Uber has agreed to settle the lawsuit brought against it by Waymo for theft of some of the company's trade secrets. As part of the settlement, Uber has agreed to work with Waymo to ensure that the com
There are few feelings worse than returning to the spot you locked up your bike after a fun evening and seeing nothing. As a San Francisco cyclist, I’ve had my stomach sink more than once at tha
An Apple patent application spotted Thursday by AppleInsider shows a system for detecting unusual motion via a portable gadget's accelerometer which would sound an alarm, making said device harder to
A photographer, <a HREF="http://topgun.smugmug.com/">John Heller</a>, had $9,000 worth of gear stolen at a shoot in Hollywood. After giving up all hope of ever getting his Nikon D3 back, he checked wi
In what could amount to a very hefty haul, Moscow thieves took a sledge to metal security shutters and then a glass case to grab twenty items including a <a HREF="https://techcrunch.com/tag/Leica">Lei
Thieves in Malaysia managed to drive off in a truck containing 10,800 Western Digital hard drives. Don’t expect to see the drives hit the market though, Malaysian police were able to identify th
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/studentloans.jpg" />It was only a few days ago that I mentioned that, you know, <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/24/its-all-wel
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Futureshop4.jpg" />Here's a candidate for the Canadian parent of the year award. Police in Richmond B.C. are looking for a couple that us
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A young man named Jeremy Gillian stole another young man's XBox 360 in a robbery and then turned it on… with the n
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/netflix1.jpg" />Some <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/netflix/">Netflix</a> news for you this morning. It looks like a 49-year-old
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/VideoFlyerT.jpg">A postal service supervisor working at a Minneapolis mail distribution center “has admitted taking nearly 16,000 Best
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Years ago, I read an article in 2600 describing a system that would track down your stolen laptop. Presumably it was all ope
Flickr Who knew? Apparently would-be thieves have a soft spot for baby photos. A research study conducted in Edinburgh found that lost wallets containing baby photos were returned nine out of ten time
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ggamesstore.jpg" />Did you know that video game theft costs retailers billions of dollars a year? So says the Entertainment Merchant Asso
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/xboxtheft.jpg">While I’m sure it’s <em>super</em> fun to stuff your gaming console in your carry-on luggage so it doesn’t get stole
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/army_gadgets.jpg" />As the U.S. military gets more and more technical, more and more military laptops are finding their way onto the glob
Ha! Remember when the Half-Life 2 source code was stolen a few years ago, showing up all over BitTorrent, IRC and the like? It turns out that Valve, once it was able to determine who was responsible (
If someone asked me to help them steal a gigantic cactus, I’d be like, “Have you ever touched a cactus? Those things are really prickly. Find yourself another cohort, kind sir.” But apparently t
There was an adorable article in Time magazine last week about Wi-Fi theft. The author, Lev Grossman, admits to being a “Wi-Fi thief” for several years, using his neighbors’ unsecure
To quote Boing Boing’s Joel Johnson, “The most amazing gaming story of the year.” A recently released adventure game for the PC, Limbo of the Lost, appears to have stolen content, in
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