| Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's Google Movie Premieres on Hangout | | In what looks like the biggest-ever product placement for Google, the official trailer for The Internship launched Wednesday. Comic duo Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson — who last got together for 2005's Wedding Crashers — reunite for the film, which follows two ex-salesmen, as they embark on Google internships and compete with colleagues half their age. Hilarity (hopefully) ensues.
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| These Guys Want to Build the Space Suit of the Future | | This is a story about Nik Moiseev and Ted Southern. It is also a story about a Russian engineer and an American artist. It is also a story about a Brooklyn startup. It is also a story about space travel. Moiseev had spent more than two decades working in the Soviet Union (and then in Russia) as an engineer of spacesuits — specifically, of garments that cosmonauts could wear as they rode the Soyuz rocket up to the International Space Station.
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| YouTube Campaign Reunites Lost Vacation Photos With Owner | | A viral YouTube campaign has reunited hundreds of vacation photos with their rightful owner. In late January, Peter van Leeuwen posted the video, above, which features a slideshow of photos from an unidentified woman's European backpacking trip. Van Leeuwen had found an SD card, which carried 300 images, at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands.
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| Iceland May Ban Online Porn | | In a case of censorship ostensibly for a good cause, Iceland may soon become the first Western nation to ban citizens from viewing online porn.
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| Robots Share Stage With Actors in New Show | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:00 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| A dying girl pressed a humanoid robot's hand to her face as the robot began reciting poetry. The scene showed a story from the future, and was acted out by a human actress and an android during a North American tour of the Japanese Robot Theater Project. The robot theater first came to life four years ago when a playwright teamed up with a robotics researcher at Osaka University in Japan.
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| 10 Valentines Brought to Life With Vine | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:34 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| For Valentine's Day this year, we challenged you to create your best #Valenvine by using six second video app Vine. SEE ALSO: 10 Works of Art on Vine You got creative and shared vines that were both adorable and eye-catching. These valenvines ranged from a pulsing 8-bit LEGO heart to a vibrant visual of the consequences of a broken heart.
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| Car Apps Finally Get What They Need: Geeks | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:55 PM | Seth Porges |
| The quickest way to cooking through just about any half-baked tech: Bring on the geeks! Case in point: Auto infotainment systems. Good intentions aside, even the most advanced (some might say: especially the most advanced) touch-screen car consoles can be unnecessarily difficult and distracting. So I gotta give GM and Ford credit for realizing that basement hackers are probably their best hope at cracking this code.
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| The App That's Changing Fashion Week | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:47 PM | Emily Price |
| Fashion Week is about coordinating show invites, seating charts, photos, and editorial samples — a process that got a lot easier this year thanks to an iOS app called Fashion GPS. While its couture may be on the cutting edge, Fashion Week's tech has been slipping for some time. Often progressive as far as the arts and design, administratively the industry tends to be a bit on the messy side.
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| Topshop and Google Partner for Innovative Fashion Week Show | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:43 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Although an increasing number of designers are live streaming their Fashion Week shows online, only a very few offer anything beyond semi-blurry, front-camera views of models on a runway. Among those 'very few' is UK retailer Topshop, which is once again engineering a unique, multi-platform show experience for online viewers, this time in partnership with Google, for its London Fashion Week show at the Tate Modern on Sunday.
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| How Apple Stores Beat Disney Parks | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:00 PM | Christina Warren |
| Which makes more money: Apple Stores or Disney Parks and Resorts? The answer may surprise you. Our friends and publishing partners at The Atlantic noted an interesting fact Wednesday: Apple's retail stores now get almost as many visitors as Disney's theme parks and resorts. In fact, in Q1 2013, Apple said that a record 121 million people visited its stores.
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| The Best of Toy Fair in 60 Seconds [VIDEO] | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 7:37 PM | Andrea Smith |
| NEW YORK — We wish we could tell you we made it to all the booths at the 2013 International Toy Fair, but with 266,229 square feet of show floor to cover, well, we didn't get everywhere. But we did get a great overview of some of the awesome tech toys you'll be seeing in the coming year. The big trend this year; augmented 3D reality and iPad-infused play.
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| Maru Will Get Inside This Box and Be Adorable | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 7:15 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The Internet's original cat celeb, Maru, toys with the logistics and physics of infiltrating cardboard boxes in this video. We believe he is in the early stages of experimenting with Schrodinger's philosophy, trying to prove that while the cat in the box may be simultaneously alive and dead, it is at all times freaking adorable. SEE ALSO: Cat Walks Runway at New York Fashion Week Video and image courtesy of YouTube, mugumogu.
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| 5 Digital Love Tips for Valentine's Day | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 6:34 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Whether or not you celebrate Valentine's Day, your news feed is bound to be bombarded by anti-romance posts. Instead of sharing a cup of bitterness this holiday, single social media users can spread the love by using their networks in a positive way.
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| Music Services Compared: Pandora, Spotify, Slacker and iHeartRadio | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 6:16 PM | Charlie White |
| Pandora Radio, Spotify, iHeartRadio and Slacker Radio are in a tight race for your music dollar. All have evolved beyond their origins, offering more flexibility and additional features for your listening pleasure. Which to pick? See all four of these online music services compared here. While Pandora holds the line as a pure music discovery service, our three other contenders offer additional services.
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| Decide Where 'Girl Rising' Will Be Screened Before Its Premiere | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:58 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Girl Rising, an independent film shedding light on the impact of improving education for girls around the world, could arrive in your local theater for the movie's official March 7 rollout. How? If enough people in you specific community request a viewing of Girl Rising — via online theatrical distribution service Gathr — you'll earn a screening.
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| 1-800-Flowers Testing Credit Card-Free Mobile Payments | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:48 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Mobile shoppers this Valentine's Day may be pleasantly surprised that they can buy flowers for their beloved on their smartphones without having to enter credit card information. That is, if those shoppers are using apps from 1-800-Flowers. Since late last year, the company has been an exclusive partner with Expedite, a startup that attempts to take credit cards out of the mobile shopping equation.
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| Dubstep Violinist Rides YouTube Fame to World Tour | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:37 PM | Todd Olmstead |
| "Have you ever seen a violinist really rock out??" That's the tagline on Lindsey Stirling's YouTube channel, a page where her 1.5 million subscribers regularly help push her videos into the millions of views. And no, we've never really seen anything like her epic, acrobatic and aerobic violin performances. Her video for "Crystallize" has now been seen more than 47 million times and was YouTube's 8th most-watched video of 2012.
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| Pair, the Social App for Couples, Adds Snapchat Feature | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:23 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Tenthbit gained plenty of buzz when it launched Pair, an iPhone app that creates an ultra private social network just for couples or close friends, in March of last year. Since then, the Y Combinator-backed startup has rolled out the app to Android, acquired a competing UK company called Cupple and recently changed the name of its app to Couple.
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| Kids Explain the Meaning of Valentine's Day | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:14 PM | Neha Prakash |
| For years, scientists, poets, singers and writers have tried to define the concept of love. And where has that gotten us? Nowhere. So we turn instead to kids, the true philosophers, those who have yet to cloud their judgment with the harsh reality of the world, who can really tell us what this crazy thing called love is all about. SEE ALSO: This Is Your Brain on Love Spoiler alert: Love is red, sparkly, warm and fuzzy.
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| 18-Year-Old's Watch Could Beat Apple’s iWatch to Market | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:41 PM | Quartz |
| Simon Tian says he has in-hand a working prototype of something nearly unprecedented in consumer electronics: a smartphone the size of a watch. Not just a smart watch, but an actual, fully-featured smartphone running Google’s Android software that straps onto your wrist. Along with his team of nine at the Montreal, Quebec-based startup Neptune, he’ll be unveiling it in mid-April.
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| Atari Founder's Steve Jobs Book Will Kickstart a Publishing Platform | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:29 PM | Chris Taylor |
| In 1975, Nolan Bushnell was riding high. He'd just co-founded Atari and launched the world's first home video game, Pong. And then there was the oddball engineer he'd hired, Steve Wozniak, who'd brought his equally odd friend Steve Jobs to work with him for free. "Great," Bushnell thought.
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| Sorry, Dudes: You Have No Chance With Women of LA | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:28 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Warning: Video contains NSFW language. City of Angels? More like the city of women who definitely won't sleep with you. It's a hard truth to accept, but it's best for your self-esteem if you just come to terms with it. Hollywood ain't no Hipster Brooklyn and this guy has found out the hard way that IMDB references are currency in the bedroom on the glamorous West Coast.
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| Samsung May Not Be Done Attacking Apple in Advertising | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:25 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Samsung's 2-minute Super Bowl ad featuring Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd was notable for its lack of animus towards the brand's longtime foe, Apple. That, however, doesn't mean Samsung has buried the hatchet. As the company's CMO, Todd Pendleton (pictured), told Mashable, Samsung reserves the right to go after Apple again in the future. For the moment, though, the company is treading a kindler, gentler path.
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| Report: Time Warner in Talks to Sell Magazine Unit | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:14 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Time Warner may be in talks to sell off Time Inc. as revenues at the publishing unit's advertising and circulation revenues continue to decline. Citing three unnamed sources, Fortune (which is owned by Time Inc.), reports that a "serious buyer" is in talks to acquire the division, which is the nation's largest magazine publisher and accounts for a little more than 11% of Time Inc.'s $28.7 billion in annual sales.
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