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Working synthesizer is the coolest Google Doodle ever

Working synthesizer is the coolest Google Doodle ever

Google has been getting quite adventurous with its signature Google Doodles of late, but today's 78th birthday tribute to synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog gets my vote for the coolest yet.

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Microsoft So.cl: A social network based on social searching

Microsoft So.cl: A social network based on social searching

The last one to the party, Microsoft's So.cl social network is an "experimental research project" that Microsoft tested on research students before quietly opening to all user today. Unlike Facebook and Google+, So.cl is a social network built mainly to push more content through Bing. MORE
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Verizon: we're killing grandfathered unlimited 3G data plans (Updated)

Verizon: we're killing grandfathered unlimited 3G data plans (Updated)

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but Verizon's unlimited all-you-can-use 3G unlimited data plans are coming to an end. That means all of you on grandfathered-in data plans who want to upgrade to 4G LTE plans will have to give it up. MORE
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Bitcoin exchange service hacked again, losing $87,000

Bitcoin exchange service hacked again, losing $87,000

Hackers recently targeted Bitcoinica, an exchange service for the peer to peer virtual currency Bitcoins, and stole more than $87,000 worth of Bitcoins. The company said in a blog post that all money will be repaid, but it does bring back up the security issues involved with Bitcoins. MORE
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Facebook is getting its own App Center

Facebook is getting its own App Center

As Facebook Inc. prepares for its initial public offering in a few weeks, it has just announced plans for its own App Center. The center will allow the online service with over 900 million members to generate new forms of revenue and add an additional social dimension to the popular online platform. MORE
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Will our alien first contact be in 140 characters or less?

Will our alien first contact be in 140 characters or less?

If you were going to speak with an alien race for the first time, what would you want to say? Something about our art or history? Or something about Kim Kardashian's butt or those loveable LOL cats? Thanks to the democracy of the Internet it could be any of the above topics or more — it's 140 characters or less — in a plan to beam tweets to a recently discovered planet that could host life. MORE
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Find out where everything you buy comes from

Find out where everything you buy comes from

If you're curious where all the parts that comprise the device you're reading this on came from, download SourceMap. It's a new mapping website that allows you to trace where products come from and what the carbon footprint therein is, another way to help reduce it. MORE
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Facebook wants to increase organ donations by publicizing donors

Facebook wants to increase organ donations by publicizing donors

In the U.S., organ donors can be ID'd quickly by the little red heart on their driver's license or state ID card. Facebook just became an agent for raising organ donation awareness by adding a status option that'll let all your friends know you're an organ donor. MORE
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Buy an online girlfriend for way cheaper than a real one

Buy an online girlfriend for way cheaper than a real one

Dating can get tiresome, and it certainly isn't easy on the wallet. Luckily, you can now buy "girlfriend services" online for a mere $5! These services aren't sexual. Rather, they're more of the "I will send you a hand written letter" or "I will do 5 mathematics questions for you" variety, exactly what most people look for in a solid relationship. MORE
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Man earns online holiday with one million Wikipedia edits

Man earns online holiday with one million Wikipedia edits

Wikipedia exists thanks to the tireless efforts of its users, who volunteer to add and edit content simply out of a love for the site. Yesterday, Justin Knapp, a 30-year-old from Indianapolis, proved his Wiki love by becoming the first person to make one million edits. MORE
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Leafly, a user-driven marijuana database you can browse at work

Leafly, a user-driven marijuana database you can browse at work

The Internet's marijuana sites never left the '90s.

They're exemplar of the Web from an earlier time, with tiled clipart as backgrounds and pixelated ads that scream, "Buy now!" The type of folks who frequent these sites tend to meet the How High or Half Baked movie stereotypes: glazed eyes, short attention span, empty bags of Cheetos abound. But today's stoners run the gamut. With the legalization of medicinal marijuana in 16 states and Washington D.C., many more Americans know their way around a bong than ever before.

To the unacquainted, websites such as the epileptic High Times can be intimidating. This new generation of pot smokers are looking for a safe, clean website to learn about their medicine. This is where Leafly comes into the picture.

To commemorate the tech side of 4/20, we spoke with Leafy's CEO Brendan Kennedy and co-founder Scott Vickers about the company's beginnings, getting Apple to approve a weed app and the reaction the pair gets when they tell people they work for a pot startup.

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Now Twitter can fight forest fires, too

Now Twitter can fight forest fires, too

Whether it's being used as Kanye West's online diary or as a news aggregate, Twitter's potential in the Information Age has become clear. Now, one group is using the social media platform to fight fires. MORE
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Flickr replaces outgoing Picnik with Aviary photo editor

Flickr replaces outgoing Picnik with Aviary photo editor

As Google's Picnik photo editing service prepares to close up shop on April 19, Flickr has announced a partnership with a new photo editing application called Aviary. Aviary will be rolling out across Flickr over the next two weeks staring today; users can find it in the "Actions" menu. MORE
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Sprint's unlimited 4G LTE network to draw data hogs in droves

Sprint's unlimited 4G LTE network to draw data hogs in droves

Are you looking for an all-you-can use 4G LTE data plan? It looks like once again, Sprint, will be your only option. The carrier has confirmed that it will provide unlimited 4G LTE to its customers without data caps. MORE
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Computers scientifically prove how horrible The Matrix's dialogue is

Computers scientifically prove how horrible The Matrix's dialogue is

The Matrix is a groundbreaking, visually arresting Singularity opera about our species' precarious balancing act between the myths of old and the technologies of tomorrow. But for all the film's many achievements (we'll leave Reloaded and Revolutions out of the mix for now), The Matrix is far from perfect. Leading man Keanu Reeves' unique brand of anti-acting comes to mind, as does the issue of the film's dialogue. The silly horrible dialogue.

The Matrix brims with unfathomable fauxlosophical babble like "The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to." Just ridiculous. But how ridiculous is it exactly? Back when the film was released in 1999, we didn't have an easy way to answer this important question. Thankfully, technology has advanced to the point where great cinematic queries such as these can finally be fulfilled!

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Seeing something new in those Google reCaptchas?

Seeing something new in those Google reCaptchas?

As we cruise the Web everyday, most of us encounter a reCaptcha — those distorted letters and numbers designed to check that a human is behind an online activity like logging into an account or comment system. Lately, users have been seeing a change in the fuzzy text and have seen seeing what looks like real pictures. MORE
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Should employers get to log into your Facebook? (Update: Facebook responds)

Should employers get to log into your Facebook? (Update: Facebook responds)

The Internet is abuzz over reports of companies demanding total Facebook access as part mandatory background checks for employment. Several claims have surfaced that some employers go beyond just snooping through a person's public profile, requesting their password as well. New information at the end of the article. MORE
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Instagram becomes a real social network with Hipstamatic team-up

Instagram becomes a real social network with Hipstamatic team-up

Two of the iPhone's most popular photography apps — Instagram and Hipstamatic — are teaming up together to form what could be the biggest thing to happen to photo-sharing since Flickr landed on the scene in 2004. MORE
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New York Times now lets you read even fewer articles for free

New York Times now lets you read even fewer articles for free

Around this time last year, The New York Times put up its content paywall. Unless you were a subscriber to either its printed papers or digital smartphone/tablet plans, you could only read 20 articles for free per month. Starting next month, you'll get access to half of that. MORE
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Keep on LOL-ing: AOL is not killing off AIM (yet)

Keep on LOL-ing: AOL is not killing off AIM (yet)

Earlier this week, a New York Times report announced that AOL had essentially cut the AIM team down leaving future development for the instant messaging client in limbo. Naturally, the Internet prematurely announced AIM's death. AOL's now telling everybody to relax, AIM's not dead. MORE
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