Screenshot A website called the Silk Road appears to enable you to buy drugs as easily as you would buy an item on eBay. (We didn’t actually complete a purchase.) We’ve previously reported on the Tor network, an anonymous collection of sites that exist in semi-secrecy, outside of the scope of Google, Facebook, and...
On Tuesday night, MIT held a Remember Aaron Aaron Swartz and Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman for Aaron Swartz, the hacker, activist, and Reddit cofounder who took his own life in January. At the memorial, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Swartz’s girlfriend, questioned whether MIT was doing enough to investigate its role in the federal prosecution that she believes drove...
Shitty_Watercolour / reddit With 400 million uniques in 2012, reddit is one of the most popular websites in the world. The news and entertainment site lets users submit links or text, which get voted up or down by other users. We at Business Insider can attest to the value of getting a link in a prominent place...
So Google is axing Google Reader. While the product has a diminishing but fiercely loyal user base (which includes me and other TNW staffers), a number of related RSS services relied on the Reader API code to do their thing. That means the shutdown could affect a wider selection of Internet users, and a number...
When Google announced today it was killing Google Reader on July 1st, just one thought crossed my mind: “I bet this has something to do with Google+.” I didn’t have anything more than a hunch to go on, however, until Brian Shih, a former Google Reader product manager, confirmed my suspicions on Quora. Shih...
“Why can’t I open up an app that tells me where to find a good drink?” That’s the question that the Jeff Rock and Marc LaFontaine of Mobilux were asking themselves when they came up with the idea for Elixr. Elixr is an app for iOS that I’ve been testing for a while and I’m...
Something is rotten in the state of Redmond. When Microsoft said that it would fork its new Windows 8 operating system in two to support both x86 and ARM-based chips, most pundits figured that was a good idea. Windows had for too long been stuck in the world of x86 and was missing the...
Google CEO Larry Page dropped a bomb on the smartphone world this morning, announcing that Andy Rubin, head of Google’s Android unit, is “handing over the reins” of the world’s most popular smartphone platform to Sundar Pichai. Android is the most used mobile operating system in the world: we have a global partnership of...
At SXSW 2013, Google took the wraps off of a new set of apps for the augmented reality visors that will soon be taking our faces by storm. Google didn’t release any video of the proceedings, so I shot my own. Enjoy. Watch a demo video of thew new New York Times app, which...
Google is doing a second round of spring cleaning — its euphemism for small projects it finds unworthy of its time and efforts — and is killing off a whole bunch of projects, the biggest of them being Google Reader. In a blog post Wednesday afternoon, Urs Hölzle, Google’s senior vice president of Technical...