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The technology industry moves incredibly fast — according to Moore's Law, the processing power of chips doubles every two or so years, rendering all of our new tech toys obsolete in a matter of months. Leaving a lasting legacy is incredibly hard to do and yet, Apple founder Steve Jobs is remembered and revered as an icon by longtime admirers and even one-time corporate rivals.

Steve has delivered some incredibly memorable quotes over the years, but in never-before-seen video from 1994, the tech titan reflects on his legacy in a remarkably candid interview at NeXT, the company he founded after being forced out of Apple in 1985.

The short clip, released by the Silicon Valley Historical Association, is part of a longer, 60-minute documentary titled Steve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur, which features Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Apple cofounders Steve Wozniak and Mike Markkula, and the founders of Oracle, Adobe, and Sun Microsystems, alongside Steve himself.

It's clear from the video that the Apple icon, in an uncharacteristic denim button-up, has a deep understanding of the fast-paced nature of the business, and the effect that has on his legacy. "All the work I have done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm, you know, 50 . . . this is not a field where one paints a painting that one looks at for centuries," he said.

Steve saw himself as a smaller part of a greater whole and recognized that it is difficult to discern individuals' contributions to the field of technology: "It's sort of like a sediment of rocks. You're building up a mountain, and you get to contribute your little layer of sedimentary rock to make the mountain that much higher. But no one on the surface, unless they have x-ray vision, will see your sediment."

Watch the rare footage after the break.

This Shakespearean insect was artfully caught by Instagram user _daneisha_ and submitted using the #CoolCapture hashtag.

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Bill Nye the Science Guy turns 20 this year (as in the show, not the guy — he's 57), and to mark two decades of demystifying the sciences, the official Bill Nye the Science Guy (free) app has just been released in celebration.

Like the host himself, the app is quirky, zany, and full of fascinating science facts. Poke around Bill's desk to discover a MarsDial that reads time on the Red Planet, small Science Guy trinkets (bow tie mandatory), and eye-boggling optical illusions.

The app also features two games and a small archive of clips from the show's best episodes. The Planets and Magnetism demo some of our favorite experiments. Speaking of science investigations, the Science Guy app also has a built-in catalog of at-home experiments that can help explain concepts like static electricity and atmospheric pressure (great for kiddos!)

Download Bill Nye for mobile, give the app a try, and celebrate the Science Guy's 20th anniversary all year long by sending us your favorite moments from the show in the comments.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) updates its definitive record of the English language four times a year, and the latest batch of entries is full of tech-focused terms like tweet, big data, and crowdsourcing.

In a blog post, Chief Editor John Simpson said a special exception was made for the social networking verb and noun versions of tweet to be added. Typically, for OED consideration, a word needs to have been used for 10 years, but tweet "seems to be catching on."

Geekery, live blog, 3D printer, SEO, light pollution, e-reader, mouseover, redirect, and stream (in its tech sense) have also been legitimized by the premier British dictionary. It can't be too long now before college campuses begin offering Geekery Studies (which, might we suggest, should be the formal study and analysis of "obsessive interest in or enthusiasm for a subject, typically one of specialist or minority interest"). Yes, let us examine the influence of 2001: A Space Odyssey over the public image of human spaceflight. Pinkies up, geeks.

Other fun terms appended to the Oxford English Dictionary are flash mob (the parades of song and dance coordinated by social media) and wingsuit.

Adobe's head will be in the clouds from here on out. The maker of Photoshop, Illustrator, and other digital creation software pushed major updates today to Creative Cloud, a new controversial subscription-based model for its most popular products. At the Adobe MAX conference in May, the company announced that it was taking its entire suite to the cloud to prevent software piracy and provide updates over the air.

The new model also establishes a more stable revenue stream for the company because as it turns out, convincing users to pay for expensive upgrades every few years is difficult. Traditional desktop versions of Adobe programs, like Photoshop, can run upwards of $700 a piece. Will the digital artist community be willing to fork over $20 or $50 per month, instead of a one-time fee, for the same tools in a new web-ready format?

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Audition, Premiere Pro, and a host of other Adobe Creative Suite tools are all getting the cloud treatment. Creative Cloud offers automatic software updates, along with additional perks like 20GB of cloud storage, workspace syncing between devices, the Adobe Kuler app, and integration with the design showcase network, Behance, which Adobe acquired in December.

But are all the bells and whistles included with Adobe CC worth it? Or is it time to switch to an alternative like Final Cut Pro or Acorn? We weigh the pros and cons after the break.

On this day 30 years ago — June 18, 1983 — Sally Ride became the first American women in space, as part of the space shuttle Challenger mission. She was one of six women selected to NASA's 1978 astronaut class of 35 total people, a hugely different female to male ratio than we saw this week with NASA's 2013 group of astronaut candidates, which was half women. After traveling to space during the Challenger mission in 1983 and again in 1984, Sally became the inspiration for a generation of girls to follow their science dreams, an area that had been long deemed "boys only."

Though she retired from NASA in 1987, Sally — who held a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford — continued to work in the sciences. She founded her own company, Sally Ride Science, whose purpose was to motivate young students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math. She was an honoree in the National Women's Hall of Fame, the Astronaut Hall of Fame, and was given the National Space Grant Distinguished Service Award by President Obama before her death in 2012 at the age of 61.

The notoriously press-shy former astronaut chose to let her work speak for itself, rather than in publicity, but after reading a rare interview from 1999 with the Los Angeles Times, we can't help but be charmed by the following six excerpts from the interview, adding to the reasons she's one of our heroes.

• Sally was a New York Times crossword puzzle master.
• She's a Trekkie.
• Sally once ranked among the Top 20 junior tennis stars in the nation.
• She flew her own plane to her 1982 Kansas wedding to fellow astronaut Steven Hawley.
• After NASA, Sally continued work and research as a theoretical physicist.
• Her take on science: "Science is fun . . . Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in. It's a lot more important than memorizing things like fila. Memorizing fila is not science. Science is solving puzzles."

In the wake of the NSA PRISM Internet surveillance scandal, and despite tech companies' protests that they knew nothing about the program, we're adding extra security to our Internet use. Disconnect 2 is an update to the popular Disconnect Chrome browser extension, created by a former Google engineer to keep personal data transmitted online private, and not tracked by the companies whose sites you visit.

Currently available as extensions for Chrome and Firefox (the company is working on Safari and Opera versions), Disconnect 2 stops over 2,000 third-party sites from tracking the personal information you input online. Once downloaded, a toolbar on the browser gives a real-time view of the websites that would be grabbing information about your search habits or recent location check-ins were you not using the tool.

Not only does it block the transmission of browsing history, but also, Disconnect encrypts data you choose to share on sites, just in case it one day falls into the hands of a separate company or person. The software is pay-what-you-can, with the option to allot some of the money to Disconnect, and some to Internet nonprofits like ProPublica, Center For Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Tor Project. So you can help the digital good while protecting your digital life.

If there's one time in the day to get out of the house on a photo walk, it's golden hour. Instagram user faundez_alex, shares this picture of a lighthouse on Geneva Lake, taken with the VSCO app.

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If you're addicted to Cartoon Network's hit coming-of-age show, relive the postapocalyptic exploits of Adventure Time with Finn-launching, rock-smashing, Fionna-fighting apps.

The adventures of a hat-wearing boy hero and his talking dog continue on mobile, with iOS and Android games that bring all the goodness of Ooo to phones and tablets.

• Rock Bandits ($2) — In this iOS game, rescue Marceline's stolen fans by slashing and smashing bad guys with Finn's sword. Earn new blades and conquer 20 levels. The app also comes with a free original comic by the series' writer!
• Legends of Ooo ($1) — Solve puzzles to free Hot Dog Princess, Slime Princess, and Princess Bubblegum from their frozen fate. Beat the game and unlock LSP mode to hear a full narration by Lumpy Space Princess.
• Fionna Fights ($1) — The iOS app features the one and only Fionna, who battles evil monsters with a magical crystal sword. Cake and Marshall Lee will, of course, never leave your side as the fierce, furious Fionna.
• Jumping Finn Turbo ($1) for iOS and Android — Fight penguins, ride Lady Rainicorn, and do whatever else duty asks of you to save Princess Bubblegum. Send Finn deep into Ooo with the help of Jake, who will kick his human companion's boo-tay high into the atmosphere.

Have you not been bit by the Adventure Time bug yet? Give the hilarious, fantastical series by Pendleton Ward a try — even top critics herald the show as a highly intellectual animated series that's not just for kids!

Over a year after posting a call for astronaut applications, NASA introduced the 2013 astronaut candidate class on Monday, half of which are female, the highest percentage ever selected in one group by NASA. Over 6,300 people applied for the eight available positions, which begin training Aug.1 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, home of the astronaut corps and Mission Control.

This marks the 21st class of NASA astronaut candidates, all of whom had to undergo a rigorous interview process that included medical, language aptitude, and mobility tests. The eight individuals will join the current 49 active NASA astronauts in the organization's future pursuit of the first manned mission to an asteroid in the 2020 decade, with the goal of one day putting humans on Mars. Currently, the US astronauts' main mission is supporting the global efforts of the International Space Station.

As a NASA representative said during a Google+ Hangout to introduce the eight candidates, the four women chosen were not deliberately selected to represent an equal gender pool, rather they were the most qualified group of people, and a "tribute to women today." Here, an introduction to the impressive women of the 2013 astronaut class.

Christina M. Hammock

Nicole Aunapu Mann

Keep reading to meet the national women's rugby player and the Harvard medical professor that may one day man space missions.