Daily Zandtics

1. Here's a video of some BYX guys at Texas A&M who attempt ridiculous basketball shots and call them "Dude Perfect." This is their newest attempt from an airplane in flight. They've been on the Early Show on CBS before and it sounds like they'll be on there again Monday.

2. Google is teaming up with Sony and Intel to develop it's new attempts at Internet-capable TV's which will allow users to surf the Web and watch TV at the same time. Click here for an article.

3. A 67-year-old Yuba City, Calif. woman was shot and killed by police after reports that she pointed a gun at a Census worker seeking information at her house. Police experienced the same treatment from the woman, resulting in force being taken. Click here for more.

Daily Zandtics

1. A 16-year-old Australian girl who spent 7 months at sea traveling around the world completed her round-the-world trip today, making her the youngest person ever to complete a non-stop, unassisted circle around the globe as she sailed into Sydney Harbour. Click here for an article.

2. A pitbull named Ingrid in Huntington, N.Y. has to take two pills of Viagra a day to stay alive after being recovered from dog fighting and was diagnosed with a heart worm and a bad heart condition. The blue pill is the only thing keeping the dog alive. Click here for more.

3. The guy who found the new iPhone prototype in a bar and sold it to Gizmodo was ratted out by his roommate. Click here for an article on the situation.

Daily Zandtics

1. A Haitian prosecutor is seeking a six-month sentence for the one U.S. missionary who was detained after the earthquake in January. Click here for the story.

2. Scientists believe the gulf oil spill may be underestimated in terms of size. Click here for more.

3. Click here for video from this morning of the Shuttle Atlantis making its last flight into space. Click here for a slideshow.

Facebook's new security feature

A day after an "all-hands" meeting, Facebook released a new security feature similar to what you might see on a banking site.

To help keep hackers from accessing users' personal information, the change comes amid rising concerns about privacy and security on the social networking site and its 400 million users worldwide.

The feature allows users to identify "approved" computers and mobile phones that are allowed to access their accounts. If an unauthorized device tries to log in, the user will be notified via e-mail or text message, allowing them to essentially deny access to unwanted visitors.

"We're confident that these new tools and systems will do a lot to prevent unauthorized logins and the nuisance they can cause," Lev Popov, a Facebook software engineer, writes in a company blog post. "As always, though, the first line of defense is you. We need you to help by practicing safe behavior on Facebook and wherever you go online."

Here's a video from CNN about the new feature if you feel like watching something.

Daily Zandtics

1. If you're having trouble sleeping, consider turning off or not using electronics after certain hours at night. A study shows that the brightness of staring into a computer or cell phone screen can mess up your internal clock. Click here for an article from CNN.

2. A female Houston charter-school teacher attacked a young male student while the kids were placed in an empty room for a test. The teacher walked by as the kids were goofing around and as a girl told the boy to stop laughing at her or else she would punch him in the face. The boy dared her to and the ensuing encounter with the teacher followed. Click here for the story; here for the video.

3. Need gold and don't have a Gringots vault to go to like Harry Potter? An Abu Dabi hotel installed a "gold-to-go" machine that vends... pizza! Jk... it vends gold. Click here the article.

Facebook users are deleting profiles over privacy concerns

With Facebook privacy concerns rising and a recent slew of bugs, including a way to view friends' private chats, account holders are starting to delete their profiles altogether or try to.

A new privacy and what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls the "Open Graph," which basically brings Facebook-like properties to many web sites, is creating an uproar as many users believe Facebook has a lack of concern for the privacy of its more than 400 million members.

View Facebook's privacy policy here.

For those trying to delete their profile, just figuring out how to do so has become an act of Congress as some have sought instruction from external sites and news articles to figure out how.

One of the top searches on Google if you type in "How do I..." is how to delete a Facebook account. (Just under "How do I love thee.")

The blog All Facebook says the site's executives called an "all-hands" meeting for this afternoon. It is unclear what will come of the meeting, but with growing pressure from its users and the media, the meeting will be focused on the site's privacy policy.

Diaspora | The Anti-Facebook

Four New York University students are attempting to create a site that challenges third-party sites like Facebook which have access to and, to some degree "own," all the data that flows through its network.

The site, dubbed Diaspora, will allow users to privately share information, photos and videos, eliminating the middle man so no one has access but you and your friends. It's been called the "Anti-Facebook" by tech blogs.

Each users will need to have server space to use the site through machines called "seeds."

Despite confusion at first, the site's founders claim the site will provide a fully private and secure network without cutting down on sharing.

Watch the guys give prospective thoughts on the project here.
Check out the Diaspora site.

The guys originally posted their idea on the site Kickstarter where people post information about projects and ask random internet members for funds.

Nearly 900 people have contributed $29,000 so far while the site founders said they needed $10,000 to start the site.

Diaspora may offer a paid service which will provide simpler usage.