China trying to manage exposure of corruption online
China’s Internet is brimming with corruption officials collecting bribes, homes and luxury accessories online as casually as they do mistresses.
Yahoo to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash
Yahoo Inc said it is acquiring blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, a bold bet by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer to revitalize the struggling Internet pioneer by co-opting a Web property with strong visitor traffic but little revenue.
Are Millennials the worst? Maybe not.
David Burstein’s new book “Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World” says Millennials are not, in fact, the worst.
VIDEO: Arrested Development trailer is live and, oh good, it still looks funny
Oh man, you guys, it’s really happening. Rumors of a new season of Arrested Development — plus rumors of a still-unconfirmed Arrested movie — have been bandied about the Internet for, what, years now? And it’s finally happening.
5G breakthrough means movie downloads ‘to take just one second’
Korean electronics giant Samsung said this morning that it had successfully tested so-called 5G that would allow an entire movie [...]
The Charles Ramsey auto-tunes have begun!
Frankly, Internet, we’re surprised it took you this long. The minute we saw this amazing interview between Charles Ramsey and a super uncomfortable reporter (LOLS at how fast he GTFO there after Ramsey drops the black man card — after awkwardly patting Ramsey’s chest in farewell) we thought, well there’s the next ‘Bed Intruder’ just waiting to happen.
World’s first-ever web page to be recreated by CERN
Researchers at the CERN research institute in Europe have launched a project to reproduce the world’s first web page, just [...]
Oh hey, it’s ‘Game of Thrones’ night! Seems like a good time to mention this Joffrey Bieber Tumblr
Not to blaspheme one of the Internet’s favorite pastimes or anything but, oh, sometimes we grow so weary of Justin Bieber. As people who write things that go on the Internet for a living, we have a working knowledge of what side our bread is Biebered on, but sometimes we get so. damn. tired.
Back from the dead, ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ woo viewers online
In a bold wager to revive canceled ABC soaps “All My Children” and “One Life to Live,” a pair of Hollywood veterans are taking the 40-year-old dramas online, remaking them for lifelong fans and a younger, Internet-savvy audience.
Read this: Amanda Palmer wrote a controversial poem for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
If you haven’t yet read Amanda Palmer’s ‘A Poem For Dzhokhar’ – and if you live in Boston, are on Facebook or Twitter, and don’t currently reside under a large, social-media eclipsing rock then you most likely have – then go ahead and do that now. Not because it’s great poetry. That’s not for us to say, we’re not poetry professors.