Last Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives’ judiciary committee passed a bill that makes the online activity of every American available to police and attorneys upon request under the guise of protecting children from pornography. Note: Update with citizen petitions on page 2. The R... Read more...
Two years ago, a Stanford business school student named Tristan Walker sent Foursquare cofounders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvaduraian email out of the blue, asking for a job. Today, Tristan is Foursquare's director of business development. During his tenure, he's built partnerships between F... Read more...
The day after my twenty-seventh birthday, I am sitting here thinking life is moving fast around me and I am stuck in my ways. I see people I went to high school with, co-workers; shoot even people younger than me are getting married. This train of thought isn’t about marriage but it has me think... Read more...
Adobe has just bought electronic signature startup EchoSign, the company announcedon its blog. It makes sense: Adobe owns Acrobat, which is what a lot of people read and edit PDFs through. Since most legal documents are sent as PDFs, it makes sense for them to buy an electronic signature comp... Read more...
Scientists working at the University of Southern California, home of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, have created an artificial memory system that allows thoughts, memories and learned behavior to be transferred from one bra... Read more...
Twitter users will start seeing ads in their timeline over the next few weeks. The company officially announced on Thursday that a new Promoted Tweetsoption will roll out with a number of advertisers. This is a big move for Twitter and certainly its most invasive advertising play to-date. Up ... Read more...
Right to it! Let me tell y'all something, before marriage is boyfriend & girlfriend or at least that's how it use to work. Now people lie about even being married. Just because your not married doesn't mean you should not respect your partner, once you agree to be in a relationship with som... Read more...
A federal judge has denied Google's request to dismiss several lawsuits accusing the company of illegally collecting private information from open Wi-Fi networks. The ruling, filed in California court Wednesday, is a setback for Google as it tries to put its "Street View" debacle behind it. In M... Read more...
Once upon a time an opinion was . . . well, an opinion. At least that’s how older folk make it seem. Now it seems to be broken down like this: Negative opinion = hatin’ Positive opinion = an opinion The phrase ” you’re a hater ” is overused and also annoying. Yea, yea, yea, it’s “sl... Read more...