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| Kickstarter Book and App Aim to Get Girls Interested in STEM | | Currently, less than a quarter of all jobs in STEM — that is, science, technology, engineering and math — are held by women. It's a gender gap that children's performer Jenna Bryson wants to close with a picture-book series and app called Grace from Outer Space.
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| 'If This Then That' Arrives For iPhone | | If This Then That (IFTTT) is now available for iPhone. If you’re not familiar, IFTTT is a service that lets you connect two different apps or services together based on specific parameters, in a way that makes using both services a lot more useful. Think of it as a string that ties together everything you use on your computer or phone.
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| iPad Rival in Education Isn't a Tablet, Laptop or Desktop | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:30 PM | TabTimes |
| If you've been tracking education tablet deployments over the course of the last 12 months, you know that business is booming for vendors. iPad roll-outs have varied from the hundreds to the thousands, with the L.A. school district recently agreeing to fork over $30 million to deploy 35,000 iPads. There has also been an uptick in demand for Windows 8 tablets, especially from Dell.
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| Google Street View Takes You on the Tour de France | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 7:42 PM | Emily Price |
| You may not be in quite good enough shape to participate in the Tour de France, but that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on all the fabulous scenery bikers are taking in on the journey. To help celebrate the Tour’s 100th Edition, Google has rolled out a few new products to help you take part in the race from your couch at home.
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| T-Mobile's Real Target With Fast Phone Upgrades: Influencers | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 6:02 PM | Pete Pachal |
| If you had told me, when the FCC slammed the brakes on AT&T's attempted merger with T-Mobile, that I would soon seriously consider switching to the nations fourth-largest carrier, which was set adrift in the wake of the scuttled deal, I would have said you were crazy. But here I am, about a year and a half later, thinking about doing just that.
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| T-Mobile Expands 4G LTE Network, Now Reaches 157 Million Users | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 3:40 PM | Christina Warren |
| T-Mobile announced Wednesday that its 4G LTE network now reaches 157 million users across the United States. T-Mobile launched its 4G LTE network in March and promised it would reach 100 million users by mid-year. The company has succeeded and now aims to reach 200 million users by the end of the year.
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| T-Mobile Jump Program Lets Customers Upgrade More Often | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 3:01 PM | Pete Pachal |
| T-Mobile, which recently rebranded itself as the "uncarrier" among U.S. wireless companies because of its abolishing of traditional two-year contracts, on Wednesday announced a new program called Jump to give customers on its network more freedom to upgrade their phones. Customers will be able to upgrade phones twice a year, with the first upgrade coming in no earlier than six months.
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| Instagram Introduces Photo and Video Embeds | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:05 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Instagram added the ability to embed photos and videos on Wednesday. Users can find the embed button — available only on desktop — on the right side of public photos or videos. The button provides a code users can insert into blogs and articles. Instagram, which added video capabilities in June, had lacked the embed feature — unlike rival video service Vine.
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| University Transforming Unused TV Channels Into Campus Wi-Fi Networks | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:43 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Good news, students and staff of West Virginia University: Your campus connectivity is about to improve drastically. WVU is turning unused television spectrum into Wi-Fi networks, the university announced this week. The Wi-Fi networks will operate on spectrum vacated when area TV networks made the digital transition.
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| Dropbox's New Features and Other News You Need to Know | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:50 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. Dropbox is rolling out some new features, which could be game-changers for active users. Apple and Amazon called off a naming lawsuit over the title of App Store.
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| Could Scientists Engineer Hearts for Organ Transplants? | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:13 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| In the medical world, there is a discrepancy: In the United States, approximately 3,000 people are on the waiting list for a heart transplant on a given day, but only about 2,000 donor hearts are available each year, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. That's why scientists across the country are trying to harvest newly-dead organs to bring them back to life.
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