| Stay in Tune With iOS Songwriting App Hum | | 4:25:10 AM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Musicians can never truly predict when the creative juices will flow — so it's best to always be ready for the random lyrics, riffs or beats that might spring to mind. Get ready to ditch the notepads and voice memos and make room for Hum, the iPhone app for songwriters that is promising to keep its users "in time, in tune and in sync" — if it gets funding.
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| #StandWithWendy Trends Online During Texas Senator's Abortion Filibuster | | UPDATE: Wendy Davis and the Texas Democratic Party confirmed that Senate Bill 5 is dead. #SB5 failed to pass the Senate. — TX Democratic Party (@TXDemParty) June 26, 2013 This afternoon, as the viewers gradually trickled in to the Texas Tribune's YouTube livestream of State Senator Wendy Davis' attempt at a 13-hour-long filibuster, many people wondered why they'd seen so little news coverage of the event.
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| LED Flashlight Doubles as Battery Pack for Any USB Device | | From emergencies and blackouts to sleepovers and camping, flashlights are useful in a variety of scenarios. Now, smartphone-charger can be added to that list. It's an unexpected benefit of ChargeLight, a rechargeable, dockable and portable LED flashlight that doubles as a battery pack for any USB device. The device's creators claim that it charges "just about anything," including smartphones, tablets, cameras and music players.
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| Dash is Like a Fitbit For Your Car | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:58 PM | sfiegerman |
| Dash automatically tracks data about your driving habits and your car's wear and tear to keep you safe and save you money.
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| Miley Cyrus' 'We Can't Stop' Music Video Breaks Vevo Record | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 7:26 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The peculiar "We Can’t Stop" music video from Miley Cyrus has officially broken the record for most views on VEVO in 24 hours. The former Disney star's newest song bagged 10.7 million views in the daylong period following its June 19 premiere, beating out Justin Bieber's "Beauty and the Beat," which had logged 10.6 million views.
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| Paraplegic Mom Learns to Surf in Inspiring Video | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 6:28 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| Pascale Honore's mobility was mostly confined to a wheelchair after a car accident left her unable to use her legs. But the 50-year-old mother from Australia has found a unique way of catching waves — by duct-taping herself to her son's friend, surfer Tyron Swan. “Both my sons surf, so I always have gone along to watch and I’ve always loved the water," she said in a video posted to Vimeo.
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| Check In Your Friends With Foursquare Update | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 5:29 PM | Emily Price |
| Foursquare is built around connecting with your friends and, starting Tuesday, you’ll be able to interact even more closely with them when you check in, by checking them in as well. To check in a friend, simply tap the “I’m with…” button while you’re checking yourself in and add your friend's name. She will then receive a push notification asking her permission to let you check her in.
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| Yammer Partners With Klout to Highlight Employee Influence | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 4:03 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Yammer, the social networking tool for businesses owned by Microsoft, announced a partnership on Tuesday with online influence measurement tool Klout that will integrate Klout scores onto Yammer profiles. The partnership means Yammer users can publish public Klout scores onto their Yammer profiles. Yammer wrote in a blog post that this will showcase employees' influence in the office social sphere.
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| 10 Ways Pandas Are Just Like Us | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 3:20 PM | Laura Vitto |
| Of all the cutest animals that are illegal to own as pets, pandas certainly top the list. That's a fact. Seriously, don't you wish you could start and end each day with a panda hug? Pandas are more than just cute faces though. You might not believe it, but humans have more in common with these cute creatures than you might think. In fact, it's possible that you and these fuzzy animals share some of the same hobbies.
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| Hacker School: Where Students and Instructors Learn Together | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:44 PM | Elisha Hartwig |
| With recent advances in technology, we've seen unprecedented innovation in education — from online master's degrees to webinars, and new ways to collaborate with other students around the world. Furthermore, we've seen an enormous increase in software development programming courses such as Codecademy and Treehouse.
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| Bow Down to Amazing 'Game of Thrones' LEGOs | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:22 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Beheadings, royal incest and winter are coming to a toy box near you. Etsy merchant miniBIGS has created a line of Game of Thrones LEGOs perfect for staging your own battle for the Iron Throne. The minifigs aren't official LEGO merchandise. Think of them as bastard LEGOs — LEGO Snow, if you will.
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| Putin: Snowden Remains at Moscow Airport, Free to Go Anywhere | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:35 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin said NSA leaker Edward Snowden is in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on Tuesday and hasn't crossed the Russian border, making him free to go wherever he wants. Putin also said he won't extradite Snowden to the United States and urged Snowden to leave as soon as possible. Putin's remarks, reported by Reuters and the Associated Press, finally clarify Snowden's location.
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| 12 Digital Technologies Retailers Are Investing In | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| It's a tough market out there for speciality retailers. While the ecommerce grew 13% in the first quarter of the year compared to Q1 2012, Amazon grew even faster, at a rate of 22%. With steep discounts, free two-day shipping and heavy spending in paid search across competitor brands, it's difficult for others to keep up. Difficult, but not impossible. In a recently released study, digital and luxury research firm L2 found that U.S.
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| A Chance to See Saturn, For the First Time in 7 Years | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:45 AM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| In July, you will have the photo opp of a lifetime. According to the Cassini Solstice Mission website, the sun will backlight Saturn on July 19, allowing you to clearly see the planet's rings, photograph them and observe the changes over the past seven years, since Saturn was last photographed.
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| OUYA Gaming Console Already Sold Out on Amazon | | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 8:54 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Well, that was quick. Just hours after going on sale in the U.S., Canada and the UK, the OUYA gaming console was already sold out Tuesday morning on Amazon, though other retailers still had it in stock. Amazon, which was selling the device for $99, told customers that the item was temporarily out of stock. However, as of Tuesday morning, Target and Best Buy were still carrying OUYA.
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