YouTube's new commenting system has been widely criticized for forcing commenters to use the Google+ social networking service, even prompting YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim to drop the F-bomb after discovering the update on the video-sharing site.

After a fire broke out at the Internet Archive's San Francisco office earlier this week, the nonprofit digital library has set up an emergency fund drive to replace appx. $600,000 worth of digitization equipment that had been destroyed.

Following reports that the Xbox One will be running in 720p resolution for games like Battefield 4 and Call of Duty: Ghost, while running in 1080p on the PS4, gamers have accused video game news sites of biased reporting in their downplay of the hardware disparity between the gaming systems.

South Carolina resident Frank Brown has filed additional legal proceedings against the Snapchat mobile photo and video app, with accusations that founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy commited fraud and a lawsuit against the company's investors.

In an impromptu press conference yesterday at Toronto city hall, Mayor Rob Ford admitted that he had smoked crack before during a "drunken stupor" but that he would not be resigning as mayor.