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It’s no secret that Americans enjoy using social media while they watch TV. But which shows are accumulating the most social buzz this season? We thought it time to break down the stats in a new weekly chart. The best part? These charts dish the dirt — that is, a scale of positive sentim...

Miami Heat owner Micky Arison has been fined $500,000 for venting on Twitter about the NBA lockout. The fine — believed to be the largest ever levied against an owner by the NBA — came after Arison responded to a fan’s tweet. That original message read: “How’s it fee...

We’ve seen many expensive gadget makeovers, but this one probably takes the cake for being over the top: An iPad 2 dressed in gold, diamonds and bones of a 65-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex. Stuart Hughes’s iPad 2 Gold History Edition, as this ultra-high-end gadget is called, is ...

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We all know consumers spend more during the holiday season than any other time during the year. But did you know 38% of people have already began their yearly shopping extravaganzas? Online shopping now beats out shopping in stores (for the social media users who responded to the survey) and electro...

Toyota unveiled four robots designed to accomplish ambitious objectives at a Tokyo event Tuesday: Help paralyzed patients walk or balance and help their caretakers gently transport them between locations. The company hopes to commercialize the products sometime after 2013. One of Toyota’s ...

It turns out Apple wasn’t responsible for the disappearance of the Amazon Cloud Player app aMusic from the App Store. The app was removed at Amazon’s request. When the app, an unofficial iOS client for Amazon’s Cloud Player service, disappeared from the App Store due to “l...

The new-look Gmail that Google accidentally told us about last week is now rolling out to all users. The changes, officially announced in a blog post Tuesday, allow Gmail users much more control over the look of the service. You can drag sidebars around to your preferred size and width, choose ...

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox, a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory, Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshua...

Twitter unveiled a collection of Twitter Stories Monday designed to remind users “of the humanity behind Tweets that make the world smaller.” There are currently just under 20 short vignettes gathered at stories.twitter.com. And these vignettes are indeed short: between 100 and 150 wo...