Instagram's Video Rumors and Other News You Need to Know

mashable.com 1 hour ago

Instagram could be poised to jump into video.

 
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An Insane John McAfee Teaches You How to Uninstall His Software (NSFW)

gizmodo.com 4 hours ago

John McAfee is one weird guy, and this video only serves to bolster that reputation...

 
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Squar, Myanmar's First Homegrown Social Network Wants to Beat Facebook

techinasia.com 6 hours ago

Squar is entering the wild west of Myanmar to trailblaze the nascent internet scene. Here's what they're up to.

 
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12 Vintage Book Covers That May Have Predicted Internet Memes

mashable.com 1 hour ago

Go back 10 years, and who had even heard of Internet memes? These books — and their covers — certainly hadn't. Though they were around way before memes really took off online, ...

 
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PlayStation update freezing consoles

bbc.co.uk 3 hours ago

A system software update has rendered some PlayStation 3 consoles unusable, manufacturer Sony confirms.

 
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Fab's $150M Backers Include Tencent and Itochu, Plans to Launch in China and Maybe Japan

techinasia.com 8 hours ago

American design-oriented e-commerce site Fab has just raised $150 million in the first part of its series D funding...

 
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WATCH: 'Daily Show' Skewers Evangelical's Claim That Gays Bully Christians

huffingtonpost.com 12 hours ago

In her latest segment for "The Daily Show," comedian Samantha Bee openly mocks an evangelical's claim that Christians are "bullied" by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community...

 
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Researchers create micro-battery with 3D printer (video)

engadget.com 1 hour ago

We often hear about the coming nanobot revolution, but just how are they planning on powering those future marvels? Well, researchers from Harvard and

 
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The Large Hadron Collider in pictures: using big technology to investigate tiny things

theverge.com 2 hours ago

"You're pushing the Higgs too much." Such has been Peter Higgs' admonishment to the CERN communications department in recent times. The British theoretical physicist, who has contributed both his...

 
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A Board Room Fall Out? MobiCart’s Founder And CEO Resigns From M-Commerce Startup

techcrunch.com 1 hour ago

It's a given that startup life will often consist of putting out fires, but as a founder you least expect one to be started in the board room...

 
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4 Reasons to Offer Employees Flexible Schedules

mashable.com 4 hours ago

There’s been a lot of talk about companies making decisions about employees working from home -- but flexible work and working from home are very different.

 
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Parvum Opus: Followers Flock To Pope's Latin Twitter Feed

npr.org 5 hours ago

The account has gained more than 100,000 followers worldwide in less than six months...

 
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Netflix streaming heads to the Netherlands in late 2013

news.cnet.com 2 hours ago

The company last year brought its service to Europe through Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. Read this article by Don Reisinger on CNET News.

 
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SnapKeys’ Invisible Keyboard Exits Beta & Lands In A Mobile Messaging App To Try To Drive Qwerty...

techcrunch.com 1 hour ago

There is no shortage of startups attacking the virtual keyboard space, as you'd expect with so much scope to improve the experience of touchscreen typing...

 
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These Amazing Twitter Metadata Visualizations Will Blow Your Mind

fastcompany.com 2 hours ago

Metadata in Twitter posts lets readers in on your geographic location the language you speak the phone you use and more. They're also a mapmaker's...

 
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LG launches TV set and all-in-one PC with 29-inch 21:9 ultra-widescreen

engadget.com 3 hours ago

Remember LG's EA93, that eye-catching 29-inch 21:9 \"ultrawidescreen\" monitor we played with at IFA last year? Well, it's just spawned a couple offspring.

 
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Turner’s Media Camp Announces The Next Five Startups To Go Through Its Media-Centric Incubator

techcrunch.com 1 hour ago

Last Summer, Turner announced that it was creating a startup incubator focused just on young companies that were creating products for media businesses...

 
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Pindrop Raises $11M From Andreessen Horowitz, Citi Ventures And Others To Detect And Block Phone...

techcrunch.com 1 hour ago

Pindrop Security, a startup that aims to prevent and protect against phone-based fraud, has raised $11 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Citi Ventures, Webb Investment Network,...

 
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ScribbleLive Raises $8M To Continue Its Real-Time Media Content Push

techcrunch.com 3 hours ago

ScribbleLive, from Toronto-based Scribble Media, was once nearly synonymous with the term "live blogging," but you'd be hard-pressed to find reference to that term on its site now...

 
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Social Tactics For The Search Marketer

searchengineland.com 3 hours ago

Search marketers tend to live in their own little world. They use their own language. In spite of these differences, search and social digital marketing disciplines are irrecusably connected...

 
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CEO: Adobe's results validate shift to subscriptions (Q&A)

news.cnet.com 2 hours ago

Creative Cloud subscriptions jumped 221,000 to 700,000 in Adobe's most recent quarter...

 
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Reclaim Your Privacy With Glowing Glasses That Foil Facial Recognition

gizmodo.com 1 hour ago

In a time when it seems like the privacy we all enjoyed was just a smokescreen, it's nice to know there's at least one way to fight back against all the systems designed to keep track of our comings...

 
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Peppa Pig World's Facebook page hijacked by abusive hacker

guardian.co.uk 1 hour ago

Theme park based on children's TV character apologises for security breach that led to sexist, racist comments being posted online

 
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BT Looks To Insider Gavin Patterson As Current CEO Ian Livingston Appointed UK Trade Minister

techcrunch.com 2 hours ago

A changing of the guard at UK carrier BT: the company has announced that it will be appointing Gavin Patterson as its new CEO effective September, to replace Ian Livingston, who is taking up a role in...

 
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Where are all the female DJs?

guardian.co.uk 2 hours ago

From Annie Mac to Éclair Fifi, women are grabbing more airtime than ever, but the decks still feel stacked against them, writes Kate Hutchinson

 
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Australia’s OneFlare Raises $500,000, Eyes Singapore Next

techinasia.com 5 hours ago

Local services listings startup OneFlare revealed today that it has raised $500,000 from three Australian angel investors: Les Szekely from Grand Prix Capital, Garry Visontay of Principal Sydney Seed...

 
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TripAdvisor Continues Its Acquisition Spree, Buys GateGuru Mobile App For Real-Time Travel...

techcrunch.com 4 hours ago

Travel port TripAdvisor continues to push ahead with its mobile and social acquisitions: today the company announced that it has acquired GateGuru, a mobile app that provides real-time information on...

 
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Xbox One dissed during PS4 spot on Jimmy Fallon show

news.cnet.com 2 hours ago

Popping up on the late night show, a Sony rep played up the PS4's ability to play used games and not require an Internet connection. Read this article by Lance Whitney on CNET News.

 
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ThousandEyes Raises $5.5M From Sequoia, Launches With Service That Pinpoints Problems For How Apps...

techcrunch.com 3 hours ago

ThousandEyes has raised $5..5 million from Sequoia Capital and angel investors for a service that pinpoints application issues between the enterprise and cloud services. ThousandEyes focuses on the...

 
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An Honest, Law-Abiding Patent Troll?

readwrite.com 2 hours ago

One patent troll claims that the devil (or maybe Apple) made them do it.

 
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Tred Launches Its On-Demand Test Drive Service In Seattle

techcrunch.com 3 hours ago

Tred, which hopes to provide a service that’s like “Uber for car test drives,” is finally launching its service to the public...

 
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China completes internet monitoring scheme in Tibet

guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago

Tibetans required to register for internet and mobile phones under real names

 
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49 iPhone games that would rock with a controller

reviews.cnet.com 3 hours ago

With a slew of iPhone game controllers on the horizon alongside iOS 7, CNET's rounded down some of the top games that would just play better with a real controller.

 
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The Company Website Is Making a Comeback

wired.com 3 hours ago

Companies are pulling more and more content off of outside social streams like Twitter and Facebook and onto websites they own and control.

 
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