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The Science of the Apple Rumor Mill
The latest Apple TV rumor gives us mere mortals a purview into just how that mysterious Apple rumor economy, with its "unnamed sources" and "people familiar with the matter," operates.
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Types of Clever Twitter Accounts, Ranked by Popular Annoyance
As Twitter grows, so do the complaints about kinds of accounts.
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Blurred Lines: Is Twitter's Much-Hated Conversation Mode Already Dead?
After a lot of complaining about Twitter's new conversation mode, it has started to disappear, either by accident or by Twitter's design.
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The U2 iPod: A Lesson from Apple to Android on Product Placement
Branded products don't have to come off as incredibly dorky and non-sensical as Android's new operating system KitKat, named for the Nestlé-owned chocolate bar, just ask Apple.
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Apple's Big iPhone Event Is Officially Happening Next Tuesday
As rumored, Apple will hold an event next week, Tuesday September 10, where the company will likely announce an iPhone or two, according to this invitation sent out to the press today via The Loop's Jim Dalrymple.
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Amazon's Kindle MatchBook: Good Idea, Not Such a Great Deal
Amazon is now offering a discount to customers who want to buy both the digital and paper versions of the same book, with its new Kindle MatchBook program — which it turns out, is only a good deal for certain types of books.
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Stephen Elop Is Not the CEO Microsoft Needs
With Microsoft's $7 billion acquisition of Nokia, it also got a front-runner for its open CEO position: Stephen Elop, the former CEO of the Finnish phone company who just stepped down from that post to act as the Executive Vice President of Devices and Services.
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How to Get $280 from Apple for Your old iPhone Right Now
Today, Apple is launching its long-awaited iPhone trade-in program, meaning you could get up to $280 in credit toward a new iPhone. (If you read this post on how to play your cards right, that is.)
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Who Said It, Adolf Hitler or Taylor Swift?
Can you tell the difference between a quote from one of history's most infamous revenge-seeking megalomaniacs and Adolf Hitler? Plenty of people couldn't.
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What Is and Isn't in the Government-Issued Transparency Report on NSA Spying
After major companies like Google and Facebook urged the government to allow them to release more specific transparency reports on NSA spying requests, the U.S government will instead deliver its own transparency report, and it will provide only some of the information tech companies want to disclose.
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Google Glass Designer Gives the Spectacles a Stylish New Update
In the quest to make Google Glass look less like a robot accessory, and more fashionable, the lead industrial designer for Google Glass has created the most best-looking version of the glasses yet.
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Let's Get Real: GIFs on Facebook Aren't Really GIFs
Giphy, the creators of the GIF search engine, have created a work-around that promises to bring the animated file format to the social network but fails to deliver.
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Learning to Live with Terrible New Twitter: A Two Step Program
Twitter has made a change to its website and mobile apps that has a lot of dedicated Twitter users very upset, but it's here, it's not going away, and it's time to get a grip.
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Tech Commercials Really Are All Exactly the Same: A Review
College Humor's "Every Tech Commercial" clip out today is funny because commercials for gadgets really are all incredibly similar, per a review from The Atlantic Wire.
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The Only Place People Shop Online Is Amazon
Online shopping in general isn't killing the great American mall, Amazon.com is — singlehandedly so.
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How Not to Get Hacked Like the New York Times
The Syrian Electronic Army's hacking of The New York Times website wasn't your standard spear-phishing scheme or brute force attack to steal passwords, meaning that best practices like creating strong passwords and avoiding links in fishy emails won't do much to protect against similar attacks in the future.
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Syrian Electronic Army Responsible for New York Times Website Attack
Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army downed the website of The New York Times for much of Tuesday. Twitter was also targeted in the attack.
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Measles is Killing Off Masses of Dolphins
After a sad summer of mysterious dolphin deaths scientists think they have finally figured out the cause for the deaths of hundreds of the beloved mammal: Measles.
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Pearls of Wisdom from Red Burns, the 'Godmother of Silicon Alley'
Red Burns, the "godmother of Silicon Alley," passed away last Friday, leaving not only the legacy of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, which she founded in 1979 and has graduated over 30,000 students, but the wisdom of having worked at a technology incubator before most Silicon Alley executives could talk.
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Why Isn't Revenge Porn Illegal Everywhere?
People who have their nude pictures posted on the Internet without consent — a vile practice known as revenge porn — have little legal recourse.
