Opinion: Who’s side is Twitter on?
Independent newspaper correspondent Guy Adams had harshly criticized NBC’s coverage of Olympic events. Douglas Rushkoff: Twitter users appalled by ban of reporter’s access after anti-NBC tweets...
View ArticleGoogle’s New Page Speed Tool Speeds Up Your Website
Page Speed’s rewriter is done before the unoptimized version even starts loading images. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey Google has added yet another trick to the company’s Page Speed web optimization...
View ArticleWas Microsoft’s Empire Built on Stolen Code? We May Never Know
A forensic computing researcher may have settled one of tech’s longest standing controversies: whether the original version of Microsoft’s seminal MS-DOS operating system contained code copied from an...
View ArticleGoogle’s Dremel Makes Big Data Look Small
Mike Olson is one of the main brains behind the Hadoop movement. But even he looks toward the new breed of “Big Data” software used inside Google. Photo: Wired.com/Jon Snyder Mike Olson runs a company...
View ArticleInstagram 3.0′s New Maps Feature: A Privacy Wake-Up Call?
Instagram 3.0 adds a maps feature that plots your photos, as well as a redesigned profile page. Screenshot: Christina Bonnington/Wired Instagram certainly seems to be following Facebook’s ethos of...
View ArticleTwitter’s New API Rules Likely Spell the End of Third-Party Clients
Twitter has clarified rules for how developers can use its API. Image: Peter McCollough In June, Twitter’s Michael Sippey wrote a blog post that put the fear of birds into just about every developer...
View ArticleTwitter Tells Tumblr: No Friends for You
We hope you weren’t planning to find your Twitter friends outside of Twitter because pretty soon it will likely be impossible to do so. Twitter has slowly but surely been cutting out major third-party...
View ArticleHow Zappos Could Help Pinterest Pin Down a Business Model
The Zappos PinPointing feature pulls in Pinterest pins to recommend products on its site. Image: PinPointing What wildly popular social network Pinterest lacks in revenue, it makes up for in users —...
View ArticleShimi the Music Robot Needs Your Help
The music robot Shimi dances along to the tunes coming from a smartphone.Image courtesy Tovbot By Eliot Van Buskirk, Evolver.fm A small robot holding a smartphone, called Shimi, won the hearts and...
View ArticleHacking the Drone War’s Secret History
A 28-year-old grad student has created the key to hacking drone-strike data.
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