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| Vine App Changes Age Rating from 12+ to 17+ | | After being flooded with pornographic images, the iPhone app for Twitter's video sharing service Vine has changed its rating from 12+ to 17+. This means users will have to confirm they are 17 years old or over before using the app. Originally, Vine was rated 12+, but it decided to change the rating after adult images started showing up on the service, some even in the "Editors' Picks" category.
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| Microsoft Surface Pro: Finally, a Worthy Flagship for Windows 8 | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:03 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The Surface Pro is the product Microsoft should have debuted to carry the banner of Windows 8 last fall. More powerful than the Surface RT tablet that's been met with "muted" response from the market, the Surface Pro fulfills the promise of Windows 8: Your PC and your tablet — your entire digital life, really — all on one device you can take anywhere. Well, more or less anywhere.
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| BlackBerry Z10 Fails Sidewalk Drop Test | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:47 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| With the Z10 Blackberry has delivered a stylish, high-performance smartphone that can handle drops on softer surfaces, but may suffer defeat on the sidewalks of your nearest city.
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| How to Create a Secure Password | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:03 PM | Emily Price |
| A secure password can be your first line of defense against would-be hackers. Creating a secure password, however, isn’t always as easy as it looks. As the Internet has gotten larger, hackers have gotten smarter, making it so even passwords that seem like they’re secure aren’t necessarily anymore.
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| BlackBerry Offers Developers Limited Edition Red Z10 | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 6:47 PM | Emily Price |
| Developers who commit to BlackBerry 10 early will be walking away with their own limited edition Z10 in red. BlackBerry’s Alec Saunders announced the limited edition handsets – which were previously promised to developers — via a blog post Tuesday.
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| How Many Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom? | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 4:45 PM | Eric Larson |
| Remember the good old days of reading textbooks in school and taking notes from a chalkboard? Yeah, neither do we. PBS Learning Media, in preparation for Digital Learning Day on Wednesday, Feb. 6, conducted a national survey of pre-K to 12th grade teachers to find out how many incorporate technology into their day-to-day classroom activities.
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| 10 Amazing Jobs You Could Land With the Right STEM Education | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 2:22 PM | Lauren Drell |
| When you think of someone who codes, you might picture a person hunched over a laptop in a dark garage. But that was the stereotype of yesteryear. Today, STEM careers have taken on a wildly different perception, and some of the coolest jobs around require a background in science, technology, engineering and math.
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| UK Military Uses Mini Drones in Afghanistan | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 2:21 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Mini-drones are not just a luxury for us civilians. After all, if a technology like this comes to the average Joe, it's often because it already existed in the battlefield. Enter the Black Hornet, a palm-sized spy-copter used by British troops in Afghanistan. The drone, which weighs about half an ounce and measures just 4 inches, is manufactured by the Norwegian company Proxy Dynamics.
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| Hans Zimmer: The Computer Is My Instrument | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 2:03 PM | Fran Berkman |
| Imagine how great your iPhone cat videos would be if a Grammy and Academy Award winning composer wrote the soundtrack. You probably know what's coming next: Yes, there's an app for that. The app, available exclusively for iOS, is called VJAM. World-renowned music composer and producer Hans Zimmer helped develop the app with UJAM, a company he co-founded several years ago.
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| This App Packages News and Social Streams Into Video | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 12:25 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| So many blogs, so little time. For those who can't get enough of the news, but don't have hours to comb through sites and streams for the latest information, a new iPad app called Guide packages articles into video so you don't have to read. The best part is you can pick an avatar of your liking to serve as your broadcaster — want a kitten to read you stories about animals? No problem.
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| Amazon Discounts Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Once Again | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 10:40 AM | Lauren Indvik |
| Amazon may have struggled to meet demand for its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader over the holidays, but evidence suggests its large-format Android tablet, the Kindle Fire 8.9, may not be as popular with consumers. As part of a Valentine's Day promotion, Amazon is offering $50 off the $499 and $599 4G LTE versions, and $30 off the $299 and $369 WiFi-only editions with the discount code "FIRELOVE" between now and Feb.
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| Apple's 128GB iPad Now on Sale | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 10:11 AM | Samantha Murphy |
| Apple has added its 128GB iPad to the Apple Store. The site promises any orders will ship in one to three days.
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| New Java Security Patch And Two Other Stories You Need to Know | | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:34 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Twitter might be looking into enhancing its security with two-step authentication. And while we're on the subject of security, Oracle expedited the release of its Java security patch.
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