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US residents can opt out of "sales" of personal data.
"Iconic History" turns your browser logs into a towering, ever-growing wall.
Emoticons as lyrics. It works!
Facebook will no longer make dead users' profiles private, to "[respect] the choices a person made in life."
"Phone" seems like the wrong word, maybe? A Kinect in every pocket!
The messaging service is hugely popular outside the U.S., with over 450 million users. Facebook just bought the only app that could truly call itself a Facebook killer.
It's 2014. Do you know where your homescreen is? The most popular apps on your phone are fighting a different battle than you think.
Ever notice how car computer interfaces are incredibly distracting to use? Designer Matthaeus Krenn and his eyes-free concept.
Flappy Bird's creator says he's had enough: he pulled his game from the App Store. But don't worry, addicts! Badland is here to save you.
To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To a person with a Pinterest account, everything looks like porn. These are all real pinboards.
Absurd, absurdist, and in its own elliptical way, one of the biggest influences on comedy today. Meet the unwitting pioneers behind the internet's dumbest revolution.
Some scientists ran a whole bunch of popular movie catchphrases through a computer program. What they ended up with is a rough guide for burrowing into peoples' brains. You know what they say: It is what it is.
Stored as a bitmap, interpreted by a machine. Digi Grotesk was released in 1968, but I'd say it holds up pretty well.
I had at least one of these. Not saying which. A new Tumblr documents this underappreciated phenomenon.
Your old camera fixed your red-eye, and Instagram fixed your photos. A new class of apps promises to fix you.
Ever wonder how people get animated Twitter avatars? Or why yours don't work? Here's the secret to making your Twitter avatar 100 times better and/or more obnoxious.
If you're ever involved in a serious crime, you can expect the police to subpoena your Facebook account. Here's what Facebook sends them.
Adrian Chen goes deep and very wide on Web 1.0's most notorious meme. Do you remember where you were when you first stared into the abyss? Did it stare back?
How a young social media theorist and writer in Brooklyn became one of the company's most influential advisers.