The new editor of The Hairpin treats mix-tapes like books and commutes by Instapaper.
A couple of weeks before the release of Samsung's Galaxy S IV, an anonymous employee who has played with the phone divulged to The New York Times that the phone will track your eyes as you read, scrolling through along with your pace, a feature that sounds a little bit nauseating.
In response to the 114,000 signature petition speaking out against the brand new law against unlocking cell phones, the White House said it thinks the law against using a phone on a different carrier is stupid, too, but where do we go from here?
In an attempt to explain the inexplicable death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, some of the country's best journalists, most outspoken activists, and his closest friends have devoted thousands upon thousands of emotional words with few answers to why a young man took his own life nearly two months ago.
Just when Samsung had earned some respect for its advertising campaigns, the latest Galaxy S IV teaser disappoints by emphasizing secrets over product.
About that jury decision that found Samsung owed Apple over $1 billion for patent infringement, the judge on the case has decided to scrap nearly half of that—for now.
Facebook is holding a mysterious event next week to introduce "a new look" for its tired News Feed, and, yes, the speculation has begun. Here's what a revamp might look like.
With Marissa Mayer's new decree on telecommuting and Sheryl Sandberg's "feminist manifesto," everyone has an opinion about the feminine boss, but on what they're actually doing. Here's how we talk about women in power now.
For the first time since 2006, Goldman Sachs hosted one of its famous partners galas, and we know all about the lavish affair thanks to... Instagram, meaning the recession has officially ended and photo sharing apps are legitimate reporting tools.
Now that Groupon's "quirky" co-founder and former CEO Andrew Mason has finally left, it sounds like the daily deals company will take the opportunity to appoint someone a little less childish and a little more concerned with the bottom line.
It looks like those very bad earnings were the final straw for Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason, who said late Thursday that he had been fired by the tumbling deal site he saw rise, fall, and fall even harder.
Considering Bloomberg Businessweek's generally stellar covers, a lot of people are wondering how exactly this one with its absurd caricatures and racial undertones got through the editorial process.
Despite inheriting the title of Woman Who Has It All in Chief, the Yahoo CEO doesn't want to lead the feminist tribe, according to comments she said over a year ago that have resurfaced in light of her recent scandalous order to end work-at-home setups.
Remember that judge who made Apple rewrite its too-sassy public apology to Samsung? Well, Samsung has turned around and hired him as an expert in its patent battle with Ericsson, which seems totally unethical, but is actually quite legal.
There's a new little Twitter game happening that we will call the Vortex of Wow in which someone tweets "Wow." and then a link to another person tweeting "Wow." with a link to another person tweeting "Wow." and then, well, you get the picture.
The Google founder Sergey Brin's remarks about how his smartphone makes him feel emasculated was either an alienating off-color remark or a suggestion that he is turning into a robot.
Groupon's stock is down over 20 percent in after-hours trading after an earnings report that not only missed analyst expectations, reporting $683 million in revenue compared to an expected $640 million, but also posted a dismal forecast for next quarter.
Up until now dating apps, not to be confused with online dating websites, have had a male heavy demographic—that is, until Tinder came along.
In all this Twitter $10 billion valuation talk a lot of theoretical numbers and estimates get thrown out there as fact.
Least compelling of all the arguments against Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's new tyrannical order — outlawing permanent work-from-home arrangements for her employees — come from people who feel like their particular work-life patters are about to be upset .
Don't be confused: Cablevision's anti-trust suit decrying the evils of "anti-consumer" bundling by Viacom, which have pushed cable-bills up oh-so-high, has nothing to do with the frustrations consumers have with cable bundling.
In an attempt to get more schools to offer programming classes, Code.org has released a promotional video filled with celebrities and "celebrities" that basically says: learn code and you too can work in a hip Silicon Valley office.
After some delays, the movie industry's home-brewed system to fight Internet pirates has finally arrived, and depending on their internet service provider, pirates may not have all that much to fear.
The main appeal of the Chrome-powered notebooks to this point has been their super low price, but Google's brand new touchscreen Chromebook Pixel laptop starts at $1,299, a full $100 more than a 13-inch MacBook Air.
Despite emotional arguments that the tech world's meritocracy obsession comes with the best intentions, there are increasing calls from actual female and minority start-up employees who suggest very much the opposite. In Silicon Valley, it appears, start-up culture has actually reinforced its own glass ceiling.
Another reason to welcome our inevitable robot overlords: not only will they be doctors, able to operate and save our lives, they will also deal with the insurance hassles. Sign us up!
Props to Google for working with the hip glasses maker Warby Parker in an attempt to make its wearable A.I. goggles more stylish, but it will take a lot of social acceptance of robot aesthetics before a face-computer looks cool.
Sony is set to unveil the first new PlayStation console in seven years at an event this evening, in hopes of catching up to Microsoft and Nintendo.
For those not inclined to watch Google's new demo video, here are all the the adventures you can take with this particular gadget of the future.
After months of leaks, Yahoo finally unveiled its new homepage today and though it may not look that different, its new personalized news feed is the most important, and potentially most lucrative, part of the new look.
From The New York Times and the Defense Department to Facebook and now even Apple, there's one increasingly sophisticated type of spam to watch out for — and here are some tips, just in case the Chinese hacker war hits your inbox next.
Following a string of disclosures from big companies that could point to a larger Chinese threat, Apple on Tuesday became the latest to admit that its internal computers had been hacked — and by the same malware malfeasance that got inside Facebook.
In its latest attempt to take down Google with a negative fervor unseen since, well, November, Microsoft has begun a three-month ad campaign for Outlook that will cost between $30 and $90 million — and focus almost entirely on how terrible Gmail is.
If it weren't for the strictness of the Chinese government's Internet firewall, security firm Mandiant may never have discovered the identities of the Chinese army's instantly notorious "Comment Crew."
Now that Samsung has its own hype cycle, it seems only fair to keep track of what the tech rumormongers are saying about the upcoming Galaxy S IV.
The winners of yesterday's third annual Streamy Awards, which "honor excellence in original online video programming and those who create it," show that the best of made-for-Web television is still pretty webby.
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has published her final word on The New York Times vs. Tesla saga, saying that she does not think writer John M. Broder purposefully sabotaged the Model S test drive. But she isn't letting him off the hook completely.
Facebook announced in a blog post on Friday afternoon that its "systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack" and that "Facebook was not alone," which immediately raised the cyber-espionage question of the moment: Was China behind this one, too?
Until today, when Ars Technica's Jacqui Chang handily debunked the legend, it was common knowledge in the tech blogger world that, in some sort of hazing ritual, Apple put new employees to work on fake products until they could be trusted.
With an oversaturation of obvious jokes coming from get-followers-quick users who jump on major news events, one comedian's bold move to squat on a newsy handle is, indeed, an heroic gesture. But it's also futile.
Elon Musk likes CNN's new telling a lot better than the one from The New York Times — perhaps because CNN followed Tesla's exact guidelines instead of, you know, going for a road trip.
In the latest rather obvious attempt to monetize every inch of its network, Facebook is now trying to charge you to promote not just your own content — they think you'll pay for your friends' wall posts, too.
Elon Musk's long-awaited blog post take-down has arrived with what he claims is the data to prove New York Times reporter John M. Broder committed some sort of journalistic malpractice to run a bad review of the Tesla Model S's range capability.
Chinese hackers are on a digital espionage campaign targeting a vast array of pretty much any major American organization "with intellectual property to protect," and now that there's a rare human side to combatting the malware attacks, we know there's not enough being done to stop the hackers yet.
Taking the next logical step in her quest to gin up as much celebrity as possible for being related to the CEO of Facebook and not much else, Randi Zuckerberg is writing a memoir called Dot Complicated — and her deal with HarperCollins calls for yet another book after that.
Remember when Apple Maps was giving the people of Australia such bad directions that it led them to the middle of the Outback? Well, it's happening again, in a different, possibly life threatening way — not that Apple's going much about it.
In his State of the Union address and his road show to tell a manufacturing plan as a job creator, the president has called 3D printing "the future." But a look at the rapidly growing industry's challenges reveals that it may not be growing as fast as the president would like.
Time Warner is in secret negotiations to sell off part of Time Inc., sources tell the Time Inc. publication Fortune, in a move that could signal just how sick media giants are getting of trying to stop the bleeding from print.
The latest rumors make the smart-watch sound like an impending reality, with a report that Apple has a 100-person design team working on a Dick Tracy-style device. And there's plenty of evidence from growing niche markets that there might be iWatch fever after all.
Following a bold accusation from Tesla CEO Elon Musk that a terrible road-trip with the Model S was "fake," New York Times reporter John M. Broder has clarified that he may have made some operator mistakes but did not make anything up about the car's poor performance.
With Tim Cook as an official guest, the President will be able to look up into the Capitol's VIP box at an Apple figurehead for his second straight State of the Union — except after the year Apple's had, maybe it won't be such an awkward thumbs-up to China this time.
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