It turns out that the desire to speak with Apple CEO Tim Cook, along with $610,000, will buy you a cup of coffee. That's the winning bid offered in a charity auction for up to an hour of Cook's time.
As we reported last month, the chance to grab coffee with Cook at Apple's headquarters zoomed past the suggested value of $50,000 set at the Charitybuzz auction site, rising to more than $600,000 in just three days.
You know you're being tracked by marketers online. But instead of fighting it, a grad student in New York decided to sell his personal data directly.
It wasn't hard to get hold of Federico Zannier. His phone number and email are right on his website. For a couple of bucks, I could have learned a lot more about him.
Players found that male characters could marry one another and raise children in Nintendo's 3DS game Tomodachi Collection: New Life. The company is reportedly removing that option. An image shows Nintendo's webpage for the game.
Days after the gaming world began to buzz with reports that Nintendo's new life simulation game allows men to marry other men, it now seems that Nintendo is removing that possibility, which by all reports was unintended.
Questions arose after players of the popular new game Tomodachi Collection: New Life realized that men could marry men. They could also date, and raise children. Female characters in the game could not have the same interactions with one another.
When we die, hopefully we leave the people who knew us with memories. For the closest friends and family, we might even leave some material possessions. But what about our digital possession: our emails, computerized documents and Facebook accounts?
Stan Alcorn reports on how businesses are helping people handle their online remains.
There's another way television is moving online. Starting Tuesday, ABC will let viewers in New York and Philadelphia watch their local stations over the Internet. But this is not a way to cut your cable bill.
NPR's Dan Bobkoff discusses the change with All Things Considered co-host Audie Cornish.
Kim Parsons of Hermitage, Tenn., is part of a class-action lawsuit against Facebook. Neighbors called Parsons when they saw her daughter's picture posted with an ad for a local ice cream store.
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A mock-up of an online form for parents who want to prevent their children's images from being used in Facebook's Sponsored Stories.
A San Francisco judge will decide this month whether to approve a settlement in a class-action lawsuit that could affect more than 70 million Facebook users. The $20 million deal would mark the end of a years-long battle over the social network's "Sponsored Stories" advertising.
But Facebook users' images could still appear in ads if they don't change their settings. And many users say the deal before the judge doesn't go far enough to protect their privacy.
