| Eerily Lifelike Kenshiro Robot Mimics Human 'Muscles and Bones' | | Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a robot that imitates the body of a human boy. At 5-foot-2 and 110 pounds, "Kenshiro" is designed to look like a 12-year-old male, and its body mirrors nearly all the major muscles in a human, according to IEEE Spectrum.
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| Adam Sandler Parodies 'Hallelujah' With 'Sandy Screw Ya' at Relief Concert | | Comedian Adam Sandler turned Leonard Cohen's beautiful classic, "Hallelujah," into a crude parody -- all for a good cause. Sandler performed a version of the 1984 song, later made famous by singer Jeff Buckley's cover, at a relief concert benefitting victims of Hurricane Sandy. "Hallelujah; Sandy, screw ya; we'll get through ya, 'cause we're New Yorkers," Sandler sings to a boisterous crowd.
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| YouTube’s 20 Most-Viewed Ads of 2012 | | 1:00:00 AM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| 2012 is coming to an end, so it's time to recap the 20 most-viewed ads on YouTube this year. It was a big year for sports and car commercials. In fact, almost all of these ads feature a sports star, a car or both -- and many were broadcast during the Super Bowl. The most-viewed commercial was a Nike ad featuring some of the biggest soccer stars in the world going up against a huge crowd of unknown players.
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| Google Maps for iOS Returns, Available for Download Now | | 12:01:52 AM | Christina Warren |
| Google Maps for iOS is back! The app appeared in the App Store late Wednesday evening, providing joy and comfort to disgruntled Apple Maps users everywhere. Rumors of the app's impending release appeared earlier this evening by way of AllThingsD. Google Maps for iOS [iTunes link] looks and functions more similarly to its Android counterpart than it does to the version that used to be bundled with iOS.
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| 8 Dumb Criminals Caught Through Facebook | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:57 PM | Eric Larson |
| Take a look at some criminals that were busted -- some due to unfortunate timing, others just rookie mistakes -- through social media.
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| The 5 Hot Advertising Trends of 2012 | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:01 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Are you reading this on a mobile device? Perhaps not, but the odds are much better this year than at this point in 2011. That's because Marshall McLuhan was right: The medium has more of an influence than the content it conveys. This year's list of top advertising trends is mostly about the shifting ways that consumers experience content and how publishers hope to harness those experiences.
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| Google Maps App for iOS May Launch Tonight | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:53 PM | Zoe Fox |
| The days of Apple Maps are about to be over. If a report saying a Google Maps app for iOS will become available Wednesday night is correct, all iPhone users who have complained about the buggy Apple Maps can go back to their preferred mobile maps app. A source familiar with the matter told AllThingsD the Google Maps app will again become available for iPhone users.
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| Largest Meditation Session Ever Streams Live on 12/12/12 | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:44 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Whether you meditate daily or you've never tried it before, a cool event is taking place twice on 12/12/12 that you may want to try out. The Master Shift is hosting two 30-minute meditations, at 9:30 p.m EST and Japan Standard Time on Wednesday to unite the world in positive feelings and spread good vibes across the world. Guides will lead the meditation on the Master Shift's website.
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| Manage All Your Expenses With One Updated App | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:29 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Pledging to be more organized in the New Year? An update to Manilla, an online service and app that helps you organize bills and subscriptions, added a custom accounts feature. This allows Manilla users to manage nearly any account through the site. Now customers can create accounts for small businesses or individuals, like dog walkers and babysitters, for instance.
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| Startup Helps Young Talent Crowdfund Their Careers | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:17 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Several challenges face aspiring young professionals these days, such as student loan debt and rampant unemployment and underemployment. Pave, a New York startup launched Wednesday, has an idea it thinks will help these young adults achieve their potential. Pave pairs young Americans with the resources they need to pursue the career of their dreams, relieving them from resorting to jobs that stray from their passions.
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| 5 Things an Apple TV Must Do | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 7:58 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Here we go again. A new rumor says Apple has begun testing its long-rumored television. Of course, there's a Cupertino-sized gap separating "testing" and "selling" any product, but few people would bet against Apple launching a television set sometime in the next couple of years. About a year ago, I rounded up many factors that weigh against Apple releasing a TV.
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| Juggling Santa Is Cornier Than Your Christmas Sweater | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 7:27 PM | Christine Erickson |
| You know Wham!, and claymation specials, and "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" — but have you seen the corniest Christmas video of all? If not, it's probably this video of Wisconsin school teachers Bob and Trish Evans, who also happen to ride unicycles and juggle, among other acrobatic things. Watch Bob and Trish get down with Santa to polka music. Then someone find me a more ridiculous Christmas video in the comments below.
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| Watch Tonight's 12-12-12 Sandy Relief Concert Right Here | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:30 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Starting tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, you can watch the star-studded Sandy relief concert on Mashable and use several social media platforms to donate or tell your story.
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| Explicit Images on Google: Now Harder to Find | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:14 PM | Christina Warren |
| Using Google to search for pornography? Your job just got a lot more difficult. As an intrepid Reddit user discovered, searching for terms that should lead to adult content on Google's image search show content that is less X-rated than some might anticipate -- even with SafeSearch turned off. When user Fake_Cakeday did an image search for a common sex act, he got back photos of lollipops, microphones and funny (but not explicit) images.
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| Jet-Engine Tech Makes Super-Thin and Quiet Ultrabooks a Reality | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:00 PM | Charlie White |
| Laptops are getting even more powerful. Even though their processors are steadily becoming more efficient and running cooler, most of them still need at least one noisy fan to keep a machine's innards from melting into a useless heap of parts. Now there's a tiny bellows-like innovation that solves that cooling problem, using miniaturized technology that was first employed in jet engines.
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| North Korea Satellite Is 'Tumbling Out of Control' | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:58 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| North Korea launched a missile that put an unknown object into Earth's orbit on Wednesday, triggering condemnation from the United States, the United Nations and others. Those objections are against North Korea's use of a long-range rocket to launch the object, as North Korea is banned from testing missiles or nuclear weapons by United Nations sanctions.
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| 'Angry Birds' Celebrates Third Birdday | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:51 PM | Kenneth Rosen |
| Three years ago this week, something unforgettable entered our lives that is etched forever into the time devoted to dawdling -- join us in wishing Angry Birds a happy, happy third birdday. To celebrate its third year, Rovio introduced 30 new levels with an updated release that added full support for the iPhone 5. There's also an addition to the cast, but we won't spoil that surprise.
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| YotaPhone Has LCD Front, E-Ink Back, Coolness All Over | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:44 PM | Charlie White |
| How would you like to have a smartphone with two screens, one on the front and one on the back? That's the innovation behind the YotaPhone, an Android smartphone with a 4.3-inch LCD display on the front and an E-Ink screen on the back. Having two screens on a smartphone could be a handy innovation.
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| Google Currents Is Now More 'Current' With Breaking News | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:39 PM | Christina Warren |
| Google has updated its Google Currents social news reading app to make it easier to find breaking news and browse content from multiple sources. Similar to Flipboard, Pulse and Zite, Google Currents is an aggregator of various publications presented in a way more akin to reading a magazine rather than an RSS feed. On its Android blog, Google outlined some of the biggest changes to Currents.
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| Study: Calorie-Counting Apps Rev Up Weight Loss | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:30 PM | Joann Pan |
| Tracking your daily progress on a fitness or food app — in addition to eating superfoods, exercising regularly and maintaining healthy sleep schedule — could take your weight loss to a whole new level. The weight-loss study led by Bonnie Spring, Ph.D., a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, was recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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| Proof That Bill Clinton is Actually an Awesome Cowboy | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:30 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| What's Bill Clinton been up to in post-presidential life? Well, aside from founding the Clinton Global Initiative, it looks like he's been working on a pretty great collection of cowboy boots. Clinton gave the the keynote speech at Dell World, an annual technology conference, in Austin, Texas on Wednesday. The pics were snapped by Managing Editor of Dell Global Communications Stephanie Losee, who shared them with Mashable.
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| Tumblr Is Down | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:20 PM | Emily Price |
| Tumblr has had a rough afternoon. The site went down for a few minutes Wednesday afternoon, and while a few pages have appeared to return, most of the site is still down for the count. Tumblr acknowledged the issue when it began with a tweet from its official Twitter account. We’re experiencing slow loading or intermittent errors on certain pages and are working quickly to restore performance.
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| John McAfee Being Extradited to the U.S. | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:03 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| John McAfee, the software pioneer who is wanted for questioning by Belize police in relation to the death if his neighbor, is being extradited to the United States. McAfee boarded a plane headed for Miami, Fla. at approximately 4 p.m. ET Wednesday afternoon. McAfee, an American, has been held for a week by authorities in Guatemala, where he turned up after fleeing Belize.
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| Facebook Named Top Place to Work in 2012 | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:59 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Despite its stock value and controversy surrounding privacy policy, Facebook was voted the best place to work in 2012 across all industries.
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| Meet the Guy Who Took a Census of Middle-Earth | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:58 PM | Fran Berkman |
| Gathering census data is essential to understanding how a population connects to a particular geographical space. The U.S. requires thousands of agents to complete one census every 10 years. In 2012, however, one young Swedish man took it upon himself to complete a thorough census of the entire earth — well, Middle-earth. Thanks to Emil Johansson, creator of LotrProject, we now know that the life expectancy of a hobbit is 96.24 years.
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