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Are news video games the next step in the evolution of journalism? According to Ian Bogost and the Georgia Institute of Technology they are. At the New Scientist, Bogost highlights two such games: Burger Tycoon in which players raise cattle…

Research confirms the obvious: people with more money use tech differently than those with less. There is now an open-source alternative to facebook. Choose to have your house blurred in Google Street View? You might end up with egg on…

Now that a trademark for “Face” seems likely to be awarded to Facebook, are they thinking about going after “book,” too? Academia is trying to bring cred to Wikipedia. A new Netflix pricing plan lets you watch online content without…

If you have an i-device, you may care that the new iOS is out today. Tigers and panthers and snow leopards, oh my! They’re all dying out. Should Apple help? The largest network of electric vehicle chargers will soon be…

Yesterday we told you about the release of Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more likely being punished for a “satirical Internet video in which…

At Google, “do no evil” means “pay us if you want us to do evil” when it comes to helping the government spy on you. For the mobile gamers: Pocket Legends MMO goes cross-platform, adding Android support to the iOS…

Let’s all take a moment & be grateful, ’cause none of us have been thrown in a labor camp on our wedding day for tweeting a joke. A joke! A tisket, a tasket, a web tizzy over Apple co-founder saying Android’s…

“A woman in China has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp” for a tweet. We encourage those of you who use Twitter to re-tweet her statement (“Charge, angry youth”) in protest.

Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more likely being punished for a “satirical Internet video in which Hajizada holds a fake government press conference dressed…

A bug caused Facebook to forget that women are real people for a moment. Quantum physics, chaos theory, and bacteria might be powering the technology of the future. Another new way to receive targeted web content: Gravity. And, for some background,…

Full body scanners have been causing a lot of, well, rumpus. UCSF professors are worried about their effect on your health, and three-year-old girls are getting groped by TSA agents. Boy, I feel safe. However, it is not too late…