| How Tennis Star John Isner Aces Social Media | | John Isner is six-foot-nine, America's best tennis player and holds the world record for longest match ever played. Other than that, he's not so different from the rest of us — especially in his enjoyment of social media. Whether chatting with fans or tweeting about college sports or World Wrestling Entertainment, Isner is among his sport's more personable athletes on Twitter.
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| Sony to Sell Its New York Headquarters for $1.1 Billion | | Sony Corporation of America (a subsidiary of Sony Corporation) is selling its U.S. headquarters building in New York City to a consortium led by The Chetrit Group, the company has announced. The price for the building, located at 550 Madison Avenue, is $1.1 billion. Sony will remain in the building for up to three years under a leaseback arrangement with the purchaser.
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| This Gadget Knows When to Replace Your Running Shoes | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 11:51 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Your feet take a lot of stress. By the time you reach the age of 50, most people have walked 75,000 miles — perhaps many more if you're a runner. Having the right running shoes is important for the health of your feet and knees. It's usually recommended that running shoes are replaced every 400 miles. But if you don't feel like keeping track of hundreds of mile ran, you might be interested in the MilestonePod.
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| Hubble to Look Deeper into the Cosmos | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 11:12 PM | Discovery News |
| The Hubble Space Telescope's iconic "Deep Field" photo wowed the world in 1996 by revealing a huge collection of galaxies hiding inside a patch of the sky that looked like nothing more than blank space. Now NASA plans to image six more "empty" bits of sky for a whole new set of deep fields that could revolutionize astronomy once again.
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| Lance Armstrong Interview Stirs Outrage on Social Media | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:35 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Part one of Oprah Winfrey's exclusive interview with disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong aired online and on Oprah's cable channel OWN Thursday night — and Armstrong's performance appeared to win over few critics on Twitter or Facebook. After years of denials to authorities and the public, Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs and blood doping prior to his 2008 comeback from retirement.
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| Facebook Lost 1.4 Million Users. Does That Matter? | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:24 PM | Chris Taylor |
| You've probably heard that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." It's fair to say the English poet who first wrote that wasn't thinking about social network usage data. Still, in an age when we're bombarded with statistics, the phrase has become more appropriate than ever. And it's why you should take recent reports that Facebook lost more than a million active users with a pinch of salt.
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| This Alarm Clock Will Shock You Out of Bed | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:51 PM | Camille Bautista |
| How many times do you press snooze in the morning? Five more minutes often turns into an hour, and it's hard to say no to the allure of being wrapped in a blanket burrito. India-based designer Sankalp Sinha created an alarm clock that'll make sure you get to work on time. The singNshock delivers an electric shock pulse when the user presses the button, sending microvolts to jump-start the day.
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| FAA Grounds All Boeing 787 Dreamliners | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:22 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Federal Aviation Administration grounded on Wednesday all Boeing 787 Dreamliners operating in the United States following a string of malfunctions that have plagued the new model aircraft. 787s are prohibited from operating in U.S. airspace until the FAA completes a safety inspection. The FAA's decision came after three separate problems involving the revolutionary composite-built 787.
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| Photo Captures Life-Saving Moment for Woman on Subway Tracks | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:00 PM | Annie Colbert |
| A woman in New York came just feet from getting hit by a train on the city's subway tracks. A photo of the incident shot by a straphanger on the platform, and then captured by Humans of New York, has begun making its way across Facebook and Tumblr. The caption of the photograph describes what happened: "I was on the G-Train heading north through Brooklyn when the train abruptly stopped before the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station.
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| How to Watch Oprah's Lance Armstrong Interview Online | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:37 PM | Sam Laird |
| UPDATE: The first screening of the interview has now aired on the east coast and online. See reactions here. Before Manti Te'o girlfriend-gate came along, sports fans were captivated this week by the build-up to cyclist Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey, expected to be a watershed moment in the extended saga surrounding his alleged use of performance enhancing drugs.
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| 10 Things We Learned From Facebook's Graph Search | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:03 PM | Emily Price |
| On Tuesday Facebook unveiled Graph Search, a new way to search for information on the social network. Currently in a limited beta, the feature allows you to search Facebook for things centered around four focus areas: People, Places, Photos and Interests.
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| Playboy Fined $160,000 for Not Restricting Children From Online Porn | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 6:36 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Playboy is being slammed for failing to keep children away from hardcore porn on two of its websites. Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator and competition authority, fined the company £100,000 (about $160,200) for not having "acceptable controls" in place on Playboy TV and Demand Adult to ensure viewers are over 18 years old.
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| The Risk of Handing Over Your Genome | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 6:18 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Researchers found they could tie people’s identities to supposedly anonymous genetic data by cross-referencing it with information available online.
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| How to End the iPhone vs. Android Debate | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 6:00 PM | Neha Prakash |
| "My screen's bigger." "Mine's got more memory." "Mine has a faster processor." "Steve Jobs could balance the world on his nose." "Google is God." ... blah, blah, blah. The iPhone versus Android debate is the modern evolution versus creation debate; Jacob versus Edward, Pepsi versus Coke, Christina versus Britney. It goes on and on, and on. You know what? You're all annoying.
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| How the World Consumes Social Media | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 5:24 PM | Fran Berkman |
| If Pinky and the Brain taught us one thing, it's that taking over the world is difficult. But then again, social media makes it look pretty easy. Over the past decade social media usage has been one of the most rapidly and universally adopted activities since the invention of breathing. More than half of the world's 2.4 billion Internet users sign in to a social network regularly — a figure that is rapidly increasing.
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| The New MySpace: Music Meets Social, Done Right | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:45 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The new MySpace is pretty. It incorporates many of the trends in modern web design and social media — big visuals, responsive design, easy discovery — and gives them a clear focus: connecting through music. And it really works. You may remember the old MySpace ("MySpace Classic," in the new site's parlance). The old site was the one-time social media king, boasting more than 100 million users at its peak.
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