The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon is expanding its hardware offerings with a whole new line of gadgets, including a lame-sounding "audio streaming device" and a pair of next gen smartphones.
The Defense Department's Counter Narco-Terrorism Program Office (CNTPO) just closed its latest request for proposals, and some of the world's top private security contractors are in the running to win a vaguely worded contract for "training services support."
Construction workers are putting the finishing touches on the the extremely secretive but so far impressive-looking Apple Store inside Grand Central.
Ai Weiwei spent an hour on Tuesday morning — it was Tuesday night in China — answering questions from curious fans and dodging the disappointed comments from one angry hippie in an MSNBC live chat.
There's a little bit of new information and a lot of new misinformation about Facebook's super, top-secret phone project.
Since a large group of tech companies protested the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) in conjunction with the House's first hearing on SOPA last week, civil rights advocates have been rooting out the pro-SOPA traitors.
Michael Bloomberg is the 21st-century Monopoly man, minus the monocle, who peddles information and influence instead of colorful real estate.
This week, New York becomes the latest glossy magazine to profile Arianna Huffington, and like many journalists who've tackled the task before her, the magazine's Vanessa Grigoriadis paints a complex if underhanded portrait.
The Occupy Harvard protest appears to be entering its second, more serious stage having amassed the support of over 100 faculty members and successfully derailing a Newt Gingrich visit to campus.
Earlier this year, we learned that early Facebook investor Peter Thiel didn't believe in higher education, and thanks to a just-published New Yorker profile, we now know that he also doesn't believe in death.
A day after the Los Angeles County Sheriff's office announced plans to reopen the case of actress Natalie Wood's mysterious 1981 death, the Associated Press reported new details that, unfortunately, were totally fabricated by a Christopher Walken impersonator on a local radio station.
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Everybody's been waiting for the expletive-filled YouTube video that sums up the standoff between the 99-Percenters and the 1-Percenters down on Wall Street. Found it.
The office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords coordinated a bi-partisan effort to urge the members of the super committee to get something done.
A judge sentenced self-help superstar Ray Adams to two years in jail for accidentally killing three people at a "spiritual warrior" retreat in a dangerously ultimately deadly hot Sedona, Arizona, sweat lodge.
For many, the feline agility competition — we prefer the term "cat gymnastics" — is very serious, perhaps even fierce athletic enterprise.
During the deluge of protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) from tech companies and civil rights groups alike, the Business Software Alliance, who counts Apple and Microsoft in their ranks, issued a glowing vote of support for the law.
In the latest update to the Newsweek Daily Beast saga, WWD's John Koblin doesn't have a lot of encouraging things to say about the state of affairs under editor Tina Brown.
Robert Mackey at The New York Times boldly declared on Thursday afternoon, "Drone Journalism Arrives" — it's actually been around for a while over at News Corp.
Herman Cain's request for Secret Service protection was approved on Thursday afternoon, making the former Godfather Pizza CEO the first Republican candidate to be granted the privilege and prompting Slate's Dave Weigel to wonder, "Is this the first time a Secret Service detail has been assigned to a book tour?"
Just over two weeks after announcing its intentions, Twitter is starting to drop ads — ahem, "promoted tweets" — into users' timelines.
The social media parade towards Wall Street continued on Thursday with Yelp filing its S-1 form for a $100 million initial public offering.
The tech world leaned forward on Wednesday evening when Michael Arrington — the TechCrunch founder who boisterously departed AOL after a spat with Arianna Huffington — warned on Twitter of "some very bad news about AOL."
Despite the media-gazer chatter about Nick Denton selling Fleshbot as his company's next grown-up move, the porn site hasn't legally been a part of Gawker Media for two years.
It's unclear if poet Ann Lauterbach meant to be ironic when she pointed out "that we are occupying Wall Street" in her brief remarks to a black tie crowd at Cipriani, the luxurious downtown setting for this year's National Book Awards on Wednesday night.
Having invited only one of six witness voicing opposition to the bill, the House Judiciary Committee avoided digging into the dangerous details of internet censorship during and focused on piracy during its hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Ultra-efficient LED light bulbs are all the rage amongst futurist gadget geeks these days.
Everybody loves Apple's sleek, hip industrial design — especially other laptop manufacturers trying to compete with the explosive success of the MacBook Pro.
Around the same time he was voicing support for Occupy Wall Street, Malcolm Gladwell participated in a speaking tour to help Bank of America win new small business customers.
Wednesday, November 16 is the first ever American Censorship Day in honor of the first House hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and most of the internet seems determined not to repeat the ironic holiday next year.
Google X made headlines this week, but Microsoft has been secretly building everything from social networks to projectors that turn a human body into a touch screen in their labs for years.
Neville Thurlbeck, the former News of the World chief reporter at the center of the phone hacking scandal — the man holding the smoking gun, so to speak — picked a curious moment to stand up for News Corp.'s top executives.
The NYPD's treatment of journalists covering its raid on Occupy Wall Street on Tuesday has been criticized not only be news outlets and press watchdog groups but by the top New York City officials.
On Thursday afternoon, Facebook confirmed that a "coordinated spam attack" has been sending a torrent of hardcore porn and gore into Facebook users' news feeds. It's not pretty.
On November 10 officials from several cities nationwide held a conference week to compare notes on their respective Occupy protests, but a spokesperson for Portland's mayor insists there's no conspiracy to end the movement.
With over 40 years of research to support their findings, a team of British scientists was slightly surprised to learn that people with higher IQs are much more prone to drug use.
It's been nearly a week since Harvard guards closed and locked the gates of Harvard Yard to keep the Occupy Harvard encampment for Harvard students only, and now the inconvenience to the entire campus could serve as lesson in solidarity for the national movement.
Vladimir Putin is the winner of the second annual Confucius Peace Prize — for orchestrating a "remarkable enhancement to the military might and political status of Russia." Really?!
Last month, Cambridge-based start-up ReDigi launched a marketplace for used MP3s, but even if the record companies let them survive, it will never be the new used CD store for cash-strapped college students.
The cloud music wars are heating up this week with Apple and Google both releasing their long-awaited, competing services.
Newsweek Daily Beast executive editor Edward Felsenthal became the third high-level hire to leave the company in the span of a few hours, a grim sign that chaos still rules at the magazine-web hybrid.
Last week, CNN sacked over 50 staffers, many of them camera-lugging photojournalists, in part because it will lean more heavily on its citizen journalism outfit iReport for more, better content.
While everyone buzzes about the mysterious Google building filled with robots featured in Monday's New York Times, Steven Levy at Wired is bragging about his business card collection.
As the Occupy movement perseveres and Google's stock price continues to skyrocket, it's no surprise that American youth don't want to work at investment banks.
Having met no resistance from the protesters, the police line that had blocked Broadway broke the line and left the scene.
CNN is passing out pink slips in their DC, New York, Atlanta, Miami and Los Angeles offices following a three-year long review of the company's workflow.
The New York Times has published an interactive feature that doubles as Rosetta Stone lessons for continent-hopping businessmen, with a very 21st-century piece in the World section on the pronunciation and meanings of Western brand names in Chinese.
Penn State's interim president Rodney Ericson has placed Mike McQueary, the assistant coach who first told Joe Paterno about witnessing Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy, on "indefinite" administrative leave
Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball, opened up to The Los Angeles Times recently about everything from his opinion of British journalism — it's not pretty — to his analysis of the banking industry.
There are no survivors after a helicopter carrying seven Mexican officials and a pilot crashed into a hillside just south of the country's capital.
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