Adriana is the resident writer-slash-culture vulture who has written about everything from smartphones, tablets, apps, accessories, and small biz technology to cooking, fashion, pop culture, newsmakers and the arts. She has appeared on Fox Business News, and her work has been published in Time Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. All of this gives her a unique view on her passions, technology and modern lifestyle. You can find her where the two intersect, at TechnoBuffalo, or follow her on Twitter at @Adra_La
Position Senior Editor at TechnoBuffalo
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By Adriana Lee |
I know a lot of people who won’t trust Yelp reviews. The reasons vary: People may be smart, but the public is dumb, and they criticize for stupid reasons. Libelous business owners flock to the site to smear their competition. Others get every relative and…
By Adriana Lee |
Tim Cook was in the hot seat recently, as U.S. senators questioned the executive about Apple’s tax practices. Of course The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart couldn’t let the opportunity for comedy pass him by, so he weighed in with his own special brand of color…
By Adriana Lee |
Bryan Gionfriddo knew something was horribly wrong. He and his wife, April, were at a restaurant when they noticed that their 6-month-old baby, Kaiba, suddenly couldn’t breath. He was turning blue. Panic set in, as his father pumped the baby’s little chest. The doctors said…
By Adriana Lee |
Microsoft’s new Windows 8 ad takes a swift poke at Apple’s iPad, casting the latter as a more expensive, yet rather lackluster competitor to a Windows tablet. In the commercial, the company features Windows 8′s Live Tiles, PowerPoint, multitasking and relatively cheap price point, at…
By Adriana Lee |
The Syrian Electronic Army just loves hacking into Twitter. It breached the accounts of the BBC’s weather service, Financial Times, The Guardian, Telegraph and the Associated Press, and it’s more than likely not done yet. Well, Twitter’s not just going take that lying down, so…
By Adriana Lee |
File this one under “people who should be stripped of their social media accounts.” What’s worse than being in a car accident? Being in a car accident when you’re not in a car. And what’s worse than that? When the perpetrator nails you on the…
By Adriana Lee |
Do you call it GIF (with a hard “g,” like “gift”) or JIF (like the peanut butter)? That’s one of the tech world’s age-old questions, but that debate over pronunciation has been settled now once and for all, thanks to the man who first created…
By Adriana Lee |
Somebody, get this kid a gig at a mobile tech company, stat! Eesha Khare, a student from Lynbrook High School in California, earned the Young Scientist Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for an intriguing new invention. The 18-year-old developed a supercapacitor…
By Adriana Lee |
Will Microsoft’s new YouTube app update for Windows Phone appease Google and end the bickering between the two tech companies? Well, let’s just say it’s a start. Google issued a cease and desist letter earlier this month, calling for Microsoft to pull its YouTube Windows…
By Adriana Lee |
If there’s one thing hi-res photography’s good for, it’s showing an amazing amount of detail. Users can see the minutiae just by zooming in, and depending on the scale, they can do it without necessarily having to sacrifice zoom-out macro views. Now here’s something that…
By Adriana Lee |
When it comes right down to it, guns, rifles and other personal firearms are only as good as the shooters holding them. And people are fallible creatures. We get itches, sometimes shakes, our eyesight can falter or our arms can get heavy. Any number of…
By Adriana Lee |
I’m going to share something with you that even my husband doesn’t know. You see, I’m a cheater. I promise fidelity, but sometimes things just catch my eye, and I can’t resist indulging myself. I feel guilty, but how can I ignore it when Hugh,…
By Adriana Lee |
Here on the site, we’ve been known to cover car things. We often cover Google things. Sometimes, we even share fun, geeky things (you know, just because). And then there are times when all those things come together in a perfect storm of awesome. When…
By Adriana Lee |
In honor of YouTube turning 8, the Gregory Brothers put together one heck of an ambitious tribute — the “AutoTune the News” fellas stuffed eight years’ worth of YouTube history into one song for the site’s Comedy Week, which kicked off Sunday. So what have we…
By Adriana Lee |
I’ve long argued that one of the biggest things standing in the way of 3D printing’s mainstream potential was the price point. After all, not everyone has a couple of grand to plunk down on an emerging technology. So when news of an upcoming Kickstarter…
By Adriana Lee |
Now that Yahoo! has nabbed Tumblr in a $1.1 billion deal, users are wondering what will become of their Tumblogs. As a preemptive strike, many are even leaving the service, looking for a new home for their food photos, cat pics, art portfolios and random…
By Adriana Lee |
Do you commute via Amtrak? Then you might know the horrors known as Amtrak Wi-Fi. Indeed, the railroad has taken a lot of heat over spotty Internet access, but news came in this week that things are beginning to change for the better: The organization…
By Adriana Lee |
Can’t afford $40,000+ to get a master’s degree in computer science? Well, how about $7,000? That’s the tuition price for a new degree program from Georgia Institute of Technology and Silicon Valley educational startup Udacity. Subsidized by AT&T, the three-year online program centers on curricula…
By Adriana Lee |
I recently tried snorkeling for the first time. I was on the Big Island of Hawaii, celebrating my husband’s birthday, when he stated he wanted to eye some fish in the clear, blue waters off the Kohala Coast. I was nervous, but agreed to his…
By Adriana Lee |
Is Google Glass hackable? Well, duh. Yes. Now, I can’t claim credit for that succinct brilliance. That’s pretty much a quote from one Google engineer’s tweet: Yes, Glass is hackable. Duh. goo.gl/HQpLC — Tim Bray (@timbray) April 26, 2013 No sooner was the developer model…
By Adriana Lee |
Some people long for small-town life — to live in a heartwarming place where everyone knows your name and your neighbors have your back. But these days, one could argue that the whole world is like one, well-connected community. At least that’s what a New…
By Adriana Lee |
Replacing a smartphone can be an expensive proposition. Many in the U.S. cost $200 subsidized, and $600 to $800 (or more) at full price. But the data on that handset? Well, that can be priceless — especially when you’re talking about irreplaceable images of lost…
By Adriana Lee |
Verizon Wireless announced this week that it’s cranking things up a few notches for its prepaid customers. In this case, “things” equals “data,” as current customers will now get unlimited voice and texting with 2 GB of data for $60 a month. Previously, the plan…
By Adriana Lee |
Inevitably, the price of Google Glass will drop. And when it does come down (like, way down), we’re bound to see it placed on small children and even pets. As it is, full-size caretakers love seeing what life is like from their littlest ones’ POV, so…
