Creator of @everyword explains the life and death of a Twitter experiment
In 2007, Adam Parrish created an enormously popular account to tweet the English language a word at a time. He explains why he did it and what he learned — Creator Adam Parrish: 'It's kind of a mag...
“WARNING Your phone is locked!” Crypto ransomware makes its debut on Android
Security researchers have documented another first in the annals of Android malware: a trojan that encrypts photos, videos, and documents stored on a device and demands a ransom for them to be restore...
Google Now Has An Alarm That Can Wake You Up To Keep You From Missing Your Stop On Public Transportation
It's Saturday night. You've spent the last six hours partaking of the fruit of the vine in pleasant company (read: you're so drunk that your date is getting a contact buzz).
Meet the new Apple: Fitter, happier, and ready to play
Fitter, happier, and ready to play — While I watched Apple's WWDC 2014 opening keynote on Monday morning, I couldn't stop thinking about the infectious mixture of fun and confidence everyone onstage...
Inside the development of Alinea's restaurant ticketing system built to replace reservations
Tickets for Restaurants — Resos vs. Access Apps vs. Tix: More Than You'd Ever Care to Know — Ticketing for restaurants has been in the news a lot lately. Here are just a few articles:
RebelMouse relaunches as a full-fledged publishing platform that's tuned for viral content
Two years ago, former Huffington Post chief technology officer Paul Berry launched a site called RebelMouse to give media companies and users of all kinds a way of aggregating the various pieces …
Congressional hearing suggests first sale doctrine won't apply to digital goods anytime soon
Should you have a right to sell your ebooks and digital music? — People can be surprised to discover that they don't actually own the digital books and songs they buy, but that they instead rent …
‘Popcorn Time’ Gives Users Anonymity With a Free Built-In VPN
The Popcorn Time phenomenon took the Internet by storm earlier this year. The software became the subject of hundreds of news articles, as it offered P2P streaming in an easy to use Netflix-style int...
Taptalk takes on Snapchat with app for sending ephemeral photos and videos with one tap
This is the fastest photo chat app in the world — With Taptalk, it takes just one tap to send a photo or video — Taptalk is, dare I say, cooler than Snapchat.