Frightening speculation via The Next Web this morning, though not entirely unsurprising. Apparently, The Telegraph is reporting that a number of erotic novels have disappeared from the top UK sellers list of iBooks. They report this seems to have occurred overnight. Analysts with whom they spoke tol[...]
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
June 24th, 2010 - 5:16 PM § in News, Technology
Steve Jobs Freudian Slip
The new iPhone is out! Lines at all Apple stores, like club openings for unfortunate-dressed people. Sadly, the device is apparently having some issues. A lot of users are reporting reception issues. Per Engadget: So, we just spoke with Apple and got the straight dirt on the reception issues that ha[...]
The Apple App Store: 1984′s Junior Anti-Sex League v2.0
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that Apple banned Pulitzer-winning satirist Mark Fiore from its app store for ridiculing public figures (um, he’s a satirist, like, hello). Apple CEO Steve Jobs has since called the ban a mistake, but he’s not done ruining [...]
An Auto-Delete App for Safer Sexting
Text messages. We’re willing to bet that eight times out of 10, these are the reason cheaters get caught — not that we have any experience with this or anything here at Sex and the 405. We never get caught. Anyway, our dahlias of decadence and depravity, technology is smiling upon us aga[...]
She screws! She Talks! SHE HAS AN OFF SWITCH!
Before we begin, we want to take a second to instantaneously orgasm at the realization that we are thisclose to living in a postcyberpunk universe, OMG. The cyborgs are so close, the Sex and the 405 newsroom can almost taste them! Nom nom nom! /geekery But let’s explore the robots that are act[...]
Apple’s Anti-Porn Stance Blows, Encourages Scamming
Here’s an excellent argument on the suffering we’re enduring at the hands of anti-porn Apple, by Gizmodo‘s John Herrman: Apple has a ratings system in the App Store. It has a 17+ rating, for apps with violent, crude or sexual content—or app that have a browser function, which cou[...]
December 3rd, 2009 - 6:00 AM § in News, Technology
The Porn App Store Has Arrived (For Android)
As an iPhone user, I can’t tell you how much it bugs me that the Apple doesn’t carry any sexy apps in their store. Yes, we have some web apps to satisfy the cravings, but web seriously limits what developers can do for us. These are fast times! Our porn should be up to speed! [...][...]
November 13th, 2009 - 6:00 AM § in Technology
Mapping Sex
It’s the age of oversharing, baby, and it just got better. Introducing, I Just Made Love–think Foursquare, only instead of marking places you’re hanging out, you mark places you’re getting down. Unlike Foursquare, of course, which immediately lets all your friends know where [...]
November 11th, 2009 - 6:00 AM § in Contests, Technology
Make A Slutty iPhone Game, Win iPhone Porn
If you’re an iPhone user, you know the tyrants that be at Apple are hell bent on refusing us our sexy. Lucky for all of us, the world is full of naughty people who know how to get around the rules, like folks at Pink Visual, who run one of the best known iPhone porn [...][...]
November 10th, 2009 - 9:00 AM § in Technology
Technology: Does It Make Sex Easier?
Are the digital tools that make it easier to find sex compounding the confusion that accompanies it? New York mag’s Wesley Yang explores the different anxieties that we face in this digital dating age, based on two years of confessions in their Sex Diaries: The anxiety of too much choice. A fa[...]