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Despite GPU shipments increasing by25.7% year-on-year, people are so desperate for the hardware they’re cracking open computers at electronics stores to get at them. To combat this, some retailers have gone to the length of zip-tying display machines to dissuade thieves: The photo above was taken by Reddit user TeslaDude7172 at the Costco in Dedham, Massachusetts. His real name is Jacob and he told me that “two of the three PCs with removable parts” on display were secured like this....

The search market is so valuable that the battle for control over just a percent of market share is a titanic struggle. The search wars heated up this week when Google called out Bing for copying its results. Bing did not enjoy the allegations and has been fighting back tooth and nail to fend off negative press and assure the world that its work is its own. Before we delve deeper into the topic it should be noted that no one outside of the world of technology knows about this or cares....

The Internet has made the marginal cost of data transmission zero for all intents and purposes. This change didn’t come overnight, of course, but in pieces over the past two decades. There were two major limiting factors that held back the potential of the Internet for longer than was anticipated during the great bubble days of the 90s: the price of flexible, reliable hosting, and limited penetration of ample consumer bandwidth....

Somewhere in between .edu email addresses and the advent of Farmville was Facebook’s Golden Age: a time when your Saturday morning phone call with Grandma didn’t include a photo tagging tutorial and you were invincible against spam applications that lured you in with the promise of outing a list of friends that have “stalked” you. These were simpler times, when we devoted our waking hours not to trading guns and gambling via Mafia Wars, but to poking our friends in creative, albeit violent, fashions....

The much-respected UK based site The Guardian has stepped onto American soil. Today, The Guardianunveilsits first U.S. site,GuardianNews. “It’s the first tiny step in our bid to improve the Guardian website for US users, and marks the beginning of our new digital operation based in New York,” writes The Guardian US’ Editor in Chief Janine Gibson. The new site will be led by Gibson, formerly editor ofguardian.co.uk. Top news today includes a meltdown at Fashion Week, pressure on Palestine and the European debt crisis....