Unbroken and outspoken, Demi Lovato has been a pretty prolific Twitter user since she signed up. In fact, it’s how not only her fans, but also the media follow the goings on in her life — especially her love life.
While Lovato’s never come out and admitted to dating Wilmer Valderrama, her micro-blogging activity hints that whatever was going on has gone kaput. Since those stories started to spread, Lovato’s taken a hiatus from the site.
If you’re one of the multitudes of Megaupload users who can’t access their files anymore, the Department of Justice has three messages for you: “They’re gone for good,” “you should have read the terms and conditions” and “tough luck.”
Statistics are showing more and more that cell phone use in cars is a leading cause of accidents. In fact, some research has shown that driving while distracted causes more deaths than driving while under the influence. But, would you buy a new device that prevents you from ever using your cell phone in your car?
As the dust from last week’s Department of Justice strike against the popular filesharing site Megaupload begins to settle, the longterm picture regarding file-swapping sites in general — and the fate of Megaupload users’ files in particular — remains hazy. But at least one thing is clear: Universal Music Group no longer has to worry about fending off a Megaupload lawsuit. For now, anyway.
Predictions about technology are notoriously tough to make. Still, the experts and visionaries often get it right — but when they don’t, they get it colossally wrong. Here are some of history’s most famously bungled insights made by tech giants and industry bigwigs, as rounded-up by Scientific American.
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was arrested earlier this week, just after the site was shut down by the Department of Justice — but he didn’t go down without a fight. Police officers found Dotcom, real name Kim Schmitz, hiding in a safe room in his home with a loaded shotgun in hand.
Ryan Seacrest seems bent on world domination. In addition to having a radio show and regular hosting gigs on television programs like ‘American Idol’ and ‘E! News,’ he’s about to launch his own cable network.
It may sound crazy, but a new type of phone case designed by car manufacturer Nissan can actually repair itself. Finally, we can drop our phone without completely freaking out.
As you may have heard, Rob Lowe recently announced on Twitter that Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning would be retiring. While Lowe is getting flack for claiming that his “people” told him that Manning would soon be hanging up his jersey, it turns out that the ‘Parks and Recreation’ star has been right about a lot of things on Twitter in the past.
Michael Jackson has been dead for over two years, but his amazing legacy of song and dance lives on in this video of squirrels boogie-ing to the King of Pop’s all-time party-starting jam ‘Don’t Stop Tll You Get Enough.’
