1. Apple has a nice new ad out today, reminding us that the iPhone is the world’s most popular camera. View this image › 2. It’s true, the iPhone’s camera has changed how we shoot photos and video forever. It’s also turned us into crazy people who do this: View this image › 3. And…
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View this image › What the internet thinks about CISPA, according to a Google Image Search CISPA is back. While Americans marathoned House of Cards in their Snuggies, Representatives Mike Rogers and Dutch (née Charles Albert) Ruppersberger announced that they will reintroduce the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act this week. According to some of…
View this image › Aaron Swartz poses in a Borderland Books in San Francisco on February 4, 2008. Noah Berger / Reuters The U.S. Attorneys’ Office offered a simple rationale when it announced the federal indictment of internet activist Aaron Swartz, charging him with crimes punishable by 35 years in prison: “Stealing is stealing whether…
A beverage company’s plans to utilize Twitter to promote an event to celebrate the launch of their new energy drink went awry when a group of trolls flooded the dedicated hashtag for the party with a surreal alternate version of events. Mr. Pink Ginseng Drink seemed to be using what looked very suspiciously like celebrity…
View this image › The first thing you’ll notice about Reus, the new game from the Dutch indie studio Abbey Games, is that it is wonderful to look at. I’m wary of some of the hyperventilation that happens whenever an indie game has a whiff of style—it seems to me that 90% of these games…
View this image › destructoid.com Three days ago, Maxis’ newest SimCity launched, to hosannas from the world of gaming. The sequel to some of the most beloved games ever made, the new SimCity promised to add to the series’ unmatched depth and polish a new cooperative online mode through which gamers could each manage a…
View this image › When Facebook bought Instagram, $57 million in VC money turned into a billion. That’s an 18x increase in value. Pretty good! But it pales in comparison to another, older story. In 1957, a savvy moneyman gave $70,000 to a new tech company called DEC in exchange for a big chunk of…
View this image › Apple / Via apple.com When iOS 7 becomes available for download on September 18th, a strange, unprecedented thing will begin to happen to your iPhone. In the ensuing hours and days, every single app on your phone will change. A lot of it will happen right away, as Apple’s in-house apps…
View this image › Earlier this week, Howard Lindzon, cofounder and CEO of Stocktwits, watched the concept he had built his company on — the “cashtag” (see: $AAPL) — get incorporated directly into Twitter. He was furious: It’s interesting that Twitter has hijacked our creation of $TICKER ie. $AAPL. It only took four years to…
1. The Warthog is the iconic vehicle from the Halo series. View this image › 3. It’s an all-terrain vehicle. It can go anywhere. 4. Like, for example, yesterday’s Pride parade in Seattle. View this image › Twitter: @HaloWaypoint View this image › Flickr: gl2 View this image › Twitter: @PlutonForEver Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/master-chiefs-newest-mission-support-gay-pride
View this image › Viacom / Via tumblr.com Thanks to one Redditor’s weekend project, the internet now has a destination to track GIFs as they go viral on Twitter. Aptly named GIFHELL, the site shows both the most tweeted GIFs on Twitter at a given time as well as the most popular, based on number…
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1. Mine was “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” View this image › 2sistersblog.com Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/whats-the-oldest-internet-meme-you-can-rememb
Anita Sarkeesian, the blogger who makes the smart and frighteningly comprehensive Feminist Frequency web series, today posted a new video in her series about regressive tropes in gaming. It was up for an hour before she noticed something was wrong. Feminist Frequency @femfreq Follow Looks like my harassers abused YouTube’s flag function to get my…
View this image › klout.com Absentmindedly (sorry, obsessively) checking my Klout score this morning, I stumbled upon a perk — a shiny ad for some kind of new Starbucks drink offered to the uber-influencers of the influence-counting service. A perk! I love perks. Klout perks have been around for a couple years, and they’re no…
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