| Hands On With Office For iPhone | | Microsoft Office has finally made its way to iOS. Free to download, the app only works for those who has subscribed to Microsoft Office 365 (at a cost of about $10 a month of $100 a year), and for now there’s only an iPhone version — iPad users still only get Office web apps via the browser.
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| Facebook Reveals How Often the Government Comes Calling for Data | | Friday, June 14, 2013 11:13 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Facebook revealed more detail on how frequently it gets information requests from government agencies in a public statement late Friday. In a post on the company's press site, Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot said it received between 9,000-10,000 requests over the six-month period ending on Dec. 31, 2012. That adds up to roughly 1,500 requests per month.
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| New Technology Allows the Mind to Control Prosthetic Limbs | | Friday, June 14, 2013 10:25 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| Our brains, which control our movements, may soon be able to control the movement of prosthetic limbs as well. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working with civilian researchers to develop prosthetic limbs that the wearer can control with his thoughts.
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| Book Your Favorite Band at Your Next Party With Gigit | | Friday, June 14, 2013 9:54 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Music at house parties and office events usually fails to live up to expectations. Sketchy DJs and co-worker karaoke usually doesn't inspire glass raising and head bobbing. But what if you could book legitimate artists for your private show — at an affordable price? You probably would, right? That's the premise behind Gigit, a weeks-old Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup bridging the gap between musicians and fans.
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| Sonic Fabric Recycles Cassette Tapes | | Friday, June 14, 2013 8:54 PM | Discovery News |
| Tape cassettes are like endangered species: not often seen in the wild and on a fast track to extinction. But conceptual artist Alyce Santoro is trying to save them, while simultaneously appealing to the fashion world and developing a whole new way of making music. To create the material she calls "sonic fabric," Santoro mixes strips of one-eighth inch audio tape with polyester fibers.
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| New Reality Show '@SummerBreak' Will Unfold on Social Media | | Friday, June 14, 2013 8:31 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The next potentially big reality TV phenomenon won't actually require a TV. How’s that for innovation? The Chernin Group is targeting the connected generation with @SummerBreak, a new series that will exist exclusively on social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube and Vine.
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| Wear This Device and Jam on the Guitar Anywhere | | Friday, June 14, 2013 7:59 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| If you've ever caught yourself shredding on air guitar, we've got some news for you: The art of imaginary jamming might be getting a whole lot fancier — and maybe even a little less silly. Designer Eugene Wang has developed a concept for a wearable device that allows you to practice your instrument on the go.
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| 10 Important Lessons You Can Learn From Lifetime Movies | | Friday, June 14, 2013 7:10 PM | Molly Horan |
| Lifetime movies aren't just an under appreciated art form, they're an important educational tool. For more than 20 years these films have been imparting wisdom on their viewers, but with so many titles, it can be hard to collect all the tips they've offered. SEE ALSO: 15 Best Cat Memes Ever [MEOW] If you have the time, Lifetime movies are best enjoyed in marathons over holiday weekends.
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| Fruit Bowl Detects Mold Before It Grows | | Friday, June 14, 2013 6:27 PM | PSFK |
| Design student Jagjit Chodha has developed a fruit bowl that alerts users when the produce it contains is beginning to go bad. The bowl is fitted with a sensor that can detect an increase in ethylene — a compound that is released as fruit matures. Millions of pounds of food are thrown away in the U.S. every year, making it the second largest category of waste after paper.
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| How Yahoo Fought Against PRISM in Secret — and Lost | | Friday, June 14, 2013 5:47 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Before allegedly becoming part of the secret National Security Agency surveillance program PRISM, Yahoo fought against it in court, in what was until now a secret challenge. The company eventually lost and had to comply, according to new reports.
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| 'Zombie Musical' Coming to a Flesh-Eating Town Near You | | Friday, June 14, 2013 5:31 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Zombies are terrifying and vicious — and apparently make for excellent antagonists in a musical. Filmmaker Ryan McHenry — who also happens to make hilarious Ryan Gosling cereal videos on Vine — has cast the living dead for a feature-length film called Zombie Musical.
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| Reddit Atheists Have New Leadership After Turbulent Coup | | Friday, June 14, 2013 5:30 PM | Matt Silverman |
| There's been a coup d'état in Reddit's atheism community, according to its creator, and a political drama has been unfolding for more than two weeks. It stems from a disagreement over the type of content appearing there. In recent years, r/atheism has become known for memes, images, quote pictures and other content viewed by some as "low brow." At best, they're humorous digs at fundamentalism and ignorance.
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| Kanye West on 'Yeezus' Leak: I Give 'No F*cks at All' | | Friday, June 14, 2013 5:05 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Always a stickler on preventing leaks, Kanye West and his careful camp appeared to have changed their tune for the rapper's sixth studio album Yeezus, which leaked online Friday ahead of its June 18 release. The leak wasn't surprising. Let's take West's impromptu Yeezus listening party in New York City this week, for example, which Mashable attended.
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| CIA Gave Amazon a Leg Up on Cloud Deal | | Friday, June 14, 2013 4:56 PM | Nextgov |
| The CIA gave Amazon an unfair advantage when it agreed to weaken security requirements on a $150 million contract for a massive intelligence community computer cloud it had already awarded to the web giant, an auditor said Friday.
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| Don't Wear a Sombrero on Casual Friday | | Friday, June 14, 2013 4:08 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Selecting the perfect Casual Friday outfit requires some serious strategizing. Wear a tube top and you're the office hooch — wear a fedora and your head gets sweaty during the sales meeting. It's a no-win situation (especially if that image of the CEO wearing jorts is burned onto your brain). SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics In this comic, Maria Scrivan reveals that your Casual Friday look says more about your brain than your closet.
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| Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: Which Console Wins? | | Friday, June 14, 2013 3:47 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| We've learned more details about the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 during this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo. We know release times, prices and some of the games that will accompany each gaming console, among other staggering differences between the two. After spending some time hands-on with both consoles during E3, we're bringing you our thoughts and sharing our experiences.
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| I'm So Addicted to 'Candy Crush' I Hacked It for Limitless Gameplay | | Friday, June 14, 2013 3:35 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Candy Crush is a cruel mistress. She keeps you coming back for more, but then just as swiftly, and seemingly out of nowhere, she puts the breaks on. Candy Crush teases you, only going so far and then putting up arbitrary timeouts and lollipop limits. As soon as you’re really into playing, you might need to wait 30 minutes to get to the next level. As Jay-Z once ranted, “Can I live?!” My boyfriend and I couldn’t wait any longer.
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| Obama Wants Federal Agencies to Share Wireless Spectrum | | Friday, June 14, 2013 3:32 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Share more of your precious wireless spectrum with private businesses, President Barack Obama told government agencies in a Friday memo. What's the deal? All wireless communications require spectrum, a government-regulated finite resource that's limited to one larger-scale "user" at a time, like a radio station, cellphone provider or even a local wireless router.
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| 'Feminist Taylor Swift' Parody Dominates Twitter | | Friday, June 14, 2013 3:19 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| The real Taylor Swift may not consider herself a feminist, but a parody Twitter account is reworking lyrics from some of her most popular songs to address feminist issues. And it's pretty great. The account @feministtswift posted its first tweet on Wednesday, and amassed more than 15,000 followers in just a few days. SEE ALSO: 25 Twitter Accounts to Make You Laugh Like T.
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| Russia Promises Manned Launches From Own Soil in 2018 | | Friday, June 14, 2013 3:07 PM | Space.com |
| Russia, one of the world's space powerhouses, has been launching its rockets from Kazakhstan since the early days of its space program, but now plans to shift its launches to Russian soil within five years. But some experts question whether such a pace is realistic. This spring, President Vladimir Putin pledged $51.8 billion by 2020 to place his country back in the top ranks of world space explorers.
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| Disney's 'Fantasia' Game Will Rock Your World | | Friday, June 14, 2013 2:47 PM | Emily Price |
| LOS ANGELES — Disney announced Fantasia: Music Evolved for the Xbox earlier this month, based on the studio's classic movie. In the game, you play as the sorcerer’s apprentice (the role portrayed by Mickey in the film) and control the music on the screen, similar to the way the ironic mouse did it in the film. I had the opportunity to give the game a spin at Disney’s E3 booth this week, and walked away impressed.
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| This Chart Shows the Digital Divide Is Still a Real Problem | | Friday, June 14, 2013 2:36 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The White House released a new broadband report Friday that's chock full of interesting information about the state of American broadband. A key chart, however, comes on page nine and shows the digital divide is still very, very real: Approximately 91% of Americans as a whole have "access to wired broadband speeds of at least 10mbps downstream," the report found.
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| Spammers Have Crashed the Vine Party | | Friday, June 14, 2013 2:22 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Vine, Twitter's video sharing service, has one of the hottest communities in the world of social media. And, of course, people are trying to make money from it. The fledgling network has caught fire since its January debut, boasting more than 13 million users prior toits debut on Android smartphones last week. As a service grows in popularity, it inevitably attracts spammers hoping to make a fast buck.
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| Bill Simmons Blasts SportsCenter on Twitter | | Friday, June 14, 2013 2:01 PM | Sam Laird |
| ESPN has already suspended Bill Simmons from Twitter once this year for rebellious posts, but the sports media giant's biggest star is back at it again.
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