Apple's just rolled out iOS 8.1.1 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Aside from the usual promise of bug fixes and security updates, Apple says the latest release should speed things up on iPad 2 and iPhone...
Yosemite has been updated as well
I just watched 47 minutes of James Franco doing the internet's bidding, and it's the single weirdest thing I've seen in the days since Too Many Cooks came out. Which is to say not that long. In a weekend...
Pretty good at twerking though
We still don't know who is going to play the titular character in Aaron Sorkin / Danny Boyle's upcoming Steve Jobs film — Christian Bale recently dropped out, and the currently-rumored frontrunner is...
Real-life Lisa didn't participate in Isaacon's bio but spoke with Sorkin about the script
Tiiny tries to make sharing images as quick and easy as possible. The iOS app opens to the camera screen, and you can tap for a photo or hold for a video. The images appear as a tiny, postage stamp-sized...
People put a lot of time and effort into these things, only to see them dissapear Kevin Rose, founder, Tiiny
In the war for PC supremacy, Apple and Microsoft only have eyes for each other. While they haven’t been watching, Google has turned Chromebooks from a sideline player into a completely legitimate way to...
The cheap laptop you ought to be looking at
Facebook wants to become your office's social network. The company is said to be working on an official launch of Facebook at Work, an app that Facebook's employees currently use internally for...
Facebook wants to be your all-day social network
Self-driving cars still feel like a sci-fi technology, decades away from reality — but you'd be surprised. A lot of the things we need to put them on the road already exist, and the rest is just around the...
How about a nap pod on wheels?
The bright orange San Andreas sun is blinding, but the tinted mask on my motocross helmet helps dull the effect. I'm sitting on a dusty hill, miles outside of the busy core of Los Santos, and I'm waiting....
New consoles and a new perspective
Mark Cuban is known as a billionaire entrepreneur, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and the creator of the EFF's "Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents." Henceforth, he will also be known as the...
"If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be net neutrality." Mark Cuban
Three of the best animated films by arguably the greatest animated film director will be released on Blu-Ray tomorrow.
Disney will finally make available Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, and T...
Modern classics
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler wants to bring broadband to America's schools, and he's willing to spend billions to get there. In a call this morning, Chairman Wheeler is announcing a 62 percent increase in the...
Cost to phone customers will be around $2 per household
One of the most delightfully weird games to come out this year is Goat Simulator, wherein you play a sociopathic goat rampaging through a small town known for its slapstick physics, intentionally awful...
The obvious, logical conclusion for 'Goat Simulator'
I once met a woman from Paris. I don't know her name, but she usually wore a green dress and for some reason spoke with a thick English accent. Every five minutes, at seemingly random places throughout the...
Paris is huge, but it isn't more fun
The MPAA isn't the first organization that you'd expect to start helping you find movies and TV shows to watch online, but it turns out the association has become pretty cooperative. It's launched a new...
For when you can't find something on Netflix
There isn't much free land left in Manhattan, so Barry Diller is building his own. The New York Times is reporting that the IAC billionaire is currently raising money to build 2.4 acres of new land off the...
Construction could begin as early as 2016
Both Democrats and Republicans take millions of dollars from outside groups to run campaigns, but under law, the parties can't "coordinate" with those groups, only accept the cash. As CNN reports today,...
Accounts posted internal polling data
Hydrogen-powered cars seem like the dream, if we can figure out how to reliably make them; the only emission is water, and unlike a battery-powered car, you don't need to wait for a recharge. Toyota has...
Refueling it is the hard part
Although Microsoft is removing the Nokia name from its upcoming Lumia smartphones, the brand will live on. Nokia is now planning to license its brand, allowing third-party manufacturers to create products...
Nokia is the new Polaroid
Project Loon, Google's ambitious plan to bring internet to the entire world by way of a network of high-altitude balloons, is preparing to launch a series of test flights in Australia. The tests will see...
float on
The Smithsonian Castle and its surrounding museums are skipped altogether by many tourists visiting Washington, DC. But a reimagined layout for the Smithsonian Castle campus — said to be the most...
A $2 billion plan to upgrade the museum's stretch of the National Mall
The man behind many of the biggest TV shows in the ‘70s and ‘80s died yesterday. Writer-producer Glen Larson was responsible for shows such as the original Battlestar Galactica, Six Million Dollar Man, M...
Larson was one of the most successful TV producers around
No matter how hard you try, it's impossible to make everyone happy. That's the message of one pretty spot-on SNL skit last night. The fake ad is ostensibly for another derivative TV sitcom called The...
"I smell pot roast, and it smells dee-to-the-lish." Woody Harrelson
Everyone loves silly animal videos, but maybe we're going a bit too far when we bait those animals to do precisely what we want. The latest "animal steals a camera" video to hit the web isn't what it...
Hint: the squirrel wanted no part of that bulky camera
It's a safe bet that no one thinks "fresh produce" when they hear the name "Overstock." Nevertheless, the online retailer cut the ribbon on a digital farmers market this month. Unlike competing services...
Flat-screen TV with a side of broccoli
People tend to think of love and hate as opposites. Truth is, the opposite of love is not hate, but apathy. Caring deeply vs. not caring at all. Love and hate are in fact two sides of the same emotional...
FKA I hate loving you
The Philae lander has gone into hibernation on the surface of a comet roughly 300 million miles from earth. After its bouncy (and unprecedented) landing earlier this week, the lander has run out of power,...
"It has been a huge success, the whole team is delighted." Stephan Ulamec, Rosetta mission
Every week, a veritable flood of new music is released to the world, and with it the tyranny of choice rears its ugly head. There's only so many hours in the day, so where do you focus your listening...
Apparently it's 'Mockingjay' week
If you're a fan of old-school Batman comics, there's really only one Batmobile for you. It's not Zack Snyder's brand new model, nor is it Christopher Nolan's tank. Not even Tim Burton's slick version or...
This is the real deal
Good morning, and welcome back to The Weekender. Our weekend journey is just now starting, so thank you for choosing us for your travels. As you may recall, this was the 46th week of the year 2014 on the...
And how was your week?
It looks like Uber is taking another step to separate its service from any other car ride. The company will announce a partnership with Spotify on Monday to let passengers stream music of their choosing as...
Subject your Uber driver to your taste in music
Two Dots was one of the better iPhone games to come out this year and a definite improvement over the simple but addictive original. Fortunately, those of us who use Android every day can now give it a...
Get ready to to dive down the Dots hole
At a Hollywood Reporter roundtable, Universal's Donna Langley has apparently promised the Fast & Furious franchise a long life beyond next year's Furious 7, saying "We think there's at least three more...I...
Hug a loved one to celebrate the best news ever
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) had perhaps the most memorable reaction to Obama's Monday announcement about net neutrality: reclassifying broadband under common carrier laws was "Obamacare for the internet."...
Also, internet sales taxes will hurt retro lava lamps
The European Space Agency has just announced in a series of tweets that it has regained contact with the Philae lander and is receiving data from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The l...
Despite the crash landing, Philae is alive (for now)
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