| iCoil Keeps Your Headphones Tangle-Free | | 3:34:17 AM | Bonnie Wertheim |
| In a perfect world, all electronics would be cordless. Think about how many times you've tripped over your laptop charger, or the countless occasions on which you've found your iPod earbuds at the bottom of your gym bag in a knotted mess. Begrudge their inconvenience as we may, most of the devices we use still depend on cords — whether they serve to transfer information or electricity.
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| 5 IT Shortcuts That Put Your Company’s Data at Risk | | 1:37:53 AM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| IT departments looking to save time and money shouldn't be doing so at the expense of their data protection. A study from the University of Texas revealed that 43% of companies suffering from catastrophic data loss close and never reopen, and 51% close within two years. Backup solutions provider Unitrends warns IT professionals about five common data protection shortcuts that could put their company's data — and even their jobs — at risk.
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| New Parents, Bookmark This Website | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:29 PM | Lauren Drell |
| The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: weeSpring One-Liner Pitch: The first comprehensive social review site for baby products, where parents can research baby gear and follow other parent reviewers they know and trust.
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| Unpopular Now: One Vine Account to Rule Them All? | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:49 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Now that both iOS and Android users can enjoy Vine, one of the major challenges on the service is cutting through the overflow of content uploaded every day. To help users get past the "Popular Now" page, some of Vine's biggest names have launched a joint account — jokingly called Unpopular Now — in an attempt to cut down the noise.
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| Professor Discovers New Human Body Part | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:20 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Get ready to put your hands together and give a warm welcome to the newest addition to the human anatomy. Introducing: Dua’s layer. The new ocular part, which sits at the back of the cornea, was discovered by Harminder Dua, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Nottingham. It's only 15 microns thick, but the discovery, per Dua, has big implications.
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| Apple VP Rushed iBooks Deal While Steve Jobs Was Alive | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:43 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Apple senior Vice President Eddy Cue told a Manhattan courtroom Thursday that he rushed through the process of making deals with publishers — so that Steve Jobs could unveil the iBooks store on stage while the Apple founder was still alive. Cue is at the center of an antitrust trial where Apple stands accused of fixing prices of e-books at an artificially high level.
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| Smart Socks Act As Your Running Coach | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:17 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Can an actual pair of socks knock your proverbial socks off when it comes to making you a better runner? Quite possibly, if you check out the latest creation from a Redmond, Wash., startup. Wearable tech firm Heapsylon developed Sensoria Fitness Socks packed with smart capabilities.
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| Which Carrier Has the Best iPhone Plan? | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:42 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| AT&T was the only carrier to offer Apple's iPhone when it was first released, forcing many users to switch to a new carrier in order to snag the most advanced phone of the time. Since then, the iPhone has slowly come to each of the three other major carriers — Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile — widening the iPhone's consumer base and giving customers a choice of carrier.
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| One Man's Mission to Map More Accessible Cities | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:16 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Every day, Jason DaSilva experiences firsthand the challenges of traveling around New York City on his motorized scooter. But the Brooklyn-based filmmaker with multiple sclerosis is not sitting back. Instead, DaSilva is leading an initiative called AXS Map to chart big cities with better accessibility information. For people living with physical disabilities, the project is sort of like a more robust Yelp.
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| Want a Million Likes on Facebook? It's All About the Reshares | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 7:50 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Remember that time a couple of Norwegian 20 year-olds posted a picture to Facebook? Sure you do. The one where the girl, Catherine, agreed to have sex with her friend Peter if the picture got a million Likes? It turned out to be a joke for the benefit of the pair's friends. Still, the picture zoomed past a million Likes in less than a day. Now the story has become a subject of an academic white paper by a trio of Facebook data scientists.
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| Boy Bullied by Twitter Racists Will Sing NBA Finals Anthem | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 7:05 PM | Sam Laird |
| Before game three of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night, the home team San Antonio Spurs brought out 11-year-old fan and America's Got Talent star Sebastien De La Cruz to sing the national anthem. The "boy with the golden voice," decked out in a Spurs-themed traditional mariachi suit, brought the house down — as you can see in the video embedded above.
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| 47% of Superman Fans Want to See 'Man of Steel' in 3D | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:04 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Man of Steel swoops into theaters June 14, and eager fans naturally can't stop talking about all things Superman. Mashable asked digital comics hub comiXology and DC Comics to survey more than 10,000 fans to get their thoughts on the movie, villain of choice, Superman's love interest and, of course, their favorite Superman comic. Justice League reigned supreme, snagging 25.3% of the votes, while Smallville had the most write-in votes.
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| Snowden Stole Secret NSA Documents With a Flash Drive | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:03 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| How did whistleblower Edward Snowden steal all those top secret documents from a secure National Security Agency facility in Hawaii? Simple: with a good old-fashioned flash drive. That's allegedly how Snowden, who was working at the facility as a contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, smuggled the documents he then leaked to The Guardian and The Washington Post, according to officials questioned by The Los Angeles Times.
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| Apple Claims 20% of E-Book Market | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:56 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Apple's share of the e-book market is bigger than many previously thought. Taking the witness stand at the antitrust trial between Apple and the DOJ on Wednesday, Apple executive Keith Moerer revealed that the company obtained a 20% share of the e-book market shortly after launching its iBookstore in 201, and has maintained that share in the two years since.
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| Pocket and Sleeping Bag Can Charge Your Phone | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:35 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| Forget searching for charging outlets and plug points, you can now charge your phone with body heat and a sleeping bag or pocket in your clothes. Vodafone revealed this week the wearable Power Pocket charger. It works by using technology called thermocouples, pairs of thermoelectric material designed to be small and flexible enough to stitch onto clothing.
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| French Court Forces Twitter to Reveal Anti-Semitic Users | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 4:49 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Twitter must reveal the users behind a series of anti-Semitic posts after a French court decided Thursday not to hear the company's appeal of an earlier decision. Several French groups sued Twitter last year, demanding it reveal the identities of users who posted anti-Jewish messages. In January, the Paris High Court ruled in favor of the French groups, deciding the messages violated French laws against hate speech and Holocaust denial.
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| 25 Rage GIFs That Perfectly Express Your Anger | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 4:25 PM | Molly Horan |
| Sometimes, a GIF can capture an emotion in a single moving image better than an hour-long rant ever could. Since the last thing you want to do when you're seething is to scour Tumblr for that one where that guy throws that thing, it's always helpful to have a collection of reaction GIFs handy.
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| OkCupid Profile Ghostwriter Will Get You Lucky | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:55 PM | The Daily Dot |
| If you click through enough online dating profiles, and you begin to wonder whether any singles on the Internet have a brain. It's usually not the profile writer's fault; summarizing yourself in a few paragraphs is no easy task, and more often than not, conveys an identity that is incongruous with the individual's true self.
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| 'Star Wars' Attack May Be the Coolest Wedding Photo Ever | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:31 PM | Allison Reiber |
| Readers, meet the ultimate wedding crashers: a squad of Imperial AT-AT Walkers. Following the killer dinosaur attack Photoshop that went viral this June, photographers and self-professed Star Wars nerds Tony and Danielle Lombardo of Little Blue Lemon decided to craft a wedding party attack too.
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| This Jet Bike Is Insane and Dangerous, But It Works | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:10 PM | Charlie White |
| Self-described British garage inventor/videomaker Colin Furze built a portable "big-ass pulse jet," and naturally, the first thing he wanted to do was strap it onto what he calls "an old woman's bike built for shopping." The result? It's a jet bike. Isn't this dangerous? Of course it is.
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| Supreme Court Leaves Room for Big Business in Synthetic DNA | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 2:42 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Supreme Court's gene patenting decision left plenty of room for profitable business in synthetic DNA, Wall Street is indicating. Myriad Genetics, the genetics research company involved by the case decided Thursday, is up more than 8% in mid-day trading: While there's no guarantee Myriad will end the day quite so high, this is a sign investors are positive about Myriad's future.
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| NASA Goes Green: Next Spacecraft Will Be Reusable | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 2:36 PM | Space.com |
| Since the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian rockets to launch its astronauts to space. But the United States plans to have its own homemade spacecraft again soon. Called the Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle, the new vehicle will be able to carry astronauts to Earth orbit, to the moon, asteroids and eventually to Mars.
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| Foursquare Time Machine Teleports You Down Memory Lane | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 2:21 PM | Charlie White |
| Okay world travelers, now it's time for some humble bragging, thanks to the new Foursquare Time Machine. On Thursday, the company announced this new way to visualize all of your past check-ins on its Foursquare blog, and what a gorgeous visualization it is. The animation flies you around all those haunts you've visited in times past, served up in a lovely 3D effect that you can autoplay to your heart's content.
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| 10 Signs You've Landed at E3 | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 2:08 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| LOS ANGELES — The Entertainment Electronic Expo is like no other place on Earth. Industry insiders, press, analysts and fans unite to see the latest and greatest in gaming — resulting in a combined culture that you don't see anywhere else. As we head into the final day of the convention, we wanted to recap exactly what it is that makes E3 so special, strange and alien.
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| Facebook Nixes Sponsored Results Ads | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 2:00 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| In a further effort to streamline its advertising offerings, Facebook is planning to phase out Sponsored Results -- the ads it had served up for searches.
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| AOL Founder Invests $20 Million in Children's Apparel Startup | | Thursday, June 13, 2013 1:51 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| AOL co-founder Steve Case has been on a journey across America, looking for promising young businesses outside of New York and Silicon Valley. On one such trip to North Carolina last fall, Case met Brandi Temple (pictured above), founder of a now 5-year-old online children's apparel company, Lolly Wolly Doodle, which claims to sell 60% of its clothes through Facebook.
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