We understand, the daily driving commute gets monotonous. After working hard for eight-plus hours, sleepy driving can become a real concern. Technology to the rescue! Drive Awake is a free app that uses eye-tracking technology to "see" when your eyes start to drift closed and will wake you with a loud parrot squawk and driving directions to the nearest Café Amazon, the company behind the app (of course there has to be a business purpose to the service, right?).

Since Café Amazon stores are in Thailand, those based outside the country can ignore that part of the app, but give a test-drive to the eye-detection part. The iPhone needs to be placed at eye level on the windshield, which isn't the most convenient place, but in our brief use of the app, it did notice as our eyes closed. Actually, it also screeched a warning even when eyes were not closed.

It may be an advertising gimmick, but could this be the sign of technologies to come? A Google Glass windshield that monitors biometrics and ensures drivers are at their optimum alertness for driving?

Follow the break to see a Drive Awake demo.

• Shazam will identify your TV shows now — ReadWrite
• Features in the new Xbox that are about to ruin everything — Cracked
• Oh yes, there will be a Rifftrax Starship Troopers — Geekosystem
• Why Tesla's CEO hopes he did taxpayers proud — Newser
• The quiet death of desktop messaging — FWD
• Using your new Commodore 64 (in 1982) — Mental Floss
• Benedict Cumberbatch in a Star Trek Into Darkness shower — POPSUGAR Entertainment

This multihued, high-flying photo by Instagram user hollymetts, who submitted her action shot with the #CoolCapture hashtag, makes us want to try our hand at the trapeze!

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A month after the hacking of news agency Associated Press's Twitter account, which caused serious repercussions in the stock market, Twitter has finally enabled two-step verification for users. The added security boost syncs with a cell phone number to send a verification code via SMS each time you log in to your Twitter account.

To get two-factor verification on your account, first go to Settings, found in the gear icon in the top right-hand corner > select "Require a verification code when I sign in." > click the link to add your phone number. You'll then receive a text message from Twitter that the device is ready to receive verification codes.

Once you've signed up for the extra Twitter protection, the next time you log in to your account, you'll see the following screen to check the phone associated with the account for a verification code. Enter the code, and get tweeting!

• Amazon launches fanfic publishing service — Geekosystem
• Meet the man behind Doctor Who's amazing soundtrack — MTV Geek
• Google is wooing developers to make apps for Android first — ReadWrite
• Man, the Scooby Doo Mystery Team is so bad at mysteries — Cracked
• Renting through Airbnb can cost you big — Newser
• How to know if the government is reading your email — Mental Floss
• Highlights from the Webby Awards — PopCandy
• A spoilerific discussion of Star Trek Into Darkness with Damon Lindelof — /Film

The beachside rides, the colors, everything about this picture by Instagram user jennbailey0706 screams Summer — and we'll take it!

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Happy Birthday, Craigy Ferg! Our favorite geeky Scotsman turns 50 today. Craig is a nerd-lover's dream; his love of science fiction and geekery come through on every episode and his Twitter account. Plus, he's got a TARDIS on his desk.

As host of the Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson has been keeping us in stitches since taking over late-night hosting duties in 2005. Here are seven reasons why we love the Ferg:

1. Devoted Whovian — He dedicated an entire episode of his talk show to his love of Doctor Who. Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith even made his first American talk-show appearance for the episode.
2. Robot cohost — Craig is such a huge Mythbusters fan that show host Grant Imahara built him a robot sidekick name Geoff Peterson.
3. Geek Peacemaker — When discussing the time old debate of Star Trek vs. Star Wars with guest Adam Savage, Craig explains you don't have to pick a side, each have their own special star themes.
4. Shark Fan — As host of the Discovery Channel's 2010 Shark Week, Craig guided viewers through his "favorite holiday."
5. Loves puppets — Regular viewers of the show are familiar with the frequent use of puppets in the opening monologue and skits. For the 1,000th episode Wavy the crocodile hilariously hosted the whole show and interviewed Jason Schwartzman.
6. Good sport — Craig went along with the original captain William Shatner's request to show off his horsemanship skills by galloping around the stage with Shatner at the reigns.
7. Keeps it real — When Britney Spears was going through tough times a few years ago, Craig refused to joke about her on the show. Proudly sober for nearly 20 years, he understands that such trying issues don't need to be prodded further.

If you need any more proof as to why you should be loving Craig Ferguson, watch the song and dance performed on the Doctor Who episode of the Late Late Show. It wasn't aired on the show due to rights problems with the theme song, but it was later, thankfully, leaked on the web.

Talk to Google like it's your best friend. Really, the search giant insists that with its improved conversational search functions, demoed at Google I/O on Wednesday, you'll be able to speak commands not just from your mobile device with the Google Search app, but also from Chrome on desktops, using less-robotic speech and receiving spoken responses from Google.

During the live demo, we watched Johanna Wright, vice president of Mobile, ask Google a series of questions about an upcoming trip to beach town Santa Cruz, CA, getting decidedly more human and conversational with each question. After asking Google for attractions and restaurants in Santa Cruz, when Johanna said, "How far is it from here?," the result that populated was directions from our location in San Francisco to Santa Cruz, showing the search algorithm's progression from understanding strict computer speak to more casual conversation using predictions to determine which locations the user is referring to.

Google Now, the personalized search function that might know you better than you know yourself, also received an update today in the form of reminders, public transit cards, and entertainment cards that populate based on your past preferences. These reminders will appear within your Now account based on when you've set a need for them. For example, a reminder to leave to catch a taxi may appear two hours before a scheduled flight. Just like a web search, Google says many of these notations can be made with your voice commands.

Make room on your home screen for one more monthly music subscription service, this one backed by the power of the Google Play store and your own music library. Google Play Music All Access, announced Wednesday at Google I/O 2013, is the tech company's take on the growing popularity of services like Rdio and Spotify, which give customers instant access to millions of songs based on monthly subscription models.

What sets Play Music All Access (a name not for the easily tongue tied) apart from the others? For starters, users can access their Google Play Music locker — their personal music collection of up to 20,000 songs — in addition to Google's catalog of millions of licensed songs all within one service.

Read on for how much Google's music streaming will cost you per month.

• It's the official Adventure Time game — Geekosystem
• You can trick yourself into not feeling pain! — Cracked
• The developer's cheat sheet to iOS and Android design — ReadWrite
• And the winning bid for a date with Tim Cook is . . . — Newser
• Meet the tech companies that have your back — FWD
• Discover the origins behind 11 famous Star Trek lines — MentalFloss
• Create your own Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts — Lifehacker

Keeping tech organized is sort of a hobby in itself for us. The first step in our quest for the title of Titan of Tidy Tech: picking up the charging cords off the ground. Meet the quickest way to a life of iPhone 5 efficiency: the Bluelounge Lightning MiniDock ($40).

We loved the MiniDock in its previous 30-pin incarnation and are relieved to see the dock finally available for those who have upgraded to Lightning iDevices. Plug the MiniDock into an existing USB power adapter, set the phone in its spot, and voilà! Nothing to worry about except what you'll do with all that open space on the floor or tabletop now free of tangled cords.

• Texting at the wheel is more dangerous than drunk driving — Geekosystem
• Why it's so hard to make Superman interesting — Cracked
• The most epic brand meltdown on Facebook ever — BuzzFeed
• 11 songs that brought people out of comas — MentalFloss
• Help Newt Gingrich find a new name for "cell phone" — Newser
• LinkedIn takes on prostitution — HuffPost Tech
• J.J. Abrams discusses Star Trek vs. Star Wars with Jon Stewart — /Film
• How you can buy Air Force One — Geek.com
• Location trackers for . . . pets! — Brit+Co.

Neil Gaiman last took control of the Doctor Who writing reins in "The Doctor's Wife," the season-six episode where the TARDIS came to life, which, he said in conference call this week, was to "remind people that the TARDIS was a living entity, if they had forgotten." Fresh off his Neverwhere BBC radio drama success, Neil returns to the Time Lord's world in this Saturday's new episode, "Nightmare in Silver."

What's so frightening about metal? Cybermen. As a child watching the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, battle the classic nemesis, Neil recalled finding them so much more thrilling than Daleks: "I loved the clanky clanky steampunk Cybermen." Neil's involvement with the episode began with an email from executive producer Steven Moffat, who begged the sci-fi writer to "make the Cybermen scary again," which is what he did with a tactic the tech world would appreciate — an upgrade.

We've previously seen the cyborgs lumber toward the Doctor and his companions, but in their newest adventure, they're lighter and faster on their feet, just like your brand-new smartphone as compared to its previous generation. Neil explained why the metallic villains of 2013 had a need for speed:

• Star Trek gets a home at the NASA museum — Geekosystem
• Sunken treasure isn't so rare after all — Cracked
• Leaving your phone number on the Internet results in some insane pranks — FWD
• The reality of working in an Amazon warehouse — HuffPost Tech
• Jurassic Park 4 may be no more — /Film
• How to stop embarrassing yourself online — Lifehacker
• The one Twitter app we maybe don't need — The Daily Dot
• Buzzy gadgets for coffee lovers — Brit + Co.

Having now added tech entrepreneur to her accomplishments with the lifestyle website goop and its accompanying travel guide apps, Gwyneth Paltrow was right at home during an Apple Store Meet the Developer panel in New York City last night. We had a chance to talk with the Iron Man 3 star about the gadgets in her carry-on, her favorite iPad games to play with the kids, and the eternal question: text or call?

POPSUGAR: Why did you want to get into this travel app business?

Gwyneth Paltrow: It was a natural extension of what we do at goop anyway, which is curation basically. I love food; I love to travel; I’m a very curious person. I was always the person my friends call and say, "I’m going to New York, where should I do this? I’m going to Paris" . . . whatever. I was always that person. I had books everywhere of things that I loved in various cities and I just thought, "I would love to have it for myself." I started working on the content and I love having a place to go to where it’s places that I love and doctors that are amazing, just all that useful information. When I moved to England, for example, I didn’t know that if you have an emergency, you don’t dial 911. All that stuff. Anything you would need as a traveler.

PS: We’re in the Apple store — are you a texter or a good old-fashioned phone call?

GP: I’ve become a texter. I find it so quick. It’s also made phone calls a lot more special. I do text more than I call, for sure. Now a phone call is a real thing — it’s like, "Are you available to talk?" It’s not like it used to be.

PS: When you travel, what are your must-take travel gadgets?

GP: iPhone and iPad, for sure. I love my iPad mini: I’ve got all my books on there, TV shows — I think that thing is a genius. And my Bose noise-cancelling headphones.

Discover the iPad games Gwyneth plays with her kids and the "girl porn" social network after the jump.