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The Annoying Thing Facebook Is About to Do with Your Phone Numbers and Emails (UPDATED)

Today, temporarily, some users with access to Facebook’s Power Editor tool got a glimpse of a new targeted ad system the social network is prepping to roll out next week. InsideFacebook is reporting that a powerful tool granting premium advertisers access to users’ phone numbers and email addresses, as well as their user ID, has…

Social Media Molly Oswaks Aug 30

Homeless People Use Facebook Just Like You and Me

The Atlantic is reporting some pretty fascinating findings from a study on Internet usage patterns in homeless vs. non-homeless youth out of the University of Alabama. Apparently, for 75% of the youth surveyed, not even homelessness if a big enough impediment to getting at least an hour a day of Facebook or Twitter time. Rosanna…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Aug 30

Second Accused LulzSec Hacker Surrenders to Authorities

20-year-old Raynaldo Rivera of Tempe, Arizona, surrendered to authorities today, less than a week after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles brought an indictment against him on charges of an extensive computer breach involving Sony Pictures Entertainment, which ultimately cost the company over $600k. Unsealed today, the indictment accuses Rivera and conspirators of “of…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Aug 29

Why the Internet Is More Curse Than Blessing

Any list that weighs the pros and cons of the internet can only end one way: the realization that you’re wasting your life… right… now. Although to be honest, there’s way more in the plus column here than I ever would have imagined possible. [Doghouse Diaries]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett Aug 27

This Coffee Shop Just Wants Everyone To Stop Instagramming Already

Four Barrel Coffee in San Francisco had something of a problem with loud customers being all “hipstery” and annoying the neighbors, so they posted a notice kindly asking hipsters to shut the hell up. Only a few days later, the sign had to be amended to include another forbidden act which had suddenly become popular:…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 26

Ants Have Been Using Internet Algorithms For Millions of Years

Mankind has been able to accomplish some pretty impressive things, but some of them were around long before we figured them out. Ants, for instance, hunt for food in a way that’s basically the same as the Internet’s Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and they were doing it long before the Internet was around. It all…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 26

The Wacky Words That Are Now in the Oxford Dictionaries Online: LOLZ, Photobomb, Mwahahaha and More

Dictionaries exist in between a rock and a hard place: jump on new words too late and they look like a dinosaur, add in words too early and they’re made into a mockery. Words are hard, yes, but some words don’t exactly need defining like some of these just added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online.…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 24

Mobile Wi-Fi Should Be Better

It really should. We have come so far—so, so far—from the days of dumb dialup. And it’s not like the technology doesn’t exist (hello Boing, MiFi, et al.) So, why oh why is mobile Wi-Fi still so shitty? I shouldn’t turn down a trip to Maine just because I’m worried I won’t be able to…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Aug 23

How Internet Explorer Shaped the Internet

Long before Internet Explorer became the browser everyone loves to hate, it was the driving force of innovation on the Internet. Sometimes it’s hard to remember all of the good that Internet Explorer did before Internet Explorer 6 became the scourge of web developers everywhere. Believe it or not, Internet Explorer 4-6 is heavily responsible…

Tech News Nicholas C. Zakas Aug 23

Coffee Shops Are Not Your Fucking Office, Dickheads

Look, I’m from Spain. We Spaniards stay in cafés and bars and restaurants forever—ordering things to drink or eat, of course. But this? Listen up, hipsters: a coffee shop is not your own personal newsroom. I’m sure this has happened to most of you. But this morning was particularly offensive. This morning it was so…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 23

Oh Good, a Bunch of Kid-Friendly Sites Are Taking Advantage of Minors

While internet seems like an untamed wilderness much of the time, there are actually a surprising number of measures in place to help your wee ones navigate it unharmed. Like, say, systems to keep big bad corporate wolves from gobbling up the personal information of kids under 13. You know; the ones that McDonald’s, Nickelodeon,…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 23

TV Characters Addicted to the Internet: They’re Just Like Us!

Wearing yesterday’s outfit. Refusing to look away from the screen. Irritability. Power cord-possessiveness. Fake-listening to your IRL friends. TV characters suffering from Internet addiction are just like you and me! Even in 1996, when it was but a pale glimmer of its current self, we were already well-acquainted with the Internet’s strange and seductive ways.…

Television Molly Oswaks Aug 22

The Internet Has Feelings, Too—Maybe

Over at the Atlantic, Steve Paulson has a fascinating interview with “romantic reductionist” neuroscientist Christof Koch, about the science of consciousness and the possibility of a sentient Internet. Riffing on the workings of the brain, Koch explains that it is not so much what the brain is made of, but the “relationship of that stuff…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Aug 22

How to Read Online Ratings

It can be hard deciphering a five-star rating system, but it really doesn’t have to be. Especially when you accept that almost everything is terrible anyway. [XKCD]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett Aug 22

The Fifty Shades of Lorem Ipsum: NSFW Dummy Text Generator

The Fifty Shades of Grey is the most successful, badly-written book around—so bad, the prose reads more like lorem ipsum dummy text than actual best-selling literature. Fiftyshadesgenerator.com is a single-serving site that offers an alternative filler to your regular TKTKTK. Thank you, Internet, for doing what you do so well. [DesignTaxi]

Tech News Molly Oswaks Aug 20

Clayton Hawkins: 1nternet Friends

Up-and-coming hard pop artist Clayton Hawkins today released the music video (above) for the super catchy song “1nternet Friends,” off his brand new EP, Pixels, (dropping later this month). Gizmodo caught up with Clay, who was happy to spill the story behind Pixels and “1nternet Friends”… On the first day of recording my first solo…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Aug 20

This Is the First Website Ever—Rebooted

Once upon a time, Tim Berners-Lee took the concept of Hypercard and turned into a world of networked pages. Then there was the first website ever, a boring but clean and well-lighted place that started with the title: “World Wide Web”. I love that title and this part: “Everything there is online about W3 is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 20

Dish Network Is Planning Nationwide Satellite Broadband

People living in the sticks, rejoice! Bloomberg is reporting that Dish Network is planning to roll out a nationwide satellite broadband internet service —and promises speeds of between 5 and 15 megabits per second. The satellite, EchoStar 17, is owned by Dish’s sister company and was launched on July 5th this year. People “familiar with…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 16

The Internet Is Terrible for the Sex Industry. No, Really

Sex workers are suffering in the age of the Internet. Once upon a time, when the first tech boom hit in the 70s, in San Francisco, tech and sex work shared a mutually beneficial, blooming relationship. From Silicon Valley flowed cash in excess, into the pockets of sex workers of all stripes. But now? An…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Aug 15

Even in 1995, We Knew What the Internet Would be Good For: Scholarly Pursuits…and Cats

This is great, just great. Laughing Squid has unearthed a glistening gem of a PSA from 1995. What is it PSAing? The Internet. The Internet, you ask? Yes, it is simply encouraging you to get your Clinton-era ass in gear and on the Internet. The 10-year-old kids in this ad are in fact a group…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Aug 15

The Annoying Thing Facebook Is About to Do with Your Phone Numbers and Emails (UPDATED)

Homeless People Use Facebook Just Like You and Me

Second Accused LulzSec Hacker Surrenders to Authorities

Why the Internet Is More Curse Than Blessing

This Coffee Shop Just Wants Everyone To Stop Instagramming Already

Ants Have Been Using Internet Algorithms For Millions of Years

The Wacky Words That Are Now in the Oxford Dictionaries Online: LOLZ, Photobomb, Mwahahaha and More

Mobile Wi-Fi Should Be Better

How Internet Explorer Shaped the Internet

Coffee Shops Are Not Your Fucking Office, Dickheads

Oh Good, a Bunch of Kid-Friendly Sites Are Taking Advantage of Minors

TV Characters Addicted to the Internet: They’re Just Like Us!

The Internet Has Feelings, Too—Maybe

How to Read Online Ratings

The Fifty Shades of Lorem Ipsum: NSFW Dummy Text Generator

Clayton Hawkins: 1nternet Friends

This Is the First Website Ever—Rebooted

Dish Network Is Planning Nationwide Satellite Broadband

The Internet Is Terrible for the Sex Industry. No, Really

Even in 1995, We Knew What the Internet Would be Good For: Scholarly Pursuits…and Cats

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