| Watch: Tesla Shows Off 90-Second Battery Swapping | | Tesla Motors has designed its Model S to be capable of fast battery swapping, which can ultimately prove to be a better solution than charging the car battery. According to Tesla, swapping a battery in the Model S takes about 90 seconds, and the driver never has to get out of the car.
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| Chinese Astronauts Beam Science Lesson From Space | | There's a lot to learn from living in space, but only so many get to have the experience firsthand. In order to share what they've seen with curious students, the three Chinese astronauts currently in orbit have delivered a lesson from space to students and countrymen on Earth.
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| Kim and Kanye Name Baby 'North West', Twitter Explodes | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:27 PM | Chris Taylor |
| It was hardly the first time in history a celebrity couple have given their child an unusual name. (Brooklyn Beckham, anyone? How about Blue Ivy Carter?) But when it emerged Thursday night that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have named the bouncing baby girl that arrived Saturday — and her name is North West, according to both TMZ and US magazine — wags around the world just couldn't resist taking to Twitter.
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| This Poster Makes Music When You Touch It | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:53 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| Posters you put on your wall don't have to be silent any more — not if Netherlands-based design studio Trapped in Suburbia has its way. The company has created an interactive poster that plays music when you touch it, called simply Sound Poster. SEE ALSO: How to Make Free Ring Tones The poster is made with paint by Bare Conductive, a company which focuses on the development and manufacture of electrically conductive materials.
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| The Brain: Now in Ultra High-Res 3D | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:13 PM | Discovery News |
| Today, researchers have unveiled the most detailed 3D image of the human brain ever taken. The image reveals structures as tiny as 20 microns — 50 times smaller than those created using the best MRI technology. The image, made as part of a project called the BigBrain, is part of a larger effort to create a high-resolution computer model of the human brain that can serve as a reference point for future studies.
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| This $79 Sensor Could Keep Your Stress in Check | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:45 PM | Bonnie Wertheim |
| When you're stressed out, a relaxing yoga session or curling up with a good book can help take your mind off whatever it is that's weighing you down. But as nice as it can be to engage in a hobby or exercise as a means of relief, you can't truly destress until you acknowledge the cause of your discomfort and restructure the way you think about that stimulus.
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| 15 Animal Puns Ewe Can't Live Without | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:12 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Animal puns: nature's greatest achievement since narwhals. Puns bring a sprinkle of eye-rolling hilarity to everyday life. Sure, they don't exactly qualify as high-brow humor, but any joke that's good enough for old dad should make you at least chuckle a little. SEE ALSO: 'Damn You Auto Correct' Unveils 11 Funniest Texts of 2012 Prepare to make your friends giggle with unbearable puns, courtesy of Mashable's Waterkoala.
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| This App Helps You Lose Weight by Betting Money | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:28 PM | Luisa Rollenhagen |
| DietBet, a New York-based startup launched in June 2012, offers a platform where users can create and join bets to lose 4% of their body weight in a four-week period.
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| 5-Year-Old's Golf Rap Video Is Adorable | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:03 PM | Sam Laird |
| This is a five-year-old boy rapping about how much he loves golf. His song is called "I Love Golf" and it is awesome.
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| Hilarious Pinterest Board Parodies Hipster Toddler Photos | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:32 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| Meet Quinoa. She is an immaculately dressed toddler with equally fabulous BFFs named Chevron and Fendi. She likes to twirl at dusk and take photos in front of vintage cars. If Quinoa sounds unbelievably precocious, that's because she's 100% made up.
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| Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 6:28 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is for anyone who wants better photos from their phone, but doesn't want to add too much bulk. Handling it at a product demo in New York City today, I was surprised about how small the device is, and it did a decent job of capturing images of distant objects with a minimum of blur due to camera shake.
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| How to Embed Your Instagram Video | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 6:19 PM | Christina Warren |
| Now that Facebook has unveiled video on Instagram, creating videos is an easy process. It makes good on Instagram's intention: bring simplicity to the video experience. It's hard not to see Instagram video as a response to Vine, Twitter's uber-successful video sharing tool. And although Instagram's video feature improves upon Vine, it's also lacking a core part of the Vine experience.
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| 11 Vine Responses to Instagram Video | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 6:10 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Instagram's new video feature brought many users head-to-head with Vine users in what might become the greatest divide since Myspace versus Facebook. Although various forms of the #RIPVine hashtag have been trending online since Thursday's announcement, the Vine community is far from dead. Many of Vine's core users who have garnered a large following expressed their loyalties in just six seconds.
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| Space Selfies Are Go! Interactive Orbital Camera Gets Funding | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 6:05 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Instagram with video? That's old news. How about taking a picture of yourself in orbit, with the entire Earth as your backdrop? That will be possible in the next few years, now that the Arkyd Space Telescope has met the $1 million goal on Kickstarter that it announced last month.
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| Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy NX Camera | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:46 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Samsung has upgraded the Android camera experience from the original Samsung Galaxy Camera. That product was already a game-changing device, but the Galaxy NX takes it to a new level, adding the power of an interchangeable-lens to its mirrorless camera as well as improving various aspects of the camera's function.
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| Twitch Aims to Be 'Ubiquitous' Tool for Gaming Broadcasts | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:36 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| At last week's E3, Microsoft announced gamers would be able to stream live gameplay from its Xbox One consoles with just one simple command, thanks to a partnership with Twitch. This the culmination of a year of hard work for Twitch. The video platform, which launched two years ago, now attracts 36 million monthly unique visitors to watch live streaming game play.
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| Instagram Video: Don't Make Me Love You | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:33 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Instagram's new video capabilities are just good enough to turn this Viner's head, but its sheer numbers that will make the difference.
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| What Do You Think of Video for Instagram? | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:47 PM | Todd Olmstead |
| Video arrived on Instagram today. It's a move that will probably not surprise anyone, given the rise of Vine over the last several months and the competitive natures of Facebook and Twitter. However, it also represents a fairly big shift from the Instagram that we've come to know. During his talk at Facebook's press event today, co-founder Kevin Systrom made sure to explain that video was always part of Instagram's plans.
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| Deaf 3-Year-Old Boy Hears for the First Time | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:41 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Most of us might take hearing for granted, but one 3-year-old is a reminder that it's still a miraculous thing. Grayson Champ was born deaf. Until three weeks ago he wasn't able to hear anything because he's missing cochlear nerves, which help us process and hear sound. His parents, Len and Nicole, wanted to help their child, so they tried a cochlear implant.
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| Leaked Documents Reveal How NSA Minimizes Americans' Data | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:32 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| In the weeks following the revelations of secret National Security Agency's surveillance programs, the NSA brass have claimed the agency tries to minimize the amount of data it collects from American citizens. Classified documents published Thursday reveal the exact minimization procedures it uses when such data is incidentally collected. The documents, posted by The Guardian, were signed by Attorney General Eric Holder in 2009.
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| Instagram Video: 5 Excellent Examples From Brands | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:28 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| On Thursday, Instagram added video to its iPhone and Android apps for the first time. While many users flooded the service with hastily shot clips, typically from their offices, some brands uploaded videos that show how beautiful and fun the feature can be. Instagram's video feature functions much like Twitter's video app, Vine.
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| Vine Who? Why Brands are Jumping at Video for Instagram | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:20 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Kevin Systrom had barely finished showing off Instagram's new video features when several brands started posting their own clips. Lululemon was one of the first out of the gate with a video showing a woman doing yoga in different locations. Burberry and Charity: water posted videos as well. Systrom, the co-founder of Instagram, pitched the option to record videos as a way for casual users to capture "moments" of their lives in a new way.
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| Aaron's Law Introduces Reform to Anti-Hacking Legislation | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:10 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| More than six months after Aaron Swartz's death, legislators in Washington have finally introduced 'Aaron's Law,' a bill to reform the much-maligned anti-hacking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
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| 6 Reasons Instagram Video Beats Vine | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 3:54 PM | Stephanie Buck |
| Even before Instagram released its video feature Thursday, nervous 'grammers and Viners chewed their fingernails in anticipation. What features would Instagram video introduce that Vine refused? And would the differences mean stiffer competition between the two platforms? Since Instagram released its app update immediately following the announcement, we hopped on the opportunity to test it out.
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| Can You 3D Print Your Dream Home? | | Thursday, June 20, 2013 3:40 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| If you love LEGOs, you might have imagined building a real house from them. And with the surging popularity of 3D printers, such a dream seems well within reach. Nick Johnson, a spokesman for real estate blog Movoto, decided to find out what it would take to build a 3D-printed house.
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