A new survey by the Pew Research Center released today tells us a little more about the Twitter demographic, though most of it isn’t all that surprising.
13% of online adults in the U.S. use Twitter, up from 8% in 2010. 25% of African Americans online are on Twitter and 19% of Hispanics online are also users. Though they’re the second …
Just how big is the internet? Well, here’s a way of estimating it: Every hour, enough information is consumed by internet traffic to fill 7 million DVDs. And four years from now, it’ll be four times larger than that.
Cisco, which releases a Visual Networking Index forecast about the scale of web traffic every year, estimates that by …
When we last left the U.K. super-injunction saga, a London court had issued an order asking Twitter to turn over the names of the anonymous users who tweeted about the alleged affair between footballer Ryan Giggs and reality TV star Imogen Thomas. The question on everyone’s mind was: How exactly is the U.K. going to enforce its laws on …
Clear eyes, full hearts. It might as well be a NASA catchphrase, as the space shuttle Endeavour touched down at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning, completing its 25th and final mission (dubbed “STS-134”) and heralding the beginning of the end for over three decades of shuttle flight. Space shuttle Atlantis will carry the …
Interesting. See that thing up there? That’s Roku. It’s a nice, inexpensive, internet-connected box that you hook up to your TV. Once it’s set up, you can use it to stream movies and TV shows from the likes of Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon, plus music and photos from Pandora and Flickr, respectively.
But the company has just …
It’s been rumored for months, and now it’s official: As of the beginning of September, DC Comics is relaunching its entire DC Universe line of superhero comic books with new #1 issues. The surprising part: The entire line will also be available digitally on the day of each issue’s release in comics stores.
The reboot begins on August …
The Motion Picture Association of America wants you to stop watching movies at home. Specifically, it wants you to stop watching movies streamed online from Zediva, the “place-shifting private performance” site that allows subscribers to rent physical DVDs that are played in one central location, with the playback streamed to your own …
Apple’s iWork suite is now available on iPhones and iPod Touches, and it’s free for users who already have the iPad versions.
iWork consists of three programs: Pages for written documents, Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for presentations. Each app costs $10. There’s no discount for buying them all at once, but as universal iOS …
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 …
It seems we can stop speculating about what Apple’s cloud-based online service will be called. It’ll indeed be called “iCloud,” as the company itself announced in a press release this morning.
Bundled alongside what will be showcased during a keynote address at its developers conference that starts next Monday, the company has simply …
It’s currently 12:04 PM here as I begin this post in an emptier-than-usual TIME office. Most everyone left over at their desks are keeping their eyes on the clock, awaiting the 2 PM mass exodus that usually comes with pre-Memorial Day Fridays.
And for good reason: This weekend, grills will ignite, beers will be cracked, and soon …
Chester Brown’s comics memoir Paying For It came out last week, and–as it was designed to do–it’s already been raising some eyebrows. Brown’s a superb cartoonist whose earlier books include the biography Louis Riel, the autobiographical I Never Liked You and The Playboy (the latter revolving around an issue of Playboy he discovered as …
