| Did Social Media Over-Sharing Lead to a Chinese Teen's Death? | | After a high-school student from Shenzhen, China, died earlier this month, some netizens speculated that over-sharing online led to the young girl's death. Lai Zengyutong frequently shared her locations to Sina Weibo, China's Twitter clone, which has few security settings. Police are now investigating whether the 16-year-old's online activity played a part in her disappearance.
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| 'Temple Run 2' Arrives For Android | | Temple Run 2 has arrived for Android. The app launched for iOS last week, and quickly rose to the top of the App Store charts, securing an astounding 20 million downloads in just four days. Within that time, fans played the game a mind-boggling 210 million times — that's 1,775 years of gameplay.
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| Nokia Launching True PureView Windows Phone, Report Says | | Nokia is reportedly working on a true PureView Windows Phone, which will include a sensor similar to the one found on the company’s 41-megapixel 808 handset. According to The Verge, the phone will be made out of aluminum rather than the polycarbonate typically found in Nokia’s Lumia line. Slated to launch on AT&T later this year, the handset –- code-named EOS — will be one of several Lumias sporting a new design.
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| IBM Creates Weapon to Destroy Drug-Resistant Bacteria | | Biofilms — groups of microorganisms that adhere to a surface — can be a real problem. When bacteria form a biofilm, it's difficult to treat since the cells are so densely packed. But now IBM has created a new substance that can break through biofilms such as plaque and drug-resistant bacteria, killing them while not harming humans.
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| Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:00 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| The clock to unlock a new mobile phone is running out. In October 2012, the Librarian of Congress, who determines exemptions to a strict anti-hacking law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), decided that unlocking mobile phones would no longer be allowed. But the librarian provided a 90-day window during which people could still buy a phone and unlock it.
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| 12 Face Freezingly Cool Snow Creations | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:58 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Time to deal with the prospect of two more solid months of winter. That's 60 days of snow, slush and eyeball-freezing temperatures. Make the best of an icy situation by venturing outside armed with warm mittens and artistic skills. SEE ALSO: 10 Dogs That Are Better at Winter Than You If you can't decide how to tackle the pile of white fluffy stuff, find inspiration — no wool socks needed — in the gallery above.
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| Fitness Gadgets: Cheaper Than a Gym Membership? | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:58 PM | Kate Freeman |
| No one ever said staying or getting fit was easy — or cheap. There are so many fitness tracking gadgets to chose from these days, and many more reasons why you might want one. Wearable trackers offer convenience and constant motivation. But price-wise, how do they compare to your gym membership? How do they compare to each other? Nike+ Kinect, naturally, wants to convince you its Xbox-based system is an effective price proposition.
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| The Force Is Strong With Star Wars Engagement Rings | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:43 PM | Chris Taylor |
| George Lucas got engaged to his girlfriend of seven years, Mellody Hobson, earlier this month — but that was hardly the only Star Wars-related engagement of 2013. Indeed, if these rings are anything to go by, we're seeing a miniature boom in intergalactic proposals. The rings above are part of a set available on Etsy. Most are versions of the Rebel Alliance and Imperial logos.
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| WikiLeaks Movie 'The Fifth Estate' Starts Production | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:13 PM | Christina Warren |
| Principal photography for The Fifth Estate — a film based on the WikiLeaks saga — kicked off Wednesday. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange and Daniel Bruhl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Bill Condon, best known for Dreamgirls, Kinsey and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, is directing.
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| Put Down the Keyboard and Pick up a Pen for Your Next Tweet | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:10 PM | Andrea Smith |
| When's the last time you wrote someone a letter? Not typed, not dictated, wrote — with a pen or pencil. Yeah, we thought so. So in honor of Wednesday, National Handwriting Day, we thought we'd provide some inspiration. First of all, why is it National Handwriting Day? It's the birthday of John Hancock, the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
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| Access to Broadband Is the New Access to Ports, Rail, Electricity | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:58 PM | Quartz |
| In the 21st century, a small business in Kansas City, Mo., has at least one very important thing in common with a small business in Seoul, Korea: Both have access to ultra high-speed Internet — Kansas City via Google Fiber and Seoul on account of its government championing the rollout of fiber optic internet for over a decade.
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| Hillary Clinton's Very Long Day Testifying to Congress | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:42 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent Wednesday in Congress, splitting her time between Senate and House hearings on the September 2012 attack against an American consolate in Benghazi, Libya.
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| 3 Charged in Bank Malware Scheme That Hit Thousands of Computers | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:17 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Three people were indicted Wednesday in New York for being behind a complex international operation that used a virus called 'Gozi' to infect thousands of computers worldwide, stealing citizens' bank information. The FBI has disclosed details of a two-and-a-half-year investigation that has led to the indictment of three Eastern Europeans: Nikita Kuzmin, Mihai Paunescu and Deniss Calovskis.
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| Watch This Near-Death Experience With a Biplane | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:52 PM | Camille Bautista |
| It always seems like a good idea until someone gets hurt, or nearly hit by a plane speeding toward them on the tarmac. These guys, also known as "Those Crazy Texans," seem to think hanging out on an active runway is no biggie. Cue screams of adrenaline and most likely terror, as a low-flying biplane comes barreling down within two feet of them. Just an inch more and it could've been an entirely different scene.
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| State Department Is Fighting Jihadist Propaganda With Social Media | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:02 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Video courtesy of NowThisNews Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the U.S. State Department is actively countering online propaganda posted by terrorists groups such as al-Qaeda by posting videos and other content of its own. Clinton's comments about the digital propaganda duel came during her testimony to the House of Representatives regarding the September 2012 attack on an American consolate in Benghazi, Libya.
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| Apple's Q1 by the Numbers | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:59 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| The world's most valuable company does everything at a grand scale. For instance, consumers send some 200 million iMessages a day. Not all of Apple's numbers were mind-blowing, though. The company's stock price fell as much as 10% in afterhours trading after narrowly missing some Wall Street targets for its fiscal first quarter.
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| 12 Ways to Get Banned From Gmail | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:51 PM | Elisha Hartwig |
| Just how bad do you have to be to get banned from Gmail? How many terms of policy do you have to violate to get suspended, or have your domain terminated by Google?
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| Tim Cook Debunks Reports That Apple Has Cut iPhone 5 Orders | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:44 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| In recent weeks, there have been several reports that Apple had slashed orders for iPhone 5 parts in the coming quarter, suggesting to some that demand for the latest iPhone was lower than expected. However, during Apple's earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Tim Cook urged investors to "question the accuracy" of these reports. "I know there have been lots of rumors about order cuts.
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| The Drowning: A First-Person Shooter You Can Play on a Tablet | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:35 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| We've seen all kinds of gaming genres make the move to mobile, first-person shooters chief among them. But anyone who has tried playing one on a tablet knows it can be frustrating to navigate with gestures in a game world created around a keyboard and a mouse. Ben Cousins of Scattered Entertainment thinks he has a solution for tricky tablet controls.
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| McDonald's Nutrition Info Now in QR Code Form | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:29 PM | PSFK |
| McDonald's is launching a new global packaging design that uses QR codes to give consumers nutritional information about their food. It is the latest brand to promote informed decisions about health, as Coca-Cola made headlines last week for an ad that aims to tackle obesity.
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| Revenge-Porn Website Victims Launch Action Against Texxxan and GoDaddy | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:24 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Victims of a so-called "revenge porn" website, which allows users to upload naked pictures of other people, identifying them by their name and hometown, have sued the site as well as its hosting company, GoDaddy. Last week, a class-action lawsuit was brought against the hosting giant and the website Texxxan.com.
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| Me-no-w! New Zealand Man Wants to Ban Cats | | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:10 PM | Camille Bautista |
| From Instagram star Snoopy to Facebook personality Colonel Meow, the Interwebz loves its felines. One man in New Zealand clearly doesn't share the sentiment, since he's putting out a nationwide call to eradicate cats. Maybe he's just never had his heart melt at the sight of Maru in a box.
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