Technology :: Top Story
HomoTech :: Everyone Loves a Racist Boy - Online
You’re not my type, but what if the reason is the color of your skin? Racial prejudice, personal preference or just politically incorrect? EDGE contributor Oscar Raymundo logged on Grindr to find out what happens when race gets in the way of cyber sex.
Personal Technology
Google milks animated doodle mystery on Twitter
Google has so far left Tuesday’s doodle a mystery, prompting people to speculate about the meaning of this mass of blue, red, yellow and green bouncing balls that skitter across Google.com.
AOL teaming up with Ellen DeGeneres online
AOL is adding talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres to its family of Web properties as it looks for ways to draw more people to its sites.
Taiwan’s HTC: iPhone’s `quiet’ challenger
East Asia is the world’s electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple’s iPhone.
Video Games
Gamer suspended over name of W.Va. town: Fort Gay
Microsoft Corp. and Xbox Live are apologizing to a West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service’s code of conduct by declaring he’s from Fort Gay.
Science
Author Hawking says God not needed for creation
Did creation need a creator? British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe.
