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Mashable’s Top 10 Stories of 2012

As reported on Mashable. Mashable’s 10 Biggest Stories of 2012 1. Super Bowl 2012 Commercials: Watch Them All Here It’s okay to admit you watch the Super Bowl just for the ads. The 54 commercials — each 30-second spot sold for $3.5 million — became our most viewed post in 2012. 2.  7 Fake Hurricane Sandy Photos You’re Sharing on Social Media Despite New York City’s blackout during Hurricane Sandy, readers on Manhattan, in surrounding areas and across…

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Refer to Your Annual Review Throughout the Year to Make the Next One Easier

As reported on LifeHacker. by Melanie Pinola We just finished our annual review process here at Lifehacker. While the questions were pretty painless, I found myself almost banging my head on the desk trying to remember my “bests” and “worsts” from the beginning of the year. Next time, I’ll use a copy of the review form and fill it out throughout next year. This is similar to keeping a work accomplishments file (useful when interviewing for a new…

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Yet Another College Sex Columnist Writes About Having Sex in the Library

As reported on Jezebel. by Katie J.M. Baker The Daily Mail is horrified that a UC Berkeley student had sex on campus and wrote about it in the independent student paper’s regular “Sex on Tuesday” column. “The elite University of California, Berkeley has seen a blow to its uber-serious reputation with a controversial article from a student boasting about her marathon campus sex sessions,” theDaily Mail reports, along with tons of irrelevant details regarding the history of The Daily…

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Einstein may have discovered dark energy without even realizing it

As reported on io9.com by George Dvorsky An historian of science from New York University has re-interpreted a correspondence between Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger in which the two scientists argued about the nature of the cosmological constant — a kluge that Einstein embedded in his general theory of relativity to explain why the Universe was neither expanding or contracting (what scientists thought at the time). According to Alex Harvey, without the two of them even…

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Gmail for iOS Gets a Completely New Look, Finally Supports Multiple Accounts

As reported on LifeHacker. by Whitson Gordon iOS: Gmail’s iPhone and iPad app just got a major update, changing the look and feel of the entire app and adding a few handy new features. We’ve never been impressed by Google’s official Gmail app, but the new update makes some pretty big improvements. It feels a little less like a webapp now and more like an app that belongs on the iPhone, with smooth transitions and animations between windows.…

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New Buried Asteroid Impact Crater Discovered in Canada

As reported on Wired. BY NADIA DRAKE Elevation map and contour drawing of the buried impact crater found near Bow City, Alberta. Higher elevations are indicated by warmer colors, lower elevations by cooler colors. (W. Xie and T. Brown)   SAN FRANCISCO — An extraterrestrial impact crater is hiding near a Canadian ghost town. Nearly 5 miles across and 3,000 feet deep, the stealth crater has lurked just west of Bow City, Alberta, for millions of…

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Tech-Company Holiday Party Invitations, As We Imagine Them

As reported on Wired. BY ROBERTO BALDWIN   The financial health and culture of a company can be determined by its holiday party. Companies that are stacking piles of cash in storage units have parties punctuated by prime rib, D-list DJs and gift bags filled with last year’s iPod touch. Companies that are having a tough time? They’re hosting potlucks where the intern hooks up an Xbox in the conference room and the CEO keeps asking…

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3-D Printed Gun Only Lasts 6 Shots

As reported on Wired. BY ROBERT BECKHUSEN A group of 3-D printing gunsmiths have taken another step toward making a gun you can download off the internet. This weekend, the desktop weaponeers took a partially printed rifle out to test how long its plastic parts survived spewing bullets. The result? Six rounds until it snapped apart. But that was also the point, the group’s founder tells Danger Room. “We knew it would break, probably,” says Cody…

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Flophouse: The Epic Entertainment Fails of 2012

As reported on Wired. BY WIRED STAFF There was a lot to anticipate in world of entertainment in 2012, but not everything lived up to the hype. From movie blockbusters to comics reboots, we’ve made a list of the media that disappointed us most over the last 12 months – or at least the glorious failures we enjoyed watching implode from afar.   The Battleship That Sunk Itself Look. It’s not like I was expecting Battleship to be great…

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In an Unlikely Echo Chamber, Lucasfilm Captures a Cinematic Gunshot

As reported on Wired. BY NATHAN HURST Inside the eastern span of the new Bay Bridge. A view of the outside, including an 80-foot column that descends below sea level. The team enters the bridge. Into the pillar. Each section has a distinct code. Burtt balances above an open trap door. Prepping the mid-side mic. Watch where you point that thing. Bang. Below sea level, the water seeps in through thick concrete. View as gallery  …

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