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Monday, September 24, 2012

BuzzFeed FWD: Your Favorite GIFs, Now With Sound And More!


Your Favorite GIFs, Now With Sound

Now, if only we could find a way to do this inside the GIF.

Watch Iman Shumpert Dunk An iPhone 5

And sadly this is among the least wasteful things anyone associated with the Knicks has done in years.

What's The Worst Thing Your Parents Or Grandparents Do On Facebook?

Do they use weird shorthand? Post chain letters? Embarrass you in front of your friends? Vent it out here. This is a safe space.

2,000 Workers Riot At China's Foxconn Factory

Unrest at the notorious factory where Apple manufactures many of its products injures 40 employees, reportedly stems from security guards beating a worker.

Did Facebook Reveal Your Private Messages?

The company claims that newly-posted messages from before 2009 are not private. This may be true but people are still freaked out.

How A Famous Hashtag Is Born

Instagram's #ThrowBackThursday all started with some Hotwheels cars.

Watch The Endeavor Shuttle Fly Piggyback In Beautiful Slow Motion

Now with multiple soundtracks!

Geocities Yourself

Transport your Facebook page back to 1999 - because you totally miss those animated flames and cool spinning.

Apple's Strange Weekend

Apple sold about five million iPhones over the weekend, which is a < a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/iphone-5-sales-top-5-million-during-launch-weekend/>new record despite falling short of analysts' estimates. Meanwhile, Foxconn, Apple's controversial manufacturing partner, was forced to shut down a factory in Taiyuan after 2,000 workers were "involved in a brawl at a company dormitory."

Cloud Data Centers Use 30 Billion Watts of Power

And they probably don't need to! The Times has been digging in to this one for the past year, and they published their findings over the weekend. The most damning stat: only 6 to 12% of that power is actually put to work serving data. The rest is reserve capacity for traffic spikes. That's the price of 100% uptime.

How Google Bought Legislation to Let Driverless Cars on California Highways

With $140,000 to a prominent Sacramento law firm and a steady drumbeat of state ($64,000 to state senatorial candidates) and federal campaign contributions (over $8 million), Google pushed for a bill that could have been controversial — to let their robot cars onto the freeways of California. But because of their spending (and their savvy), the bill sailed through the state's senate and awaits approval from the governor. Go read the whole story; Zusha Elinson from The Bay Citizen got some choice quotes from politicos about what it looks like for tech money to flex its political power.

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