Facebook and class action lawyers work out sweet deal for themselves. Judge isn't buying it
Facebook and the lawyers suing them over their "Sponsored Stories" advertising platform worked out a pretty sweet deal whereby the lawyers would get a...
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Holy cowabunga dude, I heart Google+ Ripples
Google has made so many changes and added new features it is making Facebook look like the tortoise in this race for supremacy. As much as I love it when...
Bear sex and cancer: What The Oatmeal can teach us about social media
What do Bear Sex and Cancer have in common? $169,000. Matthew Inman, creator of the controversial info-graphic website The Oatmeal, has made internet...
Why you need to start saying NO in Social Media
If you are looking at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or any other social network and are scratching your head as to how the type of content that is displaying...
Is DNA coding your data the future of stored information?
Recently on Spectrum, Scientists from Harvard University have successfully converted a 53,000 word book into a single strand of DNA. The success of the...
How technology fanatics plan for a trip
Are you looking to take a trip this Summer? Or maybe you are planning to go home for the holidays? Whichever type of travel plans you are making, it is...
Greetings from Mars: We’re NASA and we know it (Video)
Greetings humans, curiosity the rover had you watch live from the web its landing on Mars to try and decipher if it will be habitable for our species. If...
Twitter: another example of why you never build a service around someone else's service
It was recently revealed that Twitter has over 500 million users. Now the fat birds of microblogging are planning to virtually pull the plug on many apps...
The force is strong with this one: An R2-D2 figurine you control with a matching watch
Hello my far away galaxy friend. We meet at last… Charge forth with light sabers, wookies and storm troopers and be sure to banish all non-Star Wars...
Femto-photography: one trillion frames per second
What is femto-photography? According to Ramesh Raskar, it's "a new imaging technique so fast that it creates slow motion video of light in motion." His...
I said from the beginning that Facebook's "buy point" was $17. I may have been too optimistic
I said over a year ago that Facebook would be the worst tech investment in history. It's now being confirmed as the worst performing IPO on record....
The mountable washing machine concept is heaven sent for the urban life
As the population grows we are slowly being forced into high-priced condensed living quarters, making living in the city bittersweet since we are close to...
Steps to running a successful mobile PPC search campaign
When you take a look at all of the devices that people use to browse the Internet these days, there is no device that has seen the growth that the mobile...
Digital hopscotch: how social media revived playing outside
Every now and then, I get tired of hearing the statement “When I was younger, I played in the streets” or “When I was younger, we didn’t have cell...
How commonality creates conversation
You’ve seen it, the way other people are able to get social interactions left, right and center. Almost like people are sitting there waiting for them...
Quick findings on Pinterest users
The wildly popular photo sharing site Pinterest has been at the center of both controversy and success over the last year. Once nearly completely...
Apple takes another crack at invading the living room by dealing with cable operators
An unwillingness to "sleep with the enemy" may be behind cable companies' reluctance to deal with Apple, but that isn't stopping the Cupertino tech firm...
Introducing the very first eco-friendly computer… shut up and take my money
The very first wooden framed computer has been created. Designers at MicroPro collaborated with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and...
Disney is building creepy life-like human animatronics
The science of entertainment is getting more complicated. Disney Research in Zurich and Walt Disney Imagineering at Cornell are working on Physical Face...
Air Force's mach 5 missile fails for third time
If the three-strikes-rule were in effect, the Air Force would be out of luck for testing its X-51A Waverider cruise missile as the supersonic rocket...
Inaction does not mean no one saw your social activity
People and businesses are so hung up on the social buttons that are both placed on sites and social networks that they often get deterred from posting or...
The complex process of the Google search, simplified
It's something that we totally take for granted thanks to the continuously-advancing wonders of the internet. We don't go to libraries. We open phone...
Pinterest does not like URLs in descriptions
Pinterest can be such a fun place to post pictures you either take yourself or find on the web. Creating creative boards that you can fill with pictures...
Call of Duty reinvents the loadout system for Black Ops 2
One of the biggest complaints of the Call of Duty series is that there haven't been major innovations from one to the next. Playing one or another is...