Only days after Amazon crashed, the entire Nasdaq exchange is also out of service due to a "technical issue." All trading has been halted.

When Marissa Mayer isn't posing upside down in lawn chairs, Yahoo's chief executive is doing normal CEO stuff, like buying this miniature, $33,000 version of Palo Alto's Peninsula Creamery. To place in her backyard. For her infant son.

Like space travel and imaginary tubes, the extension of the human life span is being financed by the private interests of tech billionaires.

Brit Morin, Silicon Valley's favorite camp counselor, is expanding her plagiarist DIY movement: the San Francisco Business Times says her macaroni-gluing firm "signed a three-year lease for a 9,700-square-foot office near Union Square," putting those investment millions to work. That's a lot of space to fill shoeboxes with glitter.

The "sharing economy" is a misnomer—Silicon Valley doesn't want you to think of it as an economy, so much as a lifestyle. We're not potential consumers, but potential friends, allies, and maybe even stalkers. So, it only makes sense that ridesharing app Lyft would make a love song to itself.

Mega-VC Peter Thiel's eponymous, anti-college "fellowship" is part of his techno-libertarian fantasy: in the future, no one will need to attend bloated institutions like college. You'll just start a business instead—how about trading an education for topical energy spray?

To you, the average homeless person might just be a nuisance—an uncomfortable sidewalk encounter. But to the enterprising entrepreneur of today, the homeless are an opportunity, a way to test out your app, or maybe—just maybe—the next great software engineer.

Tumblr says it wasn't hacked, but it looked that way to a hell of a lot of its users: for a harrowing fifteen minutes, images of sexual intercourse, Satanism, and other horrors permeated the Tumblrverse without apparent cause. The kids are not alright.

The Yale-educated dude trio that runs Rap Genius, a website dedicated to deciphering hip-hop for white people, gets a lot of mileage out of not being taken seriously. Their group goofiness is brilliant, letting them dodge any and all criticism in a self-serious field. Until Rap Genius threatens mouth rape on Twitter.

After FWD.us, Zuck's next quasi-philanthrophy will be Internet.org, an endeavor to get more poor people on the internet—with the hope, of course, that they'll become Facebook users. The long con.

Of all your online profiles and inboxes, the one with the most potential for personal embarrassment has to be OkCupid. According to a report in the Verge, your OkCupid account also happens to be easily accessible—merely by forwarding an email alert from the site.

Over $6 million in venture capital has been handed to Grubwithus, a company that thinks it can make money by arranging meals between strangers. It looks like that bet was probably wrong.

If you're part of the elite Y Combinator startup cabal, you recently received this list—"57 startup lessons"—in your inbox. There are a few bits of decent, generic advice. It's also a tidy explanation of why startup creators are making terrible mistakes over, and over again.

If Yahoo's determination to dump money on every faltering startup doesn't somehow save the company, at least CEO Marissa Mayer will have a souvenir from the good times.

Youth isn't just respected in tech—it's worshipped above almost any other trait. Be reckless! Make mistakes! Take chances! Watch these clowns juggle! This is probably a lot of fun, unless you're a middle-aged engineer, in which case you are maybe worthless.

Is this the "big moment" for face computers? Does pairing a $2,300 Gucci turtleneck or $1,200 Balenciaga boots with a $1,500 pair of gadget glasses make them haute? Will you look like a model—or will the model look like you? No to all of these, of course, but Google's at least scored itself some glossy mag cachet.

Only days after we discovered Sheryl Sandberg's foundation was looking for uncompensated young workers, the group says it'll start doing the right thing: paid internships are coming.