Nope, forget about Will and Kate. Their wedding didn’t even come close. Japan, the Super Bowl, the death of Bin Laden – these stories didn’t quite cut it either. Beyoncé’s baby bump has set a new Twitter record, with 8,868 tweets per second being logged.
While I’m not exactly sure why Beyoncé has surged past the previous …
The massive file-sharing lawsuit filed against more than 20,000 pirates of last year’s movie The Expendables—one of the biggest copyright lawsuits in history—has been dropped by the plaintiff, following intervention by the judge in the case. But that doesn’t mean that anyone who torrented the movie can sleep easy just yet.
Nu …
Last week the tech world was shocked by the sudden announcement of Steve Job’s departure from Apple. I mean, here’s man who left indelible marks in nearly every corner of the industry, from computers, to mp3 players, to tablets and more.
So it’s no surprise that Apple fans were deeply affected by the news. Some penned blogs wishing …
Researchers from MIT and Princeton have developed a smartphone application called “SignalGuru” that uses the camera from a dashboard-mounted smartphone to capture images of traffic lights. Once the images are captured, they’re analyzed to detect whether the lights are green, yellow or red and then that data is passed along to other …
The pain points of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious: For starters they’re heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing in at a burdensome 3.6 pounds. They’re also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student’s limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester.
But the …
Maybe it’s because it’s a fan show, but Seattle’s annual PAX show (the original one’s called PAX Prime now that Penny Arcade‘s set up an East Coast show in Boston) always sets a high bar for cosplay. From Nintendo stalwarts to newer cult favorites to games like League of Legends, this year saw a nice diversity of clever costumes. Here’s …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Xbox 360 + $75 Best Buy gift card: $300 at Best Buy
Know what you’re going to need right after you buy your Xbox 360? Games. Also accessories and peripherals. There are all sorts of items you’ll need to buy—THAT’S HOW THEY GETCHA.
Best Buy is looking to ease the sting a bit …
American networks might not want to play ball in the U.S., but that isn’t stopping Google from pursuing its television dreams—it just means that other countries may experience the ideal Google TV dream even as the U.S. version languishes in the background, unloved.
Speaking at the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh …
By the time Hurricane Irene reached Boston, she was but a mere tropical storm. Her reputation as the most ruthless destructress the East Coast would see in decades had been overblown. She whipped through Boston more like a college freshman the first weekend she’d been away from her overprotective parents: Some trees were uprooted, some …
Was that a photo of Irene approaching North Carolina? New York? No, that was actually from a storm from somewhere in Pensacola, Fla. from a couple of weeks ago.
But that didn’t stop it from being viewed some 270,000 odd times. Then there was another supposed image of the East River flooding. Pundits suspect it may have actually been …
Here’s a shocker for you: Newt Gingrich probably didn’t pad his Twitter follower list with fictitious accounts. And, to make matters weirder, the reason that people thought that he had is the same reason why even Twitter isn’t sure how many users it actually has: inactive users.
Following the riots that engulfed England earlier this month, social media such as Twitter, Facebook and even BlackBerry messaging found itself being blamed for helping the unrest. Even U.K. Prime Minister, David Cameron, asked “whether it would be right” to ban criminals from having access.
Thankfully, cooler heads seem to have …