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Phil Johnson wrote No, programmers don't write code all day

A new survey finds out what software developers already know: writing code is only one part of the job

6 weeks 3 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote Republicans tweet more often than Democrats

Almost all member of Congress now use social media, but Republicans use it more often than Democrats - and with more snark

6 weeks 4 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote The Weekly Hash - April 5, 2013

A goofy romp through this week’s top tech stories and, also, the only time today (or probably ever) that Justin Bieber and Harvard University will be mentioned in the same article

7 weeks 1 day ago
Phil Johnson wrote Live tweeting the Facebook/Android phone event

I was tweeting during the Facebook Home announcement event. Here's what happened

7 weeks 1 day ago
Phil Johnson wrote History of the O'Reilly cover animals

O’Reilly’s cover designer tells the story of how they came to use animals on the covers of their popular books

7 weeks 2 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote The C in DMCA doesn't stand for common sense

Recent rulings in the ReDigi and Aereo cases highlight what we already know: it’s high time for Congress to overhaul the copyright laws

7 weeks 3 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote Apple's iRadio music service is finally coming - maybe

Apple may be close to launching its long-rumored streaming radio service, but we've heard that before

7 weeks 4 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote The Weekly Hash - March 29, 2013

Having some fun at the expense of this week’s top tech newsmakers, this week featuring astronauts having a quick rendezvous, a Google exec having a midlife crisis and one teenager having a very good week

8 weeks 1 day ago
Phil Johnson wrote Watches that were smart before there were smart watches

Believe it or not, some watches were smart, in their own ways, well before the Pebble was kickstarted or the iWatch rumored

8 weeks 1 day ago
Phil Johnson wrote Should we be concerned that Janet Napolitano doesn’t do email?

The Homeland Security Secretary appears to not be technically inclined and that might not be a good thing

8 weeks 2 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote Are you smarter than a Vietnamese 11th grader?

A Google engineer finds that Vietnamese school children have programming skills far beyond their counterparts in the United States

8 weeks 3 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote Google as a public utility

Are Google’s products and services becoming a critical infrastructure that the government should ensure survives?

8 weeks 4 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote The Weekly Hash - March 22, 2013

Searching from the top of the world to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean to bring you - and make fun of - this week’s top tech stories

9 weeks 1 day ago
Phil Johnson wrote Revenge of the nerds: Big Data, analytics and sports

Basketball- and soccer and hockey and even mixed martial arts - are catching up to baseball in the use of Big Data and analytics

9 weeks 1 day ago
Phil Johnson wrote Study finds piracy doesn't hurt digital music sales

Researchers in Europe are telling copyright holders, when it comes to illegal music downloading, don’t worry, be happy

9 weeks 2 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote Rear Window Captioning patent holder waives licensing fees

In contrast to current trends, the developers (and patent holders) of a closed captioning system for movie theaters are now offering it for no licensing fee

9 weeks 3 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote Bills would make movies and in-flight entertainment accessible

Senator Tom Harkin has introduced legislation to require captioning and video descriptions at movie theaters and during in-flight entertainment

9 weeks 4 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote The Weekly Hash - March 8, 2013

The only review of the week’s top tech stories you’ll read that will include Google, the Pope and Larry King all together

10 weeks 12 hours ago
Phil Johnson wrote 4 things you can do to save Google Reader

Depending on how badly you want Google Reader to survive, here are four things you can do to try and save it before it shuts down on July 1st

10 weeks 1 day ago
Phil Johnson wrote Can Twitter predict the next pope?

As the College of Cardinals meets to pick a new pope, we examine how many of them use Twitter and whether that can help predict the next pontiff

10 weeks 2 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote When gaming is no longer an escape

Thanks to automated anti bot software, and a less than supportive community, one disabled gamer’s experience with a popular massively multiplayer online game turned negative

10 weeks 3 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote Apple haggling with labels over iRadio service

Apple reportedly offers to pay record labels a royalty rate half of what Pandora pays for proposed music streaming service

10 weeks 4 days ago
Phil Johnson wrote The Weekly Hash - March 8, 2013

Spanning the globe to joke about this week’s top tech stories, from North Korea to New Zealand with a quick stop on Mars

11 weeks 1 day ago
Phil Johnson wrote Using YouTube as a music service

YouTube will reportedly soon launch a music streaming service; some of us are already using it that way

11 weeks 1 day ago
Phil Johnson wrote Taking programmers for a test drive

37signals is one company that eschews the traditional interview quiz for programmers in favor of a job tryout

11 weeks 2 days ago

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Melanie Pinola wrote Think your Skype messages are secure? Nope, microsoft is reading Skype messages

Microsoft has been caught accessing Skype messages that are supposedly encrypted

2 days 8 hours ago
keithshaw shared Today feels like a dancing robot day on StumbleUpon

MIT project shows what happens when one robot falls out of synch with others.

2 days 11 hours ago
keithshaw shared Today feels like a dancing robot day on LinkedIn

MIT project shows what happens when one robot falls out of synch with others.

2 days 11 hours ago
keithshaw wrote Today feels like a dancing robot day

MIT project shows what happens when one robot falls out of synch with others.

2 days 11 hours ago
dantynan shared Beware of dating sites with big ambitions and no privacy restrictions on Twitter

If you're planning to share your most intimate details with a dating site, be sure to bring (privacy) protection, or you'll end up looking for love in exactly the wrong places.

3 days 3 hours ago
pasmith wrote Farewell Xbox 720, hello Xbox One. Microsoft reveals its next gen home entertainment console

Some thoughts about the presentation and about questions not yet answered, such as how Xbox One will impact used game sales and what the truth is about the rumored 'always connected' requirement.

3 days 4 hours ago
Christopher Nerney answers Re: How much will the new Xbox cost?

Microsoft hasn't announced pricing, so anything mentioned here is a guess or a rumor. But what I've read is that Xbox 720 will cost anywhere from $299 to $400.

3 days 5 hours ago
keithshaw shared Videos from the Xbox One launch on LinkedIn

Watch videos from today's Xbox One Reveal launch event.

3 days 6 hours ago
keithshaw wrote Videos from the Xbox One launch

Watch videos from today's Xbox One Reveal launch event.

3 days 6 hours ago
dantynan wrote Beware of dating sites with big ambitions and no privacy restrictions

If you're planning to share your most intimate details with a dating site, be sure to bring (privacy) protection, or you'll end up looking for love in exactly the wrong places.

3 days 8 hours ago
keithshaw shared Yes, there really is a Men's Room Management video game coming on StumbleUpon

Fulfill your lifelong dream of being a men's room janitor in this upcoming PS Vita game.

3 days 9 hours ago
keithshaw shared Yes, there really is a Men's Room Management video game coming on LinkedIn

Fulfill your lifelong dream of being a men's room janitor in this upcoming PS Vita game.

3 days 9 hours ago
Christopher Nerney wrote NASA chief technologist: 'Our destiny lies among the planets of our solar system'

NASA chief technologist Mason Peck answered questions as part of Reddit's "Ask Me Anything" series.

3 days 9 hours ago
keithshaw wrote Yes, there really is a "Men's Room Management" video game coming

Fulfill your lifelong dream of being a men's room janitor in this upcoming PS Vita game.

3 days 10 hours ago
pasmith wrote Xbox 720 revealed today, new Xbox music show next week, and an out of focus PS4 video

Today's the day Microsoft wows us (I hope) with it's next generation Xbox. So how does Sony combat that? With an ineffectual teaser that comes across as just sad...

4 days 5 hours ago
kevinpurdy wrote Google's new Hangouts solve the cross-phone emoji problem

iPhone and Android phones can't always see the tiny Japanese icons they send each other. Unless they use Google Hangouts.

4 days 5 hours ago
keithshaw wrote Watch this animation of Patton Oswalt's famous "Star Wars Filibuster" speech

It was inevitable - someone has animated the plot of Episode VII (from the mind of comedian Patton Oswalt).

4 days 7 hours ago
Melanie Pinola wrote Tested: The fastest and most reliable online storage and syncing services

Two reports compare Dropbox vs. Google Drive vs. SkyDrive vs. Amazon Cloud vs. Box

4 days 9 hours ago
keithshaw wrote This Sony PS4 first look is really blurry

Sony gets the jump on game console reveals with this fuzzy image.

4 days 9 hours ago
TomSpring shared Spotify bests Google in music service smackdown: For now on StumbleUpon

Google Play Music All Access falls flat when compared to Spotify in a desktop and mobile app showdown. Here's the scorecard.

4 days 10 hours ago
keithshaw shared YouTube stars attempt to be funny with Comedy Week stunt on LinkedIn

YouTube hoping that people realize that YouTube is a place where people can go to watch funny videos.

4 days 10 hours ago
keithshaw wrote YouTube stars attempt to be funny with Comedy Week stunt

YouTube hoping that people realize that YouTube is a place where people can go to watch funny videos.

4 days 10 hours ago
Christopher Nerney answers Re: Why are people freaking out about people taking photos with Google Glass?

True, everyone has a camera-enabled smartphone these days, but the vast majority of these people don't walk around as if they're about to take a photo or video of you. The few people who actually do that are annoying and usually told to stop. I think if you're out in public, your expectations of privacy have to be reasonable.

4 days 11 hours ago
Christopher Nerney wrote NASA's great video of an explosion on the moon

A meteor crashed into the moon on Friday under the watchful gaze of NASA video cameras.

4 days 11 hours ago
TomSpring commented on Spotify bests Google in music service smackdown: For now
Paul.. Google lets you download to the desktop "free and purchased" tracks. That is you can download songs you've uploaded to your library in the past, free tracks, and ones you've purchased. That link you provided doesn't include info about downloading tracks you are essentially leasing.

Google Play Music All Access falls flat when compared to Spotify in a desktop and mobile app showdown. Here's the scorecard.

4 days 14 hours ago