Wikipedia reaches a turning point: it's losing administrators faster than it...
In July this year, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales rejected the notion that the online encyclopaedia is struggling to appoint new administrators. Wales was responding to an article in The Atlantic,...
View ArticleWikitravel versus Wikimedia: something is going badly wrong with the free...
Internet Brands, owner of the Wikitravel website, is attempting to sue two of its volunteer editors after they agreed to transfer operation of their site to the Wikimedia Foundation, the foundation...
View ArticleCommercial air pilots can now use iPads during flights. Does that make you...
American Airlines has become the first commercial carrier to be given clearance by the Federal Aviation Authority to use iPads during all phases of flight, replacing the 35lbs of manuals from the...
View ArticleThe iPhone 5: the more glass screen there is, the more there is to break
The American independent reviewers’ group Consumer Reports has given Apple’s iPhone 5 its blessing – a stark contrast to its assessment of the iPhone 4 in 2010, which it notably could not recommend due...
View ArticleGawker's unmasking of Reddit troll Violentacrez uncovers new layers of...
A few forums of the social news aggregator website Reddit have blocked links to Gawker, in response to Gawker journalist Adrian Chen's unmasking of the internet troll known as Violentacrez, a...
View ArticleStar Wars VII: Disney has the scope to make an awesome new film. Don't knock...
I just felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly said: "What, what?" As the Telegraph reports, Walt Disney has agreed to buy Lucasfilm, the company behind the Star Wars...
View ArticleCall of Duty: Black Ops II – more evidence that games manufacturers are...
It's that time of year again, when vast numbers of men around the world ignore their girlfriends (at least, those with one) in favour of having 13-year-olds scream profanity at them over the internet –...
View ArticleWikipedia vandals will be stopped in their tracks as 'pending changes'...
In a small but fundamental change to Wikipedia, a tool which protects articles from malicious vandalism while simultaneously permitting good-faith edits has gone live on the English Wikipedia. When a...
View ArticleInternet fraudsters are faking messages by Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza. What...
Several newspapers have speculated that Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza may have anonymously revealed to the internet what he planned to do. Screenshots purportedly of posts on a 4chan...
View ArticleIn trying to 'unpublish' Julie Burchill, The Observer displays its ignorance...
The Observer's takedown of and apology for Julie Burchill's controversial piece on transgender women is a completely pointless action. Simply putting a sentence from the piece in quotes into Google...
View ArticleFacebook Graph Search: now you can spy on your friends
As The Telegraph reports, Facebook has overhauled its internal search engine to allow members to easily search through their friends' posts. The Graph Search tool will allow users to quickly retrieve...
View ArticleWhy we're about to discover more Wikipedia hoaxes
Wikipedia articles and burgers from the supermarket – unless you examine them both in great detail, you can’t be 100 per cent sure what you’re getting. The article on the Bicholim Conflict – a supposed...
View ArticlePlayStation 4 won't block second-hand games, but if the Xbox 720 does, it's...
In light of Sony’s patent application last year for a system in which discs contain an embedded chip that permanently and exclusively associates them with a specific device, it wasn't unreasonable to...
View ArticleSorry Nascar, but on the internet, you aren't above the law
How refreshing it is to see a corporate juggernaut failing to get its own way on the internet by gaming the system. On Saturday, at least two dozen Nascar spectators were injured when a crash sent...
View ArticleCalling Katie Hopkins a troll is an insult to trolls
It’s always been only a matter of time before terms previously confined to the internet join the mainstream. "Troll" is one such term, and while former Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins may be...
View ArticleEdward Snowden – dissident or traitor? Either way, Capitol Hill should be...
No Wikipedia edit has recently come under more scrutiny than this one to Edward Snowden’s entry, which amended the description of him from "American dissident" to "American traitor" – and crucially,...
View ArticleSick of Britain's rip-off rail fares? Then switch to cheap car-sharing like...
As The Telegraph reports, rail fares will increase by up to 9.1 per cent in January, constituting the 11th year in a row that commuters have faced above-inflation rises. I live in Germany, a country...
View ArticleSo long as there are people who claim homeopathy works, we must never tire of...
Homeopathy is useless. That's according to Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council, which has produced a 300-page draft report that reviewed the evidence for homeopathy as a treatment...
View ArticleMen are funding breast implants for women they've never met in exchange for...
I've just been reading an article about a woman in the north of England whose breast implants were paid for by strangers. In just three months, 23-year-old Gemini Smith from Northumbria raised the...
View ArticleYoung people on the internet are really, really cross that people voted Ukip....
Look between the Instagram-filtered photos of other people's lunches, and there's something pretty funny to be found on social media at the moment, if you're my age. Ukip's unprecedented success at the...
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