Gaming News of the Day: Augmented Minecraft Reality

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Swedish mobile software developer 13th Lab released this neat iOS app called Minecraft Reality, which lets you combine your own creations with the real world landscape through augmented reality, not to mention you can find other people's Minecraft constructions that have been uploaded in locations nearby using the mobile camera.

Upgraded Advertisement of the Day

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Nobody honestly believes that the joke Siri told John Malkovich in Apple's latest iPhone commercial was funny, so Slacktory has given it a major upgrade with a play on one of the all-time classics.

(Sorta not safe for work, iPhones doing dirty, depraved things.)

[slacktory]

Criminally Dumb Criminal of the Day

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Criminally Dumb Criminal of the Day
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A Disney Cruise employee named Nelson has become internet infamous after allegedly stealing a passenger's iPhone and using it to take several photos. Thanks to Apple's Photo Stream feature, the owner of the phone was able to grab Nelson's snaps of himself, his friends and his girlfriend and upload them to her Facebook account.

"This is Nelson," she wrote next to one photo. "Nelson stole my iPhone."

While it hasn't been proven that this man actually took the phone and then foolishly failed to delete the owner's account before using it as his own, things certainly don't look good.

"I have alerted the officials of the Disney Cruiseline and forwarded them the photos. Hopefully I'll get my phone back and maybe some free passes to Disneyland," wrote the alleged theft victim.

Disney has yet to comment on the incident.

[nymag]

Potential Viral Ad of the Day

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Potential Viral Ad of the Day: The overwhelming consensus is that this video of a "hacker" using a transmitter plugged into an iPhone to take over digital billboards is beyond fake and is most likely a viral ad for something.

I can't figure out what he might be selling, but if it's that transmitter, I'll take a dozen.

[thanks oliver!]