Annoying Technology News

Amazon now owns the patent on social networking. Here. When is this insanity going to stop?

Apple admits mistake over "Ulysses" app.

More like this

One interesting thing about quantum computing is that because it is a very new field, a large amount of the research in the field is on the arXiv (interestingly the worst users have historically been computer scientists.) Back in 2006 whenever I would sit around BSing about the arXiv with other…
For now. When it comes down to it, benevolent dictatorship resting on a perfectly anarchistic base is the only way to go. Democracy is too easily bought. Free Market Forces do not make everything all nice and efficient and stuff. Wherever information can be OpenSource and OpenAccess it should be…
Or, at least, future vacation destinations. How could I resist a place that has a Devil's Brewery, Bryggeriet Djævlebryg, and markets a godless beer? GudeløsType: Imperial stout Data: 8.9% alc/vol, OG app. 1.090, IBU app. 65 What? Bryggeriet Djævlebryg and the Danish Atheist Society have entered…
UPDATE: The wine-based linux Kindle Cloud Reader file that I used to have is now no longer current, and I don't have the newer file. However, if you want to read Kindle material on your Linux computer, the browser-based Kindle Cloud Reader is better. Use that! And it is time. The Kindle Reader…