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Alain Mikli Goes High-Tech

Eyewear designer Alain Mikli is known for his extravagant use of color and avant-garde styling, but his newly launched MATT collection of sunglasses proves he’s also adept at working in high-tech materials and new technologies. The sunglasses use materials like cellulose acetate, a by-product of cotton that has been embedded ...

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Comedian Discovers Facebook Video Call Bug, Recommends Paper Towel Patch

New York comedian Tom Kelly has discovered an unnerving flaw for Safari users attempting Facebook's new video calling feature: You can’t hang up. “You might think you hung up on the call, but the friend you’re talking to is actually watching you in your bedroom--or wherever you make your call,” Kelly says in the most recent episode of his web series The Tom Kelly Show

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Online dating: Over 40 years old already

More than three decades before eHarmony made potential soulmates fill out an hour-long questionnaire, New York City's first computer-generated dating service required answering more than 100 multiple-choice questions.

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Leap Year, Episode 6: That Kind of Day

The office server goes missing and overworked and mildly unstable Bryn faces a crisis of both conscience and sanity. The office server goes missing and overworked and mildly unstable Bryn (Alexis Boozer) faces a crisis of both conscience and sanity

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Coming Soon: Pharmaceutical Testing On Mice With Human-Like Livers

Researchers at MIT have figured out how to grow "humanized" livers inside of mice--so the little critters could soon accurately predict how our livers will respond to drugs. Mice are a boon to biomedical research; they can often predict how humans will react to certain conditions, and not too many people get upset if they die from an overdose of toxic chemicals. But mice aren't as useful in pharmaceutical research because their livers react to drugs differently than human livers

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Twitter Is The Newest Tool For Self-Published Stories

This week kids' favorite SpongeBob SquarePants will be the center of a new story on a wholly new medium: Twitter . The Ice Race Cometh--A Twitter Tale is an original story, from the official SpongeBob writing team, and will consist of multiple tweets and images broadcast throughout each day from July 12th to July 15th

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Couple divides apartment to stay together

A New York couple says living apart is the secret to staying together. Allen Sheinman, 58, and wife Collette Stallone, 56, have divided their 576-square-foot apartment with plastic walls and other clear dividing lines.

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Google Is Now Pushing More (Share) Buttons Than Twitter

According to one set of analytics, the Google+ social network has resulted in such rapid adoption of a "+1" button on websites that it's outclassed sharing stalwart Twitter already. Here's why that matters--only a little

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