| Obama's Death Star Response is Best Star Wars Tribute in History | | Sometimes, you just have to use a little Force. When a petition calling on the Obama Administration to begin building a Death Star by 2016 blasted past the 25,000 signatures necessary for an official response late last year, the White House could have gone any number of ways. It wasn't required to reply in a timely fashion; it could have stuck the whole thing in a drawer.
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| 46% of People Don't Know How Facebook Makes Money | | Friday, January 11, 2013 11:48 PM | Neha Prakash |
| A new study has found that almost half of U.S. adults online don't understand where Facebook funds are coming from. The study, conducted by by The Search Agency, surveyed 2,006 American Internet users. Of those surveyed, only 54% could say how Facebook earned cash — 57% of men and 51% of women. So perhaps Facebook isn't being all that clear when it comes to its reliance on advertising.
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| Space Station Contest Lets Students Program Satellites | | Friday, January 11, 2013 11:28 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| After controlling small satellites in the International Space Station on Friday morning, two teams of high school students took home top prizes for their programming skills. The teams were part of the Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge, an annual competition that asks students to program bowling ball-size satellites to perform maneuvers related to current space-exploration problems.
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| Sculpteo Makes it Easy to Create Your Own 3D iPhone Case | | Friday, January 11, 2013 10:56 PM | Emily Price |
| LAS VEGAS — Sculpteo is making it easy to create your own 3D iPhone case. Winner of this year’s Best of Innovations award at CES, the company has released an app called 3DP Case that lets you create a three dimensional case for your phone in just a few minutes. Cases can be customized almost any way you can imagine, however, there are a few base models to choose from.
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| Website Offers Customized Jet Lag Reduction Plans | | Friday, January 11, 2013 10:44 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Does jet lag put a damper on the first few days of a big vacation for you? A handy new website called Jet Lag Rooster maps out a plan to fight it. Enter the cities you're departing from and arriving to plus the days and times of your departures and arrivals. The calculator is picky about the format, so be sure to follow the example provided.
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| Hands On With Pebble, the Internet's Favorite Smart Watch | | Friday, January 11, 2013 10:19 PM | Emily Price |
| LAS VEGAS –- Pebble, the company that raised almost 8 million to create an e-ink smart watch, announced at CES this week that it will start shipping the watch to its Kickstarter backers on Jan. 23. We caught up with Pebble’s creator, Eric Migicovsky, at the show to give the smart watch a try.
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| Sorry Vader, White House Won't Build a Death Star | | Friday, January 11, 2013 9:56 PM | GeekSugar |
| In a memo titled "This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For," the Obama White House formally (and finally!) responded Friday to a petition asking to secure the resources to begin construction on a Death Star by 2016.
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| CEA on 'Booth Babes': The Name Is the Problem | | Friday, January 11, 2013 8:41 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Following widespread criticism of the use of models to market products at the International CES, a CEA exec tells Mashable that the media is to blame — for repeating the commonly-used term "booth babes." According to Karen Chupka, senior vice president of the Consumer Electronics Association, the industry giant has no plans to remove models from CES.
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| Campbell's Soup Invites Developers to 'Hack the Kitchen' | | Friday, January 11, 2013 8:00 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Campbell's Soup wants to give you new resources for your smartphone and the web to find meal ideas. The company is inviting developers to "Hack the Kitchen" and create web or mobile apps that make people's lives easier when it comes to finding recipes and cooking. The contest begins on Monday, Jan. 14th and the deadline to submit entries is February 1st.
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| E-Ink on a Smartphone? This Android Phone Has 2 Displays | | Friday, January 11, 2013 7:32 PM | Emily Price |
| LAS VEGAS — What if your phone had two displays? Announced in mid-December, YotaPhone aims to change how people use their smartphones by bringing together a full-color LCD display on one side of the phone and an e-ink display on the other. I caught up with Yota Device’s Vladislav Martynov at CES to give the phone a closer look. In essence, the two displays on the handset each have their own unique purpose.
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| Is it 1925 Again? Florida Man Arrested for Selling Moonshine on Black Market | | Friday, January 11, 2013 7:03 PM | The Jane Dough |
| A Florida man was arrested yesterday for allegedly selling over 40 gallons of moonshine to undercover state beverage agents. The Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco posted a fake Craigslist ad, pretending to be someone "looking for some strong moonshine." A middleman contacted the agents and referred them to 23-year-old Daniel David Pawa, a Lantana resident.
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| Coders Combine 70 'Minecraft' Servers Into Massive Online Game | | Friday, January 11, 2013 6:12 PM | Matt Silverman |
| Redditor HighlifeTTU shared a photo album with r/Minecraft on Friday that details a massive custom overhaul to the online version of the popular building game. The goal: to unify 70 servers into one enormous game space. Here's why this is kind of a big deal. Multiplayer Minecraft worlds are not served from a central location. Any player can host one, on his local machine or a dedicated server.
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| Your First Screen Names, Illustrated | | Friday, January 11, 2013 5:22 PM | Todd Olmstead |
| Remember your first screen name? Before you were worried about your "personal brand" and had a professional-facing "firstname.lastname@email.com" address? Those were the good old days. The Internet seemed more casual then. Our online identities were never meant to stay with us forever. They were meant to be more fun. Sure, they were often naive, but also more whimsical than what you'd expect to show up on a resume.
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| Puppy Tackles the Stairs in Cutest Video You'll See Today | | Friday, January 11, 2013 5:11 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Sometimes we all just need a mentor, a guiding spirit or a cheering squad to get us through those tough moments. And while this puppy is having a mega-crisis of sorts trying to conquer his fear of the stairs, this other, bigger dog steps in as quite the shoulder to lean on. SEE ALSO: Puppy Acts as Seeing Eye Dog for Another Pooch in Touching Video It's simple — this paw first, this paw second, trot along, then everyone cheers.
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| Vimensio Gives 3D the Bird | | Friday, January 11, 2013 3:06 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| LAS VEGAS — 3D hasn’t quite lived up to the hype: We’re not all sitting in our living rooms, wearing special glasses and marveling at the soccer ball some player just kicked in our face. That doesn't mean, however, there's nothing useful for 3D to do. Companies like Leonar3Do are using passive 3D technology to build education products that put teachers and students inside the design process.
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| Startup Wants to Use Drones to Deliver Medical Supplies | | Friday, January 11, 2013 2:39 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Drones can be deadly. They're used in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere to spy and take out suspected terrorists. But drones can be good too. We've already seen that their potential extends beyond the battlefield. And other than delivering burritos, they can be used for humanitarian reasons as well, like delivering medical supplies to hard-to-reach areas.
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| Eighth Grader Nails Behind-the-Back Buzzer-Beater | | Friday, January 11, 2013 1:43 PM | Annie Colbert |
| An eighth grader had his Michael Jordan Game 6 moment, and while the kid didn't walk away with an NBA championship, he did end up with a pretty awesome story to share. Number 50 got the ball with only moments left in the game, and with little room to square up, he scrambled to let off the old granny shot.
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