| All-Natural Compostable Water Filter Promises 'Superior Taste' | | For the eco-conscious among us, the Soma water filter is an all-natural, 100% compostable alternative to purifying H20. The fancy filter is made from Malaysian coconut shells, vegan silk and food-based PLA plastic, according to Soma's Kickstarter page. Soma claims to dwarf other standard filters in the taste department. "Soma's proprietary formula produces the best tasting water.
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| ELF Electric Vehicle Powered by Pedaling and the Sun | | Fueled by the combined forces of manpower and the sun, a new hybrid electric vehicle gets you from point A to B in an innovative new way. Called "ELF," the vehicle is the meeting point between a bicycle and a car, according its Kickstarter page. Using a combination of pedaling and solar power, creator Organic Transit says the ELF is ideal for commuting, deliveries and other local transportation needs.
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| The Year's Best Meteor Shower Peaks This Week | | Stargazers are about to get their annual celestial treat: A bright meteor shower, the Geminids, will grace skies worldwide this week, with a peak in activity on Dec. 13. No telescope or binoculars are required to see the show — just use your bare eyes. The moon will set before the meteors come out to play around 10 p.m. local time, meaning the sky should be nice and dark for optimal viewing.
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| Adobe Updates Photoshop and Illustrator For Retina Displays | | Monday, December 10, 2012 11:57 PM | Christina Warren |
| Adobe has updated Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6 to support Retina displays. This update should make plenty of designers and photo editors very happy. Since the release of the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina in June, software developers have scrambled to support the high-resolution screen and pixel density.
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| 'Sesame Street' Talks Divorce With Online Kits for Parents and Kids | | Monday, December 10, 2012 11:15 PM | Kate Freeman |
| The beloved children's television show Sesame Street is taking on the D-word for the second time in 20 years. Abby Cadabby, a fuzzy, pink, fairy-in-training on Sesame Street, explains divorce by talking about her parents' separate houses in a 13-minute segment that can only be accessed online.
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| Hands On With Instagram's New Features | | Monday, December 10, 2012 8:59 PM | Christina Warren |
| Instagram updated its iOS and Android apps Monday with a new filter, new crop and scale features and a more refined user interface. There is a lot of drama right now in the photo sharing space -- especially now that Twitter is offering its own photo filters -- so we wanted to spend a few minutes with the new Instagram features and see how the changes stack up.
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| Face It, Instagram Is Replaceable | | Monday, December 10, 2012 8:30 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| I’m one of those annoying Instagram users who takes too many photos of sunsets and landmarks, all in the never-ending-hope that one of my images will hit the perfect emotional note and make it a must share for everyone. There’s no denying it, I love Instagram -- or at least what it does for me. And yet, if Twitter manages to beat its rival to a "Toaster"-filtered pulp, I probably won’t care.
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| Big Boi: Music Piracy Produces 'Bullsh-t' Records | | Monday, December 10, 2012 7:01 PM | Todd Olmstead |
| To hear Big Boi tell it, music these days is a beautiful thing — but it's also a transaction. At the core of our talk, in advance of the release of his second solo album, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, is the idea that first and foremost Big Boi loves music. But he also treats it like a business. At this point in his career, he doesn't need to make albums if people aren't buying them.
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| Twitter Adds Instagram-Like Photo Filters | | Monday, December 10, 2012 6:39 PM | Christina Warren |
| The Twitter vs. Instagram war just got real: Twitter now has photo filters. The long-rumored feature of adding filters to Twitter photos arrives today on Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. The photo filters are provided by Aviary, a company that knows something about building easy editing solutions. On its blog, Aviary discusses its part of the partnership.
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| Facebook Is Down for Some Users | | Monday, December 10, 2012 6:08 PM | Chris Taylor |
| UPDATE 7:55pm EST: A Facebook spokesperson sent the following statement. "Earlier today we made a change to our DNS infrastructure and that change resulted in some people being temporarily unable to reach the site. We detected and resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 percent.
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| Drill Issue Could Threaten Mars Rover Curiosity's Mission | | Monday, December 10, 2012 6:07 PM | Space.com |
| As NASA's Mars rover Curiosity prepares to use its rock-boring drill for the first time, engineers are troubleshooting an issue with the power tool that may affect the entire mission. Curiosity's fast-spinning percussive drill should make it through the originally planned two-year prime mission, team members say.
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| XCOM Invites Players to Memorialize Fallen 'Soldiers' on Facebook | | Monday, December 10, 2012 5:51 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| It's hard to lose someone you care about, especially when you two have been through a lot together — even if that person is just lines of code represented by artwork. The creators of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the strategy game in which players lead troops to defend Earth from invading extraterrestrials, have invited players to remember the soldiers they've "lost," via Facebook.
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| See 50 Years of Rolling Stones Concerts in Interactive Map | | Monday, December 10, 2012 5:37 PM | PSFK |
| CartoDB has traced every Rolling Stones tour since 1963. Each is given its own page, with individual stops connected on a map. You can mouse over the stops to see the name of the location and the date they played there. Brief information about the tour is also included. For example, the 1967 European tour was the last to include Brian Jones, who initially formed and named the band.
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| Music Monday: Songs For Coding | | Monday, December 10, 2012 5:36 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| Exactly 197 years ago today, a woman named Ada Lovelace was born. The daughter of legendary romantic poet Lord Byron, Lovelace also enjoys an impressive reputation of her own. Rather than follow her father's literary pursuits, Lovelace opted for mathematical discovery. She is considered to be the first computer programmer, and the creator of the first algorithm constructed to be processed by a machine.
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| Nike+ FuelBand Accelerator Opens the Door for Fitness Innovation | | Monday, December 10, 2012 5:20 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Nike is looking for some entrepreneurs to make the most of its fitness-tracking technology, the Nike+ FuelBand. On Monday it was announced that Nike+ Accelerator, powered by TechStars, will invite "10 companies for a three-month, immersive, mentor-driven startup accelerator." This incubator will let developers work on fitness related products or services that will work on Nike's platform.
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| Internet Goes Bananas for Lost IKEA Monkey | | Monday, December 10, 2012 5:20 PM | Annie Colbert |
| The Internet can't resist a cute animal lost amongst Borgsjös and Flärdfulls. The Ikea Monkey -- a tiny Rhesus Macaque sporting a fashionable coat and found wandering a Toronto location of the retailer -- had meme makers delighting like a primate throwing feces. Twitter and Instagram images of the Swedish furniture-loving monkey underwent the 'Shop treatment, making the Ikea Monkey the most famous primate since Marcel on Friends.
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| Hands-On Learning in School Just Got Very Real | | Monday, December 10, 2012 5:04 PM | Andrea Smith |
| Here's a surefire way to get tech-obsessed middle school students interested in learning again. Bring an over-sized iPad into the classroom, and fill it with games and apps based on the school's curriculum. Then, let them loose. The over-sized iPad is actually a table called an Activ Table made by education company Promethean. It uses Microsoft Surface technology which lets kids interact with touch, gestures and movement.
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| How Online Dead Ends Can Derail Sales | | Monday, December 10, 2012 5:04 PM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| Online retailers anticipate a record $43.4 billion payday from the holiday sales season. But a new study indicates that they may be leaving plenty of consumer cash on the table. The Grinch in this tale are dead ends in the purchasing process that litter the online aisles with abandoned shopping carts.
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| Google Grant Helps WWF Fight Poachers With Drones | | Monday, December 10, 2012 4:36 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Poachers across the world kill protected species everyday. They hunt elephants for their tusks, rhinos for their horns and tigers for pretty much anything including their eyes, hair, internal organs and genitals. Google will help the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) monitor endangered species with cutting edge technologies including unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.
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| 3D-Printable Guns Face Federal Ban | | Monday, December 10, 2012 4:19 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| No fully plastic guns existed when Congress first passed the Undetectable Firearms Act in 1988. But grassroots efforts to create a 3D-printable plastic gun have alarmed one congressman enough to call for renewing the law before it expires in December 2013. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y) made his plea for renewing the federal ban on plastic guns just days after members of the "Wiki Weapon" project tested a 3D-printed gun part in a live-fire test.
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| Contest: Caption This Mashable Comic | | Monday, December 10, 2012 4:11 PM | Amanda Wills |
| Think you've got the comedic chops to literally make us LOL here at Mashable? Write a funny caption, and we'll do our best to make you Internet famous.
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| Instagram Introduces New Filter, Crop and Other Tools | | Monday, December 10, 2012 4:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Instagram released an update to its photo-sharing and filtering app Monday, delivering some highly requested features to iOS and Android users for the first time. You'll no longer need to open up Camera+ or Snapseed to crop and scale your photo; both can now be done in Instagram with a grid guide overlay.
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