(Credit: Threadflip)Threadflip, an online marketplace where fashionistas can sell and buy clothing, just got a $6.5 million infusion from investors, the company announced today.The company offers a quick and easy way for users to …
Viral ‘Privacy Notice’ On Facebook Is Fake
A so-called “Facebook Privacy Notice” claims you need to repost it to protect your privacy. The notice went viral on the network Tuesday but is, in fact, a fake. The posting is based on the idea that Facebook’s recent listing as …
Nasdaq ready to compensate Facebook IPO investors
Facebook shares began trading on Nasdaq on May 18 after a 30-minute delay.It looks like Nasdaq has a plan to compensate Facebook investors for losses incurred as a result of technical glitches that dogged the company’s IPO.The sto…
Can the automotive industry rescue Google Maps?
2012 Audi A7 Sportback 3.0TGoogle isn’t saying much about how it’s going to rescue its mapping product from the expected upset of losing the Apple deal. We’re going to learn exactly what it’s doing tomorrow at a press event that I…
Google warns Gmail users about state-sponsored email hacking
The Google warning displayed to Gmail accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored phishing and malware attacks.(Credit: Google)Google hasn’t been shy about wagging its finger at China recently. And in what appears to b…
PETA releases erotic .xxx site
(Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)This may well make your day.At least, that’s what PETA — the organization created to remind you that animals are people — would like.For, never fond of being retiring, People for the Et…
Samsung’s Galaxy S III phones by the carrier, by the numbers
Choosing which Galaxy S III handset you want may not prove so easy.(Credit: Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)Within the month of June, Samsung and its five carrier partners will sell a whopping 18 versions of the Samsung Galaxy S III Android…
Matthew Modine to play John Sculley in Steve Jobs biopic
Actor Matthew Modine as early Apple CEO John Sculley.(Credit: Workhouse)The roster for the upcoming Steve Jobs film starring Ashton Kutcher has picked its bad guy. That is to say, the man who ousted Jobs from Apple in 1985, John …
Tell us why your town should be the next Silicon Valley
The Founder Institute, an early-stage startup accelerator, graduated its 500th company recently.The milestone occurred almost three years to the day after the organization first started. In that time, it has helped launch companie…
Watch Venus Cross the Sun, with Astronomers [LIVE VIDEO]
The transit of Venus is well underway, and we’ve found the best way to watch — with astronomers and amateur stargazers, in a Google+ Hangout (embedded above). The Hangout is being led by Frasier Cain, veteran publisher of the we…
‘Phone, unlock thyself’
Sooner than you think, the Holy Grail of mobile password security could land on your phone thanks to new tech from Nuance called Dragon ID.Dragon ID is a voice biometrics system from the same company behind the voice-recognition t…
Video game violence at E3: Too much, yet still not enough
I’m no shrinking violet when it comes to video game violence. I cut my teeth on Unreal Tournament, and I am a machine with a shotgun in Halo. But the bloody displays at Microsoft’s and Sony’s press conferences here at E3 left me h…
Buy your own ‘Game of Thrones’ Iron Throne
Legend has it the first king of Westeros, Aegon Targaryen, created the Iron Throne with the swords of a thousand fallen enemies.(Credit: Screenshot by Christopher MacManus/CNET)Many of you out there simply can’t get enough of the …
Buy your own ‘Game of Thrones’ Iron Throne
Legend has it the first king of Westeros, Aegon Targaryen, created the Iron Throne with the swords of a thousand fallen enemies.(Credit: Screenshot by Christopher MacManus/CNET)Many of you out there simply can’t get enough of the …
Microsoft Bing team develops app — for Android only!
Members of the Bing Mobile team at Microsoft’s Israel R&D Center have launched a new beta app and Web site for remotely programming their phones.The unusual element here? The app is for Android phones only (at least at this po…
How Airtime plans to keep penises out of the picture
Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning’s new social video startup Airtime launched today with a celebrity-studded event, but no matter how many times Jim Carrey praised the service it was clear that it liberally borrowed the basic idea o…
Champion Runner Helps Fallen Rival Cross Finish Line [VIDEO]
Like a superhero swooping in to help someone, runner Meghan Vogel came from behind during the 3,200-meter race at the high school state track meet in Ohio to help a struggling rival. Competitor Arden McMath fell multiple times Satur…
Champion Runner Helps Fallen Rival Cross Finish Line [VIDEO]
Like a superhero swooping in to help someone, runner Meghan Vogel came from behind during the 3,200-meter race at the high school state track meet in Ohio to help a struggling rival. Competitor Arden McMath fell multiple times Satur…