The U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations had some tough questions for Tim Cook, CEO of computer giant Apple which stands accused of tax avoidance to the tune of billions of dollars. Questions like: "Why the hell do I have to keep updating my apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that?"
Today, the search engine started integrating Google+ into the standard search engine, with Search, plus Your World, " transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships," writes Google fellow Amit Singhal on The Official Google Blog.
As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week's Consumer Electronic's Show, the workers that make those products are threatening mass suicide for the horrid working conditions at Foxconn.
We already knew a lot of people still watch Netflix streaming, but the latest Nielsen research finds that they watch it a lot more than other, freer sites.
Discovered: Why character building names build character, more evidence of man-made climate change, super silk worms, the tobacco industry's lies.
A new report suggesting wind-turbines can emit more carbon dioxide than the most efficient gas turbines has put the pro-wind community on the defensive over the benefits of the supposed "clean" energy alternative.
The Consumer Electronics Show, which has birthed tech game-changers like the VCR, camcorder and Xbox, isn't expected to be all that exciting this year.
There's one woman behind the take-down of both the egregious Verizon Wireless and Bank of America fees enacted earlier this year: 22-year-old Meredith Katchpole.
Discovered: Everyone's doing drugs, a reason to play outside more often, we lie about our romantic attractions, when our brains start dying, the right type of food and exercise.
In another assault on Netflix's library, Warner Bros. has announced that it will double the viewing window for new releases, meaning viewers will now have to wait 56 days for A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas and other Warner releases to show up at Netflix.
Just like every precious finite resource in this world, data usage is relegated to the top one percent, with elite smartphone users consuming half of all the data.
The New York Times Magazine has posted an expose on "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body," detailing rib and back injuries of yoga practices gone awry. We discuss.
Discovered: The writing diet, how blogging helps mental health, licorice that's good for your teeth, promising cancer and herpes treatments, and why parents treat their kids like dogs.
Just as Netflix is about to lose all of its Starz movie offerings, HBO has decided to stop selling its DVDs to the service.
Not the first time the company has cracked down on a Steve Jobs action figure, Apple has taken legal action again the most recent eerily life-like collectible figurine of their late CEO.
The teen who accidentally got deported to Colombia spent a lot of time doing what lots of American teens do: talk about drugs, sex and boredom.
Without the hope of the iPhone 5 anytime soon, the Apple rumormongers have turned to Apple TV for all of their tech-gadget fantasies.
What the Wall Street Journal calls a "love story" between Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Washington Post CEO Donald Graham sounds more parasitic than the average bromance.
After spending Christmas in Vietnam, Zuckerberg has taken his crew to South America for the New Year and post-New Year's beach time
Discovered: Hairy chested crabs, a invisibility cloak that erases time, a beautiful image of the next generation of stars, the key to dieting success, the effects of climate change are worse than we predicted
Though Apple got around to fixing its battery drain issues, the iPhone maker has yet to address the phone's audio-mute problem, dubbed "audiogate."
Now that our hip President has joined Instagram, we have some guesses for the next up-and-coming social media frontiers that the Obama 2012 campaign will try out to spread the Obama word.
Discovered: Hybrid climate change fighting sharks, weed's effects on brain function, smartphones are addictive, an astounding link between diabetes, income and ADHD, and the kindness of humble strangers.
There may be some reasonable explanations, but ultimately it's pretty clear that Google violated its own link buying policies with a recent campaign for Google Chrome.
Before we get carried away with 2012 Apple rumors, let's get the facts straight about what the Apple media event later this month entails.
Joining her husband Rupert Murdoch, Wendi Deng Murdoch has recently started tweeting, too, mostly to do some Rupert Murdoch ground control.
Today, The Verge's Jamie Keene pointed us to a brand new Google Earth Easter egg: a Morrissey reference in front of the Salford Lads Club.
Discovered: Bigger babies don't mean fatter kids, why a month-long drinking detox won't save your liver, the in vitro fertilization twin phenomenon, and glaucoma risk factors.
When PostSecret, the beloved secret-on-a-post-card sharing site, announced it had to take down its app because of "content that was not just pornographic but also gruesome and at times threatening," fans were not happy about it.
Sponsoring the media hangout center at the Polk County Convention Complex for this year's Iowa caucus, Google is wooing political journalists with tricked-out treadmills and bean bag chairs.
Less than 48 hours on the Twitters and the octogenarian Dow Jones emperor already got himself into social media trouble, sending a hypocritical message that earned him his very own hashtag.
There are a few things that are particularly grating about Verizon's new $2 charge for one-time over-the-phone or online bill payments.
Discovered: Japan's Tsunami debris will hit U.S. shores in the next few months, more proof that our music listening habits are harmful, smelly feet attract mosquitoes, chimps understand each other's mind-sets.
For Afghans, having to use Taliban approved ring-tones in order to save one's life wouldn't be so bad if the tones didn't have gunshots in the background.
This morning The New York Times reported what sounded like good news for Google+, but on closer inspection, the news may not say too much about the site's success.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Discovered: The science behind failed weight-loss methods; the truth about multivitamins; old people aren't slow, just careful; the one good thing about ulcers.
An accessories company has sued the Internet giant for alleged sabotage, making it the latest in a series of little guys who are calling the retail giant a bully.
We asked for the Internet to make Siku the Danish baby polar bear famous, and it delivered.
Like anyone taking a vacation, Mark Zuckerberg wanted to escape his every-day (not-so-boring) life. And he did: hopping to Vietnam, a country where Facebook is illegal.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Discovered: Cat ladies beware, the types of moms that make their kids fat, more good malaria news, and even little oil spills are horrible for animals.
Unimpressed by the shiniest TV technological innovations, consumers aren't jumping to buy the latest models, which has pushed set prices down, making it all the better for shoppers.
Today Fox News is reporting that Eric Schmidt promised an iPad killer in six months, based on a comment the Google CEO said last week to Italian paper Corriere della Sera.
Online shopping's all easy and fun until Best Buy cancels gift orders and ruins Christmas.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention, but today in honor of the holiday, it's all Christmas and puppies. Merry Xmas!
Discovered: An HIV prevention treatment is crowned "Breakthrough of the Year," women govern just as poorly as men, two-year-olds have real memories, what makes teens nerdy, and Microsoft Kinect in space.
As hot as Ryan Gosling is, his bubble, like all fragile soapy wonders, must pop -- that's just how bubbles work.
With only two shopping days left, retailers have entered desperation mode, doing anything to get rid of merchandise before December 25.
Unable to kill its DVD business by separating out into Qwikster, Netflix seems to have stumbled on a new strategy to wean new customers off their shiny disc addiction: make it pretty much impossible to find a way to sign up for a subscription.
Discovered: Multitasking isn't a myth, pigeons aren't as dumb as they look, anti-depressants and therapy don't really work, the Brits' criminal and pirate ancestors, better treatment for blindness prevention.
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