Fortune reports that CCTV, China’s state television, allegedly encouraged prominent social media celebrities to post expressions of outrage against Apple on the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. A post in question came from a Taiwanese Samsung spokesperson and according to the article,… Read More ›
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World Eagerly Awaits Which Chemically-Colored Smoke Will Emerge From The Vatican!
As reported in the New York Times, mystery chemicals will be burned in cartridges at the Vatican to let the world know via chimney-smoke whether a new pope has been chosen. Black smoke = no new Pope. White smoke =… Read More ›
You’re Spending 23 Days A Year Looking At Your Phone, And We Hope It’s Not All Spent Figuring Out How To Unlock The Phone!
CNET reports that a survey of phone owners shows the owners surveyed spend 23 days a year looking at their phones, including sending texts and using apps. 3 Worse Ways To Spend 23 Days A Year 1. Looking at your… Read More ›
Forget Jedi Mind Melds, Blackberry Z10 Can Tell You What You’re Thinking
Not The Worst News just tested the new Blackberry Z10, which lacks the physical keyboard that has made Blackberry so popular among 70-year-old former typewriter-ribbon-manufacturing-executives. Trying to type “this is a test” on the text messaging app lead to something… Read More ›
Obama Makes A Sci-Fi Faux-Pas By Referring To A “Jedi Mind Meld,” Otherwise Known As A Normal Conversation-Opposite-Of-Faux-Pas
Yahoo reports that President Obama made an error today, combining nerdy concepts from Star Trek and Star Wars in a speech explaining why he can’t just use his mind to achieve consensus in Congress. Actually, we disagree with the idea that… Read More ›
Yahoo’s New CEO Melissa Mayer Says Employees Must, Like, Totally Show Up For Work To Get Paid
GigaOM reports that new Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer has made some changes since becoming CEO of the company. Those include: giving employees free food at work; giving them free smartphones; and (gasp) now banning working from home. We hope there… Read More ›
104-Year-Old-Woman Has More Facebook Friends Than You!
Yahoo reports that Facebook has apologized to a 104-year-old grandmother for being unable to enter her real age on Facebook, as Facebook had previously only allowed people to enter birth-years of 1910 or later. Facebook has since corrected the error,… Read More ›
#AsGoogleStockHitsRecordHighsTheyWantYouToPayToTestTheirFashionProducts
Computerworld reports that Google is seeking out “explorers” via social media to pay $1,500 plus tax to test Google eyeglasses. 3 Worse Things To Pay To Test Than Computerized Glasses 1. Computerized bank chip cards. For $1500 you can see… Read More ›
WordPress Seems To Be Liberal With Its Use Of The “Uncategorized” Category!
We recently wrote a WordPress entry where we didn’t take the time to uncheck the “uncategorized” box because we thought in this high-tech era that would be unnecessary and redundant given we checked the boxes for the categories “politics” and… Read More ›
Hacker Places McDonald’s New Fish McBites On Burger King Web Site… Now We Don’t Know What Product To Buy!
Yahoo reports that a hacker hacked into Burger King’s Twitter account and posted a McDonald’s logo, an image of new “Fish McBites,” and the words “Just got sold to McDonald’s because the Whopper flopped…” 3 Startling Revelations From This News Story… Read More ›
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