10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning
Feb 3, 2014, 17:45 IST
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- Facebook turns 10 tomorrow. Here's the first Harvard Crimson article about it from February 2004.
- The race to make longer-lasting batteries is on in Silicon Valley. Apple has been experimenting with solar chargers on its devices for years.
- A chart of Buzzfeed's traffic shows how much more powerful Facebook is than Google for some publishers.
- Here's the math behind viral content. It has to do with the strength of a publisher, an article's "shareability," the size of the sharers' networks , and the headline's clickability.
- There are a bunch of billion-dollar startups most people have never heard of.
- Don't play the new number one iPhone game, Flappy Bird, if you want to stay sane.
- An app that presented on Shark Tank, Cycloramic, hit the top of the paid App Store and received 100,000 downloads in an hour. Cycloramic takes 360 video on your phone, sans hands. It uses the phone's vibrations to twirl the device.
- Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, was found dead in his apartment from an apparent heroin overdose on Sunday morning.
- The Seattle Seahawks blew out the Bronos in the Superbowl, 43-8. The game wasn't great, but the ads were. Here are all of them in order.
- Twitter freaked out momentarily after a large explosion was reported near Times Square following the Super Bowl in Manhattan. It turns out it was a multiple-manhole explosion. Here's a Vine from 51st Street and a picture of one of the manholes sliced in half.