| Distance to Milky Way's Neighbor Galaxy Refined | | The distance to one of the Milky Way's next-door neighbors, a satellite galaxy that orbits its outskirts, has been determined more accurately than ever before, astronomers announced today. The achievement could help scientists calibrate other cosmic distances, which are essential for understanding how quickly the universe is expanding and solving the mystery of dark energy.
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| Apple Remains the Top U.S. Smartphone Maker, Report Says | | Apple has extended its lead as the top U.S. smartphone-maker, by grabbing another 3.5% of total market, according to ComScore's latest data. The Cupertino, Calif. giant captured a formidable 37.8% of the U.S. market during the three-month average period ending January 2013, leaving its competitors in the dust.
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| Boost Your iPad's Sound Quality With This Amplifier | | iPad users are vociferous about their love for Apple's flagship tablet except for one detail: weak sound quality from its rear-facing speakers. It's a common gripe that one company aims to solve. Sabine is an amplifier that redirects sound to the front of the iPad. Laser cut from anodized aluminum to match other Apple products, the device attaches without adhesive.
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| 'Gardens' App is a Digital Catalog for Your Backyard | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:03 PM | Camille Bautista |
| For those who enjoy taking occasional breaks from their computer screen to stop and smell the roses, there's a new gardening app that lets you catalog your nature walk. Gardens, a free iOS app for those with green thumbs, lets you take, label and share plant photos to a personal online scrapbook. Budding botanists, horiticulturists and basic gardeners can use the app as a memory tool, as well as a database for advice and tutorials.
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| Homemade Taser Sword Looks Like a Sci-Fi Movie Prop | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:06 PM | Neha Prakash |
| While we would normally start with the obligatory "Don't try this at home" warning, it's precisely one YouTuber's disregard for warnings that resulted in the taser sword's creation, above. That, and a willingness to get tasered. The user made it by wrapping a double bladed sword — apparently, a common household item — in electrical tape, creating a weapon that looks more futuristic sci-fi movie prop than deadly assassin tool.
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| The 5 Stages of Designer Grief | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:03 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| You've heard of the "five stages of grief" model, but with the amount of original work designers have to mourn all the time, they deserve their own grieving process.
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| There's a MacBook Pro Inside This Old Book | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:46 PM | Charlie White |
| Attention tweedy professorial types: This BookBook case will let you hide your Retina MacBook Pro from your old-school colleagues, making them think you're carrying around a dignified old tome rather than a laptop from the future. Twelve South has added the Retina MacBook Pro to the stable of devices that can use its distressed-leather BookBook cases.
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| Free Music App Brings Top YouTube Songs to Your iPhone | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:29 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Digital music subscription services have brought us the ability to stream millions of songs on our smartphones, but generally the good ones cost the equivalent of at least a couple Starbucks lattes a month. A new alternative lets you do the same, without forking over any cash.
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| Dita Von Teese Debuts 3D-Printed Dress | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 7:41 PM | Nina Frazier |
| Style icon Dita Von Teese debuted a 3D-printed dress at the Ace Hotel on Monday, born out of a collaboration between designer Michael Schmidt and architect Francis Bitonti.
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| Android App Pays You $25 a Month for Watching Ads | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 7:11 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| It's about time we got paid for watching ads. The Indiegogo project for SmartAds today announced its intentions to pay smartphone and tablet users up to $25 per device, per month to be served on the lock screen of their devices. If you have both a tablet and a phone, you could make as much as $50 each month.
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| Time Inc. Is Up for Grabs | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 6:37 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Time Warner is spinning off its magazine unit, Time Inc., into a separate, publicly traded company, it was announced Wednesday evening. Laura Lang, who was brought on as CEO of Time Inc. in late 2011, will step down after the transition is completed and a new CEO has been identified. A planned sell-off of most of the magazines to U.S. publisher Meredith will not happen.
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| What Keeps Austin Weird? Share Your Best SXSW Vines | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 5:52 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| A major aspect of SXSW is sharing — whether that sharing be new ideas, inspiring quotes or eye-catching imagery. This year, in addition to the traditional photos and videos, we expect to see some great vines coming from SXSW. If you'll be in Austin, we encourage you to shoot some killer vines and tweet them to us with the hashtag #MashSXSW. Get creative with your vine — we better see more than just panels.
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| Startups Bet Audio Is the Next Frontier for Social Media | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:46 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| New apps and websites seem to pop up every other week to help us share our lives with friends and family through videos, pictures and text messages, but in the process, we've moved farther and farther away from what was once the central means of communicating: the sound of our own voice. Now, a couple startups are trying to change that.
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| 5 Reasons You Should Party at MashBash During SXSWi | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:09 PM | Casey Brown |
| SXSWi is just around the corner, and Mashable is gearing up for a party you won't want to miss. MashBash will be held on Sunday, March 10 at Speakeasy in Austin, Texas, and now's your last chance to register. Unsure if you should add MashBash to your already crammed South By itinerary? We guarantee it's the party you don't want to miss.
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| Tweets Will Power Doritos' 62-Foot SXSW Vending Machine Concert Stage | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 12:49 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| "Mama said knock you out," LL Cool J once quipped, and if you want him to rap those historic fighting words during South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, all you have to do is tweet. The rapper — along with Public Enemy, Ice Cube and Doug E. Fresh — are headlining Doritos' interactive concert on March 14.
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| Beyond Facebook: 7 Social Networks You Should Work For | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 12:36 PM | The Daily Muse |
| If you love social media, Facebook isn’t the only place you can launch an awesome career. In fact, these seven social networks are all amazing places to work—and they’re all hiring, too.
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| Sesame Street Is First Non-Profit With 1 Billion YouTube Views | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:04 AM | Zoe Fox |
| If you know anything about Sesame Street's Count von Count, it's that he loves to count. In Sesame Street's latest YouTube upload, the number-loving Muppet is counting the TV show's YouTube channel views. And for a good reason: Sesame Street has just become the first non-profit YouTube channel to hit 1 billion views.
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| Another Big Asteroid to Zoom by Earth This Weekend | | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:46 AM | Space.com |
| A newly discovered asteroid the size of a football field will cruise through Earth's neighborhood this weekend, just days after another space rock made an even closer approach to our planet. The 330-foot-wide asteroid 2013 ET will miss Earth by 600,000 miles when it zips by on March 9. The space rock flyby will come just days after the 33-foot asteroid 2013 EC approached within 230,000 miles of us early Monday.
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