Actor Richard Dreyfuss took an unexpected detour before his tribute to Steve Jobs at Monday night’s Webby Awards, taking a moment to criticize Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin. “Mark Zuckerberg and Eric Brin,” Dreyfuss said, possibly confusing former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and company co-founder Sergey Brin, “if you’re going to take our privacy away from us, why don’t you tell us something private about yourselves? And if you change our world, why don’t you pay for it because it’s theft…

Just a few minutes ago, the private space exploration company SpaceX successfully launched a rocket, which will be the first private vessel to dock up with the International Space Station. The company had previously tried this weekend, but the rocket failed at launch…

Bruise inducing high-fives, anyone? They’re handing them out in Redmond, according to one mildly injured researcher, after breaking a data sorting record Yahoo set in 2009. The ruckus surrounds a benchmark called MinuteSort, which measures how much data can be sorted in 60 seconds…

May 22 (Bloomberg) — Let the Facebook Inc. finger-pointing begin. After one of the most anticipated initial public offerings in history, Facebook’s 11 percent drop yesterday prompted investors to fault everything from Morgan Stanley’s role as lead underwriter, to the company’s greed and the Nasdaq Stock Market…

Ben Heck is always thinking up gadgets that make life easier, from completely hands-free luggage to a sensor system for improved cycling safety. His latest mod is meant for those of us who have burnt Ramen a few too many times…

Today, Salesforce is further beefing up its line of enterprise products with a new IM client and screensharing software. The instant messaging comes via Chatter, Salesforce’s Facebook-like, Yammer-esque collaboration and task-management app…

The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SpaceX Dragon capsule has launched successfully at 3:44 AM ET. Dragon has separated and the solar arrays have deployed, SpaceX has announced. With this achievement, SpaceX is the first commercial company in history to successfully launch a spacecraft towards the International Space Station…

I’m supposed to be grabbing a few hours of sleep before we start the last push for Wednesday’s paidContent 2012: At the Crossroads, our first paidContent event as part of GigaOM. But I’m a little too revved up now — in part from an e-mail thread I’ve been watching as the speakers in one session take their topic and run with it…

Groupon grew up super fast thanks in large part to cloud computing. It famously started on Amazon’s cloud, not buying much of its own tech until recently. Things are changing now. As Groupon grows, it is moving off of Amazon and into its own data centers, which are being built now, Groupon CIO Alan McIntosh told Business Insider…

Normally, firewalls at cellular carriers are your best friends, screening out malware before it ever touches your phone. University of Michigan computer science researchers have found that those first lines of defense could be your enemy through a new exploit…

After being scrubbed a few days ago, it appears we are just minutes from viewing the launch of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket. The plan is to become the first private company to successfully deliver cargo to the space station, as a step towards manned missions and eventually, Mars…

Source: VidyoVidyo president, chief executive, and co-founder Ofer Shapiro Video conferencing and telepresence company Vidyo has raised a new round of funding, the company’s fifth. Vidyo enables video conferencing at 1080p HD quality and 60 frames per second, supporting up to nine people at once…