| This Is Your Life in Jelly Beans | | Serious introspection usually doesn't come in sugary form, but that's what makes this video so sweet. Using candy, Ze Frank has created a visual representation of the average American's lifetime. One jelly bean equals one day, 28,835 beans total.
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| Walmart Slashes Price on iPhone 5, iPhone 4S | | 12:02:19 AM | Christina Warren |
| Walmart is aggressively lowering the price on Apple's iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S. Beginning Saturday, the iPhone 5 will sell for $129 (down from $189) and the iPhone 4S will sell for just $39 (down from $89). To get the devices at that price will require signing a new two-year contract with Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. This isn't the first time Walmart has offered drastically lower prices for Apple devices.
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| 5 Words to Use in Every Business Meeting | | Friday, June 21, 2013 11:50 PM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| Forget presentations, handshakes and power suits: You should focus on what you're saying if you want to make a big impact in a business meeting. New research has found that employees who used the words "yeah," "give," "start," "meeting" and "discuss" ended up with more accepted proposals in meetings.
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| Usher and Samsung: A Blueprint for Viral Success | | Friday, June 21, 2013 9:59 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Twenty-two million. That's how many times people have watched "Looking 4 Myself," a collaboration between Usher and Samsung that shows the power of motion in a new smart TV campaign. "We used a mix of paid and earned views and timed the release of the video to capitalize on the buzz around the season finale of The Voice," said Ross Maupin, the creative director of Huge, the company that created the viral video.
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| What Tech Is Next for the Solar Industry? | | Friday, June 21, 2013 9:59 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Solar panel installations have become increasingly popular, but the solar panel manufacturing industry is in the doldrums because supply far exceeds demand. The poor market may be slowing innovation, but advances continue; judging by the mood this week at the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference in Tampa, Fla., people in the industry remain optimistic about its long-term prospects.
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| ASL Interpreter at Wu-Tang Concert Is the Greatest | | Friday, June 21, 2013 9:20 PM | Quenton Narcisse |
| It never fails: You go to a concert and while watching the performance, something strikes your eye. Typically, it's a patron who's dressed oddly or a moshpit forming around you. However, in this instance, it was much different. During their set at Bonnaroo, Wu-Tang performed and an ASL interpreter signed. However, the rappers probably didn't expect her to steal the show like this.
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| 5 Ways to Spice Up Your Nike+ Experience | | Friday, June 21, 2013 9:20 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Nike showcased its first class of entrepreneurs looking to expand the capabilities of its Nike+ platform, at a demo day event in San Francisco on Thursday. The Nike+ Accelerator, powered by TechStars, housed 10 startups for a three-month immersive experience in Portland, Ore. This accelerator provides startups with $20,000, access to Nike+ APIs/SDKs and access to around 300 mentors.
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| Silicon Valley Art Exhibition Celebrates Warhol and Technology | | Friday, June 21, 2013 8:53 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Andy Warhol, the larger-than-life icon who revolutionized art with commercial screenprints and serial imagery — and offbeat gems, such as filming himself eating a burger — is being celebrated in Silicon Valley for something many might have deemed outside his wheelhouse: technology.
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| The Video Game Propaganda Wars | | Friday, June 21, 2013 8:22 PM | The New Republic |
| A popular video game begins with a small, tactical team of highly trained commandos on a delicate mission behind enemy lines. Two nuclear scientists have been kidnapped and are being held in a hostile country governed by a cabal of crazed military maniacs.
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| Adobe's Piracy-Proof Software Already Pirated | | Friday, June 21, 2013 7:28 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Quick! What's the most commonly pirated PC application? If you said "Microsoft Word," you might be right. But "Adobe Photoshop" wouldn't be wrong, either. And despite Adobe's best efforts to the contrary, that isn't going to change any time soon.
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| NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Charged With Espionage | | Friday, June 21, 2013 7:07 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| U.S. prosecutors have formally charged NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, less than two weeks after he revealed his identity. Prosecutors have also asked Hong Kong authorities to arrest him. As revealed Friday by The Washington Post, prosecutors filed a sealed criminal complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia, charging Snowden with espionage, and theft and conversion of government property.
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| 'Midsummer' on Google+ Is Shakespeare as You've Never Seen It | | Friday, June 21, 2013 6:52 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| With a little help from Google, the Bard could be the next Internet sensation — or at least the next social media sensation. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has put together its 40th rendition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, only this time the company is calling it Midsummer Night’s Dreaming and it's playing almost exclusively on a social network near you.
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| Instagram Users Have Already Posted 5 Million Videos | | Friday, June 21, 2013 6:47 PM | Emily Price |
| Instagram video appears to be a hit. Users uploaded more than 5 million videos during the first 24 hours of availability. In the first eight hours alone, the app saw one year’s worth of video uploaded, 40 hours per minute when the Miami Heat won the NBA championship Thursday evening, according to Instagram.
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| Andrew W.K. Slays Drumming World Record | | Friday, June 21, 2013 6:31 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The O Music Awards ended Thursday night with not just a bang, but a flurry of them, as party machine Andrew W.K. claimed new reign as a marathon drumming king. Tasked with keeping a beat for 24 hours, the musical reveler broke and set the world record for longest drum session in a retail store. Starting at 7 p.m. ET Wednesday in Oakley's Times Square flagship shop, Andrew W.K.
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| 31 Prince William GIFs to Celebrate His 31st Birthday | | Friday, June 21, 2013 6:29 PM | Hannah Orenstein |
| Prince William turned 31 on Friday. And with the birth of his first child just a few weeks away, Wills has no shortage of things to celebrate. SEE ALSO: Happy 2nd Birthday, Lil Bub! We rounded up 31 of the Royal Highness' most GIF-worthy moments, including his famous balcony kiss with Kate, penchant for jazz hands and Harry Potter-style duel skills. Hey Wills, happy birthday.
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| Revealed: British Spy Agency Secretly Taps Global Communications | | Friday, June 21, 2013 6:01 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| It's not just the National Security Agency. The NSA's British relative, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), also secretly collects and stores a vast trove of global communications through a surveillance program called Project Tempora, a report in The Guardian revealed Friday.
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| Facebook Exposed 6 Million Users' Contact Info | | Friday, June 21, 2013 5:49 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Facebook accidentally shared 6 million users' email addresses or telephone numbers due to a software bug, the company announced Friday. The breach was caused by an unfortunate combination of Facebook's "People You May Know" and "Download Your Information" features.
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| Toyota Will Donate One Meal for Each View This Video Gets | | Friday, June 21, 2013 5:45 PM | Zoe Fox |
| How many YouTube videos do you think you watch each day? Thanks to Toyota, the next one you view can actually change someone else's day for the better. The car maker is donating up to 1.25 million meals — one for each YouTube view of the video above — to the Food Bank of New York. Since Hurricane Sandy, Toyota has already donated 250,000 meals to communities in the Rockaways that were severely effected by the storm.
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| Show Us Your Most Indulgent Photos | | Friday, June 21, 2013 4:32 PM | Annie Park |
| Let's admit it. We all have our go-to guilty pleasures, whether it's raiding the tabloid rack at the supermarket or sleeping in til 1 p.m. on Saturdays. For photographers, that guilty pleasure might be applying that one Instagram filter you can't resist, or snapping a shot of the sunset — even though you know it's totally cliché. We may not be too proud of our actions, but hey, we're entitled to indulge once in a while.
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| Digital 'Library For All' Brings Books to Developing World | | Friday, June 21, 2013 4:17 PM | Bonnie Wertheim |
| Certain books serve as bookmarks to important life milestones: the ones your parents read to you in the crib as you drifted off to sleep (Goodnight, Moon and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie), the first book you read on your own (Green Eggs and Ham), the novels that made you feel a little less alone when you "came of age" (Holes, The Outsiders and The Catcher in the Rye).
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| Highlights from Cannes Lions: How Do Celebrities View Advertisers? | | Friday, June 21, 2013 4:09 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| One of the most popular events of the year for advertisers, the global advertising festival Cannes Lions, has consumed the city of Cannes as entertainers and business leaders alike took to the stage to offer industry insights to advertisers.
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| 8 Real-Life Superheroes Who Saved the Day | | Friday, June 21, 2013 3:56 PM | Laura Vitto |
| Everyone loves a good comic book superhero. But in real life, superheroes aren't defined by their masks and capes, but by their awe-inspiring acts of courage that save lives. SEE ALSO: 5 Heartwarming Stories That Prove Dog Is Man's Best Friend We've rounded up eight real-life superheroes whose stories warmed our hearts and made our eyes well. 1. Daughter lifts a car from her dad's chest and saves his life.
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| 86-Year-Old Congressman Tests Google Glass | | Friday, June 21, 2013 3:55 PM | NowThisNews |
| The technology may have been different when Rep. John Dingell took office 57 years ago, but the 86-year-old congressman stays with the times.
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| Hands On With Samsung's Waterproof Galaxy S4 Active | | Friday, June 21, 2013 3:19 PM | Christina Warren |
| Earlier this month Samsung and AT&T officially announced a new, ruggedized version of the Galaxy S4, dubbed the Galaxy S4 Active. The phone is now available for $199 exclusively on AT&T and we had some time to spend with the unit, comparing it directly to the standard model Galaxy S4.
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