| Hands On With Facebook Messenger's New Calling Feature | | Friday, January 18, 2013 11:21 PM | Emily Price |
| On Wednesday Facebook added the ability to make voice calls to its stand-alone Messenger app. The feature is only available for iPhone users, and only works if both the caller and the recipient have Facebook’s Messenger app installed on their phone. While the feature is definitely good news for Facebook users who use the app, Facebook isn’t the first company to offer free voice calls over data networks using your iPhone.
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| 11 Pets With Real-Life Careers | | Friday, January 18, 2013 11:06 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Some jobs are so easy, a monkey could do it. Don't underestimate your animal's abilities, though, because he may actually be able to hold down a regular 9-to-5. Animals have long been trained to carry out tasks, acting as beasts of burden or herders.
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| Carbon Fiber: The Secret of the 2014 Corvette Stingray | | Friday, January 18, 2013 10:44 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The Corvette has been redesigned only six times since its debut 50 years ago, so for the seventh version that it unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show this week, GM brought to bear some of its most advanced car technologies. A notable one: the addition of carbon fiber into the construction of the sports car.
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| Pandora Listeners Created 1.6 Billion Stations in 2012 | | Friday, January 18, 2013 10:27 PM | Emily Price |
| 2012 was a busy year for Pandora. Pandora users created over 1.6 billion stations over the course of 2012, and listened to over 1 million different songs by over 100,000 different artists. All that added up to an astounding 13 billion hours of songs listened to throughout the year by a pretty amazing amount of people — 10,000 of the artists who have songs on Pandora had more than 25,000 unique listeners.
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| Never Forget This Naked Privacy Violation | | Friday, January 18, 2013 10:02 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Farewell, then, Rapiscan machines at airports. It's been genuinely horrible to know you (or rather to not know you, hidden TSA agents in back rooms). If we see invasive public technology of your kind in a hundred years, it'll be too soon. After quietly removing many Rapiscans late last year, the TSA admitted Friday it was junking all 174 of them, $40 million worth of machinery, from airports around the U.S.
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| Instagram Is About to Start Sharing Your Data With Facebook | | Friday, January 18, 2013 9:10 PM | Chris Taylor |
| The revised Instagram Privacy Policy and Terms of Service finally kick in on Saturday — and in case you missed it, the part where the service said it might sell your photos to advertisers has been redacted. You can relax on that front. The only major change for users? Instagram is now allowed to start sharing their data with its parent company, Facebook.
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| Google+ Communities: A Beginner's Guide | | Friday, January 18, 2013 8:39 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| On Google+, users have the ability to manipulate their circles to control the groups of people and brands they receive information and content from, but there's no guarantee those brands or users will circle you to receive your updates. This is where Google+ Communities come in, Google's version of a group or forum, built to bring people together around particular topics.
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| Nike+ FuelBand Integrates With Lose It! App | | Friday, January 18, 2013 8:06 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Nike+ FuelBand is partnering with the popular calorie tracking app Lose It!, it was announced on Friday. Now, people who wear the Nike+ FuelBand can see their activity on the Lose It! app. This way users can access both the calorie-tracking abilities of Lose It! and the fitness-tracking data of their Nike+ FuelBand for a more comprehensive fitness and health profile.
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| Wi-Fi Smart Scale Lets Parents Monitor Weight of Infants and Kids | | Friday, January 18, 2013 7:27 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Childhood obesity has tripled in the U.S. since 1980 for children and teenagers ages 6-19. Now, the CDC reports approximately 17% of children and adolescents ages 2-19 years old are obese. One way you can make sure your children have a healthy start from infancy is to monitor their weight. A new scale from Withings, for babies and children, features Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology so you can keep a record of all your child's weigh-ins.
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| Musician Literally Wins Fight for Your Right to Party | | Friday, January 18, 2013 7:08 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Did you know that someone has literally been fighting for your right to party? Or for legal use of the term "power hour," anyway. It's commonly known as a drinking game, during which players take one shot of beer every minute for an hour.
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| Stream Radio Stations From Around the World | | Friday, January 18, 2013 6:46 PM | Jesse Draper |
| Tunein is an app that streams radio stations from around the world. One this episode of the Valley Girl Show, CEO Jon Dunham talks the future of radio.
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| Windows 8 Will Cost You $120 After Jan. 31 | | Friday, January 18, 2013 6:13 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Microsoft launched Windows 8 in the fall with attractive pricing — just $39.99 for Windows 7, Vista or XP users — but come February the price goes up. Way up. After the promotional upgrade offer ends on Jan. 31, anyone running an older version of Windows will have to pay $119.99 for the privilege of running Windows 8, a Microsoft blog post reveals. And that's just the basic edition; if you want Windows 8 Pro, it'll cost you $199.99.
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| Funny or Die Takes on Te'o in eHarmony Ad Parody | | Friday, January 18, 2013 5:43 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| As the strange story of Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o and his fictional dead girlfriend unfolds — and becomes even more complicated and bizarre — jokes about the incident continue to bubble up across the Internet. Piggybagging on the Teoing trend, Funny or Die has posted its own parody video to the tune of those hokey eHarmony ads.
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| Go Home, Folks — Joe Biden Won the Internet Today | | Friday, January 18, 2013 5:20 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Joe Biden's TransAm driving, f-bomb-dropping alter ego made an appearance on Reddit Friday afternoon for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) sesh with the people.
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| Alicia Keys Will Perform National Anthem at Super Bowl | | Friday, January 18, 2013 4:54 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| CBS and NFL have tapped singer-songwriter Alicia Keys to sing the "Star-Spangled Banner" before kick-off at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on Feb. 3. Her pre-game performance will be broadcast globally, marking the third time Keys has lent her voice to Super Bowl festivities. Keys helped ring in Super Bowl games in 2005 and 2008.
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| Kim Dotcom's Mega Begins Early Rollout | | Friday, January 18, 2013 4:35 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Kim Dotcom's new service Mega has started to roll out for early-access users, revealing a wide-array of ambitious features and the service's premium prices, as reported by TechCrunch. Mega is the new venture of the founder of the now defunct Megaupload, which was seized by the U.S. government almost a year ago. The service will launch to the general public over the weekend, but it's already available to some beta users.
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| Did 'Glee' Rip Off Web Musician Jonathan Coulton? | | Friday, January 18, 2013 4:15 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Musician Jonathan Coulton claims Fox's teen musical drama Glee borrowed heavily from his own music for an upcoming episode — without notifying him. Coulton, famous for releasing geeky songs online under a Creative Commons license, debuted an acoustic cover of '90s rap hit "Baby Got Back" in 2005. Friday morning, Coulton tweeted that Glee had a version that sounded much like his.
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| Lawrence Lessig Responds to Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor | | Friday, January 18, 2013 4:09 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Internet guru and academic Lawrence Lessig wrote a new blog post, sharing his feelings a week after Aaron Swartz's death and addressing Swartz's prosecutor's statement. "Why was he being charged with 13 felonies?" Lessig asked. In an emotional post, Lessig confesses that he hasn't slept since finding out about his friend's death. "I have been frantically trying to explain, to connect, and to make sense of all of this," he wrote.
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| Seamless Shares Bizarre Special Requests From Flu Sufferers | | Friday, January 18, 2013 3:46 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Living in a big city means germs bombard you in every subway car, taxi and cramped elevator. Seriously, urban air is like 7.6 percent phlegm — ask science. While calling a city home means more people are randomly sneezing on your face, it also gives you access to certain services, like food delivery at all hours of the day.
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| Winter Warmers: 10 Gadgets to Keep You Cozy | | Friday, January 18, 2013 3:31 PM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| During the winter months we're especially grateful for the technology that keeps us cozy. We have found 10 great gadgets, gizmos and geeky accessories that will help you beat the chill. Whether you want to keep snug on the sofa or stay warm at your workplace, we think you'll find something to suit in our selection.
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| What Is Internet Freedom Day? | | Friday, January 18, 2013 2:54 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Friday, Jan. 18 marks the one year anniversary of the technology community's Internet blackout over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sister bill, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA was intended to curb online content piracy, but Internet advocates warned it would have disastrous consequences for online free speech and worked to fight the bill. SOPA was shelved by its author soon after the blackout.
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