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Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, known for animated cinematic greats like Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Howl’s Moving Castle , is no fan of Apple’s “magical” new iPad–or gadgets in general. According to Kotaku, Miyazaki compared iPad use to masturbation in a recent interview with a Japanese publication, “Neppuu.” “For me, there is no feeling of [read more]

The button, aimed at children and teenagers, will report abuse to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) and Facebook. Once installed, the application appears on their homepage to say that “they are in control online”. The launch follows months of negotiation between Ceop and Facebook, which initially resisted the idea. Ceop, the [read more]

Thanks to a new Apple iPhone application, now anyone can wake up to a scantily-clad Pamela Anderson. Wakey Wakey is a video alarm clock that features a lingerie-clad Anderson cooing and seductively coaxing the user to get out of bed. “I’ve always had trouble getting guys out of bed so I can’t guarantee this will [read more]

Gourmet Magazine is back on the menu. Publisher Conde Nast has cooked up a digital version of Gourmet, the food magazine which folded in October after 68 years on newsstands. Gourmet Live will launch later this year as an application for Apple’s iPad featuring recipes, stories, pictures and videos from the magazine’s archives as well [read more]

The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study. The playable version of the classic video game was put on Google’s front page on 21 May to celebrate 30 years since the launch of Pac-Man in Japan. The search giant reworked the game [read more]

Google is hoping to succeed where Apple and so many others have failed with GoogleTV, its attempt to bring the Internet to your television set. Google unveiled the software today, at what the Wall Street Journal  called a “glitch-plagued demonstration” in San Francisco. The software will allow you to search for a show, and find [read more]

Police have seized computers and servers belonging to an editor of Gizmodo in an investigation that appears to stem from the gadget blog’s purchase of a lost Apple iPhone prototype. Deputies from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s office obtained a warrant on Friday and searched Jason Chen’s Fremont, Calif., home later that evening, Gizmodo acknowledged [read more]

One of the biggest questions confronting Twitter has been: how will the site make money? Finally, it seems Twitter has answers. The site plans to unveil details of an advertising plan that will help Twitter monetize its quickly-growing user base. The New York Times describes Twitter’s plan for allowing advertising on its site for the [read more]