Edward Snowden's Online Past Revealed
Hundreds of posts reveal views on secrecy, religion, politics, and working in IT. “Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types,” he says. Under the name...
View ArticleNintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto On The Wii U: "We Will Make It A Success"
The man who invented Mario holds forth on the disappointing sales of Nintendo’s new console and why he almost showed off some of the new Zelda game at E3. Shigeru Miyamoto, senior managing director of...
View ArticleWatch Google Search Results As They Happen
It’s like your very own NSA. Except probably better looking. Back in May, Google rolled out its top charts page, allowing curious minds to parse through 40 or so categories to get an idea of what's...
View ArticleHe Came From the Internet
The world has been searching for Ed Snowden’s online trail. What we found was much more. When a new and unfamiliar figure lunges into the spotlight, our first impulse is to find an online trail. This...
View ArticleThe Official Ranking Of The Top Eleven Players In College Football
*According to some videogame nerds. *Well, to a nameless college football video-game character that happens to have the same number and attributes as one specific college football player in the real...
View ArticleMeet The Girl Behind One Of Tumblr's Biggest Self-Harm Blogs
Tumblr bans users that promote suicide, self-injury, and eating disorders. But they are all over. One teenage creator explains to BuzzFeed why she runs her site. Warning: graphic images. Many can be...
View ArticleYou Will Not Believe The Video Game Characters These Heroes "Drew" In Excel
Art, one cell at a time. Cloud (Final Fantasy VII) Source: reddit.com Sonic the Hedgehog and Knuckles the Echidna Source: s3images.coroflot.com Mega Man Source: s3images.coroflot.com Pikachu Source:...
View ArticleThis Is The Single Most Tasteless Reaction To The Xbox One
And maybe the single most tasteless reaction to anything, anywhere, ever. View Entire List ›
View ArticleiPhone Controllers Are Coming To Finish Taking Over Portable Gaming
Look out Sony and Nintendo (and poor Ouya). IOS is a gaming powerhouse — no one would dispute that. But only for certain kinds of games, the swipers and the tilters that millions of users have...
View Article14 Uses Of Hashtags That Will Make You Cringe
#nope #stop This yearbook hash-splosion: Source: reddit.com Using them on wide-ruled notebook paper: Source: reddit.com This t-shirt: Source: reddit.com Terrible tweets like this: Source:...
View ArticleWe're Approaching Peak Notification
“Your retweet has been retweeted.” Haven’t checked your social networks in a while? Don’t worry, they’re checking themselves. Today I received an email telling me that a tweet I had retweeted had been...
View ArticleHow I Internet: Cheezburger's Ben Huh
The guy behind the LOLcat empire is obsessed with figuring out what makes the Internet work. Here’s how he uses it. I Iove tech, it consumes all of my life, and I spend a shit ton of time trying to...
View ArticleFacebook Releases Government Data Request Numbers
For the six months ending Dec. 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests Facebook received from any and all government entities in the U.S. was between 9,000 and 10,000, the company said in a...
View Article32 Things That Will Make You Miss The Old Days Of The Internet
Or have the exact opposite effect. I kind of like the internet the way it is now. Screen savers that belong in a museum: Via: en.wikipedia.org Via: nag.co.za And desktops that belong there too: Via:...
View ArticleHow "Build" Became The Worst Word In Tech
Stepping into Silicon Valley’s construction zone. A minor scandal erupted after Sarah Lacy, editor-in-chief of tech site PandoDaily, weighed in on the Bay Area Rapid Transit strike last week. She told...
View Article22 Tweet Pairings From Your New Favorite Twitter Account, @Anagramatron
A must follow. Or, fallouts mow. The premise for Anagramatron is simple - it pairs a tweet with an anagram of it View Entire List ›
View ArticleThis Is What Grand Theft Auto V Looks Like In Action
The first real gameplay trailer is here.
View ArticleDrunken Bros Fight, Get Arrested, And It All Gets Filmed On Google Glass
A filmmaker took his Google Glass to the beach this weekend and caught on camera a bunch of bros, drunk and arrested for fighting. It’s the first known arrest caught on Google’s new glasses, but it...
View ArticleGames Don't Need Trailers, They Need Infomercials
With GTA V, Rockstar isn’t just selling a story, they’re pitching a product. The first thing my deskmate did when he sat down this morning and saw the new Grand Theft Auto V trailer I had posted to...
View ArticleThe Internet's Most Valuable Social Network Has Been There All Along
Forget Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Have you tried email? My email connections from the past five years. Source: immersion.media.mit.edu Though we may not typically think of it that way, the...
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