week in review

We start our look at the week past by extending heartfelt condolences to the victims of yesterday's horrendous Aurora, Colo., shooting, and to their loved ones. We know many of our readers have been looking forward to the opening of "The Dark Knight Rises" for weeks -- if not months -- and this senseless tragedy floats serious clouds over an event that should have been a pure geek joyfest.

In other news we covered this week:

• DARPA found a way to fight fire with sound.

• Meet Sony's new Walkman lineup.

• Is this a Canon mirrorless camera? Maybe, maybe not.

• Dear Marissa Mayer, Please fix Flickr. XXOO, the Internet. … Read more

Yahoo went to rival Google for its next chief executive, making a choice that surprised and excited Silicon Valley.

The struggling Web pioneer named Marissa Mayer, one of Google's top execs, as its next CEO, ending a hunt that began after Scott Thompson was forced out in May for padding his resume. Ross Levinsohn, who has been the interim CEO, had been considered the top candidate for the job.

Beyond the two company co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, perhaps no other executive better symbolized the new breed of brilliant young technologists in charge at Google than Mayer. The … Read more

Too busy trying on futuristic fashion this week to keep up with Crave? Well, take off those crazy 3D-printed shoes, step away from the catwalk, and take a moment to catch up on what you missed.

• Windows Mobile still more popular than Windows Phone? Ouch.

• Bright idea: Print on fabric using sunlight.

• More than $2.5 million in 24 hours? Yeah, we'd call that a good day for gaming console Ouya.

• Look "Doctor Who" fans, a sonic screwdriver remote!

• Have bicycle and life-size skeleton, will travel. … Read more

Yahoo fell victim to a security breach that yielded hundreds of thousands of login credentials stored in plain text, but it appears users also did little to protect themselves.

The hacked data, posted to the hacker site D33D Company, contained more than 453,000 login credentials and appears to have originated from the Web pioneer's network. The hackers, who said they used a union-based SQL injection technique to penetrate the Yahoo subdomain, intended the data dump to be a "wake-up call." [Update, 11:13 a.m. PT: On Friday morning, Yahoo gave the all-clear, saying "We ... … Read more

Running around all week trying to find the perfect 50th-birthday gift for a weird ship that stays afloat vertically? Send it a simple e-card and sit down to catch up on the Crave stories you missed.

• Watch out Google. Olympus wants to augment everyone's reality too.

• Going on an asteroid hunt. Gonna catch a big one!

• Wondering what to wear to that party on another planet? Try a pair of Exoskeleton shoes.

• Han Solo and Princess Leia rings: One says "I love you," the other says "I know." … Read more

week in review Scientists believe they have found the "God particle," also known as the Higgs boson.

The leaders of the experiments running through the giant Large Hadron Collider (LHC) said that their two teams had independently observed a particle consistent with the Higgs, which has until now been theoretical rather than a sure thing. The Higgs boson is thought to be responsible for mass in the otherwise-already-proven standard model of physics.

The scientists say they have more than "five-sigma" certainty that the particle they saw was the Higgs boson, which means they are 99.99999 … Read more

Too busy airbrushing photos of your cat this week to keep up with Crave? Put down Fluffy's feline glamour shots for a moment and catch up on what you missed.

• Google's Nexus tablet arrived -- and promptly showed up on eBay.

• Lego and Google Maps: Need we say more?

• For traveling troubadours, the folding Voyage-Air Guitar.

• Shocking! Anklet lets you harness static electricity through your fingertips. … Read more

Google gave a demonstration on how to create buzz for a product -- even if it's one that consumers won't see for a couple of years.

The first Project Glass products -- Google's network-enabled, computerized glasses -- are set to ship to a select group of enthusiasts early next year, co-founder Sergey Brin said this week at the I/O developers conference. The glasses will be available only to Google I/O attendees who are in the United States. The geographic restriction is for regulatory reasons, Brin said. (Different countries have different requirements for radio-frequency emissions.)

Google … Read more

Too busy dreaming of a new OS to keep up with Crave? Here's what you missed while you were obsessing with Windows Phone 8, which hits handsets this fall.

• Will Microsoft Surface get its ass kicked by the iPad?

• Hands on with the Windows 8 start screen.

• What's it like to tweet with your eyes?

• Google spills the jellybeans about the Galaxy Nexus.

• Revealed: the secret lives of pizzas in New York.

• The shocking numbers on how addicted we are to our phones. But at least now we can use them to control the lights.

• In case you'… Read more