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Yahoo has named a new CEO, its fifth in as many years. Marissa Mayer, a former top executive at Google, has taken the reins at the struggling company, whose revenue has dropped steadily over the past three years. Much has been said about her gender and current pregnancy, but there’s really only one thing that [...]

If you were skeptical about the existence of the “tablet wars” before, there is no denying they are in full swing now. It’s widely agreed that Apple’s iPad trumps its competition but don’t count out Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Google’s Nexus 7. The Nexus 7 just became available and it’s rumored that a redesigned Kindle [...]

Is the Internet making us crazy? A recent article in Newsweek Magazine asks that very question and finds that increasingly, experts think it might be.  Internet Addiction is at term you may have heard before, and next year for the first time, it will be included in the DSM, the guide that psychiatrists used to [...]

Yahoo has confirmed the theft of over 450-thousand usernames and passwords.  The information was posted online by a hacker group, who says it didn’t publish the list maliciously, but instead to highlight security holes in Yahoo’s servers. In a statement, Yahoo said the file came from its Contributor Network and therefore contains the information of [...]

Two new Kickstarter records have been set by a project whose popularity has exploded since it was added to the site. The Ouya video game console became the fastest project to raise a million bucks and raised the most money ever raised on Kickstarter in one day.  The low-cost, Android-based, open-source device intends to pave [...]

Ever wish there was an easier way to charge your phone on the go?  Well, one day, you might be able to charge your devices using only the shirt on your back.  Scientists are working on a t-shirt with individual fibers that store electrical power.  The scientists see that we are approaching a future where [...]

Did you know that you can filter Google image searches by color? Or, that you can use the Google search box as a calculator? How about just typing the word movies and your zip code into the Google search bar to see what movies are playing?  There are literally hundreds of Google tips and tricks [...]

Having trouble getting online? This might be the reason: as of Monday July 9th, if your computer is one of the thousands still infected with the DNS Changer virus, your access to the internet will be cut off. The malware redirects the victim’s web browser to sites designated by the attackers, who were caught and [...]

A friend of mine dropped his iPad 2, and not surprisingly, it stopped working.  He asked me about his options.  So here’s a brief tutorial in Apple’s in and out-of warranty service for the iPad, iPad 2 and even the new iPad.  First, Apple does not like it when you drop or drown your device.  [...]

Scientists have announced that they are 99.99 percent sure they’ve discovered the sub-atomic particle known as the Higgs boson.  Often referred to as the “God particle”, the Higgs boson is an integral part of what scientists call The Standard Model of particle physics, a set of rules that lay out the fundamental building blocks of [...]

According to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, its subscribers watched more than one billion hours of programming in June. One billion hours of Netflix programming averages out to about 80 minutes per subscriber per day.  Though numbers for cable networks have not been reported for last month, it’s likely that Netflix has them all beat. This [...]

Ever wish the crime-prediction technology in the movie Minority Report was real? We’re on our way. One police precinct in Los Angeles tested software that was twice as good as humans at predicting where burglaries and car break-ins might happen. The software, built by a start-up company called PredPol, told the police where they should [...]

According to unnamed sources, Apple is planning the biggest overhaul of iTunes since its debut in 2003.  The changes are expected by the end of the year and are intended to improve ease of access across all Apple devices, by integrating more closely with iCloud.  The new iTunes will also make it easier to share [...]

Verizon’s New Share Everything plan is now available.  It will allow you to share data across up to ten devices: like smartphones, tablets and netbooks. The monthly cost is made up of two parts: a line charge for each device, and a data charge that everything will share. Get it? It’s the Share Everything plan. [...]

As expected, Google made some big announcements during the opening of its annual developer conference yesterday.  First things first: now available for pre-order is the Nexus 7 tablet, a device running the brand new Android 4.1 Operating System, better known as Jelly Bean. The quad-core tablet has a seven-inch screen with a 1280×800 HD display [...]