Mission Impossibly Funny: Siri Will Self-Destruct in Five Seconds (Video)

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to laugh.
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Say It Loud: ATD Relaunches the “Voices” Section

Today, we relaunch a fresh, new “Voices” section to bring you even more writing and information from outside sources. Offering six regular features, Voices will be run by senior editor Beth Callaghan.
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Boku Takes “Pay Any Way You Want” Approach With Mobile Payments

Online payments start-up Boku is taking payments offline and into stores with a MasterCard sticker for smartphones.
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BermanBraun to Launch Three Non-HuffPost Sites — Including Weather — for AOL

In a rare partnership, Arianna Huffington makes way for some fancy Hollywood online content producers.
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Microsoft Windows Phone Head Andy Lees: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

It’s a great time to watch this interview with Andy Lees, president of Microsoft’s Windows Phone unit, since the software giant is holding a big event in New York on Monday to celebrate the U.S. launch of devices running the new Mango version of the smartphone.
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First Class Ticket: Social Travel Start-Up Gogobot Raises $15M in Funding at $70M Valuation

Around the world in $15 million.
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On The Verge of a New Tech Site, Which Finally Debuts

Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.
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Off With Their Heads! More Beheaded Siri Ads for Apple iPhone 4S (Video)

Apple seems to like to cut off the heads of all adults — kids appear to be spared the semi-beheadings — in these latest ads for its new iPhone 4S featuring the Siri voice control feature.
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Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo’s Livestand — Followed by Google’s Propeller — Set to Launch Next Week

Memo to Flipboard, Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the crowded news and social reader space — you’re about to get some bigfoot company.
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Siri Co-Founder Kittlaus Departs From Apple

Siri, is it true that one of your creators left the building at Apple? Yes, sigh, Dag.
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Now What?  The Post-Jobs Era in Tech.

It’s a So-Lo-Mo World, After All

1000Memories Funded by Greylock, Angels

Yahoo's Got a Digital Newsstand