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Listen to HBO's 'Game of Thrones' rap album | The Verge
HBO has commissioned ten hip-hop and rap artists — including Big Boi, Common, and Wale — to each create a Game of Thrones-themed track for a mixtape to promote the new season.
Fancy new Lunchables for adults: Oscar Mayer's P3 - latimes.com
The P3 packs come with Kraft cheese, Oscar Mayer meat and Planters nuts. Varieties include applewood smoked turkey with marbled Colby and Monterey jack cheese and dry roasted almonds
Anti-Barbie doll crowd-funded in 24 hours
6 | Haagen-Dazs Turns To A Design Studio To Reinvent The Ice Cream Bar | Co.Design | business + design
THE LONDON STUDIO DOSHI LEVIEN’S EXPERIMENTAL TREAT WAS INSPIRED BY A CINEMATIC TRIP TO THE MOON.
Austin Has Highest Salaries For Tech Workers, After Factoring In Cost of Living - Slashdot
Austin ranks number one in the nation when it comes to offering the largest tech salaries that have been adjusted for cost of living expenses, such as housing, groceries, utilities and other necessities.
SeaWorld’s worst nightmare: lawmaker to propose ban on orcas in captivity | SumOfUs
SeaWorld just got busted by a US government agency for violating the Animal Welfare Act
The indie game console may already be dead | The Verge
Last year, I predicted that the rising tide of Android gaming would raise all boats — that indie game consoles like the Ouya, the Shield, and the Gamestick could mount a challenge against Xbox and PlayStation because of all the attention they were getting as a whole. Sadly, it looks like I was wrong. This week, the leader of the indie console charge is standing down.
Austin Police Department Warns SXSW Attendees Not To Use Uber | TechCrunch
Here’s something you might not have noticed if you were partying it up at SXSW and using Uber to get around: Your Uber might not be permitted in Austin, and the police department wants you to know that.
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama, Zach Galifianakis, Scott Aukerman, BJPorter, Funny Or Die, Between Two Ferns, rachelgoldenberg, Brian Lane, Aaron Ulrich, and BoTown Sound
One Man's "Terrible" Cosplay Makes the Internet a Better Place
If we go by the typical standard metrics by which cosplay is judged, you might say this cosplay isn't very good. That it's bad. Or even terrible.
Join the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight | The Verge
Authorities have yet to locate Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which mysteriously lost contact with air traffic control on over the weekend, but a satellite operator in the US hopes that crowdsourcing could help find it.
Tomnod
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and its 239 passengers vanished from radar while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. Help search for signs of the plane in the Indian Ocean.
Instagram Inks Ad Deal With Omnicom Worth Up to $100 Million | Agency News - Advertising Age
Instagram has inked its first major ad deal with an agency, and it's big.
Dedesign the Web - Wireframe & Website Design Trivia Game
United Airlines launching in-flight iOS movie service, and other news for March 13, 2014 | Breaking Apple News, Tips and Reviews from The Unofficial Apple Weblog
United Airlines is about to launch a brand new in-flight entertainment services for iOS users.
Target Apologizes for ‘Thigh Gap’ Photoshop Fail - ABC News
It appears that Target went a little too far with Photoshop in an ad for a girl’s bathing suit.
Five-second rule is real: Birmingham's Aston University students provide proof that five-second rule is not a myth | Metro News
a belief commonly known as the five-second rule – is real, because science.
Paper disposable microscope developed for detecting malaria
a research team at Stanford University has developed a pocket-sized microscope that can be assembled from a sheet of paper and costs less than a pound to manufacture, intended to help in the fight against malaria.
A Reddit Mystery Solved: The Identity of 'Shitty_Watercolour'
By revealing his identity to Mashable, Rensburg finally puts to rest the constant questions from suspicious Redditors, some of whom believe him to be Quentin Blake, famed collaborator of children's author Roald Dahl.
#PleaseHelp: Virgin Trains stop service after tweet from passenger | Metro News
It is a sound you don’t want to hear on a fast train: loud clattering noises from under your seat.Most of us would find the crew and ask what’s going on – but one tech-savvy traveller had other ideas.
Screenshots of iOS 8: Healthbook, Preview, TextEdit icons leaked | 9to5Mac
The above screenshot claiming to represent iOS 8 just showed up on a Weibo account. Even though the source of the images is absolutely uncertain, I have confirmed with several sources that these shots are legitimate.
Steve Jobs Told Top Employees No To Television - Business Insider
Ever since Apple released the iPad, people have been speculating about what Apple would do next. After revolutionizing the mobile phone with the iPhone, and the PC with the iPad, many expect Apple to revolutionize the TV.
Update on Julie Horvath's Departure
This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation. I am deeply saddened by these developments and want to comment on what GitHub is doing to address them.
Lego robot shatters Rubik's Cube record - CNN.com
The lightning-quick feat, pulled off Saturday at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham, UK, shaved nearly two seconds off the former Guinness-recognized world record of 5.27 seconds, accomplished by the same team's Cubestormer 2. That mark narrowly bested the best human time of 5.5 seconds, set by Mats Valk of the Netherlands last year.
Official Google Blog: Sharing what’s up our sleeve: Android coming to wearables
Today we’re announcing Android Wear, a project that extends Android to wearables. And we’re starting with the most familiar wearable—watches.
Goat Simulator
Star Wars: Episode VII Set to Roll Cameras May 2014 | StarWars.com
Disney and Lucasfilm are excited to announce that principal photography on Star Wars: Episode VII, directed by J.J. Abrams, will commence May 2014, and will be based at London's historic Pinewood Studios.
The 25 Pictures Girls Need to Stop Posting in Social Media | RantChic
Twitter gives up on encrypting direct messages, at least for now | The Verge
Twitter has shelved a project that would have made it more difficult for the government to intercept users’ private messages without a court order, sources tell The Verge, a sudden reversal for a company that has been ahead of the curve on privacy at a time of creeping surveillance.
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The first GPS watch designed for young kids | Indiegogo
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German engineering firm create Doc Ock's arms from Spider-Man 2 | moviepilot.com
Germany as a long history of delivering triumphs of engineering. However, engineering firm, Festo, has just released a video of a new project which makes the BMW look like a horse-and-cart.
LA Times - Disney's Pixar planning 'Incredibles' sequel and a third 'Cars' film
A decade after the titular superhero family of "The Incredibles" donned their spandex suits to save the day, Disney announced that its animation studio Pixar is working on a sequel to the Oscar-winning movie.
20 Iconic Bands Recreated in LEGO • Highsnobiety
Self-proclaimed knowledge, music, LEGO and die-cast car junkie, Adly Syairi Ramly presents a collection of 20 iconic bands that he’s taken the time to recreate with everyone’s favorite building blocks.
Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test - Wired Science
AI vs. AI: Two chatbots talking to each other | Cornell Creative Machines Lab
Neil deGrasse Tyson Sounds Stoned in Slow Motion - YouTube
Neil deGrasse Tyson Sounds Stoned in Slow Motion.
Quizup gets 1M new players after a week on Android -- and sets sights other markets | GamesBeat | Games | by Devindra Hardawar
Just a week after launching its popular free trivia app on Android, Plain Vanilla Games announced today that it has gained one million new players and is growing steadily at 100,000 new registrations every day.
Gmail now always uses an HTTPS connection and encrypts all messages moving internally on Google’s servers - The Next Web
Google today announced it has made security improvements to Gmail to further protect users’ emails from snooping. Gmail now always uses an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email, and encrypts all messages moving internally on Google’s servers.
HP plans 3D printer announcement for June | PCWorld
Hewlett-Packard claims to have solved the two biggest problems with today’s 3D printers and will make its first big technology announcement in that area in June, CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday.
Apple’s iTunes Radio Adds NPR News Channel | Re/code
When iTunes Radio launched last fall, the service was designed for music fans (and music labels). Now it is branching out: National Public Radio is adding the first news station to Apple’s audio streaming service, with more on the way.
Basecamp Becomes Latest Victim Of DDoS Attackers Attempting To Extort Money From Tech Companies | TechCrunch
Basecamp, makers of the popular online project management software of the same name (which as of this February became the company’s main focus) was hit with a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) this morning, rendering its services temporarily unavailable. The company disclosed this news in a blog post, explaining that the “criminals” behind the DDoS had also tried to extort money in return for stopping the attack – a request that Basecamp smartly refused.
How Your Tweets Reveal Your Home Location | MIT Technology Review
One of the optional extras that Twitter allows is for each tweet to be tagged with the user’s location data. That’s useful if you want people to know where you are or so that you can later remember where certain events took place. It also gives researchers a valuable tool for studying the geographical distribution of tweets in various ways.But it also raises privacy issues, particularly when users are unaware, or forget that, their tweets are geotagged. Various celebrities are thought to have given away their home locations in this way. And in 2007, four Apache helicopters belonging to the US Army were destroyed by mortars in Iraq when insurgents worked out their location using geotagged images published by American soldiers.
9to5Mac: Apple iPhone, Mac and iPad News Breaking All Day
While Steve Jobs is a long way from Batman, Bale has been considered a prime contender to play the tech superhero since the project was first announced due to his physical resemblance to the Apple co-founder.
HTC One (M8) Review: The Best Android Phone Gets Even Better - WSJ.com
Virtual Reality is going to change the world | notch.net
Microsoft releases Office for iPad, subscription required for editing docs
However, if you ever want to edit a doc or create something from scratch, you'll need an Office 365 subscription (you can even use Microsoft's cheaper Office 365 Personal plan when it launches later this spring). If you like, you can also sign up for a 30-day trial at Office.com.
A Woman Has Been Given A New 3D Printed Skull | I Fucking Love Science
A team from the University Medical Centre, Utrecht, have made medical history by successfully replacing a woman's entire skull with a plastic one made by a 3D printer.
White House objects to Samsung's use of Obama photo | Reuters
"It had nothing to do with no deals," he said.
How Amazon Fire TV stacks up against competitors - latimes.com
The Amazon Fire TV will now go head to head against the Apple TV, the Google Chromecast and four Roku devices. These devices allow users to stream video and audio content from the Internet onto TV sets with HDMI ports.
Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO, Leaves Foundation Board | Re/code
Brendan Eich, the well-known techie who has gotten swept up in a controversy about his support of California’s anti-gay marriage law Proposition 8, is resigning as CEO of for-profit Mozilla Corporation and also from the board of the nonprofit foundation which wholly owns it.
UXBlog | IDV Solutions' User Experience: Earthquakes since 1898
I've been looking at really general sources of existential risk and visualizing them via the kitchen sink school of thematic mapping. So the earthquakes map was just a matter of time.
New Steve Jobs email a treasure trove of information about Apple TV, Google ‘holy war,’ and behind-the-scenes strategy | 9to5Mac
A new email from Steve Jobs that was published during today’s Samsung lawsuit (via The Verge) has revealed a lot about Apple’s plans for its products in 2011 and beyond. As we’ve previously noted, Jobs referred to 2011 as a year of “holy war” against Google, but this document goes above that and describes how exactly Apple planned to wage this war.
Microsoft Goes Hollywood in Amazon-Like Programming Push - Bloomberg
Helmed by former CBS Corp. honcho Nancy Tellem, who Microsoft hired 19 months ago to build a TV powerhouse from the ground up, the studio now has six series lined up -- including a science-fiction thriller called “Humans” about humanoid robot workers -- and more than a dozen projects in development.
Waze Founder Hints Investor Pressure Forced Sale to Google
A blog post on LinkedIn from Noam Bardin, who is CEO and co-founder of Waze, confirms that Google agreed to a $1.15 billion deal to buy the company. That’s notable since it is the first time that a member of either company has confirmed a figure — media estimates had varied from $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion — although it isn’t clear how that broke down over stock and cash.
Gasoline-loving spiders cause Mazda car recall for second time | Reuters
For the second time in three years, Mazda Motor Corp has issued a recall for Mazda6 sedans in North America because of a spider that likes the smell of gasoline and weaves a web that blocks a vent in the engine.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 Orders Near 600k | Newsarama.com
Marvel Comics tells Newsarama that final retailer orders for Amazing Spider-Man
The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now
Below, we've rounded up the responses from some of the most popular social, email, banking and commerce sites on the web.
Fire TV companion apps, Second Screen and Remote, hitting iOS soon
In addition to sending movies and TV shows from your iOS device to the Fire TV and controlling content playback, Second Screen will let users check out supplemental X-Ray information on their iOS device as content plays on the set-top box.
Amazon: Fire TV
Get one!
Stephen Colbert to Replace David Letterman as Host of CBS’ ‘Late Show’
CBS has named Stephen Colbert as new host of the “Late Show,” effective when David Letterman retires.
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