Aviation might well be the safest form of transport but the latter part of 2010 seems to be giving the well-worn cliche a run for its money.
Technology
Netflix Adds Streaming-Only Plan, But Raises Prices For DVDs
Netflix announced Monday that it will offer a $7.99 online streaming-only subscription plan to customers, while raising its rate for all other plans. The most popular subscriptions – the 1 DVD out at a time and the 2 DVDs out at …
Facebook Forever: eTomb Offers Digital Immortality (via Social Networks)
Resting in peace just got a whole lot harder. A new concept headstone called the eTomb will make it possible to tweet from the grave. Literally.
Everybody Panic! China Hijacked 15% Of The Internet For 18 Minutes In April
Hope they enjoyed our kitten videos!
Internet Domination: Google Launches Online Fashion Venture
Is there nothing that Google won’t turn its hand to?
Facebook Escalates War with Google, May Launch New E-mail Service
Google and Facebook, today’s web-world leaders, are at war. And if the much-speculated Facebook e-mail service turns out to be true, then it will stop being the cold kind.
Study: Are Google Searches Affecting the Stock Market?
A joint study by academics in Germany and the U.S. sheds new — and disturbing — light on the power of Google.
The 50 Best Inventions of 2010
Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Head over to TIME.com for the year’s biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts.
Palin E-Mail Hacker Meets His Destiny
Your Cell Phone Might Soon Be Able To Detect STDs
From SMS to STD–is there anything smart phones won’t be able to do?
Tipsy Tweets? Foggy Facebook Updates? Here’s Your Social Media Sobriety Test
Did you have fun on Saturday night? Did all that “fun” show up on your Facebook page Sunday morning?
Facebook Deals: Discounts You Can Use. The Cost: Your Privacy?
Facebook waged war against Foursquare when it introduced the location service Places a few months ago. Earlier this week, the social networking giant went after the likes of Groupon with the launch of Deals, a feature that lets …