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There are people who treat a wedding as a sacred rite that is to be performed with the utmost formality and sombreness, and then there are others who throw regard for public perception to the winds and do something geeky and ridiculously cool! Esther Tanouye and Ryan Watkins are strictly in the latter category. They sought the help of their friend Larry Quach, a freelance designer, and he came up with what could bethe most memorable wedding invitation cards ever....

We’ve talked a lot about the power of Facebook and its capacity to contribute to the greater good around the world. The social networking site can now add yet another little badge of merit to its list – playing a part in bringing down the price of cheese. Boycotts are pretty popular in the Middle East, but more often than not, they don’t really lead to anything. In Israel, however, consumers threatening to boycott one of the country’s staples, cottage cheese, has had a real impact....

What’s GaN? And why’s it the next big thing in charging? What is GaN? To charge your phone’s battery quickly, most fast charging methods increase either current or voltage. The idea is to send more power to the battery to charge it in a shorter time. However, in doing so charger’s components — a lot of them which contain silicon — heat up and limit its capability to use it safely....

According toDomainNameWire, Google has acquired a new domain calledListen.intoday, although it is not yet clear on what this domain could be used for. One of the possibilities could be that Google is prepping up a new music based website. AGoogle Site queryreveals that Listen.in was previously a music based social network where you could check out what your friends are listening to, in realtime, along with the ability to connect your playlist with your friend’s playlist and the domain waspreviously registeredto a Robert Kim of Toronto, Canada....

It is undoubtedly the year of group messaging apps atSXSWi. In fact, some might call it an all-out war for the juice left on your iPhone. If you happened to be anywhere near Texas this weekend then you likely saw more than a few Grouped{in} stickers slapped onto everything in Austin from office buildings, bridges, water coolers to trash cans. So what is Grouped{in}? Is it like a Linkedin version ofGroupMe?...