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It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
Given their meteoric success on mobile devices so far, it’s no surprise that Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise is headed for bigger things. But it’s possible that no one really expected those bigger things to mean a giant version of the game played by crowds at a Formula One racetrack this weekend.
Amazon just sent out a memo for a press conference to be held next Wednesday, September 28. If the rumors are true, it’s to announce their much-hyped 7-inch tablet—less an “iPad killer” than a competitor to Barnes & Noble’s Nook.
For those expecting Dish Network to roll out a Netflix competitor during today’s “A Stream Come True” press conference, the announcement of the company’s “Blockbuster Movie Pass” offering will come as a disappointment.
It looks like the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s been especially busy over the past 48 hours, because they’re suddenly snatching up alleged members of hack collectives LulzSec and Anonymous across the United States.
If you’ve been wondering who’s going to replace Carol Bartz as CEO of Yahoo after she was fired by phone at the beginning of the month, the answer may be “no one.”
For my Technologizer column on TIME.com this week, I wrote about the controversy over Google+’s insistence that members sign up with their “common names,” a requirement that displeases people who wish to be able to maintain a secondary identity online (as well as folks who have gotten caught in the crossfire, such as ones who [...]
This whole Netflix-Qwikster split had a fair number of people wondering if Reed Hastings had lost his mind. Hastings is no dummy, though, so there’s got to be some sort of method to the perceived madness.
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Mind, prepare to be blown—and scanned, by a device that can almost read thoughts, or at least digitize them into almost-identifiable images. No, it’s not some artsy video project, it’s for real: a system developed by University of California Berkeley scientists to capture visual activity in our brains and reassemble it as recognizable video data.
Facebook’s music integration is finally here, and it’s unlike any sort of music sharing we’ve seen before as part of the Open Graph. Ostensibly you’ll be able to keep track of what your friends are listening to via Facebook’s new real-time Ticker, which Zuck promises will deliver updates in—his actual words—“real-time serendipity.”
