Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On Wikipedia
Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He's also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of ...
Why Time Magazine Used Instagram To Cover Hurricane Sandy
If there was still any debate about whether serious photojournalism can take place in the context of camera phones and cutesy retro filters, it's over now. — To document the effects of Hurricane San...
New Jersey Allows Voting By Email And Fax For Hurricane Victims
Wow. Registered voters in New Jersey displaced by Hurricane Sandy will be permitted to vote by fax or email in the upcoming election. New Jersey, along with about a dozen other states, already permi...
How the internet economy works: Guns, butter and bandwidth
Most people know certain things about the Internet. They know that cables run under the sea, that wires come into your homes, and that modems carry the digital signals to your devices. — But they'v...
State Farm Sponsors Gawker's Backup Tumblr, But Nick Denton Laments Lost Week of Comments
Gawker Was One of Many Sites Shut Down During Hurricane Sandy — As Hurricane Sandy whipped New York into devastation on Monday, Gawker Media was one of the media companies that saw its websites shut...
Apple to bring movie ticket purchasing to Siri with upcoming iOS 6.1 update
Apple's upcoming release of iOS 6.1 will include a new feature for Siri: the ability to get movie tickets. The feature, according to developers who are beta testing the new iPhone, iPad, and iPod tou...