Probably the hottest buzz phrase getting thrown around in tech news these days is "cord cutting." It refers to the process of unsubscribing from cable TV services and instead, using streaming video services to fulfill your programming needs. It sounds sort of radical, but people are doing it. According to the New York Times, by the... Read More
Siri — the voice activated assistant in the iPhone — is great, sometimes. Most of the time it doesn't work right and annoys you. But then other times — like when you're driving and can reply to a text via dictation, it's pretty cool. But a recent study by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University is trying to rain on that... Read More
In case you’ve never indulged in the fine piece of cinematic art/trasy rom-com that is “The Ugly Truth,” there’s a classic scene that involves Katherine Heigl wearing vibrating undies in a restaurant and losing the remote to a kid at an adjacent table. While the kid has no idea what his random button-pressing is doing to the poor blonde... Read More
Twitter Music, the long-rumored music service from the social network, is finally here. It was definitely a logical step for the company, because people do love to tweet about music. As the company blog explained, "Many of the most-followed accounts on Twitter are musicians, and half of all users follow at least one musician. This is why... Read More