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The First Tweet: President Obama’s First "Official" Tweet Is All Father’s Day

7:30AM June 20, 2011 | Jack Loftus

President Obama is officially tweeting on his own Twitter account. He started today. The first, first tweet unfolded like this: More »

Geek Out

A Brewery Is Recreating George Washington’s Personal Beer Recipe

10:00AM May 9, 2011 | Casey Chan

I am non discriminatory towards beer, hell, I drink our domestic water-flavoured beer with a smile on my face. But I really want to try George Washington’s personal beer recipe. Even if’s no good, it’s freaking POTUS Beer 1.0. More »

Cameras

Pictures Of Obama’s Speech Announcing Bin Laden’s Death Were Staged

8:00AM May 9, 2011 | Casey Chan

This isn’t news. Not at all, in fact. I just found the story so very interesting. As it has been since the Reagan era, photographers weren’t allowed to take pictures during live televised speeches given by the President. So how did we end up with still pictures? Well, Obama reenacted the speech for them! More »

Gadgets

Obama Thinks His Oval Office Gadgets Suck Ass

12:42AM April 16, 2011 | Adrian Covert

While in Chicago wooing fat cat donors with deep pockets, President Obama took a few moments to talk technology, and opine on the state of his personal gadgets in the Oval Office. Short version: He wants better shit because he’s the president. More »

News

Who Are The People At Obama’s Tech Dinner?

12:00PM February 19, 2011 | Nicholas Carlson and Leah Goldman - Business Insider

Here it is again – the photo from President Obama’s dinner with tech titans last night. Featuring a sadly sick and frail Steve Jobs, a young Mark Zuckerberg on the rise, and Eric Schmidt in his last weeks as Google CEO, it is an already iconic image of an era. More »

Behind The Secret Service

12:00PM December 28, 2009 | Jack Loftus

LIFE Magazine, as it is wont to do, assembled yet another of its utterly interesting photo essays. The topic this time? The Secret Service. Fittingly, a few of the photos profile The Beast, aka the President’s tech-savvy, super-fortified ride. More »

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Meeting The President? Phones Go In the Basket With A Sticky Note

2:00PM December 15, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Before going in for a meeting with the President of the United States, you must put a sticky note with your name on your phone and leave the device in a basket outside. Don’t believe it? There’s a video. More »

Online

President Obama Isn’t Actually Trying To Hijack The Entire Internet

12:20AM September 3, 2009 | John Herrman

It was pretty much the perfect story: The Senate introduced a bill that would let the President take over the entire internet during a crisis. Our online Weimar Republic is crumbling beneath our digital Führer! Minor catch: It wasn’t true. More »

Online

The President May Get Power To Control The Internet

7:10AM August 29, 2009 | Sean Fallon

A revised version of a bill first introduced in the Senate this past spring would give the President power to disconnect private sector computers from the internet in the event of a “cybersecurity emergency.” More »

Entertainment

Obama’s BlackBerry: No Wonder He Couldn’t Let Go

11:00AM June 6, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

Kasper Hauser, the brilliant minds behind the SkyMaul parody, have tackled another delicate tech subject: President Obama’s beloved BlackBerry. When you see the First Dude staring at his handheld and snickering, this is what’s going on.