By Adriana Lee |
Not to knock that macaroni portrait from third grade, but isn’t it time Mom got something she can actually use? Well, our chance to thrill her is coming up once again. Mother’s Day will be here in just under two weeks. While that’s enough time…
By Sean P. Aune |
Put on your party hats and don’t forget to yell “Surprise!” when it walks in the room because the iTunes Music Store turns 10-years-old today. It’s hard to believe it has only been a decade since Apple went into the music business because it’s difficult…
By Adriana Lee |
Want to know what’s going on at your company? The best way may be to hit up Twitter, because when pink slips go down, former employees always seem to turn up there. In this case, it was AOL that was doing the axing. And this…
By Brandon Russell |
New York officials on Friday gave the go-ahead to Uber under its new pilot program, meaning any local or tourist can fire up the app and hail a taxi. After dismissing a lawsuit from the livery cab industry, which held the program up for a…
By Adriana Lee |
Promoting its new super-cheap Los Angeles to Las Vegas direct route, Virgin America has debuted “Seat-to-Seat Delivery,” a feature that lets travelers send unsolicited drinks or food using the in-flight seatback system. Airline President Sir Richard Branson can’t help but get a little cheeky in…
By Ron Duwell |
Mad Men has enjoyed a successful run on AMC over the last few years, pulling in impressive ratings and slews of awards in the process. Its creators have done a fabulous job glamorizing the lives of 1960′s advertisers, but what about another important face of…
By Adriana Lee |
Thanks to an erroneous tweet from the Associated Press Twitter account, @AP, people far and wide were panicked over an alleged bombing at The White House and the supposed injury of President Barack Obama. It only took a moment to set things straight and reveal…
By Brandon Russell |
Nike’s FuelBand app for iOS now supports friends and photo sharing, adding more functionality to an experience that’s designed to “gamify” healthy living. The new friends option works exactly as you’d expect, allowing users to compete and compare results with friends; data is broken down…
By Joey Davidson |
Ratchet & Clank, the long-running series of PlayStation exclusive games from Insomniac, is getting a full-length movie. The teaser trailer you see above was released today. On one hand, the Ratchet & Clank series from Insomniac has always felt like a great film. The animation itself…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s Earth Day, which means we’re supposed to take this time to consider how we treat this spinning orb we call home. And while some mark the occasion by doing exactly that, others just can’t help but throw down a little planetary supremacism. its earth…
By Adriana Lee |
Smartphone saturation has reached an all-time high. These days everyone, rich or poor, teens to grandparents, are rocking these advanced handsets. But are they so attached to these devices that they’d actually forego sex for a week before giving them up? If they’re young women,…
By Adriana Lee |
Why this wasn’t called Google Crashers is beyond me, but even so, the new Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn flick still looks like fun. Take two aging salesmen, stick them on the Mountain View campus among young, hotshot tech wizards, and watch the wackiness ensue. The premise…
By Adriana Lee |
Twitter’s busting out all over. The company just announced its music discovery app this week, a new advertising approach based on tweet content, and now this — a new partnership with BBC America.…
By Adriana Lee |
Oh joy, oh rapture. Amazon’s Zombieland is finally here! If you’ve been itching to lay your eyes on the brand-new pilot, you’ll be glad to know that the wait is over. It’s now available for streaming in Instant Video for Amazon Prime subscribers. No membership? You…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s time for the Time 100 once again. Every year, the magazine puts out its list of the “most influential people in the world,” and like in years prior, the list is jam-packed full of tech titans and luminaries. Here’s just some of the notable…
By Adriana Lee |
If you’re one of those iOS haters who complain about Apple selling yesterday’s specs for top dollar, then I need to brace you for this one: The world’s most expensive iPhone 5 has been produced, and the value of this gold and diamond handset is…
By Sean P. Aune |
Grab your blue milk and head down to the theater, because Star Wars films are going to be coming at you in rapid succession. Speaking at CinemaCon – an annual convention for studios and theater owners – Disney announced that starting in 2015 you can…
By Adriana Lee |
Robotic surgeons. The two words may sound like something out of a futuristic sci-fi flick, but they’re real and actually in fairly common use. The leading name in surgical robots is da Vinci, a pricey piece of tech worth $1.5 million that was used in…
By Adriana Lee |
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 buildings, injured dozens and killed two people. [Update: Three people have been confirmed dead.]…
By Adriana Lee |
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 meaning. The university piloted a program last fall…
By Adriana Lee |
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 story entirely. Yesterday AllThingsD pegged a Friday release, to line up…
By Adriana Lee |
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 someone I might know and want to…
By Adriana Lee |
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 Following, stepped in to help fill the void. Well, Kyra — since you’re well-versed…
By Adriana Lee |
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 reservations while landing the airplane. The thought may be unnerving, but it’s kind…
