The top one is harder to steal? CNET There is a popular view, supported by statistics, that thieves steal iPhones because they are the coolest phones that fetch the most money on resale. Indeed, last year, the New York Police Department announced that iPhones were involved in 14 percent of all the crime in the …

Grap? Banter Chat/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET We are all, at heart, schizophrenes. We emit every last element of our lives to Facebook, while at the same time being shocked that we have no privacy. We insist that the world knows about our every last emotion, when in fact we really just want to cuddle with a single lover and …

These toilets are especially difficult to maneuver. AutisticGlobetrotting/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET No, I’m not going to show you the pictures. We’ll simply discuss the philosophy here. The facts appear to be these: a man in the city of Jianyang in Sichuan province, China, availed himself of the public restroom. In circumstances that might be familiar to some, at the …

A retina becoming detached. European VitreoRetinal Society/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Love often keeps you in the dark about its source and its course. For one Chinese man, however, that darkness brought consequences he surely couldn’t have foreseen. This man was partial to messaging app WeChat. This delightful thing allow for intimate conversations, day and night. Here, however, there was …

Is it love that persuades techie cities to marry Apple? Apple Your loins are possibly still throbbing after the multifarious, multicolored announcement at the Apple WWDC presentation. Either that, or your fists are curling in heated woe at how much techies seem to care about this. Whichever it may be, I feel sure that such a concentration of Apple products …

And the Beats go on. Beats By Dre/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET How they celebrated. “Both overpriced trash,” offered Cornelius Washington. “It just sucks Apple sucks up alot of things and i find the music quality in Ipods/phones crappy,” mused Jeremiah Johnson. “Ugh, going to feel dirty everytime I hook my Studios up to my @HTCUSA One,” said Nobody (real …

Is it too big? UrAvgConsumer/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET As we drift into the post, post-PC era, it’s odd that phones still have the power to excite. We may not want to admit it, but when we see a new little oblong with a single button and a touchscreen, we can’t help but shriek like a teen espying Bieber. So …

Is your neck being damaged by your phone? Ultherapy/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Have you ever looked at your lover, noticed a double chin tending toward triple, and thought: “Where did that come from?” Have you ever nuzzled into your loved one’s neck and espied a new and slightly off-putting freeway system of wrinkles has formed in recent times? There …

The choice of the image-conscious teen? Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Have you noticed that your local teens have been looking especially shabby of late? Are they sporting T-shirts that don’t even appear to have come from Abercrombie, American Eagle, or any brand that belches a logo as loudly as it can? I may have a reason for this. Apparently, …

The school at the center of the allegations. Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Educators aren’t always comfortable with students having cell phones. While some might argue phones are a classroom distraction, other teachers face a different problem with mobile devices. It seems there’s too much temptation hidden within them to discover everything about their students. An incident in the UK offers …