Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - 16 minutes ago
Anonymous, continuing an unusually active run of activity, took credit for bringing down the Central Intelligence Agency’s website Friday afternoon. As of 3:50 p.m. ET, the site remains inaccessible. “CIA TANGO DOWN: cia.gov,” reads a tweet from an Anonymous-affiliated account. CIA TANGO DO...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - 33 minutes ago
"Patriot or not ... " For the Super Bowl, we challenged you to turn Patriots coach Bill Belichick into a meme using the cropped image of him we provided. This photobomb featuring U.S. President Barack Obama is our favorite submission. Congrats to James Valentine, who will receive some sweet...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - 44 minutes ago
If you own a white MacBook, it’s now vintage. Apple officially ended its waning existence, reports say, pronouncing the product as “End of Life.” For consumers, this is kind of déjà vu. Apple actually discontinued the white MacBook from its lineup last summer, when the MacBook Air line was ...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - 54 minutes ago
Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a nonprofit organization that promotes youth entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment and underemployment. The YEC provides young entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship, and resources that support each stage of a business�...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 10, 2012, 3:22 pm
One Pirate Bay user successfully ported the whole of The Pirate Bay onto a USB drive. This is made possible now that the site has transitioned to magnet links to save on bandwidth and likely because it leaves behind less potentially incriminating evidence on The Pirate Bay’s own servers. “Somew...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 10, 2012, 3:08 pm
Protests against Internet censorship will blanket Europe this weekend, while Germany and Latvia announced Friday they would put the brakes on signing a copyright treaty that has sparked controversy across the continent. More than 200,000 people have committed to attending rallies in 200 cities to p...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 10, 2012, 2:51 pm
When Apple announced its initiative to bring iPads into schools and provide textbooks in digital format, the reaction among many was enthusiastic. iPad textbooks are more interactive, they can be easily updated and they can’t be easily vandalized. The price Apple announced at their launch event ...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 10, 2012, 2:36 pm
Facebook users have a love-hate relationship with Facebook Timeline, which encourages users to share their life story in photos and milestones. So where does French President Nicolas Sarkozy fall on the amour-haine spectrum? J’adore, it seems, as Sarkozy has enabled Timeline on his profile. Sarko...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 10, 2012, 2:21 pm
Scientists have created a biological computer capable of extracting hidden images on a DNA chip. There’s nothing new about a computer reading images encrypted on DNA chips, but this is the first computer made only of biomolecules. The scientists behind the research in California and Israel say t...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 10, 2012, 2:09 pm
1. Kid Breaks iPad Outside the Store Here's a video of a group of teenagers who buy an iPad at Best Buy, then smash it with a bat in front of all the people in line waiting to buy their own. Some sense of humor they have. Click here to view this gallery. On Thursday, a vi...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 11:51 pm
Tesla Motors has introduced the Model X, its third electric car, and like its brandmates, this one is an all-electric vehicle. Built on the same chassis as the four-door Model S, the Model X is a hybrid — a cross between an SUV and minivan — and it has what Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk calls “...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 10:54 pm
Next time you write an email subject line, think twice about the words you’re using. Loading your message with words such as “confirm,” “join,” “press,” or “invite” is not a good idea if you want a response, says data from Baydin, the makers of email plugin Boomerang. Baydin rece...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 10:29 pm
The disgruntled teenage daughter of a tech-savvy, gun-toting father just got a very public lesson in respecting one’s elders. “That right there is your laptop,” the father, named Tommy Jordan, says in a YouTube video while pointing a video camera at a computer on laying in a patch of dirt an...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 10:07 pm
Hide your kids, hide your wife: YouTube sensation Antoine Dodson is climbing through your computer window and trying to snatch your attention once more. His “Bed Intruder” autotune went viral in 2010. Now, in a bid to transform from gimmicky viral star to recording artist, he’s back with “Lo...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 9:36 pm
The latest wave of online dating sites forgoes mysterious equations in favor of straightforward, sometimes unexpected, matching techniques. Whereas Match.com, eHarmony and OkCupid promise to calculate your ideal mate based on your actions and stated preferences, these new sites use some interesting...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 9:18 pm
Most people who start this article won’t make it to the end — at least not in a way that they could pass a comprehension test. Studies have shown that the mere presence of a links in online text and the practice of jumping between digital documents impede understanding. Others have determined w...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 8:35 pm
Twitter has announced a new partnership with major satellite providers to give their subscribers access to Twitter SMS, the original text-based Twitter service. According to a statement released Thursday, the company has partnered with Iridium and Thuraya, the world’s two largest satellite provid...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 8:10 pm
Ted Williams, the former homeless man with the golden voice who hit YouTube fame in early 2011, is back for a Twitter-based Valentine’s Day campaign for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. From Feb. 12 to 14, Williams will shoot up to 100 videos for the brand’s “Golden Voice of Love” campaign. The vid...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 7:25 pm
Creating a legal entity for your startup will establish much-needed separation between you and your business. Shielding your personal assets is the first and foremost reason to think about incorporating. But let’s face it. When it comes down to choosing a business structure, small business owner...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 7:04 pm
Think about how you’ll describe social media to friends and family in 50 years. Now, watch this “Future Hipsters” video in which badass elderly folks show us how silly all things social media really could sound. “You could get away with anything in those days,” one dude says. “I built a...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 6:36 pm
Female Aircraft Worker "Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies." Image courtesy of The Library of Congress, Flickr. Click here to view this gallery. Flickr Commons, a collaboration between the photo-sharing site and the Libra...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 6:04 pm
“Can you smelllllll….What the The Rock! Is cooking?!?” That became a ubiquitous catchphrase when Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was a Worldwide Wrestling Federation megastar around the turn of the millennium. Unlike most wrestling-ring bruisers, however, Johnson has done a lot more than just ...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 5:25 pm
Romantic math geeks, your moment has arrived. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, go ahead and type (or paste) this into Google search: sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 Twitter user @Huckberry tipped us off to the fact that typing i...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 5:02 pm
Microsoft described in detail Thursday exactly how Windows will work on ARM devices. The new strain of Windows, retooled from the ground up for low-power devices like tablets, will be identical to the regular desktop version in many ways, and Microsoft says it’ll ship some test units to developers...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 4:47 pm
From bootstrapping his company, to raising a seed round last year, to his company’s recent $8 million A round, Neil Capel exemplifies the grit and hustle typical in successful entrepreneurs. Capel founded Sailthru, an enterprise software-as-a-service company that uses clickstream data to individu...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 4:39 pm
TV personality, activist, and social media comedian Stephen Fry has taken sides in the Paul Chambers “Twitter Joke Trial,” saying that British judges fundamentally don’t understand how Twitter works. Fry’s stance is more interesting for the larger question it raises about the rising role of...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 4:26 pm
LinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November. The figure was disclosed in a press release the company issued Thursday announcing its fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results. The company posted revenues of $167.7 million, beating t...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 4:14 pm
If Angry Birds and Cut the Rope can have toys, why can’t FarmVille? Social gaming juggernaut Zynga is teaming up with toy maker Hasbro to create a “wide range of toys and gaming experiences” based on Zynga properties and brands, a release read. The first products are expected to hit the mark...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 1:26 pm
The U.S. government wants to more aggressively track terrorists on social media — and it’s asking for your help. The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Embassy in Prague are sponsoring a social media gaming contest to test ways social media and open source data can be used to track terroris...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 1:14 pm
President Barack Obama, or rather the Obama 2012 campaign, is using Spotify to share tunes with voters and constituents. The campaign tweeted a link to its official 2012 playlist created using Spotify. It includes tunes picked by members of the campaign staff, as well as a few of President Obama’...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 12:52 pm
Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger is about to receive one of the Internet’s most thoughtful Valentine’s Day ecards from his girlfriend Kaitlyn Trigger. Trigger, who has been dating Krieger since before he launched the hugely popular iOS app, is launching Lovestagram, an interactive Valentine�...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 12:33 pm
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. The fine folks at Nerdist are teaming up with Lucasfilm, Octagon and Machinima to do the first ever “Lightsaber Run” in the days leading up to San Diego Comic Con. That might be the geekiest thing w...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 12:18 pm
A video game developer’s Kickstarter project has raised more than $600,000 in just 24 hours. When game veteran Tim Schafer put up a Kickstarter Wednesday night, he wanted to answer the question: are adventure games still viable and popular? Adventure games, mostly seen on PCs and some consoles in...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 12:03 pm
The 54th annual Grammy Awards ceremony is imminent, and the nominations are in. This year, the Recording Academy continues to embrace digital and social technology, providing you ways to follow the activity leading up to and during the big night. Of course, we’ll all have to wait until Sunday ni...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 11:50 am
Ben Lerer is the co-founder and CEO of Thrillist, a leading men’s multi-platform lifestyle publication with over 3 million daily subscriptions in 21 localized markets in the U.S. and the UK. Since its launch in 2005, Lerer has overseen the growth of Thrillist’s marketing, sales and business de...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 11:14 am
The typical soldier can only carry about 100 lbs. worth of gear, but not indefinitely. DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) new robotic mule, however, can carry 400 lbs. of gear and never get tired — and it can do it with a surprising degree of agility. Physical overburden of sol...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 10:58 am
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a 191-page background check on late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs that was done in 1991, when Jobs was considered for a post in the George H.W. Bush administration. The report doesn’t delineate what kind of post Jobs was being considered for. The rep...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 10:52 am
The tech world awoke today to a new batch of rumors about the iPad 3. First various sites reported on an alleged leak of some of the components of the tablet, then another chimed in to announce that Apple is planning a March unveiling for its new toy. Yesterday Repair Labs posted a picture of what ...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 10:39 am
New technological and social media tools have a way of messing up relationships — and they can also be used for evidence when those relationships fail and end up in divorce court. A study of divorce attorneys released this week shows an increase in smartphones being used as evidence. Ninety-two ...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 10:28 am
In a cost-cutting move and a signal of the company’s poor financial situation, Eastman Kodak on Thursday announced it plans to stop selling digital cameras. The company, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month, will instead focus on online and retail-based photo printing as well as deskt...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 10:17 am
iPhones aren’t cool. You know what’s cool? Shooting your friends with your iPhone, mounted into a laser blaster. A couple of phone-based friend-blasting systems have crossed our radar this week — one for iPhone, one for any smartphone. First came news that Hasbro is updating Lazer Tag (rem...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 10:01 am
The Future of Search Series is supported by SES New York, the leading search, social and display conference. From March 19 to 23, get five days of education, inspiration and conversations with marketing experts from the digital space. Register with MASH20 to save 20%. More people are flocking onlin...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 12:19 am
Fans of The Bachelor are all too familiar with this season’s over-the-top contestant Courtney, who makes snide comments at the camera and likes to take off her bikini top. Now, a video has popped up on YouTube that has turned some of her signature phrases — from “Winning!” to “I do modeli...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 9, 2012, 12:09 am
Facebook revealed its roadmap for social games and mobile apps for the rest of the year at the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference on Wednesday in San Francisco — and it’s good news for app developers. Want to create an app for Facebook’s Open Graph? The mobile space presents a huge opportu...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 8, 2012, 11:46 pm
Daniel Atwood works with organizations in the social sector to craft meaningful experiences for customers and constituents, and to find innovative product, campaign and messaging ideas in unexpected places. We live in a world where new digital products are solving problems daily — from managing o...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 8, 2012, 11:30 pm
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: commentto Quick Pitch: Comment anywhere. Genius Idea: Commentto is a browser add-on ...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 8, 2012, 10:37 pm
Comedy is king on Twitter. Professional humorists and armchair standups alike have amassed legions of followers that hang on every 140-character quip. Twitter humor is a brand-builder, a great writing exercise, and if you’re really good, it might even land you a job (but probably not, so settle d...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 8, 2012, 10:22 pm
Walgreens is tweeting mobile coupons to customers who check in on mobile apps including Foursquare, Yelp and Facebook — letting customers in on deals while they shop. The retailer is taking advantage of knowing who is in one of its 8,000 national locations. It is one of 40 companies currently us...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 8, 2012, 10:02 pm
Meet Walk off the Earth, the ultra-talented quintet that turned its version of a sleeper hit into a viral phenomenon on YouTube and earned itself a record deal. The Canadian indie band posted a video covering Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” last month, and it has since been viewed on Y...
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Mash Demo posted an article on Mashable - Feb 8, 2012, 9:41 pm
After nabbing four of the eight awards handed out at last year’s Fashion 2.0 Awards, apparel brand DKNY was once again recognized for its use of digital media, taking home awards for Best Twitter and Best Blog by a Fashion Brand. The honors are well deserved. DKNY’s Twitter account and Tumblr b...
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