Right now, I owe my best friend $25 for a They Might Be Giants concert ticket and $27 for a Magic the Gathering pre-release tournament, my boyfriend $40 because I had to order a new debit card and destroy my old one after someone used it to spend $500 at Walmart.com, and my mom $300 […]
While we all wait for more news, both of the official kind and leaks alike, to make its way out of Google I/O 2013, the massive company has decided to make a few preemptive strikes by putting out information on its own. So far, these have mostly been expected bits of news, like updates to […]
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt certainly doesn’t lack confidence. Last night, Schmidt made the assertion to a large room full of advertisers that internet video doesn’t need to concern itself with supplanting standard television watching because he says, “That’s already happened.” Having recently surpassed the one billionth unique visitor landmark, YouTube has a reason to […]
Starting today, you’ll have roughly 2,000 less choices to view on Netflix when the streaming service removes a massive amount of movies from the Warner Bros. library. These movies also just happen to be the same ones that will become available on the new Warner Archive Instant. According to Slate.com, a spokesperson for Warner Bros. […]
There was a day when AOL served as the gateway to the internet for the average user. However, time went on and the web portal was reduced from must have, to training wheels, to an object of derision. While the media giant remains a massive company by most standards, it’s an absolute shadow of what […]
Bastard children. Weddings. Slaps. Illicit affairs. Gun shots. Weddings. Sexy senior citizens. Pregnant teenagers. Murder. Conspiracies. Weddings. Alien abductions. Meeting God. These are all most likely words that took up space on whiteboards brainstorming sessions in the writers’ rooms of All My Children and One Life to Live. Well, it looks like the shows themselves […]
A recent report from The Mainichi claims Japan’s National Police Agency (roughly equivalent to the FBI in the United States) urges ISPs to block internet connections for users found abusing Tor (The Onion Router) clients. Tor’s purpose is to create secure, anonymous connections to internet sites by splitting up the data stream and routing it […]
Cloud storage company Dropbox takes corporate use of its product to the next level with today’s rebranding announcement. The former Dropbox for Teams product has become Dropbox for Business, a move the business hopes better reflects the purpose of the paid, upgraded service. With the name change comes powerful new features including identity management from […]
Brian K. Vaughn, renowned writer of c0mic books such as Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina, has released a statement saying Apple is refusing to carry tomorrow’s edition of his and Fiona Staples’s Saga on any iOS device. Apparently, two small images of gay sex in the book has prompted Apple to halt digital […]
When Marvel made the announcement during SXSW that the company was opening its library to readers for access to over 700 free first issues, the rush of people ended up causing ComiXology’s servers to crash. The entertainment juggernaut hopes to have different results this time and seeks to do so by instituting a registration policy […]
