The new editor of The Hairpin treats mix-tapes like books and commutes by Instapaper.
Intel has been pitching media companies its "virtual cable operator" plans, sources "familiar with the effort" told The Wall Street Journal's Sam Schechner and Don Clark, but from what we know of the plan there is a lot that could go wrong.
Frank M. Fazio has a beef with Siri. He claims that Apple has presented a "misleading and deceptive message" about the iPhone's voice-activated personal assistant in its ads.
Discovered: The temperature at which Greenland's ice sheet will disappear, a case for circumcision, a very precise 3-D printing technique, and the world's tallest man will not grow any taller.
Since Steve Jobs passed away, we've seen the release of two Apple products without any design innovations from a company that won gadgets users over with its well-designed products.
Internet companies look to old television formulas as they create original content for the Web.
Speaking with workers injured in a dust explosion last December at a Chinese factory where Apple products are manufactured, NPR uncovers the careless way these companies dealt with the problem.
Though Google claims the search process has been made better with its new social search, people don't want that type of personalized experience while searching, at least according to a new Pew study.
Discovered: An HIV vaccine, LSD as a treatment for alcoholism, what your heartbeat says about your personality and kids need exercise.
Apple's new iPad has been publicly available to exactly no one yet, but the complaining has already commenced.
Today we learn more about the Internet hacktivist known as Sabu via fresh court documents made public yesterday, which further complicate his persona.
Discovered: Insects with personalities, one good thing about the BP oil spill, how to solve a problem, and the case for berries.
While everyone's busy freaking out over how the new iPad would eat away data plans in seconds playing videos, they should really be freaking out about how that 4G LTE won't support the video the first place.
Beyond an icon change, what does the recent AT&T iPhone 4G upgrade mean in the performance department?
After yesterday's iPad announcement, some lucky tech bloggers got to touch Apple's newest device and their first impressions pretty much confirm the overall first reaction: The same, but better.
Discovered: Why we see the man in the moon, yoga is good for our health, a new species of shark and the first ever image of atoms forming molecules.
Not everyone likes the explanation, but many doctors believe conversion disorder is what's behind the twitching disorder that has stricken the teenage girls of Le Roy, NY. In other words, the mysterious involuntary spasms are a physical manifestation of stress.
Now that Apple has unveiled the latest in its iPad franchise, it's time to take a look at how our tech bloggers did with their predictions.
Kind of like that iPhone 4S announcement a few months back, the newest iPad got decent early reviews, but did not wow anyone.
A report from Reuters that Netflix is in talks with an unnamed cable company has us worried since Netflix turning into cable is the last thing we want.
Compiling a list of the lists of iPad 3 rumors, we get what we think is a pretty good idea of what the tablet will look like.
Discovered: Venus has bad weather, women like men to feel their pain, how much water the Earth has lost, cancerless super mice, and how to change your DNA.
Even after plotting Square's year-long growth on a "sexy growth curve," Splat F's Dan Frommer is surprised by the company's success -- but he really shouldn't be.
Considering the release of cheaper tablet competitors, among other factors (Foxconn?), this year's iPad 3 craziness makes less sense than ever, yet demand and expectations remain high for the device that Apple may reveal tomorrow.
Discovered: An anti-drinking drug, emotional computers, parents don't know where there kids are sometimes, there's oxygen and possibly life on Saturn's moon, and a creature that sees without eyes.
When it comes to screens, the American way seems to be the more the better. One at a time doesn't cut it -- there's something about the glow of different sorts of screens that gets us going. But what is it?
Although Apple today claimed that it has created over 500,000 American jobs, a closer look shows that number is a bit of a stretch.
Discovered: Unprecedented ocean acidification, weed does and doesn't impair memory, a strike against wine snobs and california isn't that fat anymore.
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek have differing views on how far Twitter has come, the Journal still seeing it as an immature start-up and Businessweek arguing it is all grown up.
After a kerfuffle on Twitter (and this here blog) over the possibility that Twitter broke its '@ reply' system, Twitter has responded saying it's working on the issue.
Twitter did not get rid of the old period-in-front-of-@ symbol trick, as Austin Frakt has claimed over at the Incidental Economist.
Discovered: The most important parts of the polar ice caps are melting the fastest, bulimia does not work, young people are receiving a "double-penalty" in the recession, and why sore winners are more common than sore losers.
The first batch of Lytro cameras has shipped, and the people who get excited about these types of things are calling it unlike any digital camera we've seen before. But different isn't always good.
Fortune's new in-depth look at Facebook confirms that Mark Zuckerberg has created the type of intense cult it takes to build a successful tech company, but it's a very different from the one created by the tech industry's other mega-successful cultish leader, Apple's Steve Jobs.
Discovered: The right age to get fat, a possible sugary cure for Alzheimer's, coffee will not kill us, and there's a decent chance the sun will explode.
About a month into its Pre-IPO rush to make money off of us, Facebook has announced a bunch of new features that will simultaneously please advertisers and annoy users.
We've now seen two Internet marriage proposals in just a few weeks, one on Mashable another on BuzzFeed. Is this an acceptable way to ask for someone's hand in marriage? We discuss.
The debut of the $35 Raspberry Pi computer has the masses so excited they have crashed online retail sites.
After a successful developer preview debut last fall, Microsoft has unveiled the consumer preview of its newest operating system.
Discovered: Rich people steal candy from babies, the existence of an immortal worm, democracy does not work, and death by sleeping pills.
Pinterest, the social network that encourages image hoarding, hasn't done a very good job preparing for the inevitable copyright scandal the site will face.
Netflix doesn't have to sweat losing its big Starz Play movie library because viewers come to the Internet for their television fixes and Netflix has built up a pretty valuable store of TV selections in the last few months.
The Wall Street Journal has boiled down the failure of Google+ to make a dent in the social network dominance of Facebook, which we have noted for months to two simple stats: users spend about three minutes per month on Google+ compared to six to seven hours a month on Facebook.
Evi, the Siri knockoff that got attention last week for looking too much like Siri, has been downloaded over 200,000 times, leading us to believe that this one might be worth it for those iPhone users on pre-4s iPhones.
Discovered: A magical flu vaccine, there's no such thing as a healthy video game, a quantum microphone, nicotine mouth spray, your boyfriend may think you're fatter than you are.
Don't get too, too sad about Netflix losing Starz Play after tomorrow.
After hearing all about the horrible working conditions it takes to make our electronics at Foxconn, Mother Jones' Mac McClelland shows us what it takes to ship those products.
Looking at the future of the iPhone, two articles, one from the Wall Street Journal's Anton Troianovski the other from The New York Times' Kevin J. O'Brien, out of the Barcelona's Mobile World Congress reach some differing conclusions
On Thursday, the White House pulled back the curtain on its "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights," a presidential attempt to clamp down on the misuse of online user data.
Discovered: Science's cruel joke on arachnophobes, a case for early mammograms, man will not go extinct, surgeons make bad health decisions.
Beyond "girly" pinboards showcasing the latest fashion trends, there's a silly side to Pinterest, which has taken a few notes from the Internet's silliest platform, Tumblr.
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