| Carrie Fisher to Return as Princess Leia in Next 'Star Wars' Movie | | Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, will reprise her role in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII, she confirmed to Palm Beach Illustrated. Asked point blank whether she'll be in the next Star Wars film, Fisher answered with a simple "Yes". She goes on to explain how she sees the Princess Leia of today. "Elderly. She’s in an intergalactic old folks’ home [laughs].
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| Android 4 Usage Finally Eclipses Gingerbread | | The latest versions of Android, 4.0 and up, have surpassed Gingerbread as the dominant operating system for the first time. According to the Android Developer' Dashboards section, 45.1% of users are running Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and Jelly Bean (4.1 and 4.2) on their smartphones — just squeezing past the 44.2% that Gingerbread (2.3) boasts.
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| Agency Hires Interns Based on Brand Ideas for Twinkies | | Minneapolis-based ad agency Campbell Mithun will hire its "Lucky 13" summer interns by asking for their ideas on how to best re-engage the Twinkies brand with consumers. The agency, which created the brand's "Where’s the cream filling?" ads, asks applications as the brand is going to auction on March 13 due to bankruptcy. The online internship application process opened at the beginning of this month, and the deadline is March 29.
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| Looking for 'Hot Local Cats' in Your Area? Sign Up for Adult Cat Finder | | For lonely paws looking for love (or something more casual), Adult Cat Finder is here to help. Cats seeking cats can peruse the online dating site to find frisky felines in their area. "Are you having a hard time finding local cats in your area? Do you wish there was a way to connect instantly with one online, at any time? Now you can!" the website says.
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| News Corp. Education Unit Unveils Tablet to Rival iPad in Classrooms | | 12:03:12 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Apple recently touted its success in the classroom by revealing that it has sold more than 8 million iPads to educational institutions worldwide. But one company believes the iPad and similar tablets are far from ideal learning devices for K-12 classrooms, and thinks it can do better. Amplify, the education division of News Corp.
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| Spike TV Launches MMA App That Lets Fans Score Fights | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 11:30 PM | Sam Laird |
| A Spike TV app lets mixed martial arts fans bring a new level of interactivity to their fight-watching. Called Bellator, the app for iPhone and iPad allows fans to track fight analytics during matches, as well as score rounds themselves in over 26 categories. While they don't affect actual fight outcomes, those fan scores are then featured in Spike's on-air broadcast and compared to announcers' and judges' takes.
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| A Dryer-Sheet-Lovin' Dog Makes Laundry Delightful | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:59 PM | Neha Prakash |
| We can all relate — that scent of freshly laundered clothes just out of the dryer can drive you nuts. It often prompts us to lie inside laundry baskets inhaling the goodness of Tide and Downy. Maymo the dog here knows that feeling all too well. But instead of only smelling the dryer sheets, Maymo wants to be mistaken for the inside of a dryer and goes about rubbing the sheets all over his furry body.
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| Marriott Introduces Tech-Friendly Hotels for Travelers | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:29 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Marriott announced its new Moxy Hotels brand on Tuesday, appealing to the "millennial traveler" with a technology-focused design. The budget-friendly hotels target techies, and are set to open exclusively in Europe next year. Rooms will feature built-in USB ports in each wall socket, and guests can check in via their phones.
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| Coming Soon: The George Lucas Museum | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:06 PM | Chris Taylor |
| No doubt you've seen plenty of Star Wars-inspired art, from nesting dolls to R2-D2 heels. You may even have checked out the world's largest Star Wars museum (featuring the carbonite figurine above). But soon enough — in a few years, hopefully — it'll be time to see some of the art that inspired the Star Wars creator himself.
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| The Nature of Ambition | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:01 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| In order to get anywhere in life, you have to be at least a little ambitious -- but achieving success is harder than you might think.
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| Roku's New Media Player Offers Private Listening and Re-Designed UI | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 8:59 PM | Andrea Smith |
| Roku is out with a new addition to its line of streaming media players. The box itself has a familiar look, but users will immediately notice the user interface is completely redone. Mashable got a sneak peek from Roku and we can tell you the new UI is a much simpler, easier way to discover content. Roku has restructured the UI into a grid form, with user index on the left, and channels on the right as you can see in the photo.
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| Carbon Fiber iPhone Case Mounts Magnetically to Your Bike or Wall | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 8:43 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Looking for a durable iPhone mounting system? A Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is designing wall and bike mounts made of carbon fiber that might provide a sleeker way for your iPhone to stay put while on the go or at home. Volar Technologies is raising funds on Kickstarter to develop its aerospace-grade carbon fiber iPhone case, wall mount and bike mount.
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| Newborn Lamb Will Make You Giggle With Glee | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 8:09 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Prepare your smile muscles — here's your daily dose of paralyzing, awww-inducing cuteness. This little lamb is only a few hours old and watching it frolic with its parents is probably the most peaceful, lovely experience ewe will have this week.
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| NBA Star Escapes Suspension for Viral 'Groin Altercation' | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 7:55 PM | Sam Laird |
| During Sunday afternoon's NBA tilt between the Los Angeles Clippers and Oklahoma City Thunder, OKC star Serge Ibaka took what appeared to be an intentional swipe at L.A. star Blake Griffin's nether regions. Griffin fell to the ground, writhing in pain. Ibaka stomped about the court like a WWE heel. The two teams looked ready to fight briefly. Order was restored, and the Thunder went on to win.
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| Rare Photos Capture Two Comets Together in Night Sky | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 7:21 PM | Space.com |
| Two comets are putting on an amazing night sky show this month and some intrepid photographers have captured rare views of both celestial objects at the same time. The photos of Comet Pan-STARRS and Comet Lemmon were taken by veteran space photographers in Chile and Australia in late February.
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| Venezuelan Leader Hugo Chavez Dies | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 6:55 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Venuzuelan President Hugo Chavez's death was quickly followed by a wide range of Twitter response.
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| Organize All Your Digital Documents in One Place With 'doo' | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 6:30 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Moving to a paperless world brings benefits: fewer piles to sort through, infrequent paper cuts and saving trees. But archiving your digital files to the cloud often means forgetting about them. Where did last year's tax forms go? In which folder did you save the phone bill? doo, a free organizing service, allows users to access all their documents in one location, where they can be organized and tagged for easy use.
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| This Is What a Kickstarter-Funded Concert Tour Looks Like | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 6:20 PM | Fran Berkman |
| It sounded like a classic success story in the making: A young girl with a big voice gets discovered by a major record label. But instead of coasting to a life fame and fortune like she may have expected, the label balked, and Alexz Johnson's music career needed a kickstart to finally get on the right track. In days past, it would have been incredibly auspicious for a musician like Johnson to score two major record deals by age 21.
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| Cowabunga! 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Game Coming This Summer | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 5:38 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| A new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game, based on the current Nickelodeon cartoon, is hitting downloadable marketplaces this summer. Fans of the pizza-eating reptile foursome with mutant powers will get to play as Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo or Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. The game is a four-player cooperative brawler and is being developed by Red Fly Studios and published by Activision.
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| 'Catfish' Creator Explains His Impromptu In-Flight 'Harlem Shake' | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 5:23 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Nev Schulman, creator of MTV's Catfish and star of the Catfish documentary from which the show spawned, recently found himself onboard a flight with Fordham University students who wanted to be part of the viral "Harlem Shake" phenomenon. He, the trendy pupils, and sketch comedy group Harvard Sailing Team joined forces to take part of the plane and put their in-flight spin on the video meme (watch below).
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| Famous Works of Art Beautifully Recreated With Breakfast Food | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 5:08 PM | Christine Erickson |
| As children, most of us were taught the basic table etiquette: Don't play with your food. Luckily, photographer Ida Skivenes didn't listen to her parents. The Norwegian native is better known on Instagram as @IdaFrosk, a food artist. We're not talking your average "foodie" either — Skivenes has literally recreated famous works of art, often using toast as her canvas and toppings as the medium.
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| How Google+ Can Boost Your Business | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 5:00 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| Google’s algorithm that informs how search results are ranked constantly evolves. However, one element is clearly important: how your business fares on Google+.
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| Humans Yelling Like Goats Yelling Like Humans | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:44 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Listen, goats, you've had your fun with the yelling thing, but it's getting out of control. Go back to eating cans or kicking chickens or whatever you do when you're not yelling like a horror movie reject. SEE ALSO: The 10 Most Viral YouTube Videos of 2012 The Internet has gone meta with a YouTube video of humans yelling like goats yelling like humans.
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| 'Tomb Raider': An Action-Packed Blast With a Kickass Hero | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:44 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| The first thing you realize about the newest Tomb Raider version of Lara Croft is she takes a lot of punishment. Nothing in the game goes easy for her. In fact, it's hard to believe she can survive large drops, grievous wounds and several captures — all after a violent shipwreck on a mysterious island. But she does, with enough pluck and tenacity to make her one of the coolest heroes we've seen in awhile.
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| Google Releases First Data on National Security Letters | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:36 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Google received somewhere between zero and 999 National Security Letters requesting information about its users in each of the last four years, according to newly revealed data released by the company today. This is the first time that Google, or any other company, has published data regarding the secretive information requests. National Security Letters (NSLs), which are different from subpoenas, are used by U.S.
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| How Will Google Glass Change Dating? | | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:10 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Dating is an insanely awkward societal invention that plagues most of us — and thanks to Google Glass, the future of romance looks grim. What's in store with the advent of this new tech? It means your date might be on Facebook while you're trying to discuss Game of Thrones. It means while you're talking about your deepest fears, they'll take pics of food stuck in your teeth and snapchat it to their BFF.
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