Tonight Bill Murray will appear on David Letterman's show, on the eve of Dave's 30th anniversary as a late night host. Murray's been known to go all out on Letterman's show, and to get warmed up, please to enjoy this vintage video of Bill Murray riffing on the foolishness of all this "high tech stuff" way back in 1982: more ›

Add another headache to NYPD spin doctor Paul Browne's plate. Yesterday a 39-year-old police officer was arrested for stealing iPads from a perp he was arresting. Anthony Rivera of the 123rd Precinct now faces charges of grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and official misconduct. more ›

Connecticut police say that a man used a computer tablet to take photographs up a woman's skirt at the Target store in South Windsor. Creepily bold! more ›

Drunk driving is no laughing matter, but you know what is? iPhone apps that claim they they can tell you if you're too drunk to drive. Here's a much simpler test: if you're even considering using your phone to calculate your BAC, you're too drunk to drive. Not convinced? Fine, read about how it "works." more ›

Poor guys, thieves breaking into apartments have another thing to worry about now. In addition to hoping that they don't run into anyone or trip any alarms, now they've got to watch out for folks who set up motion-detecting cameras that send pictures of them red-handed to homeowners. The future! more ›

The Bloomberg administration has spent millions of dollars installing custom-designed GPS tracking units in fire and sanitation trucks over the past several years, but the system is rife with malfunctions, according to audits by city Comptroller John Liu. The GPS system has repeatedly shown fire trucks and sanitation trucks to be in the middle of New York Harbor or sinking in Long Island Sound, when in fact they were still safely on land. The city has spent as much as $56,000 for a single unit in a sanitation truck, and will continue to spend money on what Liu calls "wasted on technology that falls short of what’s promised, raising questions about the oversight of expensive outside consultants." more ›

Hey, America, are you too busy watching Dancing With The Stars reruns to be bothered to pick up the phone and order a meat-lovers burrito for yourself? Great! Just hop on your remote and order away, without all the fuss of pausing the TV and actually speaking to a real human being. more ›

Tired of tracking down each and every food truck on their own individual Twitter account? Yeah, it's hard to keep track of all the Korean tacos and cupcakes and fancy grilled cheeses cruising around out there. That's why Tweat.it was invented, and now, you can finally get it on the go. more ›

In perhaps the greatest innovation in cat fancying technology since the giant Cat Boat in Amsterdam, the Bideawee animal shelter in Midtown East has installed a system whereby people can play with pound kitties from the comfort of their home. For free. more ›

It appears we spoke too soon when we declared the streets of New York City safe at last. The man who was allegedly caught stealing an iPhone 4 thanks to a nifty app called iGotYa, is denying that the photo is of him, and his family has produced photos to prove it. "This is embarassing," Brian Chattoo's mother tells the Daily News, which provides a photo of Chattoo. "That's not my son." Might as well go whole-hog with this Orwellian technology and hook iGotYa up with the NYPD's facial recognition technology. more ›

Police say they are looking for this iPhone thief who took a photograph of himself. The theft occurred on Monday night, when a 31-year-old woman was walking in Ozone Park around 8 p.m.: According to the Daily News, "A man bumped into her, snatched her black iPhone from her pocket and ran away, cops said. But when he later tried unsuccessfully to unlock the phone, it automatically took a picture of him and emailed it to her, thanks to an application called iGotYa." more ›

Apple announced that Steve Jobs, one of its co-founders and the man most closely associated with its innovative products, died today at age 56. On its website, Apple says, "Steve Jobs, Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and as inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple." more ›

Are you self-reliant or do you demand a more human touch? A study conducted by the Food Marketing Institute determined that customers are ditching the self-check-out machines at grocery stores in favor of flesh and blood. Only 16% of transactions were completed at the kiosks in 2010, down from 22% three years ago. "It's just more interactive," one shopper tells the AP, "You get someone who says hello; you get a person to talk to if there's a problem." While computers don't judge you when you stroll up with six cartons of Chubby Hubby and a case of Genesee, conversing with grocery store cashiers DOES count as human contact. more ›

According to the Post, a 27-year-old man was killed over an iPhone: "The victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was shot in the back at about 9 p.m. in the lobby of a Sheepshead Bay apartment building on Ocean Avenue near Avenue W... Cops said the victim was arguing with two men shortly before he died. Two friends of the victim said the fight was over an iPhone." more ›

Our long national nightmare may soon be over! AllThingsD is reporting that Apple will be holding its next big media event—presumably to announce the highly-anticipated iPhone 5—on Tuesday, October 4. Beyond giving us a new gizmo to lust after, the event will also be an important chance for the company to show off its new CEO, Tim Cook, in the wake of Steve Jobs recent departure. more ›

In their continuing effort to make commuters less angry about frequent disruptions to their service, the MTA is following up last weekend's new "Weekender" web interface by rolling out giant iPads for straphangers to play with while they wait for their trains. Sort of. more ›

We occasionally see the iPad utilized as a way around the pricy credit-card/cash register combo (Asia Dog rang us up on one recently) but West Village eatery De Santos has gone a step further…into the FUTURE. All of the restaurant's waiters carry iPads to take orders, allowing them to forego the additional stop at the computer terminal and give "them more face time with customers, a factor that's been shown to increase sales," the Post reports. Even better, waiters using iPads don't look nearly as much like pompous jackasses as normal iPad users do, because they actually need them. more ›

Despite frequent studies and reports, most notably one from the World Health Organization in May, that a cellphone's radiofrequency electromagnetic fields cause cancer, we have yet to see someone use one of these "radiation shields." Now it appears that the stubborn disregard for our own lives has paid off: a new study conducted by the journal Environmental Health Perspectives noted that the "accumulating evidence is increasingly against the hypothesis that mobile phone use can cause brain tumors in adults." Hooray! Now we can kick back and relax. more ›

Deep in the heart of a very definable neighborhood rarely referred to as NoMad, the Ace Hotel has out-cooled itself again. When the people at Ace sat down to dream up New York chic, they checked off the boxes for coffee with Stumptown, oysters at John Dory, perfect and drippy lamb-feta burgers at the Breslin, and an outpost for the bastion of avant-garde downtown style at Opening Ceremony. With only one checkbox left for start-up hungry entrepreneurs and bloggers, the Ace was near giving up. How would they fit into this mess? But, if you build such a compound, tired and half-motivated entrepreneurs and bloggers will come. And they did, flooding the poorly lit lobby with more MacBooks using the free WiFi than the eye could see, occasionally taking espresso breaks. And now Google is getting involved. more ›

Skype, the Internet communications company, is being bought by Microsoft for $8.5 billion. The software giant says, "The acquisition will increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities." Of course, Wired notes that this is "the second time Skype has been bought out; after being started in 2003, it was purchasd by eBay in 2005 for $3.1 billion. eBay then sold the majority of its stake in 2009 to a private investment group for $1.2 billion less than it paid." more ›

There may or may not have been times when we attempted to walk through the 24-hour drive through in Williamsburg's White Caste to sate our late-night slider craving, only to be denied for not arriving in a vehicle. But those days are (sort of) over now, with the announcement that the chain is now accepting online orders in its NYC locations. Feel a craving for chicken rings coming on? Get clicking now! more ›

Tens of thousands Gmail users found their accounts were, well, missing today in what Google calls an issue that affected "less than 0.02%" of its user base." The issue was noted by the tech giant yesterday at 3 p.m., and there hasn't been an update on the Google Dashboard since 10 p.m. What are the afflicted doing? Well, one Brooklyn woman is getting sympathy from her coworkers—not to mention amazement from her friends, "I'm like a unicorn. They're like 'wow, you're one of the people.' I feel like I won the unlucky lottery or something." more ›

Are iPads the answer to keeping the kids quiet when parents bring them along for a nice civilized dinner, or beer? FIPS blogger Erica Reitman told the NY Post, “I’ve been out to dinner several times recently where I noticed parents at nearby tables who had kids with iPads. Those little suckers did not make a peep all night. As far as I’m concerned, I’d like to ensure every child within the borders of Park Slope gets their own iPad, pronto!” more ›