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IBM’s made a short stop-motion animation to demonstrate its ability to move individual atoms.

Tim Cook plans to return to D: All Things Digital when the 11th conference kicks off in late May.

Keep track of the most important moments in your life. Memories tells you exactly how much time has passed since those very special days.

A very simple and easy to use app.

“What a stupid idea,” I thought to myself.

As we finished our coffees, I think he sensed my apathy, and we parted ways. But just before I walked away, he asked a question:

“What do you think about the name we’ve been using? It’s called Pinterest.”

A couple of great stories from Dustin Curtis.

I am living goddamn proof of this people.

Andy Forssell, Hulu’s acting CEO, shared details on how the company is doing, including growth metrics, new product innovation and upcoming content.

Teacher’s Pet is an elegant contextual to-do list and reminder app, designed specially to help you do your job more effectively.

Nice looking app.

Tor Books UK went DRM free a year ago, and hasn’t suffered.

Samsung outdid itself with its Indian launch of the Galaxy S4. It’s even cheesier than the US launch was.

io9:

In the first three days of accepting applications, the Mars One project has received a whopping 20,000 applications, with more than 600 coming from China alone. The project plans to send a select group of colonists to the Red Planet for permanent settlement — with permanent being the key word.The Dutch aerospace project, which is aiming to put four humans on Mars by 2023, started accepting applications and audition tapes early last week.

No chance they make that very ambitious schedule but it’s good to dream. One question: Would you go on the one way trip if it was offered?

CleanMyMac 2 is an ingeniously simple and powerful system maintenance solution to get extra space and keep your Mac clean and well-organized.

Besides cleaning your hard drive of outdated cache files, system logs, language files and other unneeded data, CleanMyMac 2 also reduces the size of iPhoto libraries, helps find and delete large files and folders which haven’t been used for an extended period of time, correctly uninstalls applications, and so much more — reclaiming your Mac’s valuable hard drive space and keeping it running at peak efficiency.

CleanMyMac 2 is the simplest, safest, and most effective way to clean your Mac. Try it today for free.

I need some of these. I’m a bear when I get hungry.

The goal isn’t to avoid mistakes, though, but to learn how to recover from them.

There’s some truth right there.

Jalopnik:

Ever wondered what happened to the mall in The Blues Brothers after Jake, Elwood, and all those cops drove right through it? They actually left it just the way it was, but that’s only the start of the Dixie Square Mall’s decline.

One of the most iconic car chases ever filmed.

Notness is a modern, fast and easy to use Multiple Sclerosis diary App for iPhone and iPod Touch. Noteness is tailored to the requirements of a MS-Diary and goes without unnecessary gimmicks.

The app was written by Martin Hartl, a 21-year-old from Germany, who suffers from MS.

Gotta love The Macalope.

I’d like to thank the fine folks at AskingPoint for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.

AskingPoint includes “Rating Booster,” the smart rating widget that uses your analytics to ask only your best users to rate your Apps. Proven to increase sales dramatically!

By Developers for Developers.

All you need is Heineken.

Seriously, one stunning revelation after another.

Experiment: text your parents “got 2 grams for $40” then right after “Sorry ignore that txt. Not for you” Then tweet pic of their response.

Holy shit, I giggled my ass off.

Jim and Dan discuss the Úll conference, Apple’s Q2 earnings, secret new products, the iWatch, the Mac Pro, the iMac’s missed opportunity, the WWDC announcement (and the hidden meanings in the image), how to attend WWDC, the state of Windows, and more.

Ian Betteridge:

Gewirtz may be a brilliant example of anti-journalism, but he’s really just a symptom of how low technology journalism has sunk, and how the average pageview-hungry “anti-journalist” treats readers with contempt.

Ian is a long time journalist with a lot of respect in the industry, including mine.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt posted a story about Samsung paying people to talk shit about Apple, then this happened.

These have to be some of the scariest pictures I’ve ever seen.

Elliot Hannon:

If we cared more about the journalism than news theater we’d all be watching PBS. But no one’s talking about NewsHour. There are no meltdowns. The circus, itself, becomes the point — the reason to watch. Youtube videos go viral precisely because they are unexpected, unvarnished — embarrassing. This is CNN.

And there you have it folks. He’s exactly right.