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Is Yahoo about to buy Tumblr?
(CNN) — In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league of social media, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to be closing in on a $1 billion acquisition deal with David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr.
Details of the talks leaked out earlier Thursday via AllThingsD, a site which prides itself on its Yahoo sources in particular. A later report in AdWeek, via its own sources, cited $1 billion as the figure currently under discussion. Coincidentally, that is said to be the valuation Tumblr was going to get at its next funding round.
Both sites were cautious to emphasize that the talks could come to naught. Mayer is clearly interested; she’s known
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Google+: One tool to bind them all
(CNN) — For two years, Google has pushed its Google+ as more than a social network or cool video-chatting tool. This week, it is working to hammer home that point with a spate of new features.
Google+ isn’t an answer to Facebook or Twitter, Google says. It’s the connective tissue that more and more is tying Google’s most popular products together — and it will not be ignored.
Since it debuted in June 2011, Google+ has seeped into all other parts of the Google ecosystem, tying into other Google offerings like search, Gmail and YouTube. Sometimes the product feels like an invasive species, especially when using it is required to benefit from the coolest features in other Google products.
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Tech tools tell you you’re drunk
(CNN) — Even if they don’t admit it, most people know when they’re hammered.
But they may not always know when they’re legally drunk.
If states heed the new recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board, it will be easier for motorists in the U.S. to be arrested for drunken driving. The NTSB wants states to reduce the blood-alcohol content threshold used by law enforcement to prosecute drunken driving from 0.08 to 0.05.
In plainer language, that means drivers could be subject to arrest after downing as few as two recent drinks.
Will drunk driving standard get tougher?
How do
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Meet your robot bartender
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The Makr Shakr can make any drink according to your recipe
Makr Shakr in the lab, being taught how to shake and pour
MIT Senseable City Lab members program Makr Shakr
A massive screen behind the bar allows party-goers to see each others’ cocktail recipes and interact via social media
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We the Geeks: a nerdy Constitution
Editor’s note: Despite his unfortunate reference to a “Jedi mind meld,” some consider President Barack Obama the first geek president for his tech fluency and outreach. Now the White House is launching its #WeTheGeeks initiative, a series of online video chats meant to “highlight the future of science, technology and innovation in the United States.” The first one happened Thursday at 2 pm ET on the White House’s Google+ page and included four leading thinkers in science and technology. We at CNN.com began to wonder what would happen if there really was a part of the dusty old U.S. Constitution devoted to geeks. So we, who are geeks ourselves, drafted one. Below, you will find Article I of the Geek Constitution.
