Earlier today, in Taiwan, the smartphone company HTC held its annual investor's meeting. HTC's stock price is in the toilet. Investors are demanding: hey, how about a free phone?

Are you the sort of person who unwinds with a big healthy cup of "Greek" yogurt? Or survives on a three-soy-latte-a-day diet? Well, excellent news: in all cases, this means you are likely ingesting nanoparticles of titanium several times a day.

The unspooling revelations of what exactly the NSA has been up to are proof that sometimes, the paranoid lunatics are absolutely correct. Today we learn that the spy agency has been recording 100%—all!—of the phone calls made in an entire country.

What does T H E F U T U R E hold for us? If we are lucky, it holds unspeakably horrible new punishment technology. Aeon Magazine explores the future of jailing:

"Why Don't We Have a Monogamy App?" Ann Friedman asks in her latest New York magazine story. Yeah. Why don't we?

In an attempt to salvage its remaining relevance, the U.S. Postal Service has hit on what might be an interesting possibility: digital currency. On January 29, the organization hosted a webinar with experts discussing how it might make use of Bitcoin. Coindesk has a recap.

In January, two little entrepreneurs girls wanted to set up a stand outside their San Francisco (duh) home to sell cookies and lemonade. That business plan just wasn't disruptive enough for their mother, Holly, a tech worker in the city, who set the girls up with a "wallet" for the anonymous digital currency Bitcoin…

Imagine working for an enormous global oil conglomerate. Now imagine you were trapped in a reply-all chain thousands of your coworkers—stretching across continents and timezones.

Texting, women's lib, a culture of "hook-ups"... it can be hard to navigate the dating world these days. A new survey of singles shows that almost 70% "are at least somewhat confused about whether an outing with someone they're interested in is a date or not." I think we can help provide clarity.

The Federal Register, the daily journal of the United States government, still uses floppy disks to carry out important tasks, including the transfer of the text of executive orders, proposed rule changes, and presidential proclamations. Yes, floppy disks.

Here's a company that anyone with a brain could tell wouldn't be successful. And here's a venture capitalist and his "journalist" enablers pumping $100 million into it. Kno: a Silicon Valley cautionary tale.

Los Angeles public schools, which had been in the process of a $1 billion program to give low-income students iPads, has put a temporary halt to the program after students repeatedly hacked the iPads to access Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

Lenovo, the global technology manufacturing firm that recorded nearly $30 billion in revenue last year, has named Ashton Kutcher, a former male model who rose to fame playing the stupid one on That 70s Show, as its new "Project Engineer." The time to dump your Lenovo stock is now.

After weeks of problems preventing Americans from being able to buy health insurance via the Affordable Care Act website, President Obama gave a speech at the White House today and acknowledged that his landmark healthcare legislation's tech issues are unacceptable. But he made sure to stress two things: 1. that the…

Beleaguered job seekers: you can look forward to a day very soon when the fate of your employment will no longer be in the hands of some bored and prejudiced HR person. Instead, you will be able to be rejected by a computer program, which can mathematically quantify your many shameful human flaws.

As predictably as the sun rises and sets, so too do economic bubbles inflate and then pop, bringing euphoria followed by suicidal gloom. Where will the next bubble in our economy be? Today, we turn our keen eye to the source of all troubles: tech companies.