| Domino's Uses a Drone to Deliver a Pizza | | How would you like to have your pizza delivered by a drone? The idea is far from impossible, as proven by Domino's UK franchise, which posted a YouTube video showing a pizza being delivered by an unmanned flying vehicle — the DomiCopter. In the video, the DomiCopter — created and operated by a drone company called AeroSight — appears to safely deliver a pizza over a large distance.
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| 9 High-Tech Hotels for the Connected Traveler | | For some people, the ideal getaway is rid of technology, like a digital detox summer camp. For others, the mere thought of parting from a smartphone is utter madness. If you happen to fall in the later category, you prioritize tech amenities when booking your time away from home — a hotel that understands tech is a definite perk.
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| Microsoft Outlook Coming to Windows RT Devices | | The new version of Microsoft Office comes installed for free on all Windows RT devices such as the Surface. It's not the complete Office, though — Outlook isn't included. In the coming months, however, Microsoft is going to change that. Outlook 2013 will come to Windows RT devices at the same time Microsoft releases Windows 8.1 to the public later this year.
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| What's It's Really Like to Be a Google Intern | | In the upcoming film The Internship, comic duo Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson play two ex-salesmen who embark on Google internships, with hilarious results — if the trailer is any indication. Still, the comedy is a fictionalized account of what goes down at Mountain View, Calif., and not the real deal. Luckily, Google posted a video that gives an inside look at what "Nooglers" actually experience during the first week of their internships.
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| Watch Boeing's High-Speed Painting Robots in Action | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 11:02 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Boeing is using robots to help speed the production of its 777 commercial aircraft at an assembly plant in Washington state. The Seattle Times reports that two robots now help paint Boeing 777 wings at the aerospace company's assembly plant in Everett, Wash. What normally takes a human team 4.5 hours to paint the first coat, the robots can complete in only 24 minutes.
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| Republicans Pick Facebook Engineer as Chief Technology Officer | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 10:15 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| For the first time, the Republican Party has a Chief Technology Officer: outgoing Facebook Engineering Manager Andy Barkett As CTO, Barkett will oversee the Republican National Committee's recently announced plans to restructure itself around data and analytics.
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| Scientists Capture First-Ever Images of Molecules In Chemical Reaction | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 9:32 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Dust off your chemistry knowledge, because a team of scientists from the University of California at Berkeley has stumbled upon a breakthrough that might influence what you remember from high school. Using an atomic force microscope and a bit of luck, Berkeley Lab scientists captured the first-ever high-resolution images of a molecule breaking and reforming its bonds.
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| Apple Has Sights on 'Gaze Detection' Technology | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:35 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Could future iPhone or iPads have gaze detection? A newly surfaced Apple patent application reveals the company has its sights set on reading eye movement.
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| Justin Bieber's Twitter Growth: 40 Followers to 40 Million | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 6:07 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Pop star Justin Bieber lost the race to be the first Twitter user to reach 10 million, 20 million and 30 million followers, but on Tuesday, he became the first to hit 40 million followers. He celebrated with tweets.
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| Bose Shakes Up Wireless Speakers With SoundLink Mini | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 5:09 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Who is buying portable wireless speakers? Everyone, apparently, since market research shows sales in the category tripled last year — and the more portable, the better. After taking a stab in the category with its SoundLink speaker, Bose is elevating things to a new, more compact level with the SoundLink Mini.
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| It Will Take 9,200 People to Build Apple's New Spaceship Campus | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 3:05 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Who says Apple doesn't create jobs in the U.S.? Apple says that 9,200 construction workers will be brought on full-time over the next three years to work on the company's new 2.8-million-square-foot spaceship campus, according to an 82-page economic impact report Apple put out on Tuesday.
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| Taco Bell Employee Who Licked Taco Shells Is Getting Fired | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 2:29 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Taco Bell has fired two employees involved in a picture that went viral showing one of them licking a stack of taco shells. The fast food giant issued a statement saying the employee who took the photo "no longer works there" while the guy in the photo has been suspended and is in the process of being fired.
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| 15 Creative Vine Videos That Prove Two's Company | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 2:06 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| Sometimes, two is just the perfect number. These creative #TwosCompany vine videos capture subjects that are better as a pair. Last week we challenged you to create a vine video that illustrated the phrase "two's company, three's a crowd" and share it via Twitter. You filled the vine hashtag #TwosCompany full of creative stop-motion videos and clever comedic posts.
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| Miguel's 'Leg Drop' on Fan May Have Caused Brain Injury | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 2:00 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Contrary to a statement from a Billboard Music Awards rep saying the fans Miguel accidentally jumped on during his May 19 performance are "absolutely OK," one fan's lawyer is claiming the viral leg drop his client sustained may have caused her brain damage. "Some of the difficulties she's experiencing are cognitive in nature and lead to suspicion of a neurological head injury," Vip Bhola, Khyati Shah's lawyer, reportedly told TMZ.
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| 7 People You Should Befriend at Work | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:03 AM | The Daily Muse |
| While buddying up with the CEO probably wouldn’t hurt, there are a few other well-known office archetypes who can really help you out.
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