At last, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), launchpad for the world’s least-necessary inventions, is over. But now comes the most fun part of the show: We asked you to nominate the worst products you could find on the show floor, and boy, did you deliver. As promised, the first person who submitted the winning loser will [...]

Sure, Windows 8 – Microsoft’s new touchscreen operating system – will run just fine on PCs designed for Windows 7. But you won’t be able to take advantage of the new touch capabilities the OS enables unless you scrap your existing PC and upgrade to a new computer. Or maybe not. At the Consumer Electronics [...]

I first noticed something was off when I went to pay my rent one month. The window for a timely online transfer of funds was closing, so to get the money to my landlord in time, I’d have to do something unusual. I took out my checkbook, grabbed a pen and started writing the date.  [...]

This post was originally published on our SAY Media sister site, xojane.com. We’re republishing it with permission as a follow-up to our story, Oh Grow Up: Inside The 4chan Hashtag Hoax #cutforbieber. I’m 15 years old. I have Justin Bieber posters on my walls even though I don’t listen to him as much as I used [...]

It’s almost here. The “6 strikes” anti-piracy scheme crafted by Hollywood and U.S. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is due to be implemented in the next few weeks. As the program’s long-delayed arrival nears, we’re starting to get a glimpse at how it’s actually going to work. And it’s not pretty. Even if you’ve never downloaded [...]

Now here’s something the record labels never would have agreed to tens years ago. With the purchase of select CDs, Amazon customers will get a free MP3 copy of the album, which is instantly available in their Cloud Player account. It’s a great idea. No longer will people who buy CDs from Amazon have to [...]

Which generation rules the Internet? Conventional wisdom has it that the Millennials are the most connected cohort in history. The only problem is that the conventional wisdom may not be true.  The inter-generational habits of Internet denizens have been revealed in a numbers-rich infographic posted this week, which reveals that among Baby Boomers, Generation X [...]

Everywhere you look, it seems pestilence and hysteria has taken over. Someone sneezes, you wince and dig through your bag for that little bottle of Purell that, you think, will save you from the bug. Yes, it is flu season and this year is a bad one. The City of Boston has declared a public [...]

For several months now, Microsoft’s Surface RT has stood as an example of Microsoft’s commitment to the concept of a Windows tablet. But in the next few weeks, Microsoft will begin shipping the full-fledged Windows 8 version of the device (officially known as Surface with Windows 8 Pro, and priced at $899) offering improved performance [...]

While major hardware makers are busy squabbling over “4K” vs “Ultra HD”, the future is quietly creeping in around the edges. A future with implications in the real world – big ones. Really big ones. Think using crowd-sourced mind control to change the color of Niagara Falls and the CN Tower big. Crowd-funded and completely hackable – [...]

SAP has taken a big step ahead of rivals IBM, Microsoft and Oracle with the announcement on Thursday that its in-memory database called HANA is now ready to power the German software maker’s business applications. The pronouncement is sure to darken the mood of competitors, who one analyst says will need several years to match [...]

Folks were starting to wonder if it would ever happen. But the Pebble smartwatch, the e-paper-equipped, smartphone-synching time-teller that exploded onto Kickstarer last summer, will finally begin shipping to the project’s backers on January 23, said creator Eric Migicovsky at Pebble’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference Wednesday morning. Kickstarter Backers To Get Theirs First [...]