For years we’ve been told to keep drunken Facebook photos and racy wall posts private to avoid the judging eye of a potential employer, but now even that might not be enough.
New ‘Google Play’ Puts Music, Movies, Books and Apps in the Cloud
In a move that’s sure to put both Apple and Amazon on notice, Google has announced that it’s replacing the Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore with one service called Google Play.
The genius of Google Play …
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SXSW Interactive Is Nearly Here (and I’m Hosting a Panel)
Austin’s South by Southwest began in 1987 as a music festival. In 1994, it added interactive — a topic better known as “technology” — and film to the mix. And in recent years, it’s just exploded. Especially the Interactive …
Old ‘Nigerian Lottery’ Scam Gets a New Twist
Prepaid debit card providers like to make the argument that their products can be used just like bank accounts, but there’s one major way in which prepaid debit differs from bank-issued cards tied to an account or line of …
You’d Need 76 Work Days to Read All Your Privacy Policies Each Year
The problem with privacy on the Internet isn’t so much that companies don’t provide privacy options or tell you that they might share your data, it’s that protecting your privacy often entails wandering the wilds of Facebook’s …
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Coming Wednesday: Our Live Apple iPad Event Coverage
I snapped the above photo of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center with my iPhone on Monday night. On Wednesday at 1pm ET (10am PT) I’ll be inside, in the audience for Apple’s iPad event. As the news breaks, I’ll liveblog it here at …
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Lytro’s Light-Field Camera: Photography, Reimagined
In the world of technology, there are three kinds of change. There’s the subtle, never-ending process of refinement we call evolution. There’s revolution, which is like evolution in fast-forward mode. And then, every once in a …
New Yahoo CEO Prepares ‘Thousands’ of Layoffs: Report
The new chief executive of troubled tech giant Yahoo is planning a major reorganization that could result in “thousands” of layoffs, according to a new report.
Alleged LulzSec Hackers Arrested as Leader Turns Snitch
Lulz Security, a hacking group that stole data from law enforcement, defaced the websites of major publications and published troves of user names and passwords from online services, has suffered a critical blow at the hands of …
Mass Effect 3 Review Roundup: Pleasing Even the Usual Critics
Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 were far from great games. Oh I know, they have high scores on a certain mathematically broken review aggregation site, but in our Fringe equivalent of a parallel universe, they’ve been rightly …
5 New XCOM: Enemy Unknown Screens Explained
I recently spoke with XCOM: Enemy Unknown developer Firaxis about their upcoming hybrid turn-based, real-time strategy game’s tactical options, how to thwart at least one new alien bad guy and the ramifications of ticking off …
DARPA-Backed ‘Cheetah’ Is the World’s Fastest-Running Robot
There are a few humans alive who can outrun the new DARPA-funded Cheetah robot; if your name isn’t Usain Bolt, however, chances are you’re not one of them. This robot can reach speeds of up to 18 mph, breaking the old record of …