| Lose Yourself in the Largest Star Wars Collection Ever | | A short time ago, on a chicken ranch not so far away, Lucasfilm's biggest in-house Star Wars fan began to turn his private collection of Star Wars stuff into a nonprofit museum. His name was Steve Sansweet, a former Wall Street Journal reporter whose life was changed forever when he saw a press preview of the original Star Wars — now known as Episode IV — in May 1977.
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| Apple Meets With Turkish Officials on Tablets for Schools | | Friday, February 01, 2013 11:54 PM | TabTimes |
| Apple Vice President for education John Couch is reportedly in talks with the Turkish government about the country’s goal to make tablets accessible to 15 million schoolchildren. Turkey’s presidential website posted a photo and video of Couch’s meeting with president Abdullah Gül. MacRumors reports (via local source Elma Dergisi) that the meeting concerned the country’s $4.5 billion tablet program.
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| Watch Students Send Hello Kitty to the Edge of Space | | Friday, February 01, 2013 11:21 PM | The Mary Sue |
| Well, this sure makes me want to do some science this weekend. Seventh graders at Cornerstone Christian School performed this experiment on "the effects of altitude on air pressure and temperature." And presumably also on a Hello Kitty doll inside a lovingly spray-painted rocket ship. [via Gizmodiva] Image courtesy of melody green via YouTube.
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| Durex App Promises Discreet Condom Delivery on Demand | | Friday, February 01, 2013 11:08 PM | Emily Banks |
| "Ever noticed you never seem to have a condom when you need one?" asks a new app from Durex that promises to save you from those awkward situations. The SOS Condoms iOS app claims to provide discreet delivery of the protection you're looking for.
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| Woman Finds Birth Parents Through Viral Facebook Photo | | Friday, February 01, 2013 9:59 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Never underestimate the power of social media. One woman in search of her biological parents found her apparent birth mother and father after posting a picture of herself on Facebook. On Jan. 27, Jenessa Simons shared a photo of herself holding a handwritten sign with her birth information. Two days later, her birth mother reached out to her.
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| Ravens Use iPads for Super Bowl Prep | | Friday, February 01, 2013 9:59 PM | TabTimes |
| NFL players are used to lifting weights and rigorous workouts, but they’re probably happy to replace bulky playbooks with iPads. The tablets come loaded with apps that detail all the Xs and Os of the paper version as well as video clips of opponents. Almost half of the NFL teams use iPads with digital playbook apps, including the Super Bowl-bound Baltimore Ravens, who are in New Orleans preparing for this Sunday's big game.
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| Homeless People Anchor the Weather in Striking Awareness Campaign | | Friday, February 01, 2013 8:59 PM | Zoe Fox |
| It's been a very cold winter — especially for the homeless. In a new campaign called "Days of Hope," people who are homeless stand in place of TV weathermen to bring awareness to the harsh impact of the cold winter in Europe, Osocio reports. Real men and women are invited from the streets to read the weather. When they're done presenting, they can ask the audience to make donations to local charities.
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| 10 Valentine's Day Gifts for the Special Geek in Your Life | | Friday, February 01, 2013 8:39 PM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| While it's traditional to ask someone "Be My Valentine" with flowers and chocolates, here at Mashable we prefer to make our affectionate declarations with unicorns, meme cats and 8-bit hearts. SEE ALSO: 8 Adorable Pixel Heart Gifts for Valentine's Day We have found 10 great geeky gifts for the special nerd in your life. Get your dork on and take a look through our superb selection of romantic geekery in the gallery above.
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| Pizza Hut Super Bowl Ad Gives Quarterbacks a Shout-Out | | Friday, February 01, 2013 8:16 PM | Emily Banks |
| Ever wondered what exactly the "hut" a quarterback shouts at the center actually means? If you'll believe Pizza Hut's Super Bowl 2013 ad, it might be quarterbacks giving a shout-out to the restaurant. And in return, Pizza Hut salutes quarterbacks in this year's Super Bowl commercial. Check it out, above. Image courtesy of Pizza Hut, via YouTube.
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| 38 Predictions About the Future | | Friday, February 01, 2013 7:59 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Have you ever wondered what the future of humanity holds? We know you have, we do it all the time here at Mashable. And frankly, looking ahead is pretty much an integral part of human nature. Our friends at Information Is Beautiful Studio have compiled 38 predictions about the future of tech, science, and humanity in general — with an educated guess as to their odds of actually becoming reality.
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| White House Considering Response to Chinese Cyberattacks | | Friday, February 01, 2013 7:47 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Obama administration, frustrated by a lack of cooperation from the Chinese government, is now considering a range of options in retaliation for Chinese hackers' attacks on U.S. businesses, according a to a report. The Director of National Intelligence is working on a new report that will argue the Chinese government is directly involved in cyberattacks against the United States, reports the Associated Press.
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| Twitter Attacked: Quarter-Million Accounts May Be Compromised | | Friday, February 01, 2013 7:24 PM | Emily Banks |
| Twitter issued a blog post late Friday announcing a possible security breach and live attack that may have given hackers access to 250,000 users' information. From the post: This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We discovered one live attack and were able to shut it down in process moments later.
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| A Nerd's Guide to Football | | Friday, February 01, 2013 7:11 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Are you a fair-weather football fan? The type who jumps on the bandwagon when Super Bowl time comes around just to make sure you have plans on a Sunday night? Do you actually question the nacho-dipping, beer-chugging traditions? Well you can stop hiding that deep dark secret because this guy is blowing the roof off this thing we call the Super Bowl.
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| Bang With Friends Debuts Same-Sex Option, But Questions Remain | | Friday, February 01, 2013 6:48 PM | Anita Li |
| As promised, controversial app Bang With Friends unveiled an option for users to bed members of the same sex, after it received criticism for catering exclusively to heterosexuals. "We've had extraordinary feedback and requests to bring this to the gay community," C, one of the app's three California-based co-founders told Mashable over the phone.
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| Congresswoman Posts Revamped 'Aaron's Law' on Reddit | | Friday, February 01, 2013 6:14 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) has revised and expanded "Aaron's Law," her proposal to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in honor of Aaron Swartz. The congresswoman posted the revised bill on Reddit Friday afternoon.
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| What the Flicka: Felicity Huffman's Digital Wisteria Lane | | Friday, February 01, 2013 5:53 PM | Andrea Smith |
| Actress Felicity Huffman may have given up the close knit neighborhood of Wisteria Lane when Desperate Housewives came to an end, but she's created her own community on the Internet at WhattheFlicka.com. It's a website for women and moms where they can "gather, make mistakes, say they're losing their mind, trade tips and offer advice to one another," Huffman told Mashable.
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| The 10 Best Super Bowl Ads of All Time | | Friday, February 01, 2013 5:36 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Just like football teams need to bring their A-game on the field during the Super Bowl, advertisers need to bring their A-game for the commercial breaks — especially now, considering how costly the ads are this year. There have certainly been plenty of lousy ads over the years, but there have also been dozens and dozens of creative and entertaining commercials from brands big and small.
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| 'Star Trek' Mobile App Kicks Off Super Bowl Campaign | | Friday, February 01, 2013 5:35 PM | Christina Warren |
| Paramount's new Star Trek app for iOS and Android is now available. The app is going to play an important role in Paramount's Super Bowl ad for the film Star Trek Into Darkness. At CES 2013, Paramount and Qualcomm showed off the app, which uses context-aware technologies to bring specific information to users at specific times.
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| This GIF Search Engine Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | | Friday, February 01, 2013 5:06 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| You love .GIFs, right? Of course you do — tweeting them, Tumbling them, sending them via Google Chat. The only problem with the Internet's favorite animated art form is that it can be a real challenge to find the absolute perfect .GIF for a given situation — but not anymore. Allow us to introduce Giphy, your new favorite search engine.
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| Path Settles With FTC Over Data Privacy 'Deception' | | Friday, February 01, 2013 4:40 PM | Anita Li |
| Social network Path has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it "deceived users" — including children under 13 — by collecting their personal information without consent.
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| Cup Holder Doubles as iPhone Case | | Friday, February 01, 2013 4:22 PM | Discovery News |
| The UpperCup has a circular bevvie holder that pops up when you need it and then folds flat against the phone when you've had your fill.
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| FTC Says You Should Be Able to Block Smartphone Tracking | | Friday, February 01, 2013 3:56 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Federal Trade Commission suggested Apple, Google, app developers and advertising networks should implement mobile Do Not Track (DNT) features in new mobile privacy guidelines issued Friday. Do Not Track is designed to block third parties such as advertising networks from tracking your activity on the web.
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| Reddit Raises $10,000 for Taser-Happy Mall Manager | | Friday, February 01, 2013 3:01 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Users of the social news site Reddit have helped raise more than $10,000 in less than 24 hours for an Atlanta shopping mall manager turned Internet hero. Property manager Darien Long became an overnight Internet celebrity after an eight-month-old video of him dealing with two violent women collected more than 1 million views in less than three days.
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