For $40, those who couldn't be astronauts see Mars One as their chance.Read similar

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Instagram is adding one of Facebook's most popular features — photo tagging — to its iOS and Android apps Thursday. You can now tag people in photos, and browse feeds of photos you and others appear in.Previously, the only way to find out whether a photo of you was uploaded to Instagram was to crawl through your activity feed, hoping someone had mentioned your username in a caption (i.e., @laureni). Likewise, there's been no easy way to share a photo someone uploaded of you to your own followers; oftentimes, I see friends share screenshots of another user's photo that they appear i... Read similar

"Sparki" ideal for teaching kids (or adults) how to program robots.Read similar

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Instagram launched a "Photos of You" feature in its iOS and Android apps today. Photos of You gives Instagram users the ability tag photos with any other Instagram account.Read similar

Pixel People, an iOS game, has raked in $700,000 over 2 million downloads in the span of three months, said the game's maker, Lambdamu. The key to their success, according to a company spokesperson, was a distribution deal with Chillingo.Read similar

Recently consumer electronics have tended to be more about closing things down then opening them up, but New York-based Adafruit is working to help reverse that trend, and to make it so that people aren't afraid of what's inside their devices, and instead become more comfortable with electronics components and the concepts behind how gadgets actually work. Adafruit founder and CEO Limor Fried was on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY today, and talked about how her company is going about achieving that goal.Read similar

Imagine driving down the freeway and seeing a photo that you took on vacation plastered across a billboard. No one asked for your permission to use it, and you certainly haven't received a check.Scenarios such as this one have struck fear into British photographers now that a new act has been passed that could make it much easier for companies and individuals to license online photos for their own use. While Parliament works out the details of its Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act, photographers are up in arms, and have renamed the law the Instagram Act, a reference to last year's Instagram... Read similar

Hunter Walk, formerly of Google and Linden Labs, has an excellent primer on how not to congratulate people over Twitter. He describes three different (yet pesky) ways that people toss around accolades in 140 characters or less. There's the "suck up congrats," in which you tweet some sort of empty sentiment at a public figure who will almost certainly never see it. You've got the "humblebrag congrats," where you recognize someone and still manage to make it all about yourself. And then there's the "undeserved congrats." This one's pretty self-explanatory. Just praise the people or companies tha... Read similar