| YouTube: 100 Hours of Video Are Uploaded to the Site Every Minute | | YouTube has just turned eight, and the company is marking the occasion by sharing a couple of cool stats about the service. Users of the world's most popular video sharing service upload 100 hours of video to the site every minute. That's 6,000 hours of video every hour and a whopping 144,000 hours of video every day. YouTube also repeated a recently revealed number of one billion visitors to the site per month.
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| Pinterest Partners With Brands to Add Information to Pins | | Pinterest just got an upgrade that could make it easier for users to gather information by navigating in its site. Instead of exclusively linking back to the original source, pins from certain brands will now display information such as recipes, movie reviews and price information.
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| Is Lagos Home to an African Tech Movement? | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 11:01 PM | Monty Munford |
| The Lagos taxi driver roars across the biggest bridge in Africa at 110 mph. Buffeted by the night wind, it feels as if we're riding a motorbike. I am with two South Africans and a guy from Silicon Valley. We’re all swilling from a bottle of so-called whisky, including the man behind the wheel.
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| Singer Miguel Jumps on Fans' Heads in Freak Accident | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:52 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| In an ugly freak accident, singer Miguel landed on the heads of fans while attempting to jump over them during his performance of "Adorn" at the Billboard Music Awards. Twitter users quickly expressed their disbelief Sunday, with some wondering whether the women smacked by Miguel were seriously injured or even killed. Some viewers posted GIFS on Twitter and clips of the bizarre moment on Twitter's video service Vine.
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| The 7 Habits of Serious Procrastinators | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:30 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Procrastination is a serious business. In fact, procrastinators who are accomplished in their craft have a number of tools to help them — seven tools, to be exact, and counting. SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics In this Sunday Comic, Maria Scrivan shows us the cover of the procrastinator's bible. Can you relate? Comic written and illustrated by Maria Scrivan. Published with permission; all rights reserved.
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| How to Feel Like You Rocked the Interview Every Time | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 9:31 PM | The Daily Muse |
| After you have a few interviews under your belt, you typically know how to go into one feeling confident. You already know what to wear, what time to show up, what to bring, and what to research in advance to be prepared. But it's harder to leave the interview feeling really good. No matter how well you answer tough questions or connect with the hiring manager, most of us can't help but feel a little nervous or shaken after an interview.
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| Is This the World's First Liquid-Cooled Smartphone? | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:14 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| If you've ever had your smartphone feel too hot after a long bout of Facebook, email, and taking photos or video, NEC hopes to solve that with its new liquid-cooled smartphone. The NEC Medias X 06E sports a liquid cooling pipe behind the display and next to the processor. NEC said this will transfer heat away from the phone's processor through repeated evaporation and condensation.
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| Chris Hadfield Is Still Great on Earth: Some of His Best Earthbound Tweets | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 7:37 PM | Geekosystem |
| We were a little sad to see Chris Hadfield leave the ISS earlier this month, but we're glad he's back safely, and that he's still tweeting about every step of the readjustment process. While Hadfield was making his return trip home, he was unable to keep the world updated on his every move, so his son Evan took the reins on his own Twitter account.
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| 15 Mind-Bending Panoramic Photo Fails | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:24 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Smartphones have made taking panoramic photos easy for even amateur iPhotographers (or photoids). Unfortunately, easy doesn't always mean stellar quality. Panoramic fails have resulted in disembodied heads, extra-long Corgis and funhouse mirror-style bodies. Ouch. 1. Image courtesy of Reddit, mcphadenmike 2. Image courtesy of Imgur, ImOnlyMakingAnAccountCuzImDrunk 3.
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| 17 GIFs That Express Your Graduation Day Feelings | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 4:40 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Congratulations, today is the day you graduate from student to real-world adult. It's terrifying and exciting, happy and sad, exhilarating and slightly mundane (the hours-long process of people receiving their diplomas can really be a drag). All in all, the process of graduation is bittersweet, age-old and marks the end of an era.
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| Report: Yahoo Board Approves Tumblr Acquisition | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 12:43 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, according to a breaking news alert from The Wall Street Journal. The deal is reportedly an all-cash acquisition, according to WSJ, and Tumblr will maintain control of its operations. Tumblr and Yahoo have not released any official statements.
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| iPhone 6 Concept Includes a Projected Keyboard | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 12:21 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| If you've long complained about your typing speed and productivity, this iPhone 6 concept video may be the solution you're searching for. The above YouTube video shows an iPhone 6 mockup that, when set on a flat surface, can project a Mac keyboard from one side and a Mac desktop from the other. The video, created by YouTube user Sonitdac, shows a rendered "iPhone 6" that looks sim,ilar to an iPhone 5.
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| Why Internships Are Worth It | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 11:50 AM | Elisha Hartwig |
| Did you know that an internship will make you 70% more likely to get hired full-time by a company than candidates with no experience at that company?
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| 'SNL' Says Goodbye to Bill Hader With a Surprise Wedding | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 11:25 AM | Neha Prakash |
| Saturday Night Live's season finale was full of surprises, goodbyes and guest stars. While it was hosted by Oscar-winner Ben Affleck, the show-stealer was a tribute to eight-season cast member Bill Hader, who announced last week that he would be leaving the cast. The Saturday Night Live cast paid appropriate homage to Hader and his beloved character Stefon with a surprising wedding sequence.
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| 25 Terrifyingly Amazing Face Swaps | | Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:07 AM | Neha Prakash |
| This is not gonna be pretty. Most of us have enough trouble pulling it together with our own DNA-crafted faces, but it's not a pleasant sight when technology helps you swap faces with an uncle, grandma, or far worse, a pet. The results are definitely not attractive, but they are equal parts funny and disturbing. SEE ALSO: 15 People Who Totally Take Things Too Literally Keep your faces to yourself, people (and animals).
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