Digg founder Kevin Rose has stepped down from the company recently. He has started a new company in stealth mode and is close to raising $1 million in funding. Rose launched Digg in December 2004 and it gained popularity very quickly.

According to manufacturer’s warnings, the 3-D screen on the Nintendo 3DS shouldn’t be used by children 6 or under. But optometrists say that it is a good idea for kids to try and use the 3-D screen. It won’t do any harm to them and it may help them catch vision disorders early on.

There is a rumor floating around that President Obama is close to electing departing Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt as the nation’s next Secretary of Commerce. Former Reagan Administration Commerce Department counsel Clyde Prestowitz endorses Schmidt for the job. Schmidt’s last day at Google is on April 4 and Larry Page will fill in for him. Schmidt worked at Google for 10 years and is rumored to have had a falling out after the company decided to pull out of China. [BusinessInsider]

Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer has invested in Topicmarks. Topicmarks is a startup company that uses semantic text technology to extract important information from any document. Topicmarks is looking to raise $700,000 in seed funding and Patzer led the round.

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is shutting down AlltheWeb.com on April 4th. “Yahoo! will be closing AlltheWeb on April 4, 2011, as we focus on other features to improve your search experience. Starting on April 4, 2011, http://www.alltheweb.com will redirect to Yahoo! Search at http://search.yahoo.com. Thanks for your understanding,” states AlltheWeb.com on their homepage. Yahoo! gained ownership in AlltheWeb in March 2004 after acquiring Overture. Overture had acquired AlltheWeb and AltaVista in 2003. [TechCrunch]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the top-level domain .xxx for pornography websites. ICANN made the announcement at the annual meeting in San Francisco. The idea for these top-level domains have been around for almost a decade and it was approved briefly in 2005. Adult websites won’t be forced to use the .xxx domain names. It will make it easier to filter and block adult websites from kids. [BusinessInsider]

The research arm of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is working on a new project that will help doctors navigate around the medical imagery generated from routine CT scans. “As medical imaging has advanced, so many images are produced that there is a kind of information overload. The workload has grown a lot,” stated Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Chicago Medical Center Kenji Suzuki.

The AP Stylebook is a guide for determining grammar and word usage in the media. This past Friday, the AP Stylebook said that the abbreviation for “electronic mail” will no longer be “e-mail.” Instead it will be “email.” Last year the AP STylebook changed “Web site” to “website.” “Language evolves. Today we change AP style from e-mail to email, no hyphen. Our editors will announce it at #ACES2011 today,” said the AP Stylebook in a tweet. [Mashable]