Internet
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How Bernie Sanders became the lord of Internet memes
Feb 27, 2016 12:00 am - Bernie Sanders may not be winning with baby boomers, and he may not be winning with minorities. But the 74-year-old senator has locked up one vote: the producers and ped...
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Review: 'Fuller House' may please fans (but no one else)
Feb 22, 2016 10:00 pm - NEW YORK - If you like this kind of thing, odds are you'll want to cancel weekend plans and binge on "Fuller House." Meanwhile, everyone else is strenuously cautioned ag...
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Adidas hopes you'll pay $600-a-year for a workout clothes subscription
Feb 21, 2016 6:35 am - Whatever your shopping preferences, it seems these days that there's a subscription box to cater to them. Birchbox, which peddles a monthly box of curated beauty samples...
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The secret double meanings of emoji
Feb 20, 2016 6:38 am - Recently, some engineers at the visual tech firm Curalate set out to make a tool that could automatically caption Instagrams with emoji. It was a chance to mess around w...
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New apps to find a date - or dump one
Feb 20, 2016 6:32 am - Dating apps can be as plentiful and puzzling as Tinder profiles. Here's some help weeding through the offerings, courtesy of The Washington Post's Solo-ish blog: Happen ...
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Relive the nightmare of an old-school computer virus at the new Malware museum
Feb 13, 2016 5:07 am - In the early days of computer viruses, a lot of malware had a tendency to announce its presence with some text or a flashy graphic. Now you can relive the sometimes funn...
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This is how Twitter's new timeline works
Feb 12, 2016 10:00 pm - Well, Twitter fans. The apocalypse has come. Twitter's reordered timeline is here. And it's, um, not so bad, actually. In a company blog post, Twitter engineering manage...
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Analysis: Twitter isn't Facebook, but Wall Street expects it to be. That's a problem.
Feb 12, 2016 10:00 pm - There was a whole lot of uproar over over reports that Twitter is planning to change its real-time messaging feed into something more like the Facebook News Feed. Under ...
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App reviews: Save the Line, Pac Man
Feb 12, 2016 10:00 pm - This quick little puzzler requires fast reflexes and lots of patience. Players are the stewards of a line, which you have to save from hitting all the obstacles the game...
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How you can win a Facebook argument
Feb 12, 2016 10:00 pm - Disagreements are a fact of life, whether you're online or off it. But it's a fact universally acknowledged that arguments are frequently more entrenched on the Internet...