stories

Apple creates a new video editing app called Clips, large electronics are now banned from flights to the U.S. coming from 13 countries and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies starts building full-size…

A new mobile app called Tap, launching today, introduces a different way to read stories on your phone: as text message-like chats. The app is the latest from Wattpad, a social publishing platform…

Wattpad debuts Tap, an app for reading chat-style short stories

WhatsApp could put the brakes on Snapchat’s international growth with today’s launch of WhatsApp Status, a new tab for sharing decorated photos, videos and GIFs that disappear after 24 hours.…

WhatsApp launches Status, an encrypted Snapchat Stories clone

Instagram adds some new features to Stories, Snapchat starts selling Spectacles out of vending machines, Facebook has a misinformation problem, Tusk Holdings tries to find silver lining in Trump and…

Instagram is adding three new features to Stories in what they are calling the biggest update to Stories since its launch. Starting today the company will let creators add URL…

Instagram will now let creators add URL links, tag friends, and create Boomerangs in Stories

Snapchat has just updated its app with a brand new Live section that will incorporate Our Story into everyone’s feed, regardless of location. Our Story is a Snapchat product that…

Snapchat Steps On Twitter’s Toes, Lets You Follow Remote Events Live

In the middle of Apple’s big announcement, which includes a revamped iOS Photos application among dozens upon dozens of new features arriving in iOS 8, Google quietly rolled out an…

Google+ Stories, Automated Travelogues Built With Your Own Photos And Videos, Arrives On iOS

“Grumpy Cat! Grumpy Cat! More Grumpy Cat, please!” – That’s basically my two-year-old’s review of FarFaria, a new subscription-based children’s storybook app for the iPad. (To translate: she loves it,…

FarFaria Brings A Hulu For Kids’ Stories To The iPad

We were just going a little meta in the chatroom and Carlos Deleon pointed out that there would be a series of articles all appearing about the Kindle DX. They…

Hardware

Juvenalia: POSDT and BigWideLogic

11:11 am PDT • March 15, 2008

Not that anyone particularly cares, but I recently dug up some work I did way back in 1991 when I was a Bishop Watterson High School sophomore. As a quiet,…

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HD DVD: A Cautionary Tale

8:41 am PST • February 19, 2008

To those of you who can’t accept the news that HD DVD is gone I recount to you the tale of one of my father’s co-workers, Don, who was a…

NOT! But it’s always fun to see the inner-workings of all your favorite companies. Jeff, who used to work for Rockstar Games, recently posted a gigantic manifesto on his time…

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Teenager Buys PS2, Gets Lotsa Cash

12:28 pm PDT • July 18, 2007

eBay can be an interesting place. You never quite know what you’ll end up getting when placing a bid. This is the case of one British teen who bought a…

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Professor Owns Student Trying To Own

8:32 am PDT • July 13, 2007

There’s a terrific story over at IT Toolbox that tells of a professor and one of his childish teenage students. Nicknamed “Pima” (for being a pain in his ass), the…