Allie Townsend

Allie Townsend is TIME's social media producer and a reporter who covers technology and toys. She still hasn't seen Star Trek.

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Google to Offer Free In-Flight Wi-Fi

Happy holidays: Google announced a partnership with select American airlines that will offer a free wireless connection to passengers traveling on all domestic flights from Nov. 20 to Jan 2. Read more on Techland.

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X-Ray Google Doodle Celebrates X-Ray’s 115th Birthday

Today’s Google Doodle honors the X-Ray with a transparent logo packed with inside jokes.

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Desperate Holidays: Peppermint Mochas and Christmas Trees, on Guy Fawkes Day? Too Soon?

Ah, November. The month of Thanksgiving, fall foliage and holiday marketing run rampant. But how soon is too soon for holiday cheer?

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Horror For The Holidays: May We Recommend Bed Bugs, The Game?

This holiday season give your children the gift of paranoid creature fear. 

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Qantas’ A380 Close Call: Not the First Incident For ‘The World’s Safest Airline’

This week held big scares for the airline that has never had a fatality. NewsFeed recaps what’s gone wrong with the line of the world’s largest of aircrafts.

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Microsoft’s Kinect Lands In Stores

Bigger than the iPad? Microsoft puts its faith in gaming.

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Google Glitch: Did Poll Finder App Hinder Voters?

Some 700,000 potential voters in 12 states relying on Google to locate their nearest polling places, were directed to the wrong spot.

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While You Were Voting: Iran Announces Stoning Execution

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery could be executed as early as today, activists say.

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Ready For The McRib? Our Ten Favorite McFoods

Pizza, lobster, croissants? And you thought the McRib was weird.

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‘The Walking Dead’ Snags AMC Highest Premiere Ratings Of 2010

While 5.3 million viewers tuned into the series premiere of AMC’s new zombie-apocalypse thriller The Walking Dead, the show not only garnered the highest ratings of any AMC premiere in history, but also took the top spot of any cable debut in 2010. “It’s a good day to be dead. We are so proud of [...]