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Groupon is cutting about 10% of its workforce

Jan 30, 2024

Remember a few years ago when Groupon turned down a $6 billion acquisition deal from Google? Yeah, I can pretty...

Amazon wants to pay authors for every page read rather than book sold

Jan 30, 2024

The e-book industry has remained more or less the same since it was created, and even Netflix-esque services for e-books...

Chrome and Firefox users are actually better employees

Jan 30, 2024

Internet Explorer's days as the king of web browsers are long gone. Not only are Chrome and Firefox better, the...

Project Wing is Google’s experimental drone delivery service

Aug 29, 2014

For two years, Google has quietly been developing autonomous flying vehicles that can be used to deliver packages for disaster...

Facebook conducted secret “mood experiments” on over 700,000 users

Jun 29, 2014

In an experiment it conducted earlier this year, Facebook injected the feeds of nearly 700,000 its users with negative content...

This Belgian genius may have conceived the Internet over a century ago

May 23, 2014

Though we're pretty sure that time travelers don't exist, people were working on hypertext -- used by web browsers to retrieve connected...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has written an open letter to the FCC

May 19, 2014

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has written an open letter to the Federal Communications Commission concerning the subject of Net Neutrality....

How exactly did the area code come to be?

Feb 23, 2014

Despite the rise of the internet, the 10-digit telephone number remains an ubiquitous and all-encompassing method of communication. But it...

Mormon missionaries could be transitioning to the Internet age

Jan 31, 2014

The door-knocking days for Mormons spreading the Lord's word may be coming to a close, the Mormon Church has started...

Poll shows that 58% of Americans still have a VCR

Jan 9, 2014

CES this week allows technology developers to showcase the latest gadgets that may become must-haves for many Americans. As attendees...

Android ‘started over’ the day the iPhone was announced

Dec 20, 2013

Apple's boast that the iPhone changed everything about the mobile industry has received some support from one of Android's original...

Norway to digitize all Norwegian books

Dec 11, 2013

In most other countries, if those books were still under copyright, the digitized versions (assuming publishers even allowed them to...