| This Mask Gives You Superhuman Abilities | | Fans of "Iron Man," take notice: A group of students at the Royal College of Art in London have created two masks that can give you superhuman sight and hearing. The first prototype covers the wearer's ears, mouth and nose and uses a directional microphone to give him the ability to hear an isolated sound in a noisy environment. For example, you could target a person in a crowd and clearly hear his words without the surrounding noise.
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| Digital Camera Features Designs Inspired by Bug Eyes | | Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a digital camera inspired by the compound eyes of arthropods — that is, animals such as insects, spiders and crustaceans. Instead of the single-lens eyes that humans have, compound eyes are made up of many small visual units.
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| Viral Video Recap: Must-Watch Memes of the Week | | The start of the workweek has arrived, so to stave off those Monday blues, check out this week's viral video recap. Our most recent edition features troublemaking animals, including a leopard taking down a piñata, two cats versus one box and a rogue squirrel interrupting a baseball game. For some belly laughs, be sure to check out a bad lip reading of The Walking Dead that makes zombies seem considerably less scary.
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| What Startups Taught the White House During Disaster | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 11:55 PM | Brian Forde |
| More than six months after Hurricane Sandy, pockets of eastern seaboard residents remain displaced, even as they rebuild. There is still much to be done to return the region to normalcy.
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| How Hearst Nabbed 1 Million Tablet Subscribers | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 11:15 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| In November 2011, Hearst President David Carey predicted that more than 1 million people would subscribe to its tablet editions by the end of 2012. It was a somewhat bold prediction — at the time only 400,000 people were subscribing to the digital replicas of its magazines, with a growth rate between 10% and 15% per month, Carey said. Hearst didn't hit the million mark last December, but it has now.
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| YouTube Launching Paid Subscriptions to Some Video Channels: Report | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 10:25 PM | Anita Li |
| YouTube is set to launch a paid subscription model for its specialist video channels as early as this week, according to a report. The move, which has been in development for months, aims to help channels finance a wider range of content such as television shows and films, and will serve as another source of revenue, according to the Financial Times.
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| Hands-On With This Week's Top Apps | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 9:48 PM | Emily Price |
| This was a big week for apps, and particularly app updates. Vine added an update that allows users to shoot video using their forward-facing camera, while Twitter updated its Android and iOS apps to include support for Trends. What's more, popular beer app Untappd finally made its way to Windows Phone, and Google Now debuted on the iPhone.
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| 11 Epic Graduation Falls Worth a Diploma | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 8:58 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Hang in there, seniors. The light at the end of the tunnel is just a couple exams away. Whether you're embarking on the next step into high school, college, or this is finally the end, there is nothing sweeter than walking across that stage and taking your rightfully earned diploma. SEE ALSO: High School Graduates Perform Nostalgic Pop Music Medley But don't think it's all downhill from here just yet, unless you literally mean it.
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| Vote For Your Favorite Google Doodle Created By Kids | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 8:21 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| There are just five days left to vote for your favorite Google Doodle contest design, created by kids. Soon, five national finalists will be chosen, with the winning artwork featured on Google's homepage. It's all part of the search giant's sixth-annual Doodle 4 Google design competition for K to 12 students in the United States.
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| 12 Excellent Etsy Shops for Mother's Day Gifts | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 7:30 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| You appreciate your mother year-round, but Mother's Day is the time to really show your appreciation. However, finding the perfect gift for the woman who helped you become the person you are (and probably made a lot of sacrifices to do so) isn't a simple task. SEE ALSO: 11 Terrific Tech Gifts for Mom To help you with the shopping process, we've rounded up 12 Etsy shops that offer great Mother's Day gift options.
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| Kinetic Floor Generates Energy From People Dancing | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 6:42 PM | PSFK |
| Around the world, engineers and architects are rethinking the current design of architectural and environmental infrastructure, in favor of regenerative systems that are capable of harnessing wasted energy and resources and redistributing them where needed. A company in Rotterdam in the Netherlands has created a modular dance floor system that collects kinetic energy from dancers' movements and converts it into electricity.
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| Justin Timberlake Uses Instagram to Announce '20/20 Experience' Part 2 | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 5:53 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Singer Justin Timberlake, who until this year hadn't released new music since 2006, will release part two of his successful 20/20 Experience album on Sept. 30 — just six months after part one debuted. Timberlake made the unexpected announcement Sunday through photos posted on Instagram on Facebook.
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| 'Angry Birds' Is a Tough Obsession to Shake | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 5:19 PM | Annie Colbert |
| When an Angry Birds craving hits, it's hard to quiet. Something about slingshotting wingless birds at evil piggies creates an unshakeable obsession in mobile gamers. SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics This Sunday Comic by Maria Scrivan illustrates the results of that fowl fixation. Just imagine the swine-chiatrist bills. Comic written and illustrated by Maria Scrivan.
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| Worst Possible Cybersecurity Breaches Could Be Far Worse Than You Imagined | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 5:02 PM | Quartz |
| The cyber-ruffians who briefly tanked the stock market last week by faking a news tweet about an attack at the White House showed how much damage can be done with a few well-placed keystrokes. Those who hacked into a Department of Labor website earlier this week could have wreaked even more havoc, say, if they successfully tweaked the monthly jobs report.
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| Who Would Hack Your Twitter Account? | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 4:34 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| In this Sunday comic, we see that all users should care about social media security, even if they have small followings.
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| Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Cracks Jokes During Commencement Speech | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 3:55 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| "When I was your age we didn't have the Internet in our pants," Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joked, flaunting his phone, at his University of Michigan commencement speech. "We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants — that's how bad it was." That was among Costolo's lines that incited UM's 2013 graduating class to break out in laughter Saturday at Michigan Stadium.
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| Chris Hadfield Misquotes Yoda, But Has Enough Geek Cred To Get Away With It | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 3:47 PM | Geekosystem |
| Yesterday was Star Wars Day, and everyone tried to ride the wave of "May The Fourth Be With You," but some did it better than others. Surprisingly, geeky space heartthrob Chris Hadfield misquoted Master Yoda's most famous line in a tweet. We're willing to forgive Hadfield, considering all the great things he's done, but also because he sent that tweet from freaking space.
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| Beer Drones To Deliver Brew to Concertgoers | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 3:00 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Thirsty music festivalgoers in South Africa this summer may be able to get beer instantly delivered to them — via drones. During August's OppiKoppi Music Festival, attendees can order beers from their phones to be delivered the event's District 9 campsite. The beer-equipped drones will swoop down and deliver beer via parachute to the appropriate customer, as explained in the video above.
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| Meteor Shower Spawned by Halley's Comet Is Peaking Now | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 2:25 PM | Space.com |
| A meteor shower created by bits of Halley's Comet is at its peak now, and NASA has a few handy tips for stargazers eager to see the display of "shooting stars." The annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower is peaking today (May 5) as the Earth passes through a dusty debris field of cosmic leftovers from Halley's Comet. The shower should be at its best at 9 p.m.
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| This Tiny Town Is Getting Ultra-Fast Google Fiber Before You | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 2:00 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Google continues to expand its Google Fiber service to more cities, adding a small city in Kansas to the lucky places slated to get the search giant's ultrafast broadband connections. The city council in Shawnee, Kansas — population just upward of 60,000 people — approved the Google Fiber expansion Thursday night. Shawnee joins Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah, as the latest Google Fiber additions in the past month.
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| 10 Pics From My Dog's Google Glass | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 1:19 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Humans are foaming at the mouth over Google Glass. The tiny projection screen, voice commands and user-friendly experience could very well be the technology of the future.
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| Get Psyched for 'Iron Man 3' With This Superhero Remix | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 12:45 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Tony Stark makes his epic return to the big screen this weekend with the release of Iron Man 3, but it's been a while since we've been privy to the superhero's — shall we say — swagger? Ease yourself back into Stark's world of wealth and fighting evil with the "Iron Man Trilogy Remix" by YouTuber relmvision.
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| Watch Hugh Jackman Answer Twitter Users' 'Wolverine' Questions | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 12:14 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Golden Globe winner Hugh Jackman unleashed a series of YouTube videos this week in which he answered 11 Twitter users' questions about The Wolverine movie. Fans submitted questions via Twitter using hashtags #AskHugh and #TheWolverine. Jackman, who is playing the disgruntled hero with regenerative abilities for the sixth time in the X-Men film franchise, tweeted his answers and links to the videos on his @RealHughJackman account.
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| 15 Notes That Prove Kids Write the Darndest Things | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 11:53 AM | Neha Prakash |
| Children. Those precocious, adorable, sassy little humans. As any parent can tell you, kids are oh, so awesome and oh, so witty when you least expect it. And especially so when you give them a pen and a piece of paper (or for the 21st-century family: a tablet). Bill Cosby may have proven that kids say the darndest things, but clearly kids have no issues writing some pretty darn funny stuff.
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| 'SNL' Mocks How Google Glass Can Be Used 'Discreetly' | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 11:13 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| There has been a lot of chatter about how Google Glass will allow us to do things more discreetly. For example, the new gadget lets you take a photo with a slow wink or tweet with your eyes.
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| Is This Article Earned Media? Depends Where You Got it From | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 11:00 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| If you pay to have something distributed, then it's paid media. But if someone else distributes it for you, then it's earned media. That's the basic definition of earned media, a term that earned its place in the pantheon of marketing buzzwords, though if this chart is to be believed, it is in the process of unearning it.
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| Siri and Google Now, Can't We All Just Get Along? | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 10:54 AM | Annie Colbert |
| The rivalry between Apple and Google continues. The latest skirmish between the tech behemoths may sound familiar. If you ever had a sibling rivalry or competitiveness with a frenemy, you can probably relate to this Sunday Comic from our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech. Google Now and Siri square off to win their owner's heart and prove the other wrong.
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| 5 Reasons Informational Interviews Are Important | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 10:10 AM | Jennifer Parris |
| There is a strategic tool to help you find a job faster, and it's rarely taken advantage of: the informational interview. And an informational interview is just what it sounds like. It’s not a job interview, where you’re vying with oodles of other candidates for one coveted position. It is simply a request to gain further information about a career you might be interested in, or a company you would like to work for.
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