Welcome to The Feed, our weekly round up of tech news. And what an interesting five days it’s been.
Providing you with everything you need, from Vine's new selfie capabilities to Instagram’s latest developments. Find all of this week’s relevant tech news right here, at The Feed.
The SMS Cash Cow is Dying, Chat apps may be making carrier-provided SMS messages obsolete. One of the many reasons may be because chat apps are completely free no matter where you are texting from. (4/29)
Steven Soderbergh Is Using Twitter to Write a Novella, Although his account is currently unverified, and has only a few thousand followers, Soderbergh has already tweeted the first seven chapters of Glue. It's an impressive output from the acclaimed auteur. (4/29)
The First Major Label Release Using Bitcoins is an EDM Project, The electro-duo Knife Party's third EP Haunted House will be available for purchase with bitcoins. (4/29)
Twitter Testing Official App for Glass, With Google Glass on the horizon, Twitter has officially started testing how users will tweet through glass. (4/30)
Vine Brings Back the Selfie With Front-Facing Update, Vine officially started supporting iPhone's front facing camera, allowing users the ability to up their selfie game. (4/30)
New CEO Plans to Take Sirius Beyond Car Radio, The newly appointed CEO, Jim Meyer plans to expand Sirius radio to include automated safety and security pending a deal with Nissan Motor Corp. (5/1)
Rap Genius Announces News Genius for Breaking News, End of World Nears, Though it's unclear what exactly the feature will offer, co-founder Mahbod Moghadam urged the audience to follow its Twitter account @newsgenius for a better idea. So far, News Genius appears to be rolled into Rap Genius and postulate on news from all eras. (5/1)
Two Artists are Selling the Smudges on Their iPads as Art, Bringing new meaning to the phrase: people really will buy anything. The artists took fingerprints embedded on the touch screens and turned them into expensive art. (5/1)
How to Disappear From the Internet, Believe it or not it’s actually possible. Find out how to erase your past, and yourself from the Internet. (5/2)
Instagram Adds Friend-Tagging Feature, It was only a matter of time before Instagram took a note from Facebook and added friend tagging capabilities. That day is finally here. (5/2)
Choose Your Friends: Nintendo's Miiverse and the Decline of Facebook, The moment of the all-inclusive social network is dying, now that the promises of seeing your whole life turned into a series of pics, posts, and messages can be seen for the impossibility it always was. (5/2)
R.I.P. Hotmail,We'll spare the harsh words since Hotmail just passed, but suffice it to say this day has been a long time coming. Hotmail never excelled in search, and when Gmail came out, it sort of revolutionized the way we use email. (5/3)
