Time to change your Yahoo password — a group of hackers were able to grab and post online over 450,000 logins and passwords. Plus, the latest hit on Kickstarter is a video game console named Ouya. The funding goal for Ouya was $950,000 in 30 days. Well, a million bucks was raised in eight hours. It’s now over $4 million. What makes certain Kickstarter projects all the rage?

The City of San Francisco will stop buying computers from Apple. This in response to Apple pulling out of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT. It’s an organization that ranks products on how environmentally friendly they are. Many government agencies and large organizations require computer systems they buy to be EPEAT compliant and may soon follow San Francisco’s lead. So Apple is sure to lose sales, but it looks like it still might be able to make money. Plus, a theme song for the Higgs Boson.

It’s been a rough few years for Research In Motion, or RIM, BlackBerry’s parent company — it’s seen layoffs, CEO resignations and BlackBerry’s share of the smartphone market slip to just 6 percent. So what does the future hold? Plus, Lady Gaga has launched a social network.

British Airways is getting some flak from privacy watchdogs about its new Know Me program. The airline will create a little database about business class and first class passengers, including photos from Google images and information gathered during previous flights — things like the seat or drink you prefer or if you like an extra blanket. Plus, social media can be great, helping us stay in touch with loved ones who are far away.  But researchers at the University of Salford in the U.K. found social media is also making us feel bad.

Do you find yourself unable to get on the Internet this morning? If so, it could be due to a virus known as DNS Changer. It’s the result of a crime group getting caught for redirecting computer traffic to their computers, and now the computers are getting shut down. Calling your Internet Service Provider should help. Plus, a chat with the author of the new book, “Year Zero,” kind of a “Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” meets all those lawsuits about Napster.

Rumor has it Apple is getting ready to unveil a new iPad that’s smaller and cheaper than existing models. As Google and Microsoft come out with their own smaller models, Apple could be looking to snuff out challenges from these other significant rivals. Plus, researchers at Google X have built an artificial brain made up of 16,000 connected processors. And according to a recent study, one in four women intentionally post unflattering photos of other females on Facebook.

When you’re running around town and want to check email on your smartphone, you connect to a data network through a nearby tower run by your carrier. But what if we connected with each other instead? My phone was your tower, your phone was someone else’s? That’s the idea of mesh networks, and it could catch on soon, especially in the case of emergencies. Plus, public shaming online through WeKnowWhatYoureDoing.com and @NeedADebitCard.

If you ever use Microsoft Word, you know that when you want to save a document, you can click on the little floppy disc icon. That’s weird. When’s the last time you used one of those discs? Ten years ago? Twelve? We take a look into antiquated metaphors we use in modern technologies, and why we use them. Plus, Ben Kuchera of Penny Arcade on the new video game “Spec Ops.”

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones, are being used more and more by the U.S. military overseas. The planes, flown with no human pilot on board, appear to be headed for more widespread use domestically as well. There may be a problem, however. The University of Texas was able to hack into a drone and take control of it, using a technique called spoofing. Plus, in the Robot Roundup: Robots winning at Rock, Paper, Scissors; robots as waiters; and robots working retail.