This is insane. Truly. Just a few years ago, it would have been unthinkable. Now it’s not just real, it’s available from your local Ford dealer, with a warranty. For about sixty grand. It’s a 200-mph Shelby Mustang with 662 horsepower. It’s an American supercar for the 99 percent. It’s also, as you’d expect, fun. At its heart, it’s still very much…

So.cl; the Microsoft social media site that accidentally went online a few months ago, is now officially live and inviting you to try out their new service. You can join the service as long as you’re 18 years and older, and have a Facebook or Windows Live account.

Microsoft’s So.cl, pronounced “Social” is a product of Microsoft’s research lab Fuselabs. The site offers enhanced features such as Explore, Feed, Post, Video Parties and the ability to share any web content.

It looks like Microsoft has indeed created its own social network to compete with the likes of Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest. The timing of the launch is perfect, since Microsoft silently launched So.cl two days after Facebook became a public company.

If you remember, Microsoft invested $240 million, or 1.6% stake in Facebook in 2007, which is now reportedly worth anywhere between $250 million to $1.6 billion. One thing that any user of So.cl needs to remember is that all your data on so.cl are public by default, unless of course you change them as private via the SETTINGS section.

To join So.cl, just click here and visit here for more information about the service.

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Weather conditions deteriorated at Le Mans Sunday afternoon, placing the Monster Energy Grand Prix de France MotoGP race on the Bugatti circuit at Le Mans strictly in the hands of rain-master Jorge Lorenzo on the Factory Yamaha Racing motorcycle. The Spaniard charged past pole man Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner on their Repsol Hondas on the first…

Recently named as the world’s biggest smartphone maker, Samsung gets yet another record added to their name, and boy, it’s really making a lot of buzz in the phone industry.

According to a report, Samsung has already received 9 million pre-orders of their newest flagship handset Galaxy S III since its initial launch in the first week of May this year.

The latest version of the famous Galaxy smartphone so far has gotten the above figures of pre-orders from more than 100 international phone carriers, and pre-orders are still coming in!

But what makes the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III stand out from the crowd? Well, first off, the device has all the looks, intelligence and social features that you’ve come to expect from a smartphone. It has amazing and interesting stuff on it including the new super-fast quad-core 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Cortex A9 processor, 1GB RAM and 16GB – up to 32GB of internal storage.

The new Galaxy S III also boasts an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS, a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display, an 8-megapixel camera in the back and a 1.9-megapixel secondary front camera, an AllShare Cast feature, a Smart Stay feature, a SocialTag for face recognition, S Beam media share via NFC + WiFi direct, and a Siri-like nifty feature called the S Voice.

The newest “wonder” phone will be first available in Europe on May 29 and in the U.S. coming June of this year. The device is also expected to be available in select countries worldwide as well.

With all this said, does Apple need to worry about the soaring popularity and record-breaking feats being enjoyed by Samsung so far? Will iPhone 5 or the next version of iPhone top all the hoopla and surpass all the amazing new features of the Galaxy S III? Your guess is as good as mine, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Sorry ladies but the famous and charismatic founder and CEO of the most famous and biggest social networking site Facebook is now married to his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan. Surprised?

According to a report, a day after the much-celebrated and historic Facebook IPO, CEO Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to “married.”

The couple married at Zuckerberg’s Palto Alto, CA home in a very private ceremony in front of fewer than 100 very selected guests who were all very suprised and stunned, having no idea that they were there to attend a wedding and not a “supposed” graduation party for Chan who just graduated from the University of California with a degree in medicine.

The wedding had been rumored to have been planned for months by both Zuckerberg and Chan and the date around the Facebook IPO was only a “target” day but not officially confirmed.

Zuckerberg wore a dark blue suit and tie on the cerememony and Chan wore a traditional and conservative-looking white wedding dress with veil and lace. Food was served family-style from their favorite Palto Alto restaurant.

“Everybody was shocked”, exclaimed one of the wedding party guests. Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sanberg was one of the wedding attendees. Other wedding guests didn’t want to be identified for privacy reasons.

The couple first met at Harvard University in 2004 and have been together for more than nine years.

Well, now that Zuckerberg and Chan’s wedding is no longer private and is already public, why don’t we give them our best wishes and send them our warm congratulations, shall we?

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If you’re not a bug lover, then this story isn’t for you. However, if you like the little creeper crawlers, then the thought of over 700,000 preserved insects that were on display in Arizona might be something that would get you excited.

Hundreds of thousands of those critters were on display at the Frank F. Hasbrouck Insect Collection at Arizona State University, a little-known collection of roughly 700,000 preserved insects.

“We have a large collection of beetles, and a spectacular collection of moths. There’s a walking stick that’s probably close to a foot long, and a big rhinoceros Scarab beetle. We have a specimen of the largest butterfly species,”  Nico Franz, associate professor in ASU’s School of Life Sciences and curator of the insect collection, told the East Valley Tribune.

The event, which was in observance of International Museum Day, showcased insects from the Southwest as well as some that were collected in other North American regions and Mexico. Some of the critters are 100 years old or more, according to the report.

Franz told the paper that the collection has grown slowly over the years, which houses approximately two million insect specimens. The collection is named after Frank Hasbrouck, passed away in the 1980s.

“[Hasbrouck] came to ASU in 1962. When he came, we had about 50,000 specimens, and by the time he passed, it was easily eight or ten times that much,” Franz told the paper (he took on the role of curator in August 2011).
“The collection had been sort of dormant, I think, for 15 or 25 years; however, we are well staffed for the first time in a long time. We’re collecting specimens again; we’re growing.”

He and his team are working to log the collection’s specimens in a virtual museum called The Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network. Funded by the National Science Foundation, it will digitize images and data for 750,000 arthropod specimens from the university and nine other institutions.

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If you’re not a bug lover, then this story isn’t for you. However, if you like the little creeper crawlers, then the thought of over 700,000 preserved insects that were on display in Arizona might be something that would get you excited.

Hundreds of thousands of those critters were on display at the Frank F. Hasbrouck Insect Collection at Arizona State University, a little-known collection of roughly 700,000 preserved insects.

“We have a large collection of beetles, and a spectacular collection of moths. There’s a walking stick that’s probably close to a foot long, and a big rhinoceros Scarab beetle. We have a specimen of the largest butterfly species,”  Nico Franz, associate professor in ASU’s School of Life Sciences and curator of the insect collection, told the East Valley Tribune.

The event, which was in observance of International Museum Day, showcased insects from the Southwest as well as some that were collected in other North American regions and Mexico. Some of the critters are 100 years old or more, according to the report.

Franz told the paper that the collection has grown slowly over the years, which houses approximately two million insect specimens. The collection is named after Frank Hasbrouck, passed away in the 1980s.

“[Hasbrouck] came to ASU in 1962. When he came, we had about 50,000 specimens, and by the time he passed, it was easily eight or ten times that much,” Franz told the paper (he took on the role of curator in August 2011).
“The collection had been sort of dormant, I think, for 15 or 25 years; however, we are well staffed for the first time in a long time. We’re collecting specimens again; we’re growing.”

He and his team are working to log the collection’s specimens in a virtual museum called The Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network. Funded by the National Science Foundation, it will digitize images and data for 750,000 arthropod specimens from the university and nine other institutions.

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There’s an expression that a lot of people use, mostly in a sarcastic way: “Living the dream.”

For Mark Zuckerberg, he’s probably living the dream…or his dream at least.

What a week for a guy who’s in his mid-20s.

First, Zuckerberg’s internet project, the behemoth that is Facebook, goes public. While the stock’s performance wasn’t stellar, it didn’t hit rock bottom either. In the short term, it made a lot of rich people even richer.

Then today, the news broke that The Zuck married his college sweetheart Priscilla Chan, who just so happens to be a doctor.

Talk about hitting the lottery, again. I mean, does she really need to take a salary?

They are a power couple indeed.

After taking Facebook public on Friday, the Zuckerberg reportedly said “I do” and changed his status on his personal profile page to “married.” According to the Associated Press, the 28-year-old Zuckerberg and the 27-year old Chan exchanged their vows at a small ceremony at the groom’s home in Palo Alto, Calif. There were fewer than 100 people at the event, including Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.

It’s been reported that Zuckerberg met Chan while in line to use the bathroom at a Harvard University party (though, the movie “The Social Network” portrays that meeting quite, er, differently). The pair dated on and off again in college, but maintained a relationship throughout the years.

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