Chainsaw Massacre Prank Goes Too Far
As prank videos become more and more dangerous, someone is bound to get seriously hurt or worse. A terrifying and realistic "chainsaw massacre" prank, uploaded this past Wednesday, has already garnered...
View ArticleWhy Go Outside To See The Solar Eclipse When You Can Watch Our Live Blog...
Today the moon will "take a bite out of" the sun in a partial solar eclipse, the likes of which won't recur in the U.S. until 2023. But maybe the weather is crummy where you are. Or maybe those...
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Amazon Stock Tanks On Massive Loss, Disappointing Forecast
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's sales projections for the crucial holiday quarter disappointed, and third-quarter results missed Wall Street's targets, sending the online retailer's shares...
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Young People Use Gorgeous Instagram Pics To Show There's More To Haiti Than...
If you ask Paola Mathé, Instagram isn't just for shameless selfies and pics of delicious foods -- it's a great way to change negative perceptions of a country, too. With over 8,600 followers, Mathé's...
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Romancing The Screen: Why My Husband And I Write Our #Lovestory
Some people fall in love at first sight. For me, it was first tweet. This wasn't terribly surprising to my friends, who had been listening to tales of my internet flirtations since I was a pre-teen,...
View ArticleWhy Journalists Should Fear Social Media
Technology disrupted the media's monopoly on journalism. The advent of smart phones and social networks reduced the barriers of entry, for digital journalists, to practically nothing. Journalist used...
View ArticleHBO Going Rogue Could Get Us to Net Neutrality
Recently, a couple of cable content providers have announced that they're going rogue and are going to start providing content independently of cable companies. That's good news for consumers who have,...
View ArticleNBCUniversal Settles Lawsuit With Unpaid Interns For $6.4 Million
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 9,000 unpaid interns stand to benefit from a $6.4 million settlement with NBCUniversal over back wages. Unpaid interns who worked on "Saturday Night Live" and other shows brought...
View ArticlePowerful New Microscope Allows Scientists To View The World Like Never Before
You've never seen cells up-close quite like this. Developed at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a powerful new microscope can record the activity of living cells, molecules, and embryos in 3D and in...
View ArticleRwanda Suspends BBC Broadcasts Over Genocide Documentary
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The Rwandan government on Friday suspended all BBC radio broadcasts in Rwanda's most common language, Kinyarwanda, to protest the news organization's recent documentary about...
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Is the Digital Economy Still a Capitalist Economy?
This is the first of a series of excerpts from The Digital Economy, 20th Anniversary Edition by Don Tapscott, released October 24, 2014. Too bad the term "socialism" was appropriated by Karl Marx,...
View ArticleSeparating Fact from Fiction in the TPP
This weekend, trade ministers from the 12 nations negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement will gather in Australia for yet another round of high-level talks. When finalized, the...
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Dancers Standing Up To Bullying Never Looked This Beautiful
We've all heard the message in school assemblies or PSAs before: Cyberbullying is a problem. But it feels so much more poignant when it's told through art. In a powerful video celebrating National...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg: the Next Great Chinese Rapper?
So, apparently Mark Zuckerberg can speak some Chinese. I first learned of this a few nights ago when, before I'd even had a chance to seek out evidence of Zuckerberg responding to questions in...
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Why Isaacson's Rewrite of Tech History Is So Timely
By Alison van Diggelen, Host of Fresh Dialogues Last Tuesday was the kind of evening when you just want to snuggle up with a good book and a warm mug of Earl Grey. But I rallied and zipped up my winter...
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The Future of Information Is Here: The Internet of Things
In early September at the Supermobility/CTIA conferences, I moderated a discussion about the future for the Internet of Things (IoT). The women in technology panel focused on multiple layers of the...
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Every Time You Walk Your Dog With This App, Your Favorite Animal Shelter Gets...
You give your dog a treat every time the two of you go on a walk. Why not give the local animal shelter a treat, too? That's the premise of Walk for a Dog, a smartphone app that donates money to an...
View ArticleWhat Is The Real Price Of Technology?
I will never forget it. The story that my friend told me about her daughter who came to her crying, disappointed after she found out that Santa Claus is not real. She Googled it, she said. It's...
View ArticleSeparating Fact From Fiction in the Digital World
We are a society of devices. A world of social networking and social media galore. People are sharing and over-sharing captions of their lives in the virtual world that years ago we would never have...
View ArticleDownloading Music Is Quickly Going Out Of Fashion
First records died, then cassette tapes, then CDs and now, downloads. That's right, we're all but officially in the age of streaming services. Apple might operate the largest online music store in the...
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