Articles tagged "Amazon"

Why Apple's e-book trial matters.

Amazon is going to start selling fan fiction on Kindle, and Dan and Serena are all over it.

A long-term project to promote long-term thinking.

Roll your eyes all you want, but it's an idea with real consequences.

The issue at hand is that the Amazon is often burned to clear farmland.

The last survey of such complete proportions came way back in the 70s.

The best werewolf snuff porn keyword fiction you’re going to read all day.

Kazemi programmed a bot to buy himself totally random media off of Amazon every month.

“Make no mistake about it. This is the year for Windows,” Steve Ballmer "said in New York in September":http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2012/09/05/microsofts-ballmer-touts-the-year-for-windows-says-its-greatest-opportunity-for-developers/…

It used to be reasonably easy to defend yourself against the run-of-the-mill, hell-raising hacker. Pick a strong password — preferably a unique one — for all of your various accounts, don't tell anyone and be careful not to get tricked into giving it…

The tech industry is not unaware that regulators in Washington will catch up with its unchecked growth sooner or later. As such, a consoritium of companies including Facebook, Google, Amazon and eBay are joining forces to form the Internet Associatio…

For as long as I can remember -- thanks to haunting National Geographic spreads and the like -- there's been a small, gnawing bit of worry about the rapid pace of deforestation of the world's rainforests. Sure, it's one thing to try to make smart pur…

Taobao is the Chinese equivalent of Amazon or eBay, with a couple hundred million users all selling each other random knick-knacks and bootleg electronics. Thanks to its massive potential customer base, Taobao is huge: CrunchBase claims that the site…

On Wednesday the Department of Justice "filed an antitrust lawsuit":http://professional.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/ebooks04112012.pdf (PDF) against Apple and several major publishers for the alleged collusion of the price of e-books. Three…

Tecnobrega, the Amazon's Flashing Answer to House Music, is Part Pirates, Part Space Ships

The Amazon Rainforest covers 2.1 million square miles in South America, spanning territory owned by nine different countries. It's what people think of when they talk about the 'world's lungs,' and it hosts an incredibly important concentration of th…

_What you might have missed on the Internet today._ * How Mike Brown "killed Pluto":http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/11/03/book-review-how-i-killed-pluto-by-mike-brown/#comment-94 * The History of mobile tech in "60 se…

Before you become a subscriber to one of the new music streaming web sites, have a gander at "this list":http://www.amazon.com/Free-Songs-Music/b?ie=UTF8&node=334897011 of free music from Amazon, and the albums below. Just beware that a "downloader"…

_ Only a few moments to cherish before the end of time. Use them wisely. I've still never been to that place Shake Shack, so I might go there if the line isn't too long._ h3. ONE: Nature pictures that look painted ("National Geographic":http://pho…

h3. ZERO: Amazon crash permanently destroyed data ("Business Insider":http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-lost-data-2011-4) h3. ONE: Watch a hawklet hatch live from the top of Bobst Library at NYU ("NYT":http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/categor…

We had a plan last week. We were going to "publish a story on CNN.com":http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-21/tech/motherboard.NYC.resistor_1_hackers-diy-robot?_s=PM:TECH with a video we made, about "the hackerspace NYC Resistor":http://motherboard.tv/20…

Amazon is not even giving a fuck, is what I mean. The company unveiled its cloud-based music streaming service a few days ago and, kinda like the world's number one copyright pirate, is begging for the lawsuit wrath of the major labels by not getting…