| 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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| Fujitsu's New High-Res Ultrabook Is Crazy Thin | | That 3,200 x 1,800 screen from Samsung has barely been properly introduced, and it's already a hit among laptop makers. First, it was HP with its Envy Touchsmart 14, and now it's Fujitsu with its super-thin ultrabook: the UH90/L. Besides that amazing IGZO, 14-inch, 3,200 x 1,800 touch screen, the UH90/L also sports Intel's latest and greatest Haswell i5-4200U processor, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hybrid hard-drive.
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| Everything Geeks Think They Know About Kickstarter Is Wrong | | Kickstarter has been described as the Home Shopping Network for geeks — picture an online version of the Sharper Image catalog and an investment platform for tech startups having a baby. But this is the wrong way to think about Kickstarter, because the site's founders have actually shied away from tech to take Kickstarter back to its roots: a fundraising platform for all forms of creativity, but mostly in the arts.
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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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| Sony Vaio Pro 11: So Skinny, Can This Be a Laptop? | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 11:43 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Tablets are great, but how productive can people really be with them? When it comes to getting things done, nothing beats a mouse and keyboard. The struggle to have it all in one device has led to hybrids like the Lenovo Yoga and productivity-focused tablets like the Surface Pro.
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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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| 12 Classic Books That Define Your Summer | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 9:03 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Summer is almost upon on us here in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means sunbaths on the beach, outdoor sports and other activities associated with the warmest months of the year. It's also time for summer reading, whether you're a student fulfilling a curriculum requirement or just finally finding the time to read leisurely.
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| Hack 'Tetris' to Draw Video Game Characters | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:32 PM | Geekosystem |
| Programmer Michael Birken's new way of drawing video game characters is probably more complicated than it needs to be, but all the more incredible for it. Birken designed an algorithm that can place single blocks of color in Tetris by strategically building and destroying lines at lightning speed. Precisely place enough blocks, and you’ve got a made-to-order line.
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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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| ITC Bans Importation of Older iPhones, iPads | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 5:51 PM | Emily Price |
| The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has placed a U.S import ban on a number of older iPhone and iPad devices, claiming that those units infringe on patents owned by Samsung. Specifically having to do with the "apparatus and method for encoding/decoding transport format combination indicator in CDMA mobile communication system," the ban covers the iPhone 4 and below and iPad 3 and below; but only on AT&T.
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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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| Honey, Bose Shrunk the Noise-Canceling Headphones | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 4:39 PM | Pete Pachal |
| When you hear "noise-canceling headphones," you probably think big, bulky, over-the-ear cans. Bose is seriously challenging that image with its new QuietComfort 20 headphones — or should I say earbuds — which incorporate active noise-canceling tech into an extremely compact design. They sound pretty good, too. Bose showed off its new headphones at a demo at Grand Central Station in New York City.
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| Finally, You Can Play Your Favorite Marvel Heroes | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 4:28 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| If you've always wanted to step into the tights of Marvel's biggest heroes like Captain America, Spider-Man or the Hulk, you'll get your chance Tuesday with the launch of free-to-play massively multiplayer game Marvel Heroes. In Marvel Heroes, you can play as one of 21 popular Marvel characters. Some are available for free at the start, while others can be purchased with in-game currency or cash.
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| 'Wizard of Oz' in 3D Comes to IMAX Theaters for One Week | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 4:12 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 classic about Kansas girl Dorothy's unplanned journey into the Land of Oz, is getting a 3D makeover for the movie's 75th anniversary. Warner Bros. will show off the digitally remastered version in IMAX 3D theaters for only the week of Sept. 20 in North America.
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| Global Cyberattack Hits 350 Victims, 40 Countries | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 4:09 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| A newly revealed global malware campaign hit 350 high-profile targets in 40 different countries. The cyberespionage campaign, codenamed Operation NetTraveler, has been active since at least 2004, stealing more than 22 gigabytes of data from computers around the world. The malware attacks were uncovered on Tuesday by Russian online security company Kaspersky Lab.
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| Astronaut Shaves His Head in Space | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 3:44 PM | Amanda Wills |
| NASA astronaut and jokester Chris Cassidy shaved his head to welcome Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano to the International Space Station.
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| Report: Amazon Expanding Grocery Business to L.A. This Week | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 3:42 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| After operating AmazonFresh in its hometown of Seattle for the past six years, Amazon is reportedly ready to expand its online grocery business to Los Angeles as soon as this week. San Francisco could follow later this year. This is according to Reuters, which reported that if Los Angeles and San Francisco "go well," AmazonFresh may roll out to 20 other urban markets next year, perhaps some outside the United States.
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| Nvidia Demos New 'DirectStylus' for Tegra 4 Tablets | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 3:17 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Nvidia has unveiled a new fine-tip stylus for Tegra 4-based tablets that is low-cost and functions similarly to natural writing. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demonstrated the company's DirectStylus technology at computer trade show Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday. The stylus works with the Tegra 4's image-processing power to figure out the difference between the stylus, its eraser, your finger and palm, according to Nvidia.
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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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| Intel Scores Major Coup With Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 | | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 2:47 PM | Christina Warren |
| While Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 looks similar existing models in the Galaxy family, on the inside it's a bit different: The new tablet packs an Intel Atom processor. This is a big win for Intel, a company that has continued to struggle to gain footing in the smartphone and tablet space.
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