| Huge Robots Fend Off Aliens in New 'Pacific Rim' Trailer | | Guillermo del Toro's dark, apocalyptic vision of the future is filled with monstrous beings from the deep. Earth's only chance? Giant robots, of course. In "Pacific Rim," each robot is operated by two humans via a neural link, but we already saw that in the first trailer for the movie. This one — originally intended only for WonderCon — focuses on one thing only: epicness.
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| 13 Million Facebook Users Haven't Touched Their Privacy Settings | | As Facebook prepares Graph Search for wide release, some have concerns about the privacy issues the new feature raises. How can you be sure only your friends will see your name during searches? After all, more than a quarter of Facebook users share information with an audience much wider than their social circle. And 13 million users haven't even touched their privacy settings.
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| Skype Now Lets You Make Calls Directly From Outlook.com Inbox | | Skype audio- and video-calling will roll out to Outlook.com inboxes across the UK starting Monday, and to the U.S. and Germany in the coming weeks, the VoIP service announced. "We all face those situation where it's easier to jump on a call to talk something through. Sometimes that quick call can accomplish more than a long email reply," Simon Longbottom, Skype's senior director of product marketing, said Monday in a blog post.
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| 'Fast and Furious 6' Trailer Debuts Online | | An action-packed trailer for Fast and Furious 6, the sixth installment of the street-racing film series, has debuted online. The latest movie brings back long-time Fast and the Furious regulars, including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham also star in the film. As expected, 6's trailer showcases plenty of fast cars, big explosions and piercing stares.
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| Apparent Teaser for 'Call of Duty: Ghosts' Debuts on Official Site | | An apparent teaser for the upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts video game has shown up on the franchise's official website. Visitors to CallofDuty.com are automatically redirected to "CallofDuty.com/______," which shows an image comprising tiny individual thumbnails of users who shared messages with the hashtag #CallofDuty via Twitter or Facebook.
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| Cops Pose as iPhone Thieves to Thwart Black Market | | Monday, April 29, 2013 11:57 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| In tech hub San Francisco, Calif., police say that nearly half of all the city's robberies last year involved smartphones. But instead of focusing on the stolen supply, the city's police department is going after the demand: middlemen who might buy stolen iPhones from thieves and then resell them on the black market.
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| Add Audio to Your iPhone Pics With SpeakingPhoto | | Monday, April 29, 2013 10:31 PM | Emily Price |
| A picture’s worth a thousand words, but sometimes our pictures — no matter how fabulous they are — still need a few words of explanation to go along with them. Enter SpeakingPhoto, a new iPhone app that lets you add sound to any photo, allowing you tell a story along with the image before you share it with friends on Facebook or via email. Finished photo/videos can also be shared on YouTube.
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| 6 Coffee Apps to Help You Savor Every Sip | | Monday, April 29, 2013 7:53 PM | Gloria Dawson |
| Coffee is just a means to an end for some; it's a way to wake up and stay that way. But to others, coffee is a way of life, an art form, a drink to be savored with each sip. Here are six of our favorite apps for coffee making and drinking.
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| Google Bans Self-Updating Android Apps | | Monday, April 29, 2013 6:23 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Updating Android apps is usually very simple: Click on the Google Play Store app, My Apps and "Update all." You can even set apps to update automatically. This process is simple for the end user, but creates a time-consuming middleman for app creators.
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| This Is Saturn's Behemoth Hurricane | | Monday, April 29, 2013 5:24 PM | Amanda Wills |
| NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured what the agency calls a "behemoth" hurricane on Saturn that has been churning for years. With a 1,250-mile-wide eye, the hurricane is 20 times larger than those we see on Earth. This first color image, acquired on Nov. 27, 2012, shows the hurricane at Saturn's north pole, which was previously hidden when Cassini arrived in 2004 during the planet's winter.
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| In Britain, You May No Longer Own Your Instagram Photos | | Monday, April 29, 2013 4:21 PM | The Daily Dot |
| If you live Britain, your Facebook and Instagram photos may now be free for the taking. The U.K.’s Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act passed parliament and last week received Royal Assent to become a law, according to The Register. “The Act,” explains The Register’s Andrew Orlowski, “contains changes to U.K.
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| Watch This Tweet-Powered Tornado Blow Away Interns | | Monday, April 29, 2013 3:18 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Weather Channel interns are challenging Twitter users to blow them away for Tornado Week. They've transformed part of their office into a tweet-powered tornado simulation, putting the public in control of the wind speed. Each mention of "#TornadoWeek" will help elevate the wind speed.
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| Kobe Bryant, Bill Clinton Tweet Support for Jason Collins' Coming Out | | Monday, April 29, 2013 12:58 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| NBA player Jason Collins ignited a flurry of commentary on Twitter after Sports Illustrated tweeted his first-person story in which he comes out as gay, becoming the first male athlete to do so while still active in a major U.S. sport. "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay," Collins wrote. "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport.
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| Windows Phone Ad Paints Apple and Samsung Fans as Buffoons | | Monday, April 29, 2013 12:37 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Microsoft is attempting to triangulate in the Apple-Samsung war with a new ad that presents itself as above the fray of their petty bickering. The ad takes place during a wedding. As a nerdy guy steps up to photograph the event, an iPhone fan challenges him to remove "your enormous phone." "You mean the enormously awesome Galaxy?" another Samsung fan counters.
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| iPhone 5 Vanquishes Samsung Galaxy S4 in Drop Test | | Monday, April 29, 2013 11:47 AM | Pete Pachal |
| The Samsung Galaxy S4 has a boatload of features, but is extra durability one of them? Its predecessor, the Galaxy S III, lost a few drop tests to its chief rival, Apple's iPhone 5. How will the brand-new flagship do? Someone decided to find out.
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| Stray Baseball Turns Selfie Into Near-Death Experience | | Monday, April 29, 2013 11:13 AM | Neha Prakash |
| There are several reasons one should be wary before talking a selfie — generally seeming gratuitous and catching yourself at a bad angle are the leading factors against the photo trend. But this reporter's near death experience adds fatal head injury to the selfie con list.
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