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View ArticleReddit Removes Its Two Most Annoying Sections From The Front Page
Sorry, screaming ideologues and internet atheists! You’ve been demoted. Via: buzzfeed.com The narrative about Reddit's "coming of age" tends to focus on two conflicting threads: the rise of Reddit as...
View ArticleWhy A Super-Powered Text Message Woke Up New York Last Night
Two words: missing child. Mine came in at 3:51 a.m. If I woke up, I don't remember it. But this morning, lots of people remembered just fine: View Entire List ›
View ArticleNCAA Cuts Ties With EA Sports, Leaving College Football Game Franchise In Limbo
Graduation Day is here for NCAA Football 14 , perhaps the last installment in the series. It's game over for NCAA Football.The NCAA announced this afternoon that it was choosing to not renew its...
View ArticleHow To Scoop A New Employee Hire With Twitter
Twitter’s new recommendation engine might be a bit too good. Reporters: pay attention. This is @MagicRecs, Twitter's recommendation account that DMs you to tell you that some of the people you follow...
View Article26 Signs You Work In Social Media
“Ugh, Insights is down again.” Tweeting from the wrong account is a legitimate situation you fear. Tweetdeck: Destroying careers since 2008. Source: socialnomics.net You yell out "WHY?!" when this...
View ArticleHere's How To 'Endorsment Bomb' Your Friends On LinkedIn
“Congratulations! Your connection has endorsed you for the following new skills & expertise: Marketing, Thought Leadership,… Pole Dancing ?” Last September, LinkedIn introduced the ability to...
View ArticleFeds: Our Relationship With Hackers Is As Strong As Ever
Exiled from Defcon? No big deal, says the DoD’s man on the ground. A tale of two worlds intertwined, PRISM be damned. Jeff Moss speaks at the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit in New York on...
View ArticleThe Internet's Best Chatbot Writes A Movie
Brilliant. A masterpiece. The summer’s must-see hit. Cleverbot is going to be a star, I tell you. A star! Via: chihiiro-fujiisaki.tumblr.com Cleverbot is the smartest chatbot on the internet. It's...
View ArticleThe Best Game Of This Generation Is $7.50 On Steam
If you haven’t played Dark Souls , go away and play Dark Souls , then come back and we can be friends. Dark Souls, the infuriating, beautiful, spirit-crushing and ultimately life-affirming 2011 game...
View ArticleNetflix Needs To Turn Emmy Nominations Into Subscribers
In a first, the online video service received Emmy nominations for House of Cards and Arrested Development . While recognition is nice, what Netflix really wants from the awards ceremony is more...
View ArticleThere Are Still Hundreds Of Pirated Movies On YouTube, And They're Hiding In...
And with millions of total views. YouTube’s weird — but almost certainly legal — blind spot. A friend of mine was pretty sure that Harrison Ford piloted the plane, at least for a short time, in Air...
View ArticleThank You For Using The Internet! We Regret To Inform You That Your Free...
The internet got us hopelessly addicted, all for free. Now we’re coming to terms with paying for it all. Via: Chris Hondros/Newsmakers / Getty Images Between 1999 and 2001, the Napster peer-to-peer...
View ArticleWhat If Super Mario Was Totalitarian Propaganda?
One koopa death is a tragedy. A million koopa deaths is a statistic. Source: reddit.com Source: reddit.com Source: reddit.com Source: reddit.com View Entire List ›
View ArticleThis Kid Skipped College To Audition For His Gaming Dream Job
And it just might work. Like a lot of teenagers, Alexander J. Velicky loves computer games, and like a lot of teenage computer game lovers, Velicky dreams of working for a game company.Unlike a lot of...
View ArticleHow Much Games Really Cost Around The World
The best place to be a gamer? Denmark. Over at GamePointsNow, Simon Ward has calculated how long someone paid average wages in twelve developed nations would have to work in order to afford a brand...
View Article"What Is That Box?"— When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company
For nine months, this Utah ISP had a little black box in the corner, courtesy of the NSA. Its owner tells his story. Via: flickr.com When people say the feds are monitoring what people are doing...
View ArticleAmazon Can't Have .Amazon Domain Names After Latin American Countries Object
The countries objected because, you know, they have the actual Amazon in their backyards. In a blow to Amazon.com, a committee within Icann, the international governance group for the Internet, has...
View ArticleNobody Has Tried The Real iOS 7
Not even Tim Cook. And it’ll be months before we do. Via: ios7redesigns.tumblr.com Right now, thousands of developers (and plenty of journalists) are using an early version of iOS 7, Apple's next...
View ArticleSports Twitter Is The Real Twitter
Even if it doesn’t always feel that way. This week, Twitter released a visualization of the relationships between 50,000 verified Twitter users. The result, zoomed out, was a this colorful blob. The...
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