The Best Instagram Accounts We Lost in the Instagram Revolt
In a move to protest Instagram's new vision for its lucrative future, many of its most loyal users have suspended or deleted their accounts. So have some of its best.
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Shazam, the song-identifying app whose logo keeps making its way onto TVs for second-screen expansion, has expanded its smart-listening deeper into your life with a new automatic tagging feature that basically turns your iPhone or iPad into a personal little wiretap.
In a move to protest Instagram's new vision for its lucrative future, many of its most loyal users have suspended or deleted their accounts. So have some of its best.
Users spotted this last weekend, but Twitter has made it official in a blog post today: you can download all your tweets, from forever.
Online retailers that for years have championed e-commerce over brick-and-mortar are now opting to build their stores as well. But what does that mean for actual last-minute holiday shopping?
Discovered: Data shows Sandy's online outage toll; what MRIs can tell us about freestyle rap; spiders confuse predators with doppelgänger decoys; thoughtful orangutans.
The backlash to Instagram's new Terms of Service agreement that suggested it might sell its users' photos as ads without compensation has forced the company to take a big — if not complete — step back with a statement released Tuesday.
Now that Instagram has suddenly angered so many of its millions of loyal users with a sneaky terms of service change, Yahoo's Flickr app for iPhone actually has a chance to win over legions of new photo sharers. Herein, a comparison test.
This most annoying addition, which will allow advertisers a chance to slap unsolicited videos all over the Facebook news feed, is expected to launch by April 2013, sources say.
In an extended Facebook note posted overnight — her longest since the election — Sarah Palin weighed in on the Newtown shootings with an emotional but loaded plea to stop listening to pundits not that unlike herself.
When they complain that their days are too short, they really mean that the pay at the notorious Chinese electronics manufacturer is still too low.
Discovered: We're one step closer to soap-fueled vehicles; a protein that may stave off aging; toxic tides could be claiming thousands of squid lives; pacemakers built from viruses.
Christopher Chaney, the man whose rudimentary hacking led to the release of naked photos of Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, and Christina Aguilera, as well as the private information of 50 others, was sentenced to a fraction of his possible time.
If you're one of those in a rising tide of worrywarts — and a growing number of the recently unemployed — who agree that mass-email functionality can lead to more accidental anxiety than everyday utility, then, well, yeah, sure.
Instagram updated its privacy policy Monday morning in a move designed to make its Facebook partnership all the more official and, more importantly, to prepare itself for all the advertisements inevitably making their way to the app.
Gun control and gun rights have instantly come to dominate the American conversation, but the biggest gun lobby in America has decided to sit this one out — at least on the Internet.
Facebook may have something of a new strategy: If you can't buy the competition, build a clone of it. Rumor has it that Facebook has built and is testing its own version of SnapChat, that popular-with-the-youngsters app that many associate with sexting.
Twitter is rolling out the long-awaited feature of downloading your entire tweet history, it seems, but be careful. You might not like what you find in there. Sometimes we remember our tweets with rose-colored lenses.
Discovered: Recent research findings about gun control, autism, mass violence, and PTSD to help put the Newtown shootings in context.
For some perspective about just how awful the events Sandy Hook Elementary were, here is a list of the deadliest school shootings in history.
It's not like the U.S. has to play along with anything since the old treaty, but the new pact does reveal how our government feels about Internet policy now.
In his first television interview since returning to the U.S., the paranoid lawless tech tycoon John McAfee this morning continued to say things that make him sound more crazy and less credible.
The latest in smartphone malware is a sneaky digital beast, one that surreptitiously makes charges to your phone bill.
From Gifts to Pages — and, oh yeah, Instagram — the year Facebook went public was the year Facebook proved it could make money, mostly through advertising, and even on your phone. Here's how, month by month.
The Geminid meteor shower—which should be the year's most impressive, according to astronomers—peaks tonight. If skies are clear where you live, be sure to go outside and look up.
Discovered: Pigging out is a bigger concern than starvation; Christmas trees haven't evolved much in 100 million years; Rhesus monkeys have no rhythm; a really, really cute new (and endangered) primate.
While Uber is still facing a series of legal battles across the country, the future of hailing a taxi over your smartphone has gotten a lot easier recently — at least in the heavy cabbing grounds of New York and Washington, D.C.
Well, this is pretty terrifying: A little known agency called the National Counterterrorism Center has a big ole database of civilian information that it can use to monitor innocent people for suspicious behavior, without probable cause.
Not only is Google's fantastic new app a step up from Apple's mess of an app, it also represents a giant leap from the already beloved Google Maps app — you know, the one that came preloaded on iPhones before Apple nixed it.
Have you been led astray by Apple's questionable Maps app? Do you find it odd that renderings of landscapes look like acid trips? Well, you'll be glad to hear that Google is launching its standalone maps app on Wednesday night.
John McAfee, former software entrepreneur and object of everyone's curiosity, landed safely in Miami on Wednesday evening, after an epic adventure in Central America.
Discovered: Male fish who engage in same-sex flirting lure in female fish; cheese dates back 7.5 millennia; Americans love public transportation once they give it a chance; depressed mice cheer up after brain stimulation.
North Korea finally rocketed its satellite into space early Wednesday — only to watch it go "tumbling out of control," as U.S. officials are saying Wednesday night. That's not only another embarrassment for a country that's looking to launch a nuclear missile — it's a possible safety hazard.
Relax. Google hasn't blocked all the most explicit results from its search tool — it's just made those raunchy photos a little more difficult to find.
It's not clear exactly when or how, but Facebook's Carolyn Everson confirmed that the company will "monetize" (i.e. sell advertising) on the very-popular photo sharing app.
How to remove ugly photos, block people instantly, and more — a (very) simple guide to help you better understand the latest round of changes.
The Wall Street Journal now has sources saying Apple is testing set designs with Samsung — but that this "isn't a formal project yet." To that, the tech world says: duh.
After leaving a Guatemalan detention center, John McAfee is flying home.
A day after debuting its new mail apps, the company has just released a Flickr app for iPhone, that — surprise, surprise — has Instagram-type filters. This comes just days after Twitter released its own filters and Instagram unveiled a new one.
Discovered: No sign of a gay gene, but homosexuality could start in the womb; childhood obesity is going down; that fish you're eating probably isn't really fish; a new SARS to freak out about.
Josh Begley's little — or not so little — social media experiment is a chilling reminder of the vastness that has been this past decade in morally questionable killing.
The pursuit of Zero Dark Inbox is a diligent movement to eliminate all unread messages, but what about the rest of us?
Hey, kids, how'd you like some Internet with that diploma? South Carolina's Newberry College has added a social media major, because of the apparent skyrocketing number of jobs in that field.
In her first big product overhaul, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has announced a redesign of Yahoo Mail — and it focuses a lot on the mobile experience, as promised.
Women held a mere 14.3 percent of executive positions at Fortune 500 companies, according to new data. That 1.4 percent increase from last year represents a "glacial pace," even in the year of the new Yahoo CEO.
When asked about his competition — and Apple specifically — the Google CEO insists in a rare interview that he wants to see more cooperation, less animosity, and happier users.
It was impressive when we recently learned that dogs could be trained to sniff out cancer and on-coming seizures. But did you know that dogs can also smell fluctuations in your blood sugar?
On the the same afternoon that Instagram updated its mobile apps with a new filter called Willow, Twitter debuted long rumored photo filters of its own — all of which explains the whole dust-up over Instagram photos disappearing from Twitter last week.
Discovered: Hops help prevent severe forms of pneumonia and bronchitis in kids, plus video of an elusive Malaysia cat, what bat autopsies can teach us about AIDS, and why genetic mutations are more common than you thought.
In a move that will surprise absolutely no one, the media hungry anti-virus tycoon on the lam for charges related to murder has sold his life story. While we await the actual ending to McAfee's run from the law, the news gives us an excuse to imagine.
Kathryn Bigelow's movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden isn't even out yet, and already people are sparring over its depiction of torture. Here's how everyone got so angry so fast, and how to talk about what everyone's talking about.
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