| This Is What Google's Self-Driving Car 'Sees' as It Makes a Turn | | Google's self-driving car soaks in a staggering amount of information about its environment as it drives, gathering 750MB of data every second, claims Idealab founder and CEO Bill Gross. Gross, who says he learned the fact and taken the image above at an XPrize event, says the car is capturing everything it sees while moving — even cigarette butts. "If it sees a cigarette butt, it knows a person might be creeping out from between cars.
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| 'National Geographic' Named Best Tablet Magazine of 2013 | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:45 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| The winners of the 2013 National Magazine Awards, often called the "Oscars of the magazine world," were announced in a ceremony held in midtown Manhattan Thursday night. National Geographic, which nabbed the most nominations of any magazine, also picked up the most awards, including two for its digital media efforts.
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| Skydog Lets You Remotely Monitor Your Kids' Internet and Facebook Use | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 9:12 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If you're looking for some serious control over your family's Wi-Fi use and home network, a Palo-Alto, Calif., company has developed a new cloud-based solution. PowerCloud Systems' Skydog Wi-Fi router and mobile companion site lets parents monitor Internet access and even receive text notifications for certain network activity.
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| Stephen Colbert Asks Snapchat Founders if Their Profit Disappears Too | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:11 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| The co-founders of Snapchat — Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy — appeared on The Colbert Report this week to clear up Stephen Colbert's confusion about their photo-messaging app, which sees and deletes 150 million photo uploads every day. Colbert hurled a few jabs at the founders, including one about their finances: "Have you guys made a profit yet or does that disappear after 10 seconds, too?" he asked.
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| This Flask Looks Just Like an iPhone | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 5:43 PM | PSFK |
| You can carry your own booze to events and parties without attracting too much attention with the iFlask, a drink container that cleverly masquerades as an iPhone. The iFlask is made from polyethylene and polycarbonate, making it lightweight, smooth and sturdy. It's toxic free and can hold five ounces of liquid. Users can pour and drink from what should be the headphone jack, which opens and closes with a sliding switch.
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| The Strange Truth About Introverts | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 3:12 PM | Neha Prakash |
| It's a difficult task to pin down the exact characteristics of an introvert. Actually, it's difficult to pin down an introvert, in general, because they are often hiding behind the couch. At least that's what Pleated Jeans' classification of this very peculiar species of human has found.
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| Instagram Adds People-Tagging to Photos | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 1:04 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Instagram is adding one of Facebook's most popular features — photo tagging — to its iOS and Android apps Thursday. You can now tag people in photos, and browse feeds of photos you and others appear in. Previously, the only way to find out whether a photo of you was uploaded to Instagram was to crawl through your activity feed, hoping someone had mentioned your username in a caption (i.e., @laureni).
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| Meet Vine's Most Creative Stop-Motion Animator | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:35 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| If you stumble across across one of Khoa's reality-defying stop-motion vines, the first thing you'll ask is, "How in the world did he do that?" Twitter launched Vine on Jan. 24. The next day, 23-year-old Khoa Phan created his first Vine, a simple five-shot video of a Keurig machine brewing a cup of coffee. This was the kind of thing most people were filming when Vine first launched — mundane videos of everyday occurrences.
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| Warren Buffett Joins Twitter | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:32 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Warren Buffett has finally joined Twitter. Buffett sent out his first tweet from @warrenbuffett while being interviewed by Fortune's Pattie Sellers at the University of Nebraska Omaha: Warren is in the house.
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| YouTube Star iJustine Gets Socially Awkward | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:50 AM | Matt Silverman |
| Wondering what happened on the Internet but reading words makes you sleepy? Just watch Socially Awkward, Mashable's weekly YouTube jaunt, hosted by professional fast talker Kevin Gisi. In this week's thrilling adventure, YouTube megastar iJustine visits the set (and by "set" I mean "a white wall"), where she is mistaken by Kevin as a lowly intern.
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| 10 Things Smart Entrepreneurs Never Leave Home Without | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:34 AM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| Entrepreneurs say instinct can only get them so far in building a successful business. That’s why they rely on a combination of technologies and practical items for not only their day-to-day business needs, but also their long-term success. Here are some of those items. 1. Something to Write With First, always have something to write with.
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| Carphone Warehouse Pranks Shoppers With Automated Call Contest | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:41 AM | Lauren Indvik |
| Carphone Warehouse is trying its hand at "prankvertising" through a series of online videos to promote the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4 in the UK. On Saturday, Carphone Warehouse set up signage near a floor model of the S4 at its shop on Oxford Street in London.
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| Facebook's Earnings and Other News You Need to Know | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 9:55 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Facebook reported its quarterly earnings Wednesday. The company cleared $1.45 billion in revenue, 30% of which came from mobile advertising.
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| The 20 Most-Clichéd Tourist Photos | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 9:35 AM | Zoe Fox |
| Chances are, after travelling around the world, you'll want to bring back some evidence of your latest trip — and we're not just referring to postcards and tsotchkes. We're talking photos because, let's face it: Pic or it didn't happen. Much like how there's a bucket list of must-visit destinations, there're now must-take photos that correspond with each spot on a map.
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| Hulu Adds New Original Shows | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:47 AM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Hulu's premium video service, Hulu Plus, has doubled its user base in the past 12 months, surpassing 4 million paying subscribers since launching in 2010. Those subscribers, who pay $7.99 each month for Hulu Plus, and non-paying Hulu users will see 11 series and season premieres arrive on Hulu this summer and fall.
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| Need a Tan? 8 Apps to Faux Your Glow | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:33 AM | Christine Erickson |
| Warm weather means shedding your layers, which ignites the great debate on tanning. On one hand, you're probably feeling pretty pasty from hibernating all winter. Studies have shown how dangerous tanning can be, and sunless tanners can be expensive and difficult to apply. What's a self conscious person to do? A swipe of your iPhone will give you the confidence boost in pictures with a little bronzer.
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| 47 Top Typography Tools and Resources | | Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:39 AM | Grace Smith |
| To help you improve and learn more about typography, we compiled 47 useful tools and resources, from fundamentals to modular scales to informative blogs.
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