Google Engineers Debate the Best Superpower

Ever wonder what goes on behind closed doors at the Googleplex? Wonder no more! Google engineers are hard at work trying to agree on what is the best superpower. Invisibility? Teleportation? Flight? They should...

FCC Chairman gets Punked on Facebook

FCC Chariman Julius Genachowski fell victim to one of the many, many, many worms making its way through Facebook. His friends found themselves getting spammed from his account, so it got blocked. That's pretty...

Prediction: Will Earth be Destroyed in 2010? Final Update 2

We all need something to look forward to, especially as an old year ends and a whole new decade dawns before us. Some hope quietly for a bit of improvement in the economy and a health care bill that may fall short...

Twitter and Facebook Are Top Hacker Targets in 2010

McAfee Labs released its 2010 threat predictions, and --surprise, surprise-- social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, are at the very top of the list. Social networks are constantly evolving, so security...

Twitter Genius Wanted: Hipster's Dream Job

Are you a Twitter Genius? If you said "yes", you're probably (a) lying, and (b) about to get the job opportunity of a lifetime. That is, until this company realizes that it has zero use for a Twitter expert, and...

AT&T Sells iPhones in New York Once Again

Oh, thank you, AT&T, for deigning to sell the iPhone online to New York's deserving citizenry. First, though, you called New York a teeming den of thieves and fraudsters, but not before you called them...

Christmas Light Hero: Ric Turner Rocks Light Display

Christmas Light Hero! Ric Turner, who had lots of LED Christmas lights, time and imagination on his hands, set up a Christmas light display that serves as a house-sized screen for playing Guitar Hero. The Guitar...

Foursquare Shows Geeks Waiting for Holiday Travel

The top intersections between Twitter and Foursquare are airports, which means that the technorati are waiting for their flights to go visit mom and dad. It's sweet if you think about it. Foursquare is mainly used...

Microsoft Loses i4i Appeal over MS Word: $290 Million. Ouch.

Microsoft lost its appeal against i4i, the plucky Canadian firm that sued Microsoft for $290 million for infringing its precious, precious patent. Microsoft has until January 11, 2010 to either fix Word to correct...

'Brittany Murphy Death Hoax' is a Hoax

People are saying that Brittany Murphy's death is a hoax, but, alas, it is not. Brittany Murphy was confirmed dead by the LA County Coroner's Office yesterday. I guess it's no surprise that people are thinking that Brittany Murphy's early death is a hoax, since there have...

France Rules Against Google in Book Copyright Case

France is not down with Google's book search project. A Paris court ordered Google to pay over $400,000 in damages for each copyright breach, and to cease distributing digital versions of French books without...

Facebook Faces FTC Investigation over Privacy Policy Changes

Busted! Facebook's privacy-policy shell game has finally shown up on the FTC's radar. Most of us have been bitching about the Facebook privacy policy changes, but we all kept our rancor confined to ranting at the...

Reddit Secret Santa Gift Exchange: Insanely Successful

kickme444 (Dan McComas when he's at home) orchestrated the Reddit Secret Santa gift exchange in his free time. Dan McComas built the front-end and back-end of a dedicated website to link Reddit users from around...

Facebook Changes Privacy Policy... Again

After a bold-faced move to turn your status updates into tweets, Facebook is forced yet again to eat humble pie, a dish for which Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates a phenomenal appetite. Unfortunately, Mark Zuckerberg...

Verizon Droid Ad Likens iPhone to Carrie Prejean

In Verizon Wireless' latest ad campaign for the Droid, running on Google's Android platform, the iPhone is likened to Carrie Prejean. Well that's not exactly true, they didn't pull a blow quite that low but they did...

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