The latest scam making its way around Facebook sinks its fangs into a new group of itchy-fingered Internet browsers: Twilight fans.
As first reported on the Sophos blog (with a hat tip to CNET) the rabid fanbase of the bestselling vampire romance novels has been the target of a fake Breaking Dawn game that tricks users into granting …
You probably use it every day, find it useful for searches, email, or random easter egg humor, but beware: Google is actually the enemy of all things good in the world. Or at least that’s what a writer for the increasingly ridiculous British newspaper Daily Mail would have you to believe.
In a piece actually headlined “Google …
Not content to persuade consumers that 3D movies are a good idea per blockbusters like Avatar, James Cameron has a new company to make it easier for people to broadcast in 3D.
The Cameron-Pace Group – named for Cameron and his partner in developing the Fusion 3D camera system, Vince Pace – was announced yesterday at the National …
Here’s some surprising good news for video aggregator YouTube: More Internet users watch music videos for free on YouTube than download music either through official sources like iTunes or even illegally. That discovery comes from Nielsen, who polled more than 25,000 users about their online music habits towards the end of last …
Google is investing $168 million to help develop a solar energy power plant in California’s Mojave Desert.
In cooperation with Brightsource energy, Google’s official blog states that the new plant will hopefully generate 392 gross megawatts of solar power, or “the equivalent of taking more than 90,000 cars off the road over the …
Have trouble landing a date? If your pockets are deep, a new dating website that allows its members to bid on attractive potential mates might be up your alley.
The new website, coyly titled What’s Your Price, allows “generous” bidders to pony up for dates with “beautiful, gorgeous or sexy people,” though it would appear that someone …
With the Winklevoss twins temporarily vanquished in their quest to back out of the settlement deal they made with Facebook in the interest of going after more money, a new claimant to the social network’s riches has emerged. Or reemerged, rather.
Paul Ceglia filed a lawsuit last summer claiming that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had
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Calling all astronauts, dreamers and little boys everywhere. Virgin Galactic is looking for pilot-astronauts and they want YOU to be part of their team.
So what does this gig exactly entail? Well, the position is based in Mojave, California, where you will be working with the development of a spaceflight system test. Once the project …
One month later, Japan is till being wracked with powerful aftershocks, tsunami alerts and a nuclear crisis that threatens to spiral out of control. Google has set up a website, messagesforjapan.com, where people around the globe can show Japan their support in solidarity.
The site will automatically translate any comment you have …
It’s 75 degrees here in New York today, so it’s practically August. You know what that means? Social gatherings! Oftentimes with alcohol. And barbecue. And, you know, actual people.
And we all know no party is complete without some sort of music playing in the background. Sure, you could always play music directly from your …
Smartphones are so last Friday. The movers, shakers and Dick Tracy enthusiasts of the world are now all about the Smartwatch, now that InPulse has launched a wrist watch that offers all manner of additional services besides telling the time.
Created as a result of founder Eric Migicovsky wondering how to check email while cycling, the …
It’s the saga no one knew or cared much about until David Fincher’s The Social Network turned up the volume: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg hoodwinks fellow Harvard students (and twins) Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss out of millions in Facebook profits. The twins sue and win some of those millions in a settlement. But it turns out …
