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A fake photo circulating on Twitter this week married a scene from the movie "The Day After Tomorrow," with the NY1 News logo.During Hurricane Sandy, social media both delivered and distorted the story. Read more…
Illustration by Nick Bilton/The New York Times In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce photo filters that could compete with Instagram, according to people who work at the company. Read more…
Taking a comical swipe at Apple’s latest offering, the iPad Mini, Conan O’Brien made a spoof video of Apple’s announcing even more iPads that are slightly smaller and larger than the current offerings. Read more…
Zef Nikolla/Facebook, via European Pressphoto Agency Facebook’s stock fell by as much as 4 percent on Wednesday, as employees got a first chance to sell 234 million Facebook shares that had been locked up after the initial public offering. Read more…
Jeff Chiu/Associated Press Scott Forstall at an Apple event in September.Scott Forstall, who has run software development for Apple’s iPad and iPhone products, and John Browett, the head of the company’s retail operations, are leaving Apple, in a rare management reshuffling at the company. Read more…
Peter DaSilva for The New York Times The new iPhone uses a charger that is incompatible with those used for older models.Each new Apple product makes the previous generation look old. How else could the company persuade people into replacing their perfectly fine iPhones, iPads and iPods year after year? Read more…
Illustration by The New York Times Apple charges $100 more for storage when you buy the the 32- gigabyte iPad Mini over the 16-gigabyte model. But if you take the time to move your files and other material online, using a number of free or low-cost services, you will be able to buy the less expensive version of the iPad. Read more…
Illustration by The New York Times Apple sells screens that range from 2.5-inch iPods to 27-inch iMacs. Could an Apple-branded television be the next screen from the company? Read more…
GoPro The GoPro Hero 3 camera, which was unveiled last week, records images during a skydiving trip.While the smartphone has pushed some camera companies off a cliff, a tiny, ultrahigh-resolution camera that can record that very feat has taken off into the stratosphere, figuratively and literally. Read more…
Nick Bilton/The New York Times Working on large projects with Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr luring you into a labyrinth of distractions can be incredibly difficult. Here is some advice from authors about keeping the distractions at bay. Read more…
The New York Times The Apple Media Event invitations have been sent out. Twitter is abuzz with excitement and speculation over what they mean. Here is one reading of it. Read more…
While you’re going about your daily life, stopping to get coffee with a crush, meeting friends for drinks or going to a Madonna concert, people are watching you on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Path and an interminable list of other social networks. Read more…
Ji Hye Hong Graphene is a fully flexible material.Graphene, which is considered a “wonder material,” could allow manufacturers to make cell phones as thin as a piece of paper and fully flexible. Read more…
Nick Bilton/The New York Times Robin Sloan is the author of "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore."Robin Sloan, a former media manager at Twitter, is the author of the book “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel.” He talks about how his work at Twitter influenced the book’s themes. Read more…
Answers to reader questions about Twitter and its chief executive, Dick Costolo, a former improv comedian, the subject of a profile in Sunday Business. Read more…
