Gentlemen, perhaps it's time to lay off the laptops for a a bit, or at least, laptops on your...laps, if you have any hopes of going forth and multiplying in this life. A new study found that semen placed under a WiFi-enabled laptop doesn't exactly swim fast and furious after exposure to electromagnetic radiation emitted by wireless signals. more ›

Computers are valuable things. They can store tons of information and they let you watch Gloria Estefan videos from the comfort of your apartment, with no one knowing anything about it until you inadvertently mention it on the World Wide Web. So you'd think that public schools would keep their supply of laptops locked up tight. Apparently that's not the case, because yesterday police announced that they had arrested a 17-year-old teenager for allegedly stealing over 100 laptops from public schools across the city. more ›

The police released an image of a man who allegedly robbed two people on the Upper East Side last week. Notably, the 6'1", 250 pound-ish suspect picked victims who are likely students (WCBS 2 says, "NYPD Investigating School Kid Robberies"). more ›

If a 58-year-old pianist, whose family founded a huge oilfield services company, is worried about his laptop being infected with a computer virus, why not grift him for $6 million by telling him that not only was the laptop infected, but that he needed physical protection from the worm's creators based in Honduras and that " Polish priests affiliated with Opus Dei were attempting to possibly harm" him? That's what computer repairman Vickram Bedi and Helga Invarsdottir are accused of doing to victim Roger Davidson. more ›

It's one thing to steal someone's laptop. It's another to sign onto the laptop owner's social network and have the real owner's friend take a Webcam picture of you! Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and East Hampton Town police released this image of a man—plus an image of his bedroom—who allegedly stole a laptop from a home over the summer. more ›

Loose lips sink ships, but that does nothing for one's street cred! The Post reports, "A blabber-mouth thief was busted at a Union Square Starbucks after an eavesdropping cop overheard him boasting about stealing an Apple laptop, police said yesterday. Gabby suspect Michael Baldwin, 25, was showing off the pilfered laptop to a pal at about 9 p.m. Thursday, authorities said." Apparently Baldwin, who was quickly arrested, had stolen the laptop earlier in the day. more ›

A brilliant burglar was busted by cops on Saturday using a stolen laptop outside the building from which he stole it. Nemesio Garica has been charged with burglary and grand larceny after admitting that he and another woman broke into the building on West 17th Street and 5th Avenue and stole three Apple laptops and two iPods on the morning of June 8th. Looks like these old Apple products are still good enough to steal! more ›

Deciding that the iPad falls under the "laptop" category (but it's so much more!), Yankee Stadium has included it on its banned items list, forcing spectators to play with their suddenly inadequate iPhones instead. The news broke after IGN board user spacekatgal posted that she and her tablet were turned away at the gates, saying, "Why on earth would they have this policy? Terrorism concerns? I couldn't get an answer. I snuck it in under my jacket...I bring it to Fenway all the time and they don't care." Probably because she needs the distraction from the Red Sox! more ›

Edelbuerto Gonzalez-Andujar, a transgender woman who went by Amanda, was found dead in her ransacked Ridgewood apartment yesterday afternoon. Around 4 p.m. acquaintances came looking for the 29-year-old, only to find her naked and lifeless on the bed. "Everything in the apartment was destroyed. All her Marilyn Monroe pictures were destroyed," Barbara Vega told the Daily News, adding that she'd been trying to reach her friend since Friday. Gonzalez-Andujar had been stabbed several times in the neck and chest; the Times reports that her laptop was missing from the apartment, but so far cops aren't sure whether there was a break-in and don't have any suspects. "She never had any problems with anybody...We need to know who did this to her," said Vega. more ›

The 54-year-old crash victim died a week later, never having had the opportunity to discover his cards were missing. Later, reports the AP, Vassell and his girlfriend Lisa Dacosta racked up a $2,000 bill at Armani Exchange, Best Buy, gas stations and other stores. Police tracked them down yesterday and charged them with grand larceny and identity theft. But Longworth and county police agree that this wasn't an isolated incident. According to the Mid Hudson News, investigators have tied Vassell's name to an October of 2009 credit card theft from a patient in the ER. more ›

News has gotten out that three laptops which contained social security numbers of 1,400 students, alum, and prospies were stolen from a Columbia University office last week. It turns out this isn't the first time the school has massively and mistakenly divulged the sensitive information of its affiliates—back in 2007 Columbia leaked over 5,000 names and social security numbers via a Google Doc! “I’m not terribly surprised, given that it’s happened before, but at the same time, I can’t believe they let it happen again,” wrote one undergrad in an email to Bwog. more ›

Once a victim of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, alway a victim of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, but even the people trying to figure out the victims' claims are messing up: A laptop containing "names, addresses, Social Security numbers and some Madoff account information on 2,246 investors" was stolen from a car. more ›

Have laptop, will head to neighborhood cafe, right? Well, that might be more difficult at some—the Wall Street Journal looks at the growing trend of some NYC coffee shops telling laptop users they're not wanted: "In some places, customers just get cold looks, but in a growing number of small coffee shops, firm restrictions on laptop use have been imposed and electric outlets have been locked. The laptop backlash may predate the recession, but the recession clearly has accelerated it." more ›

According to NYPD statistics, overall subway crime dropped by 3% in 2008, with murders down to two from four in 2007. There were an average 6.3 major felonies a day last year, compared with 7.4 in 2006 (there was an average of 17 in 1997). But robberies are on the rise: 823 occurred last year, up from 796 in '07. And there were three rapes reported last year, as opposed to just one in '07. Still, the NYPD's John Hall tells the Post crime is "so low that it's getting more and more difficult to keep it there," and attributes the stats to a crackdown on people walking between moving cars, which criminals do when trolling for victims. more ›

A White Plains man used a remote access program on his laptop to monitor the suspect who stole it, resulting in his arrest last week. The laptop was stolen on September 4th after Jose Caceres left it on top of his car while he carried stuff into his home. Using the remote tracking, Caceres was able to monitor the suspect's internet use, which he says primarily consisted of studying the remarkable migratory patterns of the Black-tailed Godwit. Kidding—it was porn, all porn. When the suspect, 34-year-old Gabriel Mejia of White Plains, typed in his home address to replenish his porn supply, Caceres tipped off police, who arrested Mejia just hours later. The sting is reminiscent of last May's bust of two thieves in Westchester, which took place after the owner remotely used the camera in her computer to photograph the suspects. more ›

Since equipping its aircraft with in-flight WiFi, American Airlines has gotten "a lot of complaints" about passengers using the Internets to enjoy adult entertainment, presumably joining the Mile High Club with a little help from Rosy Palmer and Handjela . Ah, but ain't that American? The airline started offering the service in August for $12.95, but unlike Jet Blue, didn't install Internet filters to block porn. And despite pressure from flight attendants, they have no plans to do so. An American spokesman tells the Post: "Customers viewing inappropriate material on board a flight is not a new scenario for our crews, who have always managed this issue with great success." Besides, passengers who can't bear to be separated from their precious porno for the duration of a flight have always been allowed to bring adult magazines and DVDs on board, so why deprive them now? more ›

In an attempt to pump up its shrinking customer base, starting today Starbucks will offer two hours of free Wi-Fi per day. Well, free for anyone who puts at least $5 onto a reloadable Starbucks Card and registers online for the Starbucks Rewards Card program. Rewards program members get other perks too: free syrup and milk options with drinks, free refills on coffee and one free beverage with the purchase of a pound of coffee beans. more ›

A Westchester woman who had her laptop stolen didn’t even bother with old fashioned signs like the one pictured here – instead she remotely used the camera in her computer to photograph the culprits. The laptop was stolen from her apartment on April 27th along with $5,000 worth of other electronics. more ›