"Let’s get this straight up front: I am now writing a blog post, not blogging a blog," writes Forrest Wickman at Slate, the good people who brought you the great two-spaces-after-a-period debate. Oh yes. Oh yes. They are at it again, this time with a post in which he takes on the matter of what to call this thing we do.
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.
Google recently got into a row with the Swedish Language Council over a new word in its official language: "ogooglebar" which means "ungoogleable." Google complained about the word, which the council then deleted from the Swedish language.
It took Facebook about six months to start using all that offline shopping data for more than just "research" and start putting all our rewards cards info to good, lucrative advertising use.
T-Mobile is the first major carrier to drop subsidies for its phones just ahead of the rumored announcement that it will finally start carrying the iPhone starting this afternoon a move that's not likely to attract many new customers.
The people of Reddit aren't taking kindly to a straightforward new plea from the site's co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, questioning whether acts of sexism on the site have served to "belittle and ostracize" its female audience.
Because Harvard is paying for a service called Tivli, the Ivy Leaguers can burn through HBO's Girls, Game of Thrones, and a bunch of other cable TV content for free. Unfortunately, the ultimate student streaming model doesn't sound like it's built for the rest of us.
As if the streaming video business couldn't get any more crowded, streaming music giant Spotify is trying to disrupt its way into on-demand Internet TV content. Which sounds like a profoundly bad idea, until you think about House of Cards and how to work a content deal these days.
Never mind that Dell buyout deal proposed by founder and CEO Michael Dell in early February, activist investor and professional company shaker upper Carl Icahn with the help of Blackstone has put a better offer on the table, he confirmed in a letter today
Detectives admitted for the first time Saturday that they're pretty sure Evan Spencer Ebel, a Colorado parolee who was shot and killed in a shootout with Texas police on Thursday, is connected to the murder investigation of Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements.
Don't worry, the writer behind today's offensive-to-women-in-technology-Internet-thing, "The 40 Hottest Women in Tech" slideshow over at Complex, thinks the slideshow is crap, too.
Just for some Friday terrorizing, the Internet has resurrected this terrifying website Let Me Tweet That for You that lets you fake a tweet from someone else, which is about as potentially scary as it sounds—unless you know how to spot a forgery.
Now that rumors suggest Google and LG are both planning on jumping into the smart watch war to compete with Samsung and Apple it's time to stop thinking of this thing as a time-telling piece.
The cloud-based email startup SendGrid confirmed in a blog post Friday that it fired developer relations "evangelist" Adria Richards because of a tweet she sent about what she thought was sexist behavior at the PyCon developers conference, setting an unfortunate precedent for a tech industry with diversity problems but no shortage of "dongle" jokes.
The pilot of Air France Flight 447 was operating on one hour of sleep before the plane crashed into the Atlantic. In Philadelphia, a man impersonating a pilot made it into a US Airways cockpit. The era of robot pilots can't get here fast enough.
Scientists at the European Space Agency have released the "oldest" picture we have of our universe, revealing a map of cosmic radiation that shows what our skies looked like at the very earliest moments of creation.
Here's a headline you've probably seen before: "IBM creates brain-like computer chip." Here's a more exciting one: "New IBM circuit works in three dimensions, flips switches with atoms."
In the best shape of their lives and sneakers on, the moment they've been preparing for and stressing over has arrived. The NCAA tournament. And as real-time streaming data shows, the IT department at your office was smart to have gotten ready.
In what would be the most exciting single development for cord-cutters and their quality television since Hulu launched six years ago, the head of HBO hinted Thursday at the development of viable, legitimate standalone streaming service for people who don't pay for cable TV — any cable TV, not just premium. It might even be pretty cheap.
Today in the tech world's warped view of gender "norms": The cloud-based e-mail service SendGrid just fired developer Adria Richards, apparently for reporting sexual harassment after hackers made it clear they didn't approve of her complaining.
As if a story about women's butts couldn't get any more tantalizing, Lululemon CEO Christine Day more or less just asked the owners of the struggling workout-wear company's defective yoga pants to bend over in skin-tight, possibly see-through leggings and have someone inspect their butts.
The mystery hacker has released more Bush paintings, "confidential memos" sent to Hillary Clinton about Benghazi, and access to a high-profile tech figure's address book. The hacking world loves it, but no one can find him. How come?
YouTube made a big announcement on Wednesday night — ten digits big to be exact. The video-sharing startup that spent its early days operating out of an apartment above a pizzeria now boasts one billion users.
Google has finally announced its note-taking "Evernote" killer Google Keep, which looks great and useful from this little video preview, but there is a lingering worry that like other beloved products (ahem: Reader) Google might go ahead and kill this one off someday, too.
Some hackers are attacking the Awl network of websites — so The Awl, The Hairpin, Splitsider, The Billfold and The Wirecutter — are now blocked by Google's big, red malware warnings.
In light of todays $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet rumor, would it even make financial sense for Amazon to put out a $99 tablet—how low can Amazon go? Let's investigate.
Some people who spend their time checking up on these things, noticed that Google removed Digg from its search results, which led them to conclude some shady things about the link aggregator. But really, the whole thing wasn't that big of a deal.
There are behaviors more shameful on Twitter than simply asking for a couple more followers, please.
Thirty-five years after liftoff, some scientists are claiming that NASA's Voyager I is now the first man-made spacecraft to ever travel beyond our solar system. So that's all fine and dandy, except NASA is still skeptical about the conclusions.
Instead of going after its usual foe, Microsoft's attack-hungry marketing department has transformed Samsung and the uber-popular Galaxy S III into its latest tech enemy — just another indication that Apple's no longer king of the smartphone makers.
Google's official execution date for the beloved RSS feed isn't until July 1, but the search company has already started erasing Reader's presence, removing it from the drop-down bar and its list of services it offers.
Five years after Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone filed the application, the government granted issued a shiny new patent to the two cyber-inventors on Tuesday. Their invention? Twitter, of course.
When CNN went to confirm Silicon Valley's diversity problem with actual Silicon Valley companies, most of them refused to share employee data. And sharing diversity numbers — or a lack thereof — is exactly how you fix a diversity problem in the tech world.
Because GIFs are all popular and stuff — or at least they were — Google has confirmed that it's rolling out special filters for finding the animated images, a trick that was available to savvy searchers all along, but which everyone else can now access in just a few clicks.
Even though the university said Tuesday it will release private evidence in the case and an internal review, MIT will do so very much on its own terms — and probably won't satisfy Swartz's family, friends, and legions of followers.
It's no surprise that following Apple's iWatch rumor Samsung announced its own smartwatch plans in an attempt to get ahead of the competition, but the rumorers have also anticipated this thing for awhile.
Joke's on you, tech writers. BlackBerry totally trolled you all into writing about its new phone and operating system with this terribly awkward cover of Etta James's "At Last."
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.
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