Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today.
Whether by corporate subterfuge, government decree, hacker invasion and our own ambivalence, our digital rights have never faced more peril than they will in 2012. Here's a look at the most egregious losses in privacy — the ways in which the stage was set — during this past year.
The mobile gaming phenomenon that is Angry Birds showed no signs of slowing down over the holidays, with Rovio’s Ville Heijari telling the Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD blog the series racked up 6.5 million downloads on Christmas Day alone.
EA's ultra-detailed first-person shooter "Crysis 2" surpassed higher profile titles like "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" and "Battlefield 3" to become the most pirated game of 2011.
The Android Market now has 400,000 apps.
It may have taken longer than expected, but someone has finally released a jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system.'
Learning how to code is the "New Year's Resolution" of 970,000 people.
Stick a fork in IE6. It's dead.
Here's an excellent piece on how the argument about whether bloggers are journalists totally misses the boat on the meaning of freedom of the press.
President Obama and his staff are quite savvy when it comes to technology— and social media, in particular — so it's really no surprise he's got an account on popular photo-sharing service Instagram, used to share a photo for the first time during the Iowa caucuses.
Oh look! The missing portion of the Obama "Hope" poster has been revealed!
— compiled by Helen A.S. Popkin, who invites you to join her on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.
