Okay, let’s make this the final word on the human meme that is Rebecca Black.
Congratulations, internet: You’ve helped make Ms. Black bigger than Ms. Gaga. As the slightly overheated typesters at TechCrunch points out that, despite the negative tone and snarking about Black’s annoying earworm “Friday,” the YouTube video has gained 26 …
Google has been hit by a record fine by France’s National Commission for Information Freedom. Their misstep? Being found guilty of collecting private information while compiling Street View pictures. The Californian internet giant has been fined 100,000 euros (around $142,000) for accidentally intercepting private data being transmitted …
Congratulations Twitter, you’ve made it past the five year hump! What are you going to do next?
Wait, what? You’re going to start a new website extolling how amazing and innovative you are? Is that really necessary, Twitter?
In conjunction with the company’s fifth birthday, Twitter unveiled discover.twitter.com, a separate site …
The Royal Wedding is just a few short days away (Friday, April 29), and if you’re one of the estimated 2.5 billion people who will be tuning in, why not augment all the festivities with a few of these handy apps? They’re guaranteed to allow even the most obsessed Royal-watcher to stay current with this wonderful union between an …
Straight from CEO Steve Jobs himself, Apple’s taken a very public stance on disallowing any app that features adult and inappropriate material, including anything even vaguely pornographic. Jobs said in a famously quoted an e-mail exchange that, “… we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone.”
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Maybe it’s Bradley Cooper’s particular brand of smirky hunkiness or the draw of DeNiro, but Limitless wound up the #1 movie in theaters this past weekend. We’re guessing the real reason the power fantasy beat out the other new releases is because just about everyone harbors the desire to be smarter, to be more than what you are.
In …
When Apple invented the App Store, it invented a whole new way of selling software – one so popular that other tech companies have rushed to build their own clones of the same idea.
Is Facebook among them? Possibly so, given the weekend’s news that it has signed a deal to buy UK/Israeli mobile technology company Snaptu.
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From zero to a billion dispatches each week faster than a speeding whim, the pithy microblogging service that chronicles everything from your lousy breakfast to how to coordinate protests in Iran celebrates a kind of fifth anniversary today.
Crazy but true, it’s been exactly half a decade since Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey got the …
An entire generation of American girls got their aesthetics permanently shaped by the Sailor Moon animated series. The anime, though, was based on a series of manga by Naoko Takeuchi–the apotheosis of the “magical girl” genre. And, while the English translations of Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon manga volumes were immensely popular in the U.S. …
There’s a little trend in comics blogs that’s turned up over the past few months: Tumblrs devoted to a specific creator’s work, reprinting a single panel or a single page at a time, out of their original context. A Moment of Moore, one of the more prominent ones, is dedicated to Alan Moore’s work. Whoever’s maintaining it has been …
Once upon a time, jailbreaking our iPhones allowed us to be blissfully free from the clutches of Apple and AT&T’s official regulations. We used our data plans the way we wanted to, even if that included sharing it with our laptops and iPads. (All of this is rhetorical, of course. We would never actually do such a thing.)
But now it …
Does Netflix know too much? The video provider is facing a class action lawsuit that claims that the company is violating user privacy by keeping viewing and payment records after customers cancel their service.
The action, filed last week by attorneys acting on behalf of former customer Peter Comstock and others, alleges that Netflix …
