Nov. 13, 2012 at 9:18 AM ET
Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.
Here's how emails on "coming and goings" of CIA Director David Petraeus and other military officials escalated FBI concerns.
"GIF" just beat "YOLO," "superstorm" as Oxford American Dictionary word of the year.
Apple reportedly pays $21 million to get permission to use that Swiss railway clock design.
Speaking of Apple is the company planning to do to the iPhone 5 what it did recently with the iPad 3 — release a "refreshed" version months after the new version came out?
Acer introduced a $199 laptop that runs Google's Chrome OS, making it the same price as Google's own Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire HD.
Are humans becoming less intelligent? It could very well be, says this one study.
Here's how online tools are making superstorm Sandy fundraising easier.
Because you know, the Internet isn't a good excuse to be a bad friend!
Apparently there's a microtrend of dogs carrying other dogs in baskets.
— compiled by Helen A.S. Popkin, who invites you to join her on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.