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Rupert Murdoch Stumbles in Twitter Debut

News Corp CEO deletes tweet about British holidays

(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch's big Twitter debut hasn't gone too smoothly, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The chief executive of News Corporation joined Twitter less than 48 hours ago and started with a message that he quickly deleted: "Maybe Brits have too many holidays for broke country!"—...

Teens Text and Google for Newfangled Sex Ed

Health orgs and school districts offer sex ed online

(Newser) - Why teach sex education in class when students prefer to text and Google about it anyway? So say some health organizations and school districts that are setting up sex-ed websites and texting services for teens, the New York Times reports. And students seem to like it: “You can ask...

Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis Top List of Actors We Stalk on IMDb
 Top 10 Actors We Stalk on IMDb 
Dec 25, 2011 1:20 PM CST

Top 10 Actors We Stalk on IMDb

Natalie Portman steals top spot from Johnny Depp this year

(Newser) - When you want to ogle an actor, the Internet Movie Database is a reasonable destination. So which 10 celebs racked up the most IMDb profile page views in 2011? The top spot now belongs to Natalie Portman , who snagged the crown from Johnny Depp (now No. 3, he's been...

Yahoo Eyes Selling Asian Assets
 Yahoo to Unload Asian Assets? 
Dec 22, 2011 3:43 AM CST

Yahoo to Unload Asian Assets?

$17B deal seen as way to revamp US business

(Newser) - Yahoo is considering selling off its Asian assets—the most valuable part of its business by far—to raise cash and breathe new life into its declining US operations. The company is considering unloading most of its stake in China's Alibaba and all of its stake in Yahoo Japan...

The Year's Priciest Domain Names

Top honors went to Social.com, which sold for $2.6M

(Newser) - This year was a cheap one for buying domain names—relatively speaking. Sex.com sold for a wild $13 million last year, but 2011's top honors went to a domain name that cost the lucky buyer just $2.6 million. What was it? Social.com (which currently returns a...

Judge: Blogger Is Not a Journalist

Woman ordered to pay $2.5M for online defamation

(Newser) - In what could end up being very bad news for outspoken bloggers across America, a federal judge has decided that a blogger was not acting as a journalist when she accused an Oregon lawyer of acting unethically and illegally as a trustee in a bankruptcy hearing. The judge denied Crystal...

Octomom Lands Huge Web Show Deal

Nadya Suleman getting six-figure sum for weekly broadcast: TMZ

(Newser) - If you're craving more antics from the Octomom, you're in luck: You'll soon get a weekly dose. A production company is paying Nadya Suleman a six-figure sum to star in a web TV show to air on Ustream, TMZ reports. The show, which begins this month, will...

Confirmed: Most People Have No Good Reason to Go Online

Young surfers are just killing time: Pew study

(Newser) - A new study reveals that the Internet is a gigantic, sophisticated, inter-connected network utilized by many exclusively to ... waste time. On any given day, 53% of 18-to-29-year-olds log on to the web for the sole purpose of either having fun or passing the time, according to a report by the...

Cuba Unveils Facebook-Like Social Network

'Red Social' launches a year after Cuban Wikipedia clone

(Newser) - Cuba has introduced its very own Facebook-style social network called Red Social. The website appears to be sponsored by the communist nation's Ministry of Education, reports USA Today . Red Social imitates both the look and feel of Facebook, and its homepage features the slogan "A virtual meeting point...

Facebook Employees Dreaming of IPO Christmas

Rumor mill heats up that company is going public soon

(Newser) - Here come the Facebook IPO rumors again. An insider tells Business Insider that employees expect the company to go public soon, possibly next month. "The IPO talk inside Facebook has ramped up the past 6 weeks and Zuckerberg repeatedly has said that it is 'coming,' which he...

Gen Y on Jobs: Facebook Access Trumps Fat Salary
Gen Y on Jobs: Facebook Access Trumps Fat Salary
survey says
Nov 9, 2011 1:22 PM CST

Gen Y on Jobs: Facebook Access Trumps Fat Salary

40% of students would take less pay in exchange for social media freedoms

(Newser) - If you employ a lot of 20-somethings, don’t block their access to Facebook—they might revolt. Today’s young people value access to the Internet and social media extremely highly, according to a new Cisco report, which surveyed 1,400 students and 1,400 young professionals aged 21-29. Among...

Weight of Electrons Running the Internet Estimated at 2 Ounces
 How Much Does 
 the Internet Weigh? 
Brainiacs ask
Nov 6, 2011 2:50 PM CST

How Much Does the Internet Weigh?

As much as a strawberry ... or just one grain of sand

(Newser) - How much does the Internet weigh? No, it's not a Zen koan. The answer is about 1.8 ounces, around the same as a single strawberry, reports the Telegraph . How did anyone figure this out? Well, the Internet runs on electricity, and electrons have a tiny amount of weight—...

No One Wants to Edit Wikipedia These Days

Online encyclopedia struggling to find fresh blood, says Jimmy Wales

(Newser) - Wikipedia is in danger of wasting away as contributors jump ship and aren't replaced by new ones, founder Jimmy Wales says. "We are not replenishing our ranks," he tells the AP . "It is not a crisis, but I consider it to be important." Wales—who...

MTV News Explains 'Internet' in 1995

Old news clip goes viral

(Newser) - To be fair, it could've just as easily been Better Than Ezra that would go on to change the world. A clip of MTV News from 1995 in which Kurt Loder investigates the influence of the fledgling internet went viral this week, notes the Huffington Post . In the piece,...

William Shatner Booted From Google+

Relax, he's back now

(Newser) - Google+ isn't off to the most celeb-friendly of starts: William Shatner found himself blocked from the social network today, TechCrunch reports. The actor's explanation, via Twitter: "My Google+ account was flagged for violating standards. Saying hello to everyone apparently is against the rules maybe I should say...

Google Effect: Internet Is Affecting What We Choose to Remember, Study Says

 Internet 
 Changes 
 How We 
 Remember 
study says
Jul 14, 2011 7:18 PM CDT

Internet Changes How We Remember

We're relying more on search engines now

(Newser) - Why remember something if you can Google it? Researchers exploring that question have concluded that computers and search engines are changing the way human memory works, reports the San Jose Mercury News . Essentially, people in the experiments were less likely to remember a piece of trivia if they knew they...

Chinese Mock &#39;Worst Photoshop Ever&#39;
 Chinese 
 Mock 'Worst 
 Photoshop Ever' 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jul 3, 2011 6:28 PM CDT

Chinese Mock 'Worst Photoshop Ever'

Nation laughs at pic of levitating officials

(Newser) - A badly doctored propaganda photo has made hapless officials in China's Huili county the laughing stock of a nation of 1.3 billion people. The photo on the rural county's website appeared to show county officials levitating above the road project they were inspecting, the Guardian reports. The...

US Underwriting 'Shadow' Internet

Obama administration leading efforts to help dissidents

(Newser) - One of the ways Egypt , Syria , and other regimes crack down on protesters is by shutting down telecommunications networks—but soon they may no long be able to do so. The New York Times takes a close look at the global effort, led by the US, to create “shadow”...

Internet Takes a Big Step to Its Future Tomorrow

Giants will test longer Internet Protocol address system

(Newser) - Scientific American posing a jarring question as headline today: "Will the Internet Stop on June 8?" And the answer is: Er, no. But the Internet will start to grow up a little. Tomorrow is World IPv6 Day, when Google, Facebook, YouTube, and other giants will conduct a 24-hour...

'Anonymous' Hackers Hit Iran Government

They get 10K emails, plans bigger attack on June 12

(Newser) - Iran is trying to ban open Internet , and a group of particularly adept hackers probably has Tehran hoping it can speed things along. The notorious Anonymous group infiltrated government servers and got its hands on more than 10,000 email messages from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Next...

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