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TechDirt  57 minutes ago:

District Attorney And Major TV Network Sued Over Stupid Reality Show -

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The most tragically stupid decision was greenlighting a reality show about lawyers.
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TheNextWeb  about an hour ago:

Interactive video platform Videogram launches an Android app -

Android users who are avid video viewers now have cause for cheer – the interactive video platform Videogram, which even Jennifer Lopez took to releasing her new music video on earlier.
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Mashable  just under two hours ago:

Apple Ad: iPhone is Most-Used Phone for Listening to Music -

Samsung may sell more smartphones, but a new Apple ad claims that more people listen to music on their iPhones than any other phone

The 60-second ad, which broke Thursday night, is a bit of a stylistic departure for the brand.
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TechCrunch  just under two hours ago:

AngelPad's Sixth Batch Of Startups Includes Companies Working On Drones, Storage, And More -

AngelPad, the San Francisco-based accelerator founded by former Googlers, held its sixth demo day yesterday.
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TechCrunch  2 hours ago:

Online Video-Ad Network Tremor Video Files For Its IPO -

Video ad network Tremor Video has filed for its long-awaited public offering. The company's shares will trade on the NYSE at TRMR and it wants to raise at least $86 million.
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Mashable  2 hours ago:

Bikes Made From Trash Power Film Festival -

A group of students in France crafted wooden, energy-producing stationary bicycles from trash. These novel bikes were recently used to power a film festival screening in St.
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Mashable  3 hours ago:

Lost Apollo 11 Moon Dust Found in Storage -

Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon have been found inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years

The samples — collected by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin — were rediscovered last month by an archivist who was going over artifacts tucked away at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Somewhat Frank  3 hours ago:

Chicago Style Wrap (at Gold Spike Hotel & Casino) -

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Mashable  3 hours ago:

Prepare for the Cicada Invasion With This Creepy-Crawly Time-Lapse -

The cicada swarms are coming, and there is nothing you can do to stop it

You will step on a cicada shell, one will fall in your hair and that buzzing drone will haunt your entire summer.
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TheNextWeb  3 hours ago:

Viki expands its music video collection, bringing Universal Music’s full catalogue to Southeast Asia -

Exactly one year (to the day) after it began offering music content, global video streaming site Viki has announced a deal with Universal Music that will see it offer the label’s.
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Mashable  3 hours ago:

The 'Dance of the Planets' Is a Real Thing That's Happening Now -

It's prom season — for the planets

Every couple of years, give or take, planets get together in the night sky in such a way that they seem to be aligned with each other.
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TechCrunch  4 hours ago:

Adly Raises $2M More As It Expands Tools For Social Media Celebrity Endorsements -

Adly, a startup that connects advertisers with celebrities willing to post promoted messages on social networks, recently raised $2 million in additional funding.
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VentureBeat  4 hours ago:

Pandora’s 40-hour listening cap translates to a record 700K new paid subscribers -

Pandora took some heat after placing a 40-hour listening cap on its power users back in February, but the move seems to have created some positive results.
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Mashable  4 hours ago:

This Telepresence Robot Is Powered By a Smartphone -

What if you could have your smartphone greet customers while they’re shopping in your store or have a tablet work as a babysitter?

That’s the idea behind R.
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TechCrunch  4 hours ago:

A Vibrator Called Limon -

No longer just an oddly flavored potato chip, the Limon is also a new sexy-time vibrator from a startup called Minna.
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VentureBeat  4 hours ago:

Funding Daily: Cash for the ‘stache -

A Thursday roundup of today's funding news, presented with a pink mustache.

    
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TechDirt  4 hours ago:

DailyDirt: Tuition Debt Is For Chumps? -

Crowds of students are graduating (or have just graduated) from college, and they might be a little nervous about how they're going to pay off their student loans.
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Mashable  4 hours ago:

Let's Drive a Snowmobile Off a Cliff -

What's it like to drive a snowmobile off a cliff? Thanks to B.A.S.E. (Buildings, Antennas, Spans and Earth) jumper Erik Roner and his trusty trio of GoPro cameras, we get to experience just that without having to risk our necks.
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TechCrunch  4 hours ago:

The Cryonic Bitcoin Mining Machine Is $15,000 Of Pure BTC Power -

It's almost impossible for the average computer to mine Bitcoins in any efficient way, hence the rise of Bitcoin mining machines so tuned to their specific purpose that they barely resemble PCs.
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Mashable  5 hours ago:

Boy Scouts Lift Ban on Gay Members: How Twitter Reacted -

The Boy Scouts of America's governing council voted on Thursday to allow openly gay scouts to join local troops for the first time in the organization's 103-year history.
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