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| Elon Musk Wants to Build an Electric Pickup Truck | | Friday, May 24, 2013 11:30 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| How did you spend you Friday night? Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk spent his answering questions about paying back the government and musing about the next kind of electric vehicle he might like to make. After posting a number of tweets about his thoughts on proper taxation and how he did (PayPal and Zip2) and didn't make his fortune, Musk appeared to drop in something of a non sequitur: Would love to do a pickup truck.
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| Sony's Cute Speaker Ball Is Music to our Ears | | Friday, May 24, 2013 5:09 PM | Pete Pachal |
| I'm kind of in love with Sony's little egg-shaped speaker, the SRS-BTV5. The tiny, tennis-ball-sized gadget is so cute, it really deserves a name other than the seemingly random series of characters. Maybe Veronica. It looks like a Veronica. At least mine does, but that's probably because it's raven colored.
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| Google and Microsoft Kiss and Make Up Over YouTube App | | Friday, May 24, 2013 5:02 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Windows Phone customers won't be shut out of seeing YouTube videos after all. After tussling over the YouTube app for Windows Phone, Google and Microsoft have settled their differences now that Microsoft has agreed to include ads in the app. The YouTube app, like other major apps on Windows Phone, is actually made by Microsoft.
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| Customize and Code Your Own Robots With Linkbot | | Friday, May 24, 2013 4:00 PM | Eric Larson |
| A California-based company is raising funds through Kickstarter for Linkbot, a customizable robotic platform that lets you build and code your own robots.
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| Apple's iWatch May Ship Late Next Year | | Friday, May 24, 2013 3:16 PM | Emily Price |
| Rumors of an Apple iWatch have started to surface again, now suggesting that an Apple-branded smart watch will be hitting store shelves in late 2014. In a note to investors, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said he expects Apple to release an iWatch, but not necessarily anytime in the very near future.
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| AT&T Prepaid Plans Now Support iPhone 5 | | Friday, May 24, 2013 3:00 PM | Christina Warren |
| AT&T's prepaid GoPhone brand will now support the iPhone 5 and other LTE/HSPA+ devices. Although iPhone users have been able to sign up for voice service using GoPhone, this is the first time AT&T is opening access to the data network for those customers. This is also the first time the company has offered LTE support for its prepaid GoPhone SIMs.
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| No, Instagram Isn't Randomly Deleting Accounts | | Friday, May 24, 2013 1:14 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| A glitch Thursday night prompted rumors that Instagram was randomly deleting accounts. However, the company says although some people lost access to their accounts for a short time, there was no mass purge. Nevertheless, during the height of the rumors Thursday night, the hashtag #Dontdeletemyaccount made the rounds on Instagram (where more than 500,000 photos used the tag) and on Twitter.
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| Apple Rumored to Go Black, White and Flat for iOS 7 | | Friday, May 24, 2013 12:25 PM | Christina Warren |
| Rumors that Apple is preparing major design changes with iOS 7 continue to heat up, with new reports suggesting a more muted and flat design aesthetic. Last October, Jonathan Ive became responsible not only for the look and feel of Apple hardware, but also its software. By most accounts, Ive is not a fan of the skeuomorphic heavy design cues that currently dominate iOS.
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| Google Looking to Buy Waze and Other News You Need to Know | | Friday, May 24, 2013 10:39 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Google could be looking to snap up crowdsourced driving directions app Waze, according to a report from Bloomberg Thursday. AT&T has added a tiny fee — which could have a big impact — to its cellular plans.
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