Society loves to argue whether technology is a good or bad influence on how we humans communicate. It’s not always comfortable to be squeezed together between words, especially when cyber-bullying is so easy to execute from the comfort of a keyboard, but in some ways all this digital closeness is better than sex. Why?… » 3/21/14 1:10pm 3/21/14 1:10pm

If you were worried that your constant texting was ruining your ability to write prose like the masters, chill da fuck out. A new study out of Australia and Canada shows that your simple human brain is actually skilled enough to go from standard English to txt spk and back again. Cool! » 1/20/14 7:45pm 1/20/14 7:45pm

Have you been praying for some sort of cataclysmic global event to bring about the end of technology so you no longer have to endure the technological tyranny that is texting? Well, good news! » 1/14/14 9:30am 1/14/14 9:30am

Young Americans are widely presumed to be sexting constantly — in class, at home, on a plane, on a train, while eating green eggs and ham. But, according to a new study, not all those dirty messages are sent out of an overabundance of hormones. Turns out there are a lot of unenthusiastic sexters out there. » 12/31/13 10:25am 12/31/13 10:25am

Before OMG meant "Oh My God," SWALK meant "Sealed With A Loving Kiss," ITALY meant "I Trust And Love You," EGYPT meant "Eager to Grab Your Pretty Tits." Your grandparents were pervs. » 11/26/13 5:00pm 11/26/13 5:00pm

It's hard to be a passive-aggressive person in an age of waning face-to-face communication, all but robbed of the microexpressions you need to make people feel bad without actually saying anything. Thank goodness our old dotty end of sentence friend the period is here to help. » 11/25/13 5:45pm 11/25/13 5:45pm

A woman was driving while distracted on her cell phone, and veered into oncoming traffic. Then, a fellow driver took her phone and smashed it. TCB, sir. » 8/26/13 10:00am 8/26/13 10:00am

An art gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn will be dropping trou on a brand new exhibition this weekend: a treasury of dick pics, many of which were obtained under false pretenses, and all of which are being showcased without consent. Gentle readers, I know I say this a lot, but this time I mean it, hard: I hate this. » 8/20/13 2:10pm 8/20/13 2:10pm

In 2011, the National Sleep Foundation polled over 1,500 Americans and found that ninety-five percent of respondents used some form of technology in the hour before bed. That's not great, especially considering new research suggesting that all that time you spend reading Wikipedia's Unusual Deaths page in the comfort… » 5/30/13 10:00am 5/30/13 10:00am

Bird flu. Spanish flu. SARS. Zombification. Smallpox. These diseases strike fear into the hearts of hypochondriac humans everywhere, as well they should. We live on an overcrowded planet teeming with drug-resistant bacteria, unwitting biological terrorists like Gwyneth Paltrow in Contagion, and a CDC that, let’s be… » 5/05/13 2:30pm 5/05/13 2:30pm

As any human being who has ever set foot upon a college campus can tell you, kids these days love to spend their time hunched over any screen they can find, and most of them find that way more diverting and fulfilling than every other thing in the world. » 4/16/13 3:50pm 4/16/13 3:50pm

In the ongoing effort to curb the disquieting rash of texting-while-driving incidents, transportation officials in Alberta have rolled out a glossy new $380,000 radio, billboard, and online ad-campaign warning drivers not to be distracted by their luminescent nethers while merging onto the highway. » 2/24/13 2:30pm 2/24/13 2:30pm

Womanzine's Emoji issue (!!!) is chock-full of emotive goodness — emoji haiku, emojis we all wish existed (example: "Did I leave my scarf at your house?"), slut-shaming emoji, The Shining summarized in emoji — it's dreamy. » 2/15/13 4:20pm 2/15/13 4:20pm

The next time you wake up in a cold sweat after a terrifying nightmare about being kidnapped, it might not be the fault of your crazy neuroses/reading too many inappropriate thrillers as a child. A new national Amber Alert system rolled out earlier this month to millions of cell phones around the country, and the kinks … » 2/01/13 10:00am 2/01/13 10:00am

A Philadelphia private school may have quite the legal mess on its hands after Arthur "Chuck" Matthews, a former math teacher at the school, filed a racial-discrimination suit claiming that he was fired from Springside Chestnut Hill Academy without cause. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Matthews was terminated… » 1/06/13 2:30pm 1/06/13 2:30pm