| Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's Google Movie Premieres on Hangout | | In what looks like the biggest-ever product placement for Google, the official trailer for The Internship launched Wednesday. Comic duo Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson — who last got together for 2005's Wedding Crashers — reunite for the film, which follows two ex-salesmen, as they embark on Google internships and compete with colleagues half their age. Hilarity (hopefully) ensues.
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| These Guys Want to Build the Space Suit of the Future | | This is a story about Nik Moiseev and Ted Southern. It is also a story about a Russian engineer and an American artist. It is also a story about a Brooklyn startup. It is also a story about space travel. Moiseev had spent more than two decades working in the Soviet Union (and then in Russia) as an engineer of spacesuits — specifically, of garments that cosmonauts could wear as they rode the Soyuz rocket up to the International Space Station.
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| YouTube Campaign Reunites Lost Vacation Photos With Owner | | A viral YouTube campaign has reunited hundreds of vacation photos with their rightful owner. In late January, Peter van Leeuwen posted the video, above, which features a slideshow of photos from an unidentified woman's European backpacking trip. Van Leeuwen had found an SD card, which carried 300 images, at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands.
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| Iceland May Ban Online Porn | | In a case of censorship ostensibly for a good cause, Iceland may soon become the first Western nation to ban citizens from viewing online porn.
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| How Apple Stores Beat Disney Parks | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:00 PM | Christina Warren |
| Which makes more money: Apple Stores or Disney Parks and Resorts? The answer may surprise you. Our friends and publishing partners at The Atlantic noted an interesting fact Wednesday: Apple's retail stores now get almost as many visitors as Disney's theme parks and resorts. In fact, in Q1 2013, Apple said that a record 121 million people visited its stores.
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| Atari Founder's Steve Jobs Book Will Kickstart a Publishing Platform | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:29 PM | Chris Taylor |
| In 1975, Nolan Bushnell was riding high. He'd just co-founded Atari and launched the world's first home video game, Pong. And then there was the oddball engineer he'd hired, Steve Wozniak, who'd brought his equally odd friend Steve Jobs to work with him for free. "Great," Bushnell thought.
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| How 1 Billion People Are Coping With Death and Facebook | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 3:03 PM | Stephanie Buck |
| "I think I'm going to go online," said Cheryl, logging in to Facebook from her hospital bed. She soon reconsidered, however. "I don't know what to write: 'Hey I almost died last night. What's up with you guys?'" Months later, Cheryl died from Hodgkin's lymphoma. Her partner Kelli Dunham still cherishes funny memories like this one. "She was kind of a smart ass," Dunham tells Mashable.
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| Meet the Couple Who Fell in Love on Instagram | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 1:24 PM | Jessica Fee |
| When people ask them how they met, Santiago Perez Grovas and Taylor Dee answer honestly: "Instagram." Neither began as a professional photographer, but with over 70,000 and 18,000 followers, respectively, @santiagopgm and @thisgirl_ are a bit like the Jay-Z and Beyonce of the social photo-sharing site. Grovas, 26, started his own architecture firm in Mexico City, and Dee, 22, works as a waitress in Colorado.
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| Bunny Playing Dress Up Will Brighten Your Day | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:25 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Hop to a happier place with a bunny named Benjamin Linus. Benjamin's costume pizazz is a guaranteed smile-trigger. He's a rabbit dressed like Harry Potter, people. The bunny with a closet full of dress-up clothes is owned by Brooklyn resident Lauren Gates, who brought her furry friend into her life as a stress reliever. "When the economy tanked I had moved back to my parents' house in Conn." Gates told Mashable.
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| StormFly Wristband Lets You Wear an Operating System | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:13 PM | Camille Bautista |
| There's a plethora of flash drive wristbands out there, but few let you fit an entire computer on your arm. One company specializing in portable operating systems created StormFly, a wearable storage device that allows users to run OSes on separate devices. StormFly lets you take your Mac OS, transfer it onto the USB and plug it into a PC. The transition happens quickly and works independent of the machine's original OS.
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| 20 Social Media Habits to Give Up for Lent | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:44 AM | The Daily Dot |
| Each year, the Catholic faith asks its followers to do one simple thing (or burn in hell): give up. Feb. 13 marks Ash Wednesday on the Catholic calendar. In addition to adorning the foreheads of the faithful with the remnants of burnt palms, Ash Wednesday also marks the beginning of a 40-day stretch of time known as Lent.
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| Taco Bell Announces Doritos Cool Ranch Taco Via Twitter's Vine | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:13 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Taco Bell is heralding its new Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos in a very 2013 way: With a Vine. The fast food chain on Wednesday released the following Vine to get the word out about the item, which will be available on March 7. It's out of the bag. Coming March 7th. #CoolRanchDLT vine.co/v/bvlaYggdIiU — TACO BELL (@TacoBell) February 13, 2013 The release follows the successful launch of Doritos Locos Tacos last year.
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| Apple MacBooks Now Faster, Better, Cheaper | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:40 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Apple today said it would cut the price of its 13-inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display while simultaneously updating it with faster processors. The 15-inch model is also getting improved specs, although its price remains the same. The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro now starts at $1,499 for 128GB of solid-state flash storage, and $1,699 for 256GB of storage. The higher-end model also includes a more robust 2.6GHz Intel Core i5 processor.
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| Slacker Aims to Take on Pandora With New Redesign | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:07 AM | Samantha Murphy |
| Digital streaming service Slacker has rolled out a new look to better compete against booming services such as Pandora, Spotify and iHeartRadio.
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| The State of the Union Address in 170 Seconds | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:46 AM | NowThisNews |
| Watch this video and no one will ever know you really watched Westminster instead of President Obama's State of the Union Address on Tuesday night.
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