| People Mistakenly Think Actress Denise Richards' Son Died in Boston Bombings | | 2:52:30 AM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Early Tuesday morning, The Boston Globe reported details of the 8-year-old boy who died in the Boston Marathon bombings, identifying him on Twitter as Martin Richard and his parents as William and Denise Richard. A few people immediately — and mistakenly — thought the Globe was referring to actress Denise Richards. The 42-year-old celebrity, however, doesn't have a son.
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| Skate Uphill on the 'World's Lightest Electric Vehicle' | | 2:31:29 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| When you think electric vehicle, cars like the Tesla Model S or Chevy Volt might come to mind. But a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup wants to change that perception with what they claim is the "world's lightest electric vehicle" — and it's a skateboard. Boosted Boards was a Kickstarter success last fall, when they raised over $467,000 to further develop their 12-pound electric longboard.
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| Fujitsu Develops Technology That Turns Paper Into a Touchscreen | | We're quickly getting used to the fact that computer, smartphone and tablet screens are meant to be touched — but what about paper? Fujitsu has developed a technology that detects objects your finger is touching in the real world, effectively turning any surface — a piece of paper, for example — into a touchscreen, DigInfo reports.
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| 'Game of Thrones' Slips in Social TV Rankings This Week | | Sunday night's competing programs, Game of Thrones and Mad Men, both saw a dip in buzz during the second and third weeks of their respective seasons. Mad Men was nowhere to be seen on the chart of top cable programs, while HBO's bloody fantasy series dropped 32% into seventh place.
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| CISPA Is Back and Headed for a Vote This Week | | 12:27:38 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, is headed to a full vote in the House of Representatives Wednesday or Thursday of this week. CISPA passed the House Intelligence Committee last week following a closed-door debate, during which committee members approved four amendments.
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| Waze CEO: We Assumed Apple Maps 'Wouldn’t Be That Good' | | Apple Maps wasn’t very good. This is not news. Even company CEO Tim Cook admitted it fell short. The folks at crowd-sourced, turn-by-turn navigation competitor Waze weren’t surprised, either. On Monday, company CEO Noam Bardin told an audience at All Things D’s Dive into Mobile conference that they never actually expected Apple Maps to be that good.
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| Google Glass Mirror API Guide Now Available for Developers | | Monday, April 15, 2013 11:24 PM | Emily Price |
| For all those curious about what it's like to develop for Google Glass, your wait is over. On Monday, the search giant released its Google Mirror API, which allows developers to begin creating applications for Glass. Web-based services called “Glassware” will interact with Glass over the cloud-based API, and will not require any code to be run on the Glass hardware.
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| Hackers Attack 90,000 WordPress Blogs | | Monday, April 15, 2013 10:58 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Keeping the default settings on any Internet-connected service is just asking for trouble. It's easy enough to scoff at people whose brilliant "12345" password fell victim to hackers, but it's just as simple to target usernames. A number of WordPress bloggers discovered this the hard way, when their "admin" accounts became part of a hostile, exploitative botnet.
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| Hacker 'Weev' Sends SoundCloud Message From Prison | | Monday, April 15, 2013 10:29 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| The classic definition of a hacker is somebody who uses their ingenuity to tinker and modify things to make them do what they were not designed to do. In other words, someone who gets around hurdles with smart "hacks." With that in mind, it shouldn't be too surprising that Andrew Auernheimer, more famously known by his hacker name, Weev, has found a way to make his voice heard on the Internet, even when he's locked up in prison.
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| Pre-Orders for Samsung Galaxy S 4 Now Available in Canada | | Monday, April 15, 2013 9:59 PM | Stan Schroeder |
| Samsung's flagship Android phone, the Galaxy S 4, is now available for pre-order in Canada via Rogers. The Galaxy S 4 is available in two colors — Black Mist and White Frost, and it starts at $199.99 with a three-year plan. Those who don't like the idea of signing up for such a long plan can have the Galaxy S 4 sans contract, but the price is hefty: CA$700 ($683).
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| 'Starry Night' Most-Loved Painting on Google | | Monday, April 15, 2013 8:54 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Every day is a good time to enjoy art, but it's especially on April 15, World Art Day, when the whole world is invited to devote a few minutes to enjoying the finer things in life. But if you don’t have time to visit a museum or gallery today, don’t worry. According to Google, World Art Day is the perfect time to take advantage of its virtual art gallery.
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| Google Glass Ready to Ship for Some Explorers | | Monday, April 15, 2013 7:55 PM | Emily Price |
| Google Glass is about to ship — to developers and early adopters, that is. Google contacted Glass Explorers Monday afternoon to let them know both hardware and software for Google Glass are now ready. The first few devices are now coming off the production line, the company added. Orders for the Explorer Edition of Google Glass were taken during Google I/O last year.
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| Dad Rallies Thousands on Facebook in Anti-Bullying Plea | | Monday, April 15, 2013 6:58 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| When police didn't take immediate action after a parent reported that his sixth-grade son was being bullied, the Wisconsin father took matters into his own hands — on Facebook.
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| Bandwidth Issues Down Boston Cell Service, Not Police | | Monday, April 15, 2013 6:15 PM | Christina Warren |
| Cellphone service in the Boston area is currently experiencing disruptions, following the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Much of the service disruption seems to be due to increased usage.
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| Obama Addresses the Nation Following Boston Blasts | | Monday, April 15, 2013 5:57 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| President Obama will address the nation at approximately 6:00 p.m. ET Monday, following at least two deadly blasts in Boston that seemed to target the Boston Marathon.
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| Google Person Finder Locates Missing at Boston Marathon Explosion | | Monday, April 15, 2013 5:36 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Google Person Finder, a tool the company built following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, has been activated for use following the deadly Boston Marathon explosions Monday afternoon. Shortly after launching, the Person Finder homepage says it's tracking about 800 records. As the tool is being populated, you can either search for someone or share information about someone's whereabouts.
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| Reddit User Compiles All the News About Boston Marathon Explosions | | Monday, April 15, 2013 4:25 PM | Stan Schroeder |
| One of the largest online communities, Reddit, is often a great source of breaking news, and right now it's proving it with a story on the Boston marathon explosions. In one of the top stories on Reddit at the moment, a redditor has started compiling all the news about the explosions that occurred at the marathon, leaving many runners and spectators injured and some dead.
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| Foursquare's Dennis Crowley Tweets From Scene of Boston Marathon Explosions | | Monday, April 15, 2013 4:22 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Dennis Crowley, the CEO and co-founder of Foursquare, ran in Monday's Boston Marathon, but emerged unhurt after explosions marred the event. Crowley used Twitter to report from the scene of the incident. Crowley, who also used Foursquare to check in at every mile, sent his first tweet at 3:08 EDT. I'm ok.about 20k of us in corral just before mi 26. marker.
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| Boston Marathon Explosions Kill 2 | | Monday, April 15, 2013 3:18 PM | Emily Banks |
| Two explosions occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon. The news and images, including some graphic photos, unfolded on social media just before 3 p.m. According to a tweet from the Boston Police Department, 23 people were injured and two are dead. CNN reports as many as 49 injured.
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| Is It Still Possible to Disappear From Society? | | Monday, April 15, 2013 3:17 PM | Discovery News |
| Two of the country's most notorious survivalists — the Hermit of North Pond in Maine, and The Mountain Man of Utah, were found and arrested in the last few weeks. And a case of a missing family, the McStay family of southern California, was effectively closed when investigators said the family appears to have gone to Mexico voluntarily.
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| Revolights Illuminate Your Bike With Built-In LEDs | | Monday, April 15, 2013 3:11 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If you bike at nighttime, you're probably all too familiar with the challenges of keeping visible on the road. Reflectors and standard bike lights often help, but a Northern California startup has a unique solution that incorporates LED lighting directly on bike wheels. If you're a cycling enthusiast, you may have seen or heard of Revolights in the past.
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| What Tax Preparation Software Looked Like in 1991 | | Monday, April 15, 2013 2:39 PM | The Atlantic |
| If nothing is certain but death and taxes, it's telling that death often seems more pleasant. Doing taxes is, inevitably, excruciating. All those forms. All those numbers. All that bureaucratese. No wonder we all procrastinate. But at least it's not the early '90s. Back then, when personal computers were new, software designers and the IRS alike were experimenting with ways to use computers to replace mailed-in tax forms.
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| Sony Just Launched a Ludicrously Fast Internet in Japan | | Monday, April 15, 2013 2:31 PM | Stan Schroeder |
| So-net Entertainment, a Sony-backed Japan ISP, has launched a fiber-based Internet service that reaches download speeds of 2 Gbps, making it the fastest home internet in the world. The Nuro, as the service is called, is available to homes and small businesses in Tokyo and six surrounding prefectures, Computerworld reports. The upload speed is a little slower than download — 1 Gbps — but it's still faster than most of us get, even at work.
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