| Facebook Stickers Now Available on the Web | | Facebook stickers, the extra-large emoticons mobile users have been throwing into Facebook chats for a while now, are now also available on the web version of Facebook. Using stickers is simple: start a chat with someone, click on the emoticon icon in the lower right corner of the chat window, choose the sticker you like and click it to send it to that person.
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| Aquatic Drone Takes Photos and Videos Underwater | | While their natural environment may be the sky, drones are now entering wetter territory. Ziphius is an app-controlled aquatic drone that responds to smartphone or tablet commands in real-time, according to its Kickstarter page. The drone's first incarnation will come with a remote-control app that enables users to steer it, and to take photos or videos of their underwater activities.
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| This Raspberry Pi Robot Will Make You Coffee | | 1:59:31 AM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| Rapiro is a humanoid robot that can be programmed to do various tasks — Including make you coffee. The kit was created by a Japanese company as a “catalyst between robotics and Raspberry Pi.” The credit-card sized, Linux-based PC known as Raspberry Pi is designed to work with the basic hardware of Rapiro, allowing you to program it to do many things, such as manage your calendar or tell you the weather, in addition to making the coffee.
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| This Might Be the Worst News Graphic Ever | | Here's a lesson for all the local news graphic departments out there. When a news station in New Zealand covered a story about a bull mastiff mix that kept biting tires, it probably seemed harmless. The dog had a traumatic incident with a car as a puppy. He was calmly taken into an animal control vehicle. It was a cute, local news story. But the accompanying visual, created by 3 News, is not quite as cute.
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| Opera Web Browser is All-New for Windows and Mac | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:37 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Opera, an alternative web browser, unveiled a brand-new version on Tuesday that features an updated design for both Windows and Mac computers. The Norway-based software company released desktop version 15 of its browser. Among other updates, it sports a cleaner, modern look that seems to take inspiration from its competition.
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| Woman Builds Incredible Prosthetic Leg out of LEGOs | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 10:18 PM | Allison Reiber |
| Christina Stephens just won today's coolest person on the Internet award. In this time-lapse video, she builds herself a prosthetic leg entirely out of LEGOs. Stephens writes, "Someone in my research lab jokingly suggested I make a prosthetic leg out of LEGOs. The joke's on you - I went home and did it." As an Occupational Therapist, she warns viewers to not try this at home.
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| 13 Penny-Pinching Cats in Japanese Supermarkets | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 7:46 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| We knew this would happen eventually — cats not only rule the Internet, they're also invading places once thought to be strictly feline free. In Japan, Twitter users are snapping photos of cats spotted in and around convenience stores. It's more common than you'd think. And surprisingly, these kitties are mostly left to their own devices. SEE ALSO: 10 Cat Beards to Tickle Your Whiskers The takeaway? There's just something about ...
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| Virtual 'Wolverine' Stunt Puts Fans in Surly Hero's Shoes | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 7:19 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| To mark this month's release of The Wolverine, the sixth installment in the X-Men film franchise, 20th Century Fox International is creating a virtual "Be the Wolverine" experience that gives fans superpowers just like the Weapon X research facility did to Wolverine. Weapon X in the X-Men world transforms humans and mutants into fighting machines with superpowers.
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| Homemade Star Wars Movie Will Rock Your Jedi Socks | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 6:27 PM | Allison Reiber |
| Calling all Star Wars fans! Scratch that — we're calling all fans of everything that is all-around awesome. Here, we present a perfect shot-for-shot recreation of the famous "Death Star Trench Run" scene starring Chris Hardwick and Jonah Ray from Nerdist. You may shake your lightsabers in approval now.
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| 12 Photos That Capture What It Means to 'Be Yourself' | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 6:03 PM | Annie Park |
| For this week's Mashable Photo Challenge, we invited you to celebrate the beauty of individuality by capturing the phrase "be yourself" — through a lens. It was all about illustrating what makes you, you — whether it was your interests, personality, style, or hobbies. We received a ton of great submissions over the weekend, ranging from artistic portraits and self-portraits to creative collages.
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| Thousands to Join 'Restore the Fourth' Anti-NSA Rallies | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 3:12 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Thousands of Americans will fogo the traditional Fourth of July backyard barbecue or beach trip this week, instead choosing to join nationwide rallies against recently revealed National Security Agency surveillance programs. The protests are being organized by Restore the Fourth, a 23-day-old organization that spawned on Reddit in reaction to the NSA revelations.
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| 3D-Printed Foot Lets Crippled Duck Walk Again | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 2:53 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Using 3D printing technology, a duck born with a defective left foot was able to walk again with a custom-designed silicone prosthetic.
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| Nike Sets Up Laser Soccer Fields Across Madrid | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 1:05 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Nike Football Spain is putting an innovative spin on the concept of pick-up soccer games. Its method? Laser beams. As part of its #MiPista ("my track" in Spanish) campaign, Nike is promoting street-specific soccer shoes, the FC247 line, with insta-soccer fields.
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| What It's Like to Browse the Web on Google Glass | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 12:51 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The first time you wear Google Glass, your mind reels with its potential. But wear it for a few hours, and you'll soon bump into limitations. While Google has developed an ingenious way of keeping you connected even with your phone tucked away, it can't do certain things your phone can, like surf the web in a real browser.
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| YouTube's 20 Most-Shared Ads in June | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:09 AM | Denise Lu |
| The most viral ads on YouTube in June spanned across all genres — emotional, funny and disturbing. At the top of Unruly Media's list of last month's most-shared ads is a quirky rendition of GEICO's "Happier Than" series. Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches," May's most-shared ad, made the list again for the third month in a row. Evian's "Baby & Me" and Kmart's "Ship Your Pants" also return from May's most-shared ads list.
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| Dove's Latest Ad Asks: 'Why Are Women Camera Shy?' | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 10:00 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Dove has followed up its hugely successful "Real Beauty Sketches" campaign with another video that makes a similar point: Many woman tend to be uncomfortable about their appearances. The 60-second spot, from Ogilvy & Mather, London, shows various women dodging the camera to jazzy strains of "Peek-A-Boo" by Rose Murphy.
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