| Watch Right Now: Andrew W.K. Playing Drums for 24 Hours Straight | | Andrew W.K., the man known for his music but also for his crazy affinity for partying, is playing drums right now. He's been doing it for the last 8 hours or so, and he plans to continue doing it for the next 16 hours. Can he pull it off? Well, staying up all night is no problem for Andrew, but playing the drums for an entire day, that's a wee bit more difficult.
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| LinkedIn Recovering From Outage Due to Possible DNS Hijack | | LinkedIn is recovering from a DNS issue that sent visitors to a different web site for an hour Wednesday night. The issue, which is now resolved for most users, rerouted the traffic to a domain sales page. LinkedIn, a popular professional social network, acknowledged the issue in a tweet, but did not elaborate. Our site is now recovering for some members. We determined it was a DNS issue, we're continuing to work on it.
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| 1,556 Instagrams Make 1 Incredible Stop-Motion Video | | Rumors are floating around that Instagram intends to jump into the world of video-sharing, but the creative duo FriendsInFaux have made their own video from Instagram photos — 1,556 of them, to be exact. While the short film's plot follows a casual beach-goer's trials and tribulations, the animation is more than just a straight-forward compilation of Instagrams (which still would have been an impressive undertaking).
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| 'Chime' Instrument Turns City Sounds Into Musical Compositions | | Horns honking, engines running and construction clanging — the urban jungle's daily noises can be hard on the ears, and easy to ignore. But Marc De Pape, a self-described "creative technologist" based in Toronto, is encouraging urbanites to tune back in by turning these city sounds into music.
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| Facebook in Indonesia: 64 Million Users, But No Facebook Office | | Indonesia is one of the top five countries worldwide in terms of Facebook users, and recently, rumors have spread that the California-based company is gearing up to open an office in Indonesia later this year. Charlene Chian, Facebook's head of communications for Asia-Pacific, says the social media site now has 64 million monthly active users in Indonesia.
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| Coffee Machine Creates Latte Art of Your Face | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:28 PM | PSFK |
| Printing technology has made tremendous strides in the past few years, and it's beginning to seem like anyone can make anything if the right tools are available. Take Lets Caffe, for instance — a Taiwanese coffee chain that serves lattes with photos of customers' faces printed directly onto their latte foam. Customers submit photos of themselves, which are placed into the coffee machine.
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| Join Us Live From Facebook's Mysterious 'New Product' Event | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:00 PM | Emily Price |
| A small group of Facebook employees have been working on “something big,” which the social network is set to unveil on Thursday. The press event for Facebook's "new product" will take place at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. To notify reporters about the event, Facebook sent out paper invitations through traditional post — an unprecedented move — in addition to digital versions.
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| 'Man of Steel' Reviews: This Looks Like a Job for … Twitter! | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:29 PM | Quenton Narcisse |
| With Man of Steel in theaters and doing monumental box office numbers, the film has quickly become the hottest commodity of the summer. Reviews for the film have been generally positive, but there's also been plenty of criticism.
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| Lolo Jones Vine Provokes Bobsledder Backlash | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:29 PM | Sam Laird |
| Olympic star hurdler-turned-bobsledder Lolo Jones posted a Vine video mocking her bobsledding earnings, which ticked off some in the sport.
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| TWA Flight 800 Spawned the Internet's First Conspiracy Theories | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:03 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 crashed just south of Long Island, claiming all 230 lives aboard the Boeing 747. A four-year National Transportation Safety Board investigation determined a fuel tank explosion was to blame for the incident.
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| 'The Sopranos' Star James Gandolfini Dead at 51 | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:28 PM | Anita Li |
| Actor James Gandolfini, best known for his portrayal of mob boss Tony Soprano in The Sopranos has died. He was 51. HBO confirmed to Mashable on Wednesday that Gandolfini died while vacationing in Rome, Italy. Reports suggest the cause was a possible heart attack. "We're all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family.
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| NBA Player Sells Bulldog on Twitter | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:20 PM | Sam Laird |
| NBA players' massive Twitter followings are good for lots of things, but one big man just found a new use.
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| Apple Scores $30M iPad Deal With L.A. Schools | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:57 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Apple announced Wednesday that it has landed a major deal to sell iPad tablets to the second-largest public school district in the United States. The Los Angeles School Board of Education has approved a $30 million deal to roll out iPads to students in its district beginning this fall. Each iPad tablet will include the "Pearson Common Core System of Courses delivered via a new app," Apple said in a statement.
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| Verizon: We’re Not Slowing Down Your Netflix | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 6:17 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| It’s a rainy day; you’re busy power loading Dr. Who on Netflix when it happens. Netflix lapses into endlessly “Loading” your next episode, without actually ever playing it. This is not a new problem, and even as broadband speeds improve, the issue persists.
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| The Dumbest Things Redditors Have Done for Love | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 6:05 PM | Hannah Orenstein |
| Love can make you do crazy things, like hoisting a boombox over your head to serenade your dream girl, sprinting to the love of your life while staring into her eyes on FaceTime, and maybe even purchasing a $4.9 million home to be closer to your boyfriend's family.
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| A 1.3 Billion-Pixel View of Mars | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:25 PM | Amanda Wills |
| NASA released a jaw-dropping, 360-degree interactive panorama of Mars from Curiosity rover's point of view.
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| Congressman Vines Vote Against Anti-Abortion Bill | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:10 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) wanted to make a big impression when he voted against a controversial bill to make it more difficult for women to have abortions. He Vined his "nay" vote, making him most likely the first member of Congress to do so. Swalwell was protesting a bill called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
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| Makerbot Acquired by Stratasys | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:56 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Makerbot has been acquired by Stratasys, a 3D printing business, the two companies announced Wednesday afternoon.
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| What If Beyoncé Named Baby Kimye? | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:45 PM | Hannah Orenstein |
| Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are reportedly still deciding on their little one's name, following the baby's arrival on Saturday. We do have a few clues about the baby's name, though — it might start with a 'K.' "I think it would be really cute cause Kanye and I are both K’s … but half the names on our list aren't K's," Kardashian told Extra. Donda is likely one of the options on their list, after West's late mother.
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| 8 Superheroes Accurately Analyzed by a Clinical Psychologist | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:35 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| Superheroes spend all of their time saving the world, which leaves them with little to address their own issues — even when they seriously need to. But entertainment website The Credits is helping out superheroes suffering from serious personal problems. SEE ALSO: 8 Superheroes as Fonts The site enlisted a clinical psychologist, Dr.
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| Amazing Vine Captures Massive Brazil Protests | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:15 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Can six seconds' worth of video and audio convey the story of a massive protest in Brazil? Yes it can, per this Vine video recorded earlier this week. Posted by Lucio Amorim, the Vine shows thousands of protesters in the streets of Rio de Janeiro protesting poor public services and corruption in the halls of government.
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| The WiCi Awards: Recognizing Women Changing Communications | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:00 PM | Stacy Martinet |
| At Mashable, we follow leaders and innovators in the digital space. As technology is dramatically reshaping the practice and profession of communications, we are looking to identify and recognize the women pushing the barriers and reshaping communications for the digital era. These are women on the rise: Women who have accomplished a great deal, but whose work is far from finished.
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| Miami Heat Crowd Teaches You How to Fail as a Sports Fan | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:44 PM | Sam Laird |
| Tuesday night's epic NBA Finals slugfest featured gripping back-and-forth lead changes, stellar performances from the game's best players and set up what promises to be an appointment-viewing Game 7 on Thursday evening. It also included a remedial seminar in how to fail as a sports fan, courtesy of the Miami Heat's home crowd.
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| Why Businesses Should 'Act Human' on Facebook | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:16 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| No matter how much thought you put into your social media strategy, the real world can always interfere. Robert Reimann spent more than a week hashing out a plan to boost sales and engagement on the Facebook page for his bike tour business, after being matched with Shane Johnston, a social media marketing consultant from Mashable's Small Business Panel.
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