Sam Biddle's posts

By a vote of 73 to 23, the US Senate just voted for the warrantless surveillance of American citizens until 2017.

In 1969, composer Alvin Lucier created a work that's half science demo, half wonderfully creepy art: he recorded…

Finding the perfect Christmas gifts for your friends and family is a real challenge. And as you struggle to find…

Lots of fun, good, and exciting things happened in our world this year. But there were still so many things that…

Technology is about making and using cool new things that enrich our lives. But technology is also about using…

It's the end of the year—and that means it's the end of the semester. Before we all go on winter break, it's time to…

We saw a preview earlier this month, but now Facebook's simplified, slimmed down privacy tools should be arriving…

We thought the crookedest little Apple Store in Texas was an isolated case. We were wrong: confessions from Apple's…

Remember MySpace? No, not the new one, but the old, horrible one, the acne of the Internet, the one with Tom's dumb…

The lunatic power-bigots at the WBC are down another Twitter account—and this time it belongs to its leader's son, Fr…

There's nothing on the planet that's equal parts terrifying and spectacular quite like DARPA's LS3 "Big Dog"…

Nothing is truly official with Anonymous, but @YourAnonNews was the closest thing the hackers had to a spokesperson.…

Around the clock, satellites are snapping and re-snapping the Earth's surface from space. Also around the clock,…

If you think the auto-play commercials on sites like ours are annoying, get ready to have it in your face times a…

Have you heard the news? Instagram just updated its terms of service, and is giving itself permission to sell the…

We can all agree that the Westboro Baptist Church is the objectively worst collections of humans in the history of…

Google Maps for iOS is so much better than Apple's attempt at a replacement that it will make you giggle. But you…

North Korea's satellite is wobbling out of control, and might rain down fiery death debris at any moment. Want to…

The Back to the Future Hoverboard by Mattel is not a hoverboard. It's a board at best. Really, it's just a piece…

We didn't see this coming: Google Image Search is no longer showing sexually explicit images for many popular…