| 500px Removal Highlights App Store Inequalities | | 3:59:21 AM | Christina Warren |
| The removal of 500px from Apple's App Store raises questions over review equity, fairness and API functionality. When Evgeny Tchebotarev started the day, he wasn't expecting to end up spending so much time fielding calls from the media. Tchebotarev is the COO and co-founder of 500px, a popular photo site and community for professional and amateur photographers.
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| World's Largest Natural Sound Archive Now Online | | The "largest and oldest" collection of natural sounds in the world is now digital and available online, Cornell University announced. The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology houses a scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings. Previously in analog format, the recordings — which go back to 1929 — are now completely digitized, and can be heard at MacaulayLibrary.org.
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| Amiigo Is a Smart Wearable Sensor That Knows What Activity You're Doing | | 2:56:23 AM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Wearable sensors or fitness-tracking bracelets, such as the Nike+ FuelBand or Fitbit Flex, are starting to go mainstream. But now, there's a new competitor in town — the Amiigo. The team of entrepreneurs behind this new wristband claims their product is better than the others because it can automatically tell what kind of exercise you're performing.
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| Print Your Own 3D-Printed Robot | | 2:34:45 AM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| We've all dreamed about having a robot friend, right? At least, that's the case here at Mashable. But there are other people out there who share our dream and are actually working to make it reality. Take Gael Langevin, a French sculptor and model marker who has been 3D-printing his own mechanic companion since early 2012.
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| How Facebook Graph Search Can Descend Into Creepiness | | Facebook's Graph Search, which the social-network giant rolled out last week, is an undeniably cool new feature. The internal search system sorts through user data to unearth information shared by your friends, as well as what's publicly available on Facebook. So you can look up, say, "Which of my college friends like Metallica?" and other very detailed questions.
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| The Second Space Race: It's On | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:59 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Fans of Joss Whedon's cult TV sci-fi hit Firefly will be glad to know the show lives on — as the name for a new kind of one-way exploratory vehicle launching in 2015. That's if the newest space startup, Deep Space Industries, gets the commercial sponsorship it is seeking.
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| Film Engages Millennials in Choice Dialogue on Roe v. Wade Anniversary | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:30 PM | Zoe Fox |
| On the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's historic decision about a women's right to chose, the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws is kicking off a social-focused campaign targeting millennials. NARAL released the short film 40 on Tuesday to launch its new Choice Out Loud campaign. "40 is the beginning of a dialogue with a younger generation," Jeff Martin, 40's creative director told Mashable.
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| New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men Team Up for 'Package Tour' | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:04 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Move over, One Direction — the big boys are coming back. New Kids on The Block announced their new summer tour on The View Tuesday, joining boy-band forces with 98 Degrees and best-selling R&B group, Boyz II Men. NKOTB is also set to release a new album called 10 in April. Their first single, “Remix (I Like The),” hits iTunes on Jan. 28. "The Package Tour," which will include more than two dozen shows throughout the U.S., kicks off on May 31.
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| 10 Dogs That Are Better at Winter Than You | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:27 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Winter is the worst. The nippy temperatures, leg-breaking ice patches and booger icicles — no matter how many layers of fleece you pile on, you can't escape Jack Frost's favorite season. As humans grumble and shiver through January and February, our best furry friends delight in winter's chilly offerings. Be it snow or ice, dogs find a way to have fun and make winter look easy.
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| President Obama Brings 'Sexy Back' | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 9:32 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Barack Obama makes bringing sexy back an issue worthy of national attention. Now we know what Michelle sees — clearly his ability to drop a beat better than ol' Justin Timberlake. And VP Biden? If his plans for 2016 get bulldozed by Hillary, he can fall back on a career as a hype man. What fool says politicians don't have rhythm? SEE ALSO: The Many Faces of Barack Obama Take us to the chorus, Mr.
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| How Much Flu-Related Advice Should You Take From the Internet? | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:58 PM | Kate Freeman |
| The flu is particularly nasty this year. Flu season is typically the worst at the beginning of the year, but can start as early as October and last as long as May. And this year's virus is especially bad. On social media, 626,379 people reported having the flu in the last six weeks — a 2,336% increase from the previous month.
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| Disfigured Portraits Reveal 'The Ugly Truth' | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:33 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Posing for a photograph means risking your reputation with every "say cheese." Taking a bad photo tells your Facebook friends that maybe you don't always look as perfect as your profile pic.
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| SimCityEDU Teaches Students STEM Subjects in a Virtual Environment | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:13 PM | Kate Freeman |
| In the near future when you ask your kids what they did at school, they might answer that they played video games. It was recently announced that a new game inspired by the SimCity virtual reality game is coming to the classroom. Teachers will be able to upload educational content to the game that requires players to build virtual cities.
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| How Facebook Can Make You Envious | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:33 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Remember back when a scientific study showed that writing more Facebook updates makes you feel less lonely, more at one with the world, even if nobody reads them? Ah, but that was way back on January 7.
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| How to Get The Turtle iPod Case Sasha Obama Uses | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:30 PM | Emily Price |
| Want to dress up your electronics like a young Obama? During Monday’s Presidential inauguration, Sasha Obama was repeatedly spotted taking pictures with what looked to be an iPhone in a green turtle case. The case, which is made by Griffin, can be yours for just $14.99 on the company’s website. The company also sells an owl and a hippo version.
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| Knicks Star Blasts Kris Humphries With Kanye Kardashian Tweet | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:10 PM | Sam Laird |
| After his Brooklyn Nets eked out a road win against the New York Knicks on Monday night, infamous Kim Kardashian ex and paragon of NBA mediocrity Kris Humphries took to Twitter do a little gloating about how Madison Square Garden "got really quiet on the way out!" But J.R. Smith, the Knicks' second-leading scorer, wasn't going stand idly by and let Humphries talk that kind of smack.
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| PBS' NOVA to Premiere Documentary on 'Rise of the Drones' | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:09 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| The robotic planes more commonly referred to as drones have gone from a secret, rarely covered military and CIA program to a regular fixture on the national media as well as technology websites. As one of the leaders behind the U.S. drone program, White House adviser John Brennan, gets ready to face confirmation hearings to head the CIA, drones have never been more in the spotlight.
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| Everything You Need to Know About Kim Dotcom's Mega | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 5:40 PM | Christina Warren |
| Mega — the long-anticipated file sharing and cloud storage site from Kim Dotcom — is now open to the public. Thanks to its association with the now-defunct Megaupload — and the legal issues facing its founder Kim Dotcom — the amount of press, user interest and hype surrounding Mega is greater than any file hosting/cloud storage launch in recent memory.
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| Inauguration Interview Fail Will Leave You With No Hope | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:53 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Did you see that Beyonce concert on TV yesterday afternoon? Her opening act was some guy named Barack Obama. If you shook your head at any time while reading the last two sentences, then stretch your neck before pushing play on the video above. You might just shake your head right into a neck brace.
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| Google Has Its First $50 Billion Year | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:47 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| It looks like 2012 was a pretty good year for Google. The company hit $50 billion in annual revenue last year for the first time ever thanks in part to the strength of its fourth quarter earnings. Google generated $14.42 billion in the December quarter, an increase of 26% from the same quarter in 2011, and beating Wall Street's estimates of $12.36 billion in revenue for the quarter.
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| Bill Gates Is Now Doing 'God's Work' | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:38 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, is known to be decidedly non-religious. In an interview this weekend, he broke from his usual tune with an uncharacteristic mention of God. In an interview with UK newspaper The Telegraph, Gates addressed the consequences of his foundation's work in Pakistan.
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| Former 'NYT' Web Design Director Khoi Vinh Joins Etsy | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:30 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Etsy has acquired the four-person team behind photo collage-making app Mixel to build up its mobile team, Etsy confirmed on Tuesday. By all appearances, the online crafts marketplace acquired Mixel not for its product, which allows users to collaboratively create, edit and share photo collages, but for its talent.
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| 8 Lip-Syncing Moments Worse Than Beyonce's | | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:11 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Beyonce isn't the first singer to mouth the words. Here are eight other famous lip syncing fails. How does she match up? You be the judge.
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