| Twitter Patents Twitter | | Twitter has been granted a patent which describes the basic principles of the service itself.
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| Lower Your IQ Permanently With the 'MinusIQ' Pill | | Tired of idiots? If you can't beat them, join them using the MinusIQ pill, which permanently lowers your intelligence quotient. Okay, so the product isn't actually real, but the concept behind it may be something that's crossed your mind once or twice. According to the amusing faux commercial, MinusIQ offers pills that can reduce your IQ by 10, 30 and 50 points.
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| 'Despicable Me 2' Trailer Features Abduction, Arson and Eminem | | The high-pitched yellow minions from Despicable Me are back. Three years after the original animated film made its debut, Despicable Me 2 continues the tale of lovable villain Gru (Steve Carell) and his three adopted daughters. This time, Gru faces a new nemesis voiced by The Godfather himself, Al Pacino.
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| Jawbone UP Fitness Bracelet Now Works With Android | | The Jawbone UP has a lot going for it as a fitness bracelet — it's durable, comfortable and simple — but until now it's been limited to iPhone users. That just changed with the introduction of the Jawbone UP app for Android in Google Play. Jawbone originally launched the UP in late 2011, but recalled the gadget in the wake of many returns due to damage.
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| Dudes Stage Epic Battle Using Movie Weapons | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:56 PM | Neha Prakash |
| If you're gonna beat down your buddies, what better way than with lightsabers, wands, Wolverine claws and Thor's hammer? The Sneaky Zebra bros are redefining backyard brawls by substituting their fists with the most powerful weapons in the world.
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| 3 Tips to Attract and Retain Mobile Consumers | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:15 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Every day mobile devices improve the way we shop online. As the market grows — 45% of American adults own smartphones — it becomes even more important for businesses to adapt to mobile payments. SEE ALSO: Forrester: U.S. Online Retail Sales to Hit $370 Billion by 2017 Today's businesses need strategies that not only attract mobile consumers, but also retain them, which can be infinitely more profitable.
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| Students Confess Their Darkest Secrets on Facebook | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:39 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Diaries are so passé. If you really want to pour your heart out, Facebook seems to be the popular place to do it. Instead of disclosing intimate details through journaling, students are taking to the social network to reveal their innermost secrets. Hundreds of high schools and universities have unofficial Facebook confession pages dedicated to sharing anonymous admissions.
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| Visualize the Intergalactic Saga With 'Star Wars' Family Tree | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:21 PM | Neha Prakash |
| It's like six degrees of separation — but minus Kevin Bacon and plus C3PO. Graphic Designer — and hardcore Star Wars fan — Joe Stone has traced the genealogy of the Empire and Alliance clans to help the rest of the world remember the connections between the dozens of characters that appear in a galaxy far, far away. He notes everything from direct bloodlines to friendships, mentorships and romances.
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| Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Moving to Apple | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:50 PM | Christina Warren |
| Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch is leaving the company to take a job at Apple. The news was leaked in an SEC filing and confirmed by Adobe. Lynch joined Adobe in 2005 as part of its acquisition of Macromedia. At Macromedia, he helped create Dreamweaver and other web technology tools. More recently at Adobe, Lynch has overseen the company's push into more subscription software territory with the Adobe Creative Cloud and the Adobe Marketing Cloud.
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| Try 'Sloppy Typing' on This Reimagined QWERTY Keyboard | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:20 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| With every iteration of each smartphone model comes a slew of new features. Better display! Faster! Thinner! Lighter! But with the notable exception of Swype on smartphones, serious innovation with the QWERTY keyboard has been largely ignored. Toronto-based company Whirlscape is reimagining the QWERTY keyboard by streamlining the keys into a single line and letting you type without being precise (unlike a typewriter).
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| Battle for Your Wrist Estate Intensifies Amid Smartwatch Rumors | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:03 PM | Andrea Smith |
| Technology has always been a real estate battle. First it was the battle for your desktop with dueling PCs, then it moved to the living room with game consoles and smart TVs. There’s a battle for your shoulder bag with laptops and tablets, and for your pockets with mobile phones. The next battleground: your wrists. The good news is that the wrist is relatively under-populated territory.
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| Asteroid Threat Collides With Budget Realities in Congress | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:59 PM | Space.com |
| In the wake of last month's meteor strike in Russia and a close asteroid flyby on the same day, members of Congress asked NASA, White House and Air Force officials what they're doing to combat the threat of near-Earth asteroids during a hearing today on Capitol Hill. By and large, the experts stressed that the two space rock events were a coincidence and that the chance of a catastrophic asteroid impact to Earth any time soon is remote.
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| Don't Blame Snapchat for Your Teen's Naked Pics | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:56 PM | Christine Erickson |
| By now, you've noticed the app Snapchat has caught some major attention. Well-known for its promiscuous reputation, the app lets users send quick, SMS-like messages, which can include candid photos or videos that (supposedly) disappear seconds later — "never to be seen again." Unless you take a screenshot, that is.
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| Microsoft Outlook Ad Gives a Shout-Out to Same-Sex Marriage | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:43 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Microsoft has become the latest tech advertiser to give a shout-out to same-sex marriage with an ad for Outlook that shows two women getting married. The ad comes after Amazon released an ad last month featuring a same-sex male couple. Expedia — formerly a Microsoft unit — also ran an ad last October showing a father coming to terms with his daughter's decision to marry another woman.
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| Cops Want Wireless Providers to Record and Store Your Text Messages | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:16 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| The same day that Google is asking Congress to strengthen privacy protections for Americans' emails, the cops are arguing that U.S. law should require cellphone providers to store text messages logs in the event authorities need to read them in the course of a criminal investigation.
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| Google Announces 'Google Capture' for Hangouts | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:39 PM | Emily Price |
| Google announced a new Hangouts Capture app Tuesday, a new way for Google Hangouts users to capture photos of a Hangout in progress so they can relive the magic of the event later on.
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| Hulu Plus For Apple TV Gets a Facelift | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:38 PM | Christina Warren |
| Hulu has rolled out a brand new Hulu Plus interface for Apple TV. On its blog, Hulu says that it has redesigned the Apple TV Hulu Plus experience "from the ground up," with a focus on finding current TV episodes and content discovery. Content categories are now across the top navigation bar — mimicking the interface Apple uses for the iTunes store — and offering easy access to sections such as TV, Movies, Kids, Latino and the Hulu Queue.
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| NPR Bracket Is Nerdy Alternative to NCAA Tourney | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:23 PM | Geekosystem |
| The NCAA March Madness tournament starts today, but the real action is in public radio feuds. Radio station 89.3 KPCC has 32 NPR shows going head-to-head in an NCAA-style tournament bracket. The smart money is on Bullseye to take the whole thing against Car Talk in the finals. It’s not uncommon around this time of year for people to try to cash in on March Madness by making a bracket for just about anything.
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| Google Adds Search Filter for GIFs, Transparent Images | | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:12 PM | Neha Prakash |
| It's become common practice for the Internet to express its feelings through animated GIFs, however it's not always easy to locate the perfect situation-worthy GIF. Google is easing the woes of GIF addicts with a filters that will make it easier to narrow down searches specifically for animated images and transparent images.
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