| Google Expands Public Alerts to Japan for Quake, Tsunami Warnings | | After launching last January in the U.S., Google has now expanded its Public Alerts system to Japan. "It's important for people in Japan to have crisis preparedness and response information available at their fingertips," Yu Chen, Google's partner technology manager, announced in a blog post Wednesday.
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| Boost Your iPad's Sound Quality With This Amplifier | | iPad users are vociferous about their love for Apple's flagship tablet except for one detail: weak sound quality from its rear-facing speakers. It's a common gripe that one company aims to solve. Sabine is an amplifier that redirects sound to the front of the iPad. Laser cut from anodized aluminum to match other Apple products, the device attaches without adhesive.
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| Reimagined 'Breaking Bad' Intro Brings You Back to 1995 | | What if Breaking Bad aired in 1995? A new YouTube video revamps the AMC drama's opening credits to include common elements from 1990s television-show intros. There's the serif typeface for the credits, adult contemporary rock music providing the score, lingering shots of characters engaging in inaudible conversation and of course, a closing shot that zooms out to show an expansive landscape.
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| 6 Movies Made Better With an All-Muppet Cast | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:59 PM | The Mary Sue |
| Artist Kenny Durkin reimagines the Muppets starring in less-than-kid-friendly movies and TV shows, including The Walking Dead, Jaws and The Big Lebowski.
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| 'Gardens' App is a Digital Catalog for Your Backyard | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:03 PM | Camille Bautista |
| For those who enjoy taking occasional breaks from their computer screen to stop and smell the roses, there's a new gardening app that lets you catalog your nature walk. Gardens, a free iOS app for those with green thumbs, lets you take, label and share plant photos to a personal online scrapbook. Budding botanists, horiticulturists and basic gardeners can use the app as a memory tool, as well as a database for advice and tutorials.
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| Homemade Taser Sword Looks Like a Sci-Fi Movie Prop | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:06 PM | Neha Prakash |
| While we would normally start with the obligatory "Don't try this at home" warning, it's precisely one YouTuber's disregard for warnings that resulted in the taser sword's creation, above. That, and a willingness to get tasered. The user made it by wrapping a double bladed sword — apparently, a common household item — in electrical tape, creating a weapon that looks more futuristic sci-fi movie prop than deadly assassin tool.
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| The 5 Stages of Designer Grief | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:03 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| You've heard of the "five stages of grief" model, but with the amount of original work designers have to mourn all the time, they deserve their own grieving process.
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| There's a MacBook Pro Inside This Old Book | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:46 PM | Charlie White |
| Attention tweedy professorial types: This BookBook case will let you hide your Retina MacBook Pro from your old-school colleagues, making them think you're carrying around a dignified old tome rather than a laptop from the future. Twelve South has added the Retina MacBook Pro to the stable of devices that can use its distressed-leather BookBook cases.
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| Free Music App Brings Top YouTube Songs to Your iPhone | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:29 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Digital music subscription services have brought us the ability to stream millions of songs on our smartphones, but generally the good ones cost the equivalent of at least a couple Starbucks lattes a month. A new alternative lets you do the same, without forking over any cash.
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| Twitter Celebrities Support Woman After Severe Brain Trauma | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:06 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Comedian Matthew Parise, better known on Twitter as @sucittaM, unexpectedly took his wife Danielle to the hospital in January when she suffered a serious brain trauma. Danielle immediately underwent neurosurgery to relieve pressure on the brain, followed by more surgeries to stop and remove a cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM).
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| Dita Von Teese Debuts 3D-Printed Dress | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 7:41 PM | Nina Frazier |
| Style icon Dita Von Teese debuted a 3D-printed dress at the Ace Hotel on Monday, born out of a collaboration between designer Michael Schmidt and architect Francis Bitonti.
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| Android App Pays You $25 a Month for Watching Ads | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 7:11 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| It's about time we got paid for watching ads. The Indiegogo project for SmartAds today announced its intentions to pay smartphone and tablet users up to $25 per device, per month to be served on the lock screen of their devices. If you have both a tablet and a phone, you could make as much as $50 each month.
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| Time Inc. Is Up for Grabs | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 6:37 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Time Warner is spinning off its magazine unit, Time Inc., into a separate, publicly traded company, it was announced Wednesday evening. Laura Lang, who was brought on as CEO of Time Inc. in late 2011, will step down after the transition is completed and a new CEO has been identified. A planned sell-off of most of the magazines to U.S. publisher Meredith will not happen.
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| Lawmakers Make New Push for Electronic Privacy Reform | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 6:01 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Three members of Congress, including Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), introduced new legislation on Wednesday to reform the Electronic Communications Protection Act (ECPA) and improve privacy protections for electronic messages. The new bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) and Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), is called the Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act.
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| What Keeps Austin Weird? Share Your Best SXSW Vines | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 5:52 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| A major aspect of SXSW is sharing — whether that sharing be new ideas, inspiring quotes or eye-catching imagery. This year, in addition to the traditional photos and videos, we expect to see some great vines coming from SXSW. If you'll be in Austin, we encourage you to shoot some killer vines and tweet them to us with the hashtag #MashSXSW. Get creative with your vine — we better see more than just panels.
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| Behind the Scenes at Singer Michael Bolton's Reddit AMA | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 5:42 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Tucked away in startup #waywire's office in New York City, singer Michael Bolton answered questions Wednesday during a candid Ask Me Anything session on Reddit. Mashable exclusively interviewed the Grammy-winning artist minutes before the Reddit AMA, learning details about his viral "Jack Sparrow" video from Saturday Night Live and more.
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| Sen. Rand Paul Live-Tweets His Hours-Long Filibuster | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 5:16 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) live-tweeted — or at least somebody on his staff live-tweeted — his hours-long filibuster Wednesday afternoon against John Brennan's nomination as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Paul first announced his rare talking filibuster on Twitter, then took the Senate floor just before noon.
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| Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack Nicholson Impression Is Eyebrow-Raising | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 5:10 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have an Oscar, but he does boast a pretty cool party trick. That's basically the same thing, right? During a recent appearance on a Japanese talk show, an interviewer asked DiCaprio if he could pull off any celebrity impressions. The Django Unchained star immediately put his eyebrows to work demonstrating his best Jack Nicholson.
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| Ringya App Transforms Paper Lists Into Shareable Mobile Contacts | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:52 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Staying connected in today's digital age is simpler than ever. Family, friends and colleagues are accessible with the click of a button, but managing all your contacts isn't as easy. Dave is listed in your digital black book, but where did you meet him again? Was the plumber's name Paul or Saul? Ringya, a free mobile app, solves the problem of the ever-growing contact list by letting users organize names and numbers in context groups.
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| Startups Bet Audio Is the Next Frontier for Social Media | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:46 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| New apps and websites seem to pop up every other week to help us share our lives with friends and family through videos, pictures and text messages, but in the process, we've moved farther and farther away from what was once the central means of communicating: the sound of our own voice. Now, a couple startups are trying to change that.
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| Why Android Takes Forever to Get Cool Apps | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:22 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Even though there are more Android phones than iPhones in the United States, the number and variety of Android apps lags compared to Apple's offerings. For instance, Android users had to wait a year before they got Instagram or Pinterest apps. New research helps explain why. There's got to be more to the story than the number of phones.
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| 4 Vital Conversations for Any Startup Team | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:22 PM | Nellie Akalp |
| Navigating business management with friends or family members can be tricky. Have some kind of partnership agreement in place from the start.
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| This Drive-Thru Chuckie Doll Prank Is More Funny Than Scary | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:12 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Our resident drive-thru prankster has struck again, and this time he's using everyone's worst nightmare — Chuckie the doll — as his sidekick. Magic of Rafat hit viral fame in January when he stumped fast food workers by camouflaging himself as a car seat and watching the employees freak out over a self-driving car.
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| 5 Reasons You Should Party at MashBash During SXSWi | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:09 PM | Casey Brown |
| SXSWi is just around the corner, and Mashable is gearing up for a party you won't want to miss. MashBash will be held on Sunday, March 10 at Speakeasy in Austin, Texas, and now's your last chance to register. Unsure if you should add MashBash to your already crammed South By itinerary? We guarantee it's the party you don't want to miss.
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