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- Earth’s Smallest Space Telescopes Launching Monday
- 4 Job Search Performance Enhancement Tips
- 50 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
- Security Flaw Gives Hacker Full Access to Facebook Profiles
- Samsung Launches the Galaxy Note 8.0
- Horrific Race Video Hits YouTube, NASCAR Has It Taken Down [UPDATED]
- Social Media Predicts Oscar Winners
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Trailer Premieres Ahead of Season 3
- Top 10 Tech This Week
- Student Suspended for Organizing ‘Harlem Shake’ Flash Mob
- Online Campaign Nets Homeless Man $100K for Returning Lost Ring
- 6 Apps You Don’t Want To Miss
- LEGO Pre-Enactment Shows ‘Harlem Shake’ Meme in 2015
- The Worst Way to Reject a Job Candidate
- 10 Banana Portraits That You’ll Go Ape Over
- 7 Oscar Nominees Like You’ve Never Seen Them
- Hacking Hollywood: How Digital Insurgents Are Disrupting Film
- CDC iPad App Lets You Solve Disease Outbreaks
| Earth’s Smallest Space Telescopes Launching Monday Posted: 23 Feb 2013 08:06 PM PST  
The Bright Target Explorer (BRITE) nanosatellites look like little cubes and will blast off atop an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) at 7:20 a.m. EST (1220 GMT) on Monday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. While tiny nanosatellites have launched into space before, they have been mainly used to study Earth or test new spaceflight technologies. But the BRITE satellites will be the first spacecraft of their small stature to peer into the cosmos, their builders say. The diminutive…  |
| 4 Job Search Performance Enhancement Tips Posted: 23 Feb 2013 07:20 PM PST
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| 50 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed Posted: 23 Feb 2013 06:27 PM PST
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| Security Flaw Gives Hacker Full Access to Facebook Profiles Posted: 23 Feb 2013 06:23 PM PST
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| Samsung Launches the Galaxy Note 8.0 Posted: 23 Feb 2013 05:59 PM PST
Almost two days before the official event starts, Samsung gave journalists a glimpse of the Galaxy Note 8.0, an 8-inch tablet with a decent set of specs and support for Samsung's stylus, which the company calls the S Pen. With the Galaxy Note 8.0, Samsung is revisiting a space it helped pioneer with its original Galaxy Tab back in late 2010: the mid-sized tablet. Although the Galaxy Note 8.0 has a larger screen than Samsung's older 7-inch tablets -- including the Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 2 and Galaxy Tab Plus… More About: Galaxy Note 8.0, MWC, MWC2013, samsung, Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0  |
| Horrific Race Video Hits YouTube, NASCAR Has It Taken Down [UPDATED] Posted: 23 Feb 2013 04:30 PM PST When a multi-car accident punctuated the end of a NASCAR race at Daytona on Saturday afternoon, fan-shot footage of the disintegrating cars, pieces of debris flying into the stands, and a tire landing between the bleacher seats quickly found its way to YouTube. Minutes later, the clip (that you see above) was removed by YouTube at the request of NASCAR, citing copyright concerns: According to the Orlando Sentinel, at least 15 race fans were injured, with eight of them requiring hospitalization. None of the race car drivers were seriously injured in the crash. Update: According to Reuters, 14 fans were taken to the hospital and 14 were treated at the scene. Reuters added that one o…   |
| Social Media Predicts Oscar Winners Posted: 23 Feb 2013 03:42 PM PST
The Meltwater Group has been tracking social media for the past month, gathering information about the Oscar nominees from Twitter, Facebook, blogs, comments and YouTube videos. Researchers delivered data on the Oscars' top six categories. While the actual names of the Oscar winners are safely sealed inside envelopes to be opened on Sunday night, the popularity contest that is social media offers hints at what might transpire. During the collection of this social-media data, there's been one especially tight race…  |
| ‘Game of Thrones’ Trailer Premieres Ahead of Season 3 Posted: 23 Feb 2013 03:04 PM PST Epic battles and stormy rivalries return to television with the third-season debut of Game of Thrones. Viewers are getting a sneak peek at the latest chapter of HBO's fantasy saga in this YouTube video. The minute-long trailer teases clips from the upcoming season, premiering March 31. Are you excited for season three of Game of Thrones? What do you think of the trailer? Let us know in the comments. Image courtesy of YouTube, GameofThrones More About: game of thrones, trailers  |
| Posted: 23 Feb 2013 02:27 PM PST 1. Google Chromebook Pixel The search giant and OS upstart unveiled its first high-resolution touchscreen laptop on Thursday, the Pixel, and turned the Chrome OS and Chromebook from an entry-level platform for cash-starved netizens into a powerful tool for cloud-friendly business people. Find out more about Google's surprising and expensive gamble:http://on.mash.to/15E8vDK Image by Chris Taylor, Mashable Click here to view this gallery.
Microsoft was just the latest big tech company to admit it was hacked, joining The New York Times and other newspapers, Twitter, Facebook and others. The biggest revelation came from Google, which finally told us more about its secretive project Glass, unveiling some of its uses and publishing videos of people wearing them. And this wasn't Google's only revelation. The Mountain View company also launched the Chromebook Pixel, a touchscreen laptop with premium features -- and an expens… More About: Top 10 Tech, Top 10 Tech This Week   |
| Student Suspended for Organizing ‘Harlem Shake’ Flash Mob Posted: 23 Feb 2013 01:44 PM PST
A 17-year-old high school student was arrested and suspended for five days after organizing a failed "Harlem Shake" video shoot on campus Friday, according to the New York Post Arnis Mehmetaj, a senior at Forest Hills HS in New York, tried to call it off at the last minute, but word had spread too far among the school's 3,000 students. Mehmetaj's classmates created a now-removed online petition protesting his punishment, which they deemed too harsh. In response, administrators reversed their decision. For more on the story, watch the video, above. Image courtesy of YouTube, hiimrawn More About: flash mob, harlem shake  |
| Online Campaign Nets Homeless Man $100K for Returning Lost Ring Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:57 PM PST
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| Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:18 PM PST ProxToMe Need to send files from your phone to a friend? How about a group of friends? ProxToMe is a new app that lets you see other iOS devices around you, and then send a file from your phone to theirs, instantly. The app can be used for everything from sending a movie to your best friend, to sending your band's latest single to concertgoers. Click here to view this gallery.
This week, we found a new social-calendar app for keeping track of all your plans, and another app that makes sharing files with friends -- or people you've just met -- a snap. Just in time for SXSW, one popular location-sharing app saw a huge update, while a typing app for Android has gotten even smarter. Check out the gallery, above, for a look at this week's highlights. Still looking for more? Check out last week's Apps You Don't Want To Miss for more great apps worth a look. More About: android, apps, iphone, weekly app roundup   |
| LEGO Pre-Enactment Shows ‘Harlem Shake’ Meme in 2015 Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:29 AM PST
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| The Worst Way to Reject a Job Candidate Posted: 23 Feb 2013 10:44 AM PST
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| 10 Banana Portraits That You’ll Go Ape Over Posted: 23 Feb 2013 09:57 AM PST Steve Jobs Images courtesy of Tumblr, hoooneyyyimhooome. Click here to view this gallery.
When Honey, a graphic artist and illustrator, realized she had a surplus of potassium-packed fruit laying around the kitchen she figured they woud make the perfect canvas for her work. She began the process by using pens, she told Mashable, but soon realized the pen punctured the banana skin too easily, which is when she switched to safety pins. SEE ALSO: 10 Works of Art on Vine "I make a lot of small punctures in the banana's skin, which exposes the interior to air, causing it to turn brown," Honey said. "… More About: art   |
| 7 Oscar Nominees Like You’ve Never Seen Them Posted: 23 Feb 2013 09:15 AM PST 1. Joaquin Phoenix: SuperkidThis clip, taken from a 1989 episode of Superboy, shows a young Joaquin Phoenix -- with flowing blonde hair, we might add -- standing up to schoolyard bullies in the best way possible. Spoiler alert: He gets the girl, too. Phoenix is up for a Best Actor award for his performance in The Master. Video courtesy of YouTube, Superboyrob Click here to view this gallery.
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| Hacking Hollywood: How Digital Insurgents Are Disrupting Film Posted: 23 Feb 2013 08:04 AM PST When Seth MacFarlane takes the stage at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday to host the Academy Awards, it will be 84 years after the first such ceremony in 1929 and 44 days after the death of Infogami co-founder and anti-Hollywood/anti-SOPA activist Aaron Swartz. I love films. My father, an opera singer, taught me at an early age to appreciate the dramatic arts, and I was a theater actor in my youth. Some of my greatest heroes in life are filmmakers like Passolini, who gave so much of themselves to their work. I'm an indie film director, and I've been on the other side of the spectrum in big-budget filmmaking. I should be working in Hollywood today -- but I'm not. The reason… More About: Aaron-Swartz, Digital Cinema, filmmaking, Hollywood, Oscars  |
| CDC iPad App Lets You Solve Disease Outbreaks Posted: 23 Feb 2013 07:02 AM PST
The CDC created "Solve the Outbreak," a new iPad app, to increase awareness of public health outbreaks. If you were a fervent fan of movies like Contagion or 28 Days Later, you can put those hours of Internet research to work. Users take on the role of a disease outbreak investigator in the agency's Epidemic Intelligence Service and tackle three outbreak scenarios including "Birthday Party Gone Bad." The narratives are based on real events solved by EIS officers. SEE ALSO: 10 Apps t… More About: apps, health, ipad, ipad apps, Lifestyle   |
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