So Would You Friend Your Car on a Social Network?

A lot of people love their cars. But would you friend yours?

Yay Plus K? Ashton Kutcher Launches His Own Twitter App

What do you do when you’re one of the most popular people on Twitter? Launch your own Twitter desktop app, of course. That’s just what Ashton Kutcher (aplusk) has done with his new “A.Plus” application.

Answer Phone Calls On Your Hand! Wait, What?

Imagine your phone ringing on the breakfast bar across the room. Could it be the job offer you’ve waited all week for? But—drat—you’re smack in the middle of changing your three-month-old, who’s made something otherworldly and possibly radioactive in his diaper. Not the best of times to swipe your potentially contaminated fingers across your phone’s [...]

Amazon’s 99-Cent Lady Gaga Album Heralds Cloud Music Wars

As if it weren’t enough of a reason to freak out that Lady Gaga’s much-anticipated album Born This Way is out today–on a Monday, even though most albums come out on Tuesdays–Amazon.com has sweetened the deal.

Top Five Monday Tech Deals

It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.

Report: Police Confuse Bitcoin Miner’s Power Use for Growing Weed

There are unconfirmed reports today that at least one Bitcoin miner has been raided by police because unusually high power consumption led authorities to suspect that he was clandestinely growing marijuana. The tip comes from an IRC chat captured by blogger Mike Esspe, though there are no corroborating details.

Do Gadgets Really Make Our Lives More Complicated?

A new study published by Ad Age takes a look at the various ways new technologies—in particular, e-readers and tablets—influence the lives of the affluent, concluding that at the end of the day, additive technologies make life more complicated than not.

Dell’s Macbook Air Rival Coming Soon

The Macbook Air rivals are coming.

How to Turn Your iPad into an Extra Computer Screen

Congratulations! You’re the owner of one of those new iPad things. You may have even heard of them here on Techland.

Rumor: ‘iPhone 5′ to Sport Curved Glass Touchscreen

File this slice of grapevine buzz under “what the heck for?” but it seems the latest ‘iPhone 5′ scuttlebutt has Apple’s next-gen iPhone packing a curved-glass touchscreen.

Suit Accuses Cisco of Helping Design ‘Great Firewall’ of China

It’s the accusation every company’s fluff department dreads: abetting creepy privacy-quashing tools and supporting human-rights abuses, including torture—just a few of the charges Falun Gong practitioners are leveling at networking giant Cisco Systems in a federal lawsuit filed in California last week.