| CNN's President Freaked Out By Twitter | | Almost two and a half decades ago, CNN became a household name with its 24-hour coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf and Operation Desert Storm. Never before had viewers been literally bombarded with nonstop news coverage. The formula glued them to television sets and cemented the Ted Turner-founded company as a media giant. Fast forward to 2013 and things are less stable.
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| Kim Jong-Un's Life Parodied in New 'Draw My Life' Video | | The recent onslaught of "Draw My Life" videos — in which someone's life is represented by a series of crude drawings — had to include North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at some point. In this parody that lasts three-and-a-half minutes, you'll see it all, including Kim's early days, the time he spent in Switzerland (Sweetserland?), his adventures with the ladies and finally, his ascent to power.
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| Yahoo Announces 'Exclusive' Deal for 'Saturday Night Live' Content | | Yahoo announced Wednesday that it struck a deal with production company Broadway Video to exclusively stream Saturday Night Live content. In an official blog post, CEO Marissa Mayer revealed that the partnership gives Yahoo "exclusive access" to the entire 38-year catalog of SNL skits — from 1975 to 2013 — as well as clips from this season.
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| Hubble Dreams: 1946 Paper Promoted Powerful Space Telescope | | The Hubble Space Telescope is aging. But there was a time when it was merely a twinkle in some astronomer's eye. In fact, we know exactly who that astronomer was, and when he first told the world about the twinkle. Lyman Spitzer, who was at Yale in 1946 (and later went to Princeton), published Appendix V of the Douglas Aircraft Company's Project RAND.
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| Bill Clinton Officially Joins Twitter | | Bill Clinton received a warm welcome from Twitter, after the former U.S. president officially joined the microblogging network Wednesday night. Welcome to Twitter @billclinton, 42nd President of the United States and founder of @clintonfdn.
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| Scan These Smart Pajamas to Read Your Kids a Bedtime Story | | 12:20:03 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| No bedtime routine with your kids is complete without a good story. And now, one Idaho-based company has added a futuristic twist to the age-old ritual. Smart PJs, based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, has designed unique pajamas for children that feature colorful polka-dor patterns. But this isn't any ordinary sleepwear: The printed dots on the fabric work like QR codes, as shown in the above video.
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| The Pro's Guide to Working Remotely | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:42 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Does the four-hour work week really exist? Even before the bestseller hit stores in 2007, entrepreneurs everywhere had been searching for author Tim Ferriss' elusive algorithm for the secret formula to a better, more productive life. Sadly, there's a reason it doesn't exist. For one, it's hard to get reliable Wi-Fi on the beach. And sand in your keyboard is another serious drawback.
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| Listen to Alexander Graham Bell's Voice from 128 Years Ago | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:19 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone — may have died over 90 years ago, but you can still hear his voice today. Smithsonian researchers recovered Bell's voice from a historical recording by using optical technology, Smithsonian Magazine reported. The recording was recovered from a wax-and-cardboard disc that dates back to April 15, 1885, the magazine said.
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| Zynga Launches 'Draw Something 2' With New Tools, Social Features | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:21 PM | Emily Price |
| Zynga has officially launched Draw Something 2, the followup to its highly-successful Pictionary-like mobile app Draw Something, which was released last year. Unveiled during the company’s earnings call Wednesday, the latest version of the popular game brings new ways to play, a number of new drawing tools, as well as patterns and textures that can be incorporated into drawings.
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| Baby Sea Turtles Inspire Flippered Robot | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:00 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Flippered robots inspired by sea-turtle hatchlings could shed light on how the ancestors of terrestrial animals first evolved to crawl on land, researchers say. Such research could also lead to amphibious robots that can tackle both land and sea. Scientists are designing robots that can go where humans cannot or should not go, and often rely on inspiration from nature to do so.
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| A Look at the 'Inside 3D Printing' Conference in New York | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:30 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| For two days, New York became the center of the 3D-printing world, with some of the industry's leading companies gathering at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Monday and Tuesday. 3D Systems, Makerbot, Stratasys and many more attended the Inside 3D Printing Conference.
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| You've Got 99 Problems and They're All First World | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:03 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Admit it — you've had your fair share of "first world problems." Whether you ran out of sriracha sauce or have too many smudges on your glasses, you've complained about trivial situations that pale in comparison to struggles in other parts of the world. We'd say it's nothing to be ashamed of, but ... it kind of is.
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| You Can Have a Cup of Coffee With Tim Cook for $90,000 | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:40 PM | Emily Price |
| Have you always wanted to meet Tim Cook? Those dreams can now become a reality — if you happen to have $90,000, that is. A posting on the site Charity Buzz is offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sit down and have coffee with Cook at Apple’s headquarters to the highest bidder. The experience will be for two people, and will last between 30 minutes and an hour.
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| NBC Tunes Into Social With 'Million Second Quiz' Game Show | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:17 PM | Christina Warren |
| The Voice is a huge hit, thanks in part to its strong integration of social TV and the second screen. Now NBC is hoping to replicate that success with a new live competition show airing this fall called The Million Second Quiz. From the description NBC released, The Million Second Quiz sounds like Big Brother meets Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
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| New $100 Bill to Debut in U.S. This October | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:08 PM | Christina Warren |
| The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that a new U.S. $100 bill — first announced back in 2010 — will debut on Oct. 8, 2013. This is only the fourth time in U.S. history that the $100 bill has been redesigned. Originally, the bill was supposed to appear in 2011, but production delays held the new currency back.
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| Incendiary NASA Video Shows 3 Years of Sun Explosions in 3 Minutes | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7:31 PM | Sam Laird |
| For the past three years, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has tracked our sun as it approaches something called "solar maximum," which is the scientific term for the star's peak in solar activity each 11 years. The three-minute video above, which NASA released this week, shows the past three years at a rate of two images per day.
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| JBL Charge Speaker: Size of a Beer Can, Sounds Like a Keg | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:57 PM | Charlie White |
| If you're looking for a portable Bluetooth speaker, JBL just rolled out its JBL Charge, a beer-can sized speaker that promises great sound and plenty of battery life. The speaker's 6000 mAh lithium-ion battery can also be used to charge any gadget that uses USB for power. The company sent us one for review, so let's give it a listen and decide if it's worth its $149.95 price.
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| 'Tuna Melt' Could Be the Most Elaborate Rube Goldberg Video Yet | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:10 PM | Charlie White |
| There have been dozens of Rube Goldberg videos passing across our desks, but this one has to be the most elaborate we've ever seen. A combination of falling dominoes and outlandish tricks, this video for A-Trak & Tommy Trash's "Tuna Melt" breaks new ground in the Rube Goldberg genre. A key component of any Rube Goldbergian video is the video production itself, which in this case is positively stellar.
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| Fight Jet Lag With This Wearable Light | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:53 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Frequent travelers who constantly fly across multiple time zones know how hard it is to even maintain a semblance of a "normal" sleep schedule. A new device from an Australian-based sleep research company might help out, and all you have to do is wear it like a pair of glasses. The Re-Timer wearable light device can help you catch some z's by working to regulate your body's internal clock.
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| The Science and Fiction of 'Oblivion' | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:41 PM | Discovery News |
| Oblivion, the sci-fi mind-bender topping the box office charts this week, is the first big popcorn movie of the season. Set in the year 2077, the film stars Tom Cruise and is notable for being an original story by director Joseph Kosinski – not a franchise reboot or adaptation. Original sci-fi movies are something of a commodity these days, even though it's almost impossible anymore to come up with a truly original sci-fi story.
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| Will Dummy Cities Be Used to Test Drones in the U.S.? | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:20 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Last year, as part of Congress' mandate to prepare the American airspace for the age of the unmanned aerial vehicle -– or drone -– the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was ordered to designate six locations as test sites for this up-and-coming technology. These sites will be used to make sure drones are safe to be integrated into the airspace to share it with regular manned airplanes.
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| BlackBerry Q10 Details Coming From T-Mobile April 29 | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:14 PM | Christina Warren |
| T-Mobile customers interested in the BlackBerry Q10 can sign-up for notifications of the device's availability starting on April 29. Mashable Tech Editor Pete Pachal called the Q10 "the best keyboard phone you can buy today" and it features not only the iconic BlackBerry keyboard, but also the latest version of the BlackBerry 10 operating system.
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| Click Here for the Origin of the Buzzword 'Clickability' | | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:01 PM | Dani Fankhauser |
| No matter how deeply the ways of the web become engrained in us, a few people will always remember the early days. For example, one time many years ago while flipping through a book, perhaps it was "Windows 95 For Dummies," I came across something called the "point and click method," which made it feel like there was a strategy involved with double-clicking the Internet Explorer icon on your early PC.
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