| Elon Musk Wants to Build an Electric Pickup Truck | | Friday, May 24, 2013 11:30 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| How did you spend you Friday night? Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk spent his answering questions about paying back the government and musing about the next kind of electric vehicle he might like to make. After posting a number of tweets about his thoughts on proper taxation and how he did (PayPal and Zip2) and didn't make his fortune, Musk appeared to drop in something of a non sequitur: Would love to do a pickup truck.
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| Askem Gets You the Answers You Need, Fast | | Friday, May 24, 2013 11:01 PM | Veena Bissram |
| Askem lets you share your questions online and create up to five different text responses to choose from so you can cut through the digital noise.
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| Myspace's New Architects Reveal How to Rebuild a Brand | | Friday, May 24, 2013 9:27 PM | Adam Popescu |
| There's perhaps nothing harder than changing the public perception of a brand once it's been imprinted in popular culture's psyche. Especially when it's left a bad taste in users' mouths. But that was exactly the job facing Ben Johnston and Jess Huddart, CEO and creative director of Josephmark, the 25-person Australian studio tasked with rebuilding the new Myspace from the ground up.
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| UCLA Surgeons Live Vine Brain Surgery | | Friday, May 24, 2013 8:01 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| The UCLA Health System in Southern California used Vine and Instagram on Thursday to live-tweet a brain surgery.
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| Hanson Beer Mmmhops to Make Its Debut | | Friday, May 24, 2013 6:24 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Nearly two years after pop band Hanson announced they would be introducing a beer line, MmmHops has finally arrived.
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| Syrian Electronic Army Taunts Twitter in Latest Hack | | Friday, May 24, 2013 5:19 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Syrian Electronic Army claimed credit for hacking one of British television network ITV's Twitter accounts Friday. One of the SEA's hijacked tweets linked to a story about Twitter's recently introduced two-step verification, aimed at preventing such hijackings. "Just kidding. The Syrian Electronic Army was here. #SEA via @Official_SEA12," read one of the false tweets from @itvlondon.
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| Sony's Cute Speaker Ball Is Music to our Ears | | Friday, May 24, 2013 5:09 PM | Pete Pachal |
| I'm kind of in love with Sony's little egg-shaped speaker, the SRS-BTV5. The tiny, tennis-ball-sized gadget is so cute, it really deserves a name other than the seemingly random series of characters. Maybe Veronica. It looks like a Veronica. At least mine does, but that's probably because it's raven colored.
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| Google and Microsoft Kiss and Make Up Over YouTube App | | Friday, May 24, 2013 5:02 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Windows Phone customers won't be shut out of seeing YouTube videos after all. After tussling over the YouTube app for Windows Phone, Google and Microsoft have settled their differences now that Microsoft has agreed to include ads in the app. The YouTube app, like other major apps on Windows Phone, is actually made by Microsoft.
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| 'The Simpsons' Theme Park Coming This Summer | | Friday, May 24, 2013 4:39 PM | Christina Warren |
| Look alive, Simpsons fans — everyone's favorite animated family is getting its own expanded area at the Universal Orlando Resort. Woo-hoo! The Simpsons franchise has had a presence at Universal Studios Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood since 2007. In 2008, The Simpsons Ride launched in both locations. This summer in Orlando, Universal is expanding the world around the show and building a Springfield replica within the park.
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| 3D-Printed Splint Helps Baby Breathe Again | | Friday, May 24, 2013 4:16 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| When a baby was afflicted with a condition that blocked his ability to breathe, professors at the University of Michigan developed a 3D-printed splint that saved the child's life. Baby Kaiba Gionfriddo was only six weeks old when he stopped breathing and turned blue, as explained in the video above.
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| Customize and Code Your Own Robots With Linkbot | | Friday, May 24, 2013 4:00 PM | Eric Larson |
| A California-based company is raising funds through Kickstarter for Linkbot, a customizable robotic platform that lets you build and code your own robots.
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| Report: Yahoo Bidding for Hulu | | Friday, May 24, 2013 3:46 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| The roster of companies interested in acquiring a stake in Hulu is growing. In addition to The Chernin Group (in partnership with Providence Equity), Guggenheim Digital, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable — whose bids were reported on Thursday night and Friday morning — Yahoo, private equity firm KKR and talent agency William Morris Endeavor (in partnership with Silver Lake) have also placed bids, according to AllThingsD and Bloomberg.
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| Finally, a Video Game That Lets You Play as a Badger | | Friday, May 24, 2013 3:31 PM | Matt Silverman |
| If there's one thing gamers have been clamoring for, it's more badger simulators. And by "more," we mean "one singular" badger simulator, because to our knowledge, there is no such genre. SEE ALSO: 10 Exciting Indie Games We Can't Wait to Play That's about to change, thanks to Swedish indie studio Might and Delight, makers of the charming 2012 platformer Pid.
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| Couple Embarks on a Crowdsourced Road Trip | | Friday, May 24, 2013 3:22 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| This Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U.S. kicks off the start of the summer travel season. You might have a trip or two meticulously planned and carefully entered into your Google Calendar for the summer vacation months.
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| Apple's iWatch May Ship Late Next Year | | Friday, May 24, 2013 3:16 PM | Emily Price |
| Rumors of an Apple iWatch have started to surface again, now suggesting that an Apple-branded smart watch will be hitting store shelves in late 2014. In a note to investors, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said he expects Apple to release an iWatch, but not necessarily anytime in the very near future.
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| AT&T Prepaid Plans Now Support iPhone 5 | | Friday, May 24, 2013 3:00 PM | Christina Warren |
| AT&T's prepaid GoPhone brand will now support the iPhone 5 and other LTE/HSPA+ devices. Although iPhone users have been able to sign up for voice service using GoPhone, this is the first time AT&T is opening access to the data network for those customers. This is also the first time the company has offered LTE support for its prepaid GoPhone SIMs.
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| App.net Surpasses 100,000 Users [INVITES] | | Friday, May 24, 2013 2:50 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| App.net, an ad-free social platform popular with developers, has reached a big milestone: 100,000 registered users. The network launched in August 2012 to users willing to join for $50 per year. Since then, ADN, as it is often called, unveiled a new pricing structure of $36 per year or $5 per month. As it has evolved, the service most recently rolled out a free tier of invite-only accounts for paid members to distribute.
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| 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Creating Branded Apps | | Friday, May 24, 2013 2:42 PM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| With the smartphone increasingly becoming the tool of choice for many shoppers, businesses with their own mobile apps are quickly learning this is an excellent way to get a leg up on the competition. Branded apps, which give retailers a direct link to their consumers' smartphones, are gaining in popularity among shoppers.
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| LEGO Voldemort and Gandalf Battle for Reigning Wizard | | Friday, May 24, 2013 2:36 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Lord Voldemort and Gandalf the White (formerly Grey) are the two baddest wizards in town. After all, they've bypassed that whole death thing with Horcruxes and coming back from the dead. And with Dumbledore out of the way, it's only these two vying for the top spot in the land of magic.
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| Is Strongbox the New Wikileaks? | | Friday, May 24, 2013 2:26 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| The New Yorker's new Strongbox feature claims to be an online safebox for whistleblowers to submit documents safely and anonymously. The system, based on open source DeadDrop software developed by the late Aaron Swartz, has invited comparisons to Wikileaks.
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| Ron Paul Isn't Getting RonPaul.com | | Friday, May 24, 2013 2:18 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Ron Paul doesn't own RonPaul.com. Ron Paul wants RonPaul.com. Ron Paul isn't getting RonPaul.com. Paul has lost his World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) petition to get RonPaul.com from Paul supporters who run a fan site at the domain. Paul filed the petition earlier this year, arguing it confuses Paul supporters who think it's an official website.
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| Teacher Resigns Via YouTube Over Standardized Testing | | Friday, May 24, 2013 1:57 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Standardized testing has long been a hot-button topic among educational circles. But a veteran teacher is now taking a very open position against the concept by resigning from her job — and telling everyone about it on YouTube. The video, which was posted on Tuesday under the account I Quit You Can't Fire Me, is quickly going viral.
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| Morgan Freeman Has a Hilarious Excuse for Dozing During Interview | | Friday, May 24, 2013 1:34 PM | Sam Laird |
| Morgan Freeman set the Internet atwitter this week when he briefly fell asleep during a live TV interview alongside Michael Caine in support of their new film Now You See Me. But, as it turns out, there's a perfectly logical — and awesome — explanation for Freeman's doze-off. Here's what the actor had to say in a Facebook post late Thursday night: Regarding my recent interview, I wasn't actually sleeping.
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