Pinterest has quickly become a hot social site for curating themed boards for things like wedding planning, recipes and fashion. Among the pretty pin boards, there are also a lot of weird photos that kind of make us go, “WTF?” That’s exactly the sentiment Allison Tyler had, which inspired her to create the Tumblr WTF … Continued
Digital gaming soars nine percent, still knows nothing of rarity value
It’s already chewed up some big names on the retail scene, but the game-downloading trend shows no sign of being sated. Fresh figures from market research firm NPD show that American digital game sales (including rentals and DLC) amounted to $2.04 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, which represents a nine percent year-on-year hike … Continued
Mashable Photo Challenge: What’s In Your Laptop Bag?
The social web is becoming an increasingly visual place. Facebook users alone upload 250 million photos every day. One of the things we love most at Mashable is seeing the world as our readers encounter it, through their photos and videos. For this reason, we are excited to announce a new feature on our site: the … Continued
Can IBM’s Watson help cancer patients?
Watson’s “Jeopardy”-winning AI skills will be put to use at a New York hospital to help diagnose and treat cancers. (Credit: IBM) Patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center may receive cancer diagnoses and treatment with the help of IBM’s Watson supercomputer by the end of 2013. Watson would make diagnoses and suggest treatment approaches that … Continued
Feel Your Facebook Pokes With This Poking Machine [VIDEO]
What is the purpose of a poke you can’t feel? That’s what occcured to the creators of a device called, appropriately enough, the poking machine. Netherlands-based student inventors Jasper van Loenen and Bartholomäus Traubeck constructed an armband that physically pokes you when someone pokes you virtually on Facebook. “This way users can connect not only … Continued





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