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How Twitter Is Taking Over Live TV
TV networks are letting Twitter users dictate programming — right now. Welcome to social TV. If you watched NBC's The Voice last week, the closing song was "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" — not because...
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One Direction Fan Live-Tweeted Her Suicide Attempt
Sunday night, a 14-year-old girl with a rare medical condition sparked a social media frenzy, attempting to kill herself while updating the whole ordeal on Twitter. Via: instagram.com Sunday night,...
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Someone Named Their Baby "Hashtag"
Apparently, the happy new parents loved Twitter so much they decided to ruin their child's life forever. Source: cdn0.dailydot.com Via: mashable.com
View ArticleThe Bizarre Ageism Of Silicon Valley
“Finally, before heading into his next interview, he shaved off his gray hair and traded in his loafers for a pair of Converse sneakers. The board hired him.” Silicon Valley's obsession with the...
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The Anti-Spotify Music App
The music app you should be using. The catalog for Rdio isn't as vast or deep as Spotify's. It's missing some stuff I want to listen to, like Maserati's new album. But it's my preferred subscription...
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How To Film A 60-Mile-Per-Hour Cat
It's a lot like shooting a car chase. National Geographic just released a short, fantastic video of a cheetah: It was filmed using a super-slow-motion Phantom camera, and it's mesmerizing: Almost as...
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What Happened When NYU Students Discovered They Could Email 40,000 People At...
One student's accidental “reply all” on an archaic Listserve system led to the discovery that practically any NYU student could bombard nearly 40,000 other students with email. It all started with a...
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One-A-Day Gift Guide: A Dead-Simple USB Battery Pack
Because everyone needs a charge sometimes. One gift that's guaranteed to be useful. Nobody plans to run out of battery power, which is why few people think to buy battery packs for themselves...
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Why Are So Few Women Creating Video Games?
“Because I was told I'd be remembered not on my own merits, but by who I was or was assumed to be sleeping with,” is one reason among many that women have posted to Twitter. Image by Jessica Rinaldi /...
View ArticleTwitter As An Extractive Economy
A more dire reading of Twitter's evolution from 140 characters to 2,000 ways to tweet: “Unfortunately this inclusive world was not meant to last. From the beginning, an extractive time bomb was...
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A Meltdown In The Progressive Twittersphere
Shoq, lies and audiotape. (Updated below) In October 2011, Politico profiled "Obamabots," online Obama partisans who were beginning to confront more ideological progressives, like Glenn Greenwald and...
View ArticlePretty Much The Perfect Camera Commercial
What some people go through to get just the right shot. A camera ad should be beautifully shot.And this new spot for the Canon Rebel T4i does not disappoint.The scenarios are wonderful. (The closing...
View ArticleThe First Music Video Shot Entirely With Instagram
This had to happen eventually: a music video shot entirely with Instagram. Source: vimeo.com Composed of 1,095 still frames processed through Instagram, this is the first music video, The Plastics...
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54 Best Tumblrs Started In 2012
This year, Tumblr users captured the best of the best when it came to the Internet: everything from political memes to pop culture mashups and GIF reactions to stunning photography. Binders Full of...
View ArticleHow Twitter Betrays Celebrity Endorsers
Because if Lebron James isn't really using the Galaxy Note he shilled so convincingly for, we'd know it, thanks to a tiny piece of data Twitter's doing its best to hide. LINK: How Twitter Betrays...
View ArticleTerrifying Disney Robot Plays Catch With Guests
Oh, sure, it starts with throwing balls but it ends with throwing KNIVES. Source: youtube.com / via: geekologie.com
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Obama Asks American People To Call, E-Mail, Tweet Congress To Pass Tax Cuts
“It's too important for Washington to screw this up,” Obama said. Image by Carolyn Kaster, File / AP WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Wednesday urged the American people to call, e-mail, and tweet...
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Why Mobile Maps Are Actually Getting Worse
It's the one part of your phone that might not be getting better. Why every major mobile company is re-creating reality from scratch. Source: theamazingios6maps For a few wonderful years, the mobile...
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First-Ever 3-D Photo Booth Makes Figurines Instead Of Pictures
Instead of getting your photo taken, you get a tiny doll of yourself. A Japanese creative lab called PARTY opened an exhibit where guests can have their pictures taken and converted into figurines....
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Here Is A Turtle With A Diaper On A Computer
Who knew you gotta diap your turt? Hi, I'm a turtle and I am using a computer and I have a diaper on Source: moriiahh Hi, now I'm going to learn some math in this math. Still diaped! Source: moriiahh...
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