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TPP: The Biggest Global Threat to the Internet Since ACTA

The United States and ten governments from around the Pacific are meeting yet again to hash out the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) on May 15-24 in Lima, Peru. The TPP is one of the worst global threats to the Internet since ACTA. Since the negotiations have been secretive from the beginning, we mainly know…

Tech News Katitza Rodriguez and Maira Sutton Apr 30

Logical empiricism explains why comment threads devolve into WTF

At last logic and reason have their own spirit animal. Ravens shed light on weird reasoning, but especially on the random statements that people make on the internet. Is there anything you want more on a Monday morning than a logical paradox? Well, too late now. You clicked. And so you’re going to hear about…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Apr 29

The iTunes Store Is A Decade Old Today

For better or worse, Apple has been peddling digital wares for ten years through its iTunes store. What started as a 99 cent, iPod-centric music seller has evolved into the billion dollar behemoth we know today. https://jezebel.com/here-are-your-late-night-plans-justin-timberlakes-new-5990064 iTunes sells 35 million songs in 119 countries, movies in 109 countries and 850,000 iOS apps in 155…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Apr 28

Senators Are Trying to Rush Through a Massive Online Sales Tax Hike

A band of pro-tax Senators are attempting to rush through policy that would see online sales tax being paid even in states that don’t have sales tax. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Senate will vote this week—perhaps as early as today—on a bill introduced just last Tuesday. The Journal explains the bill, which…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 22

Mockumentary from 2068 recalls the devastation caused by the Internet

Ever feel like you’re wasting your life looking at cat pictures on the Internet? In this short parody documentary, The Internet: A Warning From History, Brits in 2068 recall the tragedy that was constant Internet access, and the disaster that followed. [via Laughing Squid]

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 20

One of the first religions inspired by the internet

File-sharing isn’t just a good way to get the latest episode of your favorite TV show. It’s also a religion. Kopimism is an officially-recognized faith in Sweden, and has established a church in the US too. Its credo? Copying information is holy. Founded by Swedish college student Isak Gerson in 2010, Kopimism was recognized as…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 19

Google’s Buying Provo’s Entire Fiber Network, Worth $39m, For $1

When Google announced it was rolling out a fiber network in Provo, Utah, it wasn’t clear how or why it had chosen the city. Turns out, Google has managed to secure a deal to buy its entire municipal fiber network—which cost $39 million to build—for just a single dollar. The deal, expected to be approved…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 19

If you text a lot, you are probably also racist and shallow

People who write 100 or more text messages a day tend to be “less reflective,” and more likely to exhibit prejudice against minority groups. Those are the puzzling findings of a three-year longitudinal study in Canada. The study focused entirely on text messages, and it’s not clear whether IMs, Facebook updates, and tweets counted as…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 17

Where Are All the YouTube Stars Now?

Do you remember the first time you saw Gangnam Style? Or the first time you laughed at Antoine Dodson? Or even Charlie bit my finger? What about watching Rebecca Black’s Friday? It was a long time ago! So what are all those YouTube stars doing now? This infographic gets you up to date. It seems…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 17

Google Experimenting With Ditching the Black Bar for a New Launcher

There’s a new, cleaner Google web interface being tested out there right now, which does away with the black bar in favour of nicking the Chrome OS and Android grid icon and using it to to populate a nice little white dropdown. If you want to give the alternate Google launcher a shot, there’s a…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK Apr 16

How the Boston Marathon tragedy revealed the best side of social media

Within seconds after a bomb detonated during the Boston Marathon this morning, pictures, video and news of the horrific event were pulsing over social networks. And they weren’t exaggerations or FUD — these reports from people on the ground were the way most of us learned the truth. http://gawker.com/5994707/two-blasts-rock-finish-line-at-boston-marathon-dozens-injured On Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and other…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 15

Can You Find All the Memes in This Internet Orgy of a Poster?

Created by illustrator H. Caldwell Tanner, this wonderful, mind-numbing visualization of the internet’s very essence brings together more past and current memes than you probably ever knew existed. Fortunately, Tanner takes that fact into consideration and provides an accompanying key to this unholy union. Before you hover over each character for the answers, though, try…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Apr 11

Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called “Search”

It’s well known that Google’s competitors aren’t keen on it getting hold of the .search top-level domain. But the company has outlined a new plan which would make use of the string as a dotless domain—open for use by any other search company, too. In a letter to ICANN, Google outlined that it would opt…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 11

OS X Code Reveals Apple’s Plans For Super-Fast Wi-Fi

With the OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta release currently in the hands of developers, some of the more eagle-eyed nerds have noticed references to code which appear to confirm rumors about Apple’s plans to roll out super-fast Wi-Fi to its Macs. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-trick-up-apples-sleeve-super-speedy-wi-fi-for-5972626 9to5mac reports that devs have stumbled upon code in the OS’s Wi-Fi…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 10

All the Best Fake Websites TV Shows Have Dreamed Up

The Internet is great and all, but the fake Internet on TV is even better. This mashup from Slacktory takes you on a whirlwind tour of all the best (read: worst) sites that (probably) don’t and shouldn’t exist. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get back to kickin’ it on WinAtBingoAndRock.com. [Slacktory]

Television Eric Limer Apr 5

Google Is Forking WebKit to Create a New Rendering Engine For Chrome and Opera

Google announced last night that it’s going to stop using WebKit—the rendering engine currently used by the likes of Safari and Chrome to display web pages—in favor of its own solution which will be called Blink. That is, admittedly, super-nerdy news, but it’s important. Google claims that WebKit has been slowing down the way it…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 4

If Every Internet Commenter’s Wish Really Came True

I love Internet commenters because they make me laugh. The good ones are so funny! And even when they’re awful and mean spirited and filled with hate, there’s a certain humor that comes from that sort of silliness. But what if commenters actually get what they wish for in their comments? This comic hilariously explains…

Books & Comics Casey Chan Apr 2

The Russian Government Has Started Censoring the Internet

It’s no secret that the likes of China and Iran censor the internet to within an inch of its life, but now there’s a new Big Brother blocking content: Russia. https://gizmodo.com/how-china-censors-its-twitter-at-light-speed-5989161 The New York Times reports that the Russian government has recently been making heavy use of a new law to “block Internet content that…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe Apr 1

This is my favorite new bizarro science scandal on the internet

Last year, a psychology researcher named Stephan Lewandowsky published an article based on an internet survey of climate change deniers. In it, he argued that his evidence strongly suggested that people who don’t believe in climate change also believe NASA faked the Moon landing, and that the US government created AIDS. Yeah. So that made…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 29

Three Crazy James Bond Villains Were Caught Trying to Cut Through The Internet’s Undersea Cables

While the Internet at large was freaking out about an apocalyptic attack that wasn’t really happening yesterday, something nefarious was going down at the bottom of the sea. Egyptian authorites found a trio of divers down there attempting to sever a crucial submarine communications cable. https://gizmodo.com/that-internet-war-apocalypse-is-a-lie-5992652 Yesterday, Egypt’s Coast Guard stumbled upon a suspicious fishing…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 28

TPP: The Biggest Global Threat to the Internet Since ACTA

Logical empiricism explains why comment threads devolve into WTF

The iTunes Store Is A Decade Old Today

Senators Are Trying to Rush Through a Massive Online Sales Tax Hike

Mockumentary from 2068 recalls the devastation caused by the Internet

One of the first religions inspired by the internet

Google’s Buying Provo’s Entire Fiber Network, Worth $39m, For $1

If you text a lot, you are probably also racist and shallow

Where Are All the YouTube Stars Now?

Google Experimenting With Ditching the Black Bar for a New Launcher

How the Boston Marathon tragedy revealed the best side of social media

Can You Find All the Memes in This Internet Orgy of a Poster?

Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called “Search”

OS X Code Reveals Apple’s Plans For Super-Fast Wi-Fi

All the Best Fake Websites TV Shows Have Dreamed Up

Google Is Forking WebKit to Create a New Rendering Engine For Chrome and Opera

If Every Internet Commenter’s Wish Really Came True

The Russian Government Has Started Censoring the Internet

This is my favorite new bizarro science scandal on the internet

Three Crazy James Bond Villains Were Caught Trying to Cut Through The Internet’s Undersea Cables

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