Gmail, Google’s popular free e-mail service, was inaccessible to many of its 36 million users Tuesday afternoon, causing widespread chatter on Twitter and other social networks.
Gmail outage deprives millions of e-mail
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Michael Jackson hoax was ‘experiment,’ broadcaster says
A hoax video purporting to show Michael Jackson hopping out of a coroner’s van alive was produced by a German television station as an experiment, the broadcaster told CNN Monday. It was made to show how easy it is to spread rumors online, said Heike Schultz, a spokeswoman for RTL, the leading private broadcaster in Germany.
In China, a U.S. adopted teen finds his roots
His father and uncle fall to the ground, crying uncontrollably. After 11 years of not knowing, relief of finding a child they thought had been lost forever pours out of them
Old-school portraits see resurgence online
The art of portraiture, once reserved for the rich, the royal and the holy, has found a new mass appeal online. Some avid social-network users are commissioning artists to create small digital images to represent themselves in the online world.
Google’s got a new way to surf the Internet, Hawaiian style
Many Google users probably didn’t notice this month that they can now display their search tips in the Hawaiian language.
File sharers hold vigil for Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay — the BitTorrent tracker revered by file sharers across the globe and reviled by some of the world’s biggest entertainment companies — is under siege like never before.
The coming-out stories of anonymous bloggers
Blog fans in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, saw PittGirl as their masked superhero — a comedian and local commentator who jibed the mayor without reserve and ranted freely about her hatred of pigeons.
YouTube founder helps fund new U.S. F1 team
Formula One’s new Team U.S.
Abuse highlights China’s Web addict camps
A 14-year-old boy allegedly beaten at a boot camp in China for young Internet addicts was in critical condition Thursday, less than three weeks after a youth at a different camp died, Chinese state media reported. Internet use has skyrocketed in China, especially among teens
Man gets 4 years for crashing plane, trying to fake death
A man who crashed his plane in the Florida Panhandle in an apparent attempt to fake his death was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in federal prison, officials said. Marcus Schrenker, 38, of McCordsville, Indiana, pleaded guilty in June to charges of destruction of an aircraft and causing the Coast Guard to respond when no help is needed.