A man stands accused of publishing threats against senior Google executive Marissa Mayer on Twitter. As the San Francisco Examinerreports, prosecutors say that Gregory Calvin King sent over 20,000 messages in the form Twitter mentions to Mayer. The tweets were allegedly published between November 2010 and August 2011. As what’s alleged to be King’sTwitter account(which contains NSFW language) demonstrates, the tweets ranged frominsults(“Your body isnt very sexy either, cellulite is a huge turn-off”), to outrightthreats(“You know....

Hospital worker Stephen Andreassen has become the first person in the Britain to be jailed for using his blog to stalk a woman after she ended a four-week relationship with him, reportsThe Telegraph. Rebecca Pattinson entered a relationship with Andreassen in 2006, three years after they met, when she went to see him perform on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of Antony Gormley’s “One or Other” exhibition. The relationship ended just four weeks later when Andreassen began asking Pattinson to move in with him....

The first ever entirely-artificial heart transplant in the UK has taken place at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. Matthew Green, a 40-year old father who was dying from heart failure, received a plastic implant during a 6-hour operation last month. The device is powered by a “freedom portable driver” and is worn like a backpack or a shoulder bag. The artificial heart serves to replace the role of both ventricles and heart valves, providing a blood flow of up to 9....

Google may already be fighting a very important lawsuit filed against it by Oracle, but we believe the search giant will have no problems seeing off a man named David Stebbins, who believes that the company owe him $500 billion. Techdirt unearthed this magical piece of litigation, which highlights Stebbins’ argument that YouTube’s Terms of Service say that the company can change the terms at any time and give notice of those amendments....

A former New York Times employee gets handed his wallet, found some 40 years after he lost it. Inside, he finds photos and documents from his past. Rudolph R. Resta lost his wallet back in 1970 at the New York Times Headquarters, where he worked as an art director in the promotion department. 40 years later, it was returned to him by a security guard who works in the former Times building, now called the Times Square Building....