Pre-caffeine tech: Doomsday awards, pug resolutions[ Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:10:58 GMT ]Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today: The hype over the supposed Maya doomsday won honors as the weirdest science story of the past year — even though there wasn't much science to it. Everyone freaked out about Instagram's privacy policy, but there isn't much fuss over Obama extending government wireless wiretapping another five years.