| NASA Captures Solstice Solar Portrait | | Friday, December 21, 2012 9:13 PM | Discovery News |
| At 11:12 UT (6:12 a.m. EST), the world didn't end (as far as I can tell), but it was a significant time none-the-less. That was the exact minute of the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (or the Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere) -- when the daylight hours are shortest and the sun reaches its most southern position in the sky at noon.
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| 2012's Biggest Winners and Losers | | Friday, December 21, 2012 8:24 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| It’s been the most manic of years, with extreme highs and heart-breaking lows. Ultimately, we all have our good times and our bad. With that in mind, I hope we can cheer 2012’s winners and empathize with the year’s losers.
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| Facebook Poke App Is Frustrating as Hell | | Friday, December 21, 2012 7:53 PM | Pete Pachal |
| I was never a big poker on Facebook. When I joined the social network in 2007, giving someone a "poke" was still pretty common. It was a connection that stopped short of an actual friend request, a way to test the waters of a reconnection with, say, an ex. The new app, Facebook Poke (as it's listed in the App Store), doesn't have much in common with poking of old.
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| This Year in Twitter: 9 Important Milestones | | Friday, December 21, 2012 6:30 PM | Jennifer Shore |
| With tweets flying through cyberspace every second of the day, we're writing history with the touch of our fingertips. In 2012, Users documented events, political battles and heart-wrenching moments throughout the past year, and Twitter itself made history on a few occasions. Here's a look back at the nine biggest Twitter milestones of 2012.
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| Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Hamlet Book Breaks Kickstarter Record | | Friday, December 21, 2012 6:06 PM | PSFK |
| Webcartoonist Ryan North's Kickstarter campaign has broken the all-time record for being the most funded publishing project ever. His reinvention of Shakespeare's classic, Hamlet -- To Be Or Not To Be: That Is the Adventure -- is a choose-your-own-adventure style story. The illustrated book is described as "80,000 words of comedy and mayhem," with jokes, swordfights and ghosts.
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| Scientists Explain Why Rudolph's Nose Is Red | | Friday, December 21, 2012 5:37 PM | Eric Larson |
| Scientists in the Netherlands published a report about just why Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's nose is, in fact, red. Results may surprise.
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| Why xkcd Is Wrong About Instagram | | Friday, December 21, 2012 4:48 PM | Chris Taylor |
| First, let me state for the record: There will always be a special place in my heart for xkcd. Randall Munroe's webcomic has been a reliable source of amusement and enlightenment since it began in 2005. That former NASA robot programmer and his stick-figure 'toons have choked me up, made my jaw drop, and soothed my fears with science. But sometimes, just sometimes, Munroe gets things profoundly wrong.
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| Facebook Introduces Snapchat Competitor, Poke | | Friday, December 21, 2012 3:32 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Facebook on Friday announced its rumored Snapchat competitor, which it is calling Poke. Like Snapchat's app, Poke (named after the famous, much-derided Facebook feature), lets you send a message, photo or video to Facebook friends. The messages expire after 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds, though. The utility of such an app has prompted some debate.
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| Report: Apple Maps Most Popular iPhone App in 2012 | | Friday, December 21, 2012 1:23 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| iPhone owners may not have loved Apple's Maps, but they used that app more than any other on the platform in 2012, according to Nielsen. Maps was used by an average of 32.4 million iPhone owners a month, besting Facebook, which ranked second with 28.6 million users. Here's the full list: Apple's Maps was a pr disaster for Apple. After users complained, Apple CEO Tim Cook issued an apology.
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| Startup Wants You to Dare Friends to Look Foolish for Charity | | Friday, December 21, 2012 12:19 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Would you take a shower in a public fountain? What if your friends would donate $50 if you did it? A just-hatched startup called Moolta wants you to challenge your friends to do wildly crazy things, record their antics and post them to their platform. What's in it for the dare accepters? The dare is a fundraiser -- in most cases for charity.
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| 'Quick Donate' Transformed Political Fundraising in 2012 | | Friday, December 21, 2012 11:38 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign was just as innovative as his first, making use of revolutionary new digital tools to help secure victory on Election Day. Among the most important tools in Obama's digital utility belt was Quick Donate, which was recently named by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes as one of the top five innovations in government and politics, alongside NationBuilder, Upworthy, Mobile Commons and Organizer.com.
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| What Facebook's $1 Messages Mean for Journalists | | Friday, December 21, 2012 10:33 AM | Matt Silverman |
| Great news! Facebook now lets people you don't know spam your inbox for the low, low price of $1. For those of us who work in media, this can only mean one thing: Thumbnail courtesy of iStockphoto, skodonnell, Ned courtesy of The Internet.
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| Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded in Amsterdam | | Friday, December 21, 2012 9:45 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| One of the last projects that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs worked on before his death was commissioning the minimalist designer Philippe Starck to build his family the yacht of their dreams. Now, Starck is alleging that Jobs never fully paid him for the task.
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| HTC Reportedly Planning to Launch Two Windows RT Tablets | | Friday, December 21, 2012 8:53 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| HTC has two Windows RT-based tablets in the works, Bloomberg reports citing people familiar with the matter. One of these will be a full-fledged 12-inch tablet, while the other is a crossover, 7-inch device that will be able to make phone calls, the report claims. If the report is true, the 7-inch device would be the first tablet of that size for Windows RT.
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