Facebook introduces shared photo albums 27 Aug 2013 | 09:28 pm

Ever have that annoying moment where you're posting photos from last night's party on Facebook only to be one-upped by your best friend who just happened to have a better angle on all the high jinx? F...

Swipe, Spot, swipe! School offers iPad class for dogs 27 Aug 2013 | 01:43 am

A couple of years ago, Anna Jane Grossman read a spoof article on the website The Awl about a teenage girl who was building up her resume for college applications and was struck by one detail; among t...

Miley Cyrus twerks her way to top of Twitter at 300,000 tweets per minute  27 Aug 2013 | 12:49 am

The unwritten (and arguably unreasonable) rule against spoiler alerts was ignored en masse Sunday night, when East Coast viewers of MTV's Video Music Awards took to Twitter, not only letting their Wes...

Viral by accident: 7 folks who didn't mean to be famous  27 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am

You remember Marilyn Hagerty: The 86-year-old shot to fame when her unpretentious (and very earnest) Olive Garden review in North Dakota's Grand Forks Herald went viral like crazy. Hagerty, who celebr...

Is he true? ‘Boyfriend Tracker’ lets you check 26 Aug 2013 | 09:46 pm

'Sleep-texting' is a nightmare for some cellphone addicts 26 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm

Remember sleep? You know, it's the activity that involves lying in bed and doing nothing for hours. For a growing number of cellphone users who "sleep-text," however, a good night's rest is a thing of...

Toy story: Interactive action figures are the latest video game craze 26 Aug 2013 | 07:19 pm

Technology may not have been sophisticated enough to bring your G.I. Joe toys to life when you were young, but kids now get the next best thing: toys that come to life inside a video game. The craze s...

As next iPhones approach, the gold rush is on 23 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm

The next iPhone is rumored to come in a gold tint — for some, that's the most exciting rumor emerging ahead of the iPhone reveal Apple is expected to host on Sept. 10. The other big (and rather likely...

Yahoo beats Google to the top spot for US web traffic 22 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm

So what was the most popular U.S. website last month? Not Google (sort of). Turns out that Yahoo had the most unique monthly visitors in July, beating even the search king. And that didn't even includ...

Yes, Mom, teens really do care about privacy on their smartphones 22 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm

More than half of teens who use mobile apps say they avoid downloading some of them because of concerns about personal information being shared with others, including location-based data. And a quarte...