Surprise, The People Who Made Your iPhone Are People
James Fallows joins the small circle of Western journalists to have made the journey to Foxconn . He shouldn't be so surprised at what he found there. Photo by James Fallows Source: theatlantic.com...
View ArticleThe Ultimate 3-Step Social Media Cleanse
Do you use Google? Facebook? Twitter? Then there are three things you need to do right now . Clean Up Your Facebook Apps Page What? - It's a list of all the Facebook apps that have access to your...
View ArticleWatch How McDonald's French Fries Are Made In Canada
Bonus: Potato farmer who is handsome and talks funny. Via: gizmodo.com McDonald's Canada solicits questions from customers online through a Quora-like FAQ page then publishes some of the answers in...
View Article7 Steps To The Coolest Party Ever
Microsoft's launching Windows 8 on Friday. This is how it tried to launch its last major operating system: RAGING HOUSE PARTIES . Seriously. Use Microsoft Paint to draw on your friends' faces Source:...
View Article21 Reasons It's Time To Retire Technology's Favorite Phrase
The evolution will not be revolutionized. The iPhone 5 is an "evolution, not [a] revolution, but worth the wait," according to Today Online. CNET agrees. So does Softpedia. For the iPhone 4S,...
View ArticleWatch The iPad Mini Keynote Live
For the first time in a while, Apple's going to livestream its keynote for the iPad mini, which starts at 1pm ET. In addition to its website, it's gonna be streamed to Apple TVs . LINK: Watch The iPad...
View ArticleThe Internet Responds To The Final Presidential Debate
Horses and bayonets! Plus a little bit of Battleship thrown in. View Entire List ›
View Article11 Awesome Math Foods
The Möbius bagel isn't the only edible expression of human genius to grace the Internet. And thank goodness. Venn diagram pizza The left circle: bacon and mushroom. The right circle: red pepper. The...
View ArticleThe Biggest Sites In Social Publishing
The goal for websites, more than ever, is to get content to go social. These are the ones who are succeeding. Update: More data added below. Image by Beck Diefenbach / Reuters One way to measure how...
View ArticleWhat Would Classic Literary Characters Leave As Their Away Messages?
BRB Books imagines what would happen if your favorite literary characters were 13-year-olds on the internet. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Source: brbbooks Romeo And Juliet by William...
View ArticleWhat Should Twitter Call Favorites?
Twitter favorites used to function a lot like a bookmark. Following a redesign, they kind of serve multiple masters — they can be a nod of approval, a bookmark, or a method for sorting and finding the...
View ArticleGChats Show Love Doesn't Always Conquer All
Matthew and Erica had always been attracted to each other, and while that wasn't enough to make their relationship work, they found out they could still be loving friends. Source: Chris Ritter for...
View ArticleCome Watch The iPad Mini Event With Us!
It's a semi-liveblog! Apple is streaming the event , and we're here to talk about it with a panel of our favorite tech/non-tech luminaries. Scroll to the bottom for the latest updates! Refresh for...
View ArticleiPad 3 Customers Screwed By Apple
Apple just announced a 4th generation iPad, just 6 months after releasing the iPad 3. It's better in nearly every way. Not everyone is thrilled. View Entire List ›
View ArticleThe Only Apple Event Post You Need To Read Today
Apple just announced a pile of new gadgets on stage in San Francisco. Here's everything you need to know. This was expected to be the "iPad Mini" event and, well, that's what it was. Here she is: This...
View ArticleZynga Staged Huge Layoffs During Apple Event
First tweeted by designer Justin Maxwell , it's now clear that Zynga laid off employees at three of its studios during Apple's iPad mini event. A timeline of Zynga acquisitions. Graphic by Chris...
View ArticleHow Big Is The iPad Mini?
It's difficult to conceptualize the size of the iPad Mini, so we tried to put things in perspective. A lot of people are wondering just how big the iPad Mini really is — bigger than an iPod? Smaller...
View ArticleiPad Mini PSA: You're Already Holding It Wrong
Apple says one of the best things about the iPad Mini is that you can hold it in one hand. Cool. But why is everyone holding it like a mechanical claw? It looks painful. Learn from the past, people!...
View Article6 Things We Learned From Facebook's Earnings Report
Mobile makes money, Zynga isn't a very good friend and Sam's Chowder House loves Facebook. Mobile, Mobile, Mobile Facebook released its third quarter earnings today and the m-word — mobile — was all...
View ArticleMore, And Less, Than An iPad
It's here. The first tablet that's supposed to be better than the iPad. It's called Surface, and it's made by Microsoft. The most important product that Microsoft has created since the Xbox is...
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