| 104-Year-Old Architect Releases 3D Photos of Iconic Work | |  | You may not recognize him by name name, but Oscar Niemeyer once changed the world. In the 1940s, '50s and '60s, this humble architectect from Brazil established himself as one of Modernism's greatest luminaries. His designs radically altered...
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| India's Call Centers Stayed Open During Historic Blackout | |  | India's call centers kept answering the phones Monday and Tuesday, as 680 million people in the country's northern and eastern provinces faced a crippling power outage, the largest ever electrical blackout in world history. Call centers for...
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| Developer Claims Facebook Tried to Destroy His Business | |  | The developer of a Facebook app has gone public with a post claiming that Facebook executives tried to hire him because the company was building a similar app. While the idea of an "aqui-hire" might not sound bad to some, Dalton Caldwell, the CEO...
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| 10 Moments of Triumph Photographed by Our Readers | |  | Triumph is the feeling you get when you accomplish a goal or achieve something spectacular. It's an instant, automatic reaction that transcends culture. The feeling is a huge part of the Olympic Games, and we have seen a lot of it this week. From...
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| YouTube's 10 Most-Shared Ads in July | |  | Success on YouTube is a tricky thing. It takes the right mix of several different factors to make a video's share count truly skyrocket. The list of videos we've compiled prominently feature some of those winning themes. The top ad is a...
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| Compare Local Service Prices With Centzy | | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:51 PM | |
|  | Name: Centzy Quick Pitch: Centzy is an online platform that provides rates for local services. Genius Idea: By showing specific price-points alongside reviews, Centzy saves you the trouble of calling around to find the best rate. Choosing a hair...
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| Get the Birthday Present You Really Want With Giftiki | | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:14 PM | |
|  | For his birthday one year, Justin Stanislaw didn't get the gift he really wanted: a trip to an Orlando Magic game. But after adding up the cost of all the gifts and cards he received, Justin figured out that he could have actually made the game...
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| How Olympic Weightlifter Zoe Smith Owned Her Twitter Trolls | | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:07 PM | |
|  | Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith set a British women's record in the clean-and-jerk on Monday -- but that may have only been the eighteen-year-old's second most impressive victory of July. Earlier in the month, Smith and her women's weightlifting...
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| Young Boy in New Nike Ad Is Big-Time Inspiration [VIDEO] | | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:50 PM | |
|  | While Adidas may be the official sponsor of the London Olympics, Nike is running a Summer Games campaign that puts the spotlight on non-Olympians in other Londontowns around the world to support its claim that "greatness is for all of us." The...
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| Does It Hurt When You Watch the Olympics? [COMIC] | | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:11 PM | |
|  | Open wide and say, "Aaarchery." Your checkup will be a lot less painful. Artist Jerry King pokes fun at NBC's coverage of the Olympics. Many viewers have expressed "confusion, frustration, and anger" over how the network has handled its broadcast...
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| See Who's Talking About Your Instagram Pics With This App | | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:38 PM | |
|  | Instagram's popularity hasn't waned, even after Facebook bought it back in April. In fact, the migration has spawned new users, and now those notifications are showing up in your Facebook feed. So, as we post our filtered photos for our friends...
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| Olympics Begone! Browser Extension Blocks Some Spoilers | | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:30 PM | |
|  | One of the downsides of the first social Olympic Games: it's difficult for Olympic fans to shield themselves from Games-related spoilers online. Greg Leuch, a developer The Free Art and Technology Lab has tried to remedy this problem with the...
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| Sign and Send Contracts From Your iPhone For Free With HelloSign | | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:23 PM | |
|  | HelloFax, the company that lets you send and receive digital faxes, has spun off its digital signature service into a new stand-alone product: HelloSign. "Everyone has to sign documents, and it's done in a really poor way right now, which is what...
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| Facebook: Better for the Planet than Google | | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:09 PM | |
|  | Facebook revealed its 2011 carbon footprint on Wednesday -- that is, the amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide its offices and data centers' energy usage is responsible for. The figure was good enough to earn the social network kudos from...
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| Golf Cart Jump Turns Into World's Biggest Wedgie [VIDEO] | | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 8:45 PM | |
|  | There are wedgies, and then there are wedgies. And then...there is this. To provide some basic play-by-play, a shirtless dude tries to hurdle a golf cart in front of his friends. He clears the cart, but his shorts get caught on the cart's roof....
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