Google: We’re Not Creepy Enough to Recognize Your Face

We’re kind of creepy, but not that creepy—the gist of Google guru Eric Schmidt’s public scorn-pouring on technology that’d allow a company to recognize and identify your face, or my face, or anyone’s face.

Now Android Users Can Have Magazine Apps, Too

Android users jealous of Apple’s magazine apps can breathe a sigh of relief today, as Next Issue Media – a consortium of publishers, including Time Inc., News Corp. and Hearst – launches its first seven magazines for the mobile OS.

Blip.tv Launches Hulu-Like Offering for Web-Only Series

Want to watch more web series but don’t know where to find the good ones? Join the club… but help is here in the form of a site described as a cross between Hulu and iTunes, giving original web content the promotion it deserves.

Tiny Stamp-Sized Satellites Carried by Endeavour into Space

Imagine peewee satellites the size of pennies tumbling through space like interstellar insects, collecting data and transmitting it home.

AOL Makes New Editorial Hires, Surprisingly Pays Them

Following the controversial layoffs and addition of thousands of unpaid bloggers that came with the formation of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group, it looks like it’s time for AOL to start rebuilding its content team more traditionally. Former CBSNews.com and Salon.com staffers are being brought into AOL – in paid positions, of course – [...]

Follow the Leader: Lady Gaga Breaks 10 Million Twitter Followers

Lady Gaga must be feeling good about her promotional prospects for new album Born This Way. Not only has she taken over social media gaming to break ground for GagaVille, but she’s also just become the first person on Twitter to gain 10,000,000 followers.

Watch the Sun Eat a Comet and (Partly) Explode

What happens when a giant frozen ball of ice hurtling at over a million miles per hour suddenly smacks into our sun?

‘God’ Particle Victim of Identity Theft

It’s not just Sony that’s worried about identity swindlers—it looks like celestial specks of elemental matter have to worry about scammers, too.

NYT Pageviews Fall in First Month of Paywall, Print Sales Increase

The New York Times’ paywall may have seemed to launch successfully, with early reports of 100,000 paid subscriptions in its first three weeks, but its first full month of operation tells a different story: Page views dropped 24.4% from March to April, with the NYT’s share of all newspaper website traffic dropping from 13% in [...]

Site Built in a Fort Turns Space Transcripts into Gripping Stories

What could possibly be cooler than reams of original radio transcripts chronicling spaceflight landmarks like the first human in space and the near-fatal Apollo 13 mission, the option to search it all at will, and everything wrapped in a gorgeous, elegant, easy-to-use web package?

Lord Vader: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Universe’s Number One Terrorist, Is Dead

This just in: a breaking report from The Galactic Empire Times is stating, per a press conference called by Lord Vader himself, that Obi-Wan Kenobi — the universe’s most wanted terrorist — is dead.