| Google Shows 'How Search Works' With New Site | | Friday, March 01, 2013 7:32 PM | Emily Price |
| Ever wondered how Google’s search works? The company launched a new website Friday, appropriately called How Search Works, to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the process from start to finish. “Here you can follow the entire life of a search query, from the web, to crawling and indexing, to algorithmic ranking and serving, to fighting webspam,” Google Product Manager Jake Hubert said in a blog post announcing the page.
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| Amy Poehler Pranks Seth Meyers on Late Night Talk Show | | Friday, March 01, 2013 5:57 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Comedy queen Amy Poehler just can't keep her hands off a good prank. When her buddy and former Saturday Night Live costar Seth Meyers was on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live, Poehler took the questions-from-the-phone segment into her own hands.
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| 'The Simpsons' Do the 'Harlem Shake' | | Friday, March 01, 2013 5:45 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| "Harlem Shake" meme videos keep piling up on YouTube, and today Homer Simpson and his animated companions on The Simpsons threw their rendition into the mix. Fox will use the show's ever-changing opening segment on an upcoming episode to do the "Homer Shake," a colorful version of the viral phenomenon set to a Homer-ized cover of Baauer's 2012 single "Harlem Shake." Baauer's song is featured in the other versions of the meme.
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| Learn Jedi Tricks From This 'Star Wars' 'Schoolhouse Rock' Mashup | | Friday, March 01, 2013 5:31 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Where would we be without Schoolhouse Rock? Unable to tell the difference between prepositions and adverbs, that's where. Luckily those Saturday morning 'toons taught us the lessons of the world through whimsical little ditties that have remained with us to this day. On the other side of the entertainment spectrum lies Star Wars.
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| Inside MoMA's Classic Video Games Exhibit | | Friday, March 01, 2013 5:21 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| On Friday, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City invited visitors to its third floor to view its newly acquired collection of 14 video games. The games, which include beloved classics like Pac-Man, Tetris and Myst, as well as lesser-known titles like flOw and Dwarf Fortress, are part of an exhibit called "Applied Design," on view until next January.
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| Urbee 2 Is the 3D-Printed Car of the Future | | Friday, March 01, 2013 4:42 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| We've already seen all kinds of 3D-printed items, from jewelry, to guitars, and even football cleats. Now, we might soon have an almost entirely 3D-printed car in the Urbee 2. The hybrid car, created by engineer Jim Kor, is designed to be light, cheap, easy to reproduce and very efficient. It's made entirely of 3D-printed plastic parts, all except the engine and base chassis, which are metal.
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| Skydiver Pulls a Mary Poppins, Uses Umbrella for a Parachute | | Friday, March 01, 2013 4:17 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Mary Poppins was a true role model for many of us: nannies, people who love big bags, those of us who enjoy spoonfuls of sugar and — mainly — skydivers. Because, to those skydivers, Poppins was truly the only person to defy gravity with such style. Extreme athlete Erik Roner paid homage to the original Supernanny by jumping out of a plane using an umbrella as his makeshift parachute.
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| White House Totally Owns Obama's 'Jedi Mind Meld' Mistake | | Friday, March 01, 2013 4:04 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The White House's digital team is spending Friday afternoon trying its hardest to own President Barack Obama's sci-fi slip-up during a press conference earlier in the day. Obama said during the conference that he can't perform a "Jedi mind meld" to get Republicans to agree to a sequester deal.
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| Spotify vs. Pandora: Which Is Better? | | Friday, March 01, 2013 3:40 PM | Elisha Hartwig |
| With so many ways to listen to music these days, how do you choose the best option? Here's a look at how two of the most popular music streaming services, Spotify and Pandora, compare to each other. Spotify may have a chance to gain a larger share of the market, since Pandora announced Wednesday that they were going to cap mobile streaming at 40 hours per week.
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| Ousted Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Worth $228 Million | | Friday, March 01, 2013 3:08 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Don't feel too bad for ousted Groupon CEO Andrew Mason: He's worth about $228 million, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal's Digits blog crunched the numbers and found that Mason's 7.1% stake in combined Class A and Class B shares left him with a nest egg in the hundreds of millions. The $228 million is also in addition to the $31 million the 32-year-old Mason made off the company prior to its IPO, Digits reports.
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| Rovio Releases Non-'Angry Birds' Title Tying in With 'The Croods' | | Friday, March 01, 2013 2:36 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Rovio Entertainment, a firm that has become synonymous with its Angry Birds franchise, is venturing into non-avian territory with a new game that ties in with the upcoming DreamWorks Animation flick The Croods. The company didn't give many details about the game, which is based on the CGI movie set in the fictional Stone Age "Croodaceous" period (hence the title).
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| Baseball Back Flip Catch Is YouTube Home Run | | Friday, March 01, 2013 2:22 PM | Neha Prakash |
| When you're in the outfield, you've got one job: catch that ball. North Carolina State center fielder Brett Williams was taking that job pretty seriously even if he had to bend over backwards to make it happen — literally. Williams landed a backflip just in time to catch the ball, and even Williams' teammates seemed pretty surprised to see his moves. Looks like he was keeping his gymnastics training under wraps until just the right moment.
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| Amanda Palmer Wins TED | | Friday, March 01, 2013 1:40 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Ask attendees what they most remember about the TED 2013 conference, wrapping up Friday in Long Beach, and here's one of the most frequent answers you'll get: Amanda Palmer. The former Dresden Dolls singer is the first to admit, as she does in her TED talk, above, that her punk cabaret music isn't for everyone.
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| Demi Lovato's Twitter Challenge for Video Is Now Global Trending Topic | | Friday, March 01, 2013 1:31 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Singer Demi Lovato challenged her fans Friday morning to unlock her lyric video for "Heart Attack" by tweeting words from the new single along with "#UnlockHeartAttack." The hashtag quickly became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter and remained in the top spot up until Lovato's camp unleashed the video (watch above).
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