Feb 04
Google has officially kicked off its Doodle 4 Google contest, which offers a theme and invites kids from around the world to enter a drawing related to that theme. This … Continue reading
Feb 04
Browser hijacking is an annoying sort of malicious activity that often spawns from downloading toolbars or freeware of some sort, the end result being a messed up browser and trouble … Continue reading
Feb 04
IBM’s Watson supercomputer has been tasked with profiling users from one side of the Internet to the other, using information it gathers from social media accounts to learn about individuals. … Continue reading
Feb 04
This week Google fully recognizes the power of Waze in their maps apps. With Google Maps’ update here and now, the 2013 acquisition of Waze has not only been integrated … Continue reading
Feb 04
At first glance, this screen looks strangely familiar. The dock icons, the gray, rounded windows, the whole layout; it’s Mac OS X, except not quite. The top-left icon is the giveaway. This ain’t OS X, it’s Red Star, North Korea’s state-sanctioned operating system. And Version 3.0 looks very Mac-like.
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Feb 03
NekNomination, the website that depicts how people take part in drinking challenges, has been shut down after the death of an Irish teenarger. This particular social media page that is based in Northern Ireland has its fair collection of videos that depict a variety of drinking challenges. Jonny Byrne, who happens to be at a tender of 19, hails from County Carlow where he met his death after making the jump into the River Barrow in Carlow over the weekend. According to Byrne’s family, he had been playing the NekNomination game where a posted video online will encourage viewers to drink alcohol.
NekNomination Death Results In Web Page Shutting Down original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 02
Even if you’re not an XKCD fan, I’m sure some of you have seen Randall Munroe’s irreverent Map of Online Communities. Martin Vargic – who makes maps in his pastime – was inspired by that webcomic strip and decided to make his own map of the Internet.
The Independent spoke with Martin and found out that the amateur cartographer drew the map in Photoshop by hand, aping the style of old National Geographic maps. Like Randall, Martin isn’t actually planning on mapping the entire Internet or even the entire World Wide Web, just the most popular sites as determined by website analytics company Alexa. Martin also told The Independent that he split the websites into the western Old World and the eastern New World.
Aside from the map itself, Martin also added related stats and other trivia on the edges of his illustration.
Travel to deviantART’s shores to see a high-resolution version of the map. Martin admits that it’s far from the final version and will be updated and polished. But if you want, you can order a print of the map from Zazzle; the price will vary depending on the size of the print.
[via The Independent]
Jan 31
Aereo, which recently announced upcoming service to the Cincinnati metro region, has sold out in New York, the company confirmed on Twitter today. Word first surfaced when one individual decided … Continue reading
Jan 31
Twitter acquires 900 IBM patents
Posted in: Today's ChiliLate last year, Twitter was on the receiving end of a letter from IBM claiming the microblogging website was infringing on three of its vast trove of patents. IBM proposed … Continue reading
Jan 31
In what one commissioner called a “beta test” phase, the Federal Communications Commission has approved a program of trials that will study the shift to a new telephone network. This … Continue reading
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