| Anonymous Hacks U.S. Government Site, Threatens Supreme 'Warheads' | | The hacktivist group Anonymous hacked the US federal sentencing website early Saturday, using the page to make a brazen and boisterous declaration of "war" on the U.S. government. The group claims mysterious code-based "warheads", named for each of the Supreme Court Justices, are about to be deployed.
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| It's Official: George Lucas Hands Star Wars to J.J. Abrams | | After an agonizing wait of more than a day to confirm the widespread rumor, Disney and its newest subsidiary Lucasfilm have made it official: J.J. Abrams will direct the still-unnamed Star Wars Episode VII. The news was announced late Friday night — at exactly midnight EST — on StarWars.com. None other than George Lucas was quoted, effectively handing the baton of directing Star Wars to Abrams personally.
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| This GoPro Camera Shows What It's Like to be Lion's Prey | | Friday, January 25, 2013 11:48 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Just as expected — when a lion walks toward you, it's equally menacing and adorable. But this GoPro Camera had to learn that the hard way. When the camera's owner spotted this lion in Kenya, he strapped his GoPro 2 onto a $60 toy car and drove it slowly toward the adolescent male.
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| Google Officially Responds to Safari-Tracking Lawsuit | | Friday, January 25, 2013 11:24 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Last winter, a Stanford researcher discovered Google was bypassing iPhone users’ privacy settings in the mobile Safari browser in order to serve them ads tailored to their browsing history. Even though Google apologized, paid $22.5 million in fines and chalked the whole thing up to a technical error, several people sued Google over the affair, which was consolidated into a class-action lawsuit.
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| Clean up Your Facebook Profile With FaceWash | | Friday, January 25, 2013 10:57 PM | Camille Bautista |
| We've all been there. Your grandmother just joined Facebook, your boss sent you a friend request or you're applying for that dream job. Suddenly, you're scrambling to purge your profile of last night's pictures plus everything else you wouldn't want Grams to see. Painstakingly filtering through your Timeline isn't going to cut it, but FaceWash makes it easier.
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| Two Dazzling Comets Headed Our Way | | Friday, January 25, 2013 10:26 PM | Space.com |
| The year 2013 may someday be known as "the year of the comets." If all goes well we may see two of the brightest comets in many years, and possibly one of the brightest in history.
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| Two Major Soap Operas to Premiere on iTunes and Hulu | | Friday, January 25, 2013 9:52 PM | Sam Laird |
| Two major soap operas will return this spring — but not the way you might expect. All My Children and One Life to Live will reach viewers via Hulu, Hulu Plus and iTunes, The Online Network announced on Friday. New half-hour episodes of each show will air every weekday. Exact premiere dates will be announced later. Fans using the Hulu Plus subscription service or free Hulu.com will be able to watch via tablets, PCs or connected TVs.
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| Facebook, Twitter, Stop Fighting! | | Friday, January 25, 2013 8:53 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Guys, please. I know you've got serious differences, but you still love us users, right? Right? A Cold War has been brewing between the two major social media services for the better part of a year — and it heated up Friday. That's when Facebook effectively sent Twitter a little passive-agressive note about why it was blocking access to the Facebook Friends list on Twitter's Vine app.
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| Animation Offers Unique Look at Week-Long Cold Snap | | Friday, January 25, 2013 8:07 PM | Charlie White |
| It's been colder than usual this week in most of the U.S. If you've been watching weather reports and the maps that go with them, you've seen snapshots depicting that cold air blanketing the nation. To get a more comprehensive view of what's been happening all week, take a look at this fascinating animation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), commonly known as the National Weather Service.
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| Ravens Coach John Harbaugh Pranks His Parents | | Friday, January 25, 2013 6:24 PM | Neha Prakash |
| On Feb. 3, 2013, the Baltimore Ravens and The San Francisco 49ers will redefine sibling rivalry. Yeah, yeah, there's that whole Super Bowl thing that night, but we're more interested in how the head coaches — and brothers — of the rival teams deal with the family affair. It appears that Ravens coach John Harbaugh is dealing with the whole thing smoother than a pigskin: He's just taking this as an opportunity to prank his parents.
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| The 25 Most Buzzed-About Universities of 2013 | | Friday, January 25, 2013 6:02 PM | Zoe Fox |
| The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ranked the most buzzed-about university on the Internet for the second time in a row, ahead of Harvard, Columbia and Stanford. The Global Language Monitor's TrendTopper MediaBuzz survey measures the schools with the most Internet clout. One major trend this year is the rise of public universities on the list, as 13 of the top 25 schools ranked are now state institutions.
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| Largest Multi-Touch Screen in U.S. Installed at Cleveland Art Museum | | Friday, January 25, 2013 5:51 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Museums are places we often go to connect with our pasts. The Cleveland Art Museum, however, is also giving us a glimpse of the future. The museum recently installed what it claims is the nation's largest multi-touch screen, where as many as 16 visitors at a time can explore the 3,500 works in the permanent collection on display. Pieces are presented as thumbnails on a 40-foot-wide moving grid.
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| How Social Media Can Reunite Lost Children With Their Families | | Friday, January 25, 2013 5:30 PM | Zoe Fox |
| In November 2011, Tony Loftis's 13-year-old daughter Allie ran away from their suburban hometown of Wayland, Mass. Allie was last seen boarding a Peter Pan bus to New York from downtown Boston, and Loftis assumed she'd headed to Brooklyn where Allie had frequently visited family. Not a stranger to social media, Loftis took it upon himself to spread word that he was looking for his daughter on email, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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| Steve Wozniak Says Scene From Steve Jobs Movie Is 'Totally Wrong' | | Friday, January 25, 2013 5:06 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| The first released scene from jOBS, the upcoming independent film about tech icon Steve Jobs, emerged online Thursday. Soon after, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expressed dismay over Ashton Kutcher's portrayal of Jobs and Josh Gad's portrayal of him. "We never had such interaction and roles," Wozniak told Gizmodo. "I'm not even sure what it's getting at ...
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| Facebook Explains Why Vine Can't Access Your Friends | | Friday, January 25, 2013 4:58 PM | Christina Warren |
| Facebook has clarified its platform policies in response to the news that it has shut off friend-finding access to Twitter's new video sharing app, Vine. Within hours of Vine's launch, the ability for users to find Facebook friends also using Vine disappeared. The move was not unlike a decision Twitter made in July to prevent Instagram users from continuing to find contacts using Twitter.
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| Square's COO Resigns After Sexual Harassment Claim | | Friday, January 25, 2013 4:56 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Square announced late Thursday that COO Keith Rabois was leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that his resignation came after a sexual harassment claim from an unnamed employee at Square. The Journal reports hearing from Square that a lawyer representing the employee in question accused Rabois of sexual harassment and said that the company had failed to take necessary action.
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| RIM's BlackBerry to Run First Super Bowl Ad | | Friday, January 25, 2013 4:46 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Research in Motion will run its first Super Bowl ad, which will spotlight its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone and platform. The company did not disclose any details about the ad. London's AMV BBDO is creating the ad.
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| The World's Biggest Ant Colony Is No Match for Facebook | | Friday, January 25, 2013 4:21 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| If you look at it the right way, the universe can astound you with its scale. Astrophysicist Carl Sagan once said we live on an "insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe." The scope of the space around us and within us is practically inconceivable.
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| This Case Turns Your iPad Into the Ultimate Gaming Machine | | Friday, January 25, 2013 4:17 PM | Charlie White |
| What if you could have an iPad case that gives you better control over your games? That's the promise of Audojo, the case with joysticks and buttons that its makers say can turn your iPad into the ultimate gaming machine. The cool thing about this iPad case is that it makes up for the weaknesses of the iPad when it comes to gaming.
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| How to Share Vine Videos on Tumblr | | Friday, January 25, 2013 4:03 PM | Emily Price |
| When Twitter launched Vine Thursday it omitted one important social network from its sharing options: Tumblr. Looped GIF images are extremely popular on Tumblr, so the audience there for Vine videos is potentially huge. Just because there’s no native way to share Vines on Tumblr, doesn’t mean you can’t share your creations on the site.
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| London: The Hottest Tech Scene Since Silicon Valley? | | Friday, January 25, 2013 3:40 PM | Monty Munford |
| London’s so-called "Silicon Roundabout" east of downtown can appear underwhelming. The attached Tube station is decrepit, the shops below ground are tatty, and at night its psychogeography seems deliberately designed to attract muggers and thieves. It doesn’t get much better above the surface. Traffic swirls around the unwieldy Old Street roundabout , which is dominated by a huge billboard.
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| Woman Sues Match.com After Date Stabs Her | | Friday, January 25, 2013 3:38 PM | Camille Bautista |
| A Las Vegas woman is suing Match.com for $10 million after she was brutally attacked by a man she met on the dating website. Mary Kay Beckman claims the site misled her and failed to alert her to the dangers of online matchmaking, leading to an ambush attack in her garage. The assault left her with 10 stab wounds and multiple surgeries, for which she's seeking compensation.
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| Cory Booker Saves Freezing Dog | | Friday, January 25, 2013 3:31 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., who's become an Internet legend for his Twitter antics and real-world heroics, added another act of valor to his resume Thursday: He saved a freezing dog left in the cold during a below-zero night. The dog was brought to Booker's attention by local WABC reporter Toni Yates, who tweeted a plea for help to the mayor.
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