Love in the Time of Algorithms
Love in the Time of Algorithms
Newly Engaged Couple Proves Future Rom Coms Will Revolve Around Instagram 'Likes'
Spotify Numbers Reveal Brooklyn's Listening to Exactly What You'd Expect
The FBI Needs Your Help Capturing Five Cyber Criminals
Thirsty for $100,00 and ready to mutter “Let’s enhance“ at your computer with your cyber-crime fighting partner? The FBI announced today it has a task for you: The bureau needs help tracking down several men wanted for alleged involvement in hacking millions of computers across the world and defrauding computer users and United States government entities. Read More
Here Is the All #Tech Version of Oprah’s Favorite Things 2013
On December 25th(ish) about 2,013 years ago, the Virgin Mary was safely delivered of a son. We mark his momentous birth by burying ourselves deeper and deeper into debt at the local shopping mall for six to eight weeks each year leading up to Christmas.
In January 1954, another religious icon was born–Oprah Winfrey. Like Jesus, she would grow to head her own international movement built on kindness, self acceptance and love (as well as frumpy mom makeovers and daytime TV ad sales).
Once a year, we celebrate these two icons in tandem. Yes, we’re talking about Oprah’s Favorite Things, an annual list with which Ms. Winfrey has gifted us since 2002. The compilation of material items serves as a rare glimpse into Ms. Winfrey’s psyche, and for that we plebes are grateful. Read More
Nobody Wants to Listen to In-Flight Phone Calls So Please Stop Begging the FAA
We haven’t fully torn the plastic off our new Kindle, and now there’s debate that the newly revamped FAA electronic rules should be relaxed to include in-flight cell phone calls.
The Wall Street Journal reveals that the same advisory panel that recommended the approval of gadgets during takeoffs and landings also urged the FAA to consult with the Federal Communications Commission in allowing in-flight phone calls since it doesn’t interfere with the aircraft’s technology. However, the FAA shrugged its shoulders because reversing that ban would violate the FCC’s ban on in-flight cellular connections. Read More
You Can Purchase Google Glass Invitations on eBay For One Dollar or $5,000
There’s a price if you want to end Google Glass FOMO once and for all. As the search-turned-hardware giant rolls out its invite-only Explorer program for others to join in, Glass Almanac has noticed an uptick of invites percolating on the auction site. Read More
Love in the Time of Algorithms
Match.com Wants You Attention Grubbers to Compete for a Marriage Proposal Planner
For people who spend a lot of time online, it feels like you can’t swing a dead lolcat without hitting a viral marriage proposal video these days. It’s not necessarily a new phenomenon, though. People have delighted in watching strangers’ marriage themed home movies since the earliest days of America’s Funniest Videos. But with the advent of YouTube, you can catch the latest gushy, overblown wedding stunt on demand, whenever you please.
The digital cupids at Match.com have taken notice, and they’re running a contest for couples who met on their website. This is prime wedding proposal season, you see, with 39 percent of questions being popped from Thanksgiving to Valentine’s Day, according to a release from Match. Read More
Booting Up: A Mysterious Backer Actually Invested Real Money Into Bitstrips
The latest thinking is that Twitter’s IPO is likely to be priced at the higher range at $25/share before locking in its price tomorrow. [Bloomberg]
Naturally, Bitstrips announced their rich Asian backer in a stupid comic strip. Also, people want to invest in this? [Wall Street Journal]
Blackberry is going to keep plugging along with its handset business since that’s going well. [AllThingsD]
An article on Pocket, “the DVR of the Web,” lasts 37 days before you decide not to read it. [Fast Company]
Apple is adding 2,000 jobs in Arizona with the opening of a manufacturing plant. [Reuters]
Love in the Time of Algorithms
New Website Exposes ‘Homewreckers,’ Conveniently Leaving Men Out of It
There’s a new type of online slut shaming in town, and it’s all about chastising women and pretending men are gormless schmucks governed by their trouser snakes. Sort of like revenge porn, only this time, it’s for women and by women. We’ve come a long way, baby.
The new website called
And yes, incredibly, Read More
TNT Thinks Social Media Is Going to Locate Missing People
Since social media became a popular phrase used by humans, Hollywood has been tinkering with ways to integrate it into your television habits. With the clutter-your-screen-with-hashtags sector getting old, TNT has decided to put a new spin on things: It has greenlit a show where viewers use social media to reunite lost people with their friends and family. Read More
Love in the Time of Algorithms
Newly Engaged Couple Proves Future Rom Coms Will Revolve Around Instagram ‘Likes’
No longer considered a sad tool for the socially inept, online dating is more popular than ever. From Match.com to Tinder to the extra-perplexing LoveRoom, we’re all abandoning our hopes for romantic comedy meet-cutes in favor of finding our soul mates via impersonal electronic devices.
So it doesn’t come as too much of a surprise that one pair of betrothed millennials met via Instagram. She posted a picture of some lake in Oregon, ABC News reports. He, a complete and total stranger, commented on it. Read More
Justin Bieber’s Latest Investment Is a Social Network for #Teens
Sure, Katy Perry just passed Justin Bieber as the most popular person on Twitter. But that doesn’t mean the diminutive Canadian heartthrob is losing his taste for the digital rat-race.
Fortune reports that he’s just made a new seed investment, his first in a social network. The Biebs is pumping some of his endless cash into Shots of Me, a new teen-targeted social network due to launch later this week. VC Shervin Pishevar and boxer Floyd Mayweather have also invested. Read More
