Media

Wired featured a pair of breasts on the cover of its November issue to promote an article on tissue engineering. In an open letter to the magazine, Cindy Royal argues that this cover, like many covers in Wired‘s past, is sexist.

Another in a long line of tangential Microsoft commercials, this time for Windows 7. Rumored Facebook mail: what it is, and why you might want to use it. Web 2.0 spawns Silicon Valley bubble 2.0. The Google-Oracle battle over Java licensing…

An artist has given New York some awesome digital dead drops. Amazon defends selling a book on pedophilia  . . . then takes it off the site. Frustrated with iPad or iPhone development? Email Steve Jobs; he might give you…

Almost a quarter of Americans don’t have broadband, saying it’s unnecessary and overpriced. The British Monarchy marches into the 21st century with a Facebook page, Twitter account. Here’s some more confirmation that e-books are serious money makers. Facebook and Google…

Should criticizing your employer on facebook be protected as free speech? You can now use your phone as a YouTube remote… Or as an STD test. Maybe this’ll force everyone to actually make their sites look nice: Google introduces site previews. iPhone parody…

You might want to check out this new social media sobriety test before posting anything in the wee hours this week. Microsoft has been mired in 1998 for a while now. To succeed, it needs to kill Windows as we know…

According to Digital Society’s “Online services security report card,” which examines how vulnerable certain sites are to cyber-attacks, Facebook and Twitter are going to have to attend digital security summer school.

Radiolab recently covered one of the biggest, coolest technologies ever: cities. The Facebook mobile platform isn’t quite a Facebook phone, but it does a lot of stuff, like entice you to shop. Prompted by this ad, T-Mobile and AT&T are fighting over who has…

In the wake of the news that Facebook developers are selling your data, maybe it’s time to revisit this Venn diagram on privacy & the Internet. David Hockney exhibits his new drawings on iPads. A Kindle in the hands of one…

New Android keyboard 8pen reinvents typing on a touchscreen phone, but there’s a learning curve. Twitter is teaming up with HootSuite to bring ads, or promoted tweets, to a Twitter account near you. That weird message in your Gmail inbox isn’t a hoax: Google’s…

The revolution may or may not be tweeted, but the election sure is. Tablet market share forecast: Slightly Android, with a 95.5% chance that you are using an iPad. In the nail-biting battle for HTML5 browser compliance, Internet Explorer 9…