| Build Your Own Arduino-Powered LED Clock | | Friday, March 15, 2013 11:40 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If you're looking for a weekend project, and you're especially computer savvy, how about building an Arduino-powered LED clock? A person with a creative mind, identified only as "Tobias," developed a one-of-a-kind timekeeper, shown in the video above. The design incorporates 60 LED units, and hours, minutes and seconds can be displayed as a pattern of colors.
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| Samsung's Galaxy S4 Is Great But No iPhone Killer | | Friday, March 15, 2013 8:47 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Please stop asking me if the Samsung Galaxy S4 is better than the iPhone 5, and stop calling every new smart phone a potential iPhone killer. Any new phone could be a killer if you consider a thousand small cuts a prelude to death. Based on specs, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is the better phone; it now has more power and cutting edge features.
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| 17 Awesome Vines of the SXSW Experience | | Friday, March 15, 2013 7:59 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| SXSW 2013 was an opportunity for attendees to put their Vine skills to the test. We asked you to shoot your most memorable moments from Austin and share it with hashtag #MashSXSW. SEE ALSO: The Best Swag Bags From SXSW 2013 There were more than 200 vines that displayed the weird sights of Austin and the good times at SXSW. You showed us everything from a woman riding a mechanical bulldog to a group of enthusiastic aerobics performers.
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| Internet's First Domain Name Turns 28 | | Friday, March 15, 2013 7:49 PM | The Daily Dot |
| The entire Internet forgot it was grandpa's birthday today. Symbolics.com—the first domain name ever registered—turned 28 on Friday.
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| IndieGoGo Campaign Saves Near-Death Gaming Franchise | | Friday, March 15, 2013 6:54 PM | Lauren Hockenson |
| How do you save a game franchise from dying? The developers at Los Angeles-based Lab Zero Games determined the only way to keep its game growing was to harness the power of fans. In the face of brutal challenges, Lab Zero Games has won the power to continue its work on its 2012 tournament-grade 2D fighting game Skullgirls.
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| Device Disables Car to Prevent Driver From Texting | | Friday, March 15, 2013 6:23 PM | Discovery News |
| Most systems designed to stop texting while driving — such as TXTBlocker and cellCONTROL — do so by blocking text message signals when the phone is in a car. However, a new product called ORIGOSafe takes a different approach: unless your phone is plugged into the device, your car will not start.
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| Dad's Moving Letter to Gay Son Goes Viral | | Friday, March 15, 2013 6:04 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Image courtesy of Facebook, FCKH8.com. When a dad overheard his son on the phone with a friend discussing his struggles to confront his parents about his sexuality, the dad left his son this truly touching letter. The letter reads: "Nate, I overheard your phone conversation with Mike last night about your plans to come out to me. The only thing I need you to plan is to bring home OJ and bread after class.
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| How to Spot a Social Media 'Guru' | | Friday, March 15, 2013 3:01 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| You know the type -- those webizens who define themselves as social media "gurus," "mavens" or "experts." What qualifies someone to have such a title?
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| SXSWi Goes Global on Social Media | | Friday, March 15, 2013 2:26 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| By the time South by Southwest Interactive wrapped up earlier this week, it had reached worldwide party status. More than 1 million tweets in 19 languages flooded the Internet over the course of the five-day conference, representing 205 countries around the world. The U.S. generated a vast majority of the chatter (71%), with the UK and Canada a distant second and third (4.6% and 4.4%, respectively).
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| Dropbox Buys Mailbox | | Friday, March 15, 2013 1:19 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Dropbox, the cloud storage synchronization firm, on Friday announced that it has purchased Mailbox, a hot new email app. Under the deal, all 13 employees of Orchestra, the company that makes the app, have joined Dropbox. Financial details were not disclosed. "Like many of you, when we discovered Mailbox we fell in love—it was simple, delightful, and beautifully engineered.
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| Laugh Yourself Silly With These 10 Vine Comics | | Friday, March 15, 2013 12:34 PM | Stephanie Buck |
| Thousands of ambitious social media users are experimenting with creative video on Vine. Stop-motion animation and illustration, for example, play huge roles on the new social platform. However, comedy is quickly becoming one of the most powerful creative forces on Vine. Some users are even building six-second clips around new sketch characters or hilarious bits, some of which have already gone viral.
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| Yahoo Should Seize the Moment and Improve Its RSS Reader | | Friday, March 15, 2013 12:00 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| RSS readers may be the iPod of the web — still viable but past their heyday. For Google, though, the analogy breaks down when you consider profits. Apple still makes a bundle on iPods, but Google never made a dime on its Reader and never will. That explains Google's decision this week to kill off Reader.
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