When is a retweet not a retweet?
When the original tweet never existed – and if that sounds like common sense, it seems that no-one explained that to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which yesterday created fake retweets from President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, former Governor of Virginia Tim Kaine …
With Amazon and Google recently launching their own daily deals sites to compete with Groupon and LivingSocial, you might be forgiven for thinking that we’re living in a golden age of savings and reasonably priced offerings. A new study had a message for those who might feel that way: Enjoy it while you can, because it’s not likely to …
Start spreading the news: New Yorkers love to tweet – but maybe not as much as they would like to think.
Dropped in the middle of a New York Times piece about Anthony Weiner was this line:
“Residents of the state of New York use Twitter some thirty percent more than the national average, and New York City, for per capita use, is
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Get all of the “In Russia, automated teller machines take money from you” jokes out of your system now, because it turns out that Russian ATMs really are getting more advanced than their Western counterparts—including being able to check whether or not you’re telling the truth about your credit history.
Nothing is sacrosanct. We all go through the same motions in life, right? So what’s wrong with tweeting while you’re in child labor? Or sending pictures of some distinctly manly parts? At what point do I stop telling the world what I just ate for lunch?
Most recently, New York Representative Anthony Weiner tweeted a rather …
Shooting a laser pointer at a passing plane or helicopter may seem like a meaningless diversion right now, but it’s unlikely that you’ll still feel as happy-go-lucky about the whole thing when you get slapped with a fine of $11,000 by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Until yesterday, you had to be aboard an aircraft to be liable …
It starts with an incredibly delicious-looking picture of grilled cheese and tomato soup.
But beyond that, Jonathan Kaplan has bigger plans for his new restaurant chain, The Melt. Kaplan, founder the company that created the now-defunct Flip camera, wants to leave his mark on the fast food industry with grilled cheese and high tech …
Here’s something that could either relieve a lot of tension, or increase paranoia about whether or not the world is ignoring you: If you’re a woman, there’s a strong possibility that your voice-activated car really isn’t listening to you.
Thankfully, the problem is all the car’s. According to AOL Autos, carmakers “acknowledge that …
The future of magazine publishing may be digital, but that future is further away than you’d think, according to Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, who believes that the publishing industry’s push towards digital publishing is a “rush to throw away [the] magazine business [through] just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.”
Oh, and …
Bye, Spring. Those five or six days you decided to grace us with your presence sure were nice. Hello, Summer. You are a jerk. People say they like you, but you only serve to make everything hot and uncomfortable.
We’re not going to take this lying down, Summer. Especially at night when we’re trying to sleep. And we’re going to fight …
Care to soar skyward strapped in your very own personal jet-suit? Of course you do. Just not one that’ll light your pants on fire, or cause too much commotion if you’ve just dined on a bowlful of seven-bean salad. And, you know, that’s priced somewhere in the neighborhood of an iPad or iPhone. Apple iFly, anyone?
How harmful is cell phone radiation? A new report to the Council of Europe isn’t willing to offer a definitive answer, but it does suggest that maybe we should keep cell phones (as well as Wi-Fi signals) away from schools, just in case.
The report, “The Potential Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields and Their Effect on the Environment,” …
