| Vintage Moon Photo Project Seeks Public Support | | A five-year effort to recover nearly 50-year-old images of the moon is seeking public support to keep the project going. Since 2008, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) has been reprocessing data received from five unmanned NASA spacecraft in the 1960s.
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| Google Chromebooks Coming to Six New Countries | | Google's Chromebooks from HP, Acer and Samsung will become available in six new countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Ireland and the Netherlands, Google has announced. The rollout, which will start Tuesday, will also include Chromebooks for schools and businesses. Google will organize a Hangout for each new country the Chromebooks are available in, explaining how Chromebooks can be used in education.
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| 'Paperman' Parody Shows Uncut NSFW Ending of Disney Short | | By now, most of us have seen and fallen in love with Paperman, the Oscar-winning Disney short that captured our hearts after going viral. The story is classic: Boy meets girl; boy loses girl; boy reunites with girl; then, romance ensues. The ending, however, is a little more ambiguous, as viewers are left to imagine exactly what happens after boy and girl get together.
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| Gmail App for Android Update Helps You Search and Reply Faster | | Gmail unveiled an update to its Android app Monday, enabling users to reply, archive and search messages more efficiently. Those who own a device running Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and up, can now reply and archive messages straight from their notifications by making a quick selection. In a blog post, Google software engineer Andy Huang includes an example of the update, seen below.
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| Repix Gives Your iPhone Photos a Fantastic New Look | | Tired of using Instagram to spruce up your smartphone photos? Meet Repix, a free iOS app that lets you remix your snapshots by "painting" on them using different preset brushes. The app comes with a number of free built-in brushes, including a "Cartoonize" brush for turning your photo into a cartoon and a "Charcoal" brush for making it a drawing.
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| 10 Personal Finance Experts to Follow on Twitter | | Monday, March 18, 2013 11:58 PM | The Daily Muse |
| When it comes to your personal finance, turns our there are some pretty awesome experts out there, specializing in everything from investing advice to living on a budget. If you’re looking for a constant stream of wise money posts, check our some of these finance feeds on Twitter. 1.
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| I, for One, Welcome Our Google Glass-Wearing Cyborg Overlords | | Monday, March 18, 2013 9:08 PM | Chris Taylor |
| You may have noticed the Google Glass backlash is well underway. Once we were thrilled by the promise of the eye-level connected screen and camera technology; once we poked satirical fun at it. But no more. Now, it seems, we've reached the stage of being threatened by it.
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| Facebook Updates iOS App With Cover Photo Control | | Monday, March 18, 2013 7:02 PM | Christina Warren |
| Facebook released version 5.6 of its iOS app Monday, giving users the ability to update their profile cover photo on the go. Users can now update their cover photo on the iPhone with a tap of their finger. Simply tap on the cover photo in profile view and you can choose to view your cover photo, choose a new photo from your photo library or take a new photo.
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| Social Media Sites Imagined as Party Goers | | Monday, March 18, 2013 5:39 PM | Neha Prakash |
| In today's ultra-connected world where the Internet is your bestest (and only) real friend, it makes sense to party it down with your favorite social media sites. While a roaring shindig with Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube and Reddit sounds like the soiree of the century, it turns out these social media sites have pretty irritating human personalities. At least according to this Cracked video.
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| Will Killing Google Reader Increase Global Censorship? | | Monday, March 18, 2013 4:15 PM | Chris Taylor |
| After Google unceremoniously announced it would be killing Reader later this year, much of the outraged response focused on its use in the U.S. But there's a whole other aspect to the service: for thousands of users around the world, it's one of the few ways they can get around their country's censors. A "save Google Reader" petition hosted by Change.org has received 125,000 signatures so far.
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| Holy Satire: God's Irreverent Facebook Strategy | | Monday, March 18, 2013 3:12 PM | Matt Silverman |
| While we lament that Facebook is devolving into a wasteland of content spam, there are still a few pages doing it right. A page called "I fucking love science" has no doubt appeared in your feed at some point with a fun factoid or nerdy observation. Former Star Trek actor George Takei shares a lot of recycled Internet culture on his fan page. The strategy has made him a social media juggernaut.
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| Beyonce Debuts New Song on Tumblr | | Monday, March 18, 2013 2:59 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Beyonce Knowles is using her Tumblr page to give fans a taste of her newest album. Knowles dropped the song "Bow Down/I Been On" Sunday, along with a picture of her as a child wearing a floor-length, taffeta pink dress complete with tiara (obviously, the singer has always been a trendsetter). The song was produced by Hit Boy — who also produced her hubby Jay Z's "Ni**as in Paris" — and is aggressive, to say the least.
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| What Would We Do If the Internet Crashed? | | Monday, March 18, 2013 12:06 PM | Amanda Wills |
| The Internet seems pretty reliable, but what if someone was able to take it down? Scientist Danny Hillis explains why we need a serious backup plan.
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| What It's Like to Be Pope Francis' Social Media Intern | | Monday, March 18, 2013 12:00 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Pope Francis sent his first tweet from the resurrected @Pontifex Twitter account Sunday, only four days after being elected as Benedict XVI's successor: Dear friends, I thank you from my heart and I ask you to continue to pray for me.Pope Francis.
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| Microsoft to End Support for Windows Phone 8 July 2014 | | Monday, March 18, 2013 11:49 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Microsoft has revealed the product support life-cycle for Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8 will end in the second half of 2014. Specifically, Microsoft plans to support Windows Phone 8 until July 8, 2014, and Windows Phone 7.8 until Sept. 9, 2014. These dates are derived from the life-cycle start date, which is Dec. 14, 2013 for WP8, and Feb. 9, 2013 for WP7.8.
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| 85 Top Responsive Web Design Tools | | Monday, March 18, 2013 10:56 AM | Grace Smith |
| As the mobile market continues to grow, demand for responsive website design intensifies. This has introduced a new set of tools, 10 of which we've listed below, to help lay out, design, code and plan a responsive website. While some may overlap, each deserves a spot on the list; when combined, they can help you craft a website that provides an optimal viewing experience for users on all devices.
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