methodshop
tech news, reviews & how to's
This article may contain affiliate links.
Remember the video game Duke Nukem? You may not. It came out way back in 1996. The first person shooter was known for its "potty humor" and the upcoming sequel, Duke Nukem Forever, apparently won't be any different.
How do you impress a live audience full of kids? Cover your "lady lumps" in LEGOs duh!? Well, it at least worked for Fergie last night at the Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards in the Los Angeles USC Galen Center. Talk about dressing for the occasion. Everyone was talking about on Twitter all night. Her dress basically stole the show.
Welcome to April 1st, the day that you shouldn't take the web too seriously. During the day, we will be cataloging any new April Fools Internet jokes around the web. So let's get started with some of the best April Fools Internet jokes.
In case you missed it (say it ain't so!), the third annual Shorty Awards went down last night, honoring Twitter's top tweeters in 16,000 or so categories. Don't worry: We kept our highlight list under ten.
Consumers vote with their wallets. What are they saying about the iPad 2?
After years of poor sales and critical comparisons to the iPod, Microsoft finally pulled the plug on their Zune media player: R.I.P Microsoft Zune.
This True Blood SXSW panel explores the marketing strategies that helped HBO's True Blood become a pop culture phenomenon.
I don't know about you, but I am one of the half-billion people who can't get enough. I'm totally obsessed with Facebook.
That was fast! Verizon is already looking to eliminate its $30 all-you-can-eat data plan. Verizon just recently made the iPhone available to its 93M customers last month.
It's expected that the smaller iPad, or the "iPad Mini," would debut in the middle of this year.
Last week, an IBM supercomputer named Watson kicked the s%$* out of his human competition on Jeopardy!. Represented solely by its name on the contestant podium, Watson didn't have much of a physical presence to the TV audience. However it was Watson's knowledge that captured everyone attention and stole the show. The massive IBM supercomputer was designed to recognize language and synthesize answers from a preposterous amount of preprogrammed information. After analizing a question, Watson would process the information and could buzz in as fast as 10 milliseconds. Essentially making it impossible for humanoid competition to beat.
Apple sold 8.5M iPads in 2010 and gobbled up 88% of the tablet market. This year, they're expected to sell nearly 20 million iPads.
Despite the "Born This Way Express Yourself" controversy between Lady Gaga and Madonna, I don't think it makes Gaga's song any less brilliant.
Things got a little "awk-berg" on NBC's late night sketch comedy series SNL this week. SNL cast member Andy Samberg was playing the part of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and confronted actor Jesse Eisenberg about misrepresenting Zuckerberg in the new film The Social Network. And then the real Mark Zuckerberg shows up to speak with Eisenberg for the first time ever. It was a rare TV treat.
Steve Jobs health issues are not impacting Apple's stock price. If he's is going to take some time off to take care of his health, now's as good a time as any to bow out for a while.
A Michigan woman just made history. Her dryer lint Last Supper art piece just sold to Ripley's Believe It Or Not! for $12,000!
Apple continues to take over the world, now dominating — nay, destroying — the tablet market, with iPad sales accounting for 87.4% of all media tablet sales in Q3 for 2010.
