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They did it for a week. this was back in 2012. it was part of an experiment on how facebook users react to positive or negative news in their news feeds. at the time, they never told anyone. so what do you think about this? let's bring in our cnn money tech correspondent lori seigel. what is going on here? >> essentially facebook -- first of all, the findings were just published this month. there is this premise, you know when you go to facebook and everybody seems to be living these amazing lives and you think this is depressing. >> vacations and new boyfriends. >> right, they wanted to see, ...

>> let's take a closer look at how the technology would work. we have cnn's money tech correspondent lori seigel. what can be retrieved? >> well, so much. i was thinking if a phone is in the water for so long and how would you get anything off of it? i spoke to a cell phone company called h-11 and they told me what you would get. longitude and latitude if they had gps and constantly looking for the signals and time line information and photographs and individu video and text messages and call history and e-mail and social media and if someone was using facebook or trying tick ma a last call, a...

Go to this office of mad scientists i call them, and they have technology starting conservations. behind me is a drone that can stun somebody. we will have a demo of that for you tomorrow. and it sounds unbelievable, but the idea of south by southwest is to have a conversation about the future, and what technology is going to be big in where we are headed. >> well, if you have seen the movie "her" it sounds familiar. that is lori seigel down there at south by southwest. >> a man and lottery ticket and the camera recording the whole thing. and then an encounter that will bring tears to your e...

600,000 miles. quite a lot. it was set to come closest to earth about three hours ago. we will keep you posted on any other developments. if you have a clear view of the western sky, you may be able to see a different object, a comet. you won't even need a telescope for this. the comet called pan stars could be visible with the naked eye just after sunset starting tuesday. if you look for it, you'll see a bright point of light with a tail pointing straight up at the horizon. it's named after the telescope that discovered it two years ago. the panoramic survey telescope and response system. ...

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