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WordPress.com Owner Automattic’s Board Reportedly Purged After Failed ‘Coup’ Against CEO

Automattic reportedly has new board members, advisers, and counsel after the old board failed to oust CEO Matt...

Internet

The World Would Be Psychedelic as Hell If the Speed of Light Was Way Slower

Replicator, give me tea, psilocybin mushroom, hot.

Internet

Google Mapped a Fruit Fly’s Brain. Now It’s Playing Doom and Super Mario 64

Researchers published a complete map of a male fruit fly’s nervous system, and programmers are already making it...

Internet

Bill Simmons’ Cozy Relationship With Tech Companies Is Blowing Up in His Face

The Podfather got an offer he should have refused.

Internet

Millions of Comcast WiFi Routers Can Now Tell When You’re Moving Around the House

The feature is promoted as an added layer of home security, but it has already raised privacy concerns.

Internet

Why Did It Take So Long for the Web to Get Its Own Domain Name?

Clue: the answer involves lawyers.

Culture

‘My Soul Left My Body’: Amazon Accidentally Bills Users Billions of Times What They Owe

If your AWS bill was $200 last month, and this month it's $1,499,659,180,107, that's probably an error.

Internet

Google Images Is Trying to Be… Pinterest?

The image search engine is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a major redesign focused on image discovery.

Culture

How Much Would You Pay for Taylor Swift’s Garbage and Why Isn’t It $0?

Swifties: You can do better.