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By Jordan Valinsky 5/13 5:31pm

They See Me Trollin'

The DOJ.

The DOJ Just Trolled the ACLU By Sending Them a Completely Blacked Reponse to Their FOIA Request

Mirror, mirror on the wall, which government department is the biggest troll of them all? It’s the Justice Department.

Business Insider reports that the ACLU received their FOIA request in regards to the FBI’s monitoring of emails, texts, and messages that were procured without a warrant. In reply, they received 15 pages that were completely blacked out, save for the DOJ’s letterhead and subject. Read More

By Jessica Roy 5/08 9:17am

The Way We Live Now

(Screencap: YouTube)

Pajamas that Read Your Child a Bedtime Story Are Perfect for Parents Who Hate Their Kids

Do you hate your own children and wish they would just stop being so freakin’ annoying? Do you pray that they’d just go the fuck to sleep for once so you can watch The X Factor in peace? Luckily, a new pair of high tech pajamas called “Smart Pajamas” will do your parenting for you. Ain’t the future grand? Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 5/06 12:42pm

Guns Don't Kill People 3D Does

I swear. (Photo: screencap)

Defense Distributed Dudes Celebrate Their 3D-Printed Death Machine With Ridiculous Video

Last week, Defense Distributed announced the development of the world’s first fully 3D-printed gun. You can now download the CAD files and, theoretically, print your own.

Now, the Daily Dot reports, the libertarian upstarts have released a video to mark this historic occasion. And it pretty much confirms what we’ve suspected all along: These guys have watched too goddamn many science fiction movies. Read More

By Jessica Roy 4/26 10:22am

Planet GOOG

(Photo: AndroidPolice)

For Some Reason, Eric Schmidt Thinks Talking to a Computer on Your Face Is ‘The Weirdest Thing’

Though current Google CEO Larry Page seems to be quite at home with his Google Glass, the company’s former CEO, Eric Schmidt, is much more candid about the strangeness of having the Internet dance in your field of vision at all times. Speaking to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Mr. Schmidt admitted that talking to a face computer as if it’s your best friend is “the weirdest thing.” At least he’s honest! Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 4/22 1:30pm

I'll Tumbl For You

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Tumblr Debuts Mobile Ads, Allowing Brands to Buy Their Way Into the Dashboard

Fire up your Tumblr mobile app this afternoon, and you’ll notice something new in the river of posts flowing through your dashboard. Scroll through and for the first time, you’ll see advertising mixed in with the #RHOA GIFs and nail art.

Ad Age reports that starting today, the profit-seeking startup is rolling out sponsored posts in the prime real estate of users’ streams, though only on mobile apps. Launch partners include G.E., Warner Bros. and ABC, and at most you’ll see four per day, identified with a little dollar sign. Read More

By Jordan Valinsky 4/22 11:54am

First World Problems

Problem child. (Photo: Flickr)

Parents Now Shipping Their iPad-Addicted Kids to Therapy

We’re all going to enter therapy for our addiction to technology eventually. Might as well start them young. That’s what they’re doing over in the United Kingdom to a four-year-old girl who, after using her iPad for more than four hours a day, became “distressed and inconsolable” when it was taken away.

Her mother entered her into a rehab after she showed “increased agitation” when the iPad was removed. Enter hero Dr. Richard Graham, the creator of Britain’s first-ever technology addiction program, who claims cases like hers are growing and creating “dangerous” long-term effects. He told The Telegraph that the electronic form of amusement was preventing kids from forming IRL social relationships and leaving kids very exhausted from the constant swiping. Read More

By Jessica Roy 4/22 8:25am

Linkages

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Booting Up: People Love Their Chat Heads

Facebook Home has already passed 500,000 installations on Google Play a week after launch, which just goes to show people love to throw away their friends. [The Next Web]

A cadre of Silicon Valley companies, including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, are quietly trying to kill a privacy bill in California that would give residents the right to know how tech companies are using their personal information. [insideBayArea]

Japan wants to stymie access to TOR by asking ISPs to flat out block it. [Wired]

Comedy Central is planning to host a comedy festival on Twitter because this is what the future is like now. [New York Times]

How technology helped the FBI track down the Boston Marathon bombers. [Washington Post]

It’s baaaaaaaack. [Valleywag]

By Jessica Roy 4/17 10:19am

App for That

(Photo: Google Play)

Helpful New App Keeps People From Sleeping With Their Cousins

Don’t you just hate it when you’re at a party and start making out with a cute guy or girl, only to later discover at a family picnic that they’re actually your cousin? As it turns out, accidentally hooking up with a relative happens so frequently in Iceland that there is an official database, called Íslendingabók or “The Book of Icelanders,” that traces the family lineage of 720,000 Icelandic citizens. Read More

By Jessica Roy 4/01 10:44am

This Happened

(Photo: Deep Roots at Home)

Today’s Tweens Demand Double Beds So They Can Snuggle With Their Laptops

Trading in your twin bed for a sleepover-friendly double bed in a childhood rite of passage–one that allows you to stretch out among your pile of big girl CDs, magazines and clothes.

But tweens today may not ever know this meaningful transition, because sales for twin beds are dropping. Instead, kids are demanding double size beds early on so that they can comfortably sprawl out in bed next to their computers. Read More

By Jessica Roy 3/28 12:53pm

Survey Says

A typical hacker. (Photo: Tumblr)

Shocking Study Finds Hackers Are ‘Antisocial Man-Children Who Live In Their Parents’ Basements’

A new study published by a professor at the University of Montreal has yielded earth-shattering conclusions that are sure to rock the public’s fundamental understanding of “hackers.” Largely considered to be clean-shaven, upstanding adults residing in beautifully-kept apartments and boasting impressively high emotional IQs, the study has revealed a seedier side of the hacker persona: Read More

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