Microsoft Is Developing a Smart Watch, Report Says | | Microsoft is reportedly joining Apple, Samsung and LG in the race to develop a smart watch. The software giant is working on designs for a touchscreen watch device, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited anonymous executives at suppliers. In early 2013, Microsoft asked Asian suppliers to ship parts for a potential watch-style device, the executives said.
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Watch How Astronauts Sleep in Space | | You've seen how astronauts cry in space, but what about how they sleep? Chris Hadfield, who currently lives on the International Space Station, explained how he catches some Zs in a zero-gravity environment. All it requires is putting on a pair of "space jammies," then heading to your individual "sleep pod," which has a sleeping bag tied to the wall inside.
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Watch New 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Teaser Trailer | Sunday, April 14, 2013 11:20 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| The long-awaited teaser trailer for Catching Fire, the second installment in The Hunger Games trilogy, debuted at the MTV Movie Awards. Actor Liam Hemsworth introduced the clip. The new footage gives fans a glimpse of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark's lives on the "Victor's Tour" after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games. Sensing a rebellion, President Snow tries to destroy Everdeen's lovable image to control the uproar.
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AirHarp Lets You Extract Music From Thin Air | Sunday, April 14, 2013 7:30 PM | Neha Prakash |
| If you've ever had the desire to unleash your inner musician without actually investing in an instrument, this new app will help you achieve your symphonic dreams. AirHarp, developed by Leap Motion's Adam Somers, allows users to touch and pluck strings simply by waving their hands in mid-air.
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Why Do We Love Cats So Much? | Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:28 PM | Charlie White |
| Is there any doubt that cats are awesome? We love cats, and being Mashable and all, we know a thing or two about them. But is it even possible to put our feelings about cats into infographic form? You be the judge. Undaunted by such a Herculean task, we bring you this comprehensive look at the cats we've loved throughout history and even take a stab at psychoanalyzing them.
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Time and Navigation: How We Found Our Way in the World | Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:33 PM | The Atlantic |
| Type an address into your phone, and up will pop a step-by-step route from where you are to where you want to be. This is, in its way, magic. But it's magic that has, at this point, been rubbed and polished into a simple fact of life.
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Spice Up Your MacBook With This Logo Illuminator | Sunday, April 14, 2013 1:34 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Steve Jobs told us all to "Think Different," so why settle with having your MacBook look the same as everyone else's? A new Kickstarter campaign is making sure to set your laptop out from a sea of other Apple computers with the Iconic Disc. The partially-transparent badge uses light from the Apple logo on the back of your MacBook’s screen to show off any image that you desire.
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Why Bankers Want You to Fear Bitcoin | Sunday, April 14, 2013 1:05 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Even though the web first saw Bitcoins in 2009, the decentralized virtual currency is the talk of the Internet right now. It reached a record value of $256 USD last week, before it took a nosedive on Wednesday. SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics In this Sunday Comic, our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech wonder if the only difference between Bitcoins and "real" currencies is that bankers can't take advantage of you.
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Justin Bieber Hopes Girl Killed by Nazis Would Have Liked His Music | Sunday, April 14, 2013 12:59 PM | The Daily Dot |
| After a highly publicized appearance at Amsterdam's Anne Frank House, the site where Frank and her family hid from the Nazis from 1942 to 1944, an "inspired" Justin Bieber left some deep thoughts in the museum's guestbook. "Anne was a great girl," he wrote.
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Paint Exploding in Slow Motion is Colorfully Spectacular | Sunday, April 14, 2013 11:09 AM | Neha Prakash |
| The Slow-Mo Guys are at it again, but this time they are making a mess of rainbow proportions. They lit jars of paint on fire and watched as they blew up, splattering colors everywhere. They framed the explosions with a camera running at 15,000 frames per second — that's 600 times slower than human vision in real time — to show us the slow motion bursts of color.
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Should You 'Hangout' With Potential Interns? | Sunday, April 14, 2013 10:09 AM | Ashley Mosley |
| Ashley Mosley is Community Engagement Manager of InternMatch, an online platform connecting the the best intern candidates and employers. Connect with Ashley and InternMatch on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. If you believe interns are the future of your company, you might just be right.
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