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November 7, 2013
McDonald's Might 3–D Print Your Happy Meal (The Toys, Not The Fries)
No more settling for the toy of the week, kids.
If you could walk into your nearest McDonald's and get any Happy Meal toy––any toy, mind you, not just one that's being advertised that week––would you go more often? McDonald's certainly hopes so.
Facebook Wants To Be Your TV Guide
In its latest attempt to woo television viewers, Facebook will remind you when your favorite shows are playing.
Users of Facebook's Android app can now set reminders to alert them when a TV show that they have liked on its Facebook Page is about to start.
Developer Push By Google Hints Public Launch For Glass Is On The Way
Google looks to be preparing for a public launch of its Glass headset.
Google is reportedly inviting app developers to a two–day hackathon–like event in San Francisco. At the event, scheduled for late November, Google will show off its Glassware Software Development Kit (SDK) and allow the short list of attendees (Google notes its facility can only hold a limited number of people) to "test" it out.
Apple To Offer In–Store Repairs For Its Newest iPhone Models
Repairs––including replacement touch screens––will be offered to owners of the iPhone 5S and 5C.
Owners of broken iPhones may soon be able to get them fixed inside Apple stores. The company is outfitting its retail locations with spare parts, instruction manuals for the staff, and the recalibration machines needed for the installation of touch screens, according to a report citing sources with knowledge of the upcoming initiative .
14 Moments That Defined Twitter
As Twitter races to IPO, we take a look back at birdie's biggest moments to date.
Over the past seven years, Twitter has evolved into a medium where anyone with an Internet connection can tune in to see celebrities spar, tragedies unfold, and news break––on both a local and global scale. On the eve of the company's initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, which is poised to surpass Google's as the second–largest Internet IPO in history, we took a look at 12 moments that shaped Twitter history.
5 Big Happiness Myths Debunked––And The Power Of Negative Thinking
Oliver Burkeman, author of the book The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, has spent years studying what makes people happy. It's not what you think.
It sometimes feels as if the "happiness industry"––the self–help books, motivational speakers, corporate consultants and the rest––makes its money by being useless.
November 6, 2013
Breaking: Twitter Sets IPO Price At $26 A Share, With $18 Billion Valuation
At $26 a share, Twitter's valuation on IPO day will be $18 billion.
The night before Twitter will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the company has set TWTR's final IPO price at $26 a share. Assuming it sells the maximum of 80.5 million shares, Twitter's IPO will raise $2.09 billion and become the second–largest Internet offering in history, second only to Facebook––but surpassing Google's $1.9 billion in 2004.
These Two Guys Want To Kill All Passwords
Knock is a way to use your phone to unlock your Mac over Bluetooth LE, but its founders have much bigger plans.
Talk about capitalizing on a gimmick. Knock, an app that allows you to unlock your Mac via Bluetooth by double–tapping on the back of your iPhone, certainly sounds gimmicky. But for Knock's founders, this new form of wireless user authentication is about something much, much bigger.
Abandoned Houses Come Alive Through Embroidery
A Dutch artist explores the secret relationships between objects in abandoned homes using a needle and thread.
Is there a hidden geometry that explains the way in which an abandoned house relates to itself? Artist and designer Hagar Vardimon–van Heummen thinks so, and her 'Lonely Houses' series traces it, line by line, stitch by stitch.
This Raspberry Pi–Powered Web Server Hasn't Crashed Yet
One man decided that his Raspberry Pi would be better suited hosting content on the Internet and he's managed 45k monthly views just fine.
The fist–sized powerhouse Raspberry Pi microcontroller has been used to power all kinds of little projects thanks to its versatility. Yet there's only so much you can get out of a $35 board that can just barely run a version of Linux. Does it have the capacity to do more than run homebrew Java experiments and power dog food dispensers? UK–based programmer Steve Breuning believes so––and repurposed his Raspberry Pi into a web server to prove it.
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