Most people wouldn’t blow $16,000 on a real antique sword from ancient China, let alone a virtual sword for a video game set in ancient China.
Not only did a man cough up enough cash for a mid-sized sedan, he did it for a game …
Zuckerberg Holiday Vacation Highlights Vietnam’s Unofficial Facebook Status
With Mark Zuckerberg spending Christmas in Vietnam, the opportunity for some snark about the Facebook founder’s apparently ironic choice of destination was not lost. The U.K.’s Daily Mail promptly proclaimed: “Status update: …
Android, iOS Devices Have ‘Record-Shattering’ Holiday Sales
It’s been an exceptionally profitable holiday for Apple and Google, according to research firm Flurry Analytics, which claims that it can detect device sales based on “apps monitoring” and use that to come up with a “roughly …
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ViralVideo Idol? YouTube Gets into the Voting Game with ‘YouTube Slam’
In case you’re wondering how to survive between the season finale of The X-Factor and the new season of American Idol — hey, those three weeks can be very hard on some people, okay? — then YouTube is here to rescue you with …
Looking Forward to 2012: The Continued Demise of Cash
How mobile payments, NFC and person-to-person apps will change the way that people pay each other in the coming year.
Cellphones that Repair Themselves? Scientists Create ‘Self-Healing’ Circuits
Cellphone, heal thyself — if you’re sick of having to work your way through a series of broken electronic devices, dulled (or dead) batteries and an endless thread of replacement cellphones, help may be at hand thanks to …
What Did ‘Anonymous’ Steal from Stratfor? Security Firm Gives Precise Figures
Over 9,000 active credit cards, 27,000 phone numbers and 20,000 “easily cracked” passwords — that’s what hacktivist group Anonymous has released to date, after reportedly hacking international intelligence and threat analysis …
‘WTF? I Wanted an iPhone!’ Comedian Retweets Messages from Angry, Entitled Kids
Sure, we’re in the worst economic slump since the Great Depression, with 8.6% unemployment, plummeting home values and Europe on the brink of collapse, but hey, I really wanted an iPhone! That’s the message our country’s youth so …
Report: Apple to Launch Televisions by Q3 2012
Shortly before his death, Steve Jobs reportedly said that he’d “finally cracked” the idea of how to do Apple TV properly, only increasing the anticipation — and potential disappointment — for the product. Can anything measure …
Legal ‘Spire’ Hack Puts Siri on Jailbroken iOS 5 Devices
Forget all those illicit, convoluted hacks that let you kind-of-sort-of put Siri on your iPhone or iPod Touch — how about one that not only works, but does so without violating copyright law?
It’s called Spire, and it still …
Speak Out and You May Be Targeted, Warns Breached Security Firm Stratfor
Be careful what you say, or say nothing at all, advises hacked international intelligence and threat analysis firm Stratfor, after revealing hackers may be targeting members who offer public support for the company in the wake of …