Judah Guber & Steven Wolf are betting on, and in some cases against, your future. Recent grads themselves, Gruber & Wolf created the website Ultrinsic.com, which allows college students to gamble on grades. The website uses an algorithm that analyzes the student's transcript, course difficulty, and the wager amount ... [Read More]

The F.C.C. is supposed to ensure that all internet traffic is treated equally, net neutrality, but ever since a court decision in April put its power to do so in doubt, companies have been moving full speed ahead with bandwidth throttling. Google and Verizon are in private talks to redefine what net neutrality means. Google ... [Read More]

Ashton Kutcher no longer has the most followers on Twitter. Britney Spears overtook him this week with just under 5 million followers. But don't worry, Kutcher is doing fine. In fact, his twitter account (aplusk) is so popular that it's literally busting at the seams. A new web app for Twitter called eBoobs measures your ... [Read More]

Google's motto is "Don't be evil" and "Do the right thing" and yet they profit off child exploitation. It's the parent company of the largest online advertising network, Google Adsense. According to Adsense Terms of Service (TOS), simply linking to pornography is a violation...that is unless a website has enough traffic to ... [Read More]

Despite being downloaded by over 100 million people since its release  in January, there are still some people who didn't know about the Firefox update (like this -->guy<--) so Mozilla started actively inviting users to upgrade this week. Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox, assures users that "The offer screen will ... [Read More]

Conan O'Brien has decided to take the money and run rather than be bumped to 12:05 AM. NBC will pay out a reported $40 million, $10 million of which will be give to Coco's crew. According to O'Brien's publicist "That has been the first point in his discussions and would be a dealbreaker if his staff isn't taken care ... [Read More]

So I was trying to watch some adult videos (and I don't mean sophisticated) but they kept freezing. Now I have a lot of fetishes but stuttering women isn't one of them. Problem: Windows Task Manager showed CPU usage spiking 100%. However, the memory usage for each program was unchanged. At first I thought it was some ... [Read More]