| Samsung Launches Galaxy S4 Wireless Charging Kit for $90 | | Samsung Galaxy S4 owners with no affinity for wires, you're in luck: Samsung has made available its wireless charging kit for the device, priced at $90. The kit, first unearthed by Droid Life, consists of a charging cover, which will set you back $39.99, and the charging pad, which costs $49.99.
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| 7 Tips for Your Summertime Job Search | | 1:59:03 AM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| Summer may be the perfect time to sit back in a beach chair and relax, but it is also the one of the best times to find a job or internship. However, going through the interview process in the summer can be even more challenging than it is at other points of the year for a number of reasons. Fortunately, hiring managers have some useful advice that just might get you hired.
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| Survey: 1 in 3 Dating Dads Lie About Having Kids | | 12:00:10 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| We're days away from Father's Day, a time to celebrate everything good about fatherhood. But a new survey by a dating site found something less than celebratory: one in three online-dating dads lie on their profiles about having kids.
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| NSA Also Mining Data From Sprint, AT&T, Credit Card Companies | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 11:43 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Yesterday's revelation that Verizon had received a secret court order to hand over data to the National Security Agency was just the beginning. Two other major American wireless providers, AT&T and Sprint, have also been receiving similar orders, as have credit card companies. Sources familiar with the NSA's practices confirmed this latest round of revelations to the Wall Street Journal late on Thursday.
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| Through a PRISM, Darkly: Tech World's $20 Million Nightmare | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:51 PM | Chris Taylor |
| If you're still not feeling queasy after reading Thursday's revelations about the National Security Agency tapping Internet records, you're probably not paying close enough attention. In short: a leaked intelligence presentation, verified by multiple major news sources, claimed to reveal the existence of an NSA program called PRISM.
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| China Opens Great Firewall for Fortune Global | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:21 PM | Quartz |
| The western Chinese city of Chengdu will host the Fortune Global Forum of business leaders today through Saturday, June 8. And to the great delight of reporters covering the event, China has temporarily ruptured the Great Firewall: Facebook and Twitter are now accessible. The organizers even created a hashtag for the event to allow Twitter users to follow updates.
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| Facebook Starts Rolling Out Home Improvements | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 8:51 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook updated its Android app Tuesday, and enhanced Facebook Home, its all-encompassing skin for Android smartphones. Facebook Home now has a dock, making it easier to access favorite apps. The addition of the dock is the first of many improvements Facebook has planned for Home, improvements being made in part based on the reactions of early adopters to the launcher.
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| Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo Make Similar PRISM Denials | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 8:35 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Apple are denying reports they give the National Security Agency and FBI secret "back door" access to their servers in a program called PRISM. The companies' statements closely match one another and allow a notable degree of semantic wiggle room.
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| Electric Car, Powered by Social Media, Rolls Across the USA | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 7:52 PM | Adam Popescu |
| An electric car fueled by social interaction completed a 1,000 mile-plus journey from Kansas City, Mo., to Washington, D.C., on Thursday. A group of 17 high schoolers and eight mentors left Kansas City on May 31 in a restored 1967 Karmann Ghia — a small two-seater — to travel across the country. They were members of Minddrive, an educational non-profit program that uses hands-on projects to teach at-risk kids about math and science.
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| NSA Leak: Internet Giants Let Government Tap Your Data | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 7:10 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Facebook, Google and seven other major Internet companies are allowing the National Security Agency direct access to a wealth of users' data, according to a report. Called PRISM, the program involves the NSA accessing the emails, documents, photographs and other sensitive data of users from all nine involved companies, according to a PowerPoint presentation obtained by The Washington Post and The Guardian.
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| 'The Last of Us' Is Raw, Real and Awesome | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 7:02 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| The Last of Us is a superb game that makes players think about every choice they make while playing. It also brings up bigger questions, like what will happen to humanity once we lose all our comforts and luxuries, and must fight every day to survive. The Last of Us is the Naughty Dog-developed third-person survival game out next week for Sony's PlayStation 3.
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| Nook Seeks an Edge With $2 E-Books | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 5:58 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| It's not easy being Nook. With Amazon Kindle's dominant share of the e-book market — not to mention all of the exclusives Amazon is landing through its own publishing imprints and self-publishing platform — the Barnes & Noble-owned subsidiary has struggled to convince e-book readers to shop at its e-bookstore over its rival's. That's why Nook is now investing in original content.
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| Human-Scale Invisibility Cloak Unveiled | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 5:49 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| In the last decade or so, invisibility cloaks have captured the imagination of researchers and the public alike. The excitement is based on two advances. The first is the idea of "transformation optics," or the ability to bend light around a region of space to make it look as if it weren't there.
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| 6 Months of Romantic Sky Gazing in 1 Minute | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:40 PM | NowThisNews |
| Watch this visualization that shows every moon cycle in 2013 — six months' worth — from the perspective of a sky gazer in the Southern Hemisphere. Each frame of the video represents one hour. SEE ALSO: NASA Creates Stunning Images of the Nearest Major Galaxies BONUS: The Moon and Jupiter Dance in Night Sky Image courtesy of dingopup.
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| Facebook to Streamline Ad Units, Remove Half | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:16 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| In an effort to make its ad units more friendly to marketers, Facebook announced on Thursday it planned to streamline its offerings from 27 to roughly half that figure. Facebook also plans to axe Offers for online deals, though it plans to keep Offers for offline deals and is bringing elements of Sponsored Stories into a more generalized unit that will include social information like Likes and comments on the top of the ad.
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| Couldn't Verizon Have Just Said No to NSA? | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:07 PM | National Journal |
| An internal memo from Verizon to its employees has leaked to the web, revealing that the company justified its cooperation with the National Security Agency based on the terms of the government's court order. Verizon's executive vice president and general counsel, Randy Milch, didn't confirm whether documents obtained by The Guardian were legitimate.
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| 16 Photos Vladimir Putin Should Use on His New Online Dating Profile | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:06 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Ladies. LADIES. Russian President Vladimir Putin and and his wife Lyudmila have announced plans to divorce. You know what that means? Russia's hottest topless horse-rider is putting — err, Putin — on the charm across the Internet. Vlad is probably too busy doing diplomatic stuff to craft his Match.com profile, so we decided to help him out by collecting 16 of his fiercest photos.
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| Throw Virtual CDs to Vote for BET Awards Nominees | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:56 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| The BET Awards app, which debuted last year and attracted 300,000 downloads, returns with updated gaming elements, including a fun way to vote. The game lets players vote for nominees with the slide of a finger, by flicking CDs at a moving DJ booth. The more CDs a user makes in a short time span, the more votes he or she will tally for a chosen nominee.
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| Rip-Roaring New 'Man of Steel' Trailer Explodes Online | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:50 PM | Charlie White |
| The countdown to the June 14 premiere of Man of Steel continues, and now Warner Bros. has released the most dramatic trailer yet for the highly anticipated Superman reboot. After watching this exquisitely paced montage, we have to ask: Are there any spectacular shots and effects from the movie we haven't seen yet? Be warned: This preview does an exceptional job of telling a story — however, that story might include most of the movie.
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| Snapchat Update Adds Quicker, Flashier Features | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:32 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Everybody's favorite photo-sharing (and photo-disappearing) app just got a slick makeover in the App Store. Snapchat rolled out version 5.0, dubbed "Banquo," on Wednesday for iPhones. It boasts a slew of speed and design enhancements, including swipe navigation, double-tap to reply, an improved friend finder and in-app profiles.
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| Obama Wants to Upgrade 99% of Students to High-Speed Internet by 2018 | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:11 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| President Barack Obama thinks American students aren't connected enough, and that access to faster Internet connections and technologies is crucial in today's schools. That's why he wants to make sure that 99% of students have high-speed broadband access within the next five years.
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| Study: U.S. Smartphone Penetration Now at 61% | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:00 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Smartphone owners are now a solid majority of U.S. mobile subscribers at 61% according to Nielsen. Smartphones became the dominant mobile device in the U.S. in March 2012. The figures, for the three-month period ending in March, also show Android was the predominant smartphone OS with 53% versus 40% for Apple's iOS. Apple's share was up 7%, mostly likely because of the late 2012 iPhone 5 release.
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| Manning Trial Reveals Devices Used in Iraq | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 2:50 PM | Nextgov |
| Army Pfc. Bradley Manning — the soldier who allegedly assisted anti-secrets website WikiLeaks — did his dirty work in a secure chamber on a Dell laptop with an expired warranty, according to computer serial numbers disclosed during his trial at Fort Meade, Md.
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| Report: Apple Will Launch Trade-In Program to Lift iPhone 5 Sales | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 2:44 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Apple is planning to launch a new trade-in program later this month in an effort to increase the number of customers upgrading to the most recent iPhone, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the situation. Bloomberg reports that Apple will partner with Brightstar Corp, the wireless distributor that it has worked with for trade-in promotions on products sold by AT&T and T-Mobile.
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| Coke's Latest Cool Innovation: Ice Bottles | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 2:25 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Coca-Cola, which recently introduced a can that splits in two, is messing with its bottle design as well. In Colombia, the brand recently rolled out bottles made of ice that, if the video above is to be believed, doesn't result in bottles melting in your hands and frozen liplock. That plus weather and potential health issues may put the kibosh on global expansion.
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| House Intel Chair: Phone Monitoring Thwarted Terrorist Attack | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 2:21 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) claimed Thursday the National Security Agency's secret phone surveillance program helped thwart a "significant domestic terrorist attack." The attack, Rogers told The Washington Post, would have struck the United States "within the last few years." Rogers did not share specifics because they are classified, though he added his committee is working to declassify the relevant reports.
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