Doesn't Ashton Kutcher know what happens to people who complain about how terrible Twitter has gotten since the good old days? They get shamed with the following adage: Twitter is what you make it, bro.
Follow this link and you will see a totally unfiltered version of your Facebook News Feed, as opposed to the algorithm tailored version, where Facebook picks what friends' activities you see.
The new flagship Apple store in Palo Alto is too loud, says Apple's former head of advanced product development and worldwide marketing, Jean-Louis Gassée, in his Monday note. But maybe it's just the right amount of loud to get you to buy.
John McAfee of McAfee anti-virus software fame is reportedly wanted for the murder of American expatriate Gregory Paul, who was killed on Saturday night, according to Gizmodo's Jeff Wise, citing Belize police.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says his new Surface Tablet sales "are starting modestly," he told French newspaper La Perisian. But not all signs point to flop.
YouTube will cancel at least 60 percent of its current programming for next season, which means 96 of the 160 channels it created over the last year will no longer get funding from the site.
With Mitt Romney (finally) conceding Florida to Barack Obama, we have the final electoral college breakdown for this year's contest, meaning we can finally award prizes to our most right (and wrong) pundits.
A frat scene developed at the White House following Obama's election with young drunk college students chanting "USA USA," or that's how The Daily Beast's Ben Jacobs explains the not-entirely fratty gathering that happened in D.C. on Tuesday night.
Amazon has launched an over the Internet wine sales operation, but don't get too excited yet, most states still don't allow shipping of alcohol to one's front door.
Apple has lost its number one position with the world's most popular phone, ceding the title to rival Samsung and its Galaxy S3, but we don't imagine it will stay that way for too long.
Barack Obama did a Reddit Ask Me Anything back in August not just as a gimmick to prove he was "with it," but because that's where his voter base was, an anonymous "official" from Obama's analytics team told Time's Michael Scherer.
With Florida still out we have yet to crown a winner of our election pundit predictions contest, but we have dubbed a lot of people wrong losers in the race to be the predictive champion.
After months of punditry and polling trying to figure out who still wanted Barack Obama running the show and who didn't, last night's results give us insight into the types of people who voted for his re-election.
Defying predictions that the velocity of tweets would render Twitter useless, either technically or practically, during election night, the site didn't break and was actually a pretty great place to keep up on news.
The Internet has even reduced the time we have to wait to see tomorrow's Barack Obama-laden front pages, with Twitter giving us a sneak peek of the morning's coverage.
Hurricane Sandy's lies prepared us for possible fake information coming out of Twitter tonight and we got our first taste with a quick rumor about the supposed election of Senator Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts.
With the swing states coming in, it's time to judge our pundits based on their predictions, which we compiled this morning in our prediction scorecard.
Facebook, like every other Internet site today, is dominated by election stuff, which you might find annoying. But it can actually do some good in this election.
As is tradition before election day, our nation's wise pundits have made their predictions for who will win today, how and by what margin, theoretically giving us an idea of the most likely outcome for president of the United States.
The iPhone had its week last week, when Instagram brought unbelievable but real images of Sandy's destruction to our attention and Twitter acted as a (mostly) reliable news and information source for many people. But Election Day, however, doesn't want any of that.
The latest in the Carl Icahn-versus-Netflix saga has Icahn calling Netflix's poison pill measure "poor governance" in an SEC filing, which is exactly what we would expect Icahn to do, given his former dealings with companies like this.
This afternoon the filtered smartphone app became more than that, launching web profile pages for its computer inclined users.
Google is on track to have an Apple compatible Maps app ready by the end of the year, a source tells The Guardian's Michael Grothaus, matching reports from earlier this year.
Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, the Bravo reality TV show that has Silicon Valley horrified, has arrived and it's not an accurate representation of the tech start-up world, says Silicon Valley.
The state of the subway subway map looks a lot less depressing today, with the MTA opening lines over the weekend and this morning, but commuters still face long lines and crowds.
Now we know what "sold out" means: Apple says it sold 3 million iPad Minis and fourth generation iPads in 3 days, which it spins as record-breaking as "double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third generation iPad in March." But it's not.
Following New York City's experience with a devastating, city-changing hurricane, many have drawn some parallels between New Orleans after Katrina and post-Sandy New York this week. Perhaps nothing drives that point home better than the moving Tumblr Nola to New York.
Maybe this says something about the state of these respective industries or maybe not, but today two Wired editors (one print, one digital) announced their departures to work full time at their respective start-ups.
The Lower East Side, the East Village, and Chelsea all have power.
Sandy came, ravaged New York City, and then left us with the following question: How can we better prepare the city for future storms?
On this Friday, there are two kinds of long lines forming in New York City: one to get to work on what public transportion is available and another to buy Apple's latest dood-dad, the iPad Mini.
Only because it had to, Apple has complied with a U.K court that didn't appreciate its tone in its apology to Samsung and has revised its formally too sassy sorry-note.
There is zero real evidence that anyone has dressed up as a Con Ed worker and gone door-to-door robbing people, yet the tales of such incidents are cropping up so frequently in media, on social networks, and old fashioned in person, that even Con Ed is warning people to ask its workers for ID.
It looks like the Con Ed spokesman got our hopes up and despite what he told Bloomberg, Con Ed's twitter account is giving a less optimistic estimate on the state of power in lower Manhattan.
Sandy wiped out a lot of beach and Governor Chris Christie is determined to rebuild all of his Jersey Shore, even if it is bad for the environment.
Apple continues to look like a sore loser in its U.K. patent suit loss to Samsung as a judge has ordered Apple to re-write its apology that read more like a diss published on its website last month.
This morning limited subway service and a bus bridge opened up to New York's commuters, in an attempt to fix some of yesterday's traffic woes. So, how's it working out? Better than yesterday, but not by much.
For a few minutes, the already deprived masses thought that the 21st century comfort gods had taken away Google's services, in addition to the electricity, cell service, and WiFi that Sandy had left them without.
It's hard to tell exactly where the cell phone outages are happening without exact information from the wireless companies, but because of the way cell phone technology works, we know that the densest areas with the most power outages and the worst weather damage—i.e., downtown Manhattan—are where cell service is hurting the most.
Looking at company incorporation papers, Forbes's George Anders estimates that the front page of the Internet, and all its seedy glory, is worth at least $240 million dollars.
It might take weeks to get the subway fully operational, but trains above 42nd street will start running tomorrow.
During a major crisis like Hurricane Sandy, it's best for PR reps to keep quiet if they represent a company selling something frivolous like V-neck T-shirts. Unfortunately, not everyone has that kind of good sense.
Having hit land last night with devastating results in New Jersey and New York City, Sandy will weaken as it continues up through Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and on into Canada.
With all the fake photos going around and all the unbelievable damage, it's hard to decipher the real from the Photoshopped.
Senior Vice President of iOS Scott Forstall, the man who many blamed for the Apple Maps debacle, is leaving the company, Apple has announced.
While it's one of our favorite ways to track the storm, the thing about following Sandy via photos on the Internet is that, like a lot of things online, there is a high chance of encountering a fake.
After being devastated by Hurricane Sandy, the East Coast moved forward with its recovery efforts, though millions remain without power. Stay here for more updates.
Stuck inside with only the Internet, the hackers are doing what they can to inform and aid during the storm.
As the iPhone-ed masses witness Hurricane Sandy's wrath, the user-generated storm porn is starting to come in.
Following in the steps of Amazon and Wal-Mart, Google has launched same day delivery, just for certain San Francisco dwellers for now, reports The New York Times's Clair Cain Miller.
Without any organic excitement for today's Surface tablet debut, Microsoft has resorted to faking it.
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