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- Saul Bass directed a movie about ants taking over the world. Could that really happen?Directed by Saul Bass, who is celebrated Wednesday with a Google Doodle, the 1974 sci-fi flick 'Phase IV,' depicts ants developing a superior intelligence.
- How Saul Bass changed designIn his deceptively simple designs, Saul Bass聽created art forms from seemingly artless banalities. Tech culture owes at least some of its penchant for clean icons and minimalist designs to Saul Bass and his iconic works.
- T-Mobile unloads half a million iPhone 5 handsets in less than a monthBut other stats from T-Mobile's Q1 2013 results aren't quite so rosy.聽
- What caused the 19-hour Internet blackout in Syria?State media reports blame the outage on a failure in a key optical cable. Others aren't so sure.聽
- Saul Bass: Designer, artist, and auteur of the opening creditsGoogle today pays homage to pioneering artist and filmmaker Saul Bass, who worked on such legendary films as Vertigo, Spartacus, and The Man With the Golden Arm.聽
- Photoshop's future: Adobe ditches $2,599 price tag for $50 subscriptionsEffective immediately, Adobe will offer its design and development tools under the banner of Creative Cloud. The fee? 50 bucks a month
- Sims 4 on the way, but will people forget the SimCity debacle?With The Sims 4, EA and Maxis are hoping to avoid the issues that plagued the launch of SimCity.聽
- Social media and disasters: When a small post can spur hopeWhen social media is used during disasters, it can save lives and ease communities.
- Hotmail officially dead. Microsoft moves millions to Outlook.com.Hotmail officially dead as Microsoft puts its full strength behind the improved Outlook.com.
- Angry Birds Friends squawks its way onto iOS, Android devicesLaunched last year on Facebook, the social game Angry Birds Friends is finally bound for Android and iOS smart phones and tablets.聽
- With Google Glass app 'Winky,' a good picture is just a blink awayAre you winking at me or taking a picture? With Winky, a new Google Glass app, it may be hard to tell the difference.聽
- With 'Photos of You,' Instagram adds Facebook-style taggingInstagram's new 'Photos of You' feature works very much like the tagging function on Facebook.聽
- Has Facebook figured out smart phones? Wall Street thinks so.Facebook announced a $219 million quarterly profit. What has the social network done right?
- UK loophole: Why your Facebook photos may show up on a billboardNew UK law has artists and social media users uneasy. The act would allow companies to use some images without the photographer's permission.
- IBM and the world's tiniest filmIBM has created the world's smallest film. "A Boy and His Atom" features, you guessed it, atoms as the main stars.聽
- Nearly 2,000 Netflix movies to disappear overnightAlmost 2,000 Netflix movies to disappear聽as contracts expire聽and new additions roll in. Just what is Netflix doing?
- 3-D printers bring new edge to fashionWith 3-D printers, shoes, bikinis, and even platinum wedding rings can be printed out to fit your exact measurements.
- FocusWas Shane Todd murdered over high-tech secrets?Shane Todd, a US citizen working in Singapore, believed he had access to restricted tech. His death in 2012 was by suicide, say local authorities. But his family, suspecting murder, wants the FBI to take part in the investigation.
- Galaxy Tab 3: Everything you need, but little that you wantThe 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 isn't exactly a marvel of modern engineering, but does it need to be?聽
- Move over, Siri. Google Now is coming to the iPhone, iPad.Google Now launches this week on iOS, as part of an update to the Google Search app.聽