readwrite — No one can accuse Google of not thinking big. Project Loon, Google's audacious "moonshot" vision to bring mobile Internet connectivity to the billions without - via balloons - is one of the company's biggest ideas ever. It's madness, but it just might work. Considering the uniqueness of the idea, its use of...
venturebeat — July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now After pivoting away from flash sales and towards its own products, New York City-based Fab has just raised a huge amount of funding to help drive its transformation and support its fast-growing audience. Fab announced last night that...
news.softpedia — Microsoft's Xbox One is the superior next-gen console, at least according to one of the company's representatives, who highlighted that the PS4 has no social and multitasking features and that its GDDR5 RAM is harder to maintain cool. The Xbox One and PS4 have been compared in many areas...
autoblog — Filed under: Concept Cars, Budget, Hatchback, Fiat While its dealer body has been clamoring for new and larger models, Fiat has actually done a pretty good trade selling all manner of 500 variants, from the standard hatchback and 500C cabriolet to its Abarth models, 500e electric runabout and special editions like...
celebitchy — Radar had an interesting Jolie-Pitt story yesterday which I thought was going to be some kind of “definitive proof” of when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s relationship really began. But it’s not. The story is complicated, but one of Angelina’s friends – a woman named Eunice Huthart –...
perezhilton — When Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum get together, something is getting saved! Maybe it's the White House, maybe Miley Cyrus, who knows? Not Jimmy Kimmel, that's for sure! He doesn't even know what it means to Channing all over someone's Tatum! Ch-ch-check out the video (above) to see the hysterical yet still...
tech.slashdot — theodp writes "GeekWire reports that Google has patented an image-capturing walking stick, which can boldly go where no Google Street View Car can. The walking stick has embedded cameras and location sensors, and a switch at the bottom that causes the device to snap pictures whenever the stick hits the...
news.softpedia — aLinux, a distribution based on GNU/Linux that aims to replace Microsoft Windows 8 XP/Vista and Apple Mac OS X, is now at version 17.0 Beta 3. aLinux 1.7.0 Beta 3 is based on KDE and features a lot of preinstalled packages, such as GCC, Pidgin, Kwrite, GLIBC, 11 games, Gimp, KView...
developers.slashdot — Aardappel writes "Lobster is a new programming language targeting game programming specifically, building on top of OpenGL, SDL 2 and FreeType. The language looks superficially similar to Python, but is its own blend of fun features. It's open source (ZLIB license) and available on GitHub." Read more...
wired — Living the Wired Life is a series of profiles looking at people whose passion for their hobbies borders on obsession.
dlisted — Macklemore (30) Paula Abdul (51) Atticus Shaffer (15) Paul Dano (29) Zoe Saldana (35) Mia Maestro (35) Rebecca Loos (36) Hugh Dancy (38) Poppy Montgomery (38) Jean Dujardin (41) Robin Tunney (41) Lara Spencer (44) Mia Sara (46) Sadie Frost (48) Kathleen Turner (59) Ann Wilson (63) Phylicia Rashad (65) Salman Rushdie (66) Gena Rowlands (83)
wired — Living the Wired Life is a series of profiles looking at people whose passion for their hobbies borders on obsession.
techcrunch — The Internet isn’t lacking for sites and services where people can post their comments and thoughts, but Andrew Sider, co-founder and CEO of a startup called Bunch, argues that there’s still something missing: “How do we connect with people, not around friends, not around social networks, but around a topic...
rockpapershotgun — Plants vs Zombies is boldly going where no popular gaming franchise has gone before: to a land of over-the-shoulder camera angles and gleefully bobbing crosshairs, whereupon things will be shot mercilessly. OK, maybe it’s not the boldest move ever in the grand scheme of things, but Plants vs Zombies: Garden...
boingboing — Jeffrey from 360 Cities sez, "My latest 'gigantic panorama' is of my adopted home city, Prague. (previously: 1 2) This time I'm trying something new: download, share, remix this one yourself! It is Creative Commons, attribution, noncommercial sharealike licensed. Here is the torrent link. It's 3.9GB of JPEG tiles plus an...
hothardware — Woe is the PlayStation 3 gamer who jumped at the chance to install Sony's newest firmware update, version 4.45. After it was made available, it didn't take long for complaints to surface on Twitter, Reddit, and Sony's own support forum lamenting the fact that the update was bricking consoles, turning...
celebitchy — Here are some photos of Gwyneth Paltrow slumming it with Tracy Anderson at the (clutch your pearls) 2013 Licensing Expo at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas yesterday. HOW GAUCHE. To mingle with the Las Vegas peasants, Gwyneth wore a blouse with nonsensical boob and armpit...
tmz — When the Heat and the Spurs went into OT during last night's dramatic Game 6 of the NBA Finals ... Dwight Howard was busy eating dinner -- telling TMZ he didn't have the stomach to watch. Howard hit up Crustacean in Beverly Hills last night -- at…
perezhilton — Well... ...he might be fairly alone in that thought. We can't think of a whole lot of rappers who would turn away a little free booty, but apparently Drake is one of them! After getting crazy honest about the whole Chris Brown and Rihanna sitch, Drake let the rest of his life hang...
guardian.co.uk — In 2011, Bungie said it would be leaving its Halo series – we talk to COO Pete Parsons about the company's ambitionsSeven years in the making, but developer Bungie is only just beginning to reveal some the shape and detail of its forthcoming blockbuster Destiny. Away from Microsoft and working...
stylenews.peoplestylewatch — The star explains why he's so obsessed with his own celeb scent in a sexy spot
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perezhilton — There has been a lotttt of hype surrounding Miley Cyrus’s new music, and so far the music has lived up to the hype! We adore her current single, We Can’t Stop, and it sounds like there will be a lot more to look forward to!! Miley opened up about her musical...
stylenews.peoplestylewatch — “All right. I typically hate celebrity fragrances,” Adam Levine admits in the first few seconds of this video, promoting his (what else?) celebrity fragrance. Of course, that’s not news — he’s been enduring teasing about his latest endeavor for months now. But in this two-minute spot (directed by Travis Schneider) for...