Less than a week after a petition on Change.org sought to bring down the app, Exodus International’s no longer welcome on Apple’s iOS content repository. The sign-up was started by gay right website Truth Wins Out and had won upwards of 150,000 signatures before the app was pulled. (
The Three Songs You Need to Download This Week
There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new downloads or videos from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses.
1. Animal Collective curated the upcoming ATP festival in England, which is happening May …
Robbed Victim Posts Video of Laptop Thief Dancing Online
Is this a victory dance? After being identified as a thief, and having this embarrassing video posted online, I think not.
Fortunately, Mark Bao, an 18-year-old student at Bentley University in Massachusetts, knows his way around a computer. When his MacBook Air was stolen, he discovered he could still access several his hard drive …
Senators to App Stores: Get Rid of Pro-Drunk Driving Apps!
Four U.S. senators are asking Apple, Google, Research in Motion and BlackBerry App World to stop selling apps that the senators believe encourage drunk driving. Though no apps were named specifically, U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) wrote that they were …
40% of Social Network Users Attacked by Malware
The newest battleground for malware attacks? Facebook and Twitter. And, according to the experts, it’s one of the most productive for the attackers. Why? Well, people can’t help but click social links.
Last December, the anti-virus firm Sophos discovered that 40% of social network users had encountered malicious attacks. Despite …
The Smartphones and Tablets of CTIA 2011 You Should Know About
With the smartphone and tablet markets booming, 2011 is a great time to have a wireless industry trade show. Press releases from CTIA 2011 flowed as soon as the week began, with device makers and wireless carriers flexing their muscles and hyping up their latest gadgets. Here’s a quick look at the biggest smartphones and tablets to debut …
GPS-Enabled Shopping: Never Get Lost at Home Depot Again!
Imagine the scenario. You’re at a football game, post- bathroom break or beer run, and you suddenly realize that you don’t remember how to find your way back to your seat.
Not to worry. A new app for your iPhone (and, shortly, your Android device) may be able to help. In fact it might even help you find your way to the nearest …
Yelp Makes “Hipster” a Category to Describe Ambience
Are you searching for that rare can of Pabst Blue Ribbon? Do you need a restaurant that has a place to chain up your fixie bike? Does your definition of “business attire” include a pair of rolled up skinny jeans and a flannel shirt?
You can now find a restaurant that caters to your eclectic taste. Yelp has added “hipster” as one …
High School Hacker Pleads Guilty to Spyware Hijinks
If nothing else, Omar Khan deserves an A for ingenuity, even though he’d probably flunk any morals class he attended. The 21-year old-Californian has pleaded guilty to breaking into his high school during his senior year to install spyware on several computers, allowing him to steal tests and change his (and others’) grades from Cs and …
Want to Play a Real-Life Crush the Castle?
If you’ve ever played a successful Flash game called Crush the Castle, you’ll know how much fun it is to hurl virtual rocks at evil royal enemies with your trusty medieval trebuchet.
In fact, hurling rocks turns out to be so much fun that doing it on screen just isn’t enough. People want to hurl something real. People want …
Is This the Start of an All-Mobile Apple?
Bertrand Serlet, the Senior Vice President of Mac Software Engineering — colloquially known as one of the fathers of Mac OS X — is leaving Apple, the company announced.
The move has sparked speculation that Apple’s future is much more about mobile devices than the desktop computers with which it built its reputation.
Serlet has …
Hey Internet, I’m Talking to You
If you’re running the latest version of Google’s Chrome web browser, you can now talk to the internet. It won’t listen, and it won’t do what you say, but it will recognize what words you’ve spoken. Which is a good start.
The beta of Chrome 11 includes support for a speech input technology, part of the HTML5 standard. That means that
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