| Unnamed BlackBerry Partner Buys 1 Million BlackBerry 10 Smartphones | | An "established" partner of Canada's BlackBerry has placed an order for one million BlackBerry 10 smartphones, the company has announced. This is the "largest ever single purchase order" in the company's history, BlackBerry (formerly RIM) claims. BlackBerry has announced the first BlackBerry 10 smartphones — Z10 and Q10 — on January 30, 2013.
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| What to Wear on a 100-Year Starship Voyage | | In science fiction shows like Star Trek, spacefarers can leap from planet to planet as fast as they can change a T-shirt. But star hopping is going to take a lot longer in "real life," assuming it's possible at all. To find out, the 100-year Starship Project is promoting the technologies needed to launch humans to the nearest star (Alpha Centauri, 25.2 trillion miles away) within a century.
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| Check Out These Google Reader Alternatives | | 2:42:43 AM | Christina Warren |
| With the news that Google is killing off Google Reader as of July 1, 2013, users everywhere are on the lookout for potential replacements. Replacing Google Reader isn't easy; the service isn't just an RSS reader — it's also the de facto cloud-based RSS syncing service.
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| Here's the Comic-Book Version of Steve Jobs | | Steve Jobs will be immortalized in comic-book form, as a Japanese manga series will detail his life story on its pages. Based on the best-selling biography by Walter Isaacson, the comic will appear in a magazine called Kiss, published by Tokyo-based Kodansha. Renowned manga artist Mari Yamazaki was chosen to illustrate the series.
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| What to Expect at the Samsung Galaxy S IV Launch | | 12:07:12 AM | Samantha Murphy |
| Samsung is gearing up to unveil its next-generation smartphone, the Galaxy S IV, in New York City on Thursday, a launch that further positions the company as Apple's biggest competitor. The Korean electronics giant has created a lot of buzz surrounding the announcement, which will be live streamed online and in Times Square.
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| Twitter App Now Available for Windows 8 and RT | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:25 PM | Anita Li |
| The wait is over: Twitter has finally launched its native app for Windows 8 and RT. Now available in the Windows Store, the app "introduces new functionality" that makes use of Windows 8's tiled interface, Twitter and Microsoft announced on their respective blogs Wednesday.
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| LG's 'Smart Video' Feature Uses Eye Recognition To Control Video Playback | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:29 PM | Emily Price |
| LG announced Wednesday that it will be bringing Smart Video, a feature that uses eye recognition to control video playback, to the Optimus G Pro. With Smart Video, the phone will recognize the position of your eyes, and automatically play or stop a video based on whether or not you’re looking at the screen.
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| Hey Google, We Still Love Reader | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:11 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Hear that clunking sound? That's thousands of jaws dropping at the news that Google Reader is going to be retired come July 1, 2013. That whooshing sound is "Google Reader" shooting to the top of Twitter's worldwide trends, even on a day when a new pope was picked. And that giant "NOOOOOOOO" sound is the Internet's reaction to Google's most unpopular decision in — well, as far back as I can remember.
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| Life Before and After Cellphones | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:59 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| In the digital age, we tend to rely on our phones for everything — communicating with others, finding the best directions, passing the time with apps and virtually anything else you can think of. What life like before our iPhones, Androids, Windows Phones and BlackBerrys?
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| RIP Google Reader | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:03 PM | Christina Warren |
| Google Reader, one of the world's most popular RSS readers, is shutting down on July 1, 2013, Google announced Wednesday.
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| Brain-Scanning Headphones Match Songs to Your Mood | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:47 PM | Discovery News |
| Compiling the perfect song playlist has a well-known reputation for being a transcending, yet agonizing, form of art. But what if we could could delete the agony of finding the perfect song and tap into the ecstasy of having it chosen for us? SEE ALSO: Brain Scanner Customizes Web Surfing That’s where Mico headphones enter the picture.
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| 10 Celebrities Who Look Like Pope Francis | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:35 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Pope Francis will live in Vatican City, but his celebrity doppelgängers reside in Hollywood, New York City and Jersey. Twitter couldn't wait to pinpoint the new pope's famous look-alikes. Famous faces that apparently bear a resemblance to the newly selected pontiff include Jeffrey Tambor, Woody Allen and the old guy from UP. SEE ALSO: 15 Hilarious Smokin' Pope Tweets Did Twitter users miss an obvious papal twinsie? Tell us in the comments.
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| 7 Apps From SXSW You Don't Want to Miss | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 4:47 PM | Emily Price |
| SXSW is traditionally a huge launching place for mobile apps. This year brought with it some significant updates from popular apps such as Path and Banjo, as well as a number of new apps. At this year’s show, we found an app that helps you find a date based on your Facebook friends, and another than helps you find the file you’re looking for, no matter where you might have saved it.
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| FTC: Just Use 'Ad:' in Sponsored Tweets and You'll Be Fine | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 4:07 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| The Federal Trade Commission did something unusual on Tuesday: It prescribed a quick and dirty way for advertisers to disclose an ad message on Twitter. The solution? Put "Ad:" before a tweet and use just three characters out of the allotted 140. "They actually gave us an example," says Eric Goldman, a professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law.
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| New Pope Francis I Has 40,000 Facebook Subscribers | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:46 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was revealed Wednesday to be the new leader of the Catholic Church. He has taken the papal name of Francis I. Bergoglio, 76, is a Jesuit and the first pope from South America. He also has an active Facebook presence with 40,000 subscribers — a number that's sure to rise in the coming hours.
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| 'Veronica Mars' Movie Is The Fastest Kickstarter Project to Hit $1 Million | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:27 PM | Christina Warren |
| Look alive Veronica Mars fans, the Kickstarter project to bring the cult TV show to the big screen is already halfway towards its goal of $2 million. This makes the Veronica Mars movie the fastest project ever to reach that $1 million juncture. The Pebble watch took about 27 hours to reach its first million (the project went on to take in more than $10 million), the OUYA console took a little over 8 hours.
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| Twitter Now Supports Line Breaks in Tweets | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:05 PM | Emily Price |
| Twitter added support for line breaks Wednesday, a new feature that lets you spread your 140 character message over several different lines. Supported on Twitter.com, as well as through Twitter’s official mobile app, the feature can be used to spread out a few different lines of text, or even to spread out a single word, one letter at a time.
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| Prepare Yourselves: Facebook's Timeline Is Also Changing | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:08 PM | Emily Price |
| Less than a week after announcing a dramatically redesigned News Feed,Facebook has also started rolling out updates to Timeline, moving status updates and posts to the right of the page, while placing information from apps on the left. Identical to what we saw being tested in New Zealand a few weeks ago, the new Timeline navigation swaps places with the ads that currently reside on the top right.
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