| This Is Your Life in Jelly Beans | | Serious introspection usually doesn't come in sugary form, but that's what makes this video so sweet. Using candy, Ze Frank has created a visual representation of the average American's lifetime. One jelly bean equals one day, 28,835 beans total.
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| Walmart Slashes Price on iPhone 5, iPhone 4S | | 12:02:19 AM | Christina Warren |
| Walmart is aggressively lowering the price on Apple's iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S. Beginning Saturday, the iPhone 5 will sell for $129 (down from $189) and the iPhone 4S will sell for just $39 (down from $89). To get the devices at that price will require signing a new two-year contract with Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. This isn't the first time Walmart has offered drastically lower prices for Apple devices.
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| Usher and Samsung: A Blueprint for Viral Success | | Friday, June 21, 2013 9:59 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Twenty-two million. That's how many times people have watched "Looking 4 Myself," a collaboration between Usher and Samsung that shows the power of motion in a new smart TV campaign. "We used a mix of paid and earned views and timed the release of the video to capitalize on the buzz around the season finale of The Voice," said Ross Maupin, the creative director of Huge, the company that created the viral video.
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| ASL Interpreter at Wu-Tang Concert Is the Greatest | | Friday, June 21, 2013 9:20 PM | Quenton Narcisse |
| It never fails: You go to a concert and while watching the performance, something strikes your eye. Typically, it's a patron who's dressed oddly or a moshpit forming around you. However, in this instance, it was much different. During their set at Bonnaroo, Wu-Tang performed and an ASL interpreter signed. However, the rappers probably didn't expect her to steal the show like this.
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| Instagram Users Have Already Posted 5 Million Videos | | Friday, June 21, 2013 6:47 PM | Emily Price |
| Instagram video appears to be a hit. Users uploaded more than 5 million videos during the first 24 hours of availability. In the first eight hours alone, the app saw one year’s worth of video uploaded, 40 hours per minute when the Miami Heat won the NBA championship Thursday evening, according to Instagram.
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| Facebook Exposed 6 Million Users' Contact Info | | Friday, June 21, 2013 5:49 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Facebook accidentally shared 6 million users' email addresses or telephone numbers due to a software bug, the company announced Friday. The breach was caused by an unfortunate combination of Facebook's "People You May Know" and "Download Your Information" features.
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| Toyota Will Donate One Meal for Each View This Video Gets | | Friday, June 21, 2013 5:45 PM | Zoe Fox |
| How many YouTube videos do you think you watch each day? Thanks to Toyota, the next one you view can actually change someone else's day for the better. The car maker is donating up to 1.25 million meals — one for each YouTube view of the video above — to the Food Bank of New York. Since Hurricane Sandy, Toyota has already donated 250,000 meals to communities in the Rockaways that were severely effected by the storm.
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| Show Us Your Most Indulgent Photos | | Friday, June 21, 2013 4:32 PM | Annie Park |
| Let's admit it. We all have our go-to guilty pleasures, whether it's raiding the tabloid rack at the supermarket or sleeping in til 1 p.m. on Saturdays. For photographers, that guilty pleasure might be applying that one Instagram filter you can't resist, or snapping a shot of the sunset — even though you know it's totally cliché. We may not be too proud of our actions, but hey, we're entitled to indulge once in a while.
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| Glorious Supermoon Will Rise This Sunday | | Friday, June 21, 2013 1:39 PM | Space.com |
| The largest full moon of 2013, a so-called "supermoon," will light up the sky this weekend. At 7 a.m. EST on June 23, the moon will arrive at perigee — the point in its orbit closest to Earth. The distance between the moon and Earth on Sunday will be 221,824 miles (356,991 kilometers). Now the moon typically reaches perigee once each month (and on some occasions twice), with their respective distances to Earth varying by 3%.
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| More 'iPhone 5S' Pictures Leak Online | | Friday, June 21, 2013 11:43 AM | Samantha Murphy |
| More pictures of what appear to be the interior and exterior of the iPhone 5S smartphone have hit the web.
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| FAA May Allow Electronic Devices During Takeoff and Landing | | Friday, June 21, 2013 10:13 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Huzzah! The Federal Aviation Administration is primed to finally let flyers use their phones, tablets and other digital devices during taxiing, takeoff and landing, per a report. The Wall Street Journal reports an advisory panel will recommend the FAA make changes to its low-altitude gadget use rules later this year. SEE ALSO: 15 iPhone Apps for Your Summer Getaway The panel's decisions aren't set in stone yet.
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| WhatsApp Tops 250 Million Active Users | | Friday, June 21, 2013 9:44 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| WhatsApp, a messaging service, now has more than 250 million monthly active users, which may be more than the user bases of either Twitter or LinkedIn.
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| 15 Kooky USB Hubs | | Friday, June 21, 2013 8:25 AM | Sarah Ang |
| "I have too many USB ports," said no one, ever. From smartphones and notebook-thin laptops to USB necklaces and "smart socks," our lives are becoming increasingly in sync with all things digital. But as companies come up with new and exciting gadgets, we're running out of space to use them.
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