Google may ban IAC’s Chrome extensions over ‘deceptive’ practices

Chrome extensions don’t normally create much drama, but one company’s add-ons appear to be stirring up plenty of trouble. The Wall Street Journal has learned that Google is considering “severe penalties” against internet giant IAC (InterActive Corp)...

Astronomers believe the young Milky Way once swallowed a dwarf galaxy

Astronomers believe they've mapped an important sequence of events that shaped our galaxy 10 billion years ago. In a paper published in Nature Astronomy today, researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) share their findings that...

Match app adds an offline dating coach for your online dating woes

Online dating is its own big, scary jungle, and often users are left on their own when it comes to problems like ghosting or mixed signals in texts. Match.com thinks it can help users navigate that jungle -- by offering some human assistance. The onl...

OkCupid’s Christian Rudder Defends ‘Experiments On Human Beings’


Today, Facebook's gained an ally in the fight for data mining and social experiments. OkCupid, the (mostly) free online dating service, offered a succinct corroboration: "We Experiment On Human...

OkCupid’s Christian Rudder Defends ‘Experiments On Human Beings’


Today, Facebook's gained an ally in the fight for data mining and social experiments. OkCupid, the (mostly) free online dating service, offered a succinct corroboration: "We Experiment On Human...

Hot Or Not Relaunches


Before there was Tinder or OK Cupid, before there was Facebook or MySpace, there was AmIHotOrNot.com. Created in 2000 by two engineering students fresh out of U.C. Berkeley, it hit on a basic human...