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Social summary serviceSummifyhas passed the two billion aggregated stories milestone, marking the occasion with the launch of slick new email summaries, web summaries and social features. Summify works by automatically identifying the most important news stories for you across all of your networks and tells why they are important, so you can read what really matters. With this in mind, the Summify team has redesigned its email notifications to include clearly indicate the headline, highlight the contributors and a small excerpt, all left-aligned for uniformity....

1,000 attendees including Sir Richard Branson, Peter Diamandis (X Prize Foundation), Jared Cohen (Google), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund), Russell Simmons, Blake Mycoskie (Tom’s Shoes), Gary V and artist Peter Tunney set sail yesterday from Miami, Florida to embark on a 3-day entrepreneur “schmooze cruise” hosted bySummit Series. Aside from top-shelf schmoozing, the “Summit at Sea” will focus on saving our oceans, a cause near and dear to Sir Branson’s heart (and wallet) afterlaunching Virgin Oceanicthis week....

Admittedly, it might seem a bit strange to see a bean bag being talked about here on TNW Gadgets, but you’ll have to humor me for a few minutes. Believe me, it’s worth your time. The pitch went like any other product that we review. Sumo Lounge dropped us an email and asked if we’d like to review one of their products. We could pick any one that we wanted, so I of course opted for being a bit over the top and requested that they send over their biggest model, known asthe Gigantor....

How rare is our Solar System? In the 30 years or so since planets were first discovered orbiting stars other than our Sun, we have found that planetary systems are common in the Galaxy. However, many of them are quite different from the Solar System we know. The planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in stable and almost circular paths, which suggests the orbits have not changed much since the planets first formed....

Directed by J.J Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg,Super 8was released on June 10, and barely a month later, Torrent Freak hasreportedthat a DVD screener of the film has popped up on the Internet. This is certainly not newsworthy, but when the copy is watermarked pointing to where the leak came from, it’s bound to cause a bit of embarrassment. It would seem that the source of the leak is none other than Howard Stern, a man who is no stranger to controversy....