SOS, SMS! Is Texting Nearing Extinction?
SMS (Short Message Service) traffic, otherwise known as text messaging, is on a downward spiral. For the first time ever in the U.K., reports have emerged suggesting that people are sending fewer and...
View ArticleFormer Salon Editor-In-Chief Will Head This Upscale News Site About Pets
The Internet was made for (and by) cat people. Compilations like Ultimate Funny Cat Videos have ruled YouTube since its inception, but there may be something deeper here. Articles like this one...
View ArticleOur Brains Map in a Mental Number Line
Typically people don't see a gray area when it comes to numbers; you either get them or you don't. But new research says our brains are actually systematically designed to handle numerals.According to...
View ArticleCould A Hashtag Bring Digital Justice To Sudan?
Sudan has an Internet problem. Thanks in part to U.S. sanctions, citizens of the war-torn country are very limited in what they can see and do online. Could a soon-to-be-launched social media campaign...
View ArticleWhy Are Millions Of Teens Fleeing Facebook?
Your mom, your mom's mom, and your mom's new puppy have a Facebook profile these days. It's no wonder the site is seeing a rapid decline in traffic from teens, who are increasingly turning their...
View ArticlePrint Magazines Can Survive If They Prioritize, Says Study
Print journalism is dead—or at least that's what media outlets have been saying about themselves since 2008. But a glimmer of optimism about the publishing industry arrived today from a University of...
View ArticleFounding Team Member Of Ouya Muffi Ghadiali Is Leaving The Project
Ouya was a much buzzed about product when it came to the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. It quickly raised $8.5 million in funding, marking the project in Kickstarter history. The promise: Ouya...
View ArticleTepid China Mobile iPhone Launch Isn't Necessarily A Bad Sign
Tim Cook flew to China to help court China Mobile's 760 million subscribers, but unlike the iPhone's well documented U.S. launches, about a dozen people lined up to buy the newest iPhone early Friday...
View ArticleConfirmed: Your Web-Savvy Kids Are Outsmarting Your Parental Controls
Think you're keeping track of your 13-year-old's online habits? A new study suggests they may be outsmarting you every step of the way.The Ofcom Report on Internet safety measures validated every...
View ArticleXbox One Will Stream Sports At Mind-Blowing 60 Frames Per Second
If you have an Xbox One, your football viewing is about to get that much better. Microsoft is bringing sports coverage at 60 frames per second to the gaming console, which is double the frame rate of...
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South Korea's "Robot Land" Will Open In 2015
Back in 2009, the South Korean government publicized plans for a robot theme park slated to open in 2012, but it never took shape. Now the Masan Robot Land Park is resuscitating plans by breaking...
View ArticleLet's Build A New Mesh Network To Replace The Internet
Bitcloud, which calls itself a distributed autonomous corporation, thinks it can reinvent the Internet by having individual users completing computing tasks like routing, storing, or computing in...
View ArticleHow Bluetooth Credit Card Skimmers Became The New Crowbars
Credit card fraud is getting a major software upgrade. How can a gang of 13 men steal more than $2 million from several gas pumps so easily? Using Bluetooth-enabled credit card skimmers that anyone can...
View ArticleAOL Wants To Personalize Your Web Surfing--Here's Its Competition
Last week, AOL purchased L.A.-based startup Gravity, a service that personalizes users' web and social searches. The $83 million purchase price is testament to the value of automated recommendation for...
View ArticleToday's Anti-Tech Protests Are Nothing New
From anti-Google bus vandalism to Uber drivers being attacked in Paris, the rise in anti-tech tension is hard to miss. Some suggest that this is the beginning of a trend with more upheaval to come. But...
View ArticleThis Connected Sex Toy Wants To Change The Future Of Digital Intimacy
Toon Timmermans got the idea for his new product during a sex scene in the movie Demolition Man. In it, characters don connected helmets to have virtual sex. After seeing the movie, Timmermans and the...
View ArticleWhat Every Company Can Learn From The "Pre-order" Kickstarter Model
Big-name brands usually knock the small fish right out of the water when it comes to the product launch. After watching thousands of product launches, Donald Brewer noticed that if companies could...
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How This Startup Designed A Printable Bluetooth Keyboard
The next time you need a new keyboard, you may be able to use one printed on paper. Novalia, a U.K.-based startup, recently announced a super-thin, Bluetooth-enabled keyboard that can be printed on...
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An Up-To-Date Layman's Guide To Accessing The Deep Web
If you binge-watched the second season of House of Cards, along with a reported 15% of Netflix's 44 million subscribers, you may be newly interested in the Deep Web. Slate has done a good job of...
View ArticleYou Don't Need To Understand Software, Just Learn The Art Of Openness
When Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin started news-curating startup theSkimm back in 2012, these wide-eyed young news junkies had the odds stacked against them. They had no tech experience, no...
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