| The 6 Best Facebook Games of 2012 | | Let's face it: Most Facebook games aren't great. The constant bombardment of notifications, the suggestions to buy extra stuff at every turn, and the zillion popups are all hallmarks of an ecosystem that irritates serious gamers. Mark Zuckerberg asserted earlier this year that 291 million Facebook users played games through the social network.
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| Robot Bartender Takes to the Skies | | Always on the lookout for ways to enhance efficiency and reduce costs, airlines now have a new toy: a robot bartender. The Skytender Trolley is not going to be a shiny and convivial robot clanking down the aisle and asking you, "What'll you have?" But it's only a step away from that. Mounted onto the same kind of trolley flight attendants use today, the Skytender works like a soft drink dispenser at a fast-food joint.
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| This Robot Is Going to Space to Keep Astronauts Company | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:19 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| A consortium of Japanese companies will send a humanoid robot into space in 2013. Its mission will be none other than to keep astronaut Koichi Wakata company and help him run operations on the International Space Station, sort of like a humanoid HAL 9000. The robot is still under construction, but once built, it will be 13 inches tall and weigh 2.2 pounds.
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| Which Smartphone Is on Your Holiday Wish List? | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:05 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| The smartphone is a mainstay of 21st century life. No matter how old you are, you have probably enviously eyed the latest model of your favorite phone sometime over the past few months. Maybe you were holding out on upgrading your device until the holiday season, hoping that a loved one would purchase a newer, faster, sleeker phone for you.
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| WordPress.com Enterprise Offers Managed Hosting for Businesses | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 7:16 PM | Christina Warren |
| Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced its WordPress.com Enterprise service Thursday as an option for customers who have outgrown the capabilities of WordPress.com's services but don't need the extra features and expense of WordPress VIP. It used to be easy to tell the difference between self-hosted WordPress accounts and WordPress.com.
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| Facebook For iOS Now Supports Uploading Photos to Albums | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:46 PM | Emily Price |
| In addition to updating its Android app, Facebook pushed an update to Facebook for iOS on Thursday. Version 5.3 of the app includes a faster –- now native -- timeline, as well as a faster loading news feed. The most important feature in the update, however, has to do with photos rather than speed. Now when you upload photos to Facebook through your iOS device you can select an album for those photos to go into.
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| See Your First Screen Name Illustrated on Mashable | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 5:57 PM | Todd Olmstead |
| There's something great about the first screen name you ever had. For many of us who started using the Internet in the 1990s, logging on wasn't something we imagined would be tied to our professional lives. Things were simpler then; our user IDs for emailing and instant messaging often reflected something more innocent about ourselves. A favorite band or book.
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| NSFW Christmas Lights Sneakily Reveal Naughty Bits | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 4:30 PM | Charlie White |
| Warning: Slightly NSFW Hiring someone to install your Christmas lights? Treat that person with a heavy dose of holiday kindness, or you might be in for a big surprise. That's what happened to the city of Brighton in the U.K., whose holiday decoration installer got a bit too creative. But if not for this video shot from specific camera angles, the not-so-subtle cheeky humor might have gone unnoticed.
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| It's Not Me, It's You: A Breakup Letter to Apple Maps | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:10 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Dear Apple Maps, We've had a good run, you and I. So many memories. Remember that time we didn't get lost? Thank you for all those great turn-by-turn directions in your Siri voice. Good times. I've got something difficult to tell you, but we'll get through this. Inside, I think we both knew this day was coming. You see, I met another Maps app last night. No, not another one of those inferior replacements I kept trying before crawling back to you.
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| Gangnam Style Dance Ends in Man's Death | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:24 PM | The Daily Dot |
| A man in England died Saturday after an office party performance of "Gangnam Style" led to chest pains and an eventual failure of the heart. Eamonn Kilbride, 46, had just finished dancing to Korean pop star Psy's wildly popular "Gangnam Style" at his company's office party when he noticed chest pains around his heart and passed out onto the floor of Lancashire's Whitehall Country Club.
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| These Jeans Will Update Facebook for You | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:53 AM | PSFK |
| Italian denim brand Replay has introduced jeans that feature a vinyl pocket equipped with a small bluetooth device. This communicates with the wearer’s smartphone via a dedicated app to easily and immediately share updates with their social networks. Social Denim lets you quickly click the device to let people know your current location or mood.
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| You'll Go Peanuts for the Charlie Brown School of Dance | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:16 AM | Annie Colbert |
| The Charlie Brown School of Dance might not have the reputation of Juilliard, but where else can you learn Snoopy's Russian Cossack Dance or Pig Pen's Third Base Coach? Those hip busting moves were perfected under the tutelage of Linus Van Pelt III, founder of the Peanutty dance academy. SEE ALSO: It's Your 62nd Anniversary, Charlie Brown Good grief, dance novices, sign up for the Charlie Brown School of Dance and learn some new moves.
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| Google Maps Soars to Top of Free App List | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 9:58 AM | Samantha Murphy |
| Just hours after the release of the Google Maps app for the iPhone, it has became the most downloaded free app in the Apple App Store.
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| 'Pacific Rim' Trailer Pits Giant Robots Vs.Monsters | | Thursday, December 13, 2012 8:52 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro's upcoming sci-fi flick, the Pacific Rim, is now available for your viewing pleasure. The movie revolves around an alien invasion that comes from an unexpected place -- an inter-dimensional portal in the depths of the ocean. To fight the enormous alien monsters, humans have created giant robots, piloted simultaneously by two humans connected with a neural link.
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