If rumors are to be believed, Yahoo is planning to launch a YouTube-like online video site in the next few weeks. The key difference would be that it won't be a free, open platform for everyone, as content would be…

A couple of years ago, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak received an e-mail from the father of a huge Apple / Woz fan. Apparently the family had just purchased their daughter an iMac and they asked Woz to deliver it personally.…

Hobbies outside of computers and technology are aplenty. A few years back, I delved into R/C cars with a few friends and while I enjoyed tinkering with my car’s internals to squeeze every last drop of performance out of it…

Last week TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington took to his personal blog to say he's "nearly certain" that Google accessed his Gmail account to get hold of the identity of an insider who leaked information to him. In a statement to Re/Code, Google…

During the summer of 2005, 21-year-old Alex Tew came up with an idea to fund his college education. He created the Million Dollar Homepage and sold 10- by 10-pixel blocks of advertising space for $100 each. The project went viral…

Just a month after she won a controversial decision that ordered Google to take down and prevent new uploads of the anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims from YouTube, actress Cindy Lee Garcia has now filed for a contempt of court…

According to a FastCompany report, Instagram is testing a new version of its app which sees Facebook replace Foursquare as its location provider. This means that the "name this location" tool when uploading photos will use data from Facebook's own…

In what may be the strangest use of a quadcopter yet, the brave kid in the clip below volunteers to have his loose tooth removed by the remote-controlled device. Or at least, that’s what appears to have taken place although…

Gmail announced yesterday that it is testing a new Pinterest-like makeover for messages within the Promotions tab -- for people using the new tabbed style inbox. These type of emails have a lot of images, "but right now those images…

Apple's iTunes Radio has offered mostly music since its launch with iOS 7, and now the service is getting its first live news station. Available starting today, National Public Radio (NPR) will run a free, 24 hour station with live…

Google has been developing WebP software for some time and has now introduced a new version into the latest Chrome beta. The company has been trying to speed the internet up with its yet to be fully supported web image…

Twitter is currently experimenting with a feature that shows users how many others have viewed their tweets. Such functionality has been available to advertisers for quite some time but this marks the first time the microblogging platform has tested the…

A pop-up restaurant – if you can call it that – in Melbourne, Australia, is experimenting with a unique food delivery method. Instead of setting up a storefront and hiring waiters, Jafflechutes takes orders on its website using PayPal and…

A group of filmmakers from LightBox and Fuel Entertainment were eager to begin excavation of a New Mexico landfill in search of millions of copies of Atari’s commercial flop of a video game that was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. …

Mozilla has now moved Firefox 29 into beta with a new update. The move will allow the company to iron out any final issues before the overhauled browser hits public release. It is said to be Mozilla's biggest redesign of…

Mt. Gox on Thursday announced that the company has discovered 200,000 missing Bitcoins in an unused wallet. "We believed there were no Bitcoins left in old wallets, but found 199,999.99 Bitcoins on March 7," Mt. Gox Chief Executive Officer Mark…

Just a couple of days after an ex-Microsoft employee was arrested by the FBI for stealing and leaking copies of Windows 8, the software giant is caught up in a privacy storm after it admitted that it searched through an…

Graham Hill, the founder of green design and living site TreeHugger, transformed his Manhattan studio apartment into an uber-efficient living space four years ago. He’s now ready to move on and has put the pad up for sale for a…

Free to Play, the feature-length documentary from Valve that follows three professional gamers as they compete for a million dollar prize in the first Dota 2 International Tournament, has launched. The film can be downloaded via Steam, through iTunes or…

Security researchers from antivirus provider ESET on Tuesday announced a massive cyber attack that has managed to take control of at least 25,000 Linux/Unix servers over the last two years. The infected servers are used to steal credentials, send spam,…

Pandora has announced a hike in the monthly subscription fee of Pandora One, a premium service that allows users to listen without advertising. Starting in May, new users will have to pay a subscription fee of $4.99 per month. "Over…

Dropbox will soon enable a new feature that will finally let users connect their work and personal accounts on any of their devices. You don’t need to sign in and out for switching, instead you'll be able to see both…

Google Chromecast, which has been out in the US for the past eight months, will now be officially available in 11 additional countries including Canada, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, and the UK. "We want to…

Twitter is testing a new "Fave People" feature that lets you catch up with tweets from all your preferred users in one section. The feature recently appeared in the alpha version of Twitter’s Android app, and is currently being tested…

The content hosted on Youtube is pretty diverse. But while diversity is good, not all videos are suitable for all ages, especially for the younger ones. According to a  report published by The Information, the video site is developing a…