| Report: Google Glass to Be Manufactured in the U.S. | | Google Glass will be manufactured in Silicon Valley, the Financial Times reports citing people familiar with Google's plans. The much-hyped gadget will be produced by Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn — the company that builds Apple's iPhone. However, it will be built at a facility in Santa Clara, California.
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| Kids Talk Grown-Up Dating Problems in Adorable Video | | Even the best of us have dealt with dating woes — who hasn't gone out for drinks with the girls/boys to complain about an object of unrequited love? But while relationships generally start post-puberty, a new YouTube video shows three kindergarteners hashing out very grown-up dating problems that most 20-somethings and up know all too well.
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| A Test Drive Takes a Sexy Turn in Renault's Prank Video | | We've already seen Pepsi punk a car dealer in a test drive scenario. Now it's time to turn the tables. In this ad for Renault, created by Unruly, a couple of guys take a Renault Clio for a spin. After a humdrum beginning, the salesman shows of a "va va voom" button, which initiates a tableau of a romantic scene between a couple (set against the Eiffel Tower, natch) and then, inevitably, some jiggly, lingerie-clad ladies.
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| Google Play Movies Come to India and Mexico | | Google Play movies are now available for rent in India and Mexico, Google has announced. Users in those countries can watch movies on the web or through the Google Play Movies & TV Android app. Google has also started rolling out support for 6 Indic languages in Gmail on the feature phone browser: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. Users can switch to the desired language in the browser's settings.
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| Google Harnesses Knowledge Graph, Facial Recognition to Give Movie Insight | | The Google Play Movies and TV app is debuting a new feature that gives greater insight into your favorite actors, films and shows — thanks to the search giant's Knowledge Graph. If you've ever found yourself mulling over the name of an unidentified actor or song while watching a film, the app's new "info cards" will provide facts related to any movie being watched on an Android tablet.
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| Everything You Loved (and Hated) About the '90s in 1 Song | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:57 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Rugrats and Trapper Keepers and Fresh Prince, oh my! It's the '90s! It was your childhood, when Lisa Frank, MTV's golden age and Nickelodeon cartoons had a place before Disney stars became a thing. It was the best 10 years in the world. No? Bad stuff happened in the '90s? Blasphemy. No one ever talks about that, we're too busy naming every Hanson song and counting our scrunchies.
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| iOgrapher Turns an iPad Mini Into a Video Shooting Powerhouse | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:00 PM | Charlie White |
| You might scoff at someone shooting video with an iPad, but what if it were an iPad mini, wearing this sleek double-handled iOgrapher mount? It accommodates different lenses, makes it easier to hold your iPad mini steady, and if that's not rock-solid enough, it lets you mount it on a tripod. This Kickstarter project was created by high-school media arts teacher Dave Basulto of South Pasadena, Calif.
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| Ford Challenges Developers to Tackle Car Data | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:25 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Ford is taking what may be the first step in creating a new, cohesive, multi-screen, contextually aware experience between smartphones and cars. The automaker announced this week at the New York International Auto Show, the Ford Personalized Fuel-Efficiency App Challenge, an app-development contest that will let developers tap into Ford’s OpenXC API and give them direct access to data collected by Ford cars.
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| 10 Things on the Internet That Don't Make Any Sense | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:00 PM | Annie Colbert |
| The Internet can be a scary and confusing place filled with error pages, pop-up ads and nervous-looking cats. Navigating the world wide web without a map (or a helmet) can lead you to weird places. YouTube puppet duo Glove and Boots reveal the 10 things on the Internet that just don't make any sense to them. Even though their brains are made of cotton, you can probably still relate.
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| Inside the Biggest Cyberattack in History | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 7:16 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| A cyberattack originally targeting a single company is now being described by experts as one of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in Internet history.
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| Smartphone Users Check Facebook 14 Times a Day | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 6:45 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Think you use your phone to look at Facebook a lot? Unless you're doing it at least 14 times a day, you're actually below average. That's just one of the surprising revelations in a research report by IDC released Wednesday. The study tapped 7,446 iPhone and Android users in the U.S.
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| Google Maps Adds Real-Time Public Transit Info | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:53 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Good news, New York City-based commuters: Google Maps added Wednesday real-time subway departure times for the seven lines that have such data available. These include the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and Times Square - Grand Central shuttle. The Metropolitan Transit Authority's other lines require an expensive overhaul before they'll be able to provide real-time data.
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| Carlsberg Ad Lampoons Apple Release Hype | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 2:20 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| As if there weren't enough anti-Apple ads from companies like Samsung and Google, now Carlsberg is getting in on the game too. The beer company released its first UK ad this week for Somersby cider, which pokes fun at all the fuss surrounding Apple product launches.
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| What That Gadget Says About Your Personality | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:35 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| People judge each other on what they drive, what they wear and where they live, so it's not a surprise that people may also judge each other on what electronics they whip out to use in public. "Identity is interwoven into those kinds of choices," said Coye Cheshire, associate professor of sociology at the Berkeley School of Information. iPhone vs.
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| Sense8: Netflix Series by Makers of 'The Matrix' to Debut | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:07 PM | Stan Schroeder |
| Andy and Lana Wachowski of The Matrix fame are working on a new TV series called Sense8, and it's coming exclusively to Netflix in 2014. The 10-episode first season is produced by the Wachowskis and written by J. Michael Straczynski, best known as the creator of Babylon 5 TV series and his work on Thor and Underworld Awakening.
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| Facebook Opens News Feed to Targeted Brand Posts | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:33 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Facebook on Wednesday rolled out a new feature that lets brands target users for status updates that don't appear on their brand Pages. The intent is to let brands target a subset of customers without alienating other members of its customer base. For example, a sporting goods brand could run a post appealing to basketball fans.
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| 'Wolverine' Trailer Shows Angry Hero Seeking Death in Japan | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:18 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| After releasing a six-second teaser of The Wolverine on Vine and a 20-second teaser on MTV, 20th Century Fox and Marvel unleashed the movie's first full trailer on Wednesday. Hugh Jackman plays the disgruntled hero for the sixth time in this second solo outing following X-Men Origins: Wolverine from 2009. His other four appearances were in the X-Men franchise films.
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| 'Elle' Invites Readers to Shop Net-a-Porter On-Site | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Elle is closing the gap between inspiration and purchase, bringing to its site more than 1,200 products from luxury e-tailer Net-a-Porter as part of an advertising agreement between the two companies. The products are indexed in an online retail environment similar to one you'd find on Net-a-Porter itself.
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