| Al Gore Defends Against Critics of His Al Jazeera Deal at SXSW | | Former U.S. vice-president and environmental activist Al Gore has faced harsh criticism recently for selling Current TV to Al Jazeera, a Qatar-based news network funded largely by oil money. He defended his choice again Saturday at a South by Southwest panel in Austin. Watch Gore's full answer in the video, above.
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| Meet Charlie, the Service that Helps You Rock Your Next Meeting | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 11:31 PM | Emily Price |
| AUSTIN — If you attend a lot of meetings, you often might not know much about your fellow participants. Enter Charlie, a new service designed to help you better prep for meetings, and know more about with whom you’re chatting on your next conference call. A 2013 SXSW Accelerator finalist, the app pulls in information about people in your meeting as well as details about what you and that person have in common.
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| Hands on With Leap Motion's Controller | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 11:04 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| AUSTIN — The future of desktop computing is here. Leap Motion's powerful controller, which lets you control 8 cubic feet of virtual space in front of your computer, is, as promised, impressive. I took it for a test drive at South by Southwest 2013 and can tell you, it feels like the real deal. I've seen photos and videos of the device before, but didn't realize how small it was until I tried it out for myself.
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| Manage Your Entire Home From a Phone Using This App | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 10:14 PM | Anita Li |
| A new app aims to reassure absent homeowners by letting them manage and monitor household items, straight from their phone or tablet. Prizm is a 5-inch touchscreen controller that uses Z-Wave, a wireless system designed to help users communicate with home appliances. Combined with the Prizm Manager mobile app, they can turn light switches on and off, lock and unlock doors, raise and lower shades, and adjust the thermostat.
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| What Happens to Social Media After a Twitter Revolution? | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 9:39 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Two years after the Arab Spring, questions still remain as to how much social media actually helped fuel and drive the uprisings that arose in Tunisia and swept across the region.
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| McDonald's Taps Startup Yappem to Spread Buzz About the Big Mac | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 8:45 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| AUSTIN — Startup Yappem has landed one of the world's biggest advertisers — McDonald's — for a campaign that aims to generate buzz for the Big Mac. Yappem employees handed out "Be Our Guest" cards that granted holders a free Big Mac at South by Southwest on Saturday. The recipients were encouraged to log onto Yappem — a social network that rewards users for discussing brands — and post about their experiences using the hashtag, #BigMac.
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| Taxi App's 'Closed Door Policy' Helps Female Passengers Feel Safe | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 8:05 PM | Anita Li |
| To help its female passengers feel a little safer during late-night cab rides home, one taxi app has launched a "Closed Door Policy," just in time for International Women's Day. GetTaxi, a free app that lets users order a taxi directly from a smartphone, now requires its drivers to wait until female customers safely enter their destination — and shut the door — before leaving.
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| Careport Health Helps Patients Find Care After Leaving Hospital | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 7:17 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Just because you check out of a hospital doesn't mean you're done with care. Many patients require additional rehabilitation, treatment or housing after leaving the hospital, but struggle to make plans before being discharged. That's what Careport Health is trying to change.
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| Self-Healing Asphalt Could Change Your Driving Experience | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 6:29 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Could pot holes go the way of the Ford Pinto? Delft University of Technology engineering professor Erik Schlangen may have created a way to make that happen. Schlangen has invented self-healing asphalt, a material that could make roads safer and the dreaded "construction season" a thing of the past.
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| 5 Games You Should Play This Weekend | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 5:52 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| The week is already over, and if you're looking for some great games to play, Mashable has you covered. While you're waiting for the SimCity servers to come back online, we compiled a list of great PC, mobile and console games to pique your interest. SEE ALSO: Minecraft + Team Fortress = Brick Force Take a look at the list above and tell us what you think.
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| 45 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 5:18 PM | Elisha Hartwig |
| This week has been one for the books. From the unveiling of Facebook's completely redesigned newsfeed to Paul Rand's 12-hour filibuster, it would be almost impossible to stay caught up with all of this week's news. On top of that, the South by Southwest conference in Austin got underway on Friday. If you're interested in staying current with the trending topics, you can check out the Mashable SXSW Trendspotter powered by Topsy.
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| SXSW Day 1: Top Tweets, Trends and Photos | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 4:50 PM | Fran Berkman |
| Each March, a collection of some of the most connected people on the planet converge on Austin, Tex. for South by Southwest (SXSW). Their common language is Twitter. We'll been tracking all the action using analytics provided by Topsy. After one day, @American Airlines, #VegasTech and @Snoop Lion have been the social media trendsetters.
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| Elon Musk: How SpaceX Saved the Dragon Spacecraft from Certain Doom | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 4:35 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| AUSTIN — At a keynote at SXSW 2013, Entrepreneur and SpaceX Founder and CEO Elon Musk described how his team stopped the Dragon spacecraft from tumbling out of control in space by performing the "equivalent of a Heimlich Maneuver." In an interview with Chris Anderson, Musk described the moments after launch as "extremely nerve-wracking," since the rockets could fail and destroy the launch pad.
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| New 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Trailer #2 Will Blow You Away | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 4:03 PM | Charlie White |
| A new Star Trek Into Darkness trailer surfaced on Saturday, packing more action into its 1 minute and 17 seconds than any teaser we've seen in a long time. This one's even more exciting than this movie's first trailer. From the looks of it, this second iteration of the J.J.
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| Younity Makes All Your Files Available Everywhere You Need Them | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 3:48 PM | Emily Price |
| AUSTIN — We’ve all been there: You get to the office only to realize you left the document you were working on all night at home. Enter Younity, a service that attempts to make all of your files available on all your devices whenever you want them, with no need to intentionally sync those files to make them available.
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| Top 10 Tech This Week | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 3:25 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought a flurry of new mobile launches, but this week in tech has been just as exciting. There was no big gadget announcement, but a lot of other exciting news. Perhaps the biggest was the launch of a new Ferrari, the LaFerrari, a hybrid super car that goes from 0 to 60 MPH in just 3 seconds and reaches 205 MPH.
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| You Don't Know Aaron Swartz, But They Did | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 2:34 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Friends and colleagues of Aaron Swartz gathered at SXSW 2013 to remember the Internet activist and to ask everyone to 'be more like Aaron.'
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| Startup Light Aims to Give You a Digital Record of Your Life | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 2:27 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| AUSTIN — Paolo Schellino's father died when he was 18. Many years later, Schellino has imagined how great it would be if there was some sort of record beyond the odd photograph of his dad he could show his daughter.
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| Your Twitter Account Is Pitiful | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 2:14 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| When using Twitter, if you feel like you're only talking to a room full of eggs, spambots and your weird Uncle Sal, it might be time to rethink your social media strategy. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable Not that there's anything wrong with talking to eggs. Comic illustration by Josh Mecouch, Formal Sweatpants. Published with permission; all rights reserved.
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| Russian Satellite Hit by Debris from Chinese Anti-Satellite Test | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 1:37 PM | Space.com |
| A small Russian spacecraft in orbit appears to have been struck by Chinese space junk from a 2007 anti-satellite test, likely damaging the Russian craft, possibly severely, SPACE.com has learned. The space collision appears to have occurred on Jan.
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| Koozoo Lets You Explore The World Through Live Smartphone Videos | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 1:27 PM | Emily Price |
| AUSTIN — Ever wonder what it looks like right now across the globe? On vacation and want to know what it looks like outside back home? Meet Koozoo, a crowdsourced video app that displays smartphone videos from around the world. The San Francisco company launched its service in both San Francisco and Austin on February 28, and is a 2013 SXSW Accelerator finalist.
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| HuffPost Live Bets On Community for Civil Political Discourse | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 12:49 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| HuffPost Live, The Huffington Post's 12-hour-a-day online video news network, is doing something few might have expected when it launched six months ago: bringing civil political discourse to the Internet and video news. Comment sections on news websites, left untouched, can quickly degenerate into hellish pits of insults, mockery and racial slurs.
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| Watch Grumpy Cat Hate Adoring SXSW Fans | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 12:02 PM | Fran Berkman |
| With hundreds of brands, celebrities, artists and technologists vying for attention on day one of SXSW, one cat may have stolen the show — Grumpy Cat. Fans lined up to have their pictures taken with the famous malcontent meme on Friday.
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| Hating Social Networking Just Got Easier With 'Hater' App | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 11:34 AM | Laptop Magazine |
| AUSTIN — Hater is a new app, unveiled at the 2013 SXSW conference, that encourages users to share their grievances rather than post about all their favorite things. On the Hater app, users don't press the Like button for their friend's posts and pictures. They hate them instead, banding together and bonding over the frustrations of everyday life such as bad weather, traffic delays or the rising trend of the duck face.
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| Need Funding? Pass Shaq Your 15-Second Startup Pitch on Tout | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 11:07 AM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| AUSTIN — "I'm a geek, I'm a nerd and I'm proud to say it," former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal tells Mashable by phone in Atlanta, taking a break from packing for his business trip to South by Southwest Interactive. Yes, a business trip.
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| 6 Top Entries So Far: 'NowThis News' and Mashable's #6secondpitch Contest | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 10:41 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| AUSTIN, TEXAS — It's not easy to get a message across in 6 seconds. Even writing that sentence probably took about that length of time and it didn't really say much. So we at Mashable and partner NowThisNews are extremely appreciative of the wonderful Vines that startups have sent us in response to our #6SecondPitch contest at SXSWi this year.
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| You Will Be Googled | | Saturday, March 09, 2013 10:24 AM | Kevin Nakao |
| Chances are high that a recruiter or hiring manager will Google you online before offering you an interview or job. Search insiders tell me that non-celebrity people searches account for more than 10% of Google’s search volume.
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