Most of the time, corporate announcements are boring. Slight changes are made to products, buzzwords are mouthed, people walk away mildly informed.
Google, on the other hand, apparently felt the need to drop some bombs, because they did. Read the rest of this entry »
We’d use another gesture, but this is a family website.
Watching a grown man become slowly more enraged and infuriated over a relatively minor annoyance is always funny. But one Australian has turned it into an art form with ‘I Don’t Want Your F***ing App’. Read the rest of this entry »
Spotify has had no shortage of bad news recently. But this probably ranks up there: Google has apparently had a breakthrough with two more major music labels to launch the music streaming services it has planned. Read the rest of this entry »
Hey, remember when Facebook made a version of Android, and the only good thing about it was the lockscreen? We’re reminding you because we know you promptly forgot about it. We’ve seen the sales figures that prove it. Read the rest of this entry »
Pictured: A far more reliable doctor.
Deborah Tagle clearly does not trust hospitals. Or maybe she was trying to avoid taking her son, newly shot in an accident by a friend, to the hospital by any means necessary. Either way, she decided to consult WebMD for gunshot wounds. We’re guessing Yahoo! Answers wasn’t quick enough on the draw for her, and Metafilter was too snooty. Read the rest of this entry »
The guys at Filmdrunk have chronicled the greatness that is Vin Diesel’s Facebook page — a litle slice of internet heaven know to Diesel and his fans as “Vinbook.” But apparently love from UPROXX isn’t enough for Vin, an early celebrity adapter to the site. You see, he wants some credit for helping make Facebook the behemoth it is today. And oh yeah, a check would be nice!
Police drones, essentially little flying cameras, are somewhat creepy and rife with fairly serious privacy issues. Just because you’re out in public, do you have the right to be filmed? What happens to the footage? What happens when technologies such as facial recognition make it possible to follow your movements?
On the other hand, there are upsides, as a Canadian driver lost in the woods found out. Read the rest of this entry »
Snapchat is popular among the kind of people who do not understand how computers work and want to send each other naked pictures without consequences. Unfortunately for them, the modern world does not work that way. Especially since it appears Snapchat can’t even be bothered to cover its tracks when “deleting” photos. Read the rest of this entry »
As noted by classical poet Neil Sekada, breaking up is hard to do. And according to research at the University of California, Facebook is probably making it worse. How? By making you cling to all the digital detritus of your dead relationship, that’s how. Read the rest of this entry »
