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Surprise Google I/O Appearance

“Technology should do the hard work, so people can get on with doing the things that make them happiest in life,” – Larry Page

Surprise Google I/O Appearance

It's Easier to Maintain Weight Loss in Second Life Than in Real Life: Study

Countering the stereotype of the web-surfing couch potato, a new study reveals that logging online may actually help people maintain their weight loss

Researchers from the University of Kansas Medical Center compared results from 20 overweight and obese individuals who embarked on a nine-month weight-loss program. The first three months focused on weight loss, followed by six months of weight maintenance. Participants were randomly divided into two groups:

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  Those who attended weekly in-person clinics for weight-loss consultation, and then received weight-maintenance consultation via Second Life, a virtual-reality community.

  
  


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  Those who received both weight-loss and -maintenance consultation on Second Life. Read more…

  
  

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It's Easier to Maintain Weight Loss in Second Life Than in Real Life: Study

Ask Hugh Jackman 'Wolverine' Questions for May 2 Twitter Chat

Golden Globe winner Hugh Jackman will use Twitter on Thursday to answer fans’ burning questions about The Wolverine movie — in which he will play the disgruntled hero with degenerative abilities for the sixth time in the X-Men film franchise

20th Century Fox exclusively told Mashable that the May 2 Twitter chat will begin at noon ET, and will involve Jackman responding to questions via video. People can tweet questions using hashtags #AskHugh and #TheWolverine before and during the Q&A. Answers will appear on the @RealHughJackman or @WolverineMovie accounts.

The film hits theaters July 26, and tackles Wolverine’s immortality. “Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before,” according to 20th Century Fox Read more…

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How to Successfully Launch a New Website & Refresh Your Brand

Launching a new website isn’t just about updating your CMS and content, it’s also a brand refresh – your opportunity to reshape your company from the inside out. Here’s a roadmap of vital elements you’ll need for a successful relaunch and rebrand.

How to Successfully Launch a New Website & Refresh Your Brand

MTV Is Bringing 'Scream' to TV

MTV is turning Scream, Wes Craven’s 16-year-old slasher film franchise, into a TV series for the Millennial Generation, the network revealed this week during its star-studded upfront presentation to announce new programming to advertisers.

MTV has greenlit a one-hour pilot of Scream with Dimension Films, the production company behind the popular 1996 original and its three sequels featuring the “Ghostface” killer. Dimension is in talks to get Craven to direct the reboot, which is scheduled to debut in summer 2014. Although the cast and writers have yet to be finalized, MTV says DiGa Vision has been tapped to produce the potential series Read more…

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MTV Is Bringing 'Scream' to TV

6 Winning Vines From Tribeca Film Festival

Films, like many things in life, come in all shapes and sizesTribeca Film Festival gave new meaning to short films this year, however, when it challenged people to create six-second films using Twitter’s Vine app

After narrowing the field of 400 submissions to 40 earlier this month, judges for this #6SecFilms contest announced the winners this weekend.

“We were most impressed with the creativity at play when it came to the submissions, after all, making a film or even telling a story in six seconds is not an easy feat,” said Genna Terranova, Tribeca Film Festival’s programming director.

SEE ALSO: 35 Ways Musicians and Music Brands Are Using Twitter’s Vine App

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6 Winning Vines From Tribeca Film Festival

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Joins the $1 Salary Club

Facebook confirmed in a filing that Mark Zuckerberg, the social network's founder and CEO, is taking a $1 salary this year, and foregoing any bonuses.

But he's not exactly taking a vow of poverty. When Facebook went public last year, Zuckerberg exercised 60 million stock options, then worth nearly $2.3 billion, buying those shares for next to nothing. (He sold half of the stock to cover his tax bill.) And he's still sitting on another 60 million stock options that can be exercised on Nov. 7, 2015, for the same dirt-cheap price of $0.06.

All of those shares give Zuckerberg plenty of incentive to keep Facebook in good financial health, although he is on record saying, "We don't wake up in the morning with the primary goal of making money," and isn't really beholden to shareholders, since he controls a majority of proxy votes. Read more...

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Joins the $1 Salary Club

Google Reports Surge in Government Takedown Requests

Google reported in its bi-annual transparency report that government requested takedowns are up from the first half of last year. From July to December 2012 Google received 2,285 government requests to remove content from its platforms.
Google Reports Surge in Government Takedown Requests

Google Buys Startup Wavii in Move to Boost Knowledge Graph

Google has acquired news summarization start-up Wavii for more than $30 million. Wavii, which uses natural language processing technology to distil online news into topics the users most care about, confirmed the news in a post on their website.
Google Buys Startup Wavii in Move to Boost Knowledge Graph