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- New Parents, Bookmark This Website
- Unpopular Now: One Vine Account to Rule Them All?
- Professor Discovers New Human Body Part
- Apple VP Rushed iBooks Deal While Steve Jobs Was Alive
- Smart Socks Act As Your Running Coach
- Which Carrier Has the Best iPhone Plan?
- One Man's Mission to Map More Accessible Cities
- Want a Million Likes on Facebook? It's All About the Reshares
- Boy Bullied by Twitter Racists Will Sing NBA Finals Anthem
- Bird Apps May Confuse Real Birds
- 47% of Superman Fans Want to See 'Man of Steel' in 3D
- Snowden Stole Secret NSA Documents With a Flash Drive
- Apple Claims 20% of E-Book Market
- Player's Microphone Captures Joy of Historic Stanley Cup Game
- Pocket and Sleeping Bag Can Charge Your Phone
- French Court Forces Twitter to Reveal Anti-Semitic Users
- 25 Rage GIFs That Perfectly Express Your Anger
- OkCupid Profile Ghostwriter Will Get You Lucky
- 'Star Wars' Attack May Be the Coolest Wedding Photo Ever
- Aided by a Robot, Teenage Boy Pitches Baseball From 5 States Away
- This Jet Bike Is Insane and Dangerous, But It Works
- Supreme Court Leaves Room for Big Business in Synthetic DNA
- NASA Goes Green: Next Spacecraft Will Be Reusable
- 15 Exceptional Dads Who Deserve Parenting Awards
- Foursquare Time Machine Teleports You Down Memory Lane
- 10 Signs You've Landed at E3
- Facebook Nixes Sponsored Results Ads
- AOL Founder Invests $20 Million in Children's Apparel Startup
- iPhone 5S May Come in Gold
- Metta World Peace's Weird Twitter Musings Are NBA Finals MVP
| New Parents, Bookmark This Website Posted: 13 Jun 2013 08:29 PM PDT   
Name: weeSpring One-Liner Pitch: The first comprehensive social review site for baby products, where parents can research baby gear and follow other parent reviewers they know and trust. Why It's Taking Off: Parents used to send 85-line Excel spreadsheets to friends who were expecting. WeeSpring uses the wisdom of the crowds and a simple rating system to help new parents find exactly what they need, from the pre-natal to pre-school stages. Read more... More about Features, Parenting, Startups, Lifestyle, and Family Parenting |
| Unpopular Now: One Vine Account to Rule Them All? Posted: 13 Jun 2013 07:49 PM PDT  Now that both iOS and Android users can enjoy Vine, one of the major challenges on the service is cutting through the overflow of content uploaded every day To help users get past the "Popular Now" page, some of Vine's biggest names have launched a joint account — jokingly called Unpopular Now — in an attempt to cut down the noise. "The idea is to have one place for various creative artists and entertainers to post content for one audience. In a way, it's a lot like the Popular Now page on Vine, sans the clutter/garbage," says Nick Massahos, a.k.aNick Mastodon. Read more... More about Videos, Social Media, Vine, and Pics |
| Professor Discovers New Human Body Part Posted: 13 Jun 2013 07:20 PM PDT  Get ready to put your hands together and give a warm welcome to the newest addition to the human anatomy. Introducing: Dua’s layer. The new ocular part, which sits at the back of the cornea, was discovered by Harminder Dua, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Nottingham. It's only 15 microns thick, but the discovery, per Dua, has big implications.
Before, researchers were aware of five corneal layers. But, thanks to the help of an electron microscope, Dua and his colleagues were able to discover this additional one by injecting air bubbles into the cornea to separate its layers. Read more... More about Science, Eyes, Tech, Dev Design, and Newsy |
| Apple VP Rushed iBooks Deal While Steve Jobs Was Alive Posted: 13 Jun 2013 06:43 PM PDT  Apple senior Vice President Eddy Cue told a Manhattan courtroom Thursday that he rushed through the process of making deals with publishers — so that Steve Jobs could unveil the iBooks store on stage while the Apple founder was still alive Cue is at the center of an antitrust trial where Apple stands accused of fixing prices of e-books at an artificially high level. Department of Justice prosecutors have described Cue as "the chief ringleader" of a price-fixing effort, a charge he vehemently denied. The five major publishers involved in the lawsuit have all made out-of-court settlements with the DOJ. Read more... More about Apple, Steve Jobs, Ipad, Ibooks, and Business |
| Smart Socks Act As Your Running Coach Posted: 13 Jun 2013 06:17 PM PDT  Can an actual pair of socks knock your proverbial socks off when it comes to making you a better runner? Quite possibly, if you check out the latest creation from a Redmond, Wash., startup. Wearable tech firm Heapsylon developed Sensoria Fitness Socks packed with smart capabilities. These fitness tracker socks have special textile sensors in them that communicate with a Bluetooth-powered anklet you also wear, all feeding data to your smartphone. The Sensoria app displays an activity tracker and lets you know how hard you're exercising.
The socks can track a runner's steps, distance, speed and calories. The technology also serves as a "virtual coach", detecting where you land on your feet and how you stride. There are wrong ways to run (such as overpronation), so the app aims to help you prevent injuries. Read more... More about Indiegogo, Fitness, Running, Wearable Tech, and Lifestyle |
| Which Carrier Has the Best iPhone Plan? Posted: 13 Jun 2013 05:42 PM PDT  AT&T was the only carrier to offer Apple's iPhone when it was first released, forcing many users to switch to a new carrier in order to snag the most advanced phone of the time. Since then, the iPhone has slowly come to each of the three other major carriers — Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile — widening the iPhone's consumer base and giving customers a choice of carrier. Unfortunately, the differences between carrier plans and pricing can make this choice overwhelming. Since every company seems to offer different combinations of voice minutes, texts and data, we did the math to find out which company gives you the biggest bang for your buck. Read more... More about Mobile, Verizon, Iphone, Sprint, and T Mobile |
| One Man's Mission to Map More Accessible Cities Posted: 13 Jun 2013 05:16 PM PDT  Every day, Jason DaSilva experiences firsthand the challenges of traveling around New York City on his motorized scooter. But the Brooklyn-based filmmaker with multiple sclerosis is not sitting back. Instead, DaSilva is leading an initiative called AXS Map to chart big cities with better accessibility information. For people living with physical disabilities, the project is sort of like a more robust Yelp. Resources like Yelp feature detailed information about restaurants, bars and shopping destinations, but DaSilva found they lacked any information about accessibility. Currently, Yelp only indicates whether a place is wheelchair-accessible with a "yes" or "no" indication. Read more... More about Crowdsourcing, New York City, Maps, Yelp, and Social Good |
| Want a Million Likes on Facebook? It's All About the Reshares Posted: 13 Jun 2013 04:50 PM PDT  Remember that time a couple of Norwegian 20 year-olds posted a picture to Facebook? Sure you do. The one where the girl, Catherine, agreed to have sex with her friend Peter if the picture got a million Likes? It turned out to be a joke for the benefit of the pair's friends. Still, the picture zoomed past a million Likes in less than a day. Now the story has become a subject of an academic white paper by a trio of Facebook data scientists. The paper investigates how this picture, along with a similarly viral posting from President Obama, made the big time More about Facebook, Data Visualization, and Social Media |
| Boy Bullied by Twitter Racists Will Sing NBA Finals Anthem Posted: 13 Jun 2013 04:05 PM PDT  Before game three of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night, the home team San Antonio Spurs brought out 11-year-old fan and America's Got Talent star Sebastien De La Cruz to sing the national anthem. The "boy with the golden voice," decked out in a Spurs-themed traditional mariachi suit, brought the house down — as you can see in the video embedded above But that didn't stop the ignorami of Twitter from trying to bully him with racist messages and bitterness over a child of Mexican descent singing America's anthem. Here are just a few examples of the hate, courtesy of Public Shaming (though plenty more appear on the site): Read more... More about Nba, Entertainment, and Sports |
| Bird Apps May Confuse Real Birds Posted: 13 Jun 2013 03:39 PM PDT  Some experts are warning that cell phone apps that mimic bird calls are too real. Concerned that birds may misinterpret the sounds as coming from their feathered friends, rather than phones, and responding to them instead of, say, feeding their babies, experts in the United Kingdom are calling the apps “harmful.” “Repeatedly playing a recording of birdsong or calls to encourage a bird to respond in order to see it or photograph it can divert a territorial bird from other important duties, such as feeding its young…It is selfish and shows no respect to the bird. “People should never use playback to attract a species during its breeding season,” Tony Whitehead, public affairs officer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, told the BBC. Read more... More about Animals, Iphone App, Birds, Apps Software, and Lifestyle |
| 47% of Superman Fans Want to See 'Man of Steel' in 3D Posted: 13 Jun 2013 03:04 PM PDT  Man of Steel swoops into theaters June 14, and eager fans naturally can't stop talking about all things SupermanMashable asked digital comics hub comiXology and DC Comics to survey more than 10,000 fans to get their thoughts on the movie, villain of choice, Superman's love interest and, of course, their favorite Superman comic. Justice League reigned supreme, snagging 25.3% of the votes, while Smallville had the most write-in votes. "Our team here considered Smallville kind of a young Superman comic, so we left if off the poll as a multiple choice option," said Chip Mosher, VP of communications and marketing at comiXology. Read more... More about Films, Entertainment, Comics, Movies, and Film |
| Snowden Stole Secret NSA Documents With a Flash Drive Posted: 13 Jun 2013 03:03 PM PDT  How did whistleblower Edward Snowden steal all those top secret documents from a secure National Security Agency facility in Hawaii? Simple: with a good old-fashioned flash drive That's allegedly how Snowden, who was working at the facility as a contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, smuggled the documents he then leaked to The Guardian and The Washington Post, according to officials questioned by The Los Angeles Times
The classified documents leaked last week revealed that the NSA has been collecting millions of phone records from Verizon; the existence of an international surveillance system called PRISM which apparently collects data from the likes of Google and Facebook; a secret Obama order to draw up overseas targets for cyber attacks; and Boundless Informant, a tool to datamine the world. Read more... More about Privacy, Surveillance, Prism, Us World, and Us |
| Apple Claims 20% of E-Book Market Posted: 13 Jun 2013 02:56 PM PDT  Apple's share of the e-book market is bigger than many previously thought Taking the witness stand at the antitrust trial between Apple and the DOJ on Wednesday, Apple executive Keith Moerer revealed that the company obtained a 20% share of the e-book market shortly after launching its iBookstore in 201, and has maintained that share in the two years since. "E-book sales grew 100% last year at the iBookstore and it had over 100 million customers," Moerer said, per Publisher's Weekly.
Asymco analyst Horace Dediu estimated in February that Apple's share of the e-book market was 24%. Other industry observers claimed at the time that the estimate was overzealous, pegging Apple's share at 10% and allocating 65% of the market to Amazon and 25% to Barnes & Noble. Read more... More about Amazon, Apple, Kindle, Ebooks, and Barnes Noble |
| Player's Microphone Captures Joy of Historic Stanley Cup Game Posted: 13 Jun 2013 02:35 PM PDT  Wednesday night's first game of the Stanley Cup Finals was an-all time sports classic. The Chicago Blackhawks finally scored in triple overtime to secure a come-from-behind, marathon win over the visiting Boston Bruins in the wee hours of Thursday morning The four-hour, 32-minute game was instantly lauded by fans and media on Twitter as one that will live on in history, both for its length and the tenacity of both teams' exhausted players. Likewise, Andrew Shaw's late, late, late goal for the 'Hawks will surely be replayed for years and years to come in highlight montages and NHL retrospectives. Read more... More about Nhl, Stanley Cup, Entertainment, and Sports |
| Pocket and Sleeping Bag Can Charge Your Phone Posted: 13 Jun 2013 02:35 PM PDT  Forget searching for charging outlets and plug points, you can now charge your phone with body heat and a sleeping bag or pocket in your clothesVodafone revealed this week the wearable Power Pocket charger. It works by using technology called thermocouples, pairs of thermoelectric material designed to be small and flexible enough to stitch onto clothing. A number of them are printed and then connected together to create the "pocket."
Stephen Beeby, professor of electronic systems at the University of Southampton, said in a statement, “One side of that is cold and the other is hot, and when you get a flow of heat through it you can create a voltage and a current. Voltage and current together equals electrical power.” Read more... More about Vodafone, Chargers, Wearable Tech, Dev Design, and Lifestyle |
| French Court Forces Twitter to Reveal Anti-Semitic Users Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:49 PM PDT  Twitter must reveal the users behind a series of anti-Semitic posts after a French court decided Thursday not to hear the company's appeal of an earlier decision. Several French groups sued Twitter last year, demanding it reveal the identities of users who posted anti-Jewish messages. In January, the Paris High Court ruled in favor of the French groups, deciding the messages violated French laws against hate speech and Holocaust denial. Twitter consequently filed an appeal, which has now been denied.
Twitter told the BBC that it is considering options for further appeal. Meanwhile, the tweets in question have been blocked in France. Read more... More about Twitter, Government, World, France, and Us World |
| 25 Rage GIFs That Perfectly Express Your Anger Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:25 PM PDT  Sometimes, a GIF can capture an emotion in a single moving image better than an hour-long rant ever could. Since the last thing you want to do when you're seething is to scour Tumblr for that one where that guy throws that thing, it's always helpful to have a collection of reaction GIFs handy So, for every time someone doesn't hold the elevator door, every time your best friend bails at the last minute, every time you had a bad day and it feels like Daniel Powter is singing directly to you, we've got you covered. 1. For an anger that can't be contained.
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| OkCupid Profile Ghostwriter Will Get You Lucky Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:55 PM PDT  If you click through enough online dating profiles, and you begin to wonder whether any singles on the Internet have a brain It's usually not the profile writer's fault; summarizing yourself in a few paragraphs is no easy task, and more often than not, conveys an identity that is incongruous with the individual's true self. If you met in person, you might be totally charmed, but on sites like OkCupid and Match.com, it's easy to be put off by grammatical errors and unwarranted douche vibes. That's where one anonymous, single 27-year-old lady in D.C. got a brilliant idea: Become a professional online dating profile writer. Why not? People are looking for love, and she's looking to get paid for her writing. To find clients, she posted an ad on Craigslist: Read more... More about Craigslist, Online Dating, Okcupid, Lifestyle, and Work Play |
| 'Star Wars' Attack May Be the Coolest Wedding Photo Ever Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:31 PM PDT  Readers, meet the ultimate wedding crashers: a squad of Imperial AT-AT Walkers Following the killer dinosaur attack Photoshop that went viral this June, photographers and self-professed Star Wars nerds Tony and Danielle Lombardo of Little Blue Lemon decided to craft a wedding party attack too.
The day of the wedding, photographer Lisa Wiebe joked about creating a nerd-tastic chase scene for bride and groom Leslie Seiler and Paul Kingston, both diehard Star Wars fans. Soon enough, they were halting traffic while a horde of screaming bridesmaids and groomsmen ran for their lives down Elington Avenue in Toronto. Read more... More about Wedding, Pics, Star Wars, Watercooler, and Family Parenting |
| Aided by a Robot, Teenage Boy Pitches Baseball From 5 States Away Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:11 PM PDT  We told you it was coming: A boy sick with a rare blood disorder would throw the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game from five states away, thanks to help from a high-tech robot and Google Fiber The moment finally arrived before Wednesday night's Yankees-A's game in Oakland, Calif., and it's a pretty heartwarming example of sports technology being used to make one kid's day.
Thirteen-year-old Nick LeGrande is a huge baseball fan and a talented player recently diagnosed with aplastic anemia — a condition in which the bone marrow doesn't make enough new blood — meaning he can no longer play ball or surround himself with large crowds Read more... More about Robots, Mlb, Entertainment, and Sports |
| This Jet Bike Is Insane and Dangerous, But It Works Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:10 PM PDT  Self-described British garage inventor/videomaker Colin Furze built a portable "big-ass pulse jet," and naturally, the first thing he wanted to do was strap it onto what he calls "an old woman's bike built for shopping." The result? It's a jet bike. Isn't this dangerous? Of course it is. Colin admits it himself, titling his video "The JET bicycle — the most dangerous unsafe bike EVER." You can plainly see in the video the open flames that get just a little too close to that fuel tank. You'll notice the location of the fuel tank has been changed later in the video, too — to make it "safer," we suppose. Read more... More about Youtube, Inventors, Dev Design, Gadgets, and Watercooler |
| Supreme Court Leaves Room for Big Business in Synthetic DNA Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:42 AM PDT  The Supreme Court's gene patenting decision left plenty of room for profitable business in synthetic DNA, Wall Street is indicating. Myriad Genetics, the genetics research company involved by the case decided Thursday, is up more than 8% in mid-day trading: While there's no guarantee Myriad will end the day quite so high, this is a sign investors are positive about Myriad's future. Rightfully so: While the Supreme Court found organic DNA can't be patented, it conceded that synthetically engineered DNA can be protected by a patent More about Science, Dna, Genetics, Us World, and Us |
| NASA Goes Green: Next Spacecraft Will Be Reusable Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:36 AM PDT  Since the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian rockets to launch its astronauts to space. But the United States plans to have its own homemade spacecraft again soon. Called the Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle, the new vehicle will be able to carry astronauts to Earth orbit, to the moon, asteroids and eventually to Mars. Though it looks similar to the gumdrop shape of the Apollo moon-bound capsules, the Orion spacecraft is a whole new machine. Unlike the old capsules, Orion — set to make its first test flight in 2017 — can be reused. The Orion capsule consists of three basic sections: a crew module, a service module and a launch abort system. A powerful new rocket, called the Space Launch System, will be used to launch Orion into space. It's the crew module section, in particular, that can be recycled for multiple spaceflights. Read more... More about Space, Green, Nasa, Eco Friendly, and Reuse |
| 15 Exceptional Dads Who Deserve Parenting Awards Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:30 AM PDT  So you think your dad is awesome? Maybe so, but these dads have gone above and beyond to show their children just how much they care One dad dresses up in different costumes every day to see his son off to school; another built a backyard roller coaster for his daughter
These 15 dads deserve some special recognition, in honor of Father's Day. Let us know in the comments if your dad has done something amazing for you. 1. This dad built a spaceship simulator for his son.Daniel Sherrouse sure raised the bar for other dads out there. When he found out his wife was pregnant, he started planning an extensive spaceship simulator for his son. After about 10 months of construction, Sherrouse outfitted a 1.5 x 2.4-meter trailer with dashboards, controls, HUDS and equipment to mimic a spaceship cockpit. Most of the parts aren't functional, but you can play Pioneer Space Simulator on one of the screens Read more... More about Father S Day, Features, Watercooler, Family Parenting, and Lifestyle |
| Foursquare Time Machine Teleports You Down Memory Lane Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:21 AM PDT  Okay world travelers, now it's time for some humble bragging, thanks to the new Foursquare Time Machine. On Thursday, the company announced this new way to visualize all of your past check-ins on its Foursquare blog, and what a gorgeous visualization it is. The animation flies you around all those haunts you've visited in times past, served up in a lovely 3D effect that you can autoplay to your heart's content. You can zoom in or out of its map showing all the places you've been, checking out each of your check-ins. The interface helpfully provides places Foursquare has recommended for you as well. Read more... More about Foursquare, Social Media, and Apps Software |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:08 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES — The Entertainment Electronic Expo is like no other place on Earth. Industry insiders, press, analysts and fans unite to see the latest and greatest in gaming — resulting in a combined culture that you don't see anywhere else. As we head into the final day of the convention, we wanted to recap exactly what it is that makes E3 so special, strange and alien. What strange things have you witnessed at E3? Share your stories in the comments below. 1. There are Booth Babes everywhere.These ladies are hired to hand out promotional material, often in short shorts and skimpy outfits like they do at other tech expos. But at E3, the more classic example looks like this group of cosplayers who are just there to snap pictures with fans. Read more... More about Gaming, Lists, Entertainment, Pics, and Watercooler |
| Facebook Nixes Sponsored Results Ads Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT  In a further effort to streamline its advertising offerings, Facebook is planning to phase out Sponsored Results — the ads it had served up for searches. The company plans to stop offering the unit to advertisers in July. Later that month, users will stop seeing them. Facebook offered the following statement on the matter: "We've seen that most marketers were buying Sponsored Results to advertise their apps and games and we already offer mobile app install ads and Page post link ads on desktop to achieve these same goals."
Introduced last August, Sponsored Results let marketers buy "type-ahead" units that popped up when users began typing a query. For instance, here's a Sponsored Result for a company called Porch Potty Read more... More about Facebook, Facebook Ads, Business, and Marketing |
| AOL Founder Invests $20 Million in Children's Apparel Startup Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:51 AM PDT  AOL co-founder Steve Case has been on a journey across America, looking for promising young businesses outside of New York and Silicon Valley. On one such trip to North Carolina last fall, Case met Brandi Temple (pictured above), founder of a now 5-year-old online children's apparel company, Lolly Wolly Doodle, which claims to sell 60% of its clothes through Facebook. That meeting led to several more and on Thursday, Case's Revolution Growth venture fund announced a $20 million investment in the company. "Part of the Revolution strategy is to invest in big ideas that are small companies, and to try to help them become big companies," Case said in a phone interview with Mashable on Thursday. "I also believe in the notion of 'the rise of the rest' — there are great entrepreneurs all around the company, [but] just a few places are getting all the attention." Read more... More about Fashion, Children, Retail, Steve Case, and Business |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:41 AM PDT  Could Apple be bringing a bit of bling to its next generation of iPhones? According to the Japanese publication Macotakara, a gold smartphone may indeed be in the cards for Apple, which is expected to launch a revamped iPhone handset later this year alongside its next-generation iPad models. While little is known about what new features the seventh-generation iPhone might bring, Macotakara asserts that a reliable "source" has informed the publication that the forthcoming handset will, indeed, be available in gold. More about Iphone, Phone, Predictions, Cell Phone, and Tech |
| Metta World Peace's Weird Twitter Musings Are NBA Finals MVP Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:28 AM PDT  Pivotal game four of the NBA Finals tips off Thursday night, with LeBron James and the Miami Heat looking to avoid a 3-1 deficit against Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs But the finals' MVP so far hasn't been James or Duncan. It hasn't been surprise hero Danny Green. And it hasn't been this ridiculous dunk block No, if the finals ended today, the MVP would have to go to Los Angeles Laker Metta World Peace — or, to be more specific, World Peace's fascinatingly bizarre Twitter feed
For context, World Peace is a pretty weird dude in general. He spent the first several years of his career as Ron Artest, then legally changed his name in 2011. In April, he tweeted this gross photo of fluid doctors drained from his knee Read more... More about Nba, Entertainment, and Sports |
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