Internet
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Why your pizza rat GIFs are disappearing off social mediaOct 24, 2015 7:44 am - When Matt Little filmed a New York rat hefting a slice of New York pizza down the grimy stairs of a New York subway, he waited 12 long hours before putting the video on ...
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Here's why Facebook needed to tweak its 'On This Day' feature
Oct 24, 2015 7:43 am - In an acknowledgement that not every social media moment is a fun trip into nostalgia, Facebook has now enabled filters on its "On This Day" feature, which resurfaces pa...
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Match.com says hackers are after its data
Oct 24, 2015 7:38 am - Match Group, the corporate parent of Tinder, OKCupid and Match.com, is planning to go public - which honestly won't have much impact on the 59 million people looking for...
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Pay-TV losing 300,000 customers is good news in cord-cutting era
Oct 24, 2015 7:37 am - NEW YORK - How bad have things been for the pay- television industry lately? An estimated 300,000 Americans dropped TV service last quarter, and analysts are calling it ...
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App reviews: Twitter Moments, Photoshop Mix
Oct 24, 2015 7:36 am - For its devoted users, Twitter is a torrent of information in which to splash around to pick up everything from the latest news to the latest meme. But for those who are...
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How an industry of 'Amazon entrepreneurs' pulled off the Internet's craftiest catfishing scheme
Oct 24, 2015 7:35 am - Dagny Taggart spends her time traveling the globe, meeting new people and learning new things. She speaks more than 15 languages, including Latin, Russian and Chinese. I...
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What that creepy new all-seeing eye emoji actually means
Oct 24, 2015 7:34 am - Ever since Apple revealed its list of new emoji back in September, the all-seeing eye has flummoxed sleuths across the Internet. Of all the pictograms Apple chose to int...
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Review: Three apps to consider if you're pregnant
Oct 24, 2015 7:31 am - Oh, baby, are there a lot of pregnancy apps. After learning I'd be having my first child in November, I scrolled through dozens of diverse offerings to find a few that a...
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Facebook wants you to spend all your time on Facebook
Oct 24, 2015 1:00 am - There seems to be a lot going on at the big blue social network these days. A spate of headlines from the past several weeks have outlined some very ambitious plans: Fac...
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No one knows why Facebook blocked the phrase 'everyone will know'
Oct 17, 2015 7:43 am - On Sunday, a Redditor named "System_Requirements" made a mysterious discovery: If you try to post "everyone will know" on someone else's Facebook page, the system would ...