trooperer writes “On Thursday, Google introduced two significant changes in the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery: a developer signup fee and a domain verification system. The signup fee is a one-time payment of $5. The announcement says its purpose is to ‘create better safeguards against fraudulent extensions in the gallery and limit the activity of malicious developer accounts.’ Developers who already registered with the gallery can continue to update (more…)

Growing up, in the days before the internet answered all our questions, video game urban legends flew around from kid to kid like a virus. Before there was any real way to verify whether these things were actually true, we had to take the word of our friend who “swears his cousin could do it.”

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About 100,000 people, or half the on-demand workforce at CrowdFlower, have taken pay in virtual rather than real dollars, says Chief Executive Officer Lukas Biewald, “We have to stop differentiating between the virtual world and the real world. The virtual world is very real.”

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Nicolas Anelka and Salomon Kalou both score twice as Chelsea thrash Wigan.

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Which was the best class to enter basketball immortality?

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Inspired by Brett Favre, Stephen Colbert announced his retirement from his show last night.

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Thrust from a Titan 3/Centaur rocket launched NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft on a 505-million-mile journey to Mars on Aug. 20, 1975. Viking 2 followed three weeks later.

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Crystal Palace sign former Netherlands international midfielder Edgar Davids on a pay-as-you-play deal.

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By Eriq Gardner A federal court has thrown down the gauntlet against the operator of a private server used to play the MMORP game World of Warcraft…

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An anonymous reader writes “Did you ever notice how each new generation of cell-phone tech gets branded ’3G,’ and the previous thing is retroactively downgraded to some lesser number of Gs? An MIT engineer explains why in this brilliant essay about ’3G’ over the last 10 years, showing how the cell carriers have kept offering it and swiping it away to sell more stuff. He cites numerous Cingular/AT&T and Sprint press releases showing how the companies (more…)