October 26, 2013 Teenagers Prove Fickle When Choosing Social Networks by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Last year, reports consistently found that teens were not very interested in Twitter but were unhealthily addicted to Facebook. Now that…
October 26, 2013 Review: Refinements Add Up in New Mac System by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There isn’t one thing that jumps out with Apple’s new Mac operating system, known as Mavericks — and that’s a…
October 26, 2013 From a Twitter How-To, Another Lesson by HANNA INGBER By HANNA INGBER A Florida man briefly became flooded by notifications from Twitter after a headline about how to use the social platform incidentally…
October 26, 2013 Editing Microsoft Word Files on an Android Tablet by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Google Play has several apps for working with Microsoft Word files on Android tablets. Published: October 25, 2013 at 12:00AM…
October 26, 2013 Be as Creative as a Kindergartner by AMY O’LEARY By AMY O’LEARY Tom and David Kelley of the design firm IDEO talk about their new book, “Creative Confidence,” which offers a range of…
October 25, 2013 Samsung Electronics Fined for Fake Online Comments by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN A Taiwanese trade agency has punished Samsung Electronics for paying people to post fake online comments that mocked its competitor,…
October 25, 2013 Internet Archive Will Shield Visitors by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Inspired by recent revelations of the depth of the N.S.A.’s monitoring of online behavior, the Internet Archive is taking a step…
October 25, 2013 2 major solar flares Friday — the second twice as intense as the first The sun shot out a pair of gigantic solar flares early Friday — the second one even bigger than the first, a NOAA expert…
October 25, 2013 The Craziest Multi-Tool Ever Made Kills in 100 Different Ways This multi-bladed folding knife was made in Germany around 1880. Image: Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History The F.W. Holler Company manufactured it to…
October 25, 2013 Sorting Out the New Yahoo Mail by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Users have reported problems with Yahoo’s new e-mail format, but it should still be possible to sort contacts by first…