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After Hours: Apps To Never Lose Your Friends On A Night Out

Where the heck is that bar you’re supposed to be at? And what about that restaurant everyone’s gathering near? Make sure you never get lost again on a night out with these awesome apps.

Online

It’s (Mostly) Official: Yahoo Buying Tumblr Youth Serum For $1.1B

Cash! The WSJ says “the Yahoo board has approved a deal” to make this happen, and it’s hard to imagine Tumblr turning this down. One of the most unpopular companies in the world will soon own one of the most popular in history, and we’ll all find out if you really can buy cool.

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Is Yahoo Buying Tumblr For A Billion?

Yahoo has a problem: it has no idea what it’s doing, or how it’s going to do it (outside of teenage dream hires). Some people who claim intimate knowledge say the company is going to do it by throwing a serious Hail Mary: buying Tumblr for $US1,000,000,000. That’s one billion.

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Larry Page Reveals His Mystery Throat Condition

If you thought Google co-founder Larry Page sounded horribly sick last time he spoke, it’s because he’s recovering from vocal cord paralysis, an extremely rare condition that stifles speaking and breathing. Now Page is going public with his illness.

Online

The Tragic, Crazed Emails Of A Startup Cheerleader

You don’t know Roger Dickey’s name, but you know his creation: Mafia Wars, that incredibly popular, spammy hybrid of virus and video game once played by millions, that polluted your Facebook feed some years back. Now, he’s got a new project on the way — a vague “dating coach” service — and it’s already annoying people: its own employees.

Online

The Guys Who Made YouTube Are Reportedly Striking Out

YouTube made Chad Hurley and Steve Chen rich as Saudi kings after they sold it off to Google. They had the chance (and money!) to build anything they wanted — and they did, a brand new company called AVOS Systems. Two years later, and it seems the YouTube duo were a one-hit wonder.

Entertainment

The Fake Websites Of Law & Order Are So Stupid I Wish They Were Real

Law & Order has never been a paragon of TV realism — just take a look at the websites it makes up as plot devices. Poor Ice-T has to browse a web that’s nothing but rape sites and murder porn.

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Hearing The World’s Tallest Building Creak In A Storm Is Terrifying

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper is a lot of things: a testament to humankind’s love of building humungous stuff for the hell of it. It’s very shiny! And, in a bad storm, it sounds like it’s about to fall apart.

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Are Sane Adults Allowed To Ever Use ;) ?

You probably haven’t regularly used smileys since your middle school days, when modems screeched and President Clinton rained ordnance against Bosnian war criminals. You’ve grown up since then, but the ;) has remained inert, a relic of type. In our new modern age, is it ever OK to drop a smiley?

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Facebook Home Review: Surrender Yourself Unto Zuck

Facebook Home isn’t a Facebook Phone, nor is it really “a bunch of apps,” or a new operating system. It’s an admission: Facebook means a lot to me, and is an interesting view of my life — and I want to look at it all the time, everywhere I go. If that sounds like you, Home is where your heart should be. If not, your phone will become something you hate.

Online

Botnet Warlord: Meet The Man Who Will Kill Your Computer

You can blow away any website in the world if you try hard. Throw enough traffic at a server on the internet — friendly or otherwise — and it will buckle. For most, these attacks are a headache, but here’s one man who makes a sport (and money) out of swarming his enemies online.

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