| The Top 7 Freshman Members of Congress on Twitter | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:21 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Twitter's popularity among lawmakers has been meteoric. Three years ago less than half of the Senate and House of Representatives were on the platform, now every senator and 90% of representatives are tweeting away. Twitter use is particularly heavy among the freshman class — almost every freshman member of the recently begun 113th Congress has a public Twitter account.
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| Nipple-Bottomed Reeboks Freak Out The Internet | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:48 PM | Sam Laird |
| No, this is not a piece of Martian footwear. It's Reebok's newest shoe, which a former NASA scientist helped design. Would you wear it, or is too ugly?
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| Hands On With Twitter's Social Video App, Vine | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:05 PM | Emily Price |
| Twitter launched Vine on Thursday — an app that lets you share 6-second video clips. Currently iOS-only, the stop-motion videos can include as many scenes as you can fit in. Video stops and starts when you press on your device’s screen. Your finished product can then be shared just on Vine, or with friends on Twitter or — in theory — Facebook. Still in its infancy, the service isn’t without drawbacks.
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| Fake Amazon Page Is Best Online Resume Ever | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:26 PM | Chris Taylor |
| We don't actually know if Philippe Dubost is any good at his job. But boy, can he throw together a resume. Dubost, a web product manager currently based in Paris, is looking to travel for his next position. So he decided to make his CV stand out anywhere in the world — by mimicking an Amazon product page. The result, "Philippe's Amaz'ing Resume," is a pitch-perfect pastiche.
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| 10 Casualties of Facebook Domination | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:00 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| "Like" it or not, Facebook has changed the way we live. The monolithic social site has consolidated numerous forms of communication under one big, blue roof, simultaneously rendering some traditional means of interaction obsolete. Even those that adapted have been irrevocably altered by Facebook's rise.
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| Twitter Can Help Health Officials Track Outbreaks | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:39 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Sharing your health woes on social media can be beneficial for tracking disease outbreaks, a new study says. Researchers at Brigham Young University found that Twitter's speed and volume can help health officials use the site as an early-warning system to monitor diseases. Tweets with location information may allow officials to plot points on a map to detect a trend, then alert providers to gear up for a possible outbreak.
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| Internet Boldly Uses the Force on Star Wars, Star Trek Memes | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:21 PM | Annie Colbert |
| "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... It is a period of civil war, rebel spaceships boldly go where no man has gone before." The worlds of Star Wars and Star Trek collided Thursday when rumors beamed out that Trek director J.J. Abrams would direct the new Disney-back Star Wars Episode VII. The nerd world hadn't witnessed an explosion this big since Luke Skywalker destroyed the Death Star.
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| Facebook Cuts Down Twitter's Vine | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:59 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook has blocked Twitter’s new Vine app from being able to find your Facebook friends on the service. The app launched this morning, and previously offered users a way to see which of their Twitter and Facebook friends were also using the service, in addition to contacts stored in their phone.
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| Dad Draws Awesome Art on Kids' Lunch Bags | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:50 PM | Camille Bautista |
| It's a daily routine for many fathers: dragging the little ones out of bed, helping them get ready for school or packing their lunch. Derek Benson takes it to a whole new level, combining his passion for art and all things nerdy with his kids' daily meals. Every day, the father of three decorates his children's lunch bags with a new illustration, taking inspiration from shows or books he shares with the family.
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| Belkin Acquires Linksys From Cisco | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:27 PM | Christina Warren |
| Belkin announced Thursday that it is acquiring Cisco's Home Networking Business Unit, including the Linksys brand, current products and employees. The financial details of the deal — which officially take Cisco out of the consumer business — weren't disclosed. With Linksys and Belkin under the same roof, Belkin says it will account for 30% of the U.S. retail home and small business networking market.
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| Mosaic, First Real Web Browser, Turns 20 | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:01 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| The web as you experience it — with pretty pictures, in a browser, with back and forward buttons — emerged 20 years ago. On Jan. 23, 1993, programmer Marc Andreessen released Mosaic, the web browser credited with making the Internet accessible for the general public. While not the first graphical web browser, it was the most popular one of its time and still the model for today's browsers.
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| iRobot's Medical Robot Gets FDA Approval for Hospital Use | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 6:26 PM | Andrea Smith |
| You may soon see Rosie the Robot strolling the halls of more hospitals now that iRobot's remote presence robot has been given official FDA clearance. The Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant, or RP-VITA for short, is the first autonomous navigation remote presence robot to receive FDA clearance for use in hospitals.
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| Warner Music Nashville Takes Its Country Stars Social With New Site | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:54 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Warner Music Nashville just unwrapped a new, social media-driven website that makes it easy for country fans to keep tabs on the online activity surrounding their favorite artists. Propelled by a responsive web design and Arktan's social-data curation technology, WarnerMusicNashville.com aims to be a "one-stop destination" for musicians' buzz from fans across social networks as well as digital content from the musicians.
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| How to Use Twitter's Vine to Create and Share Videos | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:44 PM | Emily Price |
| What could you show the world in six seconds? That’s the idea behind Vine, a service introduced Thursday that allows you to create and share looping videos. Currently only available for iOS, Vines are created by pressing and holding your finger down on the screen of your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
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| Is J.J. Abrams Directing Star Wars Episode VII? | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:12 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Nothing is official yet, but it seems Star Wars Episode VII may have found its director. According to multiple Hollywood outlets, the job has been offered to J.J. Abrams — creator of Alias and Lost, and director of both the rebooted and the upcoming Star Trek movies. That in itself may present a problem.
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| 4 Social Media Lessons From a Successful Food Truck | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:56 PM | The Daily Muse |
| Before John, my husband-to-be, and I started our food truck in 2010, I cyber-stalked food trucks on the West Coast and in New York City to find out how they were using Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare. For the most part, they posted their daily routes and specials of the day, and while that alone attracted them hundreds of customers, I knew that wouldn’t fly for us.
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| Te'o Hoaxer Is a Pretty Good Singer | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:38 PM | Evan Engel |
| Ronaiah Tuiasosopo isn't just an alleged identity thief -- he's also a talented singer. Here's a mashup of his ballad and photos of people Te'oing..
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| Microsoft Posts Record Revenue of $21.5 Billion in December Quarter | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:35 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| It looks like Microsoft had a decent end to 2012. Microsoft reported earnings-per-share of .76 on revenue of $21.46 billion in the December quarter, beating EPS estimates by a penny but coming in just shy of Wall Street's consensus estimate for revenue of $21.6 billion. Nonetheless, Microsoft's revenue for the quarter set a new high.
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| Matt Damon Kidnaps Jimmy Kimmel | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:28 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Years of late-night feuding will finally come to an end Thursday night. After being the butt of Jimmy Kimmel's ongoing joke, Matt Damon has exacted his revenge by kidnapping the talk show host. In his creepy teaser video, above, Damon laughs maniacally while acknowledging a duct tape-tied Kimmel in a room plastered with pictures of the comedian.
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| Krossover Equips School Sports With Pro Film Study | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:15 PM | Fran Berkman |
| The most successful athletes and coaches spend hours studying game film, both of themselves and of their opponents. All professional-level and most high-level college teams employ entire crews of specialists to film and break down footage of games. For high schools and smaller college programs, however, video capabilities vary from team to team. A New York startup is trying to level the playing field.
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| 55+ Events in PR, Digital Marketing and More | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:14 PM | Elisha Hartwig |
| Whether you're looking to make industry contacts or learn the latest trends in advertising, technology and media, Mashable's Events Board has something for you. We picked four of the latest events to be listed to give you an idea of the possibilities for networking, developing skills and moving your business forward. Check these out, or head over to the full listings to find relevant events in your area or preferred destination.
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| Intrepid Museum Crowdsources Enterprise Pictures | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:00 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| New York's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum wants your pictures for a new exhibition on the Space Shuttle Enterprise. Yes, you heard that right.
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| Logitech Looks to Sell Harmony Remote Business | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:36 PM | Christina Warren |
| Logitech announced disappointing earnings for its Q3 2013 fiscal period. Sales were down 14% year-over-year and the company reported a net loss of $195 million ($1.24) per share. As a result, CEO Bracken Darrell is focused on making serious changes to Logitech's business.
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| Google Says It Always Requires Warrants for User Email and Cloud Data | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:01 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Google revealed Wednesday that it always requires a search warrant whenever authorities seek access to the content of a user's emails or documents stored in Google's cloud, Wired reported. The company's insistence in asking for a warrant is seemingly against current law.
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