| For Sale or Lease: Space-Shuttle Facilities, Contact NASA | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 10:00 PM | Anita Li |
| In what would make the most epic Craigslist ad ever, NASA is selling and leasing out facilities used by its space-shuttle program. So if you're in the market for a launchpad or venue to assemble rockets, contact the space agency, which is holding a going-out-of-business sale. Since its final shuttle mission in July 2011, NASA has been clearing out the Kennedy Space Center launch site, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
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| 'Hashtag' Declared 2012's Word of the Year | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 7:55 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| The American Dialect Society has named "hashtag" as the word of the year, beating out "Gangnam Style," "YOLO" and "fiscal cliff," among others.
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| Teen Thrown in Jail After Boasting About Drunk Driving on Facebook | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 6:58 PM | Anita Li |
| People use Facebook to spread news about job promotions, marriages and pregnancies, but one Oregon teen took sharing to a new level by boasting about his drunk driving. Jacob Cox-Brown, 18, posted a status update that exposed his New Year's Day crime. Earlier that day, at around 1 a.m., police in Astoria, Ore. found evidence that two cars had been in a collision, according to local reports.
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| 10 Vintage Photographs of Snowflakes | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 5:59 PM | Neha Prakash |
| If for some reason you didn't believe no two snowflakes were alike, here's your proof. In 1885, Wilson A. Bentley successfully photographed over 5,000 snowflakes by attaching a camera to a microscope (and in turn honing the field of Photomicrography). His photographs supported his and others' beliefs that all snowflakes were unique. Bentley become fascinated with snow as a child on a Vermont farm.
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| 10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Your Smartphone | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 4:16 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Studies show that the majority of adults in the United States own cellphones. As of September, 2012, the Pew Research Center found that 45% of American adults have smartphones. SEE ALSO: 9 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do Online With everything a smartphone can do, those statistics aren't so surprising. Mobile devices keep you connected at all times, whether it's by phone, texting, email or social media.
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| 36 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 3:52 PM | Fran Berkman |
| Turning the calendar to a new year generally brings both an opportunity to reflect on the past year and an earnest sense of hopefulness that this year will be an even better one. If your new year's resolution was to become more technology savvy, but you've been laid low all week from too much eating and partying — you've come to the right place.
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| Windows Phone Doesn't Support Google Maps Because Google Doesn't Want It To | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 2:38 PM | Christina Warren |
| The situation regarding accessing Google Maps on Windows Phone devices is about vendor choice, not browser capabilities. Let's try this again. Yesterday, a number of reports surfaced that Windows Phone users were unable to access Google Maps in the browser. Instead of reaching the Maps page, users are automatically redirected to the main Google homepage.
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| Check Out The First Concept Design For iPhone 6 | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 1:57 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| It's only been a few months since Apple released the iPhone 5, but one designer already has a vision for what the next model should look like. Federico Ciccarese, an Italian designer, has come up with a series of stunning renders for the iPhone 6 — assuming that's what Apple ends up calling the next redesign of the device — which would represent a significant change to the phone's external design and operating system.
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| The Biggest Tech Controversies of 2013 (So Far) | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 1:35 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| The apocalypse didn't arrive in 2012, the world kept spinning and we made it to 2013. The top comments of the new year centered on an evaluation of our priorities and a look ahead at what's to come. We're only a week into the new year, but we're already discussing parenting, First Amendment rights and problems arising for LinkedIn.
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| Top 10 Tech This Week | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 1:03 PM | Charlie White |
| The air is thick with anticipation of CES 2013, and even though there was a long weekend this week, the past seven days were packed with spectacular technology nevertheless.
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| Apple Paid $6 Billion in U.S. Corporate Income Taxes in 2012 | | Saturday, January 05, 2013 11:50 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Apple paid more in U.S. taxes last year than most companies made in total, but its tax bill could have been even higher. The California-based company paid $6 billion in federal corporate income taxes in the 2012 fiscal year, according to a statement Apple provided to The New York Times on Friday, in which it emphasized just how much money it pays back to the federal government annually.
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