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The 20 Most Important Online Videos Of All Time
Web video – which slowly grew from web-cams and MPEG videos in the '90s to the streaming video of YouTube and Vimeo – has ushered in a new era of instant global sharing. Whether it's cats from Japan,...
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Then & Now: The Classic Video Game Characters Seen In "Wreck It Ralph"
Check out what your favorites from Street Fighter , Q*bert , and others look like today — and meet a few new characters, too! Zangief: The Red Cyclone The muscle-bound, hairy-chested, bear-grappling,...
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Why It's So Hard To Get Rid Of Your Landline
It's weirdly difficult to avoid the “bundles” of cable, Internet and an archaic home phone line . Why? It's a sort of long con. (Oh, and old people love them.) Source: www22.verizon.com "We just...
View ArticleNow You Can Gift Stuff — Real Stuff! —To Your Friends On Facebook
Up until today the only real answer to “how does Facebook make money?” was “with ads, I guess?” Facebook Gifts is markedly more concrete: you can buy your friends real things through the site using...
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Why Instagram Made Its App Worse
The headline feature of Instagram 2.0 disappeared from the latest version of the app for iPhone 5. And it's not coming back. Dearly departed live filtering Typically, a new app for a new phone means...
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The Alarming Use Of Homophobic Language On Twitter
The Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS) at the University of Alberta launched NoHomophobes.com to track the use of gay slurs on Twitter. The rate is discouraging to anyone who...
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Apple Officially Apologizes For Ruining iPhone Maps
In an exceedingly rare apology from the company, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted it “fell short,” and even recommended alternative apps. Apple's iOS 6 maps nightmare reaches Antennagate levels, at least...
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The Anti-Facebook Mask
Be invisible. Or, at least, fool Facebook for Halloween. Source: martinbackes.com It's no secret that Facebook (and the U.S. government and god-knows-who-else) use facial recognition technology to,...
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How To Not Answer Text Messages Like A Very Angry Person
It's harder than it seems, apparently? I sometimes get told that I seem “angry” in texts when I’m not. What do I say or avoid saying in texting to avoid accidentally coming off harsh?Someday there is...
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The REAL Best Thing About The New iPhone
You can clone yourself! Or your friends. Introducing the Human Panoramapede. One of the new iPhone software features is the panorama mode: You can use it to take nice, wide photos like these, which is...
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What Google Can Teach Us About Women
Women should not wear pants, but can wear hats indoors, according to Google autocomplete. Let's start with the basics. So how should women behave? View Entire List ›
View ArticleThe Most Screwed Up Romantic Movies On Netflix
Love goes wrong in a lot of ways, whether in post-war Britain, in '50s America or in a strange Canadian dreamworld. This week's Netflix Video Clerk. If you’re in the mood for an emotionally wrenching...
View ArticleThe New, More Better Facebook Messenger App
The Facebook Messenger app started out a little rough, in part because of the conceptual messiness of Facebook Messages — is it an email replacement? IM? SMS? all of the above? — but version...
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How Pinterest Is Killing Feminism
This isn't where the internet was supposed to take us. Art by John Gara. One in five women over the age of 18 who regularly use the internet is on Pinterest, which had an estimated 23 million users...
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Security Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Twitter Accounts
“People should be changing their passwords,” says a victim whose account was hacked — and even put up for sale. On Saturday, multimedia producer and Twitter user Daniel Dennis Jones — @blanket, at the...
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22 Things I Saw At Maker Faire
The new era of child geniuses is upon us. This epic science fair of DIY kidventions just wrapped up in Queens, New York. There were tons of cool kids there. It was basically Burning Man for...
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Why Your Phone's Back Button Should Die
It's confusing. It's unnecessary. It's bad. Source: kowitz You could argue for 47 consecutive days about whether or not Android phones rip off the iPhone — in court, even — or over how half-baked...
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These Incorrect Venn Diagram Ads Are Pissing Off Everybody
Not just math nerds. If you live in New York City, chances are you've seen these annoying ads for Speck smartphone covers. As you can see, they make zero sense. For instance, the "City People" circle...
View ArticleAmazon Paperwhite Kindle Reviews Looking Good
In some ways, the Kindle Paperwhite is kind of a “duh” appliance — it's the new version of the Kindle, it's faster/better/stronger than the one before it (which was already the standard for...
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The Twitter Deluge Is The New Press Release
Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, and Mike Bloomberg were among 20 public figures to tweet-blast a new study by the Center for American Progress. “We needed to try something out of the box,” said a CAP...
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