Stephen Colbert got an iPad and he is very excited to use it. To prepare salsa. Do not click if you are one of those weirdos who always worries about "voiding the warranty" on their gadgets. (What's with those guys?)
Yesterday we asked readers about their run-ins with Steve Jobs, and they delivered. The Apple CEO is quietly ubiquitous, seen from Palo Alto to SoHo, from Whole Foods to Gotham catwalks, a shaggy-dressing crazy driver who's kind to strangers.
A brief rift in the Facebook privacy shield has been healed, but not before dozens of people documented it. For about 30 minutes late Tuesday, private email addresses were revealed—and then, just as suddenly, they were hidden again.
Google has launched a new ad product that will allow web sites you've visited to keep serving you ads long after you've gone on to other sites. Which means that once you've visited viagra.com, you can never really leave.
Apple's iPad could make it the king of old media, arbiter of taste and technology alike. So magazines and newspapers have begun a series of countermoves that could turn the quietest dogfight in media into the most vicious.
Everybody has a few people clogging up their social networking sites with frequent updates, annoying pictures, and general stupidity. But there's often guilt about offing these former friends. Feel bad no more! These are the people you must ditch now.
"Television is going to be big, or it isn't going to be at all." The crack staff at Popular Science said this in 1944, and beyond the seeming obviousness of its either/or scenario, there's a lot to think about here.
Eric Schmidt hates camping. Which is why, when Steve Jobs broke up with him, Google's CEO was at a payphone on a lonesome desert road, 45 minutes from Burning Man, with only his mistress Kate Bohner near his side.
Last evenings Simpsons opened with Homer using a new GPS device to drive the kids to school. The result? Exactly what you'd expect when you let computers take over common sense.
You've heard about Tiger Woods' very naughty text messages by now, haven't you? We went ahead and built a Tiger clone in the office this afternoon. Send a text message to 646-450-2708 and you'll get a reply from our Tigerbot in minutes. [Update: The Tigerbot is a bit overwhelmed right now; apologies if you don't get an immediate response.] It's free, of course. It's also most definitely NSFW, though, so be careful you don't leave your phone lying around for your significant other and/or co-workers to see.
All the nerds are in one place this week at SXSW, but, let's face it, we all have a little bit of nerd in us. These days geekdom is large and diverse enough for everyone. Where do you fit in?
Jay-Z is a pretty good rapper. Jay-Z is not the best rapper ever. Jay-Z is not a role model. Jay-Z is not a hip hop hero. Not even for you, cool kids. Get off Jay-Z's dick.
Tonight, The Simpsons opened with a tongue-in-cheek look at the "Springfield of Tomorrow," seen through the eyes of a '60s era educational film. Gone are buses and subway rides, and in are plutonium-powered cars—with robot claws! Video inside.
Well, folks, it finally happened: The Strokes' Julian Casablancas made a cameo on SNL tonight with Andy Samberg for a digital short/music video of the Lonely Island hit, "Boombox." It was simultaneously awesome and hilarious, naturally. Video inside.
Remember the 3DO? Or the Power Glove? It's easy to forget that the lineage of today's Playstations and Xboxes is filled with so many odd mutants never fit for mass consumption. Here's a look into the awkward, gawky past.
Japanese artist/designer Yoshi Akai has engineered a sequencer that uses Legos to manipulate sound! The Lego Sequencer MRII is a 3-channel, 8-step sequencer that creates beats that wouldn't be out of place on a Crystal Castles record.
