PayPal billionaire, electric car zealot, and one man NASA Elon Musk has had it with his L.A. commute on the 405. But instead of just bitching about it like the rest of us plebes, he says he'll pay out of pocket to get a massive lane-expanding project over with.

Future-facing Android developers have begun receiving pairs of Google Glass and one of them already spotted an Easter Egg: an image of the entire Glass team.

Confused drunk people make great beta testers, apparently. If you really want to know if your app requires too much "cognitive overhead," just try getting this chick to play around with it.

Time just dropped a list of ten hot New York companies. They're burning up, so check 'em out before they get so hot they go out of business because they're not so good.

Joshua Kushner was born into wealth, mild manners, a good last name, good genetics, and then went on to make a handful of ace investments. Now, his streak continues: the boy wonder VC is dating Victoria's Secret Angel Karlie Kloss. Mazel tov, Josh: the models aren't just for Wall Street anymore.

When you're trying to raise millions for a startup without an app or even details besides a plan to sell "affordable physical products" (imagine all the whiteboarding it took to come up with that descriptor) it helps to know the right people.

More bad news for everyone's least favorite social gaming company: the FarmVille empire's former prince is AWOL, right on the heels of his hyped new release.

In case you were having too much trouble sweeping the diamonds from the crevices in your landline phone dial to book that next private jet, here's an app. BlackJet—a way of "instantly booking private jets," says TechCrunch—wants to help. Don't even bother clicking that link to BlackJet, because it won't let you in, because you are poor.

Just like we'd have trouble going back to silent films and burning the dead to stay warm during winter, Dashing Microblogger King Jack Dorsey can't deal with the primitive ways anymore: Vine is so good, he says, all other visual media are boring.

Earnings numbers are in for Facebook playground Zynga, and holy cow, they're profitable even post-IPO disaster. But under the surface, they're dying. Quickly. People are fleeing FarmVille by the millions.

We had really high hopes for Bravo's Silicon Valley reality show—vivid dreams of coders and VCs going topless in hot tubs, turning over tables, and getting arrested on airplanes. Instead, it was just vaguely annoying and mostly boring.

Bad news for people who like bad news-gathering: it looks like startup mouthpiece PandoDaily will actually cop to its deeply conflicted editorial coverage. But only if you rub it in their noses first.

It's possible that in the near future, we'll print out new organs, phones, and hot dogs, with 3D printers in our own homes. But for now, the super-trendy cottage industry is confined to silly bric-à-brac: plastic cufflinks, toy cars, and whatever this thing is. Shapeways, startup purveyor of these wares, just netted a big bundle of cash.

Twenty-seven-year-old Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore came in at no. 10 in The Times of London's list of the 30 richest Brits under 30, beating out Robert Pattinson, Adele, Keira Knightley, and roughly half the cast of Harry Potter with a personal fortune of £60million. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek trumped Cashmore by four spots and £190million, coming in at no. 6.

PandoDaily urges you not to "give up on PCs yet," based on a PC-selling startup that's backed by a guy who also backs PandoDaily.

Haute panhandling hub Kickstarter has maybe found a nadir: Zach Braff, certifiable Guy With Lots of Money, is asking for handouts to finance a sorta-sequel to Garden State. Brother, can you spare $2 million?

The good news for David Karp is that he created one of the most popular things to ever sit on the internet. The bad news is that Tumblr's investors say the company is worth $800 million, and Karp says he doesn't care about making money. That could change today.

If you're going to join the bloated ranks of Dave McClure's VC firm, 500 Startups, there's something they want you to know: your startup totally might end up broke and fucked.

On demand car service Uber is handy in a pinch (or a lightning storm), but it's pissed off traditional cab drivers. Many are afraid they'll be driven out of a job—or "disrupted," in Valley-speak—but are losing in big markets like DC. Add New York to the non-elite defeat.

The second quarter earnings numbers from everyone's favorite gadget company are out, and like every other time, it made an ungodly amount of money: $43.6 billion in revenues and net profits of $9.5 billion. That's objectively a lot of money, but there's still no phantom iWatch, so investors are likely to pout.