| Teen Creator of 'Clouds' Viral Music Video Dies of Cancer | | Zach Sobiech, creator of the "Clouds" song that became a viral YouTube hit, died of cancer on Monday. He was 18. "Zach was at home and at peace with those he loved most," the Children's Cancer Research Fund said in a statement announcing Sobiech's death.
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| Facebook Group Helps Tornado Victims Get Their Belongings Back | | A Facebook group is helping the victims of the massive Oklahoma tornado, which killed 51 people and left many homeless, get their belongings back. On its trail of destruction, the tornado has blown debris from houses — including people's personal belongings and important documents — many miles away.
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| 3D-Printed Sugar Sculptures Too Sweet to Eat | | You’ve heard of 3D-printed clothes and 3D-printed buildings, but 3D-printed food? We are truly entering sci-fi territory. The Sugar Lab takes simple white sugar as its base material to print delicate 3D structures that can be eaten on their own, or used as a decorative topper for cakes and cupcakes.
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| Teen Develops Computer Algorthim to Diagnose Leukemia | | 1:38:57 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Brittany Wenger isn't your average high-school senior: She taught the computer how to diagnose leukemia. The 18-year-old student from Sarasota, Fla. built a custom, cloud-based "artificial neural network" to find patterns in genetic expression profiles to diagnose patients with an aggressive form of cancer called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL).
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| Teach Your Kids Tech Basics With Electronic Building Blocks | | 1:01:26 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| For parents looking for educational toys, a hardware startup developed electronic buildings blocks and a companion augmented reality app that make for an interactive learning experience. Founded by Tarun Pondicherry and Josh Chan, LightUp magnetic building blocks that can teach anyone about how electronics work.
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| Where Would the World Be Without YouTube? | | Monday, May 20, 2013 11:33 PM | Neha Prakash |
| YouTube recently celebrated its eighth birthday, reminding us that less than a decade ago we had no access to cute cat videos, screaming goat clips and viral trends such as the Harlem Shake. How, oh how, did we ever survive? For YouTube's Comedy Week, the Gregory Brothers pay homage to all the addictive content that the video-sharing website has given us over the past few years.
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| Terrifying Eyewitness Videos of Oklahoma Tornado Go Viral | | Monday, May 20, 2013 11:12 PM | Anita Li |
| Several eyewitness videos of the massive tornado that devastated Oklahoma City suburbs Monday — killing at least 51 people — have gone viral online. SEE ALSO: CBS Delays 'Mike & Molly' Finale in Wake of Oklahoma Tornado They each portray the cyclone tearing across Moore, Okla., near Oklahoma City, and kicking up debris.
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| 'X Factor' Confirms New Judges After Tweet Leaks News | | Monday, May 20, 2013 10:42 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland and international pop star Paulina Rubio will join The X Factor judging panel alongside Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato for season three, Fox revealed on the show's Facebook and Twitter pages Monday night. The announcement came hours after a Missouri concert venue inadvertently leaked half of the news in a tweet warning ticket buyers that Rowland's tour had been canceled.
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| Can Yahoo Ignore Tumblr's Dark Side? | | Monday, May 20, 2013 10:11 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| When my daughter begged me a few years ago to go on Tumblr so she could engage with Harry Potter fandom, I said no. I was worried about what else she might encounter on the vast blogging service. You know what I’m talking about. I feared she’d stumble onto porn. Tumblr, which Yahoo is buying for $1.1 Billion is not a porn site, far from it.
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| The New Flickr: What it Means for Flickr Pro Users | | Monday, May 20, 2013 9:23 PM | Christina Warren |
| Yahoo unveiled some big changes to Flickr on Monday, both in terms of features and overall design. One of those changes is that free users are no longer limited to a certain number of photos; instead, everyone gets 1TB of space for their full-resolution photos. With that change comes an end to what used to be the biggest difference between free Flickr accounts and Flickr Pro.
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| Microsoft's Next Xbox Announcement: What to Expect | | Monday, May 20, 2013 8:56 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Microsoft will announce the highly anticipated next-generation Xbox gaming console Tuesday from its Redmond, Wa., headquarters, and the company has set a high bar, considering the success of its current model. The Xbox 360 has been a force to be reckoned with since its debut at the end of 2005. It remains at the top of sales charts even now.
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| Square Lets You Send Cash Via Email | | Monday, May 20, 2013 8:31 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| A few days after Google announced the ability to send money via email, mobile payments purveyor Square has done the same. Square Cash, which the company introduced in invite-only mode on Monday, lets consumers send money to friends by cc-ing "pay@square.com" and including the dollar amount in the email's subject line. Square takes a .50 cut of each transaction.
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| Tumblr CEO to Users: 'Don't Worry' | | Monday, May 20, 2013 7:57 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Tumblr CEO David Karp said at an event hosted by Yahoo that loyal users shouldn't worry about changes coming to the site following the acquisition.
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| CBS Delays 'Mike & Molly' Finale in Wake of Oklahoma Tornado | | Monday, May 20, 2013 7:34 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| CBS will hold off airing the scheduled May 20 finale of comedy Mike & Molly because of the massive tornado that wreaked havoc in Oklahoma on Monday, the network told Mashable. Mike & Molly stars Melissa McCarthy as a fourth-grade teacher and Billy Gardell as a cop. The final episode was set against the backdrop of a destructive tornado.
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| Chinese Hackers Found U.S. Government Data on Google Servers | | Monday, May 20, 2013 7:01 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| When Chinese hackers breached Google servers in 2010, they were not targeting the Gmail accounts of human rights activists, as the company claimed at the time. What the hackers were actually after was a database containing years of sensitive information related to U.S. surveillance. Now we have learned that the attack was successful, and the data compromised.
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| There's Not Much Tumblr Advertising for Yahoo to Screw Up | | Monday, May 20, 2013 6:35 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| In her now-famous tweet, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer promised not to "screw up" Tumblr. While it remains to be seen whether the site's users will soon be fleeing, Tumblr's advertising is a different story. Simply put, there's not much to screw up at this point. Partially, that's because the company's ad units are so new.
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| Watch a 3D-Printed Handgun Fire 9 Rounds | | Monday, May 20, 2013 6:11 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Just a couple of weeks after Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed released the files for the world's first 3D-printed handgun, imitators have already replicated and improved upon it. Two gunsmiths from Wisconsin successfully fired their own Liberator nine times, without the gun showing any damage.
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| The Doors Keyboardist Ray Manzarek Dies at 74 | | Monday, May 20, 2013 6:09 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| After a long fight with bile duct cancer, 74-year-old keyboardist Ray Manzarek of The Doors died Monday at RoMed Clinic in Germany, the rock band's Facebook and Twitter pages announced. His wife, Dorothy, and brothers were beside Manzarek (pictured left). "I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today," guitarist Robby Krieger (pictured right) said in a statement.
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| Massive Tornado Strikes Near Oklahoma City | | Monday, May 20, 2013 5:59 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| A massive tornado struck a residential neighborhood in Moore, Okla. Monday afternoon, destroying homes, schools and commercial buildings.
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| Yahoo to Move Into Old 'New York Times' Building | | Monday, May 20, 2013 5:38 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Call it a sign of the times. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced at a press event Monday that Yahoo is taking over four stories of the old New York Times building in Times Square. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined Mayer at the announcement. Yahoo's 500 New York employees are currently split across three different locations in New York City.
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| If 'Game of Thrones' Houses Were Corporations | | Monday, May 20, 2013 5:20 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Any avid Game of Thrones fan can see how Westeros is not too different from a modern corporation. There's a CEO who sits on the Iron Throne; his board of directors sit in the Small Council. Then there are mergers and acquisitions in the form of inter-house weddings. Instead of pink slips, you have beheadings. In a more fragmented sense, the seven kingdoms of Westeros can be seen as competing companies vying for a spot at the top.
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| A Michael Jackson Hologram? Will.I.Am Wants to Rock With Virtual MJ | | Monday, May 20, 2013 4:43 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Jaws dropped at the Coachella music festival in 2012 when rapper Tupac Shakur arrived on stage to perform. After all, he died in 1996 from multiple gunshot wounds. Modern technology brought him back from the dead as a life-sized hologram to spit verses alongside his old friends Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.
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| Quiz: GeoCities or Tumblr? | | Monday, May 20, 2013 4:19 PM | The Atlantic |
| Remember GeoCities? The quirky, city-themed web hosting service and early social network that, by 1999, was the third-most-visited site on the World Wide Web? Fourteen years ago, Yahoo acquired it — and with much the same fanfare as the Internet behemoth has done, today, with Tumblr. There is reason to be optimistic about Yahoo's latest acquisition: ads, audience, coolness, etc.
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| After Hiatus, Chinese Hackers Take Aim at U.S. Targets | | Monday, May 20, 2013 3:42 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Three months ago, security firm Mandiant revealed that an army unit of Chinese hackers was to blame for attacks on U.S. targets for at least six years, stealing corporate and government secrets. Now, after a period in which the group shut down part of its infrastructure and put operations on hold, the hackers are back in business.
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