gigaom — On Wednesday morning Apple revealed the latest stats on iTunes video: users have downloaded 1 billion TV episodes and 380 million movies total, at the rate of 800,000 TV episodes and over 350,000 movies per day. Combined with the company’s recent revelation that it has 575 million active iTunes accounts now, one...
techcrunch — Attention gamers: you win. The folks at Redmond infuriated many when it revealed that the Xbox One would come with a long list of potential caveats — there was the automated 24 hour check-in to keep the console in playable condition, and the restrictions on who you could share disc-based...
boingboing — “Follow your passion” is the dogmatic advice for building a career. But it is woefully incomplete and even misleading for some people. Better advice is “Become so good they can’t ignore you”; that is, become expert in something, and the passion will follow. In other words, flip the mission from...
wired — If a Citi Bike is suffering from mechanical issues, courteous riders have begun turning the seat around to face the wrong way, a signal that other users should avoid that particular bicycle.
boingboing — Hillary Rosner is a fantastic environmental reporter — the sort that digs facts and stories more than outrage-bait and blind activism. She's currently pregnant and, like all pregnant ladies, is finding herself subject to a deluge of warnings and "helpful" advice. When you're pregnant, there is always somebody who wants...
boingboing — Just a reminder: Vitamins aren't inert. They actually do things in your body and we don't totally understand yet what all they do, how they do it, and how much extra vitamin supplementation is too much. Meanwhile, the vitamin and supplement industry remains largely unregulated. Most doctors probably wouldn't tell...
techcrunch — Microsoft and Nokia have gotten pretty cosy over the past few years, and at the time of the announcement of the Finnish company’s decision to use Windows Phone OS to power its smartphones, many speculated it was the first overture for a coming acquisition. And that is apparently where things...
boingboing — This is Uraba lugens, a caterpillar that wears a bunch of its old heads on top of its current head like the world's most ridiculously macabre hat. The part of this photo where the otherwise horizontal caterpillar goes vertical? That's a pyramid of exoskeleton head capsules, stacked in descending order...
boingboing — This New York Times WELL column should do the trick. Probably why it's currently the most-shared item on nytimes.com. It's about a thousand words of sciencey science stuff, but the tl;dr is: go the fuck to sleep.
boingboing — You know what you missed? You missed the chance to buy this amazing set of vintage derpface choppers ("Authentic original used dental school teaching device."), which sold on eBay for $400. Dental mannequin steampunk old device vintage dentiform head face teeth antique (via JWZ)
wired — Lytro has finally seen the light: To make it in this crazy photo-sharing world, you need an app that makes GIFs.
gigaom — When Microsoft quietly released its own editor for Office documents on the iPhone last week, it left something out: a version for the iPad. If the iPhone screen is too small for you to consider viewing and editing important documents, no worries, you still have ways to do so on...
boingboing — Dangerous Minds has the video. But what some really want to know is, how might we uninstall John McAfee?
hothardware — It appears that Microsoft is about to refresh its Surface RT hardware; according to Bloomberg, Microsoft has been testing versions of the Surface RT with Qualcomm Snapdragon chips inside instead of the NVIDIA Tegra 3 SoCs it’s been using thus far. This jibes with an earlier report that Qualcomm Snapdragon...
hothardware — Nintendo is experimenting with new pricing models for its console games, an effort aimed particularly at digital sales and packaging downloadable content with boxed games. According to IGN, the company is bringing its experiment to the real world via a free-to-play game. The title? Steel Diver. Steel Diver was originally...
boingboing — Michael Hastings. Courtesy of Blue Rider Press/Penguin, via Rolling Stone. Michael Hastings, a contributor to Rolling Stone and to Buzzfeed, died Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles. The work that brought him most renown as a reporter was his 2010 Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal profile, “The...
boingboing — Today's XKCD, "The Pace of Modern Life," is a lovely collection of 19th century and early 20th century quotations about the hurried pace of modern life, the atomisation and trivialisation of knowledge thanks to modern media, the disobedience of children (again, thanks to modern media) (this topic was a favorite...
wired — It's too late for Game of Thrones, and True Blood started last week. But if you've been waiting for Apple to add HBO GO to its little "hobby" device, you're in luck.
gigaom — There’s a new band of pirates loose in the Valley, and they’re out to grab the best and the brightest from companies like Netflix, Apple, Amazon and Intel: Cupertino-based stealth startup Black Pearl Systems quietly has been assembling a killer team that is out to “create a category-defining product to tackle...
boingboing — In an Al Jazeera report, in vivid detail, Jason Leopold describes daily life for both the detainees and guards at the Guantánamo detention facility in Cuba.
paidcontent — As Google Reader’s death nears — seriously, July 1 is really soon – RSS reader Feedly is stepping up its game. Feedly, which hit 12 million users at the end of May (up from 4 million in March), announced Wednesday that it is now an independently operating cloud product — i.e.,...
gigaom — The Wi-Fi Alliance this week kicked off its certification program for the latest and greatest Wi-Fi technology, 802.11ac, and Samsung was the first in line to run its mobile devices through the paces. Three variants of the new Galaxy Mega smartphone, as well as the Galaxy S 4 Active and...
boingboing — Reduced version of panorama from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity with 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution version. Image shows Curiosity at the "Rocknest" site where the rover scooped up samples of windblown dust and sand. Curiosity used three cameras to take the component images on several different days between Oct....
wired — Our warm-weather adventures continue as we saddle up on mountain bikes to go test some of the latest off-road cycling gear, including bikes, helmets, shoes and outerwear.
boingboing — Eyeglass frames designer Mykita recently launched a line of 3D polyamide printed sports frames, Mykita Mylon, which includes the "Daisuke" visor style frame shown here. I spotted them during a visit to Julia Gogosha, owner of Gogosha Optique in Los Angeles, yesterday. I may not be bold enough to wear...