| Cheap Smartphones Will be Widespread by 2017, Study Says | | Most smartphones are hefty investments, each leaving buyers a few hundred dollars in the hole. But a new study suggests that half of all smartphones will cost less than $150 in only a few years. Conducted by Informa Telecoms & Media, the study predicts that the smartphone market will be split into two extremes: low-end devices and high-end devices, retailing for less than $150 and more than $250, respectively.
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| New Chrome Extension Lets You Save Web Content to Google Drive | | Google has launched a new extension for Chrome called "Save to Drive," enabling users to save web content to their Google Drive. After installing the extension, users will get an additional icon in Chrome, letting them save an image, an entire page or an image of the visible page to your Drive. Users can also save the HTML source code of a webpage or a complete webpage in web archive (.mht) format.
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| Brickstarter Promotes Crowdfunding for Community Planning | | Kickstarter has seen enormous success with its crowdfunding model for creative projects, but would something similar work for building communities? That's what one new project, appropriately called "Brickstarter," wants to achieve.
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| This Laptop Case Is Completely Indestructible | | Consider this the James Bond of laptop cases. This military-inspired case is crushproof, waterproof, shockproof and dirtproof. It will pretty much protect your laptop through an apocalypse or if you just feel like running your computer over with a car. The Vivax case features titanium pins and an external polymer that is similar to the material found in crash helmets.
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| How to Buy Facebook Gifts for Friends | | Earlier Tuesday Facebook rolled out its Gifts service to the entire United States, after it had spent some time in beta. For those who want to send physical gifts to Facebook friends for birthdays, holidays or other special occasions, it's a very simple process. Facebook has created a large library of presents to choose from, including gourmet food, household items and novelty gifts.
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| WordPress 3.5 Has Arrived | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:47 PM | Christina Warren |
| Self-hosted WordPress users, fire up your update engines. WordPress 3.5 is now available for download. WordPress 3.5 brings in lots of under the hood enhancements, as well as a few new user-facing features.
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| MediaTek Launches Its First Quad-Core Processor | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:47 PM | Emily Price |
| Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek announced its first quad-core SoC (System on chip) processor Tuesday, the first of its kind to hit the market. “Its not the first one announced, it’s the first one shipping, ” MediaTek spokesperson Finbarr Moynihan told Mashable during a demo of the new mobile processor earlier this week.
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| Sports Twitter: The Year in Review | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:09 PM | Sam Laird |
| Sports Twitter is the best! Here are 2012's biggest topics, most popular trends and most viral tweets.
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| Bing's Social Sidebar Gets a Facelift | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:35 PM | Emily Price |
| Bing rolled out a new design for its social sidebar feature Tuesday, an update it hopes will make finding friends relevant to your search easier to do based on what those people have shared on the web. “At Bing, we realize that sometimes the most useful information doesn’t come from ten blue links,” the Bing Team posted on its official blog.
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| How to Dominate Your Ugly Holiday Sweater Party With an App | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:55 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Sometimes ugly just isn't ugly enough, especially when it comes to sweaters -- and that's when you need the help of an app. Mark Rober, creator of digitaldudz, is the pioneer of this hideous field -- and he has figured out just how awesomely obnoxious Christmas sweaters can get. Apparently, the key is using a hole-y sweater paired with a smartphone displaying animated graphics duct-taped inside.
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| 12/12/12 Is Here: How to Celebrate the Century's Last Repeating Date | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:36 PM | Chris Taylor |
| For those who like to get a bit nerdy with their numbers, one of the century's most significant dates is approaching. Wednesday is 12/12/12, the last of the great repeating dates to occur in our lifetimes -- unless you're planning to live until Jan. 1, 2101, that is. Despite its auspicious status, 12/12/12 doesn't seem to be quite as big a deal as 11/11/11 was.
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| Find the Perfect Bottle of Wine With This App | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:13 PM | Emily Price |
| Looking for the perfect bottle of wine can be a daunting task, especially if you’re not exactly sure what you’re looking for.iPhone app Blush aims to make shopping for your next bottle of vino a little simpler, putting the power of your own personal wine shopper in the palm of your hand.
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| Gateses Suggest 5 Tech-Savvy Ways to Give This Holiday Season | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 7:36 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Bill and Melinda Gates are often asked how individuals can help with the work the Gates Foundation does. While the foundation isn't seeking donations -- it operates on the Gates family wealth -- Bill and Melinda have suggested five worthy non-profits whose work they admire.
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| Which Video Game Console Is on Your Wish List? | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 7:14 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| The holiday season is upon us, and as children and adults alike create their wish lists, the effort it takes to narrow down the options can be difficult. With gadgets ranging from new smartphones and tablets to cameras and laptops, among other items, the choices seem unlimited. For video game consoles alone, gamers can choose from mainstays like the XBOX 360 or PlayStation 3, or can add a newcomer like Nintendo's Wii U to their lists.
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| Meet Tuna the Chiweenie, Instagram's Cutest Dog With an Overbite | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 6:32 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Tuna the chiweenie won't win any beauty pageants, but the quirky-looking dog will melt your heart. Just ask the pooch's 46,000 Instagram fans, who happily heart photos of Tuna showing off his adorably crooked grin by the thousands. SEE ALSO: 10 Adorably Sleepy Animals That Ate Too Much Turkey Tuna's best human pal, Courtney Dasher, serves up a daily Tuna special on her Instagram account, tunameltsmyheart.
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| Hands On With Twitter's New Photo Filters | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 6:14 PM | Christina Warren |
| Twitter announced it was adding photo filters to its iOS and Android apps Monday. Twitter added its own image hosting service back in 2011 and over the last 18 months has become progressively more interested in images. Reports of Twitter photo filters first surfaced in November with the understanding that Twitter wanted to compete against Instagram.
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| How New York City Can Corner the Start-Up Market | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:59 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer released a report Tuesday that addresses New York City's "thriving entrepreneurial economy" and how he believes that economy can be pipelined to the middle class. This year, New York City replaced Boston as the number two hub for tech expansion and growth in the country -- yet Stringer says that success has yet to encourage growth in the job sector for the middle class.
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| Will You Give a Facebook Gift? | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:45 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| Will you give someone a Facebook Gift this holiday season? Tell us your thoughts about Facebook Gifts in this poll.
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| Parents Can Set Volume Limits With These Kid-Sized Headphones | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:23 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Your kids like your iPad, so it's likely they use your headphones too. Now they can have their own, kid-sized pair with sound quality on-par with yours. On Tuesday, Fuhu, Inc., released child-sized headphones, called nabi Notes, with what the compay calls "DJ-quality" sound.
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| Facebook Removes Taliban Account | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:22 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The Pakistani Taliban no longer has any friends -- Facebook friends that is. An account held by the Taliban was removed by Facebook over the weekend. The account had 281 Likes at the time of removal, the Los Angeles Times reports. The account was linked to the TTP, or Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, and was used as for a few weeks as a recruiting tool for a quarterly magazine Ahyah-e-Khilafat (Sign of the Caliphate).
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| 'Power of Introverts' Video Is a Surprise Viral Hit | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:02 PM | Chris Taylor |
| A hand-drawn YouTube video based on an academic topic with a voice-over by a non-native English speaker isn't exactly the sort of thing you imagine going viral. (Not unless it was drawn by cats or featured a surprise appearance by PSY.) Still, less than two weeks after its release, "The Power of Introverts" has racked up an impressive 1 million views on YouTube.
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| Student Tweets Entire History of US Drone Strikes | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:02 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| How long would it take to tweet the entire history of US drone strikes one by one? Josh Begley, a graduate student at New York University, thought he would only need 10 minutes. I'm going to tweet the entire history of US drone strikes tomorrow. 10 years in 10 minutes, starting at 12pm. Follow @dronestream for more.
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| This Man Makes Data Look Beautiful | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:49 PM | Lauren Drell |
| Big data is a big deal, but it means nothing if no one can make sense of it. But some people are born with an innate ability to do just that; Jer Thorp is one such person.
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| How a Simple Gmail Outage Crashed Google Chrome | | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:40 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Gmail went down yesterday for a relatively short period of time -- service was intermittent for about an hour (compare that to the extended outage of 2009). However, this outage had an unexpected complication: It also caused the Google Chrome browser to crash. On the surface, that appears very odd: Gmail is a service, but Chrome is an app.
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