That iOS 5 video? Here’s why it’s fake.

We’ve examined the video that beganmaking the roundsjust a few hours ago, seemingly displaying an internal build of iOS 5. We think that the phone is most likely an internal prototype of the white iPhone 4, but iOS 5 it isn’t. It’s incredibly coincidental, if you can call it that, that this purported leak is happening day and date from the leak of the iPhone 4 on Gizmodo last year....

3 min · 583 words · Victoria Walters

That’s so cool: Physicists chilled a 10-kilogram object to the edge of ‘absolute zero’

TheLIGO gravitational wave observatoryin the United States is so sensitive to vibrations it can detect the tiny ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. These waves are caused by colliding black holes and other stellar cataclysms in distant galaxies, and they cause movements in the observatory much smaller than a proton. Now we have used this sensitivity to effectively chill a 10-kilogram mass down to less than one billionth of a degree above absolute zero....

6 min · 1128 words · Joshua Stuart

The $1 million donation guy? Yep, that was a hoax.

Remember the Brooklyn comedian that got himself1 million dollarsby posting youtube videos asking for a cool million ? It was ahoax. Three weeks ago wereportedthat Craig Rowin was receiving 1 million dollars from Benjaman, an unknown investment banker that called Rowin after viewing one of his videos on YouTube. It turns out “Benjaman” is an actor. Prior to getting his fake mill, Rowin made several pleas to various celebrities and milionaires telling them he simply wanted to be a millionaire, and offered no particular reason why he should be given the money....

2 min · 264 words · Lisa Anderson

The $98 app that will transform your music collection

If you’re a true music lover, then you’re already long-heartbroken by the digital transition. Simply put, music had a richer, fuller sound in some analog forms than it ever will again in digital. A few years ago, we started to see the mastering of musicget pushedlouder and louder. As each of the frequencies got boosted beyond the point that they should, we’ve ended up listening toheavily clipped, over-worked music that brings listening fatigue along with it....

4 min · 726 words · David Mullins

The 10 biggest brands on Facebook: What’s hot and what’s not

Social media is on target to be a $30bn industry (per year) by 2015 and Facebook is growing faster than any site in history. It is the #1 place to have a community for a brand because it touches every single vertical across the enterprise: customer service, sales and public relations. Let’s take a look at the 10 biggest brands on Facebook, the social content distributors and gamers like Facebook itself, Texas Hold’em Poker (Zynga) and YouTube; pop stars like Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Eminem, Shakira, Linkin Park and Rihanna; and TV shows like Family Guy....

16 min · 3210 words · Dawn Campbell
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