November 17, 2013 Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Silk Road, a vast Internet black market, stands as a tabloid monument to old-fashioned vice and new-fashioned technology. Published: November 17,…
November 17, 2013 Today’s Scuttlebot: Understanding Candy Crush Addictions, the Rise of Twitter Bots and #SFBatkid by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES Friday’s highlights from around the Web include an examination of the psychology at play that makes the mobile game…
November 17, 2013 Reaching for Silicon Valley by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Georgia Tech longed to build a start-up culture, but it says a professor took it too far. Three years later, he…
November 16, 2013 Still on Facebook, but Finding Less to Like by JENNA WORTHAM By JENNA WORTHAM Facebook’s very popularity may be a force that is driving some users, especially teenagers, to other social platforms. Published: November 16,…
November 16, 2013 F.C.C. Smartphone App Gauges Speed of User’s Network by EDWARD WYATT By EDWARD WYATT The app, available free for phones on the Android operating system, will allow the Federal Communications Commission to map data transmission…
November 16, 2013 Snapchat, How Quickly You Have Grown by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON In May 2012, Evan Spiegel, a co-founder of SnapChat, couldn’t comment because he was wrapping up school projects at Stanford. Just…
November 16, 2013 Hacker Receives 10-Year Sentence for ‘Causing Mayhem’ by MARK MAZZETTI By MARK MAZZETTI Jeremy Hammond, a member of the hacking group Anonymous, was sentenced in Federal District Court in New York to 10 years…
November 15, 2013 Amazon Bares Its Computers by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY In an unusually detailed presentation, one of the brains behind Amazon Web Services described how it was remaking computers for a…
November 15, 2013 Favorite tweets London becomes the latest city to get its own top-level domain http://t.co/pmfWLUxVnn — Engadget (@engadget) November 15, 2013 from http://twitter.com/engadget Via IFTTT
November 15, 2013 Facebook Amends Privacy Policies by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL The company says it made more clear that postings and other personal data can be used in advertising on the site…