The new editor of The Hairpin treats mix-tapes like books and commutes by Instapaper.
The paper has a "new" way to make money off its "savvy" readers: This summer, it will adopt a metered paywall system that's very similar to The New York Times — and, just like the Times, actually savvy readers will find a way to access it for free.
While the cases of Aaron Swartz and Matthew Keys made them into even bigger heroes because of villainous sounding prosecutions and astonishingly long potential jail times, this harsh sentencing might make a champion out of a guy who, really, is just an expert pain in the online butt.
Right after China's state-run television station ran a damning documentary on Apple's customer-service practices, a bunch of Chinese celebrities took to China's version of Twitter, all at the same time, to paint a picture of Apple as bullying consumers. Is this a government conspiracy, coincidence, or some combination therein? Let's look at every theory.
Authorities have confirmed tor the first time ever, that hackers attempted and almost succeeded at rigging a Miami primary vote, uncovering underlying security issues with the online voting systems of the future.
Instead of paying cable-TV providers for a bundle of channels that nobody watches, Verizon wants to reward content owners for the viewers who tune in to each individual station, a plan that should lower costs — yay! — but that the Time Warners and Viacoms of the market aren't likely to adopt.
The company that just used bridesmaids in heels to demonstrate why a female might want to buy a piece of technology? Yeah, it has a history of female stereotypes in advertising. And it just so happened to coincide with the launch of an "iPhone-killer" Galaxy phone line.
Hours after that $500 million Avis merger became official, the ZipCar CEO Scott Griffith announced his departure from his car-sharing helm, which could signal the beginning of the end of the beloved short-term rental service.
The cell phone made its public debut 40 years ago, which sounds like a very long time ago because it was.
The cult of news junkies who can't believe Google shut down its RSS feed have started theorizing about why Reader had to go, considering the people who used it loved it so much.
The cloud-sharing service has acquired the brand-new and already beloved email app, which could mean a lot of things for both darlings of Silicon Valley but definitely means that a lot more users will be able to jump in on the stalled rollout for Mailbox.
The new phone can do a lot of things Apple's iPhone 5 cannot — and a lot of things it doesn't need to do at all. The Galaxy S IV has a grand total of 35 software features, some of which don't work all that well, others of which are gimmicky, and a handful which are actually useful. Here's our hands-on tets.
The Galaxy S IV launch event verged on offensive when the emcee used a group of bridesmaids to illustrate all the woman things the phone can do, like cooking and weight loss and wedding planning — oh my.
Samsung finally released a lighter, faster, better version of its popular Galaxy S III smart phone on Thursday night, the much anticipated Samsung Galaxy S IV — an "iPhone killer" that also happens to have a ton of goofy, useless bells and whistles. Here's our full report from on the scene at the launch event.
Google's attempts to ease the world into the freakishness that is Google Glass has done just the opposite, with a lot of people very turned off before the computer glasses go on sale to the public.
In an attempt to continue its quest to become everyone's hyper-organized "personal newspaper," Facebook is planning to adopt a modern organizing tool that's as easy for its native Twitter users to make fun of as it may prove useful to the often cluttered No. 1 social network.
Here's a little light at the end of a dark Google reader tunnel: Because of Reader's demise the people behind news aggregation site Digg have sped up their own RSS plans to get fans a feed before Google Reader's July 1 death date.
Apple has good reason to get defensive about its iPhone just before Samsung's release of the Galaxy S IV tonight: It's very likely the S IV will steal away some of its most profitable fan-people and this time, for good.
Now that the very dedicated RSS-reading masses have had a night to mourn the loss of Google Reader, it's time to look forward to the future of news consumption. Here's how to survive.
The notoriously harsh prosecutor who insisted on jail time for Aaron Swartz may have withheld evidence, according to a letter filed by Swartz's legal team, making the villain of an emotional trial and even more emotional suicide sound perhaps more villainous than before.
With Groupon CEO Andrew Mason gone, one of the two dudes left running the ship is Eric Lefkofsky, a man notorious for massive dot com failure, who, it turns out, also pushed the daily deals site in all the wrong directions.
While Samsung has been tight-lipped about the new Galaxy S IV it will unveil tomorrow, they've been especially busy in recent weeks and months filing phone-related trademarks, brand names that maybe give us a peak inside the products they're planning to bring to market.
To go with its brand-new News Feed, Facebook has now updated individual profiles pages, using a similar picture-focused look for a few of your favorite things.
In the run-up to its release of the "iPhone-killer" Galaxy S IV smartphone on Thursday night, Samsung has spent way more than Apple marketing its phones, and looking at marketing dollars against mobile sales, the ad blitz looks to have paid off.
After getting rid of some legal barriers, Netflix and Facebook have now cemented a friendship promised to us back in the fall of 2011, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Open Graph would give us all sorts of Facebook integrated actions.
It's been more than two days since The New York Times declared the end of nice when it comes to voicemails and emails and more, and now the thundering contrarian herds of mean are coming for your salutations. We have to say, politely, that these prescriptions on how not to communicate have gotten a little out of hand.
Don't tell Florida — or CNN, which might go all poop-cruise on this thing once the papal smoke clears — but D.C. has its very own man-eating sinkhole and, well, the people of D.C. are freaking out... even though it doesn't look at all threatening.
The New York Times has released a sneak peek of its website redesign, and with a clean look heavy on the white space, it kind of looks like a blog, which isn't a bad thing.
After a pile of backlash over her work-from-home ban, Marissa Mayer, the Yahoo CEO who can do no right, is now getting flack for trying to get the best people to work at her fledgling company, which might not be as ridiculous as it sounds. Just ask Sheryl Sandberg.
Two days ahead of the Galaxy SIV big reveal, Samsung has posted this first official image of the new phone to Twitter, confirming two facts: It says Samsung and it has a screen.
With Sheryl Sandberg's already much talked about "feminist manifesto" Lean In out today, the conversation about the topic has reached new lows, with a lot of women (and men) reverting to pre-Betty Friedan era form.
New York Times writer Nick Bilton had a massive freakout, from email and voicemail to giving helpful advice and, yes, saying "thank you" to another human being. This particular etiquette denier needs to take a chill pill, but the "right" way to reach out to people has become more complex.
There is one foolproof way to avoid an increasingly terrifying group of perverted cyberspies who are hijacking (mostly) women's computer cameras: Buy a new computer that has a light that goes on whenever your webcam is in use, whether you know it or not.
AT&T's olive branch on Friday only reinforces how much power cell carriers wield with the new unlocking law: they can still deny customers the freedom of truly owning a phone they bought through another company — and that's why Senators are trying to overturn it.
It's not quite that scene at the Gap in Minority Report, but the next time you leave your iPhone's WiFi signal on in public, expect a digital trail: real-world stores are tracking your every move.
The mood is "lighter" since Time Warner's deal to spin off all 21 titles in its magazine division collapsed this week, even though the new plan — spinning off the publishing branch into a publicly traded company valued at just $2.50 per share — should have nobody calming down.
The era of the Social-Mobile-Local app has finally closed at SXSW Interactive, thank goodness.
He didn't say the word "advertiser" once on Thursday, but Mark Zuckerberg may have made an historic step with Facebook's redesigned News Feed: The homepage for which he once apologized has transformed into a big, engaging platform that marketers already say they love.
Facebook has unveiled what it calls a "mobile first" new homepage look and — as expected — it takes up more space, meaning bigger ads. There's also a multi-faceted feed, seeking to transform the social network into "the most personalized newspaper in the world." Here's your first look, and how to sign up.
After about five months on the job, on top of her $1 million annual salary, the Yahoo CEO received a ton of money for such a short period of time. But she made the company way more than that.
After reading Sheryl Sandberg's "feminist manifesto" Lean In, you get the eerie impression that she knew what her critics would say.
Here's a handy little GIF from via our favorite storm-hyping network, The Weather Channel, which basically explains why the Snowquester wasn't and will never be.
About that proposed $24.4 billion buyout of Dell: the notorious shaker-upper doesn't like the sound of the deal, so it looks like he's gone and bought up a big stake to get his way — in very Icahn-ish fashion, of course.
Since talks fell through with the Meredith Corporation on Wednesday afternoon, Time Warner has decided to spin off Time Inc. and all 21 of its magazines into a separate company.
Word has leaked that Mark Zuckerberg will unveil separate feeds for different types of content at an event tomorrow, transforming the News Feed of 2013 into Facebook's September issue, only with five subdivided sections of the second most popular website in the world.
Amid all the theoretical talk about how Marissa Mayer's work-from-home ban is a terrible policy for America, those actually affected don't sound too upset about anything, really. In fact, it's working rather well as part of a broader cultural shift.
The European Commission has fined Microsoft $731 million for breaking an anti-trust promise, setting a strong precedent for how things can go for Google in its European anti-trust investigation.
If the problem with winter storm names wasn't obvious when Nemo blanketed the East Coast last month, the latest storm with a name, this week's storm, which has earned the name Saturn, drives the point home.
So Best Buy announced this week that it, too, will start making its workers come in and — well, well — nobody is calling new white-male CEO Hubert Joly a bad feminist yet. What gives?
After the success of its multi-chapter, multimedia avalanche story, the Times today has given the online splash-page treatment to another graphics- and info-driven story, Dennis Overbye's "Chasing the Higgs Boson."
Devoid of any exciting rumored features to gossip about, the rumor-bloggers have latched onto some possible, but totally unsubstantiated release dates for the next iteration of the iPhone.
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