Hashtags finally coming to Facebook

 The social network wants to make it easier for users to find content already on Facebook, and functional hashtags are the first step. According to Facebook, many users already post hashtags anyway, so why not make them work?

Hashtags are coming to Facebook to help users better surface conversations.
Support for the all-but-ubiquitous topic organization system was rumored in March and will roll out to a small percentage of users Wednesday. Facebook will roll out hashtags to more users in the coming weeks.
The social network wants to make it easier for users to find content already on Facebook, and functional hashtags are the first step. According to Facebook, many users already post hashtags anyway, so why not make them work? Hashtags will be both clickable and searchable, so, for example, topics like #NSALeaks or #NBAFinals will now exist.

SEE ALSO: 20 Things Your Most Annoying Friends Do on Facebook

Hashtags from other services, such as Instagram, are clickable as well. Users will also be able to compose posts directly from a hashtag feed and search results. That could make adding real-time content to specific streams easier than before.
Twitter user Chris Messina created in 2007 the hashtag as we know it today. Twitter eventually adopted the system of organizing tweets around a certain subject into its API and its broader ecosystem. Since then, the hashtag has been adopted by other services, including Flickr, Tumblr, Google+ and even Facebook-owned Instagram.
What do you think about Facebook's decision to finally embrace hashtags? Let us know in the comments.
This article originally appeared on Mashable.

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The Hot Games Pack games are easy to learn, and difficult to master. These fun-filled games provide a refreshing break from your work, making you more productive when you return to your computer tasks.

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Apple's ultimate Mac is bizarre and beautifulApple's ultimate Mac is bizarre and beautiful

"We don't want to switch to PC because a lot of the software we use is Mac only, and we've been Mac users for a long, long time," said Layhe, adding that all his backups and stored video are Mac compatible.

The big hardware unveil at Monday's Apple press event was the new Mac Pro, a sleek cylindrical desktop computer and the most powerful machine Apple has ever built. It was the announcement that prompted Apple executive Phil Schiller to exclaim, "Can't innovate anymore, my ass."

It also costs thousands of dollars and is way more machine than most people will ever need.

The Mac Pro is aimed at a narrow market of professionals such as photographers, videographers, designers and animators. Since the line was first announced in 2006, the Pro has received relatively few upgrades compared to the rest of Apple's product line. The company has been busy focusing on its hit consumer and mobile devices, leaving many professionals wondering if they were being left behind.

For people using the desktop computers in their businesses, the external look of a Mac is often secondary. So periodic internal improvements to the old tower design were enough to keep them satiated. Others had already abandoned the Pro line as the iMac and MacBook Pro became powerful enough to meet their photo- and video-production needs.

First things first: The new Pro is a design marvel compared to its clunky predecessor -- a sleek, black cylinder that bears little resemblance to computers as we've traditionally imagined them.

It's smaller and cannot be expanded and customized as much as the previous system. Apple has built a machine so unique that people who want to add to it will end up building out, adding components like hard drives and PCI cards externally.

To make that expansion possible, the industry must first embrace the Thunderbolt input-output standard.

For example, it's no longer possible to pop in standard video cards. Mac Pro users will have to either get cards that fit the custom shape of the new computer or plug them into the computer using a Thunderbolt 2 connection.

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"It's either going to change the way computers are built, or it will fall by the wayside," said Tony Welch, the creative services director at the Beyond Pix production studio.

Welch is excited about the new product and hopes to upgrade his studio's systems, but he hopes Apple's "risky" bet to depend heavily on Thunderbolt for expansion pushes the companies that make hard drives, PCI cards and other peripherals to support the connection technology.

But Chris Layhe of CLAi, a San Francisco post-production studio, is less impressed.

"Basically, it's two Mac Minis tied together in a cylinder," he said. "It's a load of rubbish. The things that we need in the film and video business, everything's dependent on cards."

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Users of the new Mac Pro may want to stray outside Apple's closed system. Layhe, who has been shooting and editing film for 28 years, has seven Macs at his company. He is in the process of building a "hackintosh" -- a custom PC that uses the same cards and boards found in a Mac that can run Mac software, but has more USB slots and can take additional cards. These unofficial systems can cost as little as $1,500 to build.

"We don't want to switch to PC because a lot of the software we use is Mac only, and we've been Mac users for a long, long time," said Layhe, adding that all his backups and stored video are Mac compatible.

Launched in 2006, the Mac Pro is one of Apple's priciest products, starting at $2,499 for the most basic setup. Many creatives who need to squeeze the maximum amount of power out of their machines get custom Mac Pro configurations, which can go as high as $12,000, not including monitors or accessories.

A price hasn't been announced for the new Mac Pro. Monday's unveiling was just an early preview, and the computer won't be available until later this year.

Pro users are a small part of Apple's business. Only 19% of the company's revenue in the first quarter of this year came from Macs. That's just shy of the 21% it made selling iPads and a far cry from the 49% it made on the iPhone.

When Mac Pros were struggling, it was creatives who gave the brand some of its respectability and a cool factor. For now, they are enjoying a rare bit of attention from Apple and hoping for the best.

"We're all glad that they came out with a Pro tower at all," Welch said. "I think we were all fearful that they would abandon the pro community."

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Th recycling robot that is the The ZenRobotics Recycler (ZRR) is an intelligent robot

 the escalating global waste problem, could be helped by  A recycling robot according to Finnish technology company ZenRobotics.

Worldwide, the construction and demolition sector is thought to contribute over one third of all waste. The U.S. alone contributes a staggering 325 million tons of waste every year, and the UK produces another 120 million tons.

While household and municipal waste has fallen in recent years across the developed world, Waste Watch -- a not-for-profit sustainability organization based in the UK -- suggests that over 80% of all human waste that potentially could be recycled currently goes into landfill.

ZenRobotics founder Jufo Peltomaa notes that the problem is equally severe across the EU: "In the EU alone there's 900 million tons of construction and demolition waste. If you were to convert that to the average sized car, the queue would go 45 times around the globe."

Peltomaa and his team at ZenRobotics constructed the ZRR to help deal with this problem. "It's a really difficult job for robots and machine learning systems to do," says Peltomaa. "There are currently no such systems in the world, so our system is the first."

The ZRR identifies different types of waste using a process called "sensor fusion." By analysing the data, the sensors sort through objects on a conveyor belt and distribute them into surrounding chutes. The sensor fusion system uses a range of technologies including weight measurement, 3-D scanning, tactile assessment and spectrometer analysis, which measures how much light reflects from various different materials.

ZenRobotics believes its creation will help ease the burden of the repetitive and dangerous job of waste filtration, which is currently done manually.

"Currently, construction and demolition waste is handled by manual pickers," says Peltomaa. "That's a pretty good solution, but it's hazardous for your health. There are poisonous materials, sharp and heavy materials, plus asbestos etc."

Peltomaa says that the idea for a recycling robot came to him when he had stayed up late watching a documentary on the Discovery Channel, in which a B52 bomber was crushed and recycled. The waste was placed onto a conveyor belt attended to by "bored-looking" employees picking through the rubble

source: CNN.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin divorced his wife lived together for more than 30 years, the cause from?

Mrs. Lyudmila Putin revealed that he is too busy with work and have no time for family is the cause of the divorce. "He's too workaholic, our children have grown and have lives separate. Our marriage is shattered because we hardly ever see each other.

Vladimir Putin's nearly 30-year marriage has ended, the Russian president and his wife told state-run television in a joint interview.

"This was our joint decision. Our marriage is over," Putin told Russia 24, standing next to Lyudmila Putin, in an interview shown Thursday. "We almost don't see each other. We have different lives."

Lyudmila Putin said the two share a love for their two adult children, but hinted life in the public eye took a toll.
"I don't like to be in public, and it's hard to take (airplane) flights," she said. "We love our children a lot, we are proud of them and see them all the time."
She said that she was grateful for her husband's support and called the split a "civilized divorce."
According to state-run news agency Ria Novosti, a presidential spokesman said divorce papers have not been drawn yet.
The announcement comes after longtime speculation about their relationship, RIA Novosti reported.
Putin married Lyudmila Shkrebneva in July 1983. Their children, Maria and Yekaterina, were born in 1985 and 1986, respectively.

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Apple announced the new technological achievements in 2013

Look at again the Apple's keynote begins Monday at 1 p.m. ET. The new iOS,New MacBooks,A streaming-music service or Longshots. These are the expect at Apple's WWDC

All the tech world's eyes will be on Apple Monday, when the computing giant's 24th annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off in San Francisco.

As its name suggests, the weeklong gathering lets Apple host presentations and workshops for the people who make a living writing the apps and other software that run on its products.

But its opening keynote almost always makes news. The conference has been the launching pad for two phones (the iPhone 3GS in 2009 and the iPhone 4 in 2010) and several new, or updated, Macs.

This year, the former seems highly unlikely. The latter? Maybe not so much.

Fans are clamoring for some excitement, because Apple hasn't introduced a major new product since the iPad Mini last October. And with growing competition from such rivals as Amazon and Samsung, there's always the chance that the secretive folks from Cupertino are cooking up something big.

So here's a look at what to expect from WWDC 2013: 

A new iOS

The safest bet for WWDC is that Apple will introduce iOS 7 to the world.

For the first time, Apple vice president Jonny Ive is responsible for the update, and reports have suggested the mobile operating system will be "black, white and flat all over."

Unnamed Apple sources have popped up on the Web, saying that much of the color, gloss and shine will be removed from the look of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch screens in favor of a simpler black-and-white theme.

Style aside, there will almost certainly be a host of new features to announce as well.

Reports have centered on improved in-car support for Maps and Siri, along with new integration for third-party (and non-Google-owned) apps like video site Vimeo and photo site Flickr.

The update also could bring Airdrop, which allows easy Wi-Fi sharing between Apple devices, to mobile.

New MacBooks

The MacBook and MacBook Air laptops are both due to be updated, according to Apple's once-a-year pattern. And the timing is right: Intel just announced a more powerful processing chip.

It will be a challenge for Apple to shrink the already ultra-slim MacBook Air much further. But if the rumors are true, the beefier MacBook Pro may give way to a new, sleeker version of itself.

Apple also could introduce a refreshed Mac Pro desktop tower for those deep-pocketed office managers who prefer to order the freshest machines.

A streaming-music service?

It seems like only a matter of time before Apple leaps into the increasingly crowded streaming-music market led by Pandora, Spotify and others.

Apple's been making deals with record labels such as Universal Music and Warner Music Group, which would allow them to stream songs to users as part of a free or paid-subscription service.

Observers expect such a platform, possibly called iRadio, would exist apart from iTunes, Apple's digital-media service, and focus on mobile devices

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