I was recently complaining to a teller at my bank that the another bank down the street had given my three-year-old daughter a stuffed horse for nothing more than walking past the front door. I jokingly asked her what gifts my own bank would be willing to offer to compete for the affections of my daughter. Then I said, “Oh, you probably don’t like it when I mention the competition when I’m in here, eh?” More »
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is closer than ever to launching the company’s cloud-based storage service that will rival now established services like Dropbox and Apple’s iCloud. In fact, it could be available in just a few weeks. More »
Users of Swedish piracy utopia The Pirate Bay have reason to be nervous, post-Megaupload. It’s survived everything companies and cops have thrown its way, but you never know — so download this archive of every single torrent from The Bay. More »
Facebook is a privacy disaster. Nobody with an iota of sense really trusts it to respect their privacy. Which is precisely one of Path’s big selling points: It’s got better privacy. Or so it seemed. But then it surprised everyone. Updated. More »
Anonymous is on a destruction spree lately — after Megaupload was killed, their reaction was swift and powerful. They made it look easy — and that’s because thanks to the HOIC (High Orbit Ion Cannon), it is. Here’s the newest hacker superweapon. More »
Normally, focus groups only require a few hours of your time, with a free lunch and a little bit of money for your troubles. Google now has plans to start focus grouping as well, except that they’ll only give you a $US5 Amazon gift card in exchange for letting them spend three months observing your browsing habits. More »
Ro-Bros, the latest “digital physical mashup” game from the genuises at the Real Art Design Group, lets you control real-life robots in a fight to the death. It’s Real Steel meets Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em meets why-are-you-still-reading-this-go-play-already. More »
NBN Co has revealed that it’s selected Space Systems/Loral to build two Ka-band satellites at a cost of approximately $620 million which will be launched in 2015 to provide broadband services to remote rural locations. More »
While searching for a way to create an OS X app for Path’s social network, hacker Arun Thampi stumbled on to something that could raise privacy issues with the app. More »
