At the beginning of a new year, we prepare -- or hope -- to become our better selves. Resolutions often focus on our diets and health, or balancing our families and careers, but you might want to consider adding some tech-focused resolutions to your ...
What you think you saw out of the corner of your eye was real. Watch a man confuse and amuse cruise ship vacationers through the art of dance.
Some of the top podcasts from 2012 came from big names like Chelsea Peretti, Kevin Smith and Alec Baldwin. Here are the shows that emerged strong, got even better and will have a big year in 2013.
Whether your goal in 2013 is to lose five pounds, manage your finances, or spend more time with friends and family, there are a growing number of apps that fall into the self-help category and can assist you in accomplishing these resolutions. At Mas...
It's 2013. By now there is a mobile app for that, this and the other thing. It's safe to say, however, that there is a brief list of feats that mobile apps will never accomplish. There will never be an app to raise the dead. No app will ever have a r...
Do you have a smartphone? Then chances are you've been a creeper. Now don't get all defensive, just yet. How many times have you snapped a photo of some hipster's pink beard on the subway? How often do you send racy pictures to your husband during hi...
A security flaw in the default configuration of a popular plug-in for WordPress has put blogs hosted on the platform at risk of data theft. The flaw, discovered by researcher Jason Donenfeld, is in W3 Total Cache (W3TC), a plug-in to the blog-hosting...
Back in the late '90s, the brand "TiVo" was eponymous with the term "DVR" -- after all, it was the first successful digital video recorder aimed at consumers. And although TiVo use is down from its 2006 sales peak, many of us have fond memories of th...
Psy closed out his billion view 2012 with a rowdy performance of "Gangnam Style" in Times Square in front of a million New Year's Eve revelers.
Netflix once again appears to be down during a high-traffic holiday. Downrightnow shows sporadic outages for the video service starting New Year's Eve. While there's been no official confirmation from Netflix, Downrightnow cites user reports on its o...
This mom gave her teenage son an iPhone for Christmas. She also gave him an 18-point contract lining out what is and isn't acceptable use of the new toy.
The calendar says January 1st, which means there's an 82.4 percent chance you have a nasty hangover. Did you try the Pepto-Bismol, ginger ale, chia seed, pickle juice cocktail (don't try that at home, kids) and still feel like your head got crushed b...
For the entrepreneur, this time of year typically means a mad dash to wrap-up remaining projects, close deals, and squeeze in time for family and friends. As the days get shorter, it starts to feel like time accelerates faster than ever – leaving you less and less time to accomplish your year-end goals.
There was a huge heist at an Apple Store in Paris on New Year's Eve. As police were monitoring the area around the Champs-Elysees for the New Year celebrations, armed thieves broke in and made off with an estimated million euros worth of goods, or ju...
Life gets busy and information moves fast. Sometimes it's hard to remember all the big news that came down over the course of a year. Twitter is a record, but sifting through it is nearly impossible. SEE ALSO: 50 Most Memorable Tweets of 2012 One int...
Do you remember that Barack Obama AMA on Reddit this past August? The one that started with "Hi, I’m Barack Obama, President of the United States. Ask me anything." That was Reddit's top post of 2012 with 5,598,171 page views. Reddit compiled a list ...
It may not be the sexiest gift to get your friend for the holidays, but few things are as useful to someone looking for a job as a LinkedIn premium account.
Some industries tend to have more use for social media than others.
Eye-tracking technology has been slowly emerging as a viable technology the last couple of years, and it comes in real handy when you want to know which parts of a Facebook profile people actually look at. One of the leaders in the space, Tobii, is s...
Press shots of Sony's upcoming smartphones, the Xperia Z "Yuga" and Xperia ZL "Odin", which showed up on Sony's website, give hope that the Japanese tech giant is finally ready to launch a flagship phone worthy of its name. The photos did not come wi...
Apple undoubtedly has plans for a new version of iOS and a successor to iPhone 5, but now we have the first signs that the Cupertino giant is already testing them in the real world. According to developer logs The Next Web has seen, Apple is testing ...
Eager to get a piece of the nearly $400 million car-sharing market in the U.S., Avis announced Wednesday that it was buying Zipcar for $12.25 per share or around $500 million. The agreement is a 49% premium over Zipcar's closing price on Dec. 31, and...
Apple's ads have already gotten off to a bad start this year. The company put out a new ad on New Year's Day touting the Do Not Disturb feature that comes with the latest version of iOS, which lets users mute incoming calls and alerts while the devic...
Have you ever had a hankering to tweet at UK Prime Minister David Cameron? He tweets as @Number10gov. What about South Africa's President Jacob Zuma? You can find him at @SAPresident. And Russia's President Vladimir Putin? That's @KremlinRussia_E, fo...
Hearst Corp., publisher of Cosmopolitan, Elle and Road & Track among other titles, now has 800,000 paying digital subscribers, according to President David Carey. Carey (pictured) included the stat in a letter to employees at the company. The figure ...
Author and food activist Michael Pollan has lamented that the Food Network and cooking shows have "transformed cooking from something you do into something you watch." But remember; those celebrity chefs can teach us a thing or two about how to cook....
The 56-second ad above neatly encapsulates the fate of many people's New Year's resolutions this week while slipping in a plug for Google Play. As with previous Google ads, including the 2010 Super Bowl spot "Parisian Love," the tale -- from ad agenc...
Today marks the official kick off to a skinnier, happier, talented new you. Or at least until February. Find the inspiration to pursue your New Year's resolution with help from a few goal-oriented cats demonstrating the 10 most common resolutions. Or...
Kia Motors America has signed a deal with Google to integrate Google's content and search-based solutions into its UVO eServices telematics system. The first vehicle to get the Google treatment will be Kia's 2014 Sorento, with the first new features ...
Usage of Windows 8 is ticking up since its release in late October. Microsoft's latest Windows operating system is now installed on 1.78% of all computers in use, according to Net Applications, which measures OS market share. The latest numbers show ...
