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November 3, 2015

What I learned from Wikipedia's most popular articles of 2012

A ranking of popular 2012 Wikipedia articles in different languages offers a fascinating window on global trends around the world—and some anomalies.

November 3, 2015

On the Internet, no one (still) knows you're a dog

From vengeful restaurateurs to online entrepreneurs who threaten unhappy customers to celebs paid to push products, it's getting so that you can't trust anyone online. Not that you ever could.

November 3, 2015

Vice and Assassin’s Creed debut a web series looking at the 'Golden Age of Pirates'

Ubisoft and the magazine-turned-website-turned HBO TV show Vice have teamed up to create a new web series based on pirates, timed to coincide with 'Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.'

November 3, 2015

Google makes it harder to find porn -- and .xxx loves it

Google tweaked its search algorithm overnight, effectively making it much harder to find pornographic images. And the company responsible for the search.xxx website loves it.

November 3, 2015

Fossil Finder lets armchair archaeologists search for dinosaur bones in Africa

Researchers at Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the University of Bradford, UK want to find bones in Africa's Turkana Basin, and they're turning to drones and citizen science to help do it.

November 3, 2015

Can I bring my selfie stick? This website tells you

With an increasing number of venues and tourist sites slapping bans on selfie sticks, it's getting harder to know which places still accept them and which don't.

November 3, 2015

Indian court junks clause on 'offensive' Net messages

India's top court has reaffirmed people's right to free speech in cyberspace by striking down a provision that had called for imprisoning people who sent "offensive" messages by computer or mobile phone.

November 3, 2015

Jay-Z buys streaming company Aspiro to take on Spotify

Watch out, Dr. Dre — you're not the only hip-hop mogul with a music-streaming service to your name.

November 3, 2015

Facebook to discontinue messaging feature in mobile app

Users of Facebook’s mobile app users will soon need a separate app to message friends, a Facebook spokesman said Wednesday.

November 3, 2015

EU antitrust body lauds Google for offering new concessions in milestone toward settlement

Google is offering new and "far-reaching" concessions to the European Union's antitrust watchdog that are likely to be enough to settle allegations it is abusing its dominant position in Internet searches.