Foodies have most likely already heard of At.mosphere, a marvelous restaurant perched atop the 122nd floor of Dubai's Burj Khalifa. It's currently the world's highest restaurant and head chef Dwayne Cheer from New Zealand says, "We have one of the most beautiful kitchens in the world - we have a view all the way down Sheikh Zayed Road and we can see the ocean. I can be deep-frying chips and looking at The World islands - it's crazy." Continue reading for more.
Did you know that Bruce Lee's punches were so fast that filmmakers actually had to slow down his movements in the editing room so we could see them? Or, that Top Gun was such an effective advertisement for the US Navy that they actually set up recruitment booths right outside theaters? Click here to view the first image in today's viral picture gallery. Continue reading for a viral video showing how to wake someone up with a laser pointer and a husky.
You know a picture is snapped at the exact right moment when you get your subject's eyes blinking faster than the camera's shutter. As we see time and time again, it's more about being at the right place and time rather than having the most expensive camera equipment. Continue reading for 20 more funny and cool pictures snapped at the exact right moment.
This simple pouch carries cards, cash and receipts safely away from incidental moisture and is super thin and light.
It’s crazy how far this bear will go to get a snack in this video.
This funky hammock/tent design is a treehouse that can travel.
In 1974, Gordy Ainsleigh competed against horses in a 100-mile run that gave birth to one of the most famous ultra races in the world. This video tells his story.
This handmade fat bike is built to take on the longest mountain approaches.
AUSTIN, Texas — Disney got Austin weird for SXSW.
Artists at Austin's Mondo Gallery, the collectible art division of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, put a quirky twist on classic Disney movie posters for an exhibit that debuted at SXSW. The gallery collaborated with Disney blog "Oh My Disney" for the show, titled "Nothing's Impossible!," a nod to Alice in Wonderland.
“Oh My Disney is about connecting Disney with digital natives through humorous, heartfelt, and imaginative stories," said Dan Reynolds, director of social strategy for Disney Interactive. "Mondo’s success at bringing classics to life through creative designed for social audiences made them the right partner for this experience at SXSW." Read more...
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Talk about living life on the edge
Scott Young is going above and beyond, and upside down, to prove his daredevil ways. The English 25-year-old is gaining viral fame for doing handstands on the edge of tall buildings' rooftops
No safety nets, no ropes, no spotters — just a guy with fantastic upper-body strength and a camera in his shoe. The footage provides a dizzying shot of what lies below
Young has done handstands on skyscrapers as tall as 40 stories (in China), The Daily Mail reports. The first time Young attempted the stunt was in India, atop a 20-story abandoned building Read more...
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We already told you how to fix the endless notifications from QuizUp, and now the developers have started to address the next biggest issue — cheaters. Today's update now causes you to surrender if you try to open the notification bar, which apparently was used for a popular cheat method. Cached images are also removed on application start, which also could give some crafty cheater and advantage. The full changelog is after the break.
    
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Google's begun rolling out an update to the Maps app on Android today, bringing it to version 7.7. While not much seems to have changed, a full 0.X release typically denotes at least some kind of new feature or significant alteration, though thus far we've really only seen one.
For the moment, all we're noticing in the new version of Maps are the "Upcoming events" listings populating some place listings.
[Updated] Google Maps v7.7 For Android Rolling Out, Adds Public Upcoming Events To Place Cards And Saving Dropped Pins Everywhere [APK Download] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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NBA player LeBron James, a celebrity spokesperson for Samsung who has been featured in a variety of Galaxy device ads, had a mini-meltdown on Twitter this week when his Samsung phone deleted all of his data.
Miami Heat's James, who must carry around the Samsung-branded Galaxy smartphone as a part of an endorsement deal, was quick to share his frustration with the device in a tweet to his 12 million followers
Considering the company is paying James a hefty sum to endorse and promote the brand, this probably didn't sit too well with the Samsung crew. Read more...
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AUSTIN, Texas — Like bees to honey, cameras swarmed 42-year-old rapper Snoop Dogg when he walked into Airbnb's pop-up venue for SXSW on Tuesday. The veteran artist watched as people around him sipped on the event's special drink — gin and juice — a cocktail that he rapped about in his 1994 hit single of the same name.
The song is still remembered 20 years later, which is something any new musician or band can only dream of. But SXSW, which was originally designed to showcase independent artists, can surely help them take that first step into similar stardom — right?
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An oil rig worker working off the south-eastern coast of Vietnam claims to have witnessed the crash of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
In a email sent to his employer, which was acquired, confirmed, and then shared by the ABC journalist Bob Woodruff, the man says, "I believe I saw the Malaysian Airlines plane come down. The timing is right."
Vietnamese officials received email from oil rig worker who says he spotted burning object off the coast of SE Vietnam @GMA
— Bob Woodruff (@BobWoodruff) March 12, 2014
Vietnamese officials reportedly confirmed they got the letter, but found nothing in the water. Read more...
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For an app people use so heavily, the official Instagram app for Android has been a bit of a UI disaster since it launched back in 2012. It's about to be much better today with the release of version 5.1. The design is cleaner and flatter with a bit of an Android vibe. It's not super-holo, but it's a start.
The update hasn't hit Google Play yet [Update: should be live now], but the Instagram blog says it's only a matter of time.
Instagram v5.1 Dropping Today With A More Android-Friendly UI [Update: It's Live] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Jay Z and Kanye West are aiming to run this town this week. Samsung exclusively told Mashable first that the rappers will kick off the tech company's four-day SXSW concert series, which starts Wednesday night
Samsung plans to distribute concert wristbands only to owners of Galaxy devices with the newly launched ad-free radio service called Milk Music downloaded on their devices. They can pick up their wristbands at the Galaxy Experience pop-up location at 2nd Street and Trinity Street starting Tuesday at 10 a.m. CT
The concerts' location won't be announced until show day
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AUSTIN, Texas — Grumpy Cat sat on the Iron Throne once. It was terrible.
The world's most famous grouchy kitty conquered Austin and Westeros this week. Grumpy visited the Game of Thrones exhibit at SXSW on Monday and took her rightful place on the Iron Throne. Queen of Dragons, bequeath your crown to the Queen of the Internet.
See also: 15 Dating Tips From 'Game of Thrones'
Grumpy Cat's banner man (read: agent) gave Mashable an exclusive first look at her Iron Throne rule. Terror and hairballs will rain down upon you, Lannisters.
The SXSW Game of Thrones: The Exhibition is open until March 11 at the Austin Music Hall Read more...
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Call them Glassoldiers.
The American military may soon be filled with soldiers sporting Google Glass-like headgear that can measure distances, display 3D building layouts, transmit video from a drone and more, all on a glass display right in front of their eyes.
Battlefields are full of data soldiers can use: enemy positions, the location of fellow soldiers, maps of a city or a house, video of what they'll encounter over a hill. But until recently, there's been no way to live-stream that data to soldiers on the ground. That's what Q-Warrior, high-tech headgear built by United Kingdom-based BAE Systems, provides. First reported by Wired, it gives soldiers a full-color, 3D display of what's happening in areas outside their line of sight, which has the potential to seriously boost a soldier's situational awareness. Read more...
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Jimmy Fallon, that old rascal, is at it againThe Tonight Show host teamed up with Mad Men star Jon Hamm to photobomb a bunch of unsuspecting folks getting their picture taken at Top of the Rock
The Top of the Rock observation deck at Rockefeller Center in New York City is one of the best spots to see a beautiful panorama of the Big Apple. Getting photobombed there is usually not a good thing, but we guess it's not that bad when you get Fallon and Hamm sharing a gigantic sandwich in your photo.
Jimmy Fallon has been rocking the world of viral videos in his Late Night days, and he's not showing signs of stopping now that he's replaced Jay Leno on the The Tonight Show. His photobombing accomplice Jon Hamm will be reprising his role as Don Draper in the seventh (and last) season of Mad Men, the first episode of which will air April 13, 2014 Read more...
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Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android applications, games, and live wallpapers that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so.
Looking for the previous roundup editions? Find them here.
Today's roundup is presented by DigiCal Calendar & Widgets from Digibites.
24 Best (And 2 WTF) New Android Apps From The Last 2 Weeks (2/25/14 - 3/10/14) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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Ever since Google announced the $35 Chromecast media streaming dongle, the company has enjoyed great success. We figured sales were off the charts with early availability of the dongle being scarce throughout various retail outlets, but now we have a better idea of just how much buzz Google has been able to generate around this thing.
According to Android and Chrome boss Sundar Pichai, Chromecast sales have crept into the “millions” range, though he wasn’t interested in giving us any exact figures. Either way, hitting over a million units is significant, and Google won’t want to slow down at this point.
The company revealed at SXSW that they are working hard to bring the Chromecast to many more countries within the next few weeks. The device has only been available for US customers to this point, so it’ll be interesting to see just how successful this thing can be once more of the world gets their hands on it.
Even crazier to think about is the fact that the Chromecast train is only just getting started. It wasn’t until recently that Google opened up the SDK to any and every developer willing and able to implement support, and we’ve seen many new apps introduce functionality as a result. It’s already blossomed into a very powerful and flexible multimedia beast, and we imagine things will get even better once more developers catch on.
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The scene was unprecedented: seven runners walking off the track hand in hand, in quiet protest against their own governing body. The women had just run the 1,500-meter race at the U.S. indoor national championships on Feb. 23 in Albuquerque. The day before, the winner of the 3,000-meter race, Gabe Grunewald, had been disqualified by one of the most powerful men in track, Nike Oregon Project coach Alberto Salazar, for supposedly interfering with one of his athletes. How Salazar managed the feat is still unclear, but to fans and to other runners it was obvious what had happened: The people who really run the sport had prevailed upon the people who nominally do to change a result in their favor.
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If you didn't get enough coverage of Samsung's new devices from our own Mobile World Congress posts, Sammy has posted its own official hands-on videos for the three new gadgets introduced at the show. The Samsung YouTube page now has in-depth videos for the Galaxy S5 and the Gear 2 and Gear Fit. They're pretty exhaustive: the phone video clocks in at just under eight minutes and the watch video is over nine minutes.
Samsung Posts Extensive Hands-On Videos With The Galaxy S5, Gear 2, And Gear Fit was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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Earlier this week, college volleyball player Trey Biggs took an absolutely vicious spike to the face and the result was an instant classic. He looks like a storm trooper getting blown away. But there's so much more.
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Andrew Wiggins scored 41 points in a furious comeback for Kansas that came up just short. He also had eight rebounds, five steals, four blocks and two assists. The Jayhawks freshman was pretty much unstoppable against the Mountaineers, who watched a 25 point lead dissolve into a 92-86 nailbiter win at home.
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This series of photos from MyFoxTampaBay.com show the harrowing collision between a skydiver and a small Cessna earlier today in South Lakeland Florida. Amazingly, both the skydiver and the pilot walked away with non-serious injuries.
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Photos captured a frightening moment on Saturday, as a descending parachutist was struck by a light plane, causing both to crash. Somehow, neither the skydiver nor the pilot suffered serious injuries.
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