Sunday, March 2, 2014

Twitch Plays Pokémon: A Social Experiment From Its Creator and 10 More

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Twitch Plays Pokémon: A Social Experiment From Its Creator

The creator of Twitch Plays Pokémon, speaks to Mashable on why this live-gaming experiment may be a game-changer.

Tim Cook to Climate Change Deniers: Get Out of Apple Stock

Apple CEO Tim Cook is taking a very public stand on the issue of climate change.

How Scientists Plan to Farm on Mars

NASA has big plans for a manned mission to Mars, and it would like to know beforehand just how feasible farming is on the red planet.

Is Microsoft Working on a Free Version of Windows 8.1?

Microsoft may be ready to make Windows 8.1 holdouts an offer they can't refuse: a free upgrade.

At $1 Billion in Sales, Apple TV is a Rapidly Growing Drop in the Bucket

CEO Tim Cook said on Friday that Apple had sold more than $1 billion worth of Apple TVs in 2013, according to a Reuters report.

The 25 Companies With the Highest-Paying Internships

Some companies pay their interns with free food and experience. Others pay more than $6,000 a month.

Journalists Race to Preserve, Publish Secret Yanukovych Documents

Journalists in Kiev race to rescue, dry, investigate and publish a trove of documents the deposed Ukrainian president and his cronies left behind.

Marvel Opens Its Vault to Offer 15,000 Comic Books to iOS and Android Users

Marvel fans will soon be able to access nearly 15,000 of its titles via its Marvel Unlimited iOS and Android apps.

Best Picture Nominees Sing for the Oscar

If the 2014 Academy Award Best Picture nominees were Broadway musicals they might look something like this.

When Google Glass Haters Attack

A look at how a recent Google Glass-related assault in San Francisco points to the future of wearables as a part of our culture.

Gay Couple of 53 Years to Wed in Texas Church — And Everyone's Invited

Jack Evans and George Harris will be married in their home state just over a month after their 53rd anniversary.

Velocity Alert: Tim Cook to Climate Change Deniers: Get Out of Apple Stock

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Tim Cook to Climate Change Deniers: Get Out of Apple Stock

Apple CEO Tim Cook has not been known for taking a strong stand on, well, just about anything. Caution has been the watchword of Cook's three-year tenure at the top of the world's wealthiest technology company. So far his legacy is largely comprised of incremental improvements in established products, tweaks to the supply chain, and more corporate transparency.

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Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral.

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