Treasure hunters claim to have found the remains of a British ship torpedoed during WWII filled with platinum, now worth a massive $3 billion (usd).
Maine-based Sub Sea Research found the SS Port Nicholson on the ocean bottom around 30 miles off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Spokesman Greg Brooks claims a US Treasury Department ledger indicates platinum bars were on board, as part of a payment from the Soviet Union to the US for war supplies.
The company claims to have video footage showing the platinum bars, although none of the bounty has yet been brought to the surface.
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What Happens To Social Media when You Die? [video]

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February 3, 2012

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The “Digital Death” video explains possible outcomes, and interestingly predicts that, using personality predictors linking to all your online information, a digital self may be created that can interact with your future family.

How To Trick People Into Thinking You’re Rich

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February 1, 2012

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Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 1/29/2012

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February 1, 2012

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#9. Drake – Take Care – 26,000 (1,376,000)

#17. Young Jeezy – TM 103: Hustler’s Ambition – 18,000 (398,000)

#29. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 12,000 (1,285,000)

#37. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV – 10,000 (1,976,000)

#88. The Roots – undun – 4,800 (112,000)

#100. Yelawolf – Radioactive – 4,200 (103,000)

#105. Mac Miller – Blue Slide Park – 4,000 (277,000)

#106. Yo Gotti – Live From The Kitchen – 3,900 (25,000)

#109. Common – The Dreamer / The Believer – 3,800 (115,000)

#172. K’Naan – More Beautiful Than Silence – 2,500 (2,500)

_{* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.}

Weekend @Box Office: January 27-29, 2012

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January 31, 2012

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Title/ Weekend Gross (in millions of dollars usd $$$)

The Grey $19.6 m
The Underworld Awakening $12.3 m
One for The Money $11.5 m
Red Tails $10.3 m
Man on a Ledge $8 m
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close $6.9m
Contraband $6.7 m
The Descendants $6.4 m
Beauty and the Beast $5.3 m
Haywire $4 m

Unsigned Hype: Dondada- “Married to this game” (acapella)

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January 26, 2012

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Checkout this acapella video of Unsigned Artist @RealDondada from Greenville, SC. Dude got mad talent. Makes beats on the porch backed up with a dope flow.

CASSETTE: A Documentary

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January 25, 2012

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A new documentary film about the cassette tape and cassette culture by Zack Taylor and Seth Smoot. They are seeking funding through popular site: Kickstarter. So far they’ve raised just under $8k and are hoping to hit $25K.

Tech: Apple releases an earnings Report. Wowzers! $$$

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January 25, 2012

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For the last 3 Months, Apple Net’d $46.33 billion in total with $13.06 billion earnings! That is damn Near Double from the Same time last year, and they’ve grown by 26%. Here are the products they sold to make that kinda ~~money~~ GWOP:
37 million iPhones, 15.4 million iPads, 15.4 million iPods and 5.2 million Macs, 1.4 million. That’s Just in the last 3 months. Imagine What Apple’s gonna Do Next Year this time!!! Full press release after the jump.
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Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 1/22/2012

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January 25, 2012

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#4. Drake – Take Care – 29,000 (1,350,000)

#5. Rihanna – Talk That Talk – 20,000 (583,000)

#6. Young Jeezy – TM 103: Hustler’s Ambition – 19,000 (380,000)

#13. LMFAO – Sorry For Party Rocking – 16,000 (582,000)

#20. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 12,000 (1,273,000)

#29. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV – 11,000 (1,957,000)

#64. Common – The Dreamer / The Believer – 5,500 (112,000)

#65. Wale – Ambition – 5,500 (345,000)

#68. Yo Gotti – Live From The Kitchen – 5,200 (22,000)

#159. Schoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions – 2,500 (6,500)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.

Prince Fielder agrees to $214 million deal w/ Detroit Tigers

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January 24, 2012

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Prince pictured above as a kid, son of former Detroit Tiger Cecil Fielder

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DETROIT — The Tigers spent a week reacting to Victor Martinez’s season-ending left knee injury. Their eventual reaction was big enough to be worthy of a Prince.
After supposedly looking for a short-term solution to the void in the middle of their order, the Tigers went big, physically and financially, with All-Star slugger Prince Fielder. On Tuesday, the two sides agreed to terms on a nine-year contract worth $214 million. Congrats!

YouTube Reaches 4 Billion Daily Views

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January 24, 2012

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YouTube now sees 4 billion views per day. That’s a 25 percent increase over the past eight months, the company told Reuters.
The last time YouTube released this data was in May 2011, when the company was celebrating its sixth birthday. At the time, YouTube was seeing 3 billion views per day, an increase of 50% over the past 12 months. That’s the equivalent of every U.S. resident watching at least nine videos per day.
Previously, YouTube hit the 2 billion views per day mark in May 2010, which the company noted was “nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. television networks combined.” So, it goes to reason that YouTube now has four times the viewership of the prime-time network audience. Wow.
– Every second, one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube.
– 9 month’s worth every two hours.
– A decade of video every day.
– A century’s worth of video every 10 days.

source: techcrunch.com