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Instagram gives its UI a face lift and introduces a new filter
Ask and you shall receive. A mere 24 hours ago we were wondering when Instagram would issue another update, and here it is. The photo-sharing app has added a subtle, streamlined UI redesign as well as a couple of new filter and editing options.
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Space station flyover of Aurora Borealis produces stunning NASA video
If you've ever dreamed about what it would be like to travel through space, here is your chance: Today NASA released some of the most stunning high-definition images of nighttime earth ever captured, along with video from the International Space Station …
iPads for the US Air Force? 18,000 may soon be purchased
When it comes to purchasing equipment, most military machines around the world will spend their time leafing through catalogs packed with bullets and bombs. The US Air Force (USAF), however, is also taking a close look at something else—Apple’s iPad….
Coming together? Next-gen MacBook Pro said to resemble MacBook Air
Is the MacBook Pro slowly morphing into the MacBook Air? If the latest reports are to be believed, it certainly looks like things are heading that way.
According to Apple Insider’s unnamed source, the next iteration of the Cupertino company’s MacBook…
Twitter abuzz with rumor of Kim Jong-un assassination, US officials say he’s just fine
“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain famously said upon hearing that a newspaper had published his obituary.
These days, thanks largely to microblogging sites like Twitter, hardly a week goes by without rumors of a celebrity or …
Is January’s sharp drop in retail sales a plea for new gaming options?
US Gamers' wallets have been slow to pry open in 2012. January marked an exceptionally sharp slump in video game hardware, software and accessory sales. When compared to the past two years, the data could signify a trend that consumers are restless for …
Chrome 17 launches, upcoming updates focus on speed
As mentioned on the official Google Chrome Blog this week, the Chrome team has pushed out a stable version of Chrome 17 to all users of the popular Web browser. Detailed extensively in a previous article, Chrome 17 brings pre-rendering to the browser …
Viral video: Father shoots daughter’s laptop after she whines about parents on Facebook
Racking up nearly 12 million views on YouTube over the last 72 hours, a North Carolina man named Tommy Jordan, father of a fifteen-year old teenage girl named Hannah, decided to respond to his daughter's complaints about their family life. His …
AT&T doubles the activation fee on all phone upgrades
Going into effect on Sunday, February 12, AT&T is increasing the activation fee on phone upgrades from $18 to $36 according to a memo issued to all AT&T store managers according to BGR. This brings the activation fee equal to the current rate of $36 …
Facebook ‘defriending’ led to double murder in Tennessee
As reported by Reuters this week, 36-year-old Billy Payne Jr. and his 23-year-old girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth, were both murdered after removing and blocking a woman previously on their Facebook friend's list named Jenelle Potter. The parents of …
Study suggests U.S. box office not affected by BitTorrent
Online piracy may not be as bad as Hollywood would like you to believe. A new study titled, “Reel Piracy: The Effect of Online Film Piracy on International Box Office Sales,” conducted by Brett Danaher, from the Department of Economics at Wellesley …
Apple files preliminary injunction to block sale of Samsung Galaxy Nexus in US
Forget about Apple’s November plea to the European Telecommunications Standard asking for regulations for “patent holders playing dirty.” Apple has turned face, and in its evident hypocrisy, returned fire on Samsung, using four newly acquired …
RUU leak and sources confirm quad-core HTC Endeavor to run Ice Cream Sandwich
Two key questions about the HTC Endeavor (previously known as the HTC Edge) have lingered since we first learned of the handset last November: Will it come loaded with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)? And will it run HTC's Sense 4.0? Those questions …
Membership boost at MySpace could signal trouble for music discovery sites
MySpace's fall from grace can be measured by two sets of figures: Dropping from 75 million unique visitors a month to fewer than 25 million, and being sold once for more than $500 million and then again for “just” $35 million, all in the space of a few …
Reddit does the honorable thing and changes site policy
Reddit, the social news website, has announced it has added a new site rule, which represents a change in what's allowed to be posted. From today, the site will no longer allow “suggestive or sexual content featuring minors.”
From a site that has seen an…