| Hulu Plus Arrives on Windows Phone 8 | | Hulu has launched its Hulu Plus mobile app on Microsoft's Windows Phone store, offering video streaming of popular TV shows on your WP8 device. Shows on offer include hits like "Family Guy," "Glee," "Modern Family," "Community," "The Vampire Diaries" and others. Ad-free kids shows are also available, including "SpongeBob SquarePants," "iCarly," "Caillou" and others.
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| Portable Extension Cord Attaches to Any Piece of Furniture | | An extension cord designed for smart devices aims to replace your old-school power strip by conveniently attaching onto any piece of furniture. SEE ALSO: ZenDock, the MacBook Pro Accessory that Cleans Up Your Messy Wires Rather than reaching behind a nightstand to plug in your tablet or climb down from a bunk bed to plug in your smartphone, the nuplug is like a portable power strip that can clamp onto various surfaces (e.g.
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| Solar Eclipse Will Turn Sun Into 'Ring of Fire' This Week | | The moon will block the sun in a potentially spectacular solar eclipse this week — a celestial event that will transform the sun into a cosmic "ring of fire" in the daytime sky. The ring-shaped solar eclipse, known as an annular eclipse, will occur Thursday and Friday (May 9 and 10) Eastern time.
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| Eyewitness Recounts Rescue of Missing Cleveland Women | | Three women who went missing about 10 years ago were found alive in a house in downtown Cleveland Monday. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight are "in good health," Cleveland police said in a release. The women, who disappeared in their teens and early 20s, were taken to a hospital for evaluation, and to reunite with relatives, the Associated Press reported.
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| Microsoft: Windows Blue Coming in 2013 With Small-Screen Support | | Windows Blue is real, and it's coming before the end of the year. Windows marketing chief Tami Reller confirmed to Mashable that the next major update to Windows 8 is codenamed "Blue" and that it would ship by the 2013 holiday season. "Blue" is actually an internal Microsoft codename for the update, and the final product will have a different name, although Reller didn't say what it would be.
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| Windows 8 Milestones: 100 Million Licenses Sold, 60,000 Apps | | The PC market is continuing to drive off a cliff, but at least now more passengers are running Windows 8. Microsoft says it's sold 100 million licenses for Windows 8 so far, up from 60 million in January. At the same time, the Windows Store has hit 60,000 apps. As for how many of those licenses represent PCs that are actually being used, it's hard to say. The 100 million includes upgrades as well as PC sales.
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| Cutestagram: Ginny the Jack Russell Terrier Plays Dress Up | | Monday, May 06, 2013 10:57 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Say hello to Ginny, Internet. If you spend any time on Instagram, you might already know this sassy Jack Russell terrier with a flair for costumes. Ginny — or ginny_jrt, as she's known on Instagram — has more than 186,000 followers who heart every new look the 6-year-old rescue pooch sports in her snapshots.
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| Budget iPhone Is Reportedly Launching This Year | | Monday, May 06, 2013 10:30 PM | Emily Price |
| A new budget version of the iPhone is set to launch this year, according to an ETrade Supply source. The cell-phone parts supplier has been correct about a number of Apple rumors before, and most recently obtained parts of the iPhone 5 prior to its release. Beyond the budget handset's existence, however, ETrade’s sources weren’t able to share any more details.
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| Watch the NBA's Best Dance Moves This Season | | Monday, May 06, 2013 9:58 PM | Sam Laird |
| The NBA is the top sports league on YouTube, largely thanks a constant procession of dunk and highlight montages. But NBA players don't just have moves on the court — it seems many of them also love to dance. With that in mind, the league posted this funny video to YouTube on Monday. SEE ALSO: Chad Johnson Live-Tweets Showing Homeless Man a Great Time Behold: the best dance moves of the 2012-2013 regular season.
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| A Simple Algorithm That May Prevent Financial Disaster | | Monday, May 06, 2013 9:27 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Monday marks the three-year anniversary of the 2010 Flash Crash, when the U.S. stock market lost 1,000 points in a matter of minutes before recovering most of these loses a few minutes later. The crash occurred when high-frequency trading algorithms got into a vicious, high-speed selling spiral, wiping out billions of dollars of value before anyone knew what was happening.
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| 14 Songs That Made Film Adaptations Come To Life | | Monday, May 06, 2013 9:00 PM | Jessica Fee |
| The highly-anticipated soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby has received almost as much hype as the movie itself. Music mogul Jay-Z produced the star-studded soundtrack that features music by Beyoncé, Lana Del Ray and the xx, just to name just a few. SEE ALSO: 'The Great Gatsby' Second Trailer For this week's Music Monday, we've compiled a playlist of songs that were featured in lit-flicks such as The Great Gatsby.
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| This May Be the Coolest Hot Dog Vendor of All Time | | Monday, May 06, 2013 7:45 PM | Sam Laird |
| The San Francisco Giants have one of Major League Baseball's coolest ballparks and here's one reason why: McCovey Cove. That's a small inlet beyond the right field fence where dozens of kayakers and boaters gather to hang out, have parties and, if they're lucky, even snag a homerun ball during games.
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| Smartphone Satellites Piece Together Pictures of Earth | | Monday, May 06, 2013 7:21 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| NASA recently launched a trio of satellites that could possibly be the cheapest satellites ever flown in space. The satellites were something you probably carry or are holding right now: smartphones. The NASA mission, dubbed "PhoneSat," launched three beefed up Google-HTC Nexus One smartphones (nicknamed "Alexander," "Graham" and "Bell") into space on April 21.
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| Anonymous, Islamist Hackers Plan Major Assault for Tuesday | | Monday, May 06, 2013 6:35 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Ascribing a consistent political agenda to the hacktivist collective Anonymous is almost impossible. Anyone can claim the "Anonymous" moniker and use it for good or evil, provided that his or her work is subversive.
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| Adobe CEO: The Truth About Creative Cloud | | Monday, May 06, 2013 5:55 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Adobe's decision to discontinue the boxed version of Creative Suite and move to a subscription software-based model (also known as the Creative Cloud) stunned many customers, but considering recent moves, like the acquisition and integration of Behance, the introduction of a cloud subscription option and Adobe’s desire to support transmedia activities, none of this should come as a surprise.
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| Zuckerberg Delayed Instagram Deal to Watch 'Game of Thrones' | | Monday, May 06, 2013 5:30 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Only Mark Zuckerberg could throw a billion-dollar deal on ice to sit down with his friends and watch Game of Thrones. We're at least a few years away from calling the 28-year-old Facebook CEO an eccentric billionaire (because a) he's not old; and b) he hasn't thrown stacks of benjamins from a hot air balloon just yet), but this is just one of the few details about the Facebook-Instagram deal that shook up the Web last year.
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| Disney Picks Electronic Arts to Create 'Star Wars' Video Games | | Monday, May 06, 2013 5:24 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Walt Disney Company has just tapped Electronic Arts to exclusively produce future Star Wars video games for "mobile, social, tablet and online," although Disney will retain some game creation rights within those categories. Disney and EA announced the multi-year licensing deal Monday — a month after Disney and LucasFilm shuttered long-time Star Wars game publisher LucasArts.
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| Rob Delaney to Take Over MLB Twitter Account | | Monday, May 06, 2013 5:02 PM | Sam Laird |
| Rob Delaney -- who is among Twitter's most popular, funny and ribald humor tweeters -- will takeover the official MLB account on Tuesday afternoon.
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| Man Animates Wife's Drunken Story About Tortilla Chips | | Monday, May 06, 2013 4:43 PM | Neha Prakash |
| If there's ever been a PSA for not drinking and joking, it's this video. Adam Patch's wife got a little too tipsy one night and turned, like most do, into a stand-up comedian. Her subject of choice? Tortilla-chip bullying. (No, folks, even we can't make this stuff up.) Patch recorded his wife's nonsensical, pun-filled story and turned it into a darkly hilarious animated video that really shines a light on the chip-on-chip abuse.
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| Your Phone Is Dirtier Than These 5 Objects | | Monday, May 06, 2013 3:56 PM | Bianca Consunji |
| It's a well-known fact that cellphones are dirty objects, but just how unclean are they? Fun fact: each square inch of your cellphone contains roughly 25,000 germs, making it one of the filthiest things you come in contact with on a daily basis. That's something to think about the next time you press your face to your phone.
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| 'New York Times' Runs GIF-Like Video on Its Home Page | | Monday, May 06, 2013 3:48 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Visitors to the NYTimes.com Monday afternoon were treated to something slightly unusual: Instead of a large photograph or even a video, the Times embedded side-by-side looping, animated images at the top of its homepage. Both images are embedded in an .mp4 video file, but look like animated GIFs. The left animation features a jellyfish known as Phacellophora camtschatica, filmed near the Washington coastline.
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| Demi Lovato Is Premiering Songs Based on Intensity of Tweets | | Monday, May 06, 2013 3:31 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Every song from Demi Lovato's fourth studio album, Demi, will premiere online way sooner than fans anticipated — but only if those fans, a.k.a. "Lovatics," tweet like crazy. Lovato's camp launched LovaticsSpeedUpTime.com on Monday, challenging fans to tweet the song name (in hashtag form) that appears on the site. For example, "#WithoutTheLove" is track three on the album.
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| Israel's Attack on Syria Caught on Video | | Monday, May 06, 2013 3:16 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Israel bombed Syria over the weekend, with attacks on Friday and Sunday. One of those two attacks was caught on camera from two different angles, and the videos have been uploaded to YouTube. The Washington Post confirmed the veracity of the videos, which show a huge explosion on Mount Qassioun, a hill overlooking Damascus.
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