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mashable.com — Millions of online activists, signing some 124 different petitions, helped to end the Boy Scouts of America's century-long ban on gay members. According to online petition platform Change.org, 1,866,000 signatures were collected on petitions advocating the Boy Scouts change its policy.

mashable.com — It's a dream come true for fans across the entire nerd spectrum: a life-sized X-Wing fighter built entirely of LEGOs. (Just take a second to let the awesomeness of that sentence sink in. Ready? OK.)

mashable.com — The Guardian's international editions are proliferating, but before the newspaper launches an online edition in Australia later this year, it's uniting all of its websites under a single domain, theguardian.com. Currently, The Guardian operates three websites. The primary one is guardian.co.uk. It has a second URL for its U.S.

mashable.com — Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine star in a new film called Now You See Me. So they are, as one does, making the press junket interview rounds to hype the release. The dynamic duo recently appeared on Tacoma's Fox affiliate Q13 for an interview session, but Freeman had seemingly reached the end of his rope.

mashable.com — Twitter took the stage at Internet Week New York Thursday to introduce a new advertising product for media and consumer brands. Dubbed "Twitter Amplify," the product allows media brands and their advertising partners to promote television clips on Twitter - think a 5 or 10-second replay from a basketball game accompanied by a short commercial from Ford, or a weather forecast from The Weather Channel followed by an ad for a restaurant chain.

mashable.com — A new web app from Warner Bros. for the upcoming Man of Steel movie lets users become part of Superman's world - turning fans of the superhero into children of planet Krypton. The Glyph Creator app, which Warner Bros. exclusively shared with Mashable before Thursday's launch, builds a shield based on the user's answers to a series of questions.

mashable.com — The directions were simple: Illustrate your "best day ever." Sabrina Brady of Wisconsin's Sparta High School combined Google's logo with a memorable and moving six-frame story. This is Google's fourth year running the Doodle 4 Google competition. Students from across the United States submitted artwork between January 14 and March 22.

mashable.com — Jon Stewart derided a Senate panel's kid-gloves treatment of Apple Inc.'s testimony on its complex corporate tax structure. Tuesday's hearing in front of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations was meant to discuss the corporate tax laws that allow Apple to shelter more than $102 billion through a web of foreign subsidiaries.

mashable.com — Samsung may sell more smartphones, but a new Apple ad claims that more people listen to music on their iPhones than any other phone. The 60-second ad, which broke Thursday night, is a bit of a stylistic departure for the brand. The music is downbeat - even somber - the visuals are grainy, even a bit gritty.

mashable.com — for Space.com Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon have been found inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years.

mashable.com — Just how bad was the tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma on Monday? A series of before-and-after satellite images posted on Google's Crisis Center shows the Oklahoma tornado's deadly and destructive path through the residential neighborhood: You can track the exact path of the EF-5 tornado below, thanks to Google's Crisis Map: The tornado struck the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, leaving 24 dead - 9 of them children.

mashable.com — for The Atlantic It's prom season - for the planets. Every couple of years, give or take, planets get together in the night sky in such a way that they seem to be aligned with each other. They seem to be, really - from Earth's perspective - shyly approaching each other, asking each other to dance.

mashable.com — Kmart is on a roll with its ads. The discount chain is promoting a deal on gas with a funny new video called Big Gas Savings. If you don't realize the joke already, just say "big gas" out lout a couple times - and you'll get it.