| Elon Musk: We're Tripling the Tesla Supercharger Coverage Area This Month | | Speaking at Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a "dramatic acceleration" of the Tesla Supercharger network. The expansion should triple the Superchargers coverage area this month and enable drivers to drive from Los Angeles to New York by the end of 2013, said Musk.
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| Wikipedia's 'Nearby' Feature Pulls Up Articles Related to Your Location | | Wikipedia has launched a new feature called "Nearby" that recommends articles based on a user's location. The Nearby page page aims to help readers learn more about their current surroundings. For example, visitors to Vatican City will see articles on the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo's fresco depicting The Last Judgment.
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| Augmented Reality 3D-Tracking App Makes You an Expert Mechanic | | A new 3D-tracking app aims to help hopeless handymen and women become expert mechanics. Tech firm Inglobe Technologies released a demo that shows off its augmented-reality 3D tracker. The app helps car owners navigate the ins and outs of their engines by displaying icons on engine parts. What's more, a virtual hand demonstrates how users can perform maintenance tasks such as adding oil.
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| Luxury Video Game Comes With Its Own Race Car | | Bundles have always been an effective way to create pre-orders for a game, but it seems Grid 2 Bac Mono Edition has taken things even further by offering an actual racing car with its latest release. The Bac Mono is a street-legal race car, with a 2.3L 280hp engine and carbon fiber body that can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in just 2.8 seconds, reaching a top speed of 170 miles per hour.
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| Accessory Turns iPhone Into High-Tech Lab | | A new biosensing tool puts the power of a high tech laboratory in the pockets of researchers in the field. This iPhone-enabled device could be used in pop-up clinics, waste management sites, refugee camps and anywhere else the mobile testing of biological materials such as blood is necessary. Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the tool consists of an iPhone cradle and an accompanying app.
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| Daredevil Survives Mount Everest BASE Jump | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:03 PM | Sam Laird |
| There's extreme, and then there's completing a Mount Everest BASE jump to set a new world record. Check out the hair-raising video here.
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| Motorola CEO: Flagship Moto X Smartphone Will Launch This Year | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:21 PM | Emily Price |
| Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed Wednesday that the company is working on a new flagship smartphone — the long-rumored Moto X. During an interview at All Things Digital's D11 conference, Woodside confirmed the smartphone’s existence, and shared some details about it. For instance, the phone will be aware of its surroundings.
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| Mercedes Adds QR Codes to Cars to Aid Crash Rescues | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:47 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| We've seen QR codes being incorporated into all kinds of things, from billboards to toilet paper to beer bottles. Now, German automaker Mercedes-Benz will incorporate those scannable, black-and-white square codes in its cars — all to help save lives.
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| Google Updates Google Calendar for Android With Color Labels | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:47 PM | Emily Price |
| Google updated its calendar app for Android Wednesday, bringing with it one of the most requested features for the app: the ability to customize event and calendar colors. Available for Android 4.1 devices and above, your Google Calendar can now be given the color of your choice (Google offers 24 options) directly from the Android app.
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| ACLU Opens Torture Database for National Day of Civic Hacking | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:40 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| The American Civil Liberties Union wants hackers and developers to take its treasure trove of torture documents and make apps and data visualizations with it. The goal? Hold the U.S. government accountable while giving Americans a better glimpse into the Bush administration's so-called "enhanced interrogation" practices.
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| Siblings Caught on MLB's Kiss Cam | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:09 PM | Sam Laird |
| Run away! That's exactly what this guy does after being caught with his sister on the kiss cam at a recent MLB game.
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| Man Jailed After Threatening President Obama on Twitter | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:01 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Making threats against the president's life is a crime, regardless of whether it's done on paper or on Twitter. That's the lesson from the case of Donte Jamar Sims, a 22-year-old man who was sentenced Wednesday to six months of prison for threatening President Barack Obama in a series of tweets. Sims will also live under a year of supervised release after his prison term is up, according to the Charlotte Observer.
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| Couple Makes Social Media History With Vine Proposal | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:35 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Who said proposals should be long and complex? Six seconds will do just fine. Curt Buthman, a business consultant from Los Angeles, used Vine to propose to girlfriend Marsha Collier Tuesday night. It was the definition of short and sweet.
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| Earhart's Plane Possibly Revealed in Sonar Image | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:24 PM | Discovery News |
| A grainy sonar image captured off an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati might represent the remains of the Electra, the two-engine aircraft legendary aviator Amelia Earhart was piloting when she vanished on July 2, 1937 in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
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| Social Networks: The Best Thing to Ever Happen to Relationships | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:15 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Relationships can be challenging, but social networks make connecting with the special people in your life a little bit easier. Connecting and tweeting, Instagramming and poking. In this comic, illustrator and comedian Teddy Hose breaks down the ways sites like Facebook and Twitter can improve our real-life bonds. SEE ALSO: Oodles More Comics on Mashable Remember, lovehounds, nothing expresses your feelings like pinning.
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| Turn Your Xbox 360 Into a Laptop With This DIY Project | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:01 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| If you're looking for a more versatile version of your Xbox 360, especially with the upcoming launch of the Xbox One, you might considering turning it into a portable gaming device. The Austin, Texas-based startup Techjango's Darkmatter Xbox laptop, for which it's currently raising money on Kickstarter, offers a solution to that problem, with a DIY kit that allows you to create and customize your own Xbox 360 laptop.
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| Coders and Government Join Forces for National Day of Civic Hacking | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:53 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Government agencies will challenge thousands of programmers across the country to solve community problems with open data and lines of code this weekend during the first-ever National Day of Civic Hacking. The National Day of Civic Hacking will bring 6,000 coders and entrepreneurs together with representatives from dozens of government agencies in nearly 100 different cities.
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| First Crowdfunded Space Telescope Open to the World | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:42 PM | Amanda Wills |
| Private asteroid mining company Planetary Resources today unveiled its plans for the world's first publicly accessible space telescope, the Arkyd. Similar to Hubble, Arkyd is designed to take high-resolution photos of deep space, like the famous eXtreme Deep Field — the farthest view into the universe ever recorded.
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| Sir Patrick Stewart Eats Pizza for the First Time | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:35 PM | Christine Erickson |
| A man named Herman Cain once said, "Imagine there's no pizza." Apparently, Sir Patrick Stewart has spent the past 73 years living without it. That is, until Wednesday, when the actor known for his role as Captain Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek ate a slice of extra cheesy New York-style pizza. SEE ALSO: Pizza Compass App Finally Makes Your Smartphone Useful He even ate the pizza folded, like a true New Yorker.
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| Honda Drives Mobility With Walking Assist Device in Japan | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:16 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| The Tokyo-based motor company is getting into the walking business. Honda's new Walking Assist Device will help provide rehabilitation training and physical therapy in Japanese hospitals, as explained in the video above. Honda previously tested the device in seven hospitals, but wants more feedback from hospitals about its performance in real-world situations.
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| Twitter Updates Android and iOS Apps | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:08 PM | Emily Price |
| Twitter updated its iOS and Android apps on Wednesday by improving the photo uploading experience and making it easier to switch between multiple accounts. Now when you add an image to tweet from Twitter’s mobile app, you’ll see a full preview of the photo rather than a cropped version. Images are also easier to upload; simply use a button in the bottom right corner of the compose box for a new tweet.
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| Roku Raises $60 Million in Bid to Take Over the Living Room | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:50 PM | Christina Warren |
| Streaming device company Roku has raised another $60 million in funding. In the competitive connected device space, Roku stands out as one of the most viable competitors to Apple TV and consoles such as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The company primarily makes connected devices, such as the new Roku 3 and also works with OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to create Roku Ready devices that can accept a Roku Streaming Stick.
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| Feds Used a Child Porn Website to Catch Pedophiles | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:45 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| When the FBI seized a child pornography website at the end of last year, they couldn't identify its users through the site's records. That's why, instead of shutting it down, they decided to keep it live for two weeks in an attempt to identify and catch the more than 5,000 people who shared and commented on thousands of pictures of children being abused.
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| Neil Patrick Harris Will Host Primetime Emmy Awards Again | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:24 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| The Television Academy has once again tapped How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris to host the Primetime Emmy Awards, CBS announced. He previously emceed the ceremony in 2009, followed by Jimmy Fallon, Jane Lynch and Jimmy Kimmel. The 65th Primetime Emmys will air on Sept. 22. Harris will also host the Tony Awards in June.
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