100 Weeks of Shooting Challenge Winners (and Your Next Challenge!)

Two years. Thousands of entries. 99ish jaw-dropping winners. Today is our 100th Shooting Challenge. Your assignment? Watch that video of all our past winners. Then, try to be our next. More »

Shadow Lords: The Top Ten Behind-the-Scenes Technology Giants

You probably don’t know them. They lurk in the shadows, putting their leaders’ decisions in motion and making sure the day-to-day operations run smoothly. Like Apple’s Tim Cook before he was handed the reins by Steve Jobs, these unsung heroes of tech serve an important role without the harsh glare of the limelight. More »

The Awkward Horrors of the Knowing Where Everyone Is All the Time

Riding the orgiastic iOS 5 debut, Foursquare’s pushed out Radar. And it’s a gamechanger, quite literally: It upends the basic social contract of Foursquare and harbinges the near-future of location-based social networking. And it’s going to be weird. More »

Not Even Google+ Knows What the Hell Google+ Is

Maybe Google knows it’s never going to top Facebook at the social game, because when asked, its description of Google+ makes very little sense! AllThingsD chatted up Google+ exec Bradley Horowitz, and he sounds… confused. More »

Everything Apple Just Released

iOS 5 and iCloud are both out now, but that’s only the beginning of all the ground Apple just covered. The deluge is more about extending Apple’s platform as a whole, not just with a specific app or upgrade, and updates and new features abounded. More »

The Complete Guide to Updating to iOS 5

iOS 5 is finally here on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Now what? With the flurry of features and updates being dropped today and yesterday the whole thing can be a confusing mess. Here’s the best way to get up to speed and enjoy Apple’s latest iOS. More »

iCloud Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think: It’s the Future of Computing

Remember life before cellphones? It’s hard, because they are so ubiquitous and essential. iCloud marks a similar turning point, a transition from an old way of doing things. It makes computers easy for everyone, by making computing disappear. More »

7 Non-Apple Alternatives to Today’s iOS 5 Releases

iOS 5 dropped today, which is fantastic, I guess—if you own an iPhone. However, if you’re like me and, well, don’t but still want the same bells and whistles on your phone, might I suggest the following? More »

How to Use Find My Friends So Everyone Will Love You

Find My Friends, Apple’s your-friends-are-now-live-dots-on-a-map social network, is here! Do you like the idea of seeing the location of everyone you care about, constantly? Does this idea completely terrify you? Either way, take my hand, and let’s use it right. More »

Download iOS 5 and iCloud Right Now

It’s here. iOS 5—with iCloud, a revamped notifications system, iMessage, Newsstand and 200 more features—is finally available for download. It works with the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad and iPod touch (3rd and 4th generation). Here’s how to get it. More »