On Monday, whistleblower Edward Snowden held an AMA (As Me Anything) on reddit, during which he revealed that he wished he’d leaked details of the NSA’s spying programs ...
February 25, 2015 at 12:01 am by Ashley Allen
Card game Exploding Kittens asked for $10,000 on Kickstarter. Thirty days later, the Kickstarter funding period ended, raising in excess of $8.7 million, with over 200,000 ...
February 20, 2015 at 10:58 pm by Ashley Allen
As part of its annual transparency report, released on Thursday, reddit has revealed that it turned down 42% of all official requests for user data in 2014. Granted, ...
January 31, 2015 at 7:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Following grim portents from the likes of Elon Musk and Professor Stephen Hawking, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has also warned of the potential threat that artificial ...
January 30, 2015 at 10:58 am by Ashley Allen
Yesterday, a father who lost his son posted to reddit, asking readers to help him understand his deceased son’s favourite game, Blizzard’s MMORPG, World of Warcraft. total ...
January 28, 2015 at 10:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Jonatan Söderströmm, co-creator of video game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, has told Australians that, if they want to play the game, they should “just pirate it”. ...
January 19, 2015 at 11:58 am by Ashley Allen
As Codex Vahlda, a 29-year-old Final Fantasy XIV player, lay braindead in the hospital, friends and strangers held a vigil within the game to pay their respects to the dying ...
December 22, 2014 at 9:58 pm by Ashley Allen
After receiving a number of takedown requests, reddit has started banning users found to have been sharing documents from the recent Sony hack. The documents include internal ...
December 18, 2014 at 1:30 am by Ashley Allen
The main complaint about Google Inbox – Google’s new Gmail app that displays related incoming message as ‘bundles’ – is that it doesn’t support custom e-mail ...
December 3, 2014 at 11:59 pm by Ashley Allen
Update your list, iPhone 6 users: there’s a new fault to be concerned about. A number of online threads, originating from sources such as Reddit, MacRumors, and iFixit, have ...
December 1, 2014 at 7:47 pm by Ashley Allen
Be careful plugging your e-cigarette into your computer’s USB port to charge: that USB adapter included with your healthy smoking alternative may not have been for your ...
November 23, 2014 at 10:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Reddit is going through a big shake up, with its CEO leaving the company and with the return of co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Ohanian left the company in 2010, will return as ...
November 14, 2014 at 1:46 pm by Ryan Simmons
Redditmade, a new crowd funding website from Reddit is finally here! Taking inspiration from sites like Kickstarter, the new service was designed primarily to give support to ...
October 30, 2014 at 1:38 pm by Peter Donnell
Reddit now offers its users full HTTPS support via CloudFlare, a popular CDN and DNS provider. However, there are a couple of catches to obtain this extra security feature; ...
September 9, 2014 at 10:18 am by Peter Donnell
In a controversial move, Reddit’s CEO Yishan Wong offered a blog post explaining as to why the company rarely takes down “morally objectionable or otherwise ...
September 8, 2014 at 8:53 am by Jeremy Tate
