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• Strong Apple Watch Preorders Seen as many Models Sell Out - eWeek

  13-04-2015 23:52 via eweek.com
  
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  Strong Apple Watch Preorders Seen as many Models Sell Out
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  Apple Watch sales are so brisk that many analysts predict that Apple will have to increase watch output to keep up with demand. As Apple Watch preorders began on April 10, it quickly became clear that demand would far outstrip supply for quite a while after ...
  Preference for lower-priced Apple Watches reflects a wait-and-see attitude from ...VentureBeat
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• Drive a Car? What to Expect From Robots Competition

  13-04-2015 23:41 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  DARPA has announced the final list of tasks that robots will be expected to autonomously perform in the agency's Robotics Challenge later this year.
  
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• US broadband trade group challenges FCC net neutrality - Reuters

  13-04-2015 23:25 via in.reuters.com
  
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  US broadband trade group challenges FCC net neutrality
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  (Reuters) - USTelecom, a U.S. trade group representing broadband providers, said on Monday it filed a petition challenging the Federal Communications Commission's recently approved net neutrality order after the rules were officially published. The rules ...
  Net neutrality rules get published, let the lawsuits beginCNET
  GOP bill would invalidate FCC's net neutrality rulesComputerworld
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• 3D Robotics' New Solo Drone Promises Hollywood-Quality Photos - NBCNews.com

  13-04-2015 23:22 via nbcnews.com
  
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  3D Robotics' New Solo Drone Promises Hollywood-Quality Photos
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  The robots of the future could take the weight off a soldier's shoulders. That's the idea driving the team at work on Lockheed Martin's Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) -- a large, unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that can navigate without human control.
  The 3DR Solo Is One Scary-Smart DroneWired
  New drone promises Hollywood-quality photosCNBC
  3D Robotics develops new revolutionary Solo droneTh
  
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• Space Station Grocery Run Stalled by Storm Clouds

  13-04-2015 23:17
  
  Space station grocery run stalled by storm clouds; SpaceX trying another rocket landing at sea
  
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• Welcome to the future: US cops pay Bitcoin ransom to end office hostage drama - The Register

  13-04-2015 23:16 via theregister.co.uk
  
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  Welcome to the future: US cops pay Bitcoin ransom to end office hostage drama
  The Register
  Blundering cops in Maine, US, have enriched malware masterminds by paying up to decrypt files held hostage by ransomware. Four city police departments and a sheriff's office in Lincoln County share a common computer network run by Burgess Computer, ...
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• Net neutrality rules get published, let the lawsuits begin - CNET

  13-04-2015 23:02 via cnet.com
  
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  Net neutrality rules get published, let the lawsuits begin
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  Now that the FCC's new rules have been published in the Federal Register, a 60-day clock has started until they take effect. That is, unless USTelecom can stop that. by Don Reisinger · @donreisinger; 14 April 2015, 6:52 am AEST. comments. 0. facebook.
  USTelecom Continues its Legal Fight Against FCC on Net NeutralityeWeek
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• SpaceX Rocket Launch and Recycling Test Scrubbed

  13-04-2015 22:51
  
  SpaceX is hoping the third time is the charm for its historic rocket recycling test.
  
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• Weather Forces Delay for SpaceX Cargo Delivery and Rocket Landing - NBCNews.com

  13-04-2015 22:49 via nbcnews.com
  
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  Weather Forces Delay for SpaceX Cargo Delivery and Rocket Landing
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  SpaceX had to delay the launch of a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station on Monday, due to threatening clouds that came too close to the pad. The two-stage Falcon 9 was scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...
  UPDATE 1-SpaceX rocket launch, landing test, delayed by weatherReuters
  Can SpaceX return booster to a barge? Third try Tuesday.Christian Science Monit
  
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• Preference for lower-priced Apple Watches reflects a wait-and-see attitude from ... - VentureBeat

  13-04-2015 22:38 via venturebeat.com
  
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  Preference for lower-priced Apple Watches reflects a wait-and-see attitude from ...
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  Judging by the preorder estimates for the Apple Watch, most consumers appear to have hedged their bets on this first version of the new device. Most people who preordered a Watch went for the lowest price models, the aluminum Sport watches. And most of ...
  Add-on band is already promising to double the Apple Watch's battery lifeMashable
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• Vizio's New 4K TV Lineup Starts at $600 - PC Magazine

  13-04-2015 22:36 via pcmag.com
  
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  Vizio's New 4K TV Lineup Starts at $600
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  In the market for a new TV, but think a super-clear Ultra HD model is way out of the budget? Think again. Vizio last year brought UHD to the mainstream with a $1,000 set, and now the TV maker is one-upping itself. The company on Monday launched its ...
  Vizio prices M series 4K TVs from $600, teases high-end, HDR-capable ...CNET
  Vizio Introduces M-Series 4K TVs Starting At $599; Reference Lineup Includes ...Tom's Ha
  
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• Study: More People Could Survive Tsunami If They Walk Faster

  13-04-2015 22:18
  
  Study: More people could survive major Northwest tsunami if they walk faster to higher ground
  
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• Google Fiber Prompts Time Warner Cable to Boost Web Speeds - PC Magazine

  13-04-2015 22:14 via pcmag.com
  
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  Google Fiber Prompts Time Warner Cable to Boost Web Speeds
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  Among the cities on tap to receive Google Fiber is Charlotte, North Carolina, and that has apparently prompted the region's biggest ISP—Time Warner Cable—to take action to hold on to customers. Time Warner Cable will roll out what it calls "TWC Maxx," ...
  Time Warner Feeling Heat From Google Fiber, Raises Speeds In CharlotteTom's Hardware
  TWC boosts its internet speeds to counter Google
  
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• Apple introduces 3D titles in Final Cut Pro 10.2, out now - Macworld

  13-04-2015 22:00 via macworld.com
  
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  Apple introduces 3D titles in Final Cut Pro 10.2, out now
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  Final Cut Pro is the go-to Mac app for serious Hollywood filmmakers, but the powerful video-editing software is getting easier to use for amateurs, too. Apple released Final Cut Pro 10.2 and updates to companion aps Motion and Compressor on Monday with ...
  Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X, Motion, CompressorPC Magazine
  Apple targets video pros with major updates to Final Cut Pro X, Motion ...Apple Insider
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• 4 'Game of Thrones' Episodes Leaked as New Season Begins

  13-04-2015 21:55
  
  A plot worthy of 'Game of Thrones: HBO scrutinizing leak of 4 episodes from drama's new season
  
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• Anatomy of a Terror Bird

  13-04-2015 21:41 via nytimes.com
  A well-preserved fossil in South America provides new details and clues that the bird could hear low-frequency sounds.
  
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• Russia Detains Hackers Accused of Using Nazi Imagery in Hits

  13-04-2015 21:38
  Russia detains 5 'cyberfascist' hackers - known for Nazi imagery - over theft of $1M
  
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• Southern California Hospital to Open Psychiatric Museum

  13-04-2015 21:25
  Southern California's Patton State Hospital to open psychiatric museum
  
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• The 3DR Solo Is One Scary-Smart Drone - Wired

  13-04-2015 21:25 via wired.com
  
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  The 3DR Solo Is One Scary-Smart Drone
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  Great drone footage is mesmerizing, no matter what it depicts. (Exhibit A: This video of a truck driving through mud in super-slow-motion.) But perfect shots—the swooping landscapes, the hovering overheads—are hard to come by. A new drone from 3D ...
  New drone promises Hollywood-quality photosCNBC
  3D Robotic's New Smart Drone For GoProClapway
  3D Robotics develops new revolutionary Solo droneThe Silver Ink
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• USTelecom Files Suit Against Government's New Internet Rules

  13-04-2015 21:23
  Legal fight erupts over the government's new Internet traffic rules as USTelecom files suit
  
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• Dark matter map unveils first results - BBC News

  13-04-2015 21:16 via bbc.com
  
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  Dark matter map unveils first results
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  A huge effort to map dark matter across the cosmos has released its first data. Dark matter is the invisible "web" that holds galaxies together; by watching how clumps of it shift over time, scientists hope eventually to quantify dark energy - the even more ...
  Penn Researchers Help Make Maps of the Universe's Dark MatterPenn: Office of University Communications
  Dark Energy Survey creates detailed guide to spotting dark
  
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• SpaceX Space Station Delivery Mission Brings Espresso And Another Landing ... - International Business Times

  13-04-2015 21:15 via ibtimes.com
  
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  SpaceX Space Station Delivery Mission Brings Espresso And Another Landing ...
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  SpaceX's Dragon craft will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX. SpaceX is launching its sixth commercial resupply mission, called CRS-6, to the International Space Station on ...
  SpaceX tries again to land rocket booster on barge at seaThe Seattle Times
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• Mars may still have a small amount of liquid water - The Verge

  13-04-2015 21:11 via theverge.com
  
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  Mars may still have a small amount of liquid water
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  Liquid water may still exist on Mars, but it's likely around for only short periods of time and in very small amounts. Researchers said today that the Curiosity rover has detected salts on Mars capable of significantly lowering the freezing point of water. This would ...
  Evidence of liquid water found on MarsBBC News
  Curiosity Finds Compelling Evidence of Liquid Water Near Martian SurfaceScience Times
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• Probabilistic Programming Accomplishes In 50 Lines Of Code What Normally ... - Headlines & Global News

  13-04-2015 21:11 via hngn.com
  
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  Probabilistic Programming Accomplishes In 50 Lines Of Code What Normally ...
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  "Two-dimensional images of human faces (top row) and front views of three-dimensional models of the same faces, produced by both a new MIT system (middle row) and one of its predecessors (bottom row)." (Photo : MIT). Scientists have been developing ...
  Probabilistic Programming Simplifies CodingProduct Design & Developmentall 12 news articles »
  
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• 'Solo' Drone Promises Hollywood-Quality Photos

  13-04-2015 20:24 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Drones may still be a niche market, but 3D Robotics is betting that won't be the case for long.
  
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• ICANN and a Lot of Other People Outsmart Themselves With .SUCKS - CircleID

  13-04-2015 20:18 via circleid.com
  ICANN and a Lot of Other People Outsmart Themselves With .SUCKS
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  Good taste has never been a criterion in ICANN's new domains program, and domains including .fail and the remarkably vulgar .wtf have become part of the DNS with little comment. Now we have .sucks, which is intended to empower consumers, but does so ...and more »
  
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• Chinese Hackers Target Southeast Asia, India: Report

  13-04-2015 20:07 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Hackers, most likely from China, have been spying on governments and businesses in Southeast Asia and India uninterrupted for a decade.
  
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• Juvenile Sea Turtles Are No Slackers

  13-04-2015 19:57 via nytimes.com
  Contrary to the notion that the young turtles merely drift with ocean currents, they work hard to find favorable habitats, a study found.
  
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• What NASA Learned From Bright Spots on Ceres

  13-04-2015 19:45
  
  From a distance, the dwarf planet Ceres looks gray and drab but a newly released photo from NASA's Dawn mission shows the cosmic mass in color.
  
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• Evidence of liquid water found on Mars - BBC News

  13-04-2015 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Evidence of liquid water found on Mars
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  Nasa's Curiosity rover has found that water can exist as a liquid near the Martian surface. Mars should be too cold to support liquid water at the surface, but salts in the soil lower its freezing point - allowing briny films to form. The results lend credence to a ...
  Mars may still have a small amount of liquid waterThe Verge
  Scientists believe we could farm water on Mars, like the Skywalkers on TatooineQuartz
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• A Clam Cancer Outbreak, Spread by One Set of Cells

  13-04-2015 19:01 via nytimes.com
  In solving a mystery, scientists discovered cancer cells with the same DNA in clams from all over the East Coast, but with no DNA from the host.
  
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• Study Shows Link between Muscle-Building Supplements and Cancer

  13-04-2015 19:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research shows that men taking muscle-building supplements with creatine or androstenedione are more likely to develop testicular cancer. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University) — Men who reported taking muscle-building supplements, such as pills and powders with creatine or androstenedione, reported a significantly higher likelihood of having developed testicular cancer than men who did not […]
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• New Method of High-Resolution Whole-Brain Staining

  13-04-2015 18:40 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have developed a special staining method that brings the reconstruction of all nerve cells and their connections within reach. Learning, it is widely believed is based on changes in the connections between nerve cells. The knowing which nerve cells is connected to which other nerve cell would […]
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• New Color Map of Ceres Reveals Surface Diversity

  13-04-2015 18:20 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new color map of Ceres reveals the differences in morphology and color across the surface of the dwarf planet, suggesting Ceres was once an active body. “This dwarf planet was not just an inert rock throughout its history. It was active, with processes that resulted in different materials in different regions. We are beginning […]
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• New Research Explains Saturn’s Epic Tantrums

  13-04-2015 18:02 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research describes the effect responsible for the development of a huge storm that erupts about every 30 years on Saturn. The long-standing mystery of why Saturn seethes with enormous storms every 30 years may have been solved by scientists working with data from NASA’s Cassini mission. The tempests, which can grow into bright bands […]
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• Hubble Space Telescope Views Elliptical Galaxy NGC 2865

  13-04-2015 17:34 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This Hubble image of the week shows elliptical galaxy NGC 2865, which is located roughly 100 million light-years from Earth. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows an elliptical galaxy called NGC 2865. It lies just over 100 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Hydra — The Sea Serpent — and was […]
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• How Hackers Are Shaking Down Police For Ransom

  13-04-2015 17:09
  
  It's a race against time for law enforcement agencies who have to decide whether to pay hackers or risk losing important information.
  
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• Fin24.com | IN PICTURES: Apple Watch on display

  13-04-2015 17:00
  
  Consumers across the world were able to start ordering the Apple Watch devices late last week and see in-store demonstrations.
  
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• Maps reveal where germs lurk on your skin

  13-04-2015 16:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The bacteria and chemicals found on human skin have been sampled and mapped across the body in a series of 3-D images.
  
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• Opinion: Finally, Apple emojis reflect America

  13-04-2015 16:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple's new emoji lineup is diverse in race, ethnicity and sexual orientation--just like America. What took them so long?
  
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• Study: China cybercensors attack outside its borders with 'Great Cannon'

  13-04-2015 16:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  China's cybercensors have long used a "Great Firewall" to block its citizens from reading critical articles from Western news websites or consuming other content it disapproves of.
  
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• Process servers can find you on Facebook

  13-04-2015 16:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Recently, a New York judge issued an opinion authorizing service of divorce papers on a husband completely via Facebook.
  
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• How Robots Are Stealing a March on the Military

  13-04-2015 16:32 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The robots of the future could take the weight off a soldier's shoulders.
  
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• Watch: Techbytes: ???Game of Thrones??? Episodes Leak Online

  13-04-2015 16:24
  
  HBO believes a member of the press may have posted the episodes a day early.
  
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• Fin24.com | Joburg pothole app to get rating system

  13-04-2015 15:38
  
  Joburg residents will be able to rate the quality of a field agent's or contractor's road fixing work using a new feature on an app.
  
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• Fin24.com | How Naspers made millionaires

  13-04-2015 15:05
  
  An investment of R10 000 in Naspers shares in 2001 would have been worth R1.67m today, says Mof Terreblanche, a director of Stonehage Investment Partners.
  
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• Apple Watch U.S. Pre-Orders Estimated at 1 Million

  13-04-2015 14:59 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Apple's first foray into the world of the smartwatch generated nearly 1 million pre-orders in the United States on Friday.
  
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• Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands - Phys.Org

  13-04-2015 14:18 via phys.org
  
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  Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands
  Phys.Org
  Two-dimensional images of human faces (top row) and front views of three-dimensional models of the same faces, produced by both a new MIT system (middle row) and one of its predecessors (bottom row). Most recent advances in artificial ...
  Graphics in reverseMIT Newsall 11 news articles »
  
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• Fin24.com | Apple likely to boost watch production - analysts

  13-04-2015 14:09
  
  Apple is likely to quickly ramp production of the Apple Watch after strong pre-orders outstripped limited supply in the first weekend following its launch.
  
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• Hillary Joins Facebook, Gets 600K Likes in 12 Hours

  13-04-2015 13:29 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Hillary Clinton took a little over 12 hours to storm to 600,000 likes and more than 1.8 million video views after setting up her first Facebook page.
  
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