| Twitter Users Remember Director Tony Scott | |  | British director Tony Scott, 68, died in an apparent suicide Sunday, after jumping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, Calif. at around 12:30 p.m. Twitter users and filmmakers, including Ron Howard, Robert Rodriguez and Adam Goldberg,...
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| Curiosity Rover's Laser Zaps First Martian Rock | |  | NASA's Curiosity rover fired its laser for the first time on Mars, zapping a rock on the red planet. Set phasers to stun. The rover's Chemistry and Camera instrument, known as ChemCam, blasted a fist-sized rock called "Coronation" with 30 pulses...
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| Top 8 Comments This Week | |  | Facebook gaffes, computer-generated meat and vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan certainly got Mashable readers talking this week. A story about 20 of the things your most annoying friends do on Facebook provoked readers to come up with their...
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| McDonald's Tests PayPal Hot on Heels of Starbucks-Square Deal | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:46 PM | |
|  | McDonald's is testing a new payments system in which customers use the fast food chain's mobile app to order and pay for meals. PayPal, eBay's mobile payments platform, would power the transactions. Customers using the PayPal method at the 30...
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| Apple v. Samsung Case Decided by Verdict-O-Matic [SUNDAY COMICS] | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 9:23 PM | |
|  | Wondering what the verdict will be in the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit? There's no need to dive into all those complicated legalities when you have the Verdict-O-Matic, a magical chart created by our good friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of...
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| World's Tallest Ferris Wheel Proposed for New York | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:37 PM | |
|  | New York City's Staten Island may soon be home to the world's tallest ferris wheel. The New York City Economic Development Corporation is in talks with a company to build a "giant observation wheel" that would be bigger than the London Eye and...
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| Top 10 Pinterest Pins This Week | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 7:40 PM | |
|  | We love Pinterest because it captivates us with sensational imagery. This week's top 10 is no exception. A good Pinterest pin elicits reactions from viewers that range from, "I can't wait to try this," to "I want to go to there." The pin of the...
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| Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS] | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 5:46 PM | |
|  | Technology made even more great strides this week, with companies figuring out ways to change the way you watch TV, use power tools, and wake up in the morning. Heck, someone's even figured out how to make a car run on thin air. Meanwhile, rumors...
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| Congressman's Remarks About Rape and Pregnancy Rebuked on Twitter | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 4:23 PM | |
|  | Missouri Republican Rep. and Senate nominee Todd Akin said in an interview Sunday that in the case of what he called "legitimate rape," the "female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." "From what I understand from doctors...
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| The 35 Fittest People in Tech | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 4:01 PM | |
|  | Years ago, few people conflated technical prowess with physical fitness. The archetypical techie of the early 90s, for instance, was Dennis Nedry, the portly computer programmer in Jurassic Park played by Wayne Knight, a.k.a. Seinfeld's Newman....
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| Facebook Trumps Yahoo as Second Most-Popular Video Site | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 2:30 PM | |
|  | Facebook has overtaken Yahoo as the Internet's most popular site for viewing video last month, according to report from comScore. According to comScore, Facebook saw a bit more than 53 million unique viewers throughout July, compared to Yahoo's...
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| These Telecommuting Jobs Will Surprise You | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 1:45 PM | |
|  | Sure, computer programming jobs are often associated with the ability to work from home, but a neurosurgeon? Surprisingly, there recently was an open position for a home-based doctor who would telecommute and travel to various locations to...
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| $20 Million Facebook Privacy Settlement Rejected by Judge | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 1:07 PM | |
|  | A federal judge has rejected Facebook's settlement offer in a class-action privacy lawsuit over the use of users' names and faces in "Sponsored Stories" advertisements. With Sponsored Stories, which rolled out in January of 2011, your "likes" on...
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| This is Where NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity is Headed [PICS] | | Sunday, August 19, 2012 12:14 PM | |
|  | NASA's Curiosity Rover landed on Mars a couple of weeks ago, and has since spent its time upgrading its software and making sure its instruments are in tip-top shape. But with a name like Curiosity, it's not going to be satisfied hanging out in...
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