For all the amazing ways social media has changed our lives, it's come with some downsides, as well. Chief among those is FOMO — that is, of course, Fear of Missing Out, a documented disease among social media addicts

Surely you're familiar with the feeling. A simple night relaxing at home is no longer good enoughTwitter brings fun updates from friends on vacationInstagram is full of photos from a party you weren't invited toFacebook is a veritable minefield full of reminders of all the wild fun you're not having there on the couch. And yet ... you can't stop checking. Suddenly your relaxing night at home is a painful exercise in anguish and social isolation Read more...

How did you spend you Friday night? Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk spent his answering questions about paying back the government and musing about the next kind of electric vehicle he might like to make.

After posting a number of tweets about his thoughts on proper taxation and how he did (PayPal and Zip2) and didn't make his fortune, Musk appeared to drop in something of a non sequitur:

Would love to do a pickup truck. Something w ultra low cg for sports car handling, dynamic air suspension & mega torque.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 25, 2013

While building an electric truck would be new for Tesla, it's not a new idea for the world of automobiles. There are already electric truck companies like Smith Electric and Zap World. Read more...

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Name: Askem

The Pitch: Askem aims to simplify your decision-making process

Why It's Taking Off: Askem lets you share your questions online and create up to five different text responses to choose from, so you can cut through the digital noise and get the answers you need instantly.

If you post pictures of three different outfits on Facebook or Twitter and ask which one you should wear tonight, chances are you’ll get a bunch of “likes” and comments and countless opinions, but no definitive answer Read more...

More proof that the cameras are everywhere. The frightening collapse of a bridge in Washington State on the busy Interstate 5 was actually caught by a surveillance camera.

A huge portion of the bridge fell into the Skagit River on Thursday night after an over-sized freight truck struck part of the structure. The grainy video, obtained by AP, actually shows a large white truck moving through the bridge moments before a large section carrying two vehicles plunged into the river below. Miraculously, the passengers of all those vehicles escaped with only minor injuries.

According to an AP report, the truck driver noticed he hit something and had time to look in his rear view mirror and see the bridge collapse. It could be months before the bridge is repaired and travel in that part of Washington State is returned to normal. Read more...