| Your Facebook Profile Could Determine Mental Illness | | 3:53:14 AM | Camille Bautista |
| Everyone has that one crazy Facebook friend. They overshare, write cryptic statuses or worse, type in all caps. Those seemingly annoying posts, or lack thereof, could be more than just news feed fodder. Facebook profiles could be used as insight into mental health issues, a new study says. According to researchers at the University of Missouri, whether you post once an hour or once a month can be an indicator of your psychological state.
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| This Is How Your Brain Works | | Quick, what's 23 times 46? No time to think, your mind has already figured it out. Confused? No need for an explanation, your mind is two steps ahead of you. Sometimes your brain is working so fast it's getting everything wrong. And sometimes it's working so well, it makes you blind. It doesn't make much sense, until ASAPScience lays it out. It all boils down to the fact that our mind is constantly playing tricks on us, but for our own good.
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| The Apple Versus Android War Song | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:37 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Haven't you heard? It's not just a phone, it's a war. So pick a side and choose wisely. You're making a lifetime commitment; is it Apple or Android? And there's no going back for fear of being called a traitor, a war criminal even a flip-flopper. SEE ALSO: How to End the iPhone vs. Android Debate And if you're spending any time liaising with the other side, prepare to sever ties.
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| Mini-Drone Will Watch Wherever You Go | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:39 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| If you're one of those people who feel the urge to document each and every breathing moment of your life, but think it's annoying to have to get out your smartphone to snap pictures and upload them every time, you're in luck. Thanks to startup Always Innovating, you'll soon be able to have a mini-drone hover over your shoulder and do that job for you.
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| Puppies Adorably Predict Super Bowl Winner | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:46 PM | Neha Prakash |
| If you're betting on the outcome of this year's Super Bowl, we think we've found a way to zone in on the winning choice. Puppy predicting — a long practiced and perfected art — uses a streamlined mathematical formula which promises 100 percent guaranteed results. It has absolutely nothing to with the dogs just trotting over to the closet bowl filled with Kibbles 'n Bits.
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| Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:06 PM | Eric Larson |
| See which pictures were shared and retweeted across Twitter the most this week.
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| Vinecats: the Purrfect Way to View Vine? | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:46 PM | Emily Price |
| Feeling down? This site is guaranteed to put you in a good mewd. Meet Vinecats, a vine aggregator that shows nine random six-second cat videos, in a grid, all the time. The creation of q30 Design, the site’s home page shows 9 different cats Vines at a time, simultaneously.
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| R2-D2 Heels! Need These, You Do | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:31 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the winner of Star Wars item of the week: R2-D2 shoes for ladies. These beauties, featuring R2s clinging to their heels and a blinking R2-like front panel up on the foot, showed up Wednesday on Instructables — a site that documents its users' creations, so you can make your own.
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| 8th Grader Has Best Breakup Line Ever | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:53 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Photo courtesy of Imgur "It's not you it's me. I just need some space to work on myself. It's really just the timing. You deserve someone better." Puh-lease. Those breakup lines aren't foolin' anyone. We've all heard 'em, we've all used 'em. It's time the dating world was injected with some creativity, some wit and, for goodness sakes, some honesty. Enter an 8th grader mature beyond his years.
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| Mega's First Search Engine Gets Blocked | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:43 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Kim Dotcom's new sharing website Mega got a little closer to resembling its old, closed-down version, Megaupload on Wednesday. Anonymous users launched a search engine that indexes files uploaded on the new sharing service, potentially making it easier to find copyright-protected material. On Thursday, less than 24 hours after the first news reports of the existence of the third-party engine surfaced, Dotcom blocked it.
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| Is Sony Launching a New PlayStation Next Month? | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:05 PM | Emily Price |
| Could Sony finally be unveiling the PlayStation 4? The company is holding an event Feb. 20 to talk about the future of PlayStation. Announced via its Twitter account, a page for the event simply shows the date and time of the event (6 p.m. EST) along with the short teaser version shown above, with no other information about what it has in store.
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| Student Project Helps Disabled Kitten Walk | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:59 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Someone get the students at Conifer High School a Nobel Peace Prize — They are saving the world one kitty at a time. Thanks to these kids, Flipper, a cat with a twisted spine, has a chance at leading a normal life of mouse-chasing and bedpost-scratching. Flipper was born with a condition that doesn't allow her back end to walk on the same plane as her front.
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| Former Obama Cybersecurity Czar Warns Against Use of Cyberweapons | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:44 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Talks of cyberwar and a cyber Pearl Harbor seem to be a regular fixture of news reports in the last few months, with prominent U.S. administration officials like Janet Napolitano or Leon Panetta regularly touting the threat of a cyber attack on the United States. But not everybody is buying it. For one, Howard Schmidt, the former chief cybersecurity advisor to President Barack Obama, is skeptical.
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| Here's How Data Can Solve the World's Most Challenging Problems | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:26 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Swedish academic and Gapminder Foundation co-founder Hans Rosling says data doesn't always back up our conceptions about the world. In the video above, Rosling explains that our ideas about developed and developing countries largely reflect the reality of fifty years ago, rather than today.
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| Super Bowl Teams Are Losers on Facebook Likes | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:13 PM | Fran Berkman |
| If Facebook Likes were touchdowns, both Super Bowl teams would be losers. In fact, both teams combined can't compare to the champion of Likes: the Dallas Cowboys. With more than 5 million Likes, the Cowboys far outpace the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, whose Like counts stand at about 1.7 million and 1.4 million, respectively.
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| How Nvidia Kept Project Shield a Secret | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:06 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Nvidia surprised the world at CES 2013 when it unveiled Project Shield, a portable Android gaming device that also works the PC games. Everyone expected the Tegra 4 mobile processor, but no one saw Project Shield coming. In this age of a hyperscrutiny of tech companies, how did Nvidia keep it a secret? Three ways: simple security precautions, very little outside involvement and an incredibly tight development schedule.
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| 'Wall Street Journal': China Hacks Us, Too | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:04 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Wall Street Journal revealed Thursday that it has been the victim of Chinese hackers "on and off during the past few years." "Evidence shows that infiltration efforts target the monitoring of the Journal's coverage of China and are not an attempt to gain commercial advantage or to misappropriate customer information," Paula Keve, chief spokeswoman for Dow Jones & Co., said in a statement Thursday.
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| Tablet Shipments Hit Record Levels While Apple's Market Share Declines | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:47 PM | Anita Li |
| Global tablet shipments reached a record of 52.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a new report. Jumping from 29.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, the tablet market grew a staggering 75.3% year over year. It also increased 74.3% from 30.1 million units in the previous quarter, the International Data Corporation wrote.
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| Pitbull Puppy Is All the Exercise Motivation You Need | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:39 PM | Neha Prakash |
| It is so difficult to get in a workout these days. You try and make time but there's always someone hogging the treadmill at the gym. If all your fitness efforts fail, do like this puppy, and hop alongside your workout buddy. And while paws offer the best traction for dealing with incline and speed, there is an important lesson to learn from this agressive and persistant puppy — if at first your exercise efforts flop, try and try again.
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| Will.i.am Says the Future of Tech Is 'Inside the Box' | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:18 PM | Emily Price |
| Wii.i.am took to the stage at Macworld Thursday to talk about the future of tech. Speaking alongside Intel’s resident futurist Bran David Johnson, the pair talked about where the next big changes are coming from. Will.i.am thinks that education is a particular area important to tech, specifically teaching kids that’s its “cool” to become an engineer.
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| Remember When Hillary Clinton Won a Grammy? | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:14 PM | National Journal |
| As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to retirement, news outlets are sure to write deep reflections on her legacy. But let's not forget something many will not include on a list of her achievements: The outgoing secretary is a Grammy Award winning artist. Yup, she won one back in 1997 for the audio version of her book It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us.
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| Have the NFL Playoffs Killed Nate Silver's Mojo? | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:04 PM | Sam Laird |
| Nate Silver picks the 49ers to win the Super Bowl, but given the nerd demigod's futility so far this NFL postseason, maybe Ravens fans should be excited.
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| Dazzling Photos Capture Nighttime NASA Rocket Launch | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:57 PM | Space.com |
| When NASA's newest satellite soared into space late Wednesday, a team of photographers captured dazzling views of the rocket streaking into orbit. A series of long-exposure rocket launch photos released overnight by NASA show the unmanned Atlas 5 booster carrying the agency's new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite K (TDRS-K) as a bright arc of light climbing spaceward from a pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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| 1949 Device Could Be the First E-Reader | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:52 PM | Anita Li |
| E-readers started surging in popularity during the late 2000s, but the first such device may have debuted over 60 years ago. A Spanish teacher named Ángela Ruiz Robles invented the "Mechanical Encyclopedia" in 1949 — way before Nooks and Kindles hit store shelves — and historians claim it's the first of its kind, according to the New York Daily News.
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| Text Messaging Brings African Voices to World Leaders at the UN | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:45 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Text messaging is giving Africans the opportunity to make their voices heard by world leaders in a new campaign that kicked off Wednesday. Poverty fighting organization One launched its "You Choose" pilot program in South Africa, Malawi and Zambia, hoping to give Africans from those countries a voice at the U.N. when post-2015 development goals are considered in March.
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| Pew: More Consumers Use Cellphones to Make Shopping Decisions | | Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:35 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Finding the right gift during the holiday season requires some challenging decisions, but connected consumers are taking advantage of their devices to help them shop. Nearly six in ten cell owners used their phone in a physical store to make purchasing decisions, a new study says.
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