Ethan Chiel

It really isn't very helpful. 

A billion dollars would buy a lot of Pokemon games. 

Make sure to get your hands on a tweet-umbrella.

Google, long stuck serving the over-thirteen crowd, is reportedly looking into creating versions of YouTube and Gmail geared towards children.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Twitter is testing out a new feature for hashtags. The way it seems to work is that searching for a hashtag will yield a translation of what Twitter thinks that hashtag means underneath the search term. Twitter declined to comment about the feature for the Journal, so the details remain a mystery.

If you don’t use eBay regularly, you may think it’s a strange world where strange people buy strange things. You’re absolutely right, but sometimes those things are beautiful gems.

Twitter's CEO did an interview. If you followed it on Twitter, it didn't go great. 

It really shouldn't. 

A Russian hacker accessed the WSJ and Vice websites.

A new site promises to provide you with the perfect Ja Rule song for any moment. 

We're still waiting for an @TLDRedits account to appear. 

Three years after launch, Google Plus users can use (almost) whatever fake name they want.

A decade ago, a Google search for "I am lonely" took people to a conversation thread on an obscure digital video discussion board. Now it's a 2,200-page repository of the Internet's thoughts on loneliness.

A number of Twitter bots are monitoring Wikipedia edits made from national legislatures around the world. 

Electric Objects, the small company which aims to “put the Internet on your wall” by creating an internet-connected screen with the ability to display a lot of art has launched a Kickstarter campaign.

Pangrams! Sentences that use every letter of the alphabet! You can definitely live without them (unless you happen to be a typographer), but why would you want to? Fortunately, you don’t have to live without them anymore, at least on Twitter.

Artist Anders Nilsen wades into the increasingly public dispute between Amazon and Hachette.

Are you bummed because Facebook secretly manipulated your newsfeed to make you sad? Jonty Wareing has just the tool for you. 

The U.S. has World Cup fever (pending the results of today’s game) and ESPN and Univision probably couldn’t be more thrilled, at least as long as you aren’t watching any goals online.

I have a totally unscientific theory that as time goes on the odds increase of any (yes, any) given person communicating with me entirely through emoji.