Rejoice iPhone photogs, the newest version of Instagram is now available! The immensely popular app has just updated to version 2.1 and boasts some impressive new features. More »

Facebook knows when you've met someone and it knows when you break up. We tell Facebook these things. For some, a relationship doesn't officially start until it's reflected in the Relationship field on Facebook, and it's not really over until Facebook says it is. More »

I am from California. Now I live in New York. It's great, but I still miss California. A lot. As such, songs like Delta Spirit's latest single make me a little homesick. More »

You know how it is: you walk into the bar with all of your bros, and all of a sudden girls are buying you shots, touching you in appropriately, and flirting to the point of suffocation. Oh, wait, right; it's usually the other way around. More »

Disgusting food advocate Matthew Yglesias has a story in Slate that makes the case that "in many ways, the Chipotle burrito is very similar to the iPhone." Which would be true, if iPhones were completely disgusting. More »

Boat-planes, trains, flying cars, or school desks—you name it and Norman Bel Geddes could make it sleeker. He helped bring the Streamline style—one that balances aesthetics with aerodynamics—to the mainstream. Were Steve Jobs alive in the 1930's, he would have been all over this. Our friends at Oobject have 12 of his finest works. More »

Just as the spice must flow, the air must circulate. If the air doesn't move in your apartment, you'll always be steeping in the malodorous scent of your constant debauchery and the SHAME of your errors. That's why the BIG FAN exists. More »

$500,000 of jewelry is missing from a Chicago store after thieves drilled their way from a sushi restaurant into a jewelry store next door, evaded a state-of-the-art security system, and cracked a supposedly theft-proof safe. More »

Who would ever figure that a 28 minute film, comprised entirely of black and white still shots and voiceover narration, would go on to serve as the foundation for a major hollywood production? In the case of Chris Marker's 1962 work La Jetée, it most likely inspired two. More »

Not content with increasing the price of its data plans, AT&T apparently is planning to double the cost of upgrading your phone to $36 come this Sunday. More »

Petros Vrellis has turned Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night into an animation that changes when the user touches it. The effect is so beautiful and mesmerizing that I'm now craving an app that would let me do the same. More »

So I lost some laptops. Three. Three laptops. I got the last one back, but even if I hadn't, I've learned enough about the hell that that puts you through to have some advice if you end up unexpectedly computerless. More »

Mead is almost certainly the first beverage that got humans drunk (sorry, beer). It predates wine by ten to thirty thousand years. Hell, it predates the cultivation of soil. Best of all, you only need three common ingredients to whip up a batch. So let's do that. More »

Many of us point to custom UI skins as one of the main reasons Android updates take so long to reach certain phones. But according a Motorola exec, that's not really the case. It's the hardware itself. More »

I have your weekend plan for you: get stupid drunk and see how high this new breathalyzer app for your eyes can go. You will probably pass out after this. When you wake up hungover, play Battlefield on your iPhone until you can properly breathe and then go outside and make cinemagraphs with Cinemagram. More »

Drink whisky, look at women around the world and tweet about it. I'm sure there's more to life but I can't think of something I'd rather do than that right now. You too, right? More »

Sometimes I want to quit my job and become a photographer. Or a soccer manager. Or a gamer. Or maybe even just a Chrome and Google Voice user. These apps will help me when I decided to make the plunge. More »

The seemingly endless litigation between Apple and Samsung continues with a report that Apple filed a complaint against Samsung in federal court this week. More »

Spike "I'm Friends With Rappers, Too" Jonze has been behind some big name films: Where the Wild Things Are, Jackass: The Movie, uh, Björk: Volumen Plus (?), the music video for Otis was pretty great... Next subject? iPhones and romance. More »

A couple in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, found a purple squirrel in their backyard. No one knows why it's purple. And it's really freaking purple. More »

Looks like Mr. Zuckerberg has some explaining to do—he clearly stole the entire idea for Facebook from this 19th century girl's "friend urn"—or, if you will, Vasebook. More »

One of Anonymous' Twitter mouthpieces claims the hacker collective just took down CIA.gov. It's definitely down. If this is what it looks like, it could be Anon's greatest hit so far. More »

I grew up under the shadow of the spectre of nuclear war. In the 1980s, popular culture was rife with the imagery of nuclear annihilation—from The Day After, to Threads, to Smiths songs. But nothing approached Dr. Strangelove. More »

Commenters! A lot of you are great. Some of you are terrible. It's hard for us to read every single comment on the site. So we'd like your help. Please tell us about the worst commenter you know, and please explain why you're nominating them for summary execution. More »

The online music video service Vevo has responded to reports that it aired an illegally streamed football game at Sundance. While the company admits that the illegal streaming and broadcast did happen, they're denying responsibility. More »

I'm so full from the delicious sandwich I had for lunch I can't even think. All I see is prosciutto, mozzarella and red peppers. All I can smell is oil and vinegar. All I can feel is the delicious Parisi bread sitting in my tummy, teasing me, poking at me, making fun of my inadequate eating ability. This must be what it's like to be pregnant. An originally exciting yet currently painful session of kicking and tumbling going inside the deepest pits of stomach hell. OH is it coming out yet? I feel it! I think I can go. I think I can release this pain into the wild life. No, it's gone. How long will this last? I need something to do. I wonder if I buy this Barnes and Noble Nook Simple Touch eReader for $70 if it'll come in time to make me forget about my delicious sandwich. Until tomorrow's lunch, that is. -CC More »

Proof is an elegantly designed web app drinking game for the iPad that encourages you to learn something about alcohol while you're drinking alcohol. But don't think of it as a college frat boy power hour drinking game, instead think fancy man with a glass of scotch drinking experience. More »

I lost my bag on Halloween night. It had two laptops—one of which was a review unit—a bunch of notes, and all the rest of my life in it. It was one of the worst and most helpless things I've ever felt. Last night I did it again. More »

The new NTH Music Synthesizer uses simple circuitry packaged in an intuitive interface to produce evil tones that would sound perfect in an old arcade game. The second you see this thing in action, you're going to want get your hands on it. More »

I hate history revisionists, but not as much as I hate George Lucas for making Han shoot last. Now, with Star Wars 3D coming, he's now saying that the scene modification wasn't a change. He claims that Han NEVER shot first: More »

The BBC has a new program called Super Smart Animals. In their first episode they showed Ayumu, a chimpanzee that can memorize the location of a random sequence of numbers in less time than it takes a human to blink: sixty milliseconds. More »

Contrary to popular belief, Einstein wasn't a bad student at all. Apparently, that's something that real bad students made up, because he got excellent grades. His certificate of qualification for university matriculation—what in Europe is called A-levels—demonstrates this. More »

When Buddy Holly finally conceded to glasses, his vision was already 20-800. He had tried some of the earliest contact lenses. They became unbearable after about 10 minutes. So he got glasses. His first frames had thick plastic at the top, with a thinner, less obtrusive metal frame for the bottom half. More »

All of the descriptions of Humbert Humbert from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita paint a creepily human picture of a pedophile. Especially when you plug those descriptions into the composite sketch software that cops use to nab perps. How does this computer-generated portrait compare with what you thought Humbert Humbert looked like? More »

When companies announced their latest models last month, the future of television looked good and bright and true. Apparently it's also really freaking expensive. More »

Some would argue that the biggest obstacle robotics currently faces isn't the Uncanny Valley or suppressing the urge to destroy all humans—it's keeping their batteries charged. The newest version of the EcoBot may have the answer—it eats poop. Our poop. More »

Texting is a craft that takes years of practice to truly master. How does one convey the proper tone, intonation, and emotion without the aid of voice and gesture? Its like a game of chess, and the slightest misstep can topple relationships. In last night's episode of The Office, Jim and Pam struggle to choose just the right words in an exchange with a business associate. LOL? [The Office] More »

Jaimie Mantzel had a vision, and after countless hours of work he is ready to reveal his creation to the world. His crawling, shooting, armor-clad, yet-to-be-named spider vehicle looks like a pretty amazing toy. Just imagine a hoard of these things battling each other on your living room floor. More »

There's nothing better than a good Photoshop tutorial. Unless maybe it's a Photoshop tutorial done under the extreme duress of the North Korean regime. And honestly, who hasn't shopped a strategic golden chariot or two into a profile pic? More »