| 'Quartz' Grows Roots in Social, Mobile as Traffic Nears 1 Million | | It's been nearly two months since The Atlantic Media Company launched Quartz, a digital-only news publication for business readers, and traffic is growing at a steady clip. The news site pulled in 840,000 unique visitors in October and 860,000 visitors in November, per numbers provided by a Quartz spokesperson via Omniture. Quartz, like The Economist and the Financial Times, covers global economic news through a macro lens.
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| iPhone 5 Sales Top 2 Million on First Weekend in China | | Apple has sold more than 2 million units of the iPhone 5 in China, setting a new record for best first-weekend sales in the country. The Cupertino, Calif. company made the announcement Monday, just three days after the iPhone's Chinese launch on Dec. 14. "Customer response to iPhone 5 in China has been incredible," Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.
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| 8 Family-Friendly Holiday Craft Tutorials on YouTube | | It's December, which means colder weather. Plus, the holidays are just around the bend. If the kids are getting restless, cooped up inside all day, or if you're just looking for a fun family activity, a holiday-themed arts and crafts project is a great way to spend an afternoon or evening.
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| Offensive Tweets Demand Sunday Night Football Over Obama's Newtown Speech | | While many Americans gathered around their televisions to watch U.S. President Barack Obama pay tribute to the victims of the Newtown shooting, others complained on Twitter about missing Sunday Night Football. Several users of the microblogging service published offensive tweets that condemned Obama's speech for interrupting a game between the San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots Sunday night.
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| IBM: Computers Will See, Hear, Taste, Smell and Touch in 5 Years | | Today's PCs and smartphones can do a lot -- from telling you the weather in Zimbabwe in milliseconds, to buying your morning coffee. But ask them to show you what a piece of fabric feels like, or to detect the odor of a great-smelling soup, and they're lost. That will change in the next five years, says IBM. Computers at that time will be much more aware of the world around them, and be able to understand it.
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| 5 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit This Week | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:28 PM | Matt Silverman |
| One day, your children will fly to the moon to get a look at Neil Armstrong's poop. Don't believe me? Check out this week's batch of Reddit Facts above. Thumbnail photo via Flickr, NASA.
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| Watch President Obama's Speech at Vigil for Newtown Victims | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 10:52 PM | Anita Li |
| U.S. President Barack Obama expressed his sadness in a speech at Sunday night's vigil for the victims of the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Conn. During the nearly 20-minute long address, Obama commended the six adults who died in Friday's shooting for their heroism. "Dawn Hochsprung, Mary Sherlach, Vicki Soto, Lauren Rousseau, Rachel Davino and Anne Marie Murphy.
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| 10 Naughty Cats Versus Christmas Trees | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 10:00 PM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| Christmas trees are a huge temptation for cats. All those lights, twinkly decorations and dangly baubles can be too tantalizing for even the best behaved pusses. We scoured YouTube for video footage of cats versus trees, and found 10 funny clips for your festive amusement. SEE ALSO: 10 Adorable Animals Feeding Other Animals [VIDEOS] Take a look through our cute collection of contrary kitties and Christmas trees in the video gallery, above.
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| Samuel L. Jackson Might Have Dropped the F-Bomb on SNL | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 9:30 PM | Kate Freeman |
| There's some brouhaha brewing over whether or not actor Samuel L. Jackson said "Fuuuuuh" or actually uttered the f-bomb on Saturday Night Live's most recent episode. SNL cast member Kenan Thompson looked shocked after Jackson said his line and joked on camera, "That costs money," referring to Federal Communications Commission fines for profanity. Some say they also heard Jackson say "bullshit" during that same sketch.
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| Gun Control Petition is Most Popular Ever Posted to White House Site | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 9:26 PM | Nextgov |
| A petition asking the White House to immediately press Congress for tighter restrictions on gun ownership became the most popular ever posted to the White House "We the People" website after less than 48 hours online Sunday. The petition was filed in the hours following an elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., on Friday that left 27 people dead, including 20 children.
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| 22 Best Mac Apps of 2012 | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 8:32 PM | Emily Price |
| Apple has announced its list of the best Mac apps of 2012. Taking top honors is Day One, a $9.99 journaling app for iPad and iPhone that lets users write about their daily thoughts and memories. Entries into the journal are saved to iCloud or Dropbox, so they are synced across all devices. CameraBag 2 was this year’s runner up in the Mac App Store.
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| Amazon's Monthly Visitors Could Fill 60 Disneylands | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 7:27 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| Imagine Amazon is a brick and mortar store, with a sprawling parking lot and front doors that slide open as you approach. As you step inside, what do you see? The number of products available on Amazon could fill 1,290 Wal-Mart Supercenters. If you've ever gotten lost in one of those shopping megaplexes, then this kind of scale should make your brain hurt.
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| Viral Video Recap Features Google's Year In Review | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 6:31 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Cats, Felix Baumgartner, Psy and more cats -- this week's most popular and iconic videos feature everything from the inspiring to the adorable to the hilarious. Google compiled a Year In Review video posted on December 12.
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| Anonymous Publishes Personal Information of Westboro Church Group | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 5:41 PM | Kate Freeman |
| UPDATE: This article has been updated to reflect the different petitions that aim to classify the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group. Hacktivist group Anonymous published the personal information of members of the Westboro Baptist Church after the group announced on Saturday it would picket Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut where 26 children and adults were killed.
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| 9 Apps You Don't Want To Miss | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 4:49 PM | Emily Price |
| It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- we take care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week we found an app that lets you create a movie video on your phone or tablet in just a few seconds, and a popular service for watching videos made its way to even more devices.
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| How to Crowdsource Your Job Hunt | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 3:14 PM | Josh Tolan |
| With social media tools and the interconnected web, much of this research can now be crowdsourced through social channels.
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| Top 5 Apps for Kids This Week | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 2:43 PM | Chris Crowell |
| Chris Crowell is a veteran kindergarten teacher and contributing editor to Children's Technology Review, a web-based archive of articles and reviews on apps, technology toys and video games. Download a free issue of CTR here. In this week's Top 5 Kids Apps, your kids can play with a spatial puzzle that lets them reassemble photographs they upload themselves.
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| 'I Am Adam Lanza's Mother' Post Sparks Intense Online Discussion | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 1:20 PM | Charlie White |
| Liza Long has a profound situation on her hands. Her 13-year-old son scares her. She says he has serious mental health problems, and she writes about her struggle and its larger implications in an essay that has gripped the Internet with its frank discussion of coping with mental health issues in children. In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, on blogs and social media, we're debating violence, gun control and mental health issues.
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| Top 10 Tech This Week | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 12:48 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| This week in tech was as interesting and diverse as it gets. There were gadgets, scientific developments, and of course, the much-anticipated and ultimately triumphant release of Google Maps for iOS. Google finally rolled out its Maps app for iOS on Wednesday, ending one of the biggest controversies of the year, and giving iPhone users a good app to find their way home, at last.
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| Twitter Rolls Out Downloadable Tweets to Select Users | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:58 AM | Charlie White |
| You'll soon be able to download all of your tweets since you opened your account, and some lucky users have already started doing so. Twitter has begun a gradual rollout of the ability to download every tweet you've ever created into an archive that resembles a calendar. Everyone has access to a few thousand tweets they've posted to the site, but the ability to download all of your tweets is only available to a select few users so far.
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| Huge Asteroid's Earth Flyby Caught on Video | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:05 AM | Space.com |
| A new video captures the giant asteroid 4179 Toutatis tumbling through space on its flyby of Earth. The asteroid Toutatis video, which is about 40 seconds long, combines 64 radar images taken Wednesday and Thursday (Dec. 12 and 13) by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. On those days, Toutatis was about 4.3 million miles (7 million kilometers) from Earth, or about 18 times farther away than the moon is.
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| Silent Night: 'SNL' Presents a Moving Commemoration of Newtown Tragedy | | Sunday, December 16, 2012 10:22 AM | Charlie White |
| Saturday Night Live presented the New York City Children's Chorus at the beginning of its live broadcast, singing a simple a cappella version of "Silent Night" in commemoration of the Newtown, Connecticut tragedy. What an appropriate and touching tribute to the victims. Video and photo courtesy NBC, SNL.
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