| Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 Comes to AT&T on June 21 | | AT&T has announced the pricing and availability for Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0. Samsung's 8-inch tablet will arrive on June 21 for $399 on a two-year contract, but customers who also buy a smartphone will be able to get it for $199.
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| Instagram's Kevin Systrom Cancels Cannes Appearance | | CANNES, FRANCE — Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has canceled his appearance at this week's Cannes Lions advertising festival. A rep for the festival said Systrom actually canceled about a month ago; however, he still appears on the event's website. The Instagram co-founder was scheduled to give a talk called "Facebook: Creative Revolution: Rich Content..." with Facebook product manager Justin Shaffer.
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| Disney's 'Infinity' Is a Toy Box Like No Other | | When I was a child I used to love to play with all my toys at once. My Barbies went on dates with the Ninja Turtles, and the Ghostbusters were found riding around on the back of a My Little Pony more often than inside the Ecto-1. Intermixing toys is something we all did at some point in our childhoods, and Disney is taking this practice to a whole new level with its Infinity collection due out later this year.
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| Are Mobile Payments Money-Laundering Machines? | | Earlier this month, U.S. prosecutors took down the global currency exchange Liberty Reserve and charged it with being the largest online money laundering operation in history — the "bank of choice for the criminal underworld." More than a million customers used the Costa Rica-based company to wash more than $6 billion, according to an indictment.
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| Volvo Tests Electric Road That Charges Cars | | 12:52:33 AM | Discovery News |
| Recent innovations in wireless charging for electric vehicles could mean losing the need for batteries altogether. While modern Teslas work on new wireless recharging, particularly for electric vehicles in urban areas, one Swedish project is testing a system designed to power EVs along the highway.
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| 18 Reasons to Be Excited for Summer Even if Others Aren't | | Pesky bugs and unbearable heat are just two gripes in a laundry list of complaints about the sunniest time of the year. And while you may have an innate appreciation for summer's virtues, other people have to be sold on the season. SEE ALSO: 'Damn You Auto Correct' Unveils 11 Funniest Texts of 2012 Luckily, for every one of summer's supposed flaws, there's also a bright side.
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| Kanye West's 'Yeezus' Available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, His Site | | Monday, June 17, 2013 11:32 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Kanye West jumped the gun on the June 18 release date for his sixth studio album, Yeezus, making it available to buy at KanyeWest.com a day early Monday night for $11.99. West skipped selling pre-orders of the album on iTunes. UPDATE: For some Spotify users, Yeezus is already available to listen to online. Meanwhile, on iTunes, the album costs $11.99. And over on Amazon, it's a few bucks cheaper at $9.99.
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| Hilarious Video Asks 'What if Dating Was Like Reddit?' | | Monday, June 17, 2013 10:57 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| Many people are avid users of Reddit, but if the conventions of dating had similar quirks and social cues, they'd likely down-vote it to oblivion. For its latest video, web series "If Dating Was Like..." looks at how courtship would work if it functioned like the social-sharing site — and the results are spot-on.
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| Superman Is a Super Advertiser | | Monday, June 17, 2013 10:05 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| When it comes to promotion deals that rake in millions of dollars — 160 million, to be precise — Superman is as super human as ever. The Man of Steel, the subject of the new film that opened on June 14, has over 100 promotion partners, AdAge reports. The Hardee's and Carl's Jr.
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| Incredible Model of 'Friends' Apartment Made Entirely Out of Paper | | Monday, June 17, 2013 9:34 PM | Allison Reiber |
| It's been nine years since Monica and Chandler Bing packed up and moved out of their oversized apartment in the series finale of Friends (mind-boggling, right?). But take a look at this model by Brazilian artist Bruna Salvador Conforto, and a wave of nostalgia just about knocks you out. The incredibly intricate model, made entirely of paper, took Conforto nearly two years to complete.
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| 'Question Bridge' Project Inspires Dialogue Among African-American Men | | Monday, June 17, 2013 7:50 PM | Luisa Rollenhagen |
| The Question Bridge project, a multimedia art initiative meant to "represent and redefine Black male identity in America," has taken to Kickstarter with Question Bridge Interactive. Through the funding effort, the creators hope to expand their message by developing a multimedia online platform through which the project can go viral.
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| Beyonce Goes Online to Congratulate Kanye, Kim on Baby Kimye | | Monday, June 17, 2013 6:47 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's baby girl, born into mystery Saturday morning, has received no name (that we know of). But mini Kimye and her parents have received a lot of attention, including a nod from the Queen Bey.
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| 7 People Who Think Kimye's Baby Is the Messiah | | Monday, June 17, 2013 6:02 PM | Gabe Bergado |
| Holy Yeezus, it looks like the birth of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's baby girl on Saturday sparked a new pseudo-religion devoted to the already-famous newborn. It's unclear what the scriptures might be, but hopefully it's something written by Aunt Khloe. SEE ALSO: 15 Celebrities Before They Were Famous Fans, haters and new believers took to Twitter to weigh in on the Kimye baby's entrance into the world.
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| Watch Superman's Life Unfold on a White Board | | Monday, June 17, 2013 5:58 PM | Quenton Narcisse |
| Unfamiliar with the story of Superman? If you don't have much time, but still want to learn about his life, then this video is perfect for you. In honor of the release of Man of Steel, the folks over at AV Byte created this video depicting the life of the estranged Kryptonite and his rise to one of the great superheroes of our generation.
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| 'Tearaway' Makes You the God of PlayStation Vita | | Monday, June 17, 2013 5:50 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Media Molecule is known for pushing boundaries in gameplay. Its LittleBigPlanet franchise was lauded for letting gamers create their own unique worlds, and now, Media Molecule plans to recreate new magic with Tearaway for the PlayStation Vita handheld. In Tearaway, you form a special connection with a papercraft character and then help her explore the 2D world.
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| OpenAirplane: Finally, a Zipcar-Style Service for Airplanes | | Monday, June 17, 2013 5:25 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Rejoice, oh aeronautical adventurers of American airspace: There's finally a Zipcar-style service for renting small airplanes. OpenAirplane launched Monday at airports in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Jose, Kissimmee and Detroit with the goal of dramatically simplifying aircraft rental.
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| Just How Convenient Are Citi Bikes? | | Monday, June 17, 2013 5:20 PM | Allison Reiber |
| "New York City is the greatest place on earth — but living here is a huge pain in the ass," says filmmaker Casey Neistat in his short documentary. And what makes it oh-so-painful? The simple task of getting from Point A to Point B. SEE ALSO: 16 Apps to Help You Get Around Your City Neistat put New York City's new bike sharing program, launched on May 27, to the test.
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| 10 Unbelievable Ballpoint Pen Drawing Time-Lapses | | Monday, June 17, 2013 5:13 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| Ballpoint pens can do so much more than just help you take notes. They can help perform tracheotomies, serve as spitball shooters and create really gorgeous art. In honor of the beloved ballpoint pen's 75th anniversary, we present you with these beautiful photorealistic drawings, all made using a Biro.
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| Star Wars Elevator Prank Freaks Out Students | | Monday, June 17, 2013 4:52 PM | Quenton Narcisse |
| It's safe to say that Star Wars is one of the most idolized movie franchises of all time. So when a group used the film as the basis of a prank, it was widely appreciated — by onlookers. During a visit to King's College London, a group called the JesterLads targeted students who attempted to use the elevator.
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| Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry | | Monday, June 17, 2013 4:32 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Whenever discussion starts about how to hide from the tracking code that follows users around the web to serve them targeted ads, recommendations soon pile up for a browser add-on called Ghostery. It blocks tracking code, noticeably speeds up how quickly pages load as a result and has roughly 19 million users.
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| If You Love Watching Videos Online, This Is Your Dream Job | | Monday, June 17, 2013 4:05 PM | Lauren Drell |
| Americans watch upwards of 38 billion videos a month, according to comScore data. On many video-hosting sites, a majority of those videos might feature the Harlem Shake or cats, but on one site in particular, video content tends to be a bit more creative and highly produced.
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| 20 People Who Just Can't Waterpark | | Monday, June 17, 2013 3:59 PM | Neha Prakash |
| When things start to heat up outside, there's only one place to go — the waterpark. Those magical places filled with fun rides, where it's perfectly normal to strut around in just your swim suit and flippy-floppies. They are beacons for summer vacationers, that is, only if you can correctly waterpark.
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| Spooky PS4 Game Will Be Free for PlayStation Plus Subscribers | | Monday, June 17, 2013 3:29 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| To incentivize gamers to join its 'PlayStation Plus' network on the upcoming PlayStation 4, Sony has secured deals with several indie game developers to release their games free for a month on the network. One of those games is Outlast, a spooky survival horror game that made a splash at PAX East this year. In Outlast, the player investigates an insane asylum where things have gone terribly wrong.
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| India to Send Last Telegram in July | | Monday, June 17, 2013 3:16 PM | The Atlantic |
| In 1850, the British inventor William O'Shaughnessy — who would later become famous for his early experiments with medical cannabis — sent a coded message over a telegraph line in India. His telegram would usher in a new age of communication in and for India, connecting the country in a way that had never before been possible.
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| Aaliyah Comes Back to Life in Chris Brown's 'Don't Think They Know' | | Monday, June 17, 2013 2:58 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| In his new "Don't Think They Know" music video, R&B crooner Chris Brown resurrects a familiar face in digital form. The late singer Aaliyah, who died in 2001 in a airplane crash, appears several times as a projection beside a dancing Brown.
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| Fail Fast: How 5 Startups Got a Second Chance | | Monday, June 17, 2013 2:33 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| "Pivot" is often viewed as a dirty word in the startup world, with the assumption being that the founders failed in some way. But sometimes failing — or at least acknowledging you're on the wrong course — is the best path toward success.
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| Watch World’s Longest Domino Book Chain Collapse | | Monday, June 17, 2013 2:30 PM | The Mary Sue |
| The Seattle Public Library broke the world record for the longest domino book chain, lining up 2,131 made-to-collapse hardcovers. In an effort to promote the library's Summer Reading Program, staff and volunteers collaborated with concept designers Luke Greenway and Laura D'Asaro to assemble the lines of books that traverse stacks, climb stairs, spell out the word "read" and encircle mannequin-like library patrons in the video above.
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