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reuters: Yahoo vows not to “screw it up” with Tumblr Yahoo is...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:23:18 +0300

Yahoo vows not to “screw it up” with Tumblr

Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, a bold bet by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer to revitalize the struggling Internet pioneer by co-opting a Web property with strong visitor traffic but little revenue. The deal will use about a fifth of Yahoo’s $5.4 billion in cash and marketable securities.

“Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business,” Yahoo said in a statement on Monday.

Photo: REUTERS/Stephen Lam

emergentfutures: The Future Of Technology: What You Can Expect...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:05:15 +0300

emergentfutures:

The Future Of Technology: What You Can Expect In The Next 50 Years

Paul Higgins: A bit ridiculous but interesting to look at and think about

Full Story: SimplyZesty

futurejournalismproject: Rupert Murdoch, offering advice to...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:04:15 +0300

futurejournalismproject:

Rupert Murdoch, offering advice to Facebook, via Twitter.

Murdoch’s News Corp (in)famously bought Myspace in 2005 for $580 million and sold it in 2011 to Specific Media for $35 million. During a 2011 annual meeting, he admitted that News Corp managed to “mismanage it in every possible way.”

joshsternberg: WSJ reports Yahoo board has approved a $1.1...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:55:45 +0300

joshsternberg:

WSJ reports Yahoo board has approved a $1.1 billion deal — in cash — to purchase Tumblr.

wired: NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:55:10 +0300

wired:

NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the various distances traveled by wheeled machines on other worlds.

Space has never been so adorable.

coffeebooks: You Can Sleep When You’re Dead by mootown on...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:52:57 +0300

coffeebooks:

You Can Sleep When You’re Dead by mootown on Flickr.

License: CC BY 2.0

futurejournalismproject: Scaling Mt....

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:52:46 +0300

futurejournalismproject:

Scaling Mt. Everest

Twenty-five-year-old Raha Moharrak is the first Saudi Arabian woman, and youngest Arab ever, to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. She accomplished the feat with the first Qatari and Palestinian men to ever reach the peak, and an Iranian man.

The group calls itself Arabs with Altitude and the expedition was made in an attempt to raise $1 million for education projects in Nepal.

Image: Raha Moharrak on being “first”. Mt. Everest aerial view via Wikimedia Commons. Select to embiggen.

parislemon: jstn: Seeing this in IMAX 3D was the best thing...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:51:01 +0300

parislemon:

jstn:

Seeing this in IMAX 3D was the best thing I’ve done since getting my eyes lasered. Having peripheral vision continues to be an unexpected joy.

It makes me really anxious when glass starts cracking in space.

You think you are safe… you are not.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 00:19:29 +0300

reuters: You could hold my umbrella-ella-ella: famous people...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:13:43 +0300

reuters:

You could hold my umbrella-ella-ella: famous people don’t always hold their own umbrellas, but when they do, they do it with worldly stature and infinite wisdom.

Pictures by REUTERS - Jason Reed; Caroline Blumberg; Tobias Schwarz; Regis Duvignau; Brian Snyder; Suzanne Plunkett.

Day of the Umbrella…

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Fri, 17 May 2013 23:57:41 +0300

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Fri, 17 May 2013 23:48:48 +0300

colchrishadfield: Spaceflight finale: To some this may look...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:46:09 +0300

colchrishadfield:

Spaceflight finale: To some this may look like a sunset. But it’s a new dawn.

inothernews: You guys go and do this awesomely nerdy thing...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:34:06 +0300

inothernews:

You guys go and do this awesomely nerdy thing that Slate did.

guardian: Fans wearing Daft Punk helmets arrive at a venue in...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:31:55 +0300

guardian:

Fans wearing Daft Punk helmets arrive at a venue in Australia’s tiny town of Wee Waa prior to the French band’s album launch this morning. Wee Waa, better known for cotton-picking than culture, was relishing the limelight as thousands of electo-pop fans descended on it. The cotton town’s population will more than double for the event.

Photograph: Shanna Whan/AFP/Getty Images

kateoplis: Lichtenstein, 1963

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:12:43 +0300

kateoplis:

Lichtenstein, 1963

ibmblr: Why make the world’s smallest movie? Here’s one big...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:10:28 +0300

ibmblr:

Why make the world’s smallest movie? Here’s one big reason:

View the infographic ➝

fastcodesign: How Adobe Reinvented The Pen To Draw On The...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:31:04 +0300

fastcodesign:

How Adobe Reinvented The Pen To Draw On The Internet

It’s a cloud-connected pen—or humanity’s single-greatest, simplest creative apparatus, married to the entire world of digital tools and information.

Read more here.

guardian: The Starman falls to earth. Canadian astronaut Chris...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:14:03 +0300

guardian:

The Starman falls to earth. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, whose David Bowie cover captured the imagination of Earthlings yesterday, landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan.

Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty Images

adqtvn: Cette photo de Yuzuru Masuda fait penser à une sorte de...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:13:40 +0300

adqtvn:

Cette photo de Yuzuru Masuda fait penser à une sorte de vaisseau spatial s’approchant d’une planète océan.

(Source : dailymail.co.uk)