| Fan Site Demands Google Reader Be Brought Back | | Following Google's surprise announcement that it will be killing Reader this July, fans of the popular RSS service took their rage online by venting on Twitter and even mounting a petition. SEE ALSO: Hey Google, We Still Love Reader One website, BringGoogleReaderBack.com, does an especially good job of expressing the collective disappointment of Google Reader fans everywhere.
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| Check Out These Google Reader Alternatives | | 2:42:43 AM | Christina Warren |
| With the news that Google is killing off Google Reader as of July 1, 2013, users everywhere are on the lookout for potential replacements. Replacing Google Reader isn't easy; the service isn't just an RSS reader — it's also the de facto cloud-based RSS syncing service.
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| Here's the Comic-Book Version of Steve Jobs | | Steve Jobs will be immortalized in comic-book form, as a Japanese manga series will detail his life story on its pages. Based on the best-selling biography by Walter Isaacson, the comic will appear in a magazine called Kiss, published by Tokyo-based Kodansha. Renowned manga artist Mari Yamazaki was chosen to illustrate the series.
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| What to Expect at the Samsung Galaxy S IV Launch | | 12:07:12 AM | Samantha Murphy |
| Samsung is gearing up to unveil its next-generation smartphone, the Galaxy S IV, in New York City on Thursday, a launch that further positions the company as Apple's biggest competitor. The Korean electronics giant has created a lot of buzz surrounding the announcement, which will be live streamed online and in Times Square.
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| Maintain Your Memory With Brain Fitness Games | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:34 PM | Camille Bautista |
| When was the last time you memorized a phone number? Or the last time you did simple division without help from your smartphone? Using mobile devices as a stand-in for everyday cognitive functions has become commonplace. Unfortunately, however, playing several daily rounds of Words With Friends isn't going to cut it. But brain training games can help you work out those synapses to improve memory, attention span, focus and concentration.
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| Twitter App Now Available for Windows 8 and RT | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:25 PM | Anita Li |
| The wait is over: Twitter has finally launched its native app for Windows 8 and RT. Now available in the Windows Store, the app "introduces new functionality" that makes use of Windows 8's tiled interface, Twitter and Microsoft announced on their respective blogs Wednesday.
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| The Best Swag Bags From SXSW 2013 | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:12 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| Everybody loves some good swag, and SXSW is the perfect place to score some cool goodies. We called for our readers who attended SXSW 2013 to take a photo of their favorite swag and send it to us using the hashtag #MashSXSW.
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| LG's 'Smart Video' Feature Uses Eye Recognition To Control Video Playback | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:29 PM | Emily Price |
| LG announced Wednesday that it will be bringing Smart Video, a feature that uses eye recognition to control video playback, to the Optimus G Pro. With Smart Video, the phone will recognize the position of your eyes, and automatically play or stop a video based on whether or not you’re looking at the screen.
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| Hey Google, We Still Love Reader | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:11 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Hear that clunking sound? That's thousands of jaws dropping at the news that Google Reader is going to be retired come July 1, 2013. That whooshing sound is "Google Reader" shooting to the top of Twitter's worldwide trends, even on a day when a new pope was picked. And that giant "NOOOOOOOO" sound is the Internet's reaction to Google's most unpopular decision in — well, as far back as I can remember.
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| Life Before and After Cellphones | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:59 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| In the digital age, we tend to rely on our phones for everything — communicating with others, finding the best directions, passing the time with apps and virtually anything else you can think of. What life like before our iPhones, Androids, Windows Phones and BlackBerrys?
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| Quora Users Share Secret Acts of Kindness | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:42 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| In an era in which online discussion boards can sometimes become contentious cesspools of bickering or breeding grounds for misinformed political rantings, it's refreshing when an online forum becomes positive and inspirational.
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| RIP Google Reader | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:03 PM | Christina Warren |
| Google Reader, one of the world's most popular RSS readers, is shutting down on July 1, 2013, Google announced Wednesday.
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| Brain-Scanning Headphones Match Songs to Your Mood | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:47 PM | Discovery News |
| Compiling the perfect song playlist has a well-known reputation for being a transcending, yet agonizing, form of art. But what if we could could delete the agony of finding the perfect song and tap into the ecstasy of having it chosen for us? SEE ALSO: Brain Scanner Customizes Web Surfing That’s where Mico headphones enter the picture.
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| New Pope Fails to Beat Obama's Twitter Record | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:32 PM | Chris Taylor |
| If it felt like your Twitter feed earlier Wednesday was nothing but tweets about the new pope, well ... that's because it probably was. Twitter said it had seen some 7 million tweets related to the new pontiff, a number that seems sure to grow by the end of the day. At its peak, the papal tweeting reached a crescendo of 132,000 tweets per minute. That's not quite a groundbreaking number, however.
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| 'Nekci Menij Show' Spoofs Pop Stars' Twitter Habits | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:11 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| Pop stars each have their own personalities and foibles on social media. To fans, the tweets and Instagram pics that stars send can be laughable. In the episode "Quen Of Twattir," exclusively premiering on Mashable, The Nekci Menij Show pokes fun at the way singers such as Madonna, Beyoncé and Lady Gaga use and abuse social media.
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| Get Spooked by This New 'Monsters University' Trailer | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:54 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Disney/Pixar is making a lot of children equally scared and happy this summer — they're releasing a prequel to Monsters, Inc. Monsters University follows Mike and Sulley before they were incorporated, when they were just young adult monsters getting a degree in (what else?) scaring. The studio released a trailer for the film Tuesday, and it seems like the movie has a bit of a plot twist.
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| 10 Celebrities Who Look Like Pope Francis | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:35 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Pope Francis will live in Vatican City, but his celebrity doppelgängers reside in Hollywood, New York City and Jersey. Twitter couldn't wait to pinpoint the new pope's famous look-alikes. Famous faces that apparently bear a resemblance to the newly selected pontiff include Jeffrey Tambor, Woody Allen and the old guy from UP. SEE ALSO: 15 Hilarious Smokin' Pope Tweets Did Twitter users miss an obvious papal twinsie? Tell us in the comments.
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| 'Automatic' Is Your Smartphone Driving Assistant | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:30 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Back seat drivers can be overbearing. You're always breaking too hard or driving too fast, either miles above the speed limit or not even close. One device aims to help you be a smarter driver without the constant, distracting nagging by wirelessly linking your car to your smartphone. Automatic, a driving assistant app, monitors users' habits to help save on gas and ensure a smooth ride for each trip.
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| What if Superheroes Were Sponsored by Brands? | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:24 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Artist Roberto Vergati Santos has had quite the startling idea — what if brands got their hands on the superheroes of the world? What if, instead of representing the Justice League and the Avengers, these masked vigilantes represented companies like McDonald's and Nike? It's a scarier thought than the actual comic book bad guys they battle with on a regular basis.
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| Spectacular Bay Bridge Lights Controlled by Macs Running Windows | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:01 PM | Chris Taylor |
| As anyone who's been in or around San Francisco recently knows, it's hard not to spot the Bay Lights. After dusk, the western span of the Bay Bridge fills with a jaw-dropping display comprised of 25,000 LEDs, mounted on vertical cables 30 feet apart. Each LED can be controlled individually by computer, and turned on or off 60 times a second via a 1.8-mile fiberoptic cable.
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| How Sharethrough Is Redefining Ads on the Web | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:01 PM | Lauren Drell |
| AUSTIN — Native advertising is the big buzzword of 2013, and it's seeking to redefine the way consumers interact with ads on the web. And though just about everyone in advertising and media is talking about native ads, the concept can be hard to define and understand.
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| SXSWi 2013: A Great Show About Nothing | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 5:42 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Jerry Seinfeld would have loved SXSWi 2013: It’s a show about nothing. This is not to say it’s without substance. Like Seinfeld’s classic show, which wove together three or more threads that usually intersected in hilarious ways, SXSWi weaves together thousands of threads that are all interesting, but not necessarily thematically cohesive. While most regard SXSWi as the coolest of all trade shows, it’s not as different as people think.
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| The Entire World Visualized as One City | | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 5:10 PM | PSFK |
| Globalization and urbanization are no longer buzzwords but facts of twenty-first century life. Architects Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis of Plan B Architecture & Urbanism believe it's time we consider these factors on a global scale.
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