Microsoft has announced that Steve Ballmer will be stepping down as CEO in the next twelve months. His replacement will be selected by a committee that includes Bill Gates, and candidates from outside and within Microsoft will be ...
So with Street View, Google gave us the ability to virtually explore the Burj Khalifa, a Harry Potter movie set, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the interiors of a gigantic airplane. The next logical choice? Why, the zoo of course! ...
20-year-old college student Caleb Clemmons has been in jail for six months after being charged for making “terroristic threats.” On his Tumblr blog. Here’s what he wrote: “Hello. my name is irenigg and i pl...
When the NSA first released the outline of their security programs, the agency claimed that it only touched 1.6 percent of internet traffic. Publications like The Atlantic disputed that number and now, the Wall Street Journal is s...
LG has announced that they’ve developed the world’s first “Quad HD” display for smartphones. If Full HD today means a 1920 x 1080 resolution, Quad HD apparently means a whopping 2560 x 1440. Because this pa...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced Internet.org, a new group that aims to bring the whole world online. Today, the internet is only accessible to one-third of the world’s population. So Facebook is partnering with co...
At a press conference in Cologne, Germany, Sony executive Andrew House announced the official release date of the PlayStation 4. Sony’s next-gen console will be hitting shelves in North America on November 15th, and Europe o...
In addition to announcing a release date for the PlayStation 4 (November 15th!), Sony also made some pretty big announcements regarding its handheld gaming device, the PS Vita. The first thing, which people have been clamoring for...
The Humble Bundle is a regular collection of games (now music and eBooks too) that are sold to people at a price of their choosing. Proceeds can go to the developers of the game, the organizers of the Humble Bundle and charities. ...
For a few minutes late last week, Google suffered a pretty serious and as-of-now unexplained outage: All of Google’s services were unable for a few minutes. While a few minutes without Google doesn’t exactly sound cata...
Previously only available in Europe and Japan, Sony has now released a flash-based 12GB PS3 in the US and Canada. Unlike the massive storage options available on other PS3 models (up to 500GB), the 12GB PS3 might not seem too appe...
Microsoft has accidentally announced that its Games for Windows Live service will be discontinued in July, 2014. In an announcement (which has since been pulled) regarding the closure of its Age of Empires Online game, the company...
We’ve seen movies about artificial intelligence before, but a romance film involving a man and an operating system? Not so much. The upcoming film ‘Her’ stars Joaquin Phoenix, a heartbroken man who ends up fallin...
When Lavabit, the email service used by Edward Snowden, shut itself down, many people were worried that it was the end of secure privacy-focused email. Kim Dotcom has decided to capitalize on that by putting up a “highly-sec...
Trying to emphasize just how much activity is going on all over the internet at any given moment is definitely nothing new, but the website One Second on the Internet does the job in an attractive and easy-to-understand manner. Ea...
