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:
Bill Gates is spilling Silicon Alley gossip, blathering that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fixing to get engaged.
Not so! At least, according to the Facebook profiles of both Zuckerberg and his live-in GF Priscilla Chan.
Meanwhile, the latest world map of social media shows what you already know: Facebook is crushing it.
Just not necessarily in the United States.
In Apple news, iPhones might be getting voice control after all, and Apple's iCloud already has a lawsuit.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo — the video game industry’s biggest trade show — swept through Los Angeles last week, during which time:
- Nintendo unveiled its brand new Wii U home game machine.
- Sony took the wraps off its handheld PlayStation Vita gadget.
- Microsoft breathed new life into the historic "Halo" game franchise.
- Turns out, 2011 is an epic year for video games! Check it out.
Lots of hacker news over the weekend!
- Sarah Palin supporters hacked the company that posted thousands of Palin emails.
- Following the arrest of three accused hackers in Spain, Anonymous reportedly blocked access to the website for Spain's national police force.
- 26,000 sex website passwords were exposed by LulzSec.
- The International Monetary Fund is the latest known target of a significant cyber attack.
- Oh! And new nasty Weiner twitter pictures surfaced -- which isn't exactly hacking ... except of your brain.
In other news, buy me this steampunk laptop. PLEASE?!