| LinkedIn's Endorsements Have Become Meaningless | | In social media, friction is often presented as the enemy. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for instance speaks of "frictionless sharing" as a goal. Last year, Facebook worked with media companies like The Washington Post and The Guardian for frictionless sharing apps that automatically share articles a user is reading with her friends. Now, those "reader" apps are gone.
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| YOLO, So Don't Waste Your Time Saying These Banned Words of 2013 | | For one university, ringing in the New Year also means getting rid of a few tired old words and phrases. Lake Superior State University compiled its annual "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness" for 2013. The list, which was first launched in 1976, accepts nominations for banned words year-round.
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| Viral Nike Ad Speaks to Hockey Fans' Angst as NHL Lockout Drags on | | The NHL lockout is well over 100 days old now, and even with the players' union delivering another counteroffer to the league on Wednesday, hopes for a salvaged season appear dim. More than half of the season has so far been obliterated. The NHL has already stoked fans' ire with an Instagram meme fail pimping its Pinterest page, while negotiations in early December spawned a pair of parody Twitter accounts.
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| French Minister Demands Twitter Censor Hate Speech | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:55 PM | Zoe Fox |
| After #SiMonFilsEstGay ("If my son is gay") trended on Twitter for days in France, the country's Minister of Women's Rights said the micro-blog must begin to censor hate speech. Najat Belkacem-Vallaud argued that this sort of speech is illegal according to national law in the French newspaper Le Monde. The homophobic trending topic is not an isolated event, Belkacem-Vallaud points out.
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| The Most Misheard Lyrics of 2012 | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:01 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Songwriters agonize over crafting seductive, witty, insightful lyrics for us to sing along to. Yet, we butcher them every time. Okay, who are we kidding? Whoever wrote, "Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad" is in desperate need of some grammar lessons. And the people who wrote, "Let's go crazy crazy crazy till we see the sun" were really just scribbling on a napkin while waiting for their fries, or something.
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| Solar Charger Powers a Smartphone After a Day in the Sun | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:33 PM | Charlie White |
| Place this smartphone-sized charger in the sun for a day, and it will be able to charge your smartphone or tablet and give you eight hours of reading light, too. That's the claim of the makers of the Wakawaka Power Compact Solar Charger, a Kickstarter project that's far surpassed its original expectations. It's received more than $232,000 worth of pledges, blasting through its $50,000 goal with 8 days to go.
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| Samsung Brings the Sexy to Windows 8 Touch Laptops | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:00 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Samsung launched a varied selection of Windows 8 devices when Microsoft's new operating system debuted in October, but its only touch-screen laptop was the Series 5 Ultrabook. Now it's expanding its selection of touch laptops with the Series 7 Chronos and Series 7 Ultra PCs. The Series 7 Ultra (above) is definitely the looker of the pair. A proper Ultrabook, the laptop has a 13.3-inch touch screen with full HD resolution: 1,920 x 1,080.
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| Comic Artist Uses Robots to Quit Smoking | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 8:44 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Comic artist Bryan Bruner has been smoking for 19 years, and he hates it. This year he's quitting cold turkey, with the help of some robots. In effort to help his smoke-free mission, Healthline has commissioned Bruner to create a 21-page comic. The illustrations tell the 36-year-old's smoker story, featuring a wide cast of robots. The story tells how "Ash Bender," the smoking robot protagonist, became "programmed" to think smoking was cool.
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| Top 5 Non-Profit YouTube Videos of 2012 | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 8:25 PM | Zoe Fox |
| As non-profits become more social media savvy, they're releasing more and more viral content on YouTube. As we kick off 2013, Google's social video platform released a list of the five most-viewed non-profit videos of last year exclusively to Mashable. Not surprisingly, Kony 2012 tops the list, having garnered nearly 100 million views.
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| Dating Website 'High Season' Means More Fish in the Sea | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:37 PM | Kate Freeman |
| A lot of people are hoping 2013 is the year they find love -- or at least a lot of dates. Grant Langston, vice president of customer experience at eHarmony, tells Mashable an increase in sign-ups happens every year on Christmas Day, bumps up on New Year's Day and goes until Valentine's Day. December through February is high-season for dating websites. "All this increased activity makes the pool [of prospective daters] bigger," he said.
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| Which Movie Had the Sloppiest Science in 2012? | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:08 PM | The Mary Sue |
| Science in sci-fi movies is rarely all that accurate. We get that. It's OK. Space battles wouldn't be nearly as cool on screen if there weren't any impossible explosions taking place in a vacuum. But some movies take their disregard for the basic principles of science to the next level. And according to Popular Science, the worst perpetrator of 2012 was Prometheus.
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| 12 Bizarre Subreddits You Shouldn't Live Without | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 6:28 PM | Matt Silverman |
| Reddit is a weird place. Beyond the memes and inside jokes on the front page, there are thousands of niche communities where folks get nitty and gritty about the darndest things. SEE ALSO: A Beginner's Guide to Reddit We've plucked 13 subreddits where you'll find vibrant discussions about horse masks, infomercial actors and birds with arms. 1. r/YouTubeHaiku Sometimes you find poetry in the most unlikely places.
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| Parents Offer Best Reaction Ever to 'Les Miserables' | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 6:09 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Looks like someone should've read a few more reviews before hitting the theaters. This guy's parents apparently had no idea the emotional trauma they would be put through by watching Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman sing their faces off in Les Miserables. The result is an extra weepy set of parents on the ride home.
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| Al-Jazeera America: Mideast Channel Buys Current TV | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 6:00 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Qatar-based cable news channel Al-Jazeera will soon have a foothold in about 50 million U.S. households after closing a deal to buy Current TV. "Al [Gore] and I are thrilled and proud to announce that a few moments ago Current was acquired by Al Jazeera, the award winning international news organization," the memo from co-founder Joel Hyatt reads.
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| NYE Fireworks in Reverse Is Explosion of Amazing | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:45 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Rihanna might describe this scenario as diamonds in the sky. We'd rather liken it to a supernovas being sucked up by vacuums. Nonetheless, Melbourne's New Year's Eve fireworks in reverse still looks pretty spectacular no matter which way they go. SEE ALSO: Watch San Diego's Fourth of July Fireworks Fail [VIDEO] But we do wonder, if the fireworks go backwards, did it turn 2011 at midnight instead of 2013? Let's ask Rihanna.
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| Is Snapchat the Next Frontier for Marketers? | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:28 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| In what may be a first for the platform, a New York frozen yogurt chain is leveraging Snapchat for a promotion that presents users with a coupon that self-destructs within 10 seconds. The idea came about when the chain -- 16 Handles -- noted that a lot of its young users were using their Snapchat handles to interact on social media.
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| Can CES Survive the Mobile Revolution? | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:15 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| I'm in CES prep mode: Crawling through hundreds of emails, making last-minute appointments, trying to ferret out interested bits of gee-whiz information from tight-lipped tech companies. On the surface, it's a rerun of the past nine years of my life. Deep down, however, I know that CES 2013 is different, and not necessarily in a good way. It's the first year since 1999 that Microsoft will not deliver the keynote address.
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| Facebook Jumps 5% As Wall Street Learns to Like the Stock Again | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:08 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Facebook is off to a good start this year. The stock jumped by more than 5% on Wednesday to close at $28 a share, pushing the company's market cap back above $60 billion. Several other big Internet stocks like Google and Yahoo also enjoyed gains on the first day of trading this year thanks to renewed investor confidence following the news that the U.S. Congress had approved legislation to avert the worst of the fiscal cliff.
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| Portlandia 'Spoiler Alert' Sketch Will Totally Spoil Everything | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:56 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Anyone currently catching up on old seasons of Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Dexter or The Wire -- not to mention anyone who hasn't finished the Harry Potter series or watched Empire Strikes Back -- ought to be very careful before viewing the new season of Portlandia.
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| YouTube's 20 Most-Shared Ads in December | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:32 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| In the last month of 2012, the most-shared YouTube ads included some favorites from earlier in the year. The most popular was YouTube's own blowout year-end wrap-up/mashup. The hilarious music video, set to the year's defining pop hits, "Gangnam Style" and "Call Me Maybe," brings in viral stars like PSY, Felicia Day and Jenna Marbles.
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| Google's Eric Schmidt Is Going to North Korea | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:19 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Eric Schmidt, executive chairman at Google, is reportedly planning a visit to a somewhat unusual locale: North Korea. Schmidt is joining a private humanitarian trip being organized by former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, according to the Associated Press citing "two people familiar with the group's plans." Schmidt's visit will be the first to North Korea by a top Google executive.
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| President Obama Explains The Fiscal Cliff | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:12 PM | Neha Prakash |
| President Barack Obama addressed the nation via YouTube Wednesday to explain his side of the fiscal cliff debate and what the results mean for every taxpayer. In the video, Obama said the United States is finally asking "the wealthiest Americans to contribute and pay their fair share." He also argues it has always been his "priority to deter from tax hikes," especially for the middle class.
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| Commit To Going Paperless in 2013 | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:06 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Are you ready to retire your printer? On January 1, Google Drive, HelloFax and four other companies partnered to launch Paperless2013.org and offer free tools to help consumers and small businesses make the transition to a paperless life. Paper accounts for more than one third of all recyclables collected in the U.S. by weight, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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| Relive Every Great Moment of 2012 in Just 4 Minutes | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:02 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The ball has dropped which means it's time to begin alphabetizing your New Year's resolutions. But before welcoming in 2013 and throwing out last year's memories, take one last chance to relive all the glorious, splendid, heartbreaking, tragic, viral, sweet, crazy and fantastic moments of the past 12 months.
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