was one of the biggest stories of 2014. From Heartbleed to Kmart to JPMorgan to Snapchat to iCloud to Sony Pictures to countless others, data breaches and software vulnerabilities made news nearly every single week

Looking back over Mashable's coverage over the last twelve months, I'm struck by just how many services have been compromised, how many pieces of software got patched and how much data was leaked to the public.

If you had asked me in June what the biggest security story was of 2014, I would have answered Heartbleed. In September, the ...

For more than a century, it's been possible to lift fingerprints from a physical surface, like a drinking glass. Now a group of hackers is saying they can copy fingerprints from photographs.

According to the Chaos Computer Club — the same Berlin-based group that claimed it cracked Apple's Touch ID fingerprint sensor last year — it's possible to replicate a thumbprint using only photos and commercially available software. Theoretically, identity thieves could break into iPhones or other biometrically protected technology using the method.