| 13 Million Facebook Users Haven't Touched Their Privacy Settings | | As Facebook prepares Graph Search for wide release, some have concerns about the privacy issues the new feature raises. How can you be sure only your friends will see your name during searches? After all, more than a quarter of Facebook users share information with an audience much wider than their social circle. And 13 million users haven't even touched their privacy settings.
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| Skype Now Lets You Make Calls Directly From Outlook.com Inbox | | Skype audio- and video-calling will roll out to Outlook.com inboxes across the UK starting Monday, and to the U.S. and Germany in the coming weeks, the VoIP service announced. "We all face those situation where it's easier to jump on a call to talk something through. Sometimes that quick call can accomplish more than a long email reply," Simon Longbottom, Skype's senior director of product marketing, said Monday in a blog post.
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| 'Oblivion' App Flaunts 3D Art That Inspired Tom Cruise's Sci-Fi Movie | | 2:34:58 AM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Sci-fi flick Oblivion roared into theaters this month, quickly securing the top spot on the box office charts with a $38.2 million debut. The post-apocalyptic world in which Tom Cruise's character explores on the big screen began years ago as artwork.
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| 'Fast and Furious 6' Trailer Debuts Online | | An action-packed trailer for Fast and Furious 6, the sixth installment of the street-racing film series, has debuted online. The latest movie brings back long-time Fast and the Furious regulars, including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham also star in the film. As expected, 6's trailer showcases plenty of fast cars, big explosions and piercing stares.
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| Apparent Teaser for 'Call of Duty: Ghosts' Debuts on Official Site | | An apparent teaser for the upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts video game has shown up on the franchise's official website. Visitors to CallofDuty.com are automatically redirected to "CallofDuty.com/______," which shows an image comprising tiny individual thumbnails of users who shared messages with the hashtag #CallofDuty via Twitter or Facebook.
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| Cops Pose as iPhone Thieves to Thwart Black Market | | Monday, April 29, 2013 11:57 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| In tech hub San Francisco, Calif., police say that nearly half of all the city's robberies last year involved smartphones. But instead of focusing on the stolen supply, the city's police department is going after the demand: middlemen who might buy stolen iPhones from thieves and then resell them on the black market.
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| Evernote Food Updates its Android App, Adds Recipe Exploration | | Monday, April 29, 2013 11:00 PM | Emily Price |
| Evernote updated its Evernote Food app for Android, which helps users remember the food and restaurants they love, and discover new cuisine. On Monday, version 2.0 added the ability for users to explore recipes from popular food sites within the app, as well as save them in a "My Cookbook" section, making them easier to find later on. A "Restaurants" section displays location-specific lists of eateries around a given user.
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| Add Audio to Your iPhone Pics With SpeakingPhoto | | Monday, April 29, 2013 10:31 PM | Emily Price |
| A picture’s worth a thousand words, but sometimes our pictures — no matter how fabulous they are — still need a few words of explanation to go along with them. Enter SpeakingPhoto, a new iPhone app that lets you add sound to any photo, allowing you tell a story along with the image before you share it with friends on Facebook or via email. Finished photo/videos can also be shared on YouTube.
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| iOS-Inspired OS X 10.9 Expected to Launch At WWDC | | Monday, April 29, 2013 9:59 PM | Emily Price |
| Rumor has it that Apple will be releasing OS X 10.9 later this year. Code-named “Cabernet,” the operating system will integrate several core features from Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, as well as add a number of “power-user” enhancements, 9to5 Mac reports. Among the updates expected in the OS: Finder is expected to get an upgrade, adding tags and tabbed browsing modes.
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| The Remixed Love Story of Downton Abbey's Mary and Matthew | | Monday, April 29, 2013 9:30 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Who says high society has no passionate love affairs? Matthew and Mary Crawley, of the British period drama Downton Abbey, are the Romeo and Juliet (or Ross and Rachel, for our modern readers) of the BBC. Their love story is one of the greatest joys for viewers, transcending the usual uptightness of the aristocratic Crawley family.
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| Track Flight Delays 3 Days in Advance With New Early-Alert System | | Monday, April 29, 2013 8:31 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Most of us have experienced the agony of a flight delay, or worse: a cancellation. While you might not have to worry about flight changes caused by FAA furloughs for now, Mother Nature can always throw a wrench into your plans. A new service brings travelers a "weather early-alert system" that predicts whether your flight will be delayed or cancelled because of weather — up to three days in advance.
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| 6 Coffee Apps to Help You Savor Every Sip | | Monday, April 29, 2013 7:53 PM | Gloria Dawson |
| Coffee is just a means to an end for some; it's a way to wake up and stay that way. But to others, coffee is a way of life, an art form, a drink to be savored with each sip. Here are six of our favorite apps for coffee making and drinking.
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| Jason Collins Thanks Fans on Twitter After Coming Out | | Monday, April 29, 2013 7:15 PM | Sam Laird |
| Jason Collins was the talk of Twitter Monday, and finally took to the social network with some thoughts after becoming America's first active openly gay male athlete in a major sport.
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| TLC Reunion Sparks Rumors of 'Left Eye' Hologram | | Monday, April 29, 2013 6:57 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Female R&B group TLC will perform for the first time in 10 years on North American soil this summer during the second annual Mixtape Festival in Pennsylvania. TLC's performance is being dubbed a reunion, but the question on many people's minds is how the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes will be incorporated in the performance. Left Eye died in a car accident 2002.
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| Yahoo Introduces 2 New Ad Formats | | Monday, April 29, 2013 6:34 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Yahoo unveiled two new advertising formats Monday as the company continues to battle quarterly declines in ad revenue. One, called "Stream Ads," are ad units that appear in-line with — and in the same format as — stories in Yahoo's news feed. The ads run across desktop, tablet and mobile.
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| Google Bans Self-Updating Android Apps | | Monday, April 29, 2013 6:23 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Updating Android apps is usually very simple: Click on the Google Play Store app, My Apps and "Update all." You can even set apps to update automatically. This process is simple for the end user, but creates a time-consuming middleman for app creators.
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| Seinfeld's 57 TV Girlfriends Morphed Into One Image | | Monday, April 29, 2013 5:48 PM | Annie Colbert |
| This a composite of all of Jerry Sienfeld's girlfriends. There were 57 over the course of the show.Two Palms Press twitter.com/RichardPrince4… — Richard Prince (@RichardPrince4) April 26, 2013 What's the deal with TV girlfriends? Artist and photographer Richard Prince gathered photographs of Jerry Seinfeld's 57 girlfriends from his popular sitcom and morphed them into one hot Mulva.
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| This Is Saturn's Behemoth Hurricane | | Monday, April 29, 2013 5:24 PM | Amanda Wills |
| NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured what the agency calls a "behemoth" hurricane on Saturn that has been churning for years. With a 1,250-mile-wide eye, the hurricane is 20 times larger than those we see on Earth. This first color image, acquired on Nov. 27, 2012, shows the hurricane at Saturn's north pole, which was previously hidden when Cassini arrived in 2004 during the planet's winter.
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| Cat Friend vs. Dog Friend: Your Furry BFFs in Human Form | | Monday, April 29, 2013 5:02 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Fido and Fluffy might seem like the perfect buddies, but we advise you to never wish that your furry friends transform into humans. While they're certainly loving and loyal, they're also neurotic and terrified of anything that makes loud noises. Not to mention that whole pooping in a box or on the neighbor's lawn thing.
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| In Britain, You May No Longer Own Your Instagram Photos | | Monday, April 29, 2013 4:21 PM | The Daily Dot |
| If you live Britain, your Facebook and Instagram photos may now be free for the taking. The U.K.’s Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act passed parliament and last week received Royal Assent to become a law, according to The Register. “The Act,” explains The Register’s Andrew Orlowski, “contains changes to U.K.
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| Barry Diller Says Buying 'Newsweek' Was a Mistake | | Monday, April 29, 2013 3:50 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| IAC Chairman Barry Diller says that merging Newsweek with The Daily Beast in November 2010 was "a mistake," and that he does not have great expectations for its future. In an interview with Bloomberg (above), Diller said that printing a single magazine — particularly a newsweekly — is a "fool's errand" in the current news environment.
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| 5 Ways to Find a Lead Developer for Your Startup | | Monday, April 29, 2013 3:45 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Hiring a lead developer for your startup is a "make-it-or-break-it-moment." This is the person whose creative vision and technical know-how will determine the success of your product. This is the leader who will guide the engineers you hire down the line, accessing each of their strengths to maximize potential for innovation.
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| Watch This Tweet-Powered Tornado Blow Away Interns | | Monday, April 29, 2013 3:18 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Weather Channel interns are challenging Twitter users to blow them away for Tornado Week. They've transformed part of their office into a tweet-powered tornado simulation, putting the public in control of the wind speed. Each mention of "#TornadoWeek" will help elevate the wind speed.
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| Disabled Fish Gets Life Jacket So It Can 'Just Keep Swimming' | | Monday, April 29, 2013 3:12 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Leighton Naylor is taking a cue from Finding Nemo's Dory and making sure his goldfish, Einstein, can just keep swimming. The elderly Einstein recently developed a swim bladder disease, affecting his buoyancy and causing him to sink to the bottom of his fish tank. But with some ingenuity and tubing, Naylor made sure his pet could continue living the normal lifestyle the rest of his aquatic friends enjoyed.
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