week in review

Embroiled in a war of words with a fellow Instagram user? Please guys, it's just an app. Do yourself a favor. Step away from the keyboard, pour yourself a soft-serve beer, and relax with this week's top stories from Crave.

• OMG, is President Obama really a Vulcan?!

• Speaking of which, this captain's chair will let you sit long and prosper -- as long as you're under 120 pounds.

• Dear Apple, it's time to dump the iPod Touch. Sincerely, Donald Bell

• Ashton Kutcher will play Steve Jobs in a new movie (whaaaat?), but who should play Woz? My vote is still Zach Galifianakis.

• BioWare buckles to pressure, releases enhanced Mass Effect 3 ending. … Read more

week in review Long thought of as safer than its competition, Apple's Mac platform is battling a nasty piece of malware designed to steal users' personal information.

More than 600,000 Macs worldwide are infected with the Flashback Trojan, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. The malware was initially found in September 2011 masquerading as a fake Adobe Flash Player plug-in installer, but in the past few months it has evolved to exploiting Java vulnerabilities to target Mac systems.

Simply visiting a malicious Web site containing Flashback on an OS X system with Java installed can result in … Read more

Maybe you spent the week begging your local pizza joint to come out with a one-push ordering button or trying to figure out the science behind poop-powered rickshaws. Whatever kept you from the pages of Crave this week, we've got your back. Here's a roundup of our favorite stories.

• Crave blogger Eric Mack lives in rural New Mexico, where the views are beautiful, but the connectivity options are ugly. Read about his five-year journey to bring broadband to the boonies.

• Well, this is one way to recycle those old computer manuals collecting dust on your bookshelf.

• Not to be outdone by James Cameron, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will raise the Apollo 11 rockets from their watery grave.

• OK, we get that the RoboBonobo robot is aiding in studying the of ape language, but does it have to look so scary? Shudder.

• Oh, ultrabooks, we hardly knew ye. How the PC industry killed the ultrabook. … Read more

week in review Violations in wages and overtime were found at Foxconn during an independent audit of the Chinese manufacturing giant.

The Fair Labor Association's audit of Foxconn, which was posted to the FLA's Web site Thursday, found all three factories in the region to be in violation of both the labor organization's code standard and Chinese law in hours worked by employees. The FLA said these factories "exceeded" 60 hours per worker, which Foxconn has now said will be scaled back to 49 hours per week by July 1, 2013.

Foxconn manufactures gadgets for … Read more

Too busy flinging birds in space to keep up with Crave this week? Well, how about you come back down to Earth for a little while and catch up on all the latest stories?

• Not sure what I've gotten myself into, but I'm going 24 hours without tech for the National Day of Unplugging. Stay tuned to see how it went...

• Researchers are working on robotic jellyfish, which means sharks with laser beams can't be far away, right? Gulp.

• OK, everyone calm down. That iPad heat issue? It's pretty much a non-issue.

• Here's a hot topic though: BioWare may change the ending of Mass Effect 3 after a fan revolt, but should they? … Read more

week in review Apple kicked off the week on a roll, announcing it sold 3 million iPads over the weekend, not counting preorders. That handily beat previous iPad launches, and put the debut of the third-generation device close to the launch of the iPhone 4S last year, from a sales perspective.

Following that announcement, and news that the company will tap its $100 billion cash pile by paying a regular dividend to stockholders, Apple stock hit the $600 mark and finished above it for the first time.

But things started to heat up amid reports, including one from influential Consumer … Read more

Started lining up early for Friday's iPad launch, did you? Well, unless it was as dull as Crave UK's adventures, you missed out some great stories this week. Thankfully, we've rounded them all up here for you to enjoy with your morning coffee, afternoon tea, or evening martini. Cheers.

• CNET's definitive review of the third-generation Apple iPad. Enough said.

• Yeah, recycling is cool and all, but unprintable paper is the future.

• Japan develops a hand-cranked vending machine for emergency situations. And no, the afternoon munchies does not count as an emergency.

• The HP Envy 14 Spectre … Read more

week in review Eager iPad shoppers mobbed stores around the world in hopes of getting their hands on Apple's next-generation tablet, which is already sold out online.

Wal-Mart's 24-hour stores in the U.S. got the jump on Apple by selling the tablet a full eight hours before Apple stores even opened. There was limited supply, however. For example, dozens of people lined up at a Wal-Mart in Union City, Calif., which had 40 iPads to sell. And many left disappointed.

At Apple's Fifth Avenue store in New York City, hundreds of iPad fans waited in the … Read more

Hey there, Crave readers. What's shaking? It's been a pretty quiet week here in tech land, so not a lot to report on our end. Ha! Yeah, right. There was, of course, a little announcement from Apple on Wednesday, but the new iPad wasn't the only thing to turn our heads over the past few days. Catch up on all the latest and greatest in our weekly roundup here.

• To Donald Bell's disappointment, the new iPad isn't made out of unicorn tears, but the Retina Display sure is a knockout. Here's our in-depth, hands-on preview.

• Apple crowned a new tablet king this week, but it sure looks a lot like the old king.

• Now, wait just a minute there, iPad. You think you're a home game console now?

• Are pigs flying? Has hell frozen over? Because I'm finally thinking of getting a tablet.

• Channel your inner Shamu with a ride in this Killer Whale Submarine. … Read more