If you needed any more proof that Twitter has transformed how we absorb information and communicate, look no further than Kanye West.
New gadgets are on display at Germany's annual consumer electronics fair, as CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports.
NHL2K11 (2KSports/Visual Concepts) tries to bring realism to sports on the Wii, but falls short because of control issues and a spotty artificial intelligence.
Apple this week launched Ping, a new social network that runs within the iTunes software.
Facebook is apparently testing a new subscription feature that would allow users to receive alerts any time a specific friend takes certain actions on the social network.
It's been two weeks since Facebook users took to blogs and message boards to voice their concerns about Places, a location-based service that allows people to check in to gathering spots via the social network.
Four years ago, Nintendo's gesture-tracking Wii system proved the power of motion controls to extend the mainstream appeal of video games.
Toshiba has announced the voluntary recall of about 41,000 notebook computers worldwide at risk of overheating and burning users.
When Samsung debuted its Galaxy Tab on Thursday, it made a bold claim: the device is at least as good as today's dominant tablet, Apple's iPad.
With Wednesday's announcement that it will be revamping its web TV offerings, Apple has made its most serious push into an emerging, and increasingly crowded, field.
Apple's iPad tablet isn't just for geeks, yuppies, and rich people. It's also for grandparents.
CNN's Gary Tuchman reveals a new virtual reality video game that puts you in the center of gameplay.
Grown-ups don't text as much as teens -- at least not yet. A new survey suggests they may be catching up.
Apple users will get to watch live today as the company, at an event presumably led by CEO Steve Jobs, announces new services and products.
Check-in applications for your smartphone are all the rage; even Facebook has gotten into the game with its new "places" feature. But not all location-based apps are created equal -- or even with the same goal in mind. Enter CauseWorld, a location-based platform that allows you to turn your shopping into charity.
If you've picked up Apple's iPhone 4, you're probably aware of the new features that can benefit gamers on the go: a higher-resolution display, an integrated gyroscope to complement the accelerometer (for six-axis motion control), longer battery life and faster Wi-Fi.
We've all done it -- surfed on over to the book of faces, our hearts racing and pupils dilating with excitement, let our cursors linger over those oh-so-powerful words, "Remove From Friends," and clicked away with the maniacal glee of a serial killer.
A reworked line of iPods and a new, drastically cheaper, version of Apple TV are on the way.
Microsoft will be offering up a new Xbox 360 wireless controller starting this fall that features an adjustable directional-control pad (D-pad).
According to Merriam-Webster, the word "art" can be defined as "the conscious use of skill and creative imagination, especially in the production of aesthetic objects."
Long before the iPhone, the iPod was the device that helped transform Apple from computer company into a consumer electronics company.
Gmail users who feel swamped by a virtual flood of messages will get some help sorting them out.
A pop tune about love and Facebook goes viral. CNN's Josh Levs reports.
The soul and hip-hop singer Cee Lo Green has a penchant for beautiful music with a dark subtext.
Chatroulette, the controversial website that offers random video chat with strangers, was back Monday after being down for more than a week for promised improvements.
In a rather small survey conducted by a young psychologist, Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults.
Within moments of meeting Tony Thompson, you can tell he sees the world from a different tilt.
CNN tech expert Mario Armstrong shares some sites that can help students with their homework and reports.
Twenty-four years after her initial appearance, Samus Aran returns.
CNN's Ali Velshi looks at some futuristic appliances that could be in your home one day.
You know it will happen someday: Zombies are chasing you down the street, groaning for your blood. You've been holed up for a week, and there's spotty cell service. It sure would be handy to request an emergency ammo drop from the black-helicopter guys.
College student Elise Hall says social media helped her win a seat to the Oklahoma State House of Representatives.
Nancy Ehrlich was nearing 50 and frustrated, teaching at her small Pennsylvania town's elementary school with colleagues who didn't share her love of technology.
They're everywhere here: on the sides of buses and along the walls of subway stations, posters for the upcoming film "The Social Network" bearing little else than the three words "PUNK, BILLIONAIRE, GENIUS" and a partial headshot of lead actor Jesse Eisenberg.
Seth Priebatsch was at a burrito joint in Boston recently when a message popped up on his smartphone from an app called SCVNGR.
Sony claims its new move controller is an improvement, not a copy, of the Wii. CNN's Colleen McEdwards reports.
At first glance it may look more like a black box than a millionaire's play pen, but "unfold" this superyacht and a world of luxury and opulence is unveiled.
Google Wave and Google Buzz may have had troubles attracting usage, but the new ability to place calls from Gmail appears to have caught on quickly.
Social news site Digg this week launched a major new version that seeks to change the way we consume news radically.
Here's a new way of looking at oil spill clean-up: Forget the big ships, massive work crews and hefty price tags.
CNN's Pauline Chiou interviews an expert on hackers targeting iTunes accounts linked to PayPal.
In mid-2010, managing your internet appearance means much more than just touching up your profile pictures on Facebook. New software is being developed to show you exactly how you seem to others.
A house built with hemp makes a green alternative to standard construction. WLOS' Karen Wynn reports.
An infected flash drive put in a U.S. military laptop in 2008 set off the most significant cyberattack ever against the military and brought a turning point in cyberdefense strategy, a top defense official wrote in an article published Wednesday.
Hunting for apartments can be exhausting and confusing, but you can make it a bit easier with the help of Google Maps on your smartphone.
The company paid to treat people to free newspapers in London, lighted the Empire State Building in Windows' colors and draped Toronto's CN Tower with a 300-foot banner -- all part of a massive $300 million ad campaign that accompanied the product's arrival.
In a move that could further popularize online and mobile video, Apple's iTunes store this fall may begin renting TV programming to viewers for 99 cents per episode, according to a report from Bloomberg News.
Women text and talk on their mobile phones more than men.
Remember the good ol' days, circa mid-naughts, when most people's phones just alerted them of incoming calls and the occasional text message?
Set in the 1940s and '50s, "Mafia II" (2K Czech) is a violent, historical, and definitely exciting journey through the mob world in the United States -- featuring a great story, accurate artwork and music for the time period, and gameplay that isn't overly complicated.
Jonathan Mann has written a song a day since January 2009, and plans to keep going until he's 80.
From downloadable titles like haunting puzzle-action hybrid "Limbo" for Xbox 360 to the long-awaited release of PC sci-fi strategy juggernaut "StarCraft II," summer's been good to gaming fans.
Apple may be developing a computer that combines the look of a desktop with the touch-screen functions of its tablet-style iPad, according to reports about a patent filed by the company.
Since the U.S. Copyright Office declared last month that it's legal to jailbreak your iPhone, lots of iPhone users have been doing just that -- nearly 9 percent of them as of late July.
Digital Rights Management, or DRM, has been touted as a piracy preventer by entertainment and gaming manufacturers. But it's been blasted by end users as restrictive and ineffective against illegal downloading and copying of electronic media.
25.94 seconds. That's how much time it took Melissa Thompson of Salford, England, to type a complex sentence on a Samsung Galaxy S, which makes her the new Guinness World Record holder for fastest typing on a phone.
Ever have that sick-to-your-stomach, "Oh crap!" moment after sending an e-mail?
Pop heartthrob Justin Bieber may be the perfect Trojan horse for a meme.
Intrigued by Foursquare, or Facebook's new Places feature, but not sure anybody would be interested in where you go every day?
In rural communities of Africa -- where more than 95 percent of homes have no access to electricity -- solar energy has the power to transform lives.
CNN's Gary Tuchman looks at a robotic fish that can trick real fish into following it in the water.
Tech expert Mario Armstrong takes a look at an application that will help your tech-savy student stay organized.
Some people are leaving their office to do their work in coffee shops with free WiFi spots. KARE's Kyle Porter reports.
A beagle named James Bond has more than 2,600 people following him on Twitter. WTOC's Michelle Paynter reports.
Even if "Piranha 3D" has a modestly successful box-office debut this weekend, it could in the long run do more damage to the hopes of 3D TV makers than good.
Based on comments on news sites and Facebook's official blog, many users appear apprehensive about Facebook Places, the social-networking site's new location feature.
Facebook has rolled out its long-awaited location feature, Facebook Places, an application that lets users "check in" on their mobile phones so friends know where they're hanging out and what they're doing.
Facebook this week launched "Places," a service that allows any user to "check in" to restaurants, stores and other local businesses -- thereby sharing their location with friends.
I'm one of those people who won't throw out electronics just because they're outdated.
Need to get your superyacht from the crystal-blue waters of the Caribbean to the glamorous Mediterranean in a hurry? Not a problem when your luxury vessel transforms into a sleek jetplane at the click of a button.
David Fincher's "The Social Network" is already looking cheesy (Justin Timberlake as Napster co-founder Sean Parker? Really?), but it hasn't prevented others from making the Facebook movie's overdramatic trailer seem even more absurd.
Music has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Visual arts have the Met, Louvre and Guggenheim. Radio and TV have the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
Imagine, if you will, a crowded dance floor: Men and women are talking, laughing awkwardly and trying to gyrate their rhythmically challenged hips to that Phoenix song that goes "do let, do let, blah blah."
Some of the world's biggest electronics companies are readying an assault on the tablet market. But before they even begin, they find themselves at an early disadvantage.
Social-networking giant Facebook has entered the check-in world.
Maglev trains use magnetic levitation to reach speeds over 260 mph. The U.S. may adopt this mode of travel one day.
A new robot built by NASA will send information back to Earth via tweets about what it's like in space.
Even as Facebook titles like "FrontierVille" and "Restaurant City" continue to attract millions of players, interest in social games may be waning.
Imagine outfitting your house with small, affordable solar panels that plug into a socket and pump power into your electrical system instead of taking it out.
As I read the criticism of Google and Verizon's supposed evil plan to demolish the Internet, and as I hear about "protests" of several dozen people at Google's headquarters, I scratch my head and wonder: am I missing something?
Lanes often dissolve into meaningless white lines painted on roads.
The public and private sector are not doing enough to share information that could help prevent a catastrophic cyberattack on the nation's critical infrastructure, according to a report by the General Accountability Office released on Monday.
Games are among the most popular things people do with their mobile devices. In the past year, more than a third of U.S. cell phone owners have played a game on their phone. Also, up to a quarter of all iPad apps are games.
There is very little evidence, if any, that Sarah Palin hates teachers, or that Andrew Breitbart is a racist. Yet a recent flood of viral stories propagated by internet journalists allegedly catch prominent conservatives red-handed in acts of hate.
Lots of people think the Internet is a bit too chipper -- so much so that they've clamored for a "dislike" button on Facebook, which, to date, only officially allows people to "like" content on its site.
Since Steve Slater's theatrical exit from his job, many YouTube videos have been dedicated to the former flight attendant.
CNN tech guru Mario Armstrong takes a look at some pros and cons of both netbooks and laptops for tech-savvy students.
Have you ever wished that your iPod Touch was an iPhone? Now it can be, thanks to a new device called the "Apple Peel 520" and created by a Chinese company.
Hoping to continue the success of its BioShock franchise, 2K Games announced that "BioShock Infinite" will be produced by the team that created the game's original title.
You haven't really made it until someone makes a YouTube video about you.
Here's the truth about AT&T's wireless network: On the whole, despite what you've heard, it's not actually that bad. It's just bad for the wrong people in the wrong places -- mostly tech- and media-types in New York and San Francisco, California.
A man in Indianapolis outfits a school bus with an engine from a jet fighter.
Information is power, but does information -- by itself -- actually make people change their behavior?
The CEO of Groupon.com discusses the success of the group coupon website.
CNN's Deborah Feyerick reports on how moderate Muslims are targeting "keyboard jihadists."
Twitter unleashed an official "tweet button" today. Given that third parties have provided "retweet buttons" for more than a year, will the official buttons have any impact on the way we share content online?
Twitter has just launched the "Tweet Button," an official option for web publishers to count retweets and let their readers easily share content.
The university giveth, and the university taketh away.
Google's Android operating system for mobile phones is quickly spreading in popularity, with the DROID 2 hitting stores Thursday. But how do you know which model is right for you? Here's a quick comparison between features and specs on the top four Android phones.
In just a few short months, Apple's iPad has become a popular mobile tool for web surfing, watching TV and reading electronic books. But its biggest impact may come in a lesser-known area of multimedia: digital comics.
CNN's Ali Velshi speaks with two experts about how pesky flies may actually be used in solar panels.
There's some quacking on the web that film auteur Christopher Nolan's current blockbuster, "Inception," was inspired by, of all things, a 2004 Donald Duck comic book.
Consider it a sign of the times, or even just success that Twitter now has a policy in place to handle ownership of a user's account once they've died.
The long-rumored geolocation "check-in" feature at Facebook is slated to debut within weeks, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNET.
One gamer is paving the way for players with disabilities. CNN's Gary Tuchman reports.
CNN's Phil Han takes a look at episodes similar to that of the JetBlue flight attendant which have gone viral.
You've got a few reasons to dread and/or loathe birthdays. But at least now you can cross that hot mess of a Facebook news feed off your list of things to worry about on your or your friends' birthdays.
CNN's Ali Velshi talks with an architect who designed a house integrated with various parts of airplanes.
Net neutrality supporters say they're unhappy that the Verizon Communications and Google proposal for new net neutrality rules does not go far enough.
Ryan Gonzalez really wanted to make a music video for his first solo album -- but like many independent artists, he had no budget.
Researchers at Northwestern University take a step toward reading terrorists' minds. CNN's Josh Levs explains.
Erik Hersman of Ushahidi explains how crowd sourcing was used to map problems during Kenya's recent referendum.
Users of the iPhone can now download and watch TV shows on the device, AT&T announced Monday.
If recent trends are any indication, cartoon self-caricatures are becoming more popular than the clichéd photo in the mirror headshot. Cartoon avatars, both classic and new, are hot right now.
Evidence continues to mount to support expectations that Apple's iPhone 4 will finally launch on Verizon this coming January.
When does mobile not feel very mobile? Every time you have to plug in a cord to charge a device. But power cords could become a 20th century artifact (at least for small mobile devices) if wireless charging technology becomes affordable, reliable, interoperable and easy.
Cellphone battery dead? No problem: Just borrow a charger from a friend. Oh, wait -- you can't, because your friend doesn't have the same phone as you, and his charger won't work with your phone.
A shark swimming up to a beach and two men's street stunts go viral. CNN's Josh Levs reports.
CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports that about 35,000 full-body scan images have been kept despite assurances to the contrary.
CNN's Errol Barnett talks to Google spokesman Brian Richardson about increased concerns about user privacy.
CNN's T.J. Holmes talks to an executive from Panasonic about the first 3-D camcorders being sold for home use.
A push to recycle cigarette butts is gaining momentum in New York. CNN's Gary Tuchman reports.
A new Web browser plug-in sounds off on certain websites when user browsing information is sent to Google.
CNN's John Roberts talks to a technology editor about privacy concerns on the internet.
CNN's Errol Barnett breaks down the various motivations worldwide governments cite for censoring the internet.
CNN's Drew Griffin talks to the creators of technology that lets paralyzed people move their wheelchair with their nose.
Social media expert Wendy Harman talks about being with the President for his tweet.
CNN's Ali Velshi talks to the men behind Rex Bionics whose invention gives people in wheelchairs the ability to walk.
CNN's Randi Kaye talks to a WSJ.com technology editor about an article digging deep into the world of internet tracking.
Mario Armstrong tells CNN's T.J. Holmes about some cell phone apps that can help you save money on the go.
Social media expert Wendy Harman talks about being with the President for his first tweet.
In 2008 Lisa Ling investigated the threat to the shark population brought on by the demand for shark fin soup.
In 2008 Anderson Cooper talked with special correspondent Lisa Ling about shark finning, a brutal practice.
A man has collected information from 100 million Facebook users and distributed it online in a downloadable file.
iPhone owners can now legally jailbreak their phones. CNN.com's John Sutter explains jailbreaking and the recent changes.
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi gained worldwide notoriety for the stunning images he captured from space.
A professional gamer tells CNN why the game "StarCraft" has taken South Korea by storm.
CNN.com's John Sutter looks at WikiLeaks, a site that published what it says are classified reports about Afghanistan.
An imaginary picnic by President Obama and a walk across the country are in Viral Video Rewind with Josh Levs.
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