The Voice's Final Four: Ready for Finale Performances

From left: Blake Shelton, Dia Frampton, Javier Colon, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, Vicci Martinez, Christina Aguilera, Beverly McClellan

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The red chairs have swiveled, the coaches have shepherded their teams through battles, and the fans have helped whittle down the numbers. On Wednesday, one singer will be named winner of The Voice, and one coach will get lifetime bragging rights.

The final four are Beverly McClellan for Team Christina Aguilera, Vicci Martinez for Team Cee Lo Green; Dia Frampton for Team Blake Shelton and Javier Colon for Team Adam Levine.

"I feel like I'm waking up in a dream everyday and I don't ever want it to go away because it's the best ever," McClellan tells PEOPLE. "I just want to keep shooting for the moon."

McClellan survived the live rounds even with a cold with the help of Aguilera and her team. "Well, we got a humidifier because I'm from Florida," she reveals. "I'm not used to desert! She got that for me and some hot teas and sprays. It was a complete package."

Martinez, who will showcase an original song about heartbreak for the finale, says the show allows her to be comfortable as a performer. "One of their rules was that we weren't referred to as 'contestants,' " she says. "We were referred to as 'artists' and they wanted to ingrain that into all the staff and everybody's head."

The exposure has already made a difference for Colon, who has struggled to secure a lasting record deal. Last week, three of his recordings on The Voice were in iTunes's Top 100 singles.

"If you asked me if any of this would have happened four months ago, I would have been like, 'Yeah, right, I'd like to see that,' and here it is," he says.

For Frampton, her hobby of writing children's books has given way to a budding music career. "I remember the first day I got here," she says. "There were so many people jamming on guitars and in singer circles and I was just like, 'This is the most amazing thing ever!'"

The finalists perform Tuesday night (9 p.m. ET) on NBC.

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Launch48 10 Start-Up Winners

30+ inspirational speakers, whom have spoken at TED, DLD, World Economic Forum, Le Web and other high-profile events, joined together to lead discussions on topic of Innovation in Technology, Creativity and Entrepreneurship at The Inspire Conference, held 7-8 June, at The Senate House in the University of London.

Visit the Inspire Conference website for a full speaker list.

Prior to the conference, Launch48, the organization that hosted the event, held a competition for 10 exhibition spaces solely dedicated to startups.

The 10 winners from the Launch48 competition:

1. Gavurin ? A light weight, cloud based data visualization tool called G-View, designed to allow anybody, regardless of technical expertise, to manipulate, explore and get insight from data via attractive, intuitive visualizations.
2. MarketInvoice -�Marketinvoice is an online marketplace for invoices, where small companies can sell invoices due from large corporates due in 30, 60 or 90 days to a network of investors.
3. colourDNA ? colourDNA helps you discover new things to enjoy in life through Social Discovery. Whether you?re looking for a new restaurant, movie, book or band, you no longer have to rely only on the suggestions of your small network of friends or risk the faceless written review sites. By sharing what you love, you get matched with new things to try out based on the interests of people with similar tastes
4. SourceRail ? SourceRail is an advanced media monitoring tool with the capability to monitor the web for specific mentions of companies, competitors, clients, products, services or topics.
5. Eventasaurus ? Eventasaurus is a dashboard for online event services. Dubbed ?Tweetdeck for events?.
6. Lutebox ? Lutebox is a social entertainment hub, where users can instantly stream premium entertainment content while socializing with friends through video-chats and simulcasts.
7. OWJO ? Owjo is a social commerce service. Uniquely it handles transactions within the widget so users are not pushed off facebook (or any other platform that owjo works on) to a payments system.
8. HipSnip ? HipSnip is a personal shopping application to get product advice, and solves the consumer problem of deciding what products to buy (e.g. which TV is best for them) by plugging into social networks such as Facebook and Twitter and profiling the products people know about. HipSnip enables consumers to get product advice and reviews through their social groups or through the expert HipSnip community.
9. Blippar ? Blippar is the soon-to-launch universal mobile platform that will enable any smart-phone-owning consumer to interact with and pull content from any physical ad creative whether outdoor, on pack, on page or in-store.
10. Tastebuds ? Tastebuds is a dating site for music fans. The site has 20,000 users, half of whom have been active on the site in the last month, with over 10,000 messages being sent between them every week.

According to Ismail Elshareef?s Code(ish), Silicon Valley Geek, Entrepreneur, and Visionary, and Inspire Conference attendee:

The 4 Main Themes of the event:

1. Social Entrepreneurship: Advocating innovation and tech talent to promote a better world.
2. Innovation in Emerging Markets: Using innovation to empower people all over the world.
3. Simplicity: Simple is the key to lasting innovation.
4. Gamification: Innovation + Technology + Game Theory = New Business

A summary of Ismail's main takeaways from the conference were:

• Transparency is key to all successful business ventures.
• If you need to explain to the user how to use your product, you have done someone wrong.
• Value is subjective, relative and contextual.
• We make up our attitudes to explain our actions.
• Feedback Loop can make or break your business.
• Don't think outside the box. Find the right box and think within it.
• If you're not disrupting, you are iterating. If you're iterating, you will be disrupted.
• We need to fit technology into our lives, not the other way around.
• Empathy leads to Success.
• Persistence is more important than passion.
• The Future is in Disruption.
• Data needs to be computable.
• Angry Bird and The Adjacent Possible

If you?re looking for funding and want to work with other startups, check out Launch48 now for the opportunity to go straight to the interview stage of the application process at Oxygen Accelerator, a UK-based acceleration and investment program.

Launch48 definitively gives innovative start-ups Better: Pedestrian Crossing - Space - Access.

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Emma Stone flaunts bikini body in Vanity Fair

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Emma Stone poses in a bikini on the cover of Vanity Fair, available in New York and L.A. on June 30 and nationally on July 5.

Emma Stone has no regrets about dropping out of high school in order to pursue an acting career.

The 22-year-old has made a name for herself as a talented actress and has proved to be a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood.

Slated to appear in three new movies this summer, Stone told the August issue of Vanity Fair about her highest and lowest points in her career thus far.

After choosing to drop out of high school before her senior year started, Stone moved to Los Angeles and got her big break appearing in the hilarious comedy "Superbad."

"I did 'Superbad' in what would've been my senior year," she told the mag. "I was playing a senior, and had I graduated I would've missing that opportunity, and had I missed that opportunity I wouldn't be here right now."

While chasing her dream of becoming an actress, Stone enrolled in online classes and even worked part-time as a baker in a dog bakery.

"I think three people called my specific cookies inedible to their dogs," she admitted. "I'm not a super-talented dog baker."

But, Stone didn't have to worry about making cookies for dogs for much longer.

After appearing in "Superbad," Stone went on to appear in several more films, including "The House Bunny," "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," "Paperman" and one of her most well-known projects, "Easy A."

The film "Easy A," in which she played her first leading role, led to Stone being nominated for a 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

Although she appeared in many successful films, she says she hit "rock bottom" after not getting a role she once auditioned for.

She confessed that auditioning for a role in NBC's television show "Heroes," was the hardest moment she has faced in her acting career so far.

"I could hear that, in the other room, a girl had just done in and they were saying, 'You are our pick ? On a scale of 1 to 10 you're an 11,'" she said.

Stone was beat out by actress Hayden Panettiere for the staring role.

The young actress, who is still struggling with her new famous image, takes cues from other actresses who don't talk about their personal lives.

"Talking about this stuff is pretty new," she disclosed. "The only solution I've come to when it comes to things like that ? the health of my family or dating, really personal things ? is not to talk about it."

Stone will be seen next in the films "The Help," "Friends with Benefits" and "Crazy, Stupid, Love" this summer, and "The Amazing Spider-Man," coming out next year.

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Tia Mowry: It?s A Boy!

It?s an exciting time in the life of Tia Mowry as she just became a proud mother of a happy and healthy baby boy.

The ?Sister Sister? actress and her husband Cory Hardrict said hello to their newborn son earlier today (June 28) in Los Angeles.

Back in January, Tia told press she felt ?sexy and empowered? as a result of her pregnancy. She married Hardrict back in April of 2008.

And Tia?s pregnancy will be televised when she and her sister Tamera bring their new reality show ?Tia & Tamera Take 2? to the Style Network this summer.

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Shia LaBeouf admits to Megan Fox fling

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Shia Labeouf reveals he and Megan Fox mixed business with pleasure on the 'Transformers' set.

Shia LaBeouf isn't one to hold back what he thinks. He also isn't one to give a damn.

The actor, who stars in the upcoming "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," opens up in the August issue of Details about his tough upbringing, hooking up with his taken leading ladies and being, as the magazine puts it, Hollywood's last bad boy.

During his time working on 2007's "Transformers," the 25-year-old actor reveals he had a fling with former co-star Megan Fox.

"Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them," he explains. "I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing, and I think you can see the chemistry onscreen."

As for Fox's status at the time with her longtime boyfriend, Brian Austin Green (whom she wed last June), LaBeouf cryptically replies, "I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know ? ," repeating the phrase 12 times in 12 different ways before finally saying, "It was what it was."

Fox and LaBeouf played an on-screen couple in the first two 'Transformers' films.

While working on the franchise's next installment, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," in 2009, LaBeouf admits to "philandering around" with co-star Isabel Lucas, who was in a relationship with actor Adrien Grenier at the time.

"It was sort of disastrous," LaBeouf says. "Neither one of us, I think, were in love. Just sort of experimenting or whatever."

Albeit with a few high-profile hookups (he says his one date with Hillary Duff was "probably the worst date either of us have ever had"), LeBeouf calls himself a "serial monogamist."

He still speaks highly of his "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" co-star Carey Mulligan, whom he dated for more than a year before amicably splitting last October.

"I still love her," he says. "I think she's a f---ing awesome person and an incredible actress. We're still pals. I wouldn't take any of it back, and I don't think she would either. It just ran its course."

The actor is currently in a relationship with Karolyn Pho, a student and stylist who he first saw at a restaurant and blatantly hit on. Together for seven months now, the couple lives a simple life with LaBeouf's one-eyed English bulldog, Brando.

"It's a pretty mundane, domestic, docile, lame, sort of not-that-exciting existence," he says.

LaBeouf, known to throw a punch or two, says he wishes he 'would like to be George Clooney??? diplomatic.' (Matthias Vriens-McGrath/Details)

But while his life now seems calmer, LaBeouf didn't always have it easy. He grew up in Los Angeles with a shaved ice-selling mom who paid rent by dressing up as a clown and a heroin-addicted dad who spent most of his time in a VA hospital trying to kick his drug habit.

"I f---ing hated him for it ? choosing the hospital over me," the actor says of his father. "I felt like shit about myself. I was basically alone. That does something to you."

As one therapist suggested, LaBeouf took his anger out on a stuffed animal every day after school. But that wasn't enough since he eventually "got kicked out of every school I ever went to" for fighting.

"You weren't fighting because you were a tough guy," he explains. "You were fighting because a dude comes up and punches you in the chest ? so either you hit him back or not only is he going to punch you every day but all his friends are going to beat the s--- out of you. You fight out of f---ing survival.

"I still have that in me, which gets me into trouble."

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CL ALBUM REVIEW: BEYONCE?s 4

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley at Transformers 3 Berlin Premiere

Posted by Pamela on June 28th, 2011

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Continuing to promote her first film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon (sorry Pink Floyd, we totally thought of it first), Rosie Huntington-Whitely made an appearance at the Berlin premiere, dressed in a beautiful silver full-length gown. This dress has a figure-hugging -t-shirt style top half, which might make some look frumpy, but Rosie makes it work, and the belted waist continues to accentuate her tiny, svelte figure. The dress is glamorous and classic, with no frills ? just a simple piece that exudes elegance. Rosie slips into this pretty number easily, making it her own.

With loose curls and natural makeup, Rosie looks almost regal and princess-like in this ? move over Kate Middleton! She?s added some black dark nail polish to her outfit too, which gives the look a slightly quirky twist, but other than that, this is all natural, prim and proper perfection. Sigh ? Rosie has looked simply amazing at each of the premieres she has attended for the film, and continues her flawless round with this stunning dress.

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