Rebecca Black's "Friday" Disappears From YouTube [Memes]

Adrian Chen —Rebecca Black's "Friday" video was just taken down from YouTube, where it had amassed over 150 million views. Man, we were planning on playing it twenty-eight times in a row tomorrow!
The removal was presaged by a brief vanishing act on Monday, but now it appears that Rebecca Black filed a copyright claim with YouTube and it's likely the real deal. This would make sense, as Black and Ark Music Factory, the proto-music label that produced the song, have been battling over

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The Things Skeletons Do When You're Not Looking [Art]

Artist Marc da Cuhn Lopes offers up a reminder that the skeletons of imaginary, disproportioned creatures lead normal lives just like the rest of us. They just have a few more existential factors to consider. [Marc da Cuhn Lopes via

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Microsoft decides to pass on WebGL over security concerns

Well, it looks like Microsoft is taking those warnings about WebGL pretty seriously. The company has decided not to support the web-based 3D standard because it wouldn't be able to pass security muster. Highest on the list of concerns is that WebGL opens up a direct line from the internet to a system's GPU. To make matters worse, holes and bugs may crop up that are platform or video card specific, turning attempts to plug holes in its defense into a game of whack-a-mole -- with many players

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Sony Ericsson signs deal with NFC chip maker, gets ready to do the Xperia pay

If Google ever hopes to lead the mass exodus away from credit card transactions with Google Wallet, a lot more NFC-packing handsets will need to hit the market. Thus far Sony Ericsson hasn't exactly led the near-field charge, aside Japan's Xperia Acro, but it looks like that may soon change, thanks to a deal struck between the phone maker and semiconductor producer, NXP, which will bring the company's PN65 to future Android-based Xperia models. Wave your phone after the break to check out the

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We'd Like One Bodega To Go Please [Video]

Andrew Tarantola — What's the best way to help out a struggling Mom & Pop convenience store in the Walmart age? Buy every last item in it.
That's exactly what a team from art collective The Art of Convenience did on May 20th for the Hercules Fancy Grocery in West Village, NYC. Employing the least impressive suitcase of cash I've ever seen, the group spent six hours literally emptying the place.
Check out Storebuyout.com for the grand total and your chance to buy a BIC lighter

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ITRI touchscreen technology lets you pinch-to-zoom boob tubes of any size (video)

Turning a plain old display into a multi-touch affair isn't exactly a groundbreaking feat, but we're still drooling over the Industrial Technology Research Institute's (ITRI) latest touchscreen enabler. The Taiwan-based outfit recently showed off a new attachment that the folks over at Netbooknews claim can make displays of any size touch-friendly. We're told that the touchy-feely accessory is still in development, which means it probably won't hit our living room anytime soon, but our fingers

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Shuffle Your Files Between iOS Devices, Computer-Free [Dongles]

Davey Alba — The Photofast i-FlashDrive will transfer your music, photo and movie files between iOS devices, even without a computer. It might look like a plain, two-sided USB and 30-pin dock connector at first glance, but it's more than that.
The dongle works like your usual flash drive—it connects to your iDevice or computer, letting you store your files directly on its internal memory (which comes in 8GB, 16GB or 32GB capacities). While it doesn't have the ability to charge or

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