The new editor of The Hairpin treats mix-tapes like books and commutes by Instapaper.
Apple's CEO sat down with the chairman of China Mobile to discuss "matters of cooperation," a phrase that generated immediate excitement — and marks a shift in strategy between Steve Jobs and Cook, who might be seeking a big Chinese contract.
After a relatively fruitless trip to North Korea, Google chief Eric Schmidt and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson sent what they consider a strong message ... by stating the obvious — and, in Schmidt's case, in the form of an empty threat.
After six months on the job, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer hasn't made Yahoo any more popular, according to private ComScore data obtained by Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. And that's not the only problem facing the ailing company.
Despite the ongoing controversy from last year's Consumer Electronic's Show, the spokesmodels are back on the floor in Las Vegas this week, many of them wearing little more than a sports bra, and some wearing nothing other than paint.
Everyone and their pockets hates the size. Everyone including the American Dialect Society hates the name. But so-called "phablets" are on the rise, because, well, everyone still wants a big-screen cellphone.
That resuscitated rumor about an affordable Apple iPhone now has a price attached to it: $99 to $149. Here's why it might have to be that affordable.
The Google chief and former Governor Bill Richardson have one day left on their visit, and while their rescue mission appears unsuccessful, their goals for technological outreach have becoming increasingly clear — if equally fruitless.
Apple is working on a lower-end iPhone that will cost less and arrive by the end of this year, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. Should we believe them this time?
The final tweets of Freddy E., a Seattle rapper who posted chilling updates before committing suicide on Saturday, are still can still be seen by family, friends, and digital voyeurs. It is sadly not the first time that Twitter has served as a platform for a suicide note.
What's the difference between a robotic car made by Google, and the ones made by actual carmakers? The future, as always, was on display at the Consumer Electronics Show today.
For the second time in a year Apple CEO Tim Cook has travelled to China, and for the second time the purposes of his visit are shrouded in mystery, speculation, and, of course, tech-world chatter about world domination.
This week in Las Vegas, the Consumer Electronics Show will be the birthplace of all kinds of television-related innovation — massive, expensive living-room upgrades that the tech industry claims people desire, even if actual consumer research says otherwise.
The chip maker's much rumored CES announcement — the set-top box that was supposed to revolutionize the cable industry via subscribe-by-channel deals — is not a box at all, and it will not, in fact, change the way you pay for television.
The iTunes Store and the revolution that came with it has now officially given way to the app era in sales, and it's not for nothing: Apple is poised to make a lot more money on you paying for apps than it ever did changing the way you listen to music.
After a few years of the tech press letting us know how meaningless the Consumer Electronics Show has become, this year we sense of change of tune—maybe because the big gadget trade show has some things to offer?
"Booth babes": They date back to the beginning of the Consumer Electronics Show, they've been the subject of controversy and nerd fantasy alike, and — who knows? — this week in Las Vegas might just be the last of them.
As Amazon and Barnes & Noble are quickly discovering this year, the highbrow ideal all too often gives way to the mass-market realities. From tablets to TV shows and everything in between, the most high-minded of ideas for cultural consumption always seem to devolve toward mindless entertainment.
After flirting with Marissa Mayer's Yahoo job, the Silicon Valley star, who fought bitterly with the media conglomerates he helped make relevant online, has announced his departure.
While residents worry about what the Street View photos will do to property values, if Google's Staten Island project looks anything like what it did for New Orleans following Katrina, it will raise the kind of awareness the "forgotten borough" will need as it continues to rebuild.
Google snuck its way out of a two-year Federal Trade Commission antitrust probe without any major scratches this week in large part because it spent $25 million on lobbying Washington to believe it wasn't, in fact, being evil.
A new feature for Facebook's Messenger app lets you add audio to your text-based conversations — but if an additional testing phase of the app goes worldwide, it could let everyone replace their phone bills with Facebook calls over the Internet, for free.
Google is getting off pretty easy: after a two-year investigation into Google's possibly anti-competitive antics, the Federal Trade Commission has ruled that Google hasn't done anything wrong, saying "evidence does not support a claim" that Google unfairly favors its own products in its search results.
Arizona is entertaining a law that will make it a felony to use another person's real name to make an Internet profile intended to "harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten," which to some sounds like a law against parody Twitter accounts.
The Google Maps of the future will be a very smart computer program that knows you very well, which sounds part useful, part annoying, and part creepy.
Google has always made it all too easy to join its not so beloved social network, but now it's forcing users to log in with Google+ in order to get better (and more lucrative) data for advertisers.
The final numbers for last year in venture-capital IPOs and acquisitions are in, and while there was no dot-com-era type of explosion, the much hyped new tech bubble appears to have just... petered out.
Tumblr founder David Karp lives a "spartan" life with his $1.6 million 1,600 square-foot Williamsburg loft outfitted a restaurant-grade kitchen, explains Forbes's Jeff Bercovici in this month's cover story. Wait, what?
The iPhone bug that automatically disabled the "Do Not Disturb" scheduling feature on iOS6 will fix itself on January 7, Apple announced today, which means you'll have to deal with the glitch for another five days.
So, about that revolutionary streaming TV device that Intel is supposedly creating in secret and will reveal at next week's Consumer Electronics Show: don't believe the rumors, at least not right now.
The aging car-rental giant announced Wednesday morning that it plans to acquire Zipcar for $500 million, but as we've seen recently with Facebook and Instagram, there's always the risk that the big old owner can ruin its disruptive little brother.
After another year of big ups, a few downs, and the same old viral hits, YouTube is still the undisputed king of Internet video. Can Google keep you surfing long enough to transform YouTube without breaking it?
The Chinese government on Friday approved regulations that will require all of the country's Internet users to register their names with service providers, but it remains unclear what, exactly, will happen when they go into effect.
Instagram lost 4 million of its 16.4 million daily active users over the Christmas holiday, according to the usage trend monitors at AppData — but let's not jump to conclusions.
The secret guide to stopping the app's sexy messages from self-destructing has arrived, and the most unsettling part is that SnapChat doesn't seem to care.
Maybe that New York Times multimedia beauty of a story should be the future of long-form journalism after all — because it sure did bring in a lot of readers. Whether it was enough to merit the effort, though, remains to be seen.
TorrentFreak has released its 2012 list of the most stolen films on the Internet and Todd Phillips's Project X, a very little movie with very big party appeal, somehow took the top spot. Huh?
If the latest rumors are true, Apple's made-in-America shift will be an extremely experimental, low-cost operation — and if you look at the supply chain, that may point to more of a symbolic gesture than a genuine engine of job creation.
After collecting the largest paycheck of any American CEO, Cook 2012's salary topped out at just $4.2 million in Apple's first year without Steve Jobs — still not exactly the Jobsian dollar-a-year policy, especially since it's more than it seems.
Maybe you got a new smartphone or tablet for Christmas, or maybe you're just re-stocking your device. Either way, these are the new essentials for your iPad, Android device, and, in all cases, your iPhone.
The tech turf wars are raging on, and there is one notable giant largely missing from battle, report The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. So Microsoft lost 2012. But what about next year?
Mark's sister got a little sensitive last night over a photo of the Zuckerberg clan celebrating the holidays — the public outing of which may say as much about Facebook as it does about its first family.
Without further ado: Pictures of people standing in front of Christmas trees with their brand new guns.
There's something about this Bushmaster AR-15: Both Adam Lanza and William Spangler, the two gunmen in the Newtown and Firefighter shootings, respectively, got their hands on the exact same make of semi-automatic, the .223 caliber rifle.
After two referendums, the Egyptian people have approved of the country's controversial new constitution, the one that led to mass protests in Tahrir Square, with a 63.8 percent margin, reports Reuters.
The service is now back after going down last night, during arguably one of the worst possible times ever, when many people stuck at home with their families would hope to seek a little refuge in some streaming movies.
The correlation between gun violence and violent shooter games is dubious, but there are some very real links between the two industries, with gun-makers using these virtual worlds to advertise their products.
During his annual Christmas address at the Vatican this year, the Pope prayed for peace in Syria, something that doesn't look likely any time soon.
Friday afternoon Facebook released its iPhone app for the incredible vanishing half-message — because that is apparently what the kids like sending these days, if SnapChat's huge, sexy success is any indication.
Apple's new iOS update has users complaining that their iPhones are losing power faster than ever. Thanks to some help from the Apple forums, here are three (and a half) quick tips on making your phone live longer with iOS 6.0.2.
Even though Instagram has both apologized and now walked back its terms of service, the mutiny over the photo-sharing app has given its once universally loyal users a preview of a tech universe very much prioritizing money over user experience.
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