Chris Crum

Like many people on the Internet, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is a fan of Game of Thrones. He’s not the biggest fan of how the show is distributed, however. Wales is frequently active on Quora, where someone asked him if …

Randy Jackson, the last remaining original judge from the hugely popular American Idol is leaving the show. Contestants can prepare to hear a lot less “dogs,” (or “dawgs” if you prefer) in their judgments. Jackson broke the news to E! …

Twitter has released a somewhat funny video for Mother’s Day. It starts out by giving you the impression that they want you to use Twitter for Mother’s Day, but then drops a dose of reality on you, asking, ‘What the …

Linux has become the operating system of choice for NASA’s laptops when it comes to the International Space Station. The ISS has been using Windows XP, though the majority of its ground-based support systems on Earth are reportedly Linux-based. ZDnet …

While Twitter has not confirmed the news itself, the company has apparently acquired Ubalo, a “scalable computation” startup. The news appears to have been broken by TechCrunch, and Ubalo has posted the following message on its homepage: We’ve got some …

Update: “Nothing juicy to see here!” Follow @YouTube YouTube @YouTube Seeing a weird banner in your search results? No worries-fix in the works. Nothing juicy to see here!  Reply  ·  Retweet  ·  Favorite1 hour ago via web · powered by @socialditto Some …

A report is out from the Wall Street Journal today, indicating that Amazon is working on a new line of hardware products, which includes a smartphone with 3D display capability, an additional smartphone, and an audio-only streaming device. These are …

As we’ve reported on several times, Google has started cleaning up its Image Search experience, sometimes making results less relevant in the process. In fact, some other things that Google is doing these days make for a much more censored …

This video of a baby duck falling asleep, or struggling to stay awake, rather, has been around for about a year. In fact, in a couple days, it will be the video’s one-year anniversary on YouTube. According to search data …

In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, LinkedIn announced a few things it’s been doing to make the social network more accessible. These include improved site navigation, improvements to interaction with the service, and the addition of image descriptions. “What …

Google has made it possible for Internet users to look at historical imagery of the Earth’s surface over time. The company has been working with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME on the Timelapse project, and is releasing …

Yahoo announced that the teams from both Milewise and GoPollGo have joined Yahoo. In an email, a spokesperson said, “Today Milewise and GoPollGo joined the Yahoo! mobile team. GoPollGo created a cool social polling app. The team has joined our …

Funny videos of news anchors and weathermen losing their cool on television are nothing new on the Internet. Some might even say that they’re what makes the Internet worth using. No? Either way, they’re usually pretty funny. Reddit has unearthed …

You’ll never view TNG the same again. [via reddit]

It looks like Manchester United officially has its replacement for Alex Ferguson, who stepped down as manager this week. Ferguson’s replacement will reportedly be David Moyes, who is said to have signed a long-term six-year deal, and will take over …

The 2013 Tesla Model S has received a rave review from Consumer Reports. This was just published (though a subscriptions is required), and is bound to be huge for the car maker. The car got a 99 out of 100, …

While we’ve seen nothing official, and Facebook has specifically said that it will not comment on speculation, reports have come out that the company is buying mapping/traffic app Waze for up to $1 billion. TechCrunch points to reports in the …

There is currently a lot of web interest in river otters as more places are opening up North American river otter exhibits. Wildlife DNA lab recently received an $18,000 grant to research them. Residents of San Francisco with an interest …

Ariel Castro was arraigned on Thursday, appearing in court for the first time since he and his two brothers were arrested in the case of the three kidnapped women in Cleveland. The brothers were not charged, but Ariel was arraigned …

Jenn Allen, an ex-girlfriend of Techcrunch/Crunchfund Founder Michael Arrington, recently took to Facebook to make abuse allegations against him. While rape was not mentioned in the initial post, she later brought that up in comments on a Gawker article about …

Google uploaded a recent Google Tech Talk called, “Organizing Organizing the World’s Scientific Knowledge to make it Universally Accessible: Building the Breakthrough Machine”. As you probably know, Google’s own mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally …

Groupon just released its first earnings report since CEO Andrew Mason was fired. Unlike last time, Groupon actually beat Wall Street expectations this time, and the stock is currently on the rise. The company reported gross billings of $1.41 billion, …

Earlier, we looked at photos of two of the three women – Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus – who were kidnapped a decade ago in Cleveland, and rescued this week. There had been no photos of third woman Michelle Knight …

As it has indicated numerous times in the past, Yahoo still takes search seriously, even if it’s outsourcing its system to Microsoft these days (we’ll see how long that lasts). But in recent months, since former Googler Marissa Mayer took …