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You can now book a hotel room via Twitter
While businesses struggle to use social media to stay relevant to customers immersed in the culture of instant gratification, one hotel company has found a novel way to exploit it to their advantage....
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Tech companies spend millions lobbying against NSA spying
The summer lobbying season has come to an end. And what a quarter its been for major Silicon Valley technology like Google and Facebook. After Edward Snowden leaked a trove of classified documents...
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Don't break up in front of this guy, or everything you say might end up on...
Breakups are ugly facts of life in the dating world. No matter who instigates the termination of a relationship, it's a safe bet that neither partner wants to remember it forever. This is why you...
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Why it's 'National Don't Send Your Child to School Day'
In the United States, it’s not terribly unusual for a parent to keep their children out of, say, a sexual education course—or even a classroom where evolution will be taught. But the Say No to Common...
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Did Paris gunman also launch DDoS attacks against his targets' websites?
In a chilling indication of how direct violence and cybercrime may entwine in the years ahead, it appears as though a string of shootings in Paris were timed to coincide with distributed...
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College conservatives plot 'Catch an Illegal Immigrant' event in Texas
The University of Texas at Austin chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas, a statewide group that fights for “conservative values” by “educating students and the public,” will stage a stunt on campus...
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Exploring Neshama, a social network for the dead
With hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Twitter users dying off each year, there will come a point—if the popularity of such networks stretches over several decades, anyway—that they resemble...
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Teen kissers in Morocco have an unexpected ally in Anonymous
It's not twerking. It's not grinding. It's still indecent enough to have three teens facing two years each in prison. It's a kiss in the country of Morocco. And it's about to become much, much more...
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Trans*H4CK aims to put transgender developers on the map
In mid-September, a small group gathered at the Betti Ono Gallery in Oakland, Calif., to make history. It was the first-ever transgender hackathon, called Trans*H4CK—an effort to join forces and...
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Woman's final tweet before deadly car accident: '2 drunk 2 care'
Kayla Mendoza, 20 years old and a self-proclaimed “pothead princess” from Miami, authored a familiar sort of Twitter account, posting mainly about her love of drugs and booze. That habit of...
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Press agencies ordered to pay $1.2 million for stealing photos from Twitter
A U.S. district court judge ordered Agence France-Presse (AFP) and stock photo company Getty Images, Inc. to pay a total of $1.2 million for images they acquired from Twitter. The images were...
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Battlebots: How Reddit and Twitter's fake accounts stack up
If you’re not a regular user of Twitter, it’s possible that your first brush with bots on the microblogging platform came just two months ago, on Sept. 24. That's when the New Yorker's Susan Orlean...
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Punctuation is dead because we're tweeting like teenagers
When I was in high school, my mother refused to listen to me if I ended my sentences by trailing off into a questioning up-note. My mom’s ultimate goal, I think, was to get me to speak with authority,...
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Weepy 'Family Guy' fans plead to bring #BringBackBrian
It’s hard to imagine any aspect of long-running animated sitcom Family Guy having an impact on the cultural landscape of 2013. Yet somehow, against all odds and common sense, an Internet grassroots...
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Sons of Mexican cartel leaders flaunt guns, cars, and giant cats on Twitter
What good is a life of outlandish luxury, military-grade firearms, and premium intoxicants if you can’t brag about it? That’s the question raised by the social media feeds of several young men born...
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What's the deal with these 'Seinfeld' parodies?
BY NICK DOUGLAS There’s supposed to be a rule that you can’t parody something that’s already funny. But it’s not impossible—it’s just harder. If you want to parody Seinfeld, for instance, you’ll need...
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How to avoid getting scammed on Cyber Monday
Black Friday sales are ugly, cutthroat affairs, but finding your bargains in real life still presents a few advantages over the increasingly popular Cyber Monday: no usernames, no passwords, no...
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The best photos of dogs begging for Thanksgiving scraps
Dogs may not use calendars, but they know all about Thanksgiving. When else, in the course of a year, does that unique mélange of culinary scents—prime among them the mouth-wateringly savory smell of...
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Is this photo bot the start of Twitter's personalized ads campaign?
About a week ago, a Twitter account called @magicpixx appeared. The basic concept behind the account is that if you tweet about something, @magicpixx will reply with a customized, “house-curated”...
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What the story of 'Diane in 7A' can teach us about the quest for Internet fame
On Thanksgiving, a historically a slow news day on the Internet, we received a miracle of sorts, one tailor-made for virality. A man named Elan Gale tweeted his passed “notes” with a fellow passenger...
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