Next time your friend whispers some scurrilous rumor in your ear, then leans back and swears “It must be true! I saw the tweet!” be forewarned: tweets ain’t always what they seem.
Not with a website like TweetForger lurking on the internet.
TweetForger, you see, lets anyone create a realistic-looking tweet supposedly written by
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Here’s something unexpected: David Hayes, the coder who worked out how to get around the New York Times’ website paywall with just four lines of Javascript has been contacted by the NYT legal team. Okay, that part might’ve been just a matter of time, but here’s the unexpected part – they were complaining about his use of the “New York …
April 1 2011 –
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We so excited.
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This has got to be a joke, or I’m seriously starting to worry about people from the UK.
I know it’s April Fools, and that claiming half the sun just disappeared sounds a little ridiculous, but we’re not kidding: Half the sun just disappeared. Really!
It happened Tuesday, during a partial eclipse (caused by us–you know, the Earth) and a NASA satellite in high orbit managed to snap it in action. That’s the shot up top, …
In honor of April Fool’s Day, here’s a sampling of seven of the funniest comics out there. They may not (or may) be the deepest or most beautiful in other ways–they’re just the ones that have made me laugh hardest.
Mister O. The great and unbelievably prolific French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim has written and/or drawn something on …
Unscrupulous Android users are the target of a new malware app, which aims to humiliate software pirates by sending text messages to all their contacts.
The app is called Android.Walkinwat, and was reported by security firm Symantec. But unlike the two malware apps that appeared in the Android Market last month, this one is only …
Tax prep? There’s an app for that. Several, actually.
The folks at Intuit recently gave me a demo of their TurboTax apps: SnapTax for iPhone and Android lets you take a photo of your W2 form and fills in all the necessary blanks automatically, while TurboTax for iPad features everything you’d find with the web-based version of …
Android-compatible PlayStation One games have finally arrived, as promised, but the only Android device currently capable of running them is Sony’s Xperia Play–a slide-screen phone with a PlayStation-style gamepad that’s not yet available.
Poke around the Android Market and you might expect to find PS One oldies like Cool Boarders 2, …
Off the top of my head, I can’t tell you many people hit up Facebook daily, but a freakishly high number of people visit the site on their phones everyday. In fact, Facebook says over 250 million people visit the site monthly on their cellphones.
Just a little over a year ago, the mobile site only had 100 million users. Since then, …
CNN’s Mark Milian published an article yesterday concerning a facial recognition feature that Google’s been working on. You’d be able to use such a feature to take a photo of someone and, if that person allowed it, receive relevant information about him or her. The piece reads very much like an interview with the app’s developer and …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Douglas Wolk, Matt Peckham and Graeme McMillan talk about the Jimmy Olsen one-shot and the first issue of Butcher Baker, the Righteous Maker.
EVAN: The first chapter of the story collected in this week’s …
Crowdsourcing–outsourcing using crowds–has been employed to tackle all kinds of problems, from helping SETI probe radio signals for alien life to establishing where the best burger in town can be found. But, according to a presentation from Stanford University professor Jennifer Lynn Aaker at the Web 2.0 Expo, it can also have much …
