January 14, 2011 –
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Wonder how the mother would feel if someone “held her down and ripped [her eyebrows] off”?
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Sadly, this isn’t the …
Updated 2:30 pm near bottom of post, to clarify recipient of a letter from Yahoo’s lawyers.
The tech world is abuzz with a remarkable display of backbone by Twitter in the Wikileaks case. It deserves wider notice.
Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified …
The third time may be a charm for BlackBerry’s attempt at a touchscreen phone. The first Storm debuted to less-than-optimal reviews thanks to its finicky touchscreen, while the second Storm fared a bit better but lacked a decent web browser and the screen still had some quirks.
Early details about the Storm 3 have been acquired by …
In debt? Mind your Facebook wall. Debt collection agencies are now turning to social networks to track down on-the-run debtors by cataloging tidbits of evidence that may prove you have money to spare.
(More on Techland: AMBER Alerts Are Now Dispatched Via Facebook)
A recent CreditCards.com story claims that investigators turn to …
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.
10% ($0 to $8,500)
Beer and Chocolate Pedometers:
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Meet Watson: a computer with artificial intelligence capable of understanding the nuances in human speech. Watson is so smart – and so knowledgeable about humanity – that it is going to take on the grand champions of Jeopardy, America’s favorite quiz show. But more on that later.
What Watson means in the greater scheme of things is …
Lightning round time. Fifteen things that make me happy about comics right now, in no particular order:
1. Jim Woodring made a seven-foot-tall nib pen called Nibbus Maximus. Then he drew with it in public. Jim Woodring also has a book called Congress of the Animals coming out this spring. If you are wise, you will not miss it.
2. …
For those of you who want to get some inside tips on DC Universe Online, the new MMORPG that allows you to play as a superhero or supervillain, we spoke to DCUO Game Director Chris Cao. He was more than willing to oblige, giving us a range of things to think for newbies or a seasoned veterans of games like these.
Remember The …
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech links so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
With I.P.O., Groupon Is Said to Value Itself at $15 Billion
Link: New York Times
All of a sudden, turning down that $6 billion offer from Google might not seem as crazy. Groupon may shoot …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about Spawn #200 and the first issue of Casanova: Gula.
DOUGLAS: So I read SPAWN #200, and my mind is still kind of reeling from it. I’m afraid I’m going to have to cope with it via …
TechnologizerTablets
My new TIME.com Technologizer column–now a Thursday feature at the site rather than a Tuesday one–is a recap of the state of the tablet wars as of last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show. There were dozens of upcoming models at the show–new Android models, RIM’s still-a-work-in-progress BlackBerry PlayBook, dark horses …
You’ve seen commercials, you’ve seen product placement – but have you seen the “promercial” yet? That’s when broadcasters run commercials to let viewers know about upcoming product placement in their favorite television shows.
It might sound like a joke, but last week, ABC premiered the first promercial, for the January 5th episode of …
