| Google Bans Users From Reselling and Lending Glass | | Explorer editions of Google Glass began rolling out to customers as of Tuesday, but the company has enforced restrictions on those lucky new owners, banning them from reselling and lending the eyewear. Here's what the company's terms of sale state: "You may not resell, loan, transfer or give your Device to any other person.
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| How to Become Internet Famous for $68 | | Santiago Swallow may be one of the most famous people no one has heard of. His eyes fume from his Twitter profile: he is Hollywood-handsome with high cheekbones and dirty blond, collar-length hair. Next to his name is one of social media’s most prized possessions, Twitter’s blue “verified account” checkmark. Beneath it are numbers to make many in the online world jealous: Santiago Swallow has tens of thousands of followers.
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| Twitter to Make 'Big' Reveal on 'Good Morning America' Tomorrow | | Twitter is set to make a "big announcement" Thursday on Good Morning America, ABC's early-hour television show. GMA teased the reveal on its Twitter feed Wednesday night. Tomorrow on #GMA: @twitter will be making a BIG announcement... tune in! — Good Morning America (@GMA) April 18, 2013 So, what should viewers expect from the announcement? Online speculation points to the official launch of Twitter Music.
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| The 10 Most Popular PC Games in China | | Gaming is big in China and only getting bigger. And while mobile gaming is important, the PC is still by far the most popular gaming platform for the nation's young gamers (see this infographic for more information on Chinese gamers and their preferences).
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| 'American Idol' Finalist Dedicates 'I'll Stand By You' to Boston | | 2:26:51 AM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| NOTE: The music starts at 1:15 Boston is on the minds of people all over the world after Monday's horrific twin bombings shook the city during the Boston Marathon, leaving three dead and nearly 200 others injured. American Idol finalist Angie Miller, who calls Boston her hometown, dedicated her Wednesday performance of The Pretenders' "I'll Stand by You" to the city.
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| Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Captured in Viral Video | | Warning: The content of this video is graphic in nature. Please watch at your discretion. An explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant Wednesday night has reportedly left 60 to 70 people dead and hundreds injured, according to KWTX.com. A viral video capturing the blast, above, has been circulating online. It is unclear whether the YouTube user who uploaded the video is the same person who filmed it.
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| LinkedIn Updates Mobile App, Experiments With Ads | | 12:02:35 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| LinkedIn has updated its mobile app for the first time since 2011 and will run a small test of "sponsored content" i.e. ads in the stream. The test comes after LinkedIn announced a similar test of sponsored content in its iPad app in January. This would be the first time a LinkedIn phone app would sport the ads. Like other recent app updates, the update for iOS and Android has a heavy emphasis on photos.
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| Disconnect.me Lets You Control Your Data Online | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:00 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Disconnect.me, a browser extension, helps users block more than 2,000 websites from tracking their data online and promises to load web pages significantly faster.
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| World's Best Jump Roper Makes It an Extreme Sport | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:58 PM | Neha Prakash |
| This isn't just the double dutch you used to play in the backyard — this lady has got some major skills when it comes to jumping rope. Dubbed the "world's greatest jump roper," the athlete does everything from cartwheels while jumping to jumping while sitting down. At times, she's swinging the rope so fast it all but disappears from view.
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| 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' Will Please DC Comics Fans | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:41 PM | Lauren Hockenson |
| It's really, really difficult to make a successful superhero game. For every great title in the bunch (Batman: Arkham Asylum), there are multiple unfathomable atrocities (Superman 64, Catwoman and Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis should all be erased from history). Nonetheless, Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm will not only take up the cursed mantle of DC Comics, but also create a fighting game in Injustice: Gods Among Us.
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| 5 Tactics to Grow Your Email List | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:16 PM | ClickZ |
| Back in January, many email marketers said increasing their lists was their top goal for 2013. Well, spring is here. Is your mailing list growing as fast as your flowers and lawn? If not, it's time to execute a new plan. Many marketers have email addresses only for 30% or less of their customer and prospect lists.
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| Toshiba Debuts a Windows 8 Laptop for the Filthy Rich | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:01 PM | Pete Pachal |
| While cheap netbooks slowly die off, Toshiba is going for the complete opposite end of the market with its new KIRAbook, a high-end Windows 8 laptop that kicks off the company's KIRA line of luxury products. As the top consumer Ultrabook made by Toshiba, the KIRAbook has some bells and whistles you won't find in other laptops.
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| New Zealand Parliament Passes Gay Marriage, Sings in Celebration | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:58 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The New Zealand Parliament couldn't contain itself on Wednesday after approving an amendment to the country's 1955 marriage laws that legalizes gay marriage — its members immediately broke into song to celebrate the moment. Supporters of the bill, including lawmakers, cheered and then sang, in harmony, the Maori love song "Pokarekare Ana" (singing begins at 1:15) after the voting had concluded.
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| Users Stay Longer on Tumblr Than Facebook, Says David Karp | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:16 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Tumblr users spend an average of 14 minutes per visit, Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp revealed on stage at a paidContent conference in New York City Wednesday. That's about a minute-and-a-half longer than the average Facebook visit, and a few minutes longer than the average Twitter visit, he said. "Does Mark [Zuckerberg] know that?" Karp's interviewer, GigaOM senior writer Mathew Ingram, asked.
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| Battery Breakthrough Offers 30 Times More Power, Charges 1,000 Times Faster | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:02 PM | Charlie White |
| Battery technology has improved over the past decade, but now scientists claim they have made a giant leap in power storage, giving lithium-ion batteries 30 times more power and the ability to recharge 1,000 times faster "than competing technologies." This is a battery breakthrough that could change the world — it's "a whole new way to think about batteries," according to its creators.
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| OKCupid Now Accepts Bitcoin | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:41 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| In another step toward going fully mainstream, Bitcoin is now being accepted by OKCupid. The dating site started accepting payments in the crypto currency on Tuesday, joining a series of other companies that already process payments in Bitcoins. Bitcoin, a digital peer-to-peer currency based on cryptography, was created in 2009 by a mysterious man supposedly named Satoshi Nakamoto.
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| Disney to Release New 'Star Wars' Film Every Summer Starting in 2015 | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:20 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Disney and Lucasfilm reportedly told CinemaCon attendees Wednesday that after Star Wars: Episode VII arrives in 2015, fans will see a new Star Wars movie every subsequent summer. These annual releases will include the other two movies in the new trilogy and several standalone films, which will focus on specific characters from the Star Wars franchise.
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| 'The Internet Is Destroying Your Life' — Love, The Future | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:08 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Fifty years from now, you will look back with regret at all the hours you spent watching cat videos and reading mind-numbing celebrity gossip. At least, that's what the people of the future say in this frightful warning. The Poke used their time machine to travel to the year 2068 and learn about "one of the greatest disasters to befall mankind" — the Internet.
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| Pocket Turns 1, Adds New 'Share to Friend' Feature | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:02 PM | Emily Price |
| One year ago Read It Later officially changed its name to Pocket. Originally a service for just saving online articles to read later, along with the name change Pocket also added the ability to save other types of content, such as images, videos and recipes. The service also became free for users. In the past year the company has expanded to several new platforms: Mac, Chrome and Safari.
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| Mobile Phones Deliver Millions of E-Books to Developing World | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:59 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Innovation in the mobile phone space, for many of us, means the latest smartphone or tablet from Apple or Samsung. But for millions of people in the developing world, simpler developments for feature phones — the type you probably haven't used in half a decade — can be an education game changer and a tool for empowerment.
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| Boston Bombings Used as Malware Scam Bait | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:28 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Just hours after the Boston Marathon bombings Monday, scammers were already using the tragedy to fuel their malware campaigns, according to a study by Romanian anti-virus firm Bitdefender. The study found that the words "marathon," "Boston" and "explosion" found their way into the subject headers of one out of every five spam messages in the hours and days following the event.
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| Google Fiber's Next Stop: Provo, Utah | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:16 PM | Stan Schroeder |
| The city of Provo, Utah, had a mystery announcement scheduled for today, and now we know what it is: It's the next city to get Google Fiber. The news, posted on the official site of Provo, has been confirmed by Google, which has listed Provo as one of the cities to get the service on its Google Fiber page. “Provo City’s vision has long been one where our residents have access to reliable high-speed broadband Internet.
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| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Filmed New Music Video on 6 Continents | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:10 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, whose "Thrift Shop" hip-hop single premiered on Mashable in August and months later reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100, unleashed an elaborate music video for their new single, "Can't Hold Us," on Wednesday. "Can't Hold Us" features fellow Seattle musician Ray Dalton, a camel, ship, mariachi band, kangaroo, sled dogs, haircut on a beach and stunning landscapes.
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| FBI Scolds Media for False Reports of Boston Arrest | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:05 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a statement Wednesday afternoon essentially scolding several media outlets after they incorrectly reported that an arrest had been made in the investigation of Monday's bombing attacks against the Boston Marathon. "Contrary to widespread reporting, no arrest has been made in connection with the Boston Marathon attack," reads the FBI's unusual statement.
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