| 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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| Mystery Online Theft Operation 'Red October' is Winding Down | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:13 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| The mysterious global cyber espionage operation known as "Red October" appears to be ending. After being revealed by online security giant Kaspersky Labs on Monday, the operation is being dismantled, according to researchers. "Red October is disappearing quickly," wrote Claudio Guarnieri, a security researcher at Rapid7.
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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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| 10 Things That Weren't Exactly What You Thought | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:01 PM | Annie Colbert |
| So, the college football world got Catfish'd by the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax. If you too have suffered the experience of being epically duped, you're probably just relieved it didn't play out in front of everyone with a TV or computer (or tablet or smartphone or newspaper). Either way, we'd like to help with 10 things, other than Manti Te'os girlfriend, that turned out to be a bit different from what you first thought.
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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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| 'Temple Run 2' Is Necessary and Beautiful | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 5:50 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| While many may say, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," this is not true for Temple Run 2. The original was a smash hit, downloaded more than 170 million times across iOS and Android devices, but there remained a lot to be improved upon in the game. Temple Run 2 [iTunes link] represents those improvements, proving that the development team of Imangi Studios took a lot of time to add more depth into this mega-addictive endless runner.
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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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| Ugh, Teen Squirrels These Days | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:55 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Is laziness even a thing in the animal kingdom? We're guessing not so much.
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| Will RIM's Battle for Survival Be Fought Overseas? | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:50 PM | Pete Pachal |
| There may be some light at the end of the tunnel for Research In Motion after all. The BlackBerry maker, whose market share and revenues have been in free fall, still has hope in overseas markets, where smartphones still have a lot of room to grow. A new study from Nielsen shows smartphone penetration in the relatively large markets of Brazil, Russia and India is still well below 50%.
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| Cyanide & Happiness Rejects TV Deal, Turns to Kickstarter | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:33 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Cyanide & Happiness won't be coming to a television near you. The creators behind the popular webcomic announced that they walked away from a potential deal with a cable network to turn their webcomic into a television show, MediaBistro reports.
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| Instagram Now Has 90 Million Monthly Active Users, Up 10% From December | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:20 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| So much for reports that Instagram is suffering from an exodus of users. Instagram revealed Thursday that it now has 90 million monthly active users. That's up 10% from the same period a month ago, according to a statement the company provided to AllThingsD. "Instagram continues to see very strong growth around the world," Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told AllThingsD.
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| 10 Sassy Quotes From Birthday Bro Ben Franklin | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:09 PM | Fran Berkman |
| To quote a venerable man, "It's all about the Benjamins, baby." The phrase is especially poignant today, on Benjamin Franklin's 307th birthday. Even though he never became president, Franklin earned his spot on the $100 bill. The man wore more hats than Blossom, for crying out loud. Among his many roles, he was a revolutionary, a statesman, a political thinker, a scientist, an inventor, a writer, a musician and a diplomat.
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| This Shows Why Dating in the 1980s Was Terrible | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:57 PM | Annie Colbert |
| The next time you find yourself grumbling while browsing eHarmony, take a second to reflect back on a time before online dating, when you couldn't stalk potential dates on Facebook. That scary time was called the '80s. Yes, curling up with your iPad on the couch to peruse mate candidates can be frustrating. But imagine instead sifting through hours of VHS footage of lonely dudes.
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| Here's Why Michelle Obama Has 2 Twitter Accounts | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:52 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Michelle Obama started a new Twitter account Thursday — @FLOTUS — racking up 25,000 followers in a few hours' time. But wait, you may be thinking. Didn't Michelle Obama already have a Twitter account? You're right — Michelle Obama has been on Twitter as @MichelleObama since late 2011, gaining 2.6 million followers in that time.
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| SmallNest App Helps Parents Keep Track of Breastfeeding | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:32 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Being a new parent is challenging enough with the lack of sleep and caring for a little one around the clock. And for many mothers, breastfeeding doesn't always come easily. A new app aims to make that a bit easier by helping tired new moms track and record when they've breastfeed their baby. SmallNest is an iOS app that lets moms record how long their babies nurse and how often.
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| Twitter Adds Adobe Social, Visible Technologies as Partners | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:29 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Twitter has added nine new partners to its Certified Products Program, which provides Twitter-based products and services for businesses. The new partners include Shoutlet, Spredfast, Sprout Social, Adobe Social, Percolate, Rallyverse, Sysomos, Simply Measured and Visible Technologies.
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| RIP LinkedIn Answers | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:18 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| LinkedIn will pull the plug on LinkedIn Answers, its Quora-like Q&A service, on Jan. 31. The company sent an email to LinkedIn users on Thursday explaining the move. A LinkedIn rep sent the following statement: "As of Jan. 31, LinkedIn Answers will be retired from LinkedIn. We will be focusing our efforts on the development of new and more engaging ways to share and discuss professional topics across LinkedIn.
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| How Well Do You Know Ryan Lochte? | | Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:13 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has become many things: medalist, sunglasses designer, artist, activist and strong advocate for peeing in the pool. How well do you know Lochte? The swimmer hosted a Twitter Q&A Thursday afternoon, using the hashtag #AskLochte, and things got a little out of control. Ok, actually the interview session was fairly quick and normal.
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