Rebecca Black has another reason to celebrate Friday, with her disturbingly catchy song named by YouTube as its most-watched video of the year, with a staggering 180 million views since it was first uploaded in March, but the title comes with a catch.
Imagine futuristic laptops even thinner and lighter than the MacBook Air, capable of running for several days or even weeks without recharging—Apple certainly is, as a couple U.S. patents published yesterday reveal.
One thing that people seem to have missed in all the hubbub over Microsoft saying that it’ll stop doing keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show after 2012: Doing a CES keynote isn’t exactly a singular honor.
Today is officially the first day of Festivus. Bring down the aluminum pole from the garage and prepare for the final day of the Airing of Grievances. Here I shall name all of the things in the tech world that annoyed me before Doug, Graeme, Jared, Matt and I engage in hand-to-hand combat for the Feats of Strength.
So you’re one of the millions of Americans getting an iPhone this Christmas. Welcome to the club! The first thing you’ll want to do with that puppy is protect it with your life. Unfortunately, you can’t just lock it in a bombproof safe–your beloved new gadget will most likely become an extension of your (drop-prone) arm. Check out our 12 favorite cases for maximum style and protection.
YouTube is jumping on the holiday functionality bandwagon with its new snow button, which makes snowflakes fall from the top the screen.
Facebook users outside of the U.S., you can breathe a little easier: The social media giant has been told that it can no longer indefinitely keep data about which ads you’ve been clicking on, and it’ll have to think twice about its data collection security in general, following an official review of its international operations.
Following his death in October, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs received a host of tributes and plaudits, but come February, he’s going to get one more: a posthumous Grammy Award.
It sounds like Yahoo! likes its Facebook integration—the company announced yesterday that it will roll out the feature to 26 additional sites, including Yahoo! TV, Yahoo! Movies and Yahoo! Games, following the success of the launch period, which has seen more than one million Yahoo! stories shared on the social network, with a daily average of 500,000 referrals to Yahoo! from Facebook.
Move over AT&T and T-Mobile, you may have company: Arch-rival Verizon Wireless is said to be under the U.S Justice Department microscope, specifically DOJ’s antitrust division, for recent spectrum deals struck with cable companies like Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House Networks and Cox Communications.
Well, this is depressing: A team of scientists from the University of Vermont appears to have proven via the judicious use of Twitter that people have been gradually growing more and more unhappy over the last three years.
