| Report: Lenovo Wants to Buy NEC's Mobile Unit | | Chinese computer maker Lenovo is in talks to buy NEC's mobile business, Reuters reports citing sources familiar with the matter. Japan's NEC is also talking with potential domestic buyers, the source said. Lenovo is a logical partner to NEC, though, given the two companies have already established a PC-building joint venture in 2011 - Lenovo NEC Holdings.
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| 8 Vendors You Didn't Know Accepted Bitcoins | | The Bitcoin — the first decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency — was introduced on the web in 2009, but interest is bubbling up once again. Building on the idea that money is essentially a medium for translating value, the Bitcoin uses cryptography (or encrypting digital information to transmit something securely) for its creation and transactions, rather than a central authority.
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| Marriage Equality's Huge Week on Twitter | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:29 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Facebook users weren't the only people affected by the Supreme Court's two gay marriage cases Tuesday and Wednesday. Twitter was full of conversations about marriage equality, Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. Top tweets came from President Obama and Seth MacFarlane; Kennedy was the most mentioned Supreme Court Justice; and "marriageequality" was the most-used term.
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| Study Reveals Adults Are Texting While Driving Even More Than Teens | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:53 PM | Charlie White |
| Contrary to conventional wisdom, it turns out that adults are worse than teenagers when it comes to texting while driving. That's according to the results of a survey conducted by AT&T and published in USA Today, showing that 49% of adult drivers admit to texting behind the wheel. Compare that with 43% of the teen respondents admitting that they text while driving.
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| Amazon Buys Goodreads to Make Reading Experience More Social | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:40 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Amazon announced Thursday that it will acquire Goodreads, the popular social network for books, for an undisclosed sum. Goodreads launched in 2007 and currently has more than 16 million members. The service lets users share and review books they've read or want to read, as well as to keep track of what their friends are reading.
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| Tacos Are the New Antidepressants | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:17 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Feeling low lately? Down in the dumps? Feel like the world has nothing to offer you and you might as well curl up with your cat and wait for the zombie apocalypse to come? (Alright, alright, no need to get overdramatic people.) Life's tough, and sometimes science is the best way to see the light at the end of the tunnel. And the famed researchers at Pleated Jeans have uncovered the latest in medical marvels — tacos as antidepressants.
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| Activision Reveals Animated Human That Looks So Real, It's Uncanny | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:39 PM | Charlie White |
| Activision showed off the state of the art of real-time graphics on Wednesday, releasing this mind-boggling character demo. The character's skin, facial expressions and eyes look so real, it's uncanny. When you watch this video, see if you think this character has reached the other side of what's commonly called the "uncanny valley," a term first uttered by early robotics guru Masahiro Mori in 1970.
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| Marriage Equality: 18 Creative Red Facebook Pics | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:01 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Facebook turned red on Tuesday, as the Supreme Court began hearing two marriage equality cases. Many users changed their profile pictures to red images featuring LGBT lobby group the HRC's red equality logo. But that was just the beginning. Facebook is a forum for expressing individuality and personality, so it didn't take long for users to add unique twists to the red equality sign.
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| Google's New Open Source Patent Pledge: We Won't Sue Unless Attacked First | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 1:40 PM | Christina Warren |
| Google took a stand of sorts against patent-lawsuit theater Thursday with its new Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. As explained by Google's Duane Valz, under the OPN Pledge, Google promises "not to sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked." Now, Google isn't making all of its patents available for others.
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| Storify Launches VIP Service for Publishers | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:59 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Storify, a platform that lets users aggregate and display photos, tweets and other social content sourced across the web, stepped up its game Thursday by announcing a new premium service for media organizations, enterprise and other power users.
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| Instagram Photos Now Affect Your Klout Score | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:01 PM | Emily Price |
| Now your Instagram photos will play a role in your Klout score. Klout has allowed users to connect their Instagram account to Klout for some time, however, those photos did not play a role in a person’s overall score. Now those photos will influence your score, and your most popular pictures will appear in the Klout Moments section of your Klout profile.
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| Just in Time for April Fool's: Bacon-Flavored Scope Mouthwash | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:16 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| It's April Fool's time again and for marketers that means one thing: Bacon. The food, which has been fetishized on the Internet like no other, is now finding its way into — of all things — Scope mouthwash. As the video above explains, this was the natural progression of things after bacon bras, carbonated bacon and spreadable bacon.
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| Google Glass Applicant Who Would 'Throw It at Your Face' Is Disqualified | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:09 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Did Google actually read the ideas people submitted for its Project Glass contest? From two of the applications that Google has now disqualified, it doesn't look like it. Google decided to rescind some of its selections for winners in its #ifihadglass contest, which asked interested developers to share their ideas via Twitter or Google+ in 140-character snippets.
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| How 3D Printing Actually Works | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:55 AM | Matt Petronzio |
| Now that 3D printing — the process of making three-dimensional solid objects from digital designs — is available and affordable to individual consumers, it's piqued a lot of interest across the tech space in the past few years. From scale models, gifts and clothing to prosthetic limbs, hearing aids and the prospect of 3D-printed homes, the possibilities seem endless.
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| Buick Turns Pinterest Board Into Car Concept | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:39 AM | Samantha Murphy |
| Buick has put a social network spin on its 2013 Encore luxury car by reinventing its interiors and exteriors based on a Pinterest board.
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| Google Tests Same-Day Delivery Service in San Francisco | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:15 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Look out Amazon: Google is finally getting into the same-day delivery business. Google launched a new service Thursday called Google Shopping Express that will let consumers in the San Francisco area order items online from nine big retailers including Target, Walgreens and Office Depot, and schedule to have them delivered later that same day.
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| BlackBerry Sold 1 Million BlackBerry 10 Smartphones in Q4 | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 9:53 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| BlackBerry's Q4 and year-end results for fiscal 2013 are in, with the company reporting $2.7 billion in revenue. Income in Q4 was $94 million, a solid increase compared to $14 million in income in the previous quarter. BlackBerry attributes the positive change to the success of BlackBerry 10 — the company shipped 6 million BlackBerry smartphones, 1 million of which were BlackBerry 10 devices.
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| Time Magazine Aims for Buzz With Edgy Marriage Equality Cover | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 9:42 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Time has used the Supreme Court's deliberations over marriage equality as an opportunity for another envelope-pushing cover. The fold-out cover features a gay male couple and (separately) a lesbian couple in a full-on mouth-to-mouth embrace. The arty photos, shot by Peter Hapak, record the moment in black and white.
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