This is our daily compilation of news, images and multimedia making the interwebs sizzle today. 1. Warner Bros has announced that the first part of “The Hobbit” movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released on December 14, 2012. Part two is titled The Hobbit:There and Back Again and it will hit theaters on December 13, 2013. Both films are set sixty years before the events of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Read the entire press release [caption id=“attachment_17932” align=“alignleft” width=“300” caption=“One of the finalists for the Wikimeda photo of the year”]  [/caption] 2. You can vote for your favourite Wikimedia image from their list of finalists for the picture of the year 2010 award. Register your vote here. 3. Twitter has confirmed that it will launch a Twitpic killer. Both TechCrunch and All Things D reported that Twitter would announce a photo-sharing service at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, this week. Read more here. 4. Take a look at the largest and longest lip dub video made by the residents of the US city of “Grand rapids”. They created the world record video featuring 5000 citizens and Don McClean’s “American Pie”, as an official response to a Newsweek article calling Grand Rapids a “dying city.” 5. And finally: Scientists can now track the depletion of groundwater from space. Read more. Here’s a slideshow with all the images from the Wikipedia list of finalists for the Picture of the Year 2010 award. .daylife_smartgalleries_container p { width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; background: transparent; }
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