| 'Financial Times' Relaunches Web App With 'Live' and 'Morning' Editions | | Although online readers sometimes complain that printed news is yesterday's news, there's something nice about the holistic view a daily paper casts on the last 24 hours of events — a view Financial Times readers say they want alongside the live-updating experience offered by the FT.com and its apps for mobile and tablet devices. Come Wednesday, that's exactly what readers of the FT's web app will get.
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| Google to Launch New Version of Nexus 7 in July, Report Says | | Google plans to launch a new version of its Nexus 7 tablet in July 2013, Reuters reported, citing sources with knowledge of the new product. The new Nexus 7 will be built by Asustek. It will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and have a thinner bezel, as well as a higher screen resolution, sources said.
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| Twitter Cards Adds Mobile App Deep-Linking, New Cards | | During an invite-only developer event Tuesday, Twitter Cards unveiled several updates, adding the ability to share even more information on Twitter within a single tweet. Currently used by over 10,000 developers, the update adds mobile app deep-linking in Cards, which allows users to tap a link on Twitter to view content directly within an app if they have it installed.
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| The Future of Sanook: Thailand’s Largest Web Portal | | You may not have heard of Sanook, but by Internet standards, the company is a grizzled veteran in Thailand, founded by Poramate Minsiri in 1998. Over the years it has expanded to offer a number of services and products, including e-commerce, games, news content, advertising and mobile applications. Today, it is the largest web portal in Thailand.
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| Will 'Vadering' Overtake Hadouken as the Hottest New Internet Meme? | | Hadouken hasn't even had its full 15 minutes of Internet fame, and another meme is already moving in. Enter: Vadering. It features one person using the Force Grip on a hapless victim, who appears to float in mid-air while choking. Classic Darth Vader. The photo meme has taken over the interwebs, gaining steam on Reddit and Twitter — including a mention on one notable account: Planking is so last year.
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| March Madness Breaks Streaming Records | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:23 PM | Sam Laird |
| Impressive stats from March Madness confirm online streaming as the future of live sports -- but they come with a curious twist.
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| 5 Tips to Clean and Speed Up Your Filthy PC | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 10:08 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| Our computers rarely run as fast as we want or expect them to. Whether you're a Mac or Windows user, it's maddening to sit in front of a taunting hourglass or spinning circle of death, especially when you have work to do. In the spirit of spring cleaning, we invite you to clean the dust bunnies out of your PC (literally and digitally). Here are five easy ways to get started.
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| Taylor Swift '22' Parody Predicts Grim Life for Thirty-Somethings | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 9:29 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Taylor Swift makes 22 look pretty irresistible in her latest music video. Everyone wears cat ears, makes fun of their exes and eats breakfast at midnight. They are happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time. It sounds kinda stressful, but this parody of the song from fuse makes 22 seem like a flippin' party compared to 32 — that's when all those emotions from your twenties turns into alcoholism.
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| Books Are Friends That Never Leave | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 8:59 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| A good book can move you, enlighten you and bring you all kinds of joy. It's only natural to want more, but it can it get overwhelming taking in all those stray books. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics illustrates the ups and downs of "adopting" literature.
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| 'LIT' Is a Fitness Tracker for Extreme Sports | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 8:43 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Many fitness trackers count steps or monitor your sleep, but few interpret how much hangtime you catch on a motocross jump. LIT, an activity tracker from NZN Labs, measures movements from action sports while encouraging social sharing and competition. While LIT monitors everyday activities like running or walking, it's optimized for action.
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| Use 5 or More Social Networks? You're a Better Employee | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 8:22 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Hey, bosses who block employees from using social media at work: You're doing it wrong. That's one conclusion that can be drawn from new data on the workplace by Evolv, a startup that monitors hundreds of metrics from Fortune 500 companies. Not only has Evolv determined that hourly employees who use social networks are more productive in general, but it seems the more social networks you use, the more productive you are.
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| Scotland's First Spacecraft Is Tiny Satellite With Big Mission | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 8:05 PM | Space.com |
| Scotland's first satellite will soon find a home in orbit around the Earth — a forerunner of things to come under a collaborative, national nanosatellite program in the United Kingdom. Dubbed UKube-1, the small, novel CubeSat spacecraft has been constructed by Clyde Space in Glasgow and is completing final testing for launch later this year onboard a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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| Tibetan Activists Hit by Second Android Spy Malware | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 7:43 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| If you are a Tibetan activist, it looks more and more like you probably shouldn't use Android phones. Last week, Kaspersky Labs uncovered the first Trojan virus targeting Tibetan and Uyghur activists. On Monday, another report points to state-sponsored Chinese hackers spying on Tibetans using a compromised version of a mobile messaging app and probably some help from the Chinese government.
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| Watch Peeps Get Obliterated in Slow Motion | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 7:15 PM | Neha Prakash |
| You woke up Easter morning with a basket full of Peeps again this year, didn't you? You told Aunt Gertrude you hated them but, regardless, there they were, hatched and ready to be eaten. Your only choice? Execution by firing squad. Line those pastel bunny-bird things up and let this guy with a .50-caliber rifle have a go. SEE ALSO: 5 Peeps Meet Their Violent Demise It's a messy, gooey death, but it must be done.
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| Handwrite iPhone Notes With This Intuitive App | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 7:01 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If touchscreen QWERTY drives you nuts and you prefer writing notes by hand, you don't always have to carry around that little Moleskine. Instead, a popular app makes it easier to take notes on your iOS device with the convenience of your own hand. While it's similar to other note apps out there, Use Your Handwriting GOLD lets you take advantage of your iPhone or iPad screen's real estate as you write with your fingers.
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| These High School Kids Dunk Better Than the Pros | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:51 PM | Sam Laird |
| McDonald's All Americans Andrew Wiggins and Aaron Gordon put on a dunk show that included stunts the NBA has yet to see. Here's the hit YouTube footage.
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| Behold! 10 Triumphant 'Game of Thrones' Memes | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:37 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| Almost as quickly as the third season of Game of Thrones premiered, HBO renewed the hit for a fourth season. Judging by the number of submissions our Game of Thrones meme contest received last week, we can't say we're surprised that the fans want more. Last week, we asked fans to send us their best Thrones memes using the hashtag #GOTMeme. We received many submissions and, from those, we selected 10 of the most on-point memes.
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| Apple Starting Production on Next iPhone This Quarter | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:31 PM | Emily Price |
| Apple reportedly plans on starting production on its newest iPhone this quarter. According to the Wall Street Journal, the phone will look and feel similar to Apple’s iPhone 5, with small spec bumps under the hood. The Journal also claims Apple is working on a lower-cost iPhone, made of a different — perhaps colored — material than the current iPhone. WSJ sources claim that the next phone will launch this summer.
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| Play Poker With Your Favorite Gaming and TV Characters | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:17 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Who would you invite to your dream poker game? If you're a gamer and a geek, your picks for this list probably include some fictional characters. Luckily, some of them might appear in Telltale's upcoming Poker Night 2, announced Monday.
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| Yes, You Can Lease a Tesla Model S — But Not for $500 a Month | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 5:58 PM | Chris Taylor |
| After teasing a major announcement Tuesday, electric carmaker Tesla revealed its first leasing arrangement for its top-of-the-range Model S sedan. The company claims the cost amounts to a payment of $500 a month. But as anyone who's spent a lot of time negotiating at car dealerships knows, you have to look at the fine print to find out what's really going on.
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| Kids Retell 'Star Wars' Scene in Their Own Words | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 5:54 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Most of us have experienced Star Wars (if you haven't, then stop reading this and get on that), but here's a whole new take on the epic galatic tale. Bored Shorts TV asked kids to retell the crucial, and intense, scene from the film when the Rebel Alliance escapes from the Death Star. Then they had adults dress up and act it all out with the revised lines.
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| YOLO Ruins Lives: Student Suspended Over Test Prank | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 5:40 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Today's life lesson: YOLO will seriously screw up your life. A Texas teenager learned that lesson recently when he was dealt a four-day suspension for scribbling the acronym on a state-required standardized test. Arlington High School junior Kyron Birdine snapped a photo of the cheeky essay answer and tweeted the image to the Texas Education Agency and the Arlington school district.
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| It's Peanut Butter Jelly Day! | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 4:47 PM | Christine Erickson |
| The favored sandwich among children and adults is so popular, it gets its own holiday — that's right, April 2 is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. This may be the lunchtime snack's big day, but most of us can't think about the ingredients without that sneaky banana popping into our heads. Since the early 2000s, PB&J sandwiches have been under attack by an obnoxious dancing flash banana.
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| Incredibly Immersive Online Game Comes From ... Perrier? | | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 4:30 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Sparkling water company Perrier has put together an elaborate marketing campaign that puts you inside a wild online fantasy world, allowing you to fill the shoes of tipsy partygoers and elite socialites.
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