Twitter reportedly suspends Deadspin and SB Nation accounts over NFL GIFs

Twitter suspended the accounts of Deadspin and SBnationGIF, an account linked to Vox-owned SB Nation, on Monday. Both accounts were reportedly suspended for copyright violations stemming from their use of GIFs of NFL games.

Both accounts for the Gawker-owned Deadspin and SBnationGIF were inaccessible Monday. A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on matters pertaining to individual accounts, but multiple reports cited the NFL as the source of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices that resulted in the suspensions. Copyright owners, including sports leagues, often use DMCA notices to ask companies hosting copyrighted material — in this case, Twitter — to remove the content in question. Read more...

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Recyclables become useable art in these six-second Vines

Plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, office paper and glass jars — most of us throw these materials away after just one use. What we don't realize, though, is that they can easily be given a second life with a little bit of thought and creativity.

Last week's Vine challenge was all about using recycled objects to create something useful, in the style of DIY or upcycling.

See also: 10 DIY Projects to Revive Your Useless Junk

Mashable launched this challenge in partnership with PepsiCo, as part of its sustainability microsite #HowWillWe, where you can learn more about smart and sustainable ideas. Submissions included cardboard cacti, a wire desk tree, reshaped paper clips and more. Below, take a look at our favorite #RecycledArtwork entries


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'I F*cking Love Science' creator explains why she refused $30 million

You like it, your friends like it, scientists hate it, and everyone seems to be talking about it all the time. Popular Facebook page "I F*cking Love Science" is no less than a social media phenomenon with 22 million likes on its page

In 2012, Elise Andrew began posting a variety of weird science facts, factoids, memes, and a variety of immensely shareable content to a Facebook page to share with friends. It took off within weeks, and it hasn't really stopped since. Since then, "IFL Science" has been celebrated and decried on a tremendous scale.

There has been talk of a TV show, while Andrew has collaborated with the company responsible for the Discovery Channel and has been celebrated as a STEM "outreach hero." In contrast, Andrew has also been widely criticized by the science community for posting unverifiable claims, inaccurate articles and not attributing credit where it's due Read more...

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All LinkedIn Groups Becoming Private: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week LinkedIn Announces All Groups Will Be Made Private: In an effort to improve the quality of conversation in groups, […]

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The technology of talk: How we can reclaim conversation

Many of my daily conversations don't involve eye contact. My roommate texts me from a neighboring bedroom. My boss sends me an instant message from a few feet away. Sometimes, the substitution of face-to-face talk for words on a screen makes me uneasy. Yet other days, it slips past unnoticed, and I too reach for a keyboard instead of finding someone's gaze.

Sherry Turkle, a clinical psychologist and sociologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has spent the past 30 years observing how people react and adapt when new technologies change the ways we communicate. In her latest book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Turkle argues that texts, tweets, Facebook posts, emails, instant messages, and snapchats — simultaneous, rapid-fire "sips" of online communication — have replaced face-to-face conversation, and that people are noticing the consequences. Over-reliance on devices, she argues, is harming our ability to have valuable face-to-face conversations, "the most human thing we do," by splitting our attention and diminishing our capacity for empathy. Read more...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about art in one of the first Reddit video AMAs

Reddit's AMA — short for "ask me anything" — is one of the most loved facets of the popular social media site, enabling the community to crowd-interview anyone with an interesting story to tell

On Tuesday, Reddit launched the first batch of video AMAs, a new take on the format which has folks answering redditors' questions on video, and one of the first stars to participate was none other than astrophysicist and TV host Neil deGrasse Tyson

See also: Neil deGrasse Tyson joins push for new planet-hunting space telescope

Tyson is no stranger to AMAs — he's participated in five of them since 2011, but this one is a bit different. Not only does he answer the questions to the camera, but the session has a set topic: art Read more...

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