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Facebook Now Lets You Advertise Your Organs on Your Profile
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YouTube Launches Face Blurring Tool to Keep Protesters Anonymous
YouTube Face Blurring Tool YouTube Recent events have shown how social networks can help world unrest get witnessed globally. YouTube was a major player in sending videos of Arab Spring protestors out...
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A Look At Instagrams Of Hurricane Sandy In Real Time
The Hudson River nigelbarker via InstacaneIf you want to take the visual pulse of a major event, you can do a lot worse than checking out Instagram. Now, for Hurricane Sandy, we present Instacane, a...
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7 Gifts For The Internet Geek In Your Life
A Cat, Personified A tiny (and somewhat absurd) snapshot of the Internet geek macrocosm. Courtesy 9GagView Photo GalleryThe internet is a dangerously addicting place. If you have a friend who spends...
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7 Gifts For The Internet Geek In Your Life
Dek A set of trinkets and devices for those who are constantly plugged into the world wide web. The Internet is a dangerously addicting place. If you have a friend who spends all of their free time...
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FYI: Why Would Someone Create A Fake Internet Girlfriend?
Manti Te’o US Presswire This week, Deadspin broke the news that Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend--one of the most heartbreaking sports stories of last year--was a hoax. The fake...
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NYPD: Murder Is Down Because Of Our Facebook Surveillance
NYPD Car Wikimedia Commons Last year was a record low for murders in New York City, with only 414 (eep) counted. Part of the reason for that number? Facebook, apparently.According to the New York...
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Will Your Twitter Account Get You Fired?
FireMe! You should probably have a sense already of whether your Twitter account might get you in trouble at your job. Like, complaining about the stupidity of your boss on social media? Not the most...
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Broadcast Your Drunken Data To The World With A Smartphone Breathalyzer
BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer ThinkGeekWhether you're in a contest with your buddies over who's the drunkest, or legitimately trying to determine whether your blood alcohol content is low enough to...
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Social Media Replaces Police Missing Persons Searches In France
A postcard from 1899 imagining French Police in the year 2000 Instead, the police are on the ground and asking people to use social media for searches. wikimedia commons An almost century-old program...
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The Difference Between A Geek And A Nerd [Infographic]
Geeks v. Nerds Burr SettlesAre you a geek or a nerd? Because they're not quite the same. (It's okay to admit which one you are, by the way! Popular Science is a safe place.) Burr Settles at...
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By The Numbers: How Twitter Reacted To The George Zimmerman Verdict
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The Different Ways Men And Women Talk On Facebook
Women's Words Schwartz et al.Ugh, how stereotypical can we be? In a study of the different words used by various demographics of Facebook users in their status updates, women talked most about...
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Saying Farewell To The ISS's Best Tweeters
The Adriatic Sea Karen Nyberg via PinterestLast night, a Soyuz spacecraft landed in Kazakstan, ferrying NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, European Space Agency flight engineer Luca Parmitano and Russia's...
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Twitter Vine
Twitter Vine Vine Vine earned the title of top free download in the App Store in less than three months. Why such a splash? It’s the first app to make mobile video uploading easy. Vine’s success is...
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Analysis of Tweets Can Track Obesity Trends
Saves the Day Twitter By analyzing what people write on Twitter, researchers can help predict rates of obesity, diabetes, teen births, health insurance coverage, and access to healthy foods in...
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Whether you're in a contest with your buddies over who's the drunkest, or legitimately trying to determine whether your blood alcohol content is low enough to drive home…
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An almost century-old program in France is coming to an end. "Searches in the interest of the family" became a function of French police after World War I to reunite families disrupted by the...
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Are you a geek or a nerd? Because they're not quite the same. (It's okay to admit which one you are, by the way! Popular Science is a safe place.) Burr Settles at SlackPropagation broke down the...
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