PBS Geeks Out Again: Awesome Short Documentary Explores Rise of Webcomics
Comics fans are a diverse group. You’ve got your graphic novel and comic book traditionalists, with their shelves or boxes of print copies. Then there are the tech-savvy fanatics who are trying to...
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Farewell, Frommers: Google Closes Book on Travel Guide’s Print Editions
It’s the end of an era. Maybe we should’ve seen the writing on the wall when Google bought Frommer’s last year to enhance its location and points of interest data, or when the bookstore vanished from...
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Pen Pals Club Asks Geeky Girls to Put Down the Phone, Pick Up a Pen
When I was younger, I had a pen pal who lived in the exotic, far away land of New Jersey. In reality, it wasn’t that far — I lived in Pennsylvania — but it might as well as have been Fiji to a young...
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Sweden Tries To Make “Ungoogleable” a Word, Gives Up After Google Complains
Language is not set in stone. A malleable form of communication, it evolves along with changing attitudes and behaviors — things that are increasingly influenced by our techno-driven world. That is,...
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10 Things About Nick D’Aloisio, Self-Taught App Developer and Teen Millionaire
If you didn’t know Nick D’Aloisio, he might seem like any other teen — he goes to school, has cool hair and contends with protective, yet proud parents. But he has become something of a legend lately,...
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Game of Thrones Is Coming in 2 Days: Catch Up Before Season 3 Starts
Are you up to date with all things Stark and Lannister? Whoa! We couldn’t believe it when… Just kidding! Would I spoil the action like that? Hecks no. But if you’re not up to date on Game of Thrones,...
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Store Levies $5 Fee For “Just Looking” To Stop Web Shoppers From Window Shopping
We’ve all been guilty of evaluating goods at a brick-and-mortar store, only to purchase the products online. For shoppers, it makes sense to do some homework and perform some price comparisons before...
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The Web Yucks It Up: 10 April Fool’s Day Gags
Every year at this time, a strange phenomenon takes place: Typically dead-serious companies and heavy-hitting news sites go bonkers with the bizarro fake stories. And if you’ve been online recently,...
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Funny or Die Releases Trailer for “iSteve” with Justin Long
When Funny or Die announced it was making a Steve Jobs biopic spoof and casting Justin Long, the “I’m a Mac” hipster from the old Apple commercials, we were bracing ourselves. Would it be smart?...
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Napster Founder/Facebook Co-founder Sean Parker Nixes Rumor About Medieval...
When word leaked out about Sean Parker’s wedding, the Web was abuzz with rumors of the ultimate geek nuptials. The tech billionaire — Napster founder, Facebook co-founder and Spotify investor — and...
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BlackBerry Z10 Can Tell Pals When You Watch Adult Material, Thanks to BBM
BlackBerry Messenger integration can be a handy way to auto-push updates to your BBM contacts. Maybe your friends and family like knowing what music you’re enjoying right now on your BlackBerry Z10,...
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Amazon Users Can “AutoRip” Old Vinyl and New Record Purchases With Free MP3s
Still hanging on to vinyl? You’re not alone. There are plenty of music aficionados and audiophiles out there who can’t bear to part with their spinning discs from yesteryear, sometimes even when they...
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New Study Can Turn Cocaine Addiction On and Off in Rats With Lasers
Cocaine addiction can be a nasty affliction that, if left unchecked, has the huge potential to throw a person’s relationships, career, and cash down the toilet. And those are the lucky ones. Death is...
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Bill Gates, Paul Allen Recreate Famous Microsoft Photo After 32 Years
Cool things happen when legends get together. Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates met up last night at a party that the former was holding at his Living Computer Museum in Seattle. And...
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For First Time Ever, Distraction From Texting Gets Linked to Commercial...
When David Strayer, a psychology professor at the University of Utah, lectures about distracted driving, he often asks people how they’d feel if their pilot whipped out his phone to make dinner...
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TweetLoose: Kevin Bacon Accidentally Spoils “The Following” on Twitter
When actor Kevin Bacon’s wife, Kyra Sedgwick, left television as relentless deputy chief Brenda Lee Johnson on The Closer, I was beside myself. Thankfully, her hubby and his new show, Fox’s The...
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What Happens To Your Google Data If You Die? New Feature Lets You Decide...
I had a bracing moment a few weeks ago. Taking a break from writing, I dipped into my social networks for a moment and saw something that made me stop cold: My father-in-law was recommended to me as...
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Twitter Music Is Available… But Only For Celebrities
Bad news, folks. The Twitter Music iOS app is not launching today as originally expected, nor is it arriving this weekend — at least, not for the masses. If you’re famous, however, that’s another...
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Pass Rate For Courses With Online Ed Smokes Regular Classes, University...
Leave it to Silicon Valley to slam dunk an online initiative. But this time, the player isn’t a tech company — it’s San Jose State University, which just took “higher learning” and gave it a whole new...
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How to Check Up On a Loved One in Boston After the Bombing
This afternoon, the Boston Marathon fell victim to an alleged terrorist incident, with two bombs detonating near the finish line. The explosions, which blew people off their feet and rocked nearby...
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