Twitter has added two-step verification to increase its security after all the recent hacks into high profile media accounts, but you should go sign up for it right this minute — because everyone's vulnerable to password attacks these days, even if the new cellphone hiccup seems cumbersome.
Despite the suggestion that everyone is too afraid to talk about the former TechCrunch overlord, over the last week and a half there has been a lot of talking about Michael Arrington and the allegations (now denied by Arrington) that he has a history fo abusing women.
Welcome to the future of education where your textbook—and therefore your teacher—knows exactly how much of your homework you did, how, and when.
The streaming music service Spotify is giving ones of its biggest competitors $400,000 per day to advertise on its homepage.
The U.S. Navy unveiled a laser capable of blasting away enemy drones Monday, and announced that it would likely be deployed on a real live U.S. naval ship some time early next year.
With all this talk about the cord-cutting masses no longer wanting to subsidize TV channels they don't watch, it's a little surprising that one of the oldest, most widely available forms of TV is waning: over-the-air broadcast TV.
As the remembrances poured in for Margaret Thatcher, a trailblazing female politician who once called feminism "poison," in came the #LeanIn references from Silicon Valley to Fox News about the former British Prime Minister and "the fact that Thatcher embodied the 'Lean In' culture," even though she didn't.
For those looking to get an early version of Facebook Home it's not worth downloading this leak that came out this morning, since its "rather buggy and incomplete," according to Paul O'Brien who discovered the early release over at MoDaCo.
So maybe you're shopping for a new cellphone this weekend. You could wait for that heady new Facebook phone. Or you could hold out for that cheap iPhone. And then there's the latest savior from BlackBerry, which, hey, when we tried it out over the last two weeks — and out at the bar on the weekend — at least nobody made fun of it.
The reason the press has stayed mostly silent in the wake of sexual assault allegations connected to Silicon Valley big-wig Michael is not because, as several have suggested, the tech world is scared of the TechCrunch founder.
Silicon Valley's well documented cougar scene is "unique" according to a a new Vanity Fair story documenting the nightlife at Menlo Park's famous Rosewood Hotel, which hosts weekly "cougar nights" because, like everything else in the Valley, nabbing a much younger man (or much older woman) is totally merit based.
The conventional wisdom among Silicon Valley's functional equivalent of Morning Joe is that the plebeians will want what Facebook has to offer. But just who are these "millions" of realpeople who should run out and buy the HTC First loaded with Facebook's new Home software?
There is more than a silver lining to Mark Zuckerberg's most blatant jump into your mobile life: Facebook Home actually offers some key user interface experiences that are way better than their counterparts on other Android phones — and even the iPhone.
Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that Facebook is neither building a phone nor an app — because those aren't good enough. Here's your first look at Home, a full screen's worth of Facebook greeting you as soon as your turn on your device. And then there are "chat heads" and "cover feeds" and more. Oh, and it's for more than just one phone.
Netflix has finally announced a Memorial Day release for 15 episodes of Arrested Development, a beloved sitcom with a devoted audience that the streaming service uncancelled for exactly that purpose: a long weekend of obsessive binge-watching that is now a proven money maker. Here's why appointment television just got a lot more addictive.
Some $2 billion over budget and a year behind schedule, Steve Jobs's extravagant spaceship-shaped Apple headquarters dream, Campus 2, is turning into more of a nightmare than the office of the future — and investors don't like it.
Hacker News today surfaced this Angel Fire page that looks like it was created by a 15-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, which we hope is the case because it would be a wonderful little look into a hacker's humble beginnings.
The tech gadget crowd, generally pretty good at reporting rumors as rumors, is taking the leaks related to the Facebook phone as the real deal.
It could probably have been predicted that a hyper-geeky, shockingly valuable new economic system would be all it took to compress the full cycle of internet awareness into one 24-hour period.
The man who sold College Humor and Vimeo to IAC for a ton of money thinks selling tech start-ups to a big company for a ton of money is "always a failure," leaving a pretty narrow road to success that includes zero real companies.
They're yet another step closer to proving that dark matter — the unseen stuff that they believe makes up a quarter of the universe — actually exists. And, yes, you can thank Congress for paying to strap a magic bus to the side of a Space Shuttle and help us understand what we're doing here.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a word of warning: many teenagers are wantonly breaking the law every day by reading news sites on the web because the Department of Justice's weird implementation of vague laws has left a number of media outlets with odd age-based legal prohibitions.
In honor of today's 40th anniversary of the first official cell-phone call, take a fond — if clunky, and sometimes fuzzy — look back at the tipping point when everyone got a phone for herself, and when phones started to get "cool."
Forget making the world more open and connected. Facebook has a more pressing, arguably more difficult task ahead: creating advertisements that its billion users both "like" and actually like. And Mark Zuckerberg is finally speaking out about it.
Tesla's posh all-electric cars are cool, but they're expensive. So when the company announced a financing scheme on Tuesday that could bring ownership cost below $500 a month, we listened.
Baseball and the Final Four are upon us, and the NBA and NHL postseasons are heating up with the Spring, even if football is months away. But no matter how much you're enjoying the singular benefits of your favorite sport, America's sports-padded cable TV packages are still forcing you to subsidize football — even in April.
Apple must really want us to know that something, anything great is on its way, because the leaks keep on coming, perhaps because of competition that is both looming (in the form of Facebook this week) and that's already arrived (hello, Samsung!).
The 212 area code is under attack! Those three little numbers may not be the perfect piece of Manhattan ownership you thought they were.
The president proposed a $100 million, long-term investment initiative Tuesday: the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, or BRAIN for short, so scientists may better understand our noggin'.
Apple CEO Tim Cook's public apology and his company's consumer friendly change to its Chinese iPhone warranty policy Monday was met with approval by China's state run media today — along with what sounds like a warning to "other American companies."
Los Angeles is a great city for a lot of reasons. Traffic is not one of them. So, over the past three decades, the city's spent nearly half a billion dollars creating the "the Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control system."
The tech blogger masses are treating the leak to the Android Police as the real deal version of Facebook's forthcoming phone, and since the social network hasn't been particularly secretive about the launch, it's safe to say this is probably a legitimate look at the gadget in some stage or another.
Advertently or not, The New Yorker this week presents a sort of Goofus-and-Gallant account of the kinds of media organizations to emerge in the digital age: Henry Blodget's news aggregator Business Insider and hipster clothing store-turned-magazine-turned-advertising empire Vice.
After weeks of anti-Apple rhetoric from China's state run media outlets complaining about iPhone customer service standards, Apple CEO Tim Cook has not only written a formal apology but even gone so far as to change the Chinese iPhone warranty policy.
As per usual, Google put out various, elaborate April Fools' Day jokes, which only reminded everyone how much time and money the tech company has to spend on projects that aren't core products like, ahem, Google Reader.
A handsome picture of legendary American labor leader Cesar Chavez replaced the second "o" in the Google logo on Sunday, a tip of the hat that Google users thought amounted to ignoring Easter.
Apple is usually very protective of their intellectual property, so they're probably pretty pissed that a trademark officer rejected their application to own the phrase "iPad Mini."
Tech companies are always buying up smaller tech companies for what sounds like a lot of money, but it's hard to know how much money is really a lot of money without some everyday context. That's why we built the handy new Atlantic Wire Startup Acquisition Calculator.
If Facebook leaks everything about their big phone event a week before their big phone event, does Facebook's big phone event need to exist?
After three months of headlines from China to the White House and every geek haven in between, this week introduced the world to the cyber attack that may or may not be slowing down the entire Internet, followed by the digital assault on American Express. Yes, 2013 is already the year there were too many hacking incidents to keep track of, and, no, they're not all the same.
Cross your fingers, cross your legs. Cross your arms and bow your head. The seemingly never-ending rumor mill spinning around the idea of a Facebook phone may finally come to a stop at a just-announced event next week.
Amazon announced Thursday that it is acquiring Goodreads, the book-based social network founded by Otis Chandler in 2006. The purchase price was undisclosed, and the deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2013.
There has been a wave of skepticism about the severity of this month's "biggest ever" denial-of-service attack, and, well, it's OK to be a little scared of the enormity of this thing. Just not that scared.
The likes of "Gangnam Style" reverberate across the grounds of Samsung's flagship cellphone factory, the Gumi complex just south of Seoul — and the K-Pop blares all day long, which kind of sounds like a mellow version of torture, at least to Americans.
The first earnings report from BlackBerry since its new phone launched isn't all bad news—the company reported $94 million in profit and $1.2 billion in revenue—but there are some alarming figures like the 3 million customers the company has lost over the last three months.
Bust out the stars and stripes, crack open a Pabst and get patriotic because Google Glass, the augmented reality nerd accessory of the future, will be reportedly made in America — by Foxconn.
It takes Dave Morin of Path just those short responses in a Vanity Fair interview about his iPhone to encapsulate all the money that young tech execs throw around, with or without a business model. It's enough to make you want to throw your phone at the wall.
Adria Richards has publicly commented on her firing for the first time. And, well, she sounds pretty upbeat about where that conversation is headed next, considering she just lost her job after an onslaught of Internet harassment.
The largest known hack attack of its kind brought the Internet to a crawl for users all over the world, but don't blame the hackers — the outage all stems from an increasingly vulnerable, decade-old problem with the "Internet's basic plumbing" that can be easily fixed.
In a shameless attempt to win skeptics over, Google has included the betterment of penguins, firemen, and veterans among the first uses for Google Glass.
After three straight days of anti-Apple articles in the state run newspaper People's Daily, China's propaganda push is having unintended effects, making the government look like the enemy in a fight it keeps on picking.
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