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Columbia Pictures has just released the very first teaser trailer for its upcoming film, The Social Network. Like the poster that debuted last week, the teaser is sparse in its detail, but intriguing and provocative at the same time.The Social Network, otherwise known as “the Facebook () movie,” is based in part on the book The Accidental Billionaires. It chronicles the formative days of Facebook

We like to hack things, to take them apart to understand how they work, recombine their elements, improve them and add new ones, some of which we've built from scratch. We hack all kinds of things--computers, cars, food, networks, governments, music and so on. We hack some things that we don't own (like open-source software) and many things we do. Once we buy something we consider it ours to hack, and we don't need or seek anyone's permission to do so. Nobody can dictate where, how or what we hack, particularly when we're not breaking any laws. Our work is profoundly beneficial; it's a big source of creative destruction in the economy and society. We turn out innovations much better and faster than big sleepy incumbents do, and we also keep them on their feet. They might not like us, but they can't stop us; we'll either hack their wares or turn out better ones. So we don't need to play nice with them, and don't have any interest in doing so. Entities that welcome us are, in the not-too-long-run, going to outperform those that don't, because we bring so much energy and generate so much innovation.

Sony's just revealed an OLED screen that's so astonishingly flexible it can be rolled tightly around a tube the size of a pencil. All of your sci-fi-inspired bendy screen next-gen computer dreams just came true.

When running a business, it can sometimes be hard to draw the line between being of service and being taken advantage of by customers, clients and other professionals. Here are a few ways to reinforce that line.

If you have a critical project that you absolutely must get done and you’re finding it hard to concentrate, a distraction-blocking tool like StayFocusd might be useful. It’s a Chrome extension that you can use to limit the time you spend procrastinating on distracting websites.

After months of rumors and hinting, Twitter has unveiled its major new foray into the world of geolocation, Twitter Places.This feature will highlight tweets at a given location.

We’re losing interest in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill just a few weeks after it became a big media topic — and long before we’ve even made a dent in cleaning up after this mess — if Internet search and discussion trends are to be believed.