Cyrus Farivar (سیروس فریور in Persian) is a technology journalist, wanderlust geek and a graduate student in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has a BA in Political Economy from the University of California at Berkeley. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Wired News, Oakland City magazine, Business 2.0 magazine, Macworld magazine, The San Mateo Daily Journal, MacAddict magazine, The Age (Australia), and The Daily Californian.

He was born January 2, 1982 in Santa Monica, California.

He keeps a blog at http://cfarivar.org