THANKS YOUTUBE
Whether it's cats from Japan, music videos from Korea, or political news from Egypt, the world will never be the same.
HUMANITY, LET'S JUST GIVE UP
In the latest news sure to make tin foil hat-heads flip out, two computer scientists Lior Shamir and Jane Tarakhovsky of Lawrence Technological University in Michigan have developed a computer program that apparently “understands” visual art.
YOU CAN JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
At least when it comes to female politicians, perhaps you can judge a book by its cover, suggest two UCLA researchers who looked at facial features and political stances in the U.S. House of Representatives.
MALWARE VISUALIZED
Cyberattacks are happening constantly across the globe, and now you can see what that looks in real-time with this map by the Honeynet Project that shows so many attacks, it looks and feels like it's straight out of an apocalyptic war movie.
IT'S JUST AN iPAD
Some heads are still spinning after an iPad got swiped in San Francisco yesterday, and the alleged thieves then went on a rampage in order, it seems, merely to get away.
THE DELL DUDE HAS A NAME!
The long, strange lives behind the faces of America's most famous brands.
WHO WINS?
The iPhone 5 has been a hit with consumers. But the accompanying iOS 6 maps app - not so much. Reuters puts the heavily panned product to the test against Google in bustling Hong Kong.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Errol Morris was obsessed with this famous 1855 photograph, purported to be one of the first photos ever taken of war. Should it also hold the title of first faked photograph?
DID NOKIA TEACH YOU NOTHING?
Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary went looking for an address that didn't actually exist in an effort to artificially portray Apple's new iOS 6 Maps as deficient.
NOT SO GREAT FIREWALL OF CHINA
Facebook and Twitter have millions of users in China despite bans on the social networking services in the world’s largest Internet market.
POOR STRATEGY
In the latest apparent case of what have been hundreds of thefts by TSA officers of passenger belongings, an iPad left behind at a security checkpoint in the Orlando airport was tracked as it moved 30 miles to the home of the TSA officer last seen handling it.
AWESOME APPS
You can hold the brain that revolutionized modern thought in your hands — at least digitally.
HE'S HAD IT WITH YOUR APATHY
Samuel L. Jackson is following in the footsteps of Sarah Silverman in a hilarious anti-Mitt Romney video entitled "Wake The F**K Up."
CASH MONEY
Facebook on Thursday unveiled Gifts, the company’s major initiative into the world of social gift giving and e-commerce.
IT'S BECAUSE WE'RE FRIENDS, RIGHT?
Mind games.
GRAPHIC
Yep, this happened. Doctors at Johns Hopkins have attached a new ear to a patient that was grown on her own forearm. It's a medical first, and a heartwarming-if-a-little-yucky story.
TAKE THAT TWITTER
The rise of social media is often associated with a decline in the use of traditional forms of paper-based correspondence. However, new research finds that the old methods of communication now often overlooked are actually more valuable than ever before.
BUT HOW WILL I CHECK-IN?!
Theorem, a six-seat, reservation-only craft coffee shop like you’ve never, ever experienced before.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Scratch water off NASA's Mars rover Curiosity's list of things to find in a two-year quest to learn if the planet most like Earth in the solar system could have supported microbial life.
BATH SALTS?
Actor Johnny Lewis who appeared on the show "Sons of Anarchy" beat and dismembered his landlady's cat before killing her and then falling to his death.
MUST BE WELL-READ IN DAVID BROOKS
"UCLA is hiring an assistant professor in Latina culture and literature who will also be a part of our interdisciplinary seminar on Kant. Secondary specialization must include colonial American literature, 1990s cyberpunk, graphic novels, and the history of the Jew's harp in Thailand," mock the unrealistic qualifications colleges and universities expect from applicants.
CLOSE CALLS
On September 26, 1983, the world came very close to nuclear war.
YOU'RE NOT PLAYING BLACKJACK
A gambling term has become the go-to phrase for CEOs — frequently with disastrous results.
NOT OK
"When my wife and I learned that we could afford a home, we thought it was too good to be true. It turned out that it was."
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