Meet The Next Version Of Twitter
It's like Facebook's Newsfeed. But on Twitter.
not very
It's like Facebook's Newsfeed. But on Twitter.
Max Read and Nitashu Tiku have the last word on Silicon Valley and tech media's race problem.
How Monster, maker of the world's premiere overpriced HDMI cables became Monster, maker of the world's premiere over headphones, and then lost it all.
And how to opt out.
No one bought a new TV for 3-D despite the massive multi-year push from Hollywood and the TV industry. But 4K might have a different story. Just watch this.
Gift cards are terrible gifts, and Facebook Gifts triple terribly so, BUT Facebook Gift Cards — actually gift cards with Facebook emblazoned on the front — have one neat trick: They can hold balances for multiple different stores. Meaning you can give somebody $20 to spend at Target, $10 at Starbucks and $1 at the Olive Garden. But really, you shouldn't.
For the first time ever, more daily active users accessed Facebook through mobile devices than a desktop, with 157 million of its billion users only signing in through mobile apps.
Twitter is a little different now. Bigger photos, without leaving the stream, and videos now show up in galleries. [Insert "Twitter is becoming a media company" story here.]
BlackBerry's back from the dead, at least for the moment, with two new BlackBerry 10 phones.
"On a gray stretch of highway 25 miles northwest of Detroit, in a strip mall next to an OfficeMax and a dry cleaners, sits the only stand-alone BlackBerry retail store in North America." This is how Will Connors' story starts. It doesn't really get any happier.
We published a mini-expose of Wikipedia's child porn problem. What kind of search terms brought people to that piece?
Jezebel explores puahate.com, where failed pickup artists tend to congregate. A gem from one user: "i encourage everyone on PUAHATE to do up dating profiles of really fat/hideous/physically deformed/mentally challenged females and prove to themselves that all a woman needs to attract top quality males is a pair of tits an a cunt."
Because it's not the most important event in technology anymore. The two trends that killed CES.
There are a lot of remarkable things about Iwan Baan's cover photograph for New York magazine, showing a divided New York City — half brilliantly lit, half plunged into darkness in the wake of Sandy — but one of them is that Baan says the shot would've been impossible to take before a camera like Canon's 1DX (or Nikon's D4). (He shot it wide open with a 1/40 second shutter speed at 25,000 ISO.)