Chatting Is Great, But GroupMe?s Mobile Apps Now Let Users Split Payments Too

While the folks at GroupMe have spent some time exploring the world outside group messaging, they certainly haven?t given up on refining the formula that made them so appealing in the first place. Earlier today, GroupMe pushed out a pair of considerable updates that add some curious (and tremendously thoughtful) features the company's iOS and Android apps.

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Higgs Boson update: it's cool, it exists, it's not necessarily so 'exotic'

As a prominent musician once noted: all that hype doesn't feel the same next year, boy. And that's sadly proving true for our old friend Higgs Boson, who shot to fame last Summer but is now waking up to find only a handful of fans camped outside his collider. Part of the problem is simply that things have become procedural and academic -- CERN scientists met in Italy this week to share their latest findings, but the updates were mostly either inconclusive or suggestive of a rather mundane-seeming subatomic entity.

At the time of Higgs' discovery, observers were especially interested in the possibility that this mysterious particle didn't decay in exactly the way science had predicted. It seemed to break down into an excess of photons, such that it might potentially reveal something unexpected about dark matter and the structure of space-time. But as data continues to be gathered, it appears more likely that the extra photons may have been a statistical anomaly, leading one researcher to admit on Twitter that his ATLAS team is "not too excited" about it anymore. Nothing is confirmed at this point, however, and other scientists have since tweeted to caution against jumping to conclusions. At least we can say for sure that Higgs still exists. And if the poor thing can't hold the universe together and mess with the laws of physics at the same time, then so be it.

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Taylor Swift Sells Hyannis Port House Near Ex ... - AOL Real Estate

Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy must really never be getting back together -- because the country-pop songstress recently sold the Hyannis Port, Mass., house that she bought to be close to her former beau, according to reports. Swift is the cover girl for Vanity Fair's latest issue, and though she skirts the topic of buying the Hyannis Port house (right next door to the Kennedy compound), sources confirmed to the magazine that she did, in fact, purchase it. And the magazine also confirmed that it was re-sold about two weeks ago.

To boot, Swift pocketed $1 million on the sale, according to E! News. Bob Kinlin, an agent with real estate firm Barnstable, who sold the home to Swift last August, told E! News that the Cape Cod-style house closed most recently for $5.675 million. Swift bought the place for $4.8 million. Quite an impressive turnaround for the chart-topping singer, considering she snagged the home at a 60 percent discount off its original list price of $13.5 million.

Swift played coy with Vanity Fair when the magazine asked her point blank about her purchasing the home. "People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like," she said. "That's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you, I will apparently buy up the real estate market just to freak you out so you leave me." But sources told the mag that Swift and her parents had been eyeing the property for more than a year before she bought it. Swift and Conor Kennedy were rumored to have split last September.

Swift made some improvement to the 4,440-square-foot home, Kinlin told E! News, including renovating the kitchen and bathrooms, as well as replacing the septic system. The home sits on 1.1 acres and has seven bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms. It comes with a private beach and gorgeous views of Nantucket Sound.

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At 16 wins, Heat still are unimpressed

Miami Heat's LeBron James reacts after scoring the go-ahead layup against the Orlando Magic with 3.2 seconds left in the second half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The Heat won 97-96. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Miami Heat's LeBron James reacts after scoring the go-ahead layup against the Orlando Magic with 3.2 seconds left in the second half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The Heat won 97-96. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Miami Heat's LeBron James (6) drives around Orlando Magic's DeQuan Jones (20) on his way to shooting the go-ahead layup with 3.2 seconds left in their NBA basketball game in Miami, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The Heat won 97-96. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra watches from the bench during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic in Miami, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The Heat won 97-96. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade (3) shoots over Orlando Magic's Arron Afflalo (4) during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

MIAMI (AP) ? LeBron James drove to the rim and scored on Miami's final play, winning a game in memorable fashion and preserving the Heat's winning streak that has lasted for five weeks.

Still, the Heat are not impressed by, well, themselves these days.

For Miami, 16 playoff wins are the goal ? not a 16-game winning streak during the regular season. To the Heat, the regular season is an 82-game tuneup for the challenges that await in April, May and they hope, June ? when they'll try to win the 16 postseason games needed to successfully defend their NBA championship. And that's why even buzzer-beating wins aren't sending the Heat locker room into a celebratory frenzy right now.

"We're enjoying it," Heat forward Shane Battier said, "but we have bigger goals."

James scored with 3.2 seconds left on Wednesday night, lifting Miami to a 97-96 win over the Orlando Magic. Miami's 16th straight victory gave the Heat a 7?-game lead over the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference standings, an 11?-game cushion over the Atlanta Hawks in the Southeast Division and put the reigning champions in line to clinch their playoff spot on Friday ? in just the 60th game of the season.

Miami plays at home against Philadelphia on Friday, and a win would match the 12th-longest winning streak in NBA history.

No, the Heat don't care much about that, either.

"It really doesn't affect us," Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. "In a sense, we want to win, and we want to win every game we play. The day it comes where our streak gets broken we move on to the next game. Obviously, it is great, when you look back at it one day and say 'Oh, we won that many games in a row.' But right now, we are just playing."

Not just playing ? playing better than any team in Heat history, at least statistically.

The previous franchise record for a winning streak was 14 games. During this 16-game run, there have been blowouts, double-overtime thrillers and now buzzer-beating victories. Miami has outscored opponents by an average of 11.5 points per game during the streak, and James and Wade have been nothing short of brilliant throughout the run.

By the numbers, since Feb. 3:

? James is averaging 28.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 7.6 assists on 61 percent shooting.

? Wade is averaging 24.5 points, 6.2 rebounds and 5.9 assists, with a NBA-leading plus-minus ratio of 203 along the way as well.

"I haven't brought it up," said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, when asked about the streak. "What we're trying to do is get better."

If someone knows that long winning streaks during the season mean little when the stakes are highest, it's Battier. At Duke, he was on a team that won 32 straight games in one season, and with the Houston Rockets he was part of an epic 22-game winning streak in 2008.

Neither the Blue Devils nor the Rockets won championships in those years.

"It's hard to win one game in this league, which people don't realize," Battier said. "The amount of preparation, the amount of time you have to study your opponent. Even for the most talented team, so much has to go right for you to win one game."

The 22-game streak in Houston was one that Battier will forever savor because that Rockets team was just not expected to be great.

And for more than a month, they were beyond great.

"It was one of the best times in my basketball career because it was so bizarre," Battier said. "We came out of nowhere. It was a team that was a pretty good team, a playoff team. We weren't contenders and we just kept winning. ... It was a perfect storm."

Of course, the expectations in Miami are just a tad higher than what those Rockets faced.

Still, there is a residual benefit from being tested in the regular season, especially when a game is on the line in the final seconds. And the pressure of that moment against the Magic, the pressure ? if any exists ? of the winning streak, it wasn't enough to thwart the Heat on Wednesday.

"I don't know if we relish them," Battier said of late-game, close-game situations. "There's a huge benefit because the playoffs are all about executing under stressful situations. And although a regular-season game, even if it's tight like that can't replicate the pressure and stress of a playoff game, it's good to be in those situations just to see how you respond and learn."

That was the mood in the Heat locker room after Wednesday's scintillating finish. Another lesson learned, time to move on.

When some players were asked about the potential for things like 20-game winning streaks and putting together one of the longest runs in NBA history, the response was typically no more than a shrug.

"We don't even talk about it," James said. "We don't really get caught up into the streak at all. What we are trying to do is bigger than a streak."

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Pizza Hut Is Holding Job Interviews That Are Only ... - Business Insider

Pizza Hut is looking for a digital media manager based out of Plano, TX, and if you want the gig, you're only going to have 140 seconds to sell yourself, Venessa Wong at Bloomberg Businessweek reported.

Is it just a gimmick, or is there an actual purpose behind it?

Well, it appears to be a little bit of both. The 140 number is a nod to Twitter, but there is a point to the short timeframe.

"In terms of that short an amount of time, we need someone who knows who they are, what they are looking for, someone who?s super passionate, quick on their feet, able to communicate clearly in a short amount of time,"?Pizza Hut director of digital and social media Caroline Masullo, told Bloomberg Businessweek.

She'll cut them some slack if they're a particularly impressive candidate though.

"If they are amazing, we want to hear what they have to say," she said. "But at the same time, we want to hear as many people as we can."

It'll definitely add some pressure since you have to frantically get your message out, but at least you won't be thrown any crazy?Google brainteasers.

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Sean Lowe "Still Happy" With The Bachelor Winner, Chris Harrison Promises

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