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The Best, Worst and Craziest Ultrabooks From CES 2012 [PICS]If there was a star product from CES 2012, it was the Ultrabook. Not excited? It’s hard to blame you — the whole move toward slim, lightweight laptops that actually perform well is essentially an outgrowth of Apple’s MacBook Air line of laptops, introduced four years ago this w... How to Train Your Plants to Tweet for Water [VIDEO]Technology has come to the aid of those born without green thumbs. SparkFun’s Botanicalls Kit lets your plants tell you when they’re thirsty. The petal-shaped chip connects to your house plant and tweets you as soon as the moisture drops. The kit consists of an Arduino microc... Get on Board: Italian Cruise Ship Meme Goes Viral [PICS]Italian cruise ship Captain Francesco Schettino won’t be able to leave behind the backlash his actions created on the Internet. “Vada A Bordo, Cazzo!” is the latest meme circulating the web. It translates to “get on board, d__k.” The phrase came from an exchange C... Google Apologizes for Stealing Customers From Kenyan StartupGoogle has apologized — via Google+ and by phone — to the CEO of an African startup whose databases were compromised by a Kenya-based team working for Google. Nelson Mattos, Google’s vice president for product and engineering for Europe and emerging markets, stated on ... Mass Effect 3 Gets XBox Kinect Function and Demo DateA new Mass Effect 3 trailer has hit the Internet showcasing the highly-anticipated action role-playing-game’s new Kinect functionality. The video shows players using their voices to give commands to allies, pick up guns or even shoot weapons, activate special abilities and throw grenades. It... Making Light of a Dark Day: 6 SOPA Memes Worth SeeingZing for Wikipedia Image from Someecards.com.Click here to view this gallery. As many popular websites go dark on Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), amusing memes about the situation are making the rounds online. Sure, SOPA and the Protect... How Toshiba Uses Social Media to Make Products Its Customers Really Want [VIDEO]If you were paying attention to the news coming out of CES last week you probably know about Toshiba’s ultra thin new tablet, but what you may not know is the process whereby some of these brilliant new ideas come from. Toshiba uses social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and You... Zuckerberg: SOPA Is ‘Poorly Thought-Out Law’Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg voiced his opinion about SOPA and PIPA for the first time Wednesday, calling the legislature “poorly-thought out laws that get in the way of the internet’s development.” Zuckerberg’s opposition to the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP A... Google Thinks OPEN Is a Rational Alternative to SOPAThe tech industry isn’t against all legislative attempts to fight piracy. In fact, Google for one has even endorsed an alternative bill to SOPA called OPEN. Explaining its opposition to SOPA and Senate doppelganger PIPA, Google’s Official Blog gave a plug for OPEN as an “altern... ‘The Day The LOLcats Died’ Song Clobbers SOPA Supporters [VIDEO]Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. With Wednesday’s protest of SOPA and PIPA in full swing on the web and in person, the play button on “The Day The LOLcats Died” video from I Can Has Cheezburger is getting heavy at... |