| Vine Videos Give Sneak Peek at New Features | | One day before rival Facebook is rumored to announce a Vine competitor, employees of Twitter's video-sharing service teased several of its new features. Co-founders Dom Hofmann and Rus Yusupov tweeted out Vine videos on Wednesday that gave an early look at the app's upcoming design changes. From each six-second clip, viewers can catch glimpses of full-screen videos, private messaging between users and possible curated categories (e.g.
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| 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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| '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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Facebook Now Lets You Comment With a Photo | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 2:46 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook has started to roll out photo comments, a new feature that allows you to comment on posts with images rather than words. Originally built during a Facebook employee hackathon, photo comments are starting to roll out globally on the web as well as the Facebook mobile site. Users can't yet leave photo comments within Facebook's mobile apps, but they are viewable.
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| Facebook Insights Gets a Makeover | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 2:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Facebook Page owners, rejoice: Facebook Insights, the social network's analytics dashboard for public Pages, is getting a makeover. A small, random group of beta testers will get access to the new desktop design on Wednesday, with a broader rollout to follow at an unspecified date. The new design is simpler, cleaner and more intelligible.
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| 17 WTF Moments From Miley Cyrus' New 'We Can't Stop' Video | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:04 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| After years away from music, Miley Cyrus has emerged from a creative cocoon of sorts to release an outlandish comeback music video for "We Can't Stop" — complete with enormous teddy bears, twerking and a general "I don't give a f-, y'all" attitude.
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| Awe-Inspiring LEGO Art Display Opens in Times Square | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:17 PM | Allison Reiber |
| Nathan Sawaya is living the dream of every kid — and kid at heart. The former corporate lawyer builds original, large-scale sculptures using LEGOs, and they're absolutely breathtaking. Sawaya's meticulously crafted sculptures are featured in The Art of the Brick exhibit at Discovery Times Square in New York City.
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| HBO Go and ESPN Now Available on Apple TV | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:03 AM | Lauren Indvik |
| As previously reported, HBO Go is indeed coming to Apple TV, effective Wednesday. Apple announced that WatchESPN and content from an assortment of other streaming providers are now available on the device as well. Apple TV owners — at least, those with subscriptions to HBO and ESPN — have been able to stream content from those networks using iPhone or iPad devices (and AirPlay) for some time.
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| 15 Hilarious Technology Ads From the 1980s | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:46 AM | Brie Hiramine |
| If you flip back to photos of your childhood, sometimes you'll wish that you hadn't. Perhaps your awkward haircuts and awkward poses weren't funny then, but they certainly are now. These tech ads make you feel the same way. The gadgets are clunky, the text is cheesy, and the graphics are so 80s. SEE ALSO: 10 Terrible Vintage PSAs That Should Stay in the Past In 25 years, we may be talking about how archaic Apple's ads were.
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| Zuckerberg Tours Samsung: Is a Facebook Phone Coming? | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:52 AM | Adam Popescu |
| News of Mark Zuckerberg's trip to South Korea is resulting in widespread speculation that Facebook is working with Samsung, the world's largest smartphone-maker, to build a phone specifically tailored for the social network.
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| 8 Unbelievable Technologies That Replace Super Powers | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:31 AM | Taylor Casti |
| Super heroes are the very definition of cool. The secret identities, the triumphant rescues, the skin-tight Lyrca outfits that show off every defined muscle and curve. Yes, super heroism is a lifestyle we could all get used to. Luckily for you, the following eight super powers don't even require mutated genetics or a Kryptonian birth certificate, thanks to modern technology.
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