Did you know thatYouTubehad a precursor in Brazil? IndeedVideolog.tvwas born in May 2004, that is to say a few months before the now Google-owned video sharing platform. Even more interestingly, it hasn’t been wiped out by its giant competitor and still attracts 3m unique users per month. These are two of the many reasons why the Brazilian online video platformSamba Techjust acquired the company, in a move that is likely to have a significant impact on the online video market, in Brazil and beyond....

We used to play games like Charades or Pictionary to break the ice during parties. As technology changes, though, so do our options for such activities.TableTopicshas been around for quite some time in the cards format that sat around waiting for you to use it. If you want to take things tech (and you’re reading TNW, so you probably do) then you need to check out TableTopcs Mobile. The app comes in two flavors: one for the iPhone and another for the iPad....

Magical. The word has been used hundreds of times in Apple’s marketing to describe its products, but really took prominence with the introduction of the iPad. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage in early 2010 to introduce what we all knew at that point to be some sort of new tablet product, one of the first adjectives he used for it was ‘magical’. Contrary to anecdotal wisdom, the term magical was actually only used 3 times in thatiPad introduction, twice by Jobs and once by the iPad’s designer, Jony Ive, in a promo video....

We’re in the technology news business. To that end, if it’s old, it isn’t news. Given that you’re reading this, chances are that you live, eat, sleep and breathe the tech lifestyle and want to get the news as soon as it happens. Fortunately, we have a great way for you to do just that. We’ve had an email subscription service in place for some time but we’ve just tweaked it to have it running exactly as it should be, and now you never have to worry about missing a breaking news story....

Aliens exist! We are not alone!According to Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist atNASA’sMarshall Space Flight Center. Hoover found fossils of bacteria in a rare type of meteorite called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites, of which there are 9 on the planet. After breaking apart the CI1 meteorite, he used 2 high powered microscopes to find fossils of micro-organisms, which he says are strikingly similar to those found on our own planet....