Some Government Agencies Still Uses Floppy Disks
WASHINGTON — The technology troubles that plagued the HealthCare.gov website rollout may not have come as a shock to people who work for certain agencies of the government — especially those who still...
View ArticleUh Oh, SpaghettiOs' Pearl Harbor Tweet Sparks Backlash, Company Apologizes
On the 72nd anniversary of Japan's attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base, one company appears to have miscalculated how it would mark the occasion. Late Friday night, the canned pasta maker SpaghettiOs...
View ArticleFederal Health Officials Contradict Earlier Comments On Paper Obamacare...
By KELLI KENNEDY, The Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal health officials, after encouraging alternate sign-up methods amid the fumbled rollout of their online insurance website,...
View ArticleThe Most Popular Music Videos Of 2013 Are Miley Cyrus' 'Wrecking Ball' And...
Miley Cyrus may not have earned any Grammy nominations, but her music videos were certainly the year's most popular. The most commonly viewed videos of 2013, according to new rankings released by Vevo,...
View ArticleObama Taps Phil Schiliro, Former Top Aide, To Work On Health Care Law
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is bringing a former top aide with deep ties to Congress back to the White House to help get his health care overhaul back on track after a bungled rollout....
View ArticleFBI's Search For 'Mo,' Suspect In Bomb Threats, Highlights Use Of Malware For...
The man who called himself “Mo” had dark hair, a foreign accent and — if the pictures he e-mailed to federal investigators could be believed — an Iranian military uniform. When he made a series of...
View ArticleThe Major Problem With Electric Cars | TIME.com
The model is now the cheapest EV on the market, yet it's still hard to imagine many drivers excitedly running out to buy one.
View ArticleReddit Community Helps Reunite Owner With Missing Dog (PHOTOS)
Despite its penchant for snarky comments, Reddit has proved time and again that its online community has a heart. It reaffirmed that this week when a woman's dog went missing in Texas, and Reddit users...
View ArticleThese Photos Of Faces Hiding In Everyday Life Are Your New Favorite Twitter...
Sometimes, just sometimes, Twitter is great. This past month, the social media platform became the home of @FacesPics, a hilarious account that documents anthropomorphic photographs of faces hiding in...
View ArticleHootsuite's 'The Next Big Thing' Offers $100,000
VANCOUVER - The founder of the social media management tool Hootsuite started two businesses as a teenager, and now he wants to help other young Canadian entrepreneurs make it big for themselves.Ryan...
View ArticleBill Gates-Funded Startup Hampton Creek Foods Aims To Replace Eggs
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The startup is housed in a garage-like space in San Francisco's tech-heavy South of Market neighborhood, but it isn't like most of its neighbors that develop software, websites and...
View ArticleIs Dark Matter Made Of Tiny Black Holes?
A planet-hunting NASA spacecraft has detected no sign of moon-size black holes yet in the Milky Way galaxy, limiting the chances that such objects could make up most of the "dark matter" that has...
View Article'Game Of Thrones' Video Game To Be Released In 2014
Well, the rumors were true. Telltale Games, the company behind "The Walking Dead" game confirmed on Twitter that they are producing a "Game of Thrones" video game. It's TRUE! We're working with @HBO to...
View ArticleGoogle Glass: Qué Guay!
"Me encantan tus gafas -- te ves tan moderna!" (Translation: I love your glasses -- you look so modern!) declared the Spanish woman in her mid-30s as she admired Glass and stroked my hair trying to get...
View ArticleLetter to Google: Why G+ Gets an F-
Dear Google, Until recently, I adored everything about you. In fact, I was one of your first fans. No AltaVista or Yahoo for me. Your search engine, a marvel of technology and a masterpiece of...
View ArticleYahoo's Prolonged Email Outage Enrages Those Who Still Use It
These days even a 15 minute email outage prompts hand-wringing from hyper-connected people. So imagine the panic among the many Yahoo Mail users blocked from their email for the past two, or even three...
View Article19 Foods We've Been Eating All Wrong, According To Stock Photos
Apparently we've been eating our food all wrong. Let these 19 stock photos show you how it's really done.
View ArticleWhich Next-Gen Gaming Console Should I Buy?
Gaming is measured in console generations, the technological leaps from, say, the Atari 2600 to the original Nintendo NES or the first Playstation to the Xbox. With the recent releases of the Xbox One...
View Article5 Budget-Beating Tips for Beefing up Your Marketing Efforts
Today's digital landscape provides a variety of opportunities for companies to take advantage of affordable, if not entirely democratized, technology solutions. As someone who has spent nearly a decade...
View ArticleNorway Is Digitizing All Its Books
Norway is going digital. In a plan to scan all of its publications to the cloud, the National Library of Norway is digitalizing its books, and it and plans to make them all freely available to users...
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