| Carrier Alerts Help Consumers Avoid 'Bill Shock' | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 11:49 PM | Anita Li |
| Cell-phone users are all too familiar with that sinking feeling you get when opening up an extravagant bill. Hidden fees and additional charges can rack up, especially when you're not keeping track of expenses. But now, wireless customers have a solution to "bill shock." Back in 2011, major U.S.
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| Should Your Doctor Friend You on Facebook? | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:36 PM | Andrea Smith |
| You may want to be Facebook friends with your doctor, so you can ping him or her a quick question or maybe an image of a bug bite for an online diagnosis.
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| Tech Startup Asks Employees to Keep Diet and Exercise Log | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 9:27 PM | PSFK |
| Citizen, a mobile tech company in Portland, Ore., has taken its health and wellness programs in an interesting direction. The company encourages its employees to submit health and fitness data such as what they eat, how much they exercise and how many hours of sleep they get. The employees upload their results to a central server as part of a wellness program to determine whether healthy employees are indeed happier or more productive.
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| 32 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:45 PM | Elisha Hartwig |
| As the tragic events of this week unfolded, many of us across the country sat glued to our TVs, news sites and Twitter feeds hungrily searching for updates about the Boston Marathon bombing, or the Waco, Texas explosion. In times like these, we are all forced to reexamine our priorities and come together as a nation.
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| Cat Just Can't Quit Vacuum Cleaner | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 7:35 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Oh, cats. Is there anything they won't lick? Apparently not, as this video — starring an unnamed Russian kitty — demonstrates. Evidently lured in by something tasty on the edge of a powered-on vacuum cleaner hose, this fearless feline gets a surprise when the hose attaches itself to its face — and decides he wants more of that. In the end, the cat looks more like a college student with a dorm-room bong.
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| Top 10 Tech This Week | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 6:59 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| It was another exciting week in tech. And if you missed it, worry not — that's why we're here with Top 10 Tech. In a week with few product announcements, the biggest was perhaps the long-awaited Twitter Music launch. Surprisingly, in an online world full of music services, this one still stands out, earning our vaunted Mashable Choice.
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| The Man Who Makes Animals Talk in All Caps | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 6:32 PM | Chona Kasinger |
| 'Animals Talking in All Caps' is exactly what it sounds like: photos of animals paired with tongue-in-cheek dialogue. How its creator capitalized on Tumblr virality.
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| 3D Headset and Treadmill Combo Make Video Games Feel Real | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 6:00 PM | Anita Li |
| Forget haptic feedback. When combined, two pieces of virtual-reality tech offer an immersive gaming experience that puts you in the middle of the action. Texas-based startup Virtuix posted a YouTube video Thursday that demonstrates Omni, its treadmill-like "natural motion interface for virtual reality applications" that enables a user's in-game avatar to mimic his or her real-life movements.
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| 7 Apps You Don't Want To Miss | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 5:11 PM | Emily Price |
| It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck — Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week we found an app that helps you voice your opinion about different topics, and another that will help you get where you're trying to go. Yahoo launched two new and exciting apps, and Twitter finally launched its rumored music service.
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| Knicks Launch Instagram Microsite for NBA Playoffs | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 5:03 PM | Sam Laird |
| The New York Knicks have launched an Instagram-specific microsite to collect fan photos from Madison Square Garden and around the world during the team's 2013 playoff run. Found at Knickstagram.com, the site will aggregate and post all Instagram fan photos that include the #Knicks and #KnicksTape hashtags, which are popular among fans of the team.
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| Filmmakers Have Earned $128 Million in Pledges on Kickstarter | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 4:52 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Film projects on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter have raised $127 million in pledges since April 2009, Kickstarter's Stephanie Pereira announced onstage at TFI Interactive. The $127 million figure has now increased to $128 million on Kickstarter's live stats page.
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| New Aerial Images Show Boston Bombing Suspect In Boat | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 4:05 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Massachusetts State Police released five images taken of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's hiding spot after he was discovered in a boat parked in a Watertown, Mass. backyard. The boat's owner was the first to find Tsnarnaev in the boat, calling police to report his discovery shortly thereafter. The first three images were taken using thermal cameras, which are designed to pick up the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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| Antares: Private Rocket Launching on First Flight Saturday | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 3:11 PM | Space.com |
| Antares, a new American rocket designed to fly cargo missions to the International Space Station for NASA, is poised to make its launch debut from the U.S. East Coast today (April 20) after a three-day delay. The private Antares rocket, built by the commercial spaceflight company Orbital Sciences Corp., is set to launch from a new seaside pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va..
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| Share Your Photos From Far, Far Away | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 3:08 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| Everyone sees the world differently. While the countless photos of historic landmarks may seem redundant, they represent something more to travelers: an experience. And sometimes the most exceptional photos of the world are the most unexpected. For this week's Mashable Photo Challenge Guest Series, we're asking for your most memorable photos from far, far away.
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| It's Time for Truth on Social Media | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 2:46 PM | Emily Banks |
| “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” I heard those words early in my journalism career. Reporters are trained to verify information they receive by confirming with a trusted source, but the media landscape has changed, even since I first heard that adage. With social networks like Facebook and Twitter, news flows faster than ever. And the news is no longer centrally controlled, making it potentially less trustworthy.
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| Map Shows Hundreds of Tweets From Boston Marathon Bombing | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 2:32 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| This map, created by a Syracuse University professor and student, shows approximately 200 tweets sent from the scene of the Boston Marathon with the #BostonMarathon hashtag during the hours immediately following Monday's bombing.
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| These 10 Cats Are More Awesome Than Yours | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 2:02 PM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| As with humans, some cats just have "it" — that mysterious quality that somehow sets them far apart from lesser kitties. We have found 10 such kitties that are almost certainly more awesome than the average mog. SEE ALSO: 10 Cats Clearly Plotting to Kill Their Owners Take a look through our photogenic pool of cool cats in the image gallery above.
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| Dove's Viral Video Sparks Discussion, and Other Top Comments | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 1:39 PM | Jessica Fee |
| What do Dove soap, Korean pop star Psy, and BASE jumping all have in common? They all scored viral video hits this week and were the subject of some of our most-discussed stories. In this week's Top Comments, readers debate the motives behind the viral video ad that Dove released on YouTube this past Monday.
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| Facebook Cracks Down on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Fan Pages | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 1:25 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might have a social media presence on Russian site Vkontakte and on Twitter, but finding him on Facebook is harder than you might think. It's become a trend that pages in support of criminals show up on Facebook within days. That was the case with Christopher Dorner, the former Los Angeles police officer who went on a killing spree in February 2013, and with Aurora, Colo.
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| This Robot Was Involved In Apprehension of Boston Bombing Suspect | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:48 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| After Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston bombing case taken into custody last night, was discovered in a boat parked in a Watertown, Mass. backyard by its owner Friday, police enlisted the help of a robot to safely remove the tarp from the boat. While authorities did not specify exactly which robot was used to pull said tarp, Mashable has identified at least one robot that was on the scene.
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| Virginia Tech Shooting Survivor Launches Campus Safety App | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:29 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Kristina Anderson was shot twice in the back and once in the foot on April 16, 2007, when a gunman massacred 11 members of her Virginia Tech French class. Thankful to have made a complete physical recovery since age 19, Anderson has since dedicated herself to starting a non-profit that promotes campus safety and speaking around the country about her experience.
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| A Troll Is Causing You to Procrastinate | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 11:53 AM | Matt Petronzio |
| Ever wonder why you procrastinate, even when you know you have to finish something important? Well, there may just be a magical reason behind it all. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Josh Mecouch of Formal Sweatpants introduces us to Trolley, the procrastination troll. This explains everything. Comic illustration by Josh Mecouch, Formal Sweatpants.
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| Republicans Urge Obama to Label Boston Suspect 'Enemy Combatant' | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 11:43 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) posted a statement to Facebook Saturday morning urging the Obama administration to consider labeling Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston bombings who was apprehended alive Friday night, an enemy combatant. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) joined Graham's statement.
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| Pentagon Discloses Budget for Hacking Operations | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 11:15 AM | Nextgov |
| The Pentagon has for the first time detailed $30 million in spending on Air Force cyberattack operations and significant new Army funding and staff needs for exploiting opponent computers. Since 2011, top military brass have acknowledged the United States has the capability to hack back if threatened by adversaries in cyberspace.
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| Reporter Covers China Earthquake In Her Wedding Dress | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:47 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck a rural area of southwestern China Saturday, claiming at least 100 lives and injuring approximately 2,000. The earthquake also happened to interrupt the marriage ceremony of a Chinese journalist, who got right to work reporting from the scene — still donned in her wedding dress and veil. The reporter has been identified by the South Morning China Post as Chen Ying, an anchorwoman at a local news network.
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| How to Nail The Social Job Interview | | Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:26 AM | Alan Carniol |
| Alan Carniol is the Founder of InterviewSuccessFormula.com and author of Top 10 Interview Questions You Must Know How to Answer, a free report available here. Follow Alan and Interview Success Formula on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Job seekers, listen up! Your interview doesn't begin when an employer calls you. It doesn't begin when you walk into an office.
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