Jessica Biel & Justin Timberlake Shine at the Met Gala!

The engaged duo turns heads as they arrive at the star-studded event! Check out more pics of Hollywood's tightest twosomes

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Sony unveils Crystal White PlayStation Vita, limited digital diva edition

Remember that line-up of colorful consoles we eyed back at TGS? One of eight of those mock-ups is about to become a reality, at least in Japan. On June 28th, color conscious gamers will be able to pick up a WiFi or 3G Crystal White PlayStation Vita for ¥24,980 and ¥29,980, respectively (that's about $312 and $375 if you're counting in greenbacks). If the absence of color is a bit too bland for you, a limited edition Hatsune Miku handheld will hit shelves two months later, commanding a ¥10,000 ($125) premium for the privilege of plastering Sega's digital diva on your Vita's rear touch panel. On the plus side, Vocoloid's poster girl packs a 4GB memory card and a copy of Next Hatsune Miku: Project Diva to offset the limited edition's larger sticker price. No word yet when or if these Vita variants will hit the western world, but we'll let you now if we hear anything. Until then? Try to satiate yourself with the video after the break.

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Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed Changes, Shows Facebook Controls The Traffic Faucet

No, Facebook news reader apps aren't declining because?users suddenly got fed up with auto-sharing. The user loss is likely due to the transition to?"trending articles", a new way of surfacing recently read articles in the news feed that Facebook is testing. Previously, Facebook had been driving huge numbers of installs and re-engagements to news reader apps with a "recently read articles" box that would often appear at the top of the news feed. But in mid-April following a massive reader app user count spike it replaced this with a redesigned "trending articles" box that shows fewer articles, and that seems to appear less prominently. The transition period where Facebook may not have been showing any "recently read article" box is likely to blame for the decline, along with a leveling off from the spike and reduced traffic from a weaker "trending articles" design.

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Rachel Barnes, Justin Bieber Video Vixen, on Jelena: Adorable!

Rest easy, Justin Bieber fans.

Yes, Rachel Barnes gets to cozy up to this singing sensation in his Boyfriend music video, but the lucky young woman tells TMZ that life does not imitate art in this case: she's married!

Indeed, Barnes and Bieber may be scorching the Internet these days, but the back-and-forth is "only for work," the former says, adding:

"Justin and Selena are adorably inseparable and I, myself, am already married. I'm a Belieber, but he's not my boyfriend."

Hear that, fans? Please - pretty, pretty please - keep those death threats at bay. They are not deserved in this case. They are not deserved in any case, even when directed at Kim Kardashian.

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Kanye West's 'Lost In The World' Video Months In The Making

'We've probably been tweaking and working on it for six months,' director Ruth Hogben tells MTV News.
By Nadeska Alexis

Kanye West in his video for "Lost in the World"
Photo: Roc-A-Fella Records

Kanye West surprised and confused fans last week when, out of the blue, he dropped a video for "Lost in the World" off his fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. But director Ruth Hogben tells MTV News that she and 'Ye actually shot the video together last summer.

Hogben, a fashion filmmaker, explained that she was introduced to Kanye through her SHOWStudio colleague Nick Knight, who thought that she would be a good fit to work with the eccentric rapper/producer.

The pair first began discussing their plans for the video around May 2011, and they captured all of the visuals in a two-day shoot later that summer. "I think he just wanted something that represented the song really well," Hogben said, detailing the brainstorming session.

"He explained how he felt about the song and it was a really interesting process because he just talked to me about the song — how he felt about the lyrics, about the beat. He was really very concerned about how he felt about the track, so that's where it started.

"It was a really strong collaborative process," she continued. "The conversation was very organic — he says one thing, I say one thing, he sends a picture, I send a picture. So it was a creative conversation that just kept rolling. We had a two-day shoot and then we spent quite a long time working on the edit together, making sure that it was right. We've probably been tweaking and working on it for about six months."

On first look, the black-and-white clip seems to play up the desperation of the Bon Iver-featured "Lost in the World," with West and his dancers set against the dark, ominous backdrop, but Hogben describes the final product as "energetic." She maintains that fans are supposed to come up with their individual interpretations of the clip. Even the dancers in the video were given the creative freedom to let loose. "It was actually their interpretation of the song," Hogben explained. "Kanye didn't say to them, 'Dance this way.' We wanted an interpretation of how they felt about the song."

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Obama: 'Time to focus on nation-building'

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Scientists unravel mystery of pigeon GPS ability (+video)

Scientists have detected special nerve cells in pigeons' brains that can detect the intensity and direction of magnetic fields.

The next time someone calls you bird-brained, you should assume that you are being complimented on your sense of direction.

Skip to next paragraph We've always known that pigeons have a good internal compass?and now we have the brain cells to prove it.

Pigeons, in particular, are known for their innate homing ability, having been used as messengers since ancient times. We know that pigeons have some kind of internal magnetic compass,?but exactly what it is and how it works has remained a mystery.

Now scientists are?one step closer to decoding the birds' magnetic sense. Writing in the journal Science,?Le-Qing Wu and J. David Dickman at Baylor College of Medicine described what happened when they put seven pigeons in an artificial magnetic field and observed their brains.

Wu and Dickman put the pigeons in a completely dark room, clamped their heads in place, connected their brain stems to electrodes, and used a Tesla coil to cancel out the effects of the Earth's magnetic field and to induce a new one. Then they fiddled with the angle and the intensity of the magnetic field and watched which parts of the pigeons' brains lit up.

Ultimately, Wu and Dickman identified 53 neurons in the pigeons' brain stems that responded to magnetic stimuli.?

"The cells responded to the angle and intensity of the magnetic field. Some cells were more sensitive depending on what direction we aimed the magnetic field around the bird?s head," Dickman said in a Baylor press release.

Of course, being able to tell which way is north is not the same thing as knowing your position on the globe. (If you doubt this, have a friend blindfold you and drop you in a boat in the middle of the ocean with just a compass. You'll quickly realize that, Even though you can determine your bearing,?you still have no idea where you are. You'll also realize that you need better friends.)?

Pigeons seem to have both an internal compass and an internal map. Dickman and his colleagues believe that pigeons encode the information from these magnetically attuned nerve cells to spatial maps in the memory centers of their brains.

"Birds give us a unique opportunity to study how the brain develops these spatial maps and the receptors that feed into it because they have such a great ability to navigate," said?Dickman in the press release.?

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