If you recently purchased a new phone, whether it’s a smartphones or feature phone, it may receive emergency alerts.
Jennifer Lopez to Open Cellphone Stores
“Jenny from the Block” wants the block to buy Verizon phones from her.
Google X: A Secret Lab for Moonshots and More
Businessweek’s Brad Stone details Google X, the search giant’s secret lab that’s “home to the self-driving car initiative and the Internet-connected eyeglasses, Google Glass, among other improbable projects.”
Inside Google’s Secret Lab [Businessweek]
TechnologizerApps & Software
Mailbox: Still Beautiful, Still Clever, Now on the iPad
The e-mail app that practically caused riots among iPhone users arrives on Apple’s tablet — no wait required.
Twitter Adds Security Measure to Logins
Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users’ accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorized logins.
TechnologizerVideo Games
Survival of the Blockiest
In Minecraft’s aptly named Survival Mode, players must find shelter, feed themselves and fend off monsters. But they start by mining blocks.
TechnologizerMicrosoft
The Xbox One Is All-New — But Familiar, Too
While the Xbox One is all-new from a technology standpoint, it also feels like a continuance of the ideas that Microsoft has been adding to the Xbox 360 since 2005.
Xbox One Raises the Burden of Privacy Safeguards: 5 Questions for Microsoft
Xbox One will be Microsoft’s eyes and ears in your home, but that only increases the company’s burden to safeguard our privacy.
“It is a soft 'G,' pronounced 'jif.' End of story.”
— Steve Wilhite, speaking to the New York Times about receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Webby Awards for his work on the GIF image file format.
Finally: DVDs That Smell Like Pizza After You’re Done Watching Them
Innovation as we know it has reached its apex.
The New Flickr Is Worth Another Look
The photo service, which Yahoo acquired in 2005, is now offering a whopping one terabyte of free storage, with no size limits.
Apple’s Tim Cook Faces Senate Questions on Taxes
The Senate dragged Apple Inc., the world’s most valuable company, into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes.
