June 2012
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Facebook's Secret Weapon: Carolyn Everson
Facebook is facing intense pressure to turn its enormous userbase into enormous sums of money. And leading that charge is Carolyn Everson, the most powerful woman at Facebook you may never have heard of.
As Facebook’s vice president of global marketing solutions, Everson is responsible for growing Facebook’s ad revenues, which accounted for 85 percent of the $3.7 billion the social network raked...
May 2012
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Virus cells used to produce electricity →
electronics-geek:
Could introduce virus-based piezoelectric solutions to powering our everyday devices
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How I Legally Watched HDTV For $0 Per Month
Free TV! Boxee Box With Live TV Tuner Delivers HD Shows For $0 Per Month
Over the past several weeks, my television has been receiving high-definition feeds of ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS, even though I haven’t paid Comcast or Time Warner Cable a single penny for service. I feel as though I’m committing some sort of crime by getting such a crisp picture on my big-screen Bravia without the...
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SpaceX Dragon: Everything You Need To Know About...
Elon Musk’s spacecraft manufacturing company SpaceX made history today at 9:56 a.m. ET, when its Dragon capsule was captured by the International Space Station’s robotic arm. The vessel made berth at the ISS at 12:12 p.m. ET.
DragonX is the first privately owned space vessel to dock at the International Space Station.
Read the full story here.
You can read HuffPost Science’s...
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PHOTOBOMB: Facebook Makes Big Announcement
Facebook’s rocky initial public offering hasn’t stopped life at the world’s biggest online social network. On Thursday, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone.
The app can be downloaded from Apple’s App Store and works like most other camera applications for smart phones. To take a photo, you tap a camera icon in the upper left corner of your screen, aim and...
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A New Batch Of Google Glasses Videos And Photos
After Google’s whiz-bang Project Glass video dropped a few months ago, I think we were all curious about what the so-called “Google Glasses” would actually be able to do. Though we recently learned that the final product is unlikely to achieve everything shown in the video, we recently got a whole, WHOLE lot more information the futuristic Glasses, as Google has, for the first...
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Could social networks be the key to dating sites...
For years, online dating sites have promised that their almighty algorithms could turn strangers into soulmates.
But recent research suggests that their love-engineering is about as foolproof as flirting with random people at a bar, and a new breed of dating sites are using social networks, rather than science, to help singles find romance.
Online dating services such...
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“We’re keenly aware that when we develop and make something and bring it to...”
– Jonathan Ive, Apple’s chief designer Ive was knighted on Wednesday.
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WatchWATCH: Google CEO Lashes Out At Facebook
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Hate Those Distorted Text CAPTCHAs? Here's A Fun...
If you’ve signed in to almost any website on the Internet, you’ve probably encountered a dastardly CAPTCHA. A CAPTCHA is a common security tool that asks you to type the words or letters you see in a box to prove you’re a human; those words or letters are usually swirled or mangled, difficult for a computer or bot to make out but hypothetically easy for a human to read.
A...
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Facebook Plunges... Again
Womp womp.
Facebook’s shares fell again on Tuesday, leaving them down nearly one-third from Friday’s highs as questions mounted over the company’s financial prospects and its ability to grow fast enough to meet the hype surrounding its stock. After Friday’s nearly flat close and Monday’s 11 percent plunge, the stock tumbled again Tuesday — 4.2 percent to $32.60...
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The Top 7 Women On YouTube →
