“There is a material reality to the internet,” explains Isaac Wilder, 21, on Motherboard TV’s new 30-minute documentary Free the Network. “Most people look at the internet as magic; you click a button and something happens and you …
Now that even Barack Obama has a Pinterest profile, it’s safe to say the site is getting pretty popular. Where the people go, so too do the spammers — one of which actually sat down with the Daily Dot to talk about his …
It’s hard to watch these robotic legs — courtesy of Meka Robotics and the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas, Austin — and not think about the sprinting T-1000 from Terminator 2.
J.K. Rowlings’ Harry Potter books have sold around 450 million copies worldwide — all of them made out of an ancient material your parents know as “paper.” Today, the entire series is entering the digital age, selling as …
The latest winner of the “Why didn’t anyone think of this before?” award goes to Tumblr, which recently debuted its new terms of service. Why is that even remotely exciting? Because the site did something no other site has ever …
Say hello to Robojelly, a robot that moves like a jellyfish, expanding and contracting its synthetic muscles to pump out water.
The most impressive thing about it, however, is how it powers itself — by converting the …
When the story broke about some employers asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords in job interviews, the public was understandably upset. Apparently, so was Facebook.
This morning, the company’s chief privacy …
DuckDuckGo’s commitment to user privacy was more or less an afterthought. If you aren’t familiar with the site, it’s a search engine with a decidedly spare aesthetic that doesn’t log IP addresses or record your search …
Let us venture deep into the heart of the Amazon like Klaus Kinski. It won’t be easy; you’ll need to sit in your chair and, possibly, grab another Mountain Dew from the fridge. That’s because Google has finally brought the Amazon …
Facebook’s photo viewer is getting a big update. Starting today, it will automatically display photos in the highest resolution possible, which on large monitors could mean images up to four times larger than before.
You’ll …
Zynga announced today in a press call that it has acquired New York-based OMGPOP, creator of Draw Something, the Pictionary-style game that has been downloaded more than 35 million times. While it was rumored that the price would …
If you’re throwing a small event in an independent venue, using Ticketmaster doesn’t make a lot of sense. It takes a long time to set up and the costs are hard to swallow, especially if you’re talking about something like a …
