Reuters reports on how social media like Twitter can be manipulated to help unscrupulous investors make money in the stock market.

A Seattle dive bar has preemptively instituted a policy that prohibits its patrons from using Google’s forthcoming Glass eyewear.

Anthropologists have discovered how ancient people wiped their butts. Fascinating.

Google is laying off about 1,200 Motorola Mobility employees as it tries to return the division to profitability.

What a dumb thing to say.

The Atlantic has responded to the freelance journalist put out by their request for free content by giving readers an idea of what their channel editors do.

NPR:

It says a lot about SXSW’s size and scope that this “sampler” of the annual music festival spans six and a half hours, but here we are: 100 songs by 100 artists worth discovering at this year’s big event.

Handpicked from among thousands of artists, this genre-traversing playlist picks highlights, discoveries and future thrills from this year’s festival — and, for the next 30 days, it’s available for free download in its entirety, as one 813 MB zip file, right here.

As much as many of us hate the hype surrounding the SXSW conference, there is often some very good “undiscovered” bands and music at the show. Thanks to Dan Frakes for the heads up.

Oregon senator Ron Wyden (D) has sponsored a bill that would make it legal for customers to unlock cell phones at the conclusion of their contract.

Some good pro tips for PR people looking to better hone their pitches to tech journalists.

There goes our plan to launch a Loop porn magazine.

The White House agrees with the FCC that the Library of Congress was wrong to make cell phone unlocking illegal.

It’s National Grammar Day, and a lexicographer has a bone to pick with people who take it too seriously.

Android is as bad as early Windows when it comes to security.

Gadling:

we’re all familiar with the rampant theft of towels and linen from hotel rooms – in fact, the problem is so widespread that some hotels have resorted to inserting tracking devices in their linens to stop the thievery.

However, it seems some hotel guests will steal just about anything that’s not nailed down (and some things that are). A poll of Britons uncovered a surprising array of goods pilfered regularly from hotel rooms.

I get the occasional towel and certainly the toiletries but the curtains? And who the hell steals the Bible!? Which part of the Commandment “Though shalt not steal” is unclear to these people?