| T-Mobile Trade-in Offer Lets You Upgrade to iPhone 5 From 4, 4S | | Days before T-Mobile begins selling the iPhone 5 in stores, the mobile carrier is luring customers with an offer that lets them trade up from an iPhone 4 or 4S — at no cost upfront. "Our message to iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 customers is simple: Bring in your device and trade up to iPhone 5 on T-Mobile," Mike Sievert, the company's chief marketing officer, said in a release.
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| New Elysium Trailer: It Really Is Better Up There | | A new trailer for the upcoming science fiction film, Elysium, is out, and it's a treat for fans of the genre. Matt Damon and Jodie Foster are starring in the movie which depicts a future (year 2154, to be exact) in which the rich inhabit a dream world called Elysium, while the rest of humanity is desperate to leave Earth, which is ravaged by crime and poverty.
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| Japanese Students Invent 'Girlfriend Coat' to Hug Lonely People | | Forever alone? Fear not — Japanese students from the University of Tsukuba have developed a "girlfriend coat" to keep you company. The device looks like a normal coat except for its neon-colored belt, which users fasten around the waist. A machine then winds the belt to simulate the feeling of being hugged from behind.
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| Jack Black Tenaciously Pulls Down Pants on Red Carpet | | 12:58:47 AM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| "There's no one like Jack Black," comedian Bob Saget said at an event honoring — and skewering — Black's multifarious career in the TV, movie and music industries. "I'm sorry, I read that wrong. What I meant was, 'No one likes Jack Black.'" "I'm sorry, I read that wrong. What I meant was, 'No one likes Jack Black.'" The Friars Club, known for its vulgar celebrity roasts each year in New York City, recently honored Black.
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| Orchestra Turns Justin Bieber Song Into Classical Masterpiece | | Some may argue that Justin Bieber's songs are masterpieces out of the gate (they would be mostly of the tween persuasion). But Steve Pycroft felt that, while Bieber's songs had potential, one song in particular coud be raised to a new — and baroque — level. Pycroft took Bieber's pop tune "Beauty and Beat" and rearranged it for a performance by the countertenor Robin Blaze and the University of York Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir.
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| BMW Electric Cars Reimagined as Lounge Furniture | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 10:58 PM | PSFK |
| How do you give people the experience of riding in an electric vehicle without actually sitting in a car? That was the challenge designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec undertook for a project with BMW i, the automaker's electric mobility division. The Bouroullec brothers devised Quiet Motion, a lounge installation for the 2013 Salone del Mobile furniture design fair.
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| Bloomingdales Installs Body Scanners to Help You Find Jeans That Fit | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 9:34 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| As any woman can tell you, shopping for designer denim is a miserable affair. Sizing has long been inconsistent across brands — an Ann Taylor "6" might be a Diane von Furstenberg "10," for example — but in the jeans department, where there is a need for a more precise fit, the inconsistencies are particularly aggravating.
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| Apple's iMessage and FaceTime Back Up After Five-Hour Outage | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 9:10 PM | Anita Li |
| Apple's iMessage and FaceTime are running normally again after the company reported Tuesday that "some users" were affected by service interruptions. The Cupertino, Calif. company's system status page indicated that users had been "unable to place FaceTime calls" and "unable to use iMessage" from 3:11 p.m. ET to 8:20 p.m. ET. Over the five hours, Apple users vented their frustrations via Twitter.
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| Good Ideas Are Worth Chasing | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 9:03 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Whether you're writing a story, making crafts or coming up with a new business venture, a good idea can be hard to find. But with a little ambition, a dash of determination and a pinch of creativity, you'll be well on your way. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics shows us that there's only one way to find out if an idea is good or bad — chase it.
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| Facebook Home Phone Pulls You Back Into Facebook | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 9:00 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| In the past 36 hours, I've spent more time on Facebook than I have in the past three months. I've been liking photos, commenting, and checking in. I'm becoming a real Facebook gadfly. This is all due to the new Facebook Phone, or, more accurately the HTC First, the first phone running Facebook Home.
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| 3 Big Trends at NAB Show 2013 | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 8:57 PM | Christina Warren |
| NAB Show 2013 kicked off earlier this week, with broadcasters, video professionals and digital media startups gathering in Las Vegas to talk about the future of the big screen, the small screen and the tablet-sized screen. For the last three days, I've roamed the show floor at NAB Show 2013, talking to technology companies, media groups and broadcasters about the impact that digital and social are having on the industry as a whole.
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| Intuitive iPhone Apps Target Smartphone-Wary Seniors | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 8:33 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| For seniors who might balk at the idea of upgrading to a smartphone, a Singapore-based company is developing intuitive apps that they hope will ease the transition. Silverline Mobile, which was developed as a project under sustainable business firm Newton Circus, has already rolled out five iPhone apps targeted toward those 60 or older in the Singapore market.
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| Ditch the Stock App for This Designer iOS Clock | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 7:29 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Yes, Apple ended up paying millions to license the design for a sleek, iconic Swiss timepiece for its clock in iOS 6. But even if you're a fan of Apple's stock clock, why be boring by sticking with the tried and true? The popular ChronoGrafik iOS app (on sale for .99) features unique clock skins that you can sport on your iPhone or iPad, as explained in the video above.
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| Use Your iPhone Without Taking It Out of Your Purse | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 6:50 PM | Andrea Smith |
| Anyone who's ever listened to the ring of their cellphone while fumbling through a jam-packed purse to try to fish it out, will appreciate the simplicity of the Pursecase. It's a small clutch purse that holds your iPhone and a few essentials. It just got funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign.
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| Watch the 'Mad Men' Season 6 Premiere Online Right Now | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 6:39 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If your DVR skipped a beat, you somehow forgot that Season 6 of Mad Men started on Sunday (*shudder*), or you simply want to bask in the glory of 1960s Madison Avenue again, don't worry: you can stop everything you're doing right now and watch. You know you want to.
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| Apple May Start iPad 5 Production in July | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 6:28 PM | Emily Price |
| We may see a brand new iPad in just a few months. DigiTimes reports that production for the next-generation tablet will begin between July and August of this year. In addition to the production timeline, the site claims sources within the Taiwan-based supply chain for the tablet have indicated that the iPad 5 will be both thinner and lighter than its predecessor and will have a slimmer bezel, similar to that found on the iPad mini.
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| Should Free Lunches at Tech Companies Be Taxable? | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 6:13 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| In literal proof to the adage that there's no such thing as a free lunch, the Internal Revenue Service is looking into making employees pay a tax for the gratis meals that have now become a fixture at some tech firms, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal reports that there is a "growing controversy among tax experts" about how to treat free lunches.
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| Jack Dorsey's Parents Want to Be Verified on Twitter | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 6:02 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| If you don't have a verified account on Twitter, don't feel too bad: neither do Jack Dorsey's parents. The Twitter co-founder's parents Tim and Marcia Dorsey tweeted this week that they would like to be verified on the service. We're not sure why they didn't go to Jack directly. Twitter I'm not @verified....Should I be? — Marcia Dorsey (@marciadorsey) April 9, 2013 @verified you should verify me I'm jack's dad.
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| Researchers Replace Passwords With Mind-Reading Passthoughts | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 5:48 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Remembering the passwords for all your sites can get frustrating. There are only so many punctuation, number substitutes and uppercase variations you can recall, and writing them down for all to find is hardly an option. Thanks to researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Information, you may not need to type those pesky passwords in the future. Instead, you'll only need to think them.
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| Roger Ebert's Website for Film Reviews Gets Makeover | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 5:36 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert died this month after battling cancer, but RogerEbert.com will live on. The website, which is home to his and other critics' movie reviews, unveiled a new look and feel Tuesday. Ebert teased the redesign in a blog post the day before he died, saying the site would relaunch under Ebert Digital, a partnership between his wife, Chaz, and friend Josh Golden.
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| How Google Glass Will Change Porn | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 5:25 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| As goes pornography, so goes the tech industry. When the porn business embraced VHS over Betamax and Blu-ray over HD DVD, videophiles of all tastes followed their lead. The next big innovation might be Google Glass, a pair of Internet-connected glasses that takes photos, records video and offers hands-free Internet access right in front of users' eyes.
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| EA Voted 'Worst Company in America' — Again | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 5:13 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Electronic Arts has been voted the worst company in America by Consumerist readers, passing up Bank of America, Ticketmaster and Carnival Cruise Lines to win the "golden poo" award for the second year in a row. Consumerist reported that EA captured 78% percent of the vote. The annual poll is held bracket-style, with EA knocking out Anheiser-Busch InBev, Facebook, AT&T, Ticketmaster and, finally, Bank of America to claim the prize.
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| Google Play Gets a New Look | | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 5:01 PM | Emily Price |
| Google launched a new look for Google Play Tuesday. Rolling out now to Android phones and tablets, the redesigned storefront has a cleaner look, making it easier to find what you’re looking for. Most notably, the redesign replaces the dark-toned theme of the store with a new, brighter version. Similar content is bundled together on the screen, and as you scroll down on a page additional recommendations will continue to appear.
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