iPad mini rentals offered to fliers for the first time in the US by Hawaiian Airlines

Hawaiian Airlines has announced that it will offer iPad Mini rentals to fliers in the United States, making it the first domestic airline to do so. The tablet will be offered on all of the carrier’s Boeing 767-300 aircraft, with the current portable entertainment systems on all of its 767s being replaced by the Apple […]

U.S. Spy Agencies Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-Operations In 2011, Documents Show

U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post.

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Bayern Munich Edges Chelsea 5-4 On Penalties In UEFA Super Cup (VIDEO/PHOTOS)

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Bayern Munich clinched UEFA Super Cup victory over Chelsea on penalties after a thrilling 2-2 draw at the Eden Arena in Prague on Friday.

The Premier League outfit took the lead early in the first half when Fernando Torres brilliantly finished off a flowing move, but it was pegged back shortly after the break by a long-distance Franck Ribery strike.

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Andy Murray Beats Leonardo Mayer To Reach 3rd Round In U.S. Open

NEW YORK — Quickly putting aside one poor set, defending champion Andy Murray finished strongly and beat 81st-ranked Leonardo Mayer of Argentina 7-5, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 to reach the U.S. Open’s third round.

After dropping the third set, then opening the fourth 1-all, the No. 3-seeded Murray powered his way to the last five games on Friday.

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Seeing Random Things Cut in Half Is the Best Thing

Seeing Random Things Cut in Half Is the Best Thing

Here’s your #FollowFriday or #ff or whatever the cool tweet birds called it back when Twitter launched years ago and people had no idea what it was for so they made their followers create a giant circle: @HalfPics. It’s a simple Twitter account that shows random things chopped in half. How random? There are grenades, camera lens, guns, ramen, toothpaste, donuts and coffee, shoes and so on. Basically, endless entertainment.

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Skype is working on 3D video calls says executive

In an interview with the BBC, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Skype, Mark Gillett, confirmed that the company is working on 3D video calling functionality. Though he warns that it will still be awhile before such a feature is available – and probably longer yet until it is widely adopted – he also states that […]

Joe Lhota, NYC Mayoral Hopeful, Wouldn’t Stop Trains For Kittens

NEW YORK — A former chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority and New York City mayoral hopeful says he wouldn’t have stopped the subway because two lost kittens were scrambling along the tracks.

A spokesman for Joe Lhota (LOH’-tuh) tells the New York Post (http://bit.ly/1965AnP) Friday the candidate doesn’t think shutting down subway service for lost cats is appropriate. But he said Lhota believes it wouldn’t be the mayor’s decision in any case.

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Darren Manzella Dead: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Activist Dies In Traffic Accident

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Darren Manzella, a gay combat medic discharged from the Army after criticizing the military’s `don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy in a 2007 television interview, has died in a traffic accident in western New York. He was 36.

His aunt, Robin Mahoney, on Friday confirmed his death. Manzella lived in the Chautauqua County town of Portland; he and his partner were married in July.

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Crave Ep. 135: MySpace all over again: Facebook gets GIFs

MySpace all over again: Facebook gets GIFs, Ep. 135

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Shocking news from MIT, where students made a device that will shock them when they’ve spent too much time on Facebook. In other Facebook news, Giphy is making GIFs a thing on the social-networking site, a la MySpace 1996. Video earrings turn you into a walking television, and Haptix turns any flat surface into a 3D multitouch surface. Ah, the possibilities.

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– Too much time on Facebook? Give yourself an electric shock

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What’s Your Favorite Cookbook App?

What's Your Favorite Cookbook App?

I’ve got a stack of loose paper recipe cards 18 inches tall, dozens of cookbooks, a bookmark folder jam-packed with links to Food Beast, Sunset, Bon Appetit, and enough canning ratios rattling around in my head to fill a 21-quart pot. What I don’t have is a single mobile resource to digitize, organize, and store my family’s four generations-worth of culinary knowledge. But maybe you do.

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