| Everything You Need to Know About Waze | | 4:43:40 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| You may have heard that Google purchased a popular social traffic app called Waze on Tuesday for a reported $1.03 billion. For those who aren't familiar with Waze, we've detailed everything you need to know about the app, below. Like other mapping services, Waze offers voice-guided GPS navigation with turn-by-turn directions.
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| 'The Dark Sorcerer' Demo Shows the Power of PlayStation 4 | | Quantic Dream, the company behind the video game "Heavy Rain," has made available the entire PlayStation 4 tech demo shown at the E3 conference. Somewhat unusual for demos of this type, the 12-minute long "Dark Sorcerer" not only has a story with a lot of dialogue — it's actually funny. In a blog post, Quantic Dream's David Cage explains how challenging it was to create a tech demo that also works as a comedy.
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| Mom's Photographs Capture Amazing Talents of a Superbaby | | Babies are adorable, magical blessings that bring endless joy to their parents' lives — but they can also be a bit of a handful. It's probably for the best that their fresh motor skills limit them to sitting, crawling and spitting sweet potatoes on your freshly laundered t-shirt. In these amazing photographs, Swedish photographer Emil Nyström imagines what life would be like if her daughter ran the show.
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| RoboRoach Lets You Control an Insect's Mind With an App | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:26 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Remember in high school, in your bio lab, when you had to dissect that fetal pig? You learned all about physiological systems and their processes. And remember in chemistry, when your professor made a liquid nitrogen bomb to send a trashcan rocketing into the sky? You learned what happens when liquid nitrogen is boiled in a sealed container and turns into a gas.
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| Did Apple Just Ally With Microsoft Against Google? | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:40 PM | Chris Taylor |
| It was one of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments. In Monday's WWDC keynote, Apple executive Eddy Cue was running through the new iOS 7 version of Siri, when he happened to mention Siri's default search function would be powered by Bing, not Google. That means the first default search engine on Apple's voice assistant, baked into 600 million iPhones, will be brought to you by Microsoft.
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| Facebook, Microsoft Join Google in Government Transparency Request | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 7:02 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Following Google's lead, on Tuesday both Microsoft and Facebook released statements requesting the U.S. government's permission to publish data and be more transparent about surveillance. Earlier Tuesday, after last week's revelations about the NSA surveillance program PRISM, Google published a letter it sent to Attorney Genral Eric Holder.
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| Zuckerberg Offers Another PRISM Denial | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:30 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Facebook has nothing to do with PRISM. That's what Mark Zuckerberg said for a second time on Tuesday. At Facebook's annual shareholder meeting, the company's founder and CEO said pretty much what he said last week. SEE ALSO: PRISM: Does the NSA Really Get Direct Access to Your Data? "We don’t work directly with the NSA, or with any other program," he said.
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| 17 Handwritten Notes That Will Make You Smile | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:23 PM | Molly Horan |
| While handwritten notes can cause a lot of problems (see: Romeo and Juliet; your biology class), they haven't lost their appeal. Especially when they're sweet and sincere, like the ones below. SEE ALSO: 15 Notes That Prove Kids Write the Darndest Things 1. Found tied to a balloon — the most emotionally charged balloon since the one in Up. Image courtesy of Reddit, ChrevanGohas 2.
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| Stunna Shades With LED Lights Groove to the Music | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:10 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Listen up, party people: Get ready to ditch your old stunna shades and slap on a pair of high-tech upgrades. A Texas-based Kickstarter campaign is promoting DropShades, audio-responsive glasses that dance to the beat of music via sound-reactive technology. The rave accessories tap a tiny microphone connected to a signal processor to translate incoming sounds across six horizontal bars and LED lights.
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| Has Technology Killed Cursive Handwriting? | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 3:31 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Think back to the last time you wrote in cursive — you know, that fancy penmanship you may have learned way back in grade school, complete with elegant loops, curls and flourishes.
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| 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Trailer Is Finally Here | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 2:56 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| "Was that an earthquake?" asks a terrified dwarf in the first teaser trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, this winter's follow-up to 2012's An Unexpected Journey in the three-part film adaptation of the The Hobbit novel. "That, my lad, was a dragon," elder dwarf Balin responds perilously. SEE ALSO: Real Google Interns Say 'The Internship' Movie Kind of Nails It And not just any dragon.
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| Nintendo Fans Geek Out Over Cat Mario | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 2:24 PM | Christine Erickson |
| LOS ANGELES — Nintendo led the show at E3 on Tuesday, following Monday's news blast from Microsoft, Sony, EA and Ubisoft. Although the live stream got off to rocky start, the company quickly soothed Internet users' fears with a secret weapon: cats.
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| What Will Humans Look Like in 100,000 Years? | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:52 PM | Bonnie Wertheim |
| Think you're done evolving? You might want to think again. Artist Nickolay Lamm envisions what humans will look like over the next 100,000 years.
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| Survey: Most Americans Are OK With NSA Phone Surveillance | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:43 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| According to the latest survey conducted by the Pew Research Center and The Washington Post, a slight majority of Americans — 56% — think it's "acceptable" for the NSA to systematically track their call records in terrorism investigations. Only 41% of Americans think the NSA's actions are unacceptable. When it comes to the government reading their emails, however, Americans lean more towards privacy.
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| Interactive Skittles Ad Lets You Break Grandma's Figurines | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:09 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| In Skittles' newest interactive ad, Tommy, a teenage boy, is sitting on a leather couch at his grandma's house. Suddenly, a pink horse figurine beckons him — in a British accent, no less — to smash him open to reveal Skittles. Tommy doesn't hesitate to do so and enjoys his booty of Skittles. Then he smashes another horse, which is empty. But that's not the end of the ad.
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| Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' Re-Imagined Through the Decades | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:51 AM | Laura Vitto |
| Daft Punk's new single "Get Lucky," from its latest album Random Access Memories, has a cross-generational sound that all ages can appreciate. Now French singer and musician PV Nova has taken this appeal one step further, re-imagining the song as it might have sounded in every decade between 1920 and 2020.
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