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Top Twitter Photos from the 2012 Presidential Campaign

Republican Presidential candidates have expanded their campaigns into the digital realm and documented their journeys to today’s Florida primary with photos posted on Twitter and Instagram. All four of the remaining Republican candidates, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Rick … Continue reading

Groupon is a Star in CBS Pilot — But in the Wrong City [VIDEO]

Working at Groupon is now cliche enough to work as the setting of a TV pilot. CBS picked up a pilot for a new sitcom called Friend Me. The conceit is about two twenty-something best friends who move from Illinois … Continue reading

Turn Your Facebook Timeline Into a Movie

A browser tool launched Monday transforms content from your Facebook Timeline into a fast-paced movie. In what will surely incite a roller coaster of flashbacks, Timeline Movie Maker from marketing agency Definition 6 lets you become a filmmaker with the … Continue reading

Bill Would Make Cellphone Carriers Disclose Tracking Software

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) released a draft of a cellphone privacy bill Monday that would require providers to tell subscribers if tracking software was installed on their mobile device. The Mobile Device Privacy Act (MDPA) is a response to the … Continue reading

British Tourists Barred From Entering U.S. Over Tweet About ‘Destroying America’ [VIDEO]

Leigh Van Bryan claims his tweets about “destroying America” and digging up Marilyn Monroe’s grave were jokes, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security isn’t laughing. The British man and his friend, Emily Bunting, who flew to Los Angeles for … Continue reading

The Swarm: Short Horror Film Made Entirely on Phones [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. The Swarm is all about shallow breathing, heavy petting and Xperia smartphones. The short horror film, shot entirely on Sony’s Xperia Arc S phones, follows … Continue reading

Who’s Winning? The Most-Shared Super Bowl Ads So Far

We’ve just entered the Year of the Dragon, but Super Bowl 2012 is shaping up to be the Year of the Dog. No less than five of the ads featured in Unruly‘s list of Super Bowl ads with the most … Continue reading

Face-Detection Program Ranks Senators with the Biggest Smiles [VIDEO]

Adopting Face.com‘s face-detection algorithm, a new program called Congressmiles analyzes the smiles of a group of people. His guinea pigs for the project: U.S. senators. Dan Nguyen, a developer at ProPublica, created the program by incorporating the Sunlight Congress API, … Continue reading

Samsung Galaxy S Advance Has Two Cores and a 4-Inch Screen

A new smartphone from Samsung has been unearthed in the Philippines, the Galaxy S Advance GT-i9070. The device will apparently be Samsung’s mid-range smartphone, with a curved, 4-inch, 800 x 480 pixel screen, a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and … Continue reading

Facebook’s Road to IPO

2004: First Offers Turned Down Facebook launches with humble beginnings that most people have seen dramatized in The Social Network by now. It was a small social site backed by only a little money, and limited just to the undergrads … Continue reading