Articles by Mashable from April 2013

IAC Chairman Barry Diller says that merging Newsweek with The Daily Beast in November 2010 was "a mistake," and that he does not have great expectations for its future.In an interview with Bloomberg (...

Hiring a lead developer for your startup is a "make-it-or-break-it-moment." This is the person whose creative vision and technical know-how will determine the success of your product. This is the lead...

Jason Collins made history on Monday morning by becoming the first male athlete in a major American sport to come out as gay while still an active player. Since then, he's dominated the online convers...

Weather Channel interns are challenging Twitter users to blow them away for Tornado Week. They've transformed part of their office into a tweet-powered tornado simulation, putting the public in contro...

Jason Collins was the talk of Twitter on Monday after coming out and becoming the first openly gay active athlete in a major American sportHe dominated Twitter's list of worldwide trends. He received ...

Leighton Naylor is taking a cue from Finding Nemo's Dory and making sure his goldfish, Einstein, can just keep swimmingThe elderly Einstein recently developed a swim bladder disease, affecting his buo...

We've all been there — casually browsing Facebook, only to be interrupted by a cringe-worthy announcement from an old acquaintance whose toddler finally "went poopy in the potty!" There's a reas...

Samsung has updated its tablet lineup with the Galaxy Tab 3, a 7-inch tablet running Android 4.1 or Jelly BeanThe device sports a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 8/16GB of internal storage memory (expanda...

A private spaceship designed to carry space tourists made its first rocket-powered test flight Monday, reaching supersonic speeds as it paved the way toward commercial flights in the near future.Virgi...

At times, it seems like Tony Stark has it all together. He's rich, good looking, has the "World's Most Beautiful Woman" as his gal-pal (Pepper Pots, a.k.a. Gwyneth Paltrow) and a whole slew of indestr...

In the past couple years, an ecology of sorts has come into being among online news sites. It's the blogosphere metastized, maybe, or merged with the money of traditional mediaA web writer, or a newsp...

Twenty dollars. That's how much the first successful Kickstarter campaign wanted to raiseL.J. Ruell, a Kickstarter user from Long Island City, launched a campaign in April 2009 to raise a small amount...

Kevin Ware became an inspirational hero online this month after suffering one of the most gruesome injuries ever seen in a televised sports eventNow he says he's done with TwitterIf years of Internet ...

What's the worst job of the year? According to a survey conducted by CareerCast, it's a newspaper reporter. Last week the Wall Street Journal wrote about the findings, which have been c...

Comedian and "Funniest Person on Twitter" Rob Delaney sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium over the weekend. Check it out in the video above — he's not bad at allDelaney scored the gig wit...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Health and wellness are h...

NBA player Jason Collins ignited a flurry of commentary on Twitter after Sports Illustrated tweeted his first-person story in which he comes out as gay, becoming the first male athlete to do so while ...

The New York Police Department posted footage on Monday which shows airplane wreckage discovered last week and is believed to have come from one of the two airliners which struck the World Trade Cente...

Microsoft is attempting to triangulate in the Apple-Samsung war with a new ad that presents itself as above the fray of their petty bickering.The ad takes place during a wedding. As a nerdy guy steps ...

If you live Britain, your Facebook and Instagram photos may now be free for the takingThe U.K.’s Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act passed parliament and last week received Royal Assent to bec...

Bob Garfield and Doug Levy explain the rules of the relationship era in their book Can’t Buy Me Like: How Authentic Customer Connections Drive Superior Results.Dear Bob & Doug:We are a Korea...

How do you throw up in a place where "up" and "down" don't exist?Puking in the microgravity of the International Space Station can be quite a problem, but that doesn't mean it never happens.Astronauts...

This gymnast's eye-popping routine has gone viral for good reason, and must be seen to be believedThe incredible sports sequence involves a ball, some major contortions and a whole lot of grace. We're...

IAC Chairman Barry Diller says that merging Newsweek with The Daily Beast in November 2010 was "a mistake," and that he does not have great expectations for its future.In an interview with Bloomberg (...

Hey, sexy Samsung consumers! "Gangnam Style" may be well, well past its prime, but it didn't stop Samsung from performing its own version of the song over the weekend during its Galaxy S4 launch in Mu...

The Samsung Galaxy S4 has a boatload of features, but is extra durability one of them? Its predecessor, the Galaxy S III, lost a few drop tests to its chief rival, Apple's iPhone 5. How will the brand...

Jason Collins made history on Monday morning by becoming the first male athlete in a major American sport to come out as gay while still an active player. Since then, he's dominated the online convers...

Technology is becoming increasingly invisible. That's impossible, you might protest — technology is more omnipotent than ever. It's everywhere, and we can't seem to go a day, much less an hour, ...

Chat apps have surpassed SMS text messaging for the first time ever, according to new data.Research firm Informa, in partnership with The Financial Times, have revealed 19 billion messages were sent e...

Weather Channel interns are challenging Twitter users to blow them away for Tornado Week. They've transformed part of their office into a tweet-powered tornado simulation, putting the public in contro...

There are several reasons one should be wary before talking a selfie — generally seeming gratuitous and catching yourself at a bad angle are the leading factors against the photo trend. But this...

HuffPost Live, the 8-month-old, online-native video news network from AOL's Huffington Post Media Group, will begin syndicating to cable on May 13. The live network has struck a deal with AXS TV to br...

First lady Michelle Obama will unveil Monday a public-private program to help military veterans with information technology experience to get the certifications and additional training they need to su...

A private spaceship designed to carry space tourists made its first rocket-powered test flight Monday, reaching supersonic speeds as it paved the way toward commercial flights in the near future.Virgi...

In February last year, political scandal rocked China when the fast-rising politician Bo Xilai suddenly demoted his top lieutenant, who then accused his boss of murder, triggering Xilai’s politi...

Ever wish your mobile phone just knew what you wanted to know before ever making a search? To reveal, for example, if the New York Giants just won or if you'll need to bring an umbrella to work.Apple ...

Have you heard the one about goldfish having a 3-second memory span? Would it shock you to know that some studies suggest the average adult attention span comes in at less than that — just 2.8 s...

Shazam, the company best known for its eponymous music discovery app, has hired a new CEO and plans to go public in the near future.Rich Riley, the former EVP Americas for Yahoo, has joined Shazam as ...

Twenty dollars. That's how much the first successful Kickstarter campaign wanted to raiseL.J. Ruell, a Kickstarter user from Long Island City, launched a campaign in April 2009 to raise a small amount...

It's starting to look like Twitter's music app may be more like Poke than Vine.Twitter Music fell out of Apple's list of the top 100 free apps in the U.S. on Saturday just nine days after it launched,...

Kenny Powers, the profane protagonist of HBO's Eastbound and Down, may have picked up a real-life endorsement deal for the HTC One.The character, played by Danny McBride, lobbed a few tweets recently ...

Can't fathom how you'll function without your cell data when you leave the country for your upcoming summer vacation or business trip? It won't be too bad, we promise. Thanks to a slew of apps, your t...

At times, it seems like Tony Stark has it all together. He's rich, good looking, has the "World's Most Beautiful Woman" as his gal-pal (Pepper Pots, a.k.a. Gwyneth Paltrow) and a whole slew of indestr...

Comedian and "Funniest Person on Twitter" Rob Delaney sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium over the weekend. Check it out in the video above — he's not bad at allDelaney scored the gig wit...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital worldToday, we're looking at three particularly interesting storiesGo...

Whether you're unemployed, underemployed or just looking for something a bit more interesting, the Mashable Job Board is full of listings to take your career to the next level.Since 2005, Mashable has...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Health and wellness are h...

Is the Samsung Galaxy S4 a smartphone or a being? In the new video (above), Samsung product designers explain the philosophy behind its flagship smartphone, which at one point, they describe as a "mea...

What's the worst job of the year? According to a survey conducted by CareerCast, it's a newspaper reporter. Last week the Wall Street Journal wrote about the findings, which have been c...

How do you throw up in a place where "up" and "down" don't exist?Puking in the microgravity of the International Space Station can be quite a problem, but that doesn't mean it never happens.Astronauts...

Hey, sexy Samsung consumers! "Gangnam Style" may be well, well past its prime, but it didn't stop Samsung from performing its own version of the song over the weekend during its Galaxy S4 launch in Mu...

A lot has changed in the last 60 years ... and that's probably for the bestThe Cold War is over, schools are no longer segregated and women have improved their lot in societyWhile we can't produce a t...

This past week was filled with all types of memorable events around the world. As usual, we bring you the best ones, captured in photos. From demonstrations and protests to a robot sports competition,...

Chat apps have surpassed SMS text messaging for the first time ever, according to new data.Research firm Informa, in partnership with The Financial Times, have revealed 19 billion messages were sent e...

There are several reasons one should be wary before talking a selfie — generally seeming gratuitous and catching yourself at a bad angle are the leading factors against the photo trend. But this...

HuffPost Live, the 8-month-old, online-native video news network from AOL's Huffington Post Media Group, will begin syndicating to cable on May 13. The live network has struck a deal with AXS TV to br...

First lady Michelle Obama will unveil Monday a public-private program to help military veterans with information technology experience to get the certifications and additional training they need to su...

In February last year, political scandal rocked China when the fast-rising politician Bo Xilai suddenly demoted his top lieutenant, who then accused his boss of murder, triggering Xilai’s politi...

Have you heard the one about goldfish having a 3-second memory span? Would it shock you to know that some studies suggest the average adult attention span comes in at less than that — just 2.8 s...

It's starting to look like Twitter's music app may be more like Poke than Vine.Twitter Music fell out of Apple's list of the top 100 free apps in the U.S. on Saturday just nine days after it launched,...

Including your favorite gadget in a tattoo may be an obvious choice. But what about vintage tech that no one uses anymore? Or tech that's hot now but may not be in five or 10 years?In the tattoo photo...

Samsung has updated its tablet lineup with the Galaxy Tab 3, a 7-inch tablet running Android 4.1 or Jelly BeanThe device sports a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 8/16GB of internal storage memory (expanda...

A lot has changed in the last 60 years ... and that's probably for the bestThe Cold War is over, schools are no longer segregated and women have improved their lot in societyWhile we can't produce a t...

Well, that came sooner than expected. Two weeks after LG's announcements it will launch a curved OLED TV "later this year," the first such 55-inch device here, available for pre-order in South KoreaTh...

Fans can do all kinds of things to show their love for their favorite superheroes. In the case of Archie Whitehead, a 17-year-old high school student from Welwyn Garden City, a town 20 miles outside o...

Back in January, we saw a cockatiel lay down some fat, feathery beats worthy of Skrillex, and now, there's a new musically inclined bird in town.One funky cockatoo was caught on video bobbing its head...

First it was "straight from the runway" and soon, it will be straight from the red carpetModa Operandi, an online luxury retailer that kickstarted its business by offering fashion goods for order with...

Disclaimer: The video, above, contains imagery and language that may be offensive to some viewers.YouTube user Birgirpall tests video games in an online series called "I Broke..." to hilarious effect,...

Zach Braff is the latest celebrity to successfully fund a film through KickstarterThe Scrubs actor raised $2 million in three days to fund a follow-up to his 2004 film, Garden State, according to the...

This past week was filled with all types of memorable events around the world. As usual, we bring you the best ones, captured in photos. From demonstrations and protests to a robot sports competition,...

Back in January, we saw a cockatiel lay down some fat, feathery beats worthy of Skrillex, and now, there's a new musically inclined bird in town.One funky cockatoo was caught on video bobbing its head...

Polyvore, the official iOS app of the popular fashion-focused social e-commerce site of the same name, has just received a major update. In addition to the obligatory bug fixes, the new update brings ...

First there was ecommerce, a term developed in the early '80s to abbreviate "electronic commerce," or sales made possible through electronic funds transfer (and later, the Internet). Since then, marke...

Looks like spring is finally here, so you've probably spent more time outside, enjoying the nice weather and the blossoming trees than watching memes on YouTube — at least we hope. In that case,...

Zach Braff is the latest celebrity to successfully fund a film through KickstarterThe Scrubs actor raised $2 million in three days to fund a follow-up to his 2004 film, Garden State, according to the...

Golden Globe winner Hugh Jackman will use Twitter on Thursday to answer fans' burning questions about The Wolverine movie — in which he will play the disgruntled hero with degenerative abilities...

The jury may still be out on whether GIF is pronounced with a hard G or a soft G. But here's one thing that's certain: the popular GIF-sharing app GifBoom has just gotten its biggest update yet.What e...

Icelandic video game developer CCP Games plans to bring the science-fiction universe of EVE Online, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, to television using stories written by some of t...

Fans can do all kinds of things to show their love for their favorite superheroes. In the case of Archie Whitehead, a 17-year-old high school student from Welwyn Garden City, a town 20 miles outside o...

Looks like spring is finally here, so you've probably spent more time outside, enjoying the nice weather and the blossoming trees than watching memes on YouTube — at least we hope. In that case,...

We've all seen news organizations and social media users relay inaccurate information in order to be first, especially after recent eventsIn this comic, we see the truth about these broadcasters' goal...

Some interesting apps launched this week. The long-rumored Draw Something 2 finally made its way into the App Store, and popular Android app Drippler finally made its way to iOS.Amazon released a new ...

MTV is turning Scream, Wes Craven's 16-year-old slasher film franchise, into a TV series for the Millennial Generation, the network revealed this week during its star-studded upfront presentation to a...

Check out some of the highlights, including quips from President Obama and Conan O'Brien, from Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C.Photo via Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty...

The jury may still be out on whether GIF is pronounced with a hard G or a soft G. But here's one thing that's certain: the popular GIF-sharing app GifBoom has just gotten its biggest update yet.What e...

At the beginning of your professional career, everything in front of you can appear daunting. During these formative years, you are deciding what you want to do, who you want to be and where you are g...

Icelandic video game developer CCP Games plans to bring the science-fiction universe of EVE Online, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, to television using stories written by some of t...

Speed dating is always a bit of a risk. What if you don't like the other person? What if he or she thinks you're terribly boring? What if your soul mate is sitting in a coffee shop thousands of miles ...

Indie rock band Vampire Weekend will share new music Sunday night during a concert at the Tribeca Film Festival, and fans not at the show can watch it on YouTube.The concert live stream, directed by B...

Kevin Spacey reprised his House of Cards character in a hilarious six-minute video that opened the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, also known as "Nerd Prom," Saturday in Washington, D.CIn t...

Fans can do all kinds of things to show their love for their favorite superheroes. In the case of Archie Whitehead, a 17-year-old high school student from Welwyn Garden City, a town 20 miles outside o...

Here's a spoof video with Steven Spielberg from Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner.Photo by Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images Read more...More about Obama, Humor, White House Correspond...

Online charity auction site Charitybuzz posted a unique opportunity last week — for the right price, two lucky Apple fans can have coffee with Apple's CEO, Tim Cook. The auction has exploded acr...

Some interesting apps launched this week. The long-rumored Draw Something 2 finally made its way into the App Store, and popular Android app Drippler finally made its way to iOS.Amazon released a new ...

Films, like many things in life, come in all shapes and sizesTribeca Film Festival gave new meaning to short films this year, however, when it challenged people to create six-second films using Twitte...

First there was ecommerce, a term developed in the early '80s to abbreviate "electronic commerce," or sales made possible through electronic funds transfer (and later, the Internet). Since then, marke...

Check out some of the highlights, including quips from President Obama and Conan O'Brien, from Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C.Photo via Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty...

Speed dating is always a bit of a risk. What if you don't like the other person? What if he or she thinks you're terribly boring? What if your soul mate is sitting in a coffee shop thousands of miles ...

Kevin Spacey reprised his House of Cards character in a hilarious six-minute video that opened the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, also known as "Nerd Prom," Saturday in Washington, D.CIn t...

Films, like many things in life, come in all shapes and sizesTribeca Film Festival gave new meaning to short films this year, however, when it challenged people to create six-second films using Twitte...

Here's a spoof video with Steven Spielberg from Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner.Photo by Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images Read more...More about Obama, Humor, White House Correspond...

First there was ecommerce, a term developed in the early '80s to abbreviate "electronic commerce," or sales made possible through electronic funds transfer (and later, the Internet). Since then, marke...

From skinny to flared, jeans come in a wide range of styles — and now, you can add denim designed for smartphones to the mix.Combining fashion and technology, I/O Denim are jeans that have a poc...

From skinny to flared, jeans come in a wide range of styles — and now, you can add denim designed for smartphones to the mix.Combining fashion and technology, I/O Denim are jeans that have a poc...

Do you enjoy a good scare? See if you can handle these terrifying YouTube videos of ghosts, ghouls, poltergeists and other goblins that go bump in the nightSEE ALSO: 7 Scary YouTube Screamers That Wil...

As the weather gets warmer, it’s only natural to sidle up to your significant other and start feeling the love. But sometimes it takes a little more time to defrost from the doldrums of winter a...

Do you enjoy a good scare? See if you can handle these terrifying YouTube videos of ghosts, ghouls, poltergeists and other goblins that go bump in the nightSEE ALSO: 7 Scary YouTube Screamers That Wil...

Apple recently mailed a letter from its chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, to residents living in the vicinity of Infinite Loop, Cupertino, asking for feedback on the company's forthcoming "C...

Cat acrobatics never cease to amaze and amuse us, so we took a look at some awesome images that show kitties in action. We found 10 perfectly-timed images that expertly capture cats in the act of jump...

When you watch this video, realize that you might be peeking into the future of flexible smartphone technology. Sure, today's handsets can alert you with noises and vibrations, but what if your phone ...

As the weather gets warmer, it’s only natural to sidle up to your significant other and start feeling the love. But sometimes it takes a little more time to defrost from the doldrums of winter a...

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck — Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated ap...

Facebook confirmed in a filing that Mark Zuckerberg, the social network's founder and CEO, is taking a $1 salary this year, and foregoing any bonuses.But he's not exactly taking a vow of poverty. When...

If you have a dog, you already know how entertaining it is to watch him sleep. With soft growls and frantically running paws, Rufus is adorable as he frolics through dreamland.SEE ALSO: More Comics on...

It was another exciting week in tech. If you missed it, worry not — that's why we're here with our Top 10 Tech. This week had a bit of everything, from an exciting new technology for long-distan...

Cat acrobatics never cease to amaze and amuse us, so we took a look at some awesome images that show kitties in action. We found 10 perfectly-timed images that expertly capture cats in the act of jump...

When you watch this video, realize that you might be peeking into the future of flexible smartphone technology. Sure, today's handsets can alert you with noises and vibrations, but what if your phone ...

The military has high-tech equipment to track sniper fire, using microphones carried by soldiers or stationary ones mounted at strategic points. Now that technology is getting shrunk down so that it c...

Apple recently mailed a letter from its chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, to residents living in the vicinity of Infinite Loop, Cupertino, asking for feedback on the company's forthcoming "C...

The weather may be getting nicer, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't spend part of this weekend playing some great games.While there weren't really any major console releases worth noting this week, ...

How much would it cost to fund the high-tech lifestyle of Iron Man 3? Being the "hero" in the third installation of the Iron Man series raised in price from $1.6 billion in the first movie to over $10...

For those who frequently use the free public Wi-Fi in coffee shops such as Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts, you're likely already aware of how easy it is for hackers to steal your personal and financial ...

Facebook confirmed in a filing that Mark Zuckerberg, the social network's founder and CEO, is taking a $1 salary this year, and foregoing any bonuses.But he's not exactly taking a vow of poverty. When...

Pregnancy is a wonderful, crazy, exciting, scary and often confusing time in a woman's (and her partner's) life. Seeing that positive pregnancy-test result can be overwhelming, whether a couple has be...

If you have a dog, you already know how entertaining it is to watch him sleep. With soft growls and frantically running paws, Rufus is adorable as he frolics through dreamland.SEE ALSO: More Comics on...

It has been another busy week as April wraps up and everyone is taking every opportunity to enjoy spring's late arrival. If you've been too preoccupied basking in the sun to check out the news, don't ...

It's a universal ritual to clink drinking glasses together to make friends, but believe it or not, toasting is about to undergo a high-tech upgrade.Budweiser Brazil is testing new concept called "The ...

Return on investment is a pretty fundamental goal of any business endeavor. Yet the term didn't really gain much currency until the mid-1960s. As this Google Ngram chart shows, since then, the term "R...

The military has high-tech equipment to track sniper fire, using microphones carried by soldiers or stationary mics mounted at strategic points. Now that technology is getting shrunk so it can be used...

Alexis Grant is an entrepreneurial writer and digital strategist. She blogs about careers and the new world of work at alexisgrant.com.The web is transforming our workplace — and that means new ...

The weather may be getting nicer, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't spend part of this weekend playing some great games.While there weren't really any major console releases worth noting this week, ...

For those who frequently use the free public Wi-Fi in coffee shops such as Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts, you're likely already aware of how easy it is for hackers to steal your personal and financial ...

For those who frequently use the free public Wi-Fi in coffee shops such as Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts, you're likely already aware of easy it is for hackers to steal your personal and financial info...

It has been another busy week as April wraps up and everyone is taking every opportunity to enjoy spring's late arrival. If you've been too preoccupied basking in the sun to check out the news, don't ...

It's a universal ritual to clink drinking glasses together to make friends, but believe it or not, toasting is about to undergo a high-tech upgrade.Budweiser Brazil is testing new concept called "The ...

It's a universal ritual to clink drinking glasses together to make friends, but believe it or not, toasting is about to undergo a high-tech upgrade.Budweiser Brazil is testing new concept called "The ...

A Dutchman on Thursday was arrested and charged with being behind one of the biggest cyber attacks ever, according to reports. The man has only been identified by his initials "SK," his age (35-years-...

Word's been out on the Internet since at least January about an official Lord of the Rings Tower of Orthanc LEGO set, thanks to a few images making the rounds, but now it's officially official: LEGO's...

If you're disposing of old documents such as bank statements and tax forms, security experts recommend shredding the paperwork so it can't be used by identity thieves.It's a practice everyone should b...

The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.Name: SpotOn.itOne-Liner...

Press photographers need not enter. That's basically the message organizers of megastar Beyonce Knowles' ongoing "Mrs. Carter Show World Tour" have reportedly told the media.According to photography b...

Word's been out on the Internet since at least January about an official Lord of the Rings Tower of Orthanc LEGO set, thanks to a few images making the rounds, but now it's officially official: LEGO's...

A Utah-based company says it wants to change how the world stores data — and the Kickstarter community is taking notice.Co-founders Alen Peacock and Clint Gordon-Carroll led the creation of Spac...

NBA fans know Metta World Peace is, shall we say, "out there." He changed his name from Ron Artest. He famously brawled with fans during a game in Indianapolis. He recorded the immortal Michael Jackso...

If you're disposing of old documents such as bank statements and tax forms, security experts recommend shredding the paperwork so it can't be used by identity thieves.It's a practice everyone should b...

As Kevin Ware's amazing saga unfolded during the University of Louisville's March Madness championship run recently, another story got overshadowed: the fact that Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino had pr...

Comedian Marc Maron has no problem expressing himself. "Can you hold on a second," he asks me during our phone call. "I have to deal with some bullshit." The "bullshit" Maron is talking about relates ...

We all want more time. Time to finish our work, handle tedious errands and check off items from our ever expanding to-do lists. The problem is, the day's not getting any longer and our responsibilitie...

Press photographers need not enter. That's basically the message organizers of megastar Beyonce Knowles' ongoing "Mrs. Carter Show World Tour" have reportedly told the media.According to photography b...

Battle Worlds: Kronos has been a labor of love for developer KING Art Games. Originally created more than six years ago, the project has taken Kickstarter by storm and has more than doubled its origin...

David LaFerriere has illustrated his kids' lunch bags with a Sharpie marker since 2008. And during those five years, none of his drawings have been the same"I used to work nights at a newspaper, and I...

A Dutchman on Thursday was arrested and charged with being behind one of the biggest cyber attacks ever, according to reports. The man has only been identified by his initials "SK," his age (35-years-...

Add this to LivingSocial's growing list of woes: The money-losing daily deals site admitted Friday that it has been the victim of a cyber attack.A LivingSocial spokesperson said the company has begun ...

Until this year, the Oakland, Calif.-based Golden State Warriors last made the NBA playoffs in 2007. Twitter was barely a year old, Facebook was still years away from world domination and YouTube had ...

Comedian Marc Maron has no problem expressing himself. "Can you hold on a second," he asks me during our phone call. "I have to deal with some bullshit." The "bullshit" Maron is talking about relates ...

The Samsung Galaxy S4 isn't even for sale yet, but various people have already completely disassembled the smartphone, and the consensus is clear: It's relatively easy for owners to take apart and fix...

It may be hard to believe, but the popular online retailer Amazon isn't the only entity out there with that nameWhile the e-commerce giant has its sights sets on snagging various top-level domains ...

NBA fans know Metta World Peace is, shall we say, "out there." He changed his name from Ron Artest. He famously brawled with fans during a game in Indianapolis. He recorded the immortal Michael Jackso...

David LaFerriere has illustrated his kids' lunch bags with a Sharpie marker since 2008. And during those five years, none of his drawings have been the same"I used to work nights at a newspaper, and I...

The 2014 Corvette Stingray debuted in January, but among all the impressive stats and glossy pictures was one crucial missing piece of information: its price. On Friday, Chevrolet solved that riddle, ...

Add this to LivingSocial's growing list of woes: The money-losing daily deals site admitted Friday that it has been the victim of a cyber attack.A LivingSocial spokesperson said the company has begun ...

Until this year, the Oakland, Calif.-based Golden State Warriors last made the NBA playoffs in 2007. Twitter was barely a year old, Facebook was still years away from world domination and YouTube had ...

AOL employees revealed Friday on Twitter that news website AOL Music and properties associated with it will close and employees in the division will be immediately laid offSpinner, a rock news website...

Thieves are now using an app, in conjunction with near field communication (NFC), to swipe credit card information by waving their phones at close proximity to a victim's wallet or jacket, according t...

It's the battle to end all battles. The question to end all questions. The one thing generations have always wondered: Which is more painful, delivering a baby or getting a swift kick to the family je...

Even if you're the "Iron Chef" of you own home, if you can't fully see what you're chopping up for dinner, your guests may complain that little bits of fingernail are not part of the recipe. With that...

If you fancy yourself as a right-brained creative type, there's a new mobile puzzle game that will tickle your artistic side and even teach you something.Blendoku is a free game for iOS and Android th...

Considering how much typing on a glass touchscreen blows in comparison to using hard keys, it's easy to imagine how Blackberry saw the first iPhone back in 2007 and thought, "Bah, this isn't a threat....

There are two smartphones that are bringing a lot of excitement to the Android community: the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One. Each phone brings its own distinctive features that make it a standout ...

As prospect draftees arrived at the 2013 NFL Draft on Thursday night, they were ushered to an iPad station set up to look like a goal post. Players smiled into the tablet's front-facing camera and pos...

The spare-time online activities between a son, a father, and his friend resulted in a $1 million prize from the Pentagon's mad scientists from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)The...

Battle Worlds: Kronos has been a labor of love for developer KING Art Games. Originally created more than six years ago, the project has taken Kickstarter by storm and has more than doubled its origin...

Smartskin Condoms for Smartphones are sheaths made from soft and stretchy thermoplastic that cover your device to protect it. The skins slip on and stretch to fit, and sealing tabs are provided to sti...

As recently as several months, Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o was considered a surefire first round NFL Draft pick who could even land in the top 10. Yesterday, 32 NFL teams had a chance to selec...

The White House has joined Tumblr, and oh yes, there will be GIFs."We see some great things here at the White House every day, and sharing that stuff with you is one of the best parts of our jobs," re...

Love the Galaxy S4, but wish it were built a little tougher? Samsung may soon have just the smartphone for you.The company is reportedly working on a rugged version of the Galaxy S4. According to the...

Reddit user Unidan rapidly rose to celebrity status on the network, after charming dozens of science lovers in a thread about unbelievable facts Wednesday."Biologist here!" is how he starts most of hi...

It was only a matter of time.Smartphone shipments overtook feature phone shipments worldwide in the first quarter of this year for the first time ever, according to a new report from IDC.There were 41...

Country legend George Jones, who had top-charting singles in five separate decades starting in the 1950s, died Friday at age 81 in Nashville after postponing two shows and being hospitalized for blood...

The 2014 Corvette Stingray debuted in January, but among all the impressive stats and glossy pictures was one crucial missing piece of information: its price. On Friday, Chevrolet solved that riddle, ...

Nellie Akalp is a passionate entrepreneur, small business advocate and mother of four. As CEO of CorpNet.com, a legal document filing service, Nellie helps entrepreneurs start a business, incorporate,...

Add this to LivingSocial's growing list of woes: The money-losing daily deals site admitted Friday that it has been the victim of a cyber attack.A LivingSocial spokesperson said the company has begun ...

It may be hard to believe, but the popular online retailer Amazon isn't the only entity out there with that nameWhile the e-commerce giant has its sights sets on snagging various top-level domains ...

"Cost per Like" often crops up in conversations about Facebook advertising, though it isn't a term officially sanctioned by Facebook. So what exactly does it mean?Cost per Like refers to the cost of a...

Samoas and Thin Mints and Tagalongs, oh my! It's time to celebrate those little cookies that make diets shut right up and give you reason to shell out hundreds of dollars to your co-workers' kids each...

One month after Yahoo made headlines by announcing its acquisition of Summly, a startup that uses algorithms and natural-language processing to serve short summaries of articles, Google has snatched u...

One month after Yahoo made headlines by announcing its acquisition of Summly, a startup that uses algorithms and natural-language processing to serve short summaries of articles, Google has snatched u...

It's the battle to end all battles. The question to end all questions. The one thing generations have always wondered: Which is more painful, delivering a baby or getting a swift kick to the family je...

Take a look at the image above. Pretty surreal. At first glance (or second, or third), it looks like a photograph — maybe a little faded, compared to most high-definition shots we're now used to...

Singer Michael Bublé recently shocked New Yorkers at the 66 Street-Lincoln Center subway stop with an a cappella performance of Jackson 5's "Who's Lovin' You." "That is the coolest thing ever," h...

There are two smartphones that are bringing a lot of excitement to the Android community: the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One. Each phone brings its own distinctive features that makes it a standout...

One of the most important features on any smartphone is its display, since it's how the user experiences every single app, piece of content or message via the phone. So how does the screen on the bran...

As prospect draftees arrived at the 2013 NFL Draft on Thursday night, they were ushered to an iPad station set up to look like a goal post. Players smiled into the tablet's front-facing camera and pos...

We've all heard of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks bringing down web servers, but we bet most people can't really imagine what a DDoS attack looks likeLogstalgia visualizes web-server acc...

The popular iOS video-sharing app Vine will be coming to Android in the near future, according to its founders.The Verge is reporting the app — which Twitter launched in January — will bri...

As recently as several months, Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o was considered a surefire first round NFL Draft pick who could even land in the top 10. Yesterday, 32 NFL teams had a chance to selec...

CSS frameworks have been the foundations of web projects for many years. However, in the age of responsive design, a framework has even more benefits. A well-built CSS framework or boilerplate can str...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting storiesA...

It was only a matter of time.Smartphone shipments overtook feature phone shipments worldwide in the first quarter of this year for the first time ever, according to a new report from IDC.There were 41...

Smartskin Condoms for Smartphones are sheaths made from soft and stretchy thermoplastic that cover your device to protect it. The skins slip on and stretch to fit, and sealing tabs are provided to sti...

Jeana Lee Tahnk is a high-tech PR consultant and writer who focuses on technology and parenting. She pens the Screen Play technology blog for Parenting Magazine and also writes for Cool Mom Tech and m...

Love the Galaxy S4, but wish it were built a little tougher? Samsung may soon have just the smartphone for you.The company is reportedly working on a rugged version of the Galaxy S4. According to the...

Does a negative post on Twitter have infectious germs powerful enough to influence the behavior of tweeters? Maybe. Then again, maybe not.A new report from the American Council on Science and Health c...

Reddit user Unidan rapidly rose to celebrity status on the network, after charming dozens of science lovers in a thread about unbelievable facts Wednesday."Biologist here!" is how he starts most of hi...

"Cost per Like" often crops up in conversations about Facebook advertising, though it isn't a term officially sanctioned by Facebook. So what exactly does it mean?Cost per Like refers to the cost of a...

Take a look at the image above. Pretty surreal. At first glance (or second, or third), it looks like a photograph — maybe a little faded, compared to most high-definition shots we're now used to...

Apple has launched a new ad for the iPhone 5, this time focusing on the device's photo featuresThe ad shows people taking photos with the iPhone in various conditions: in daylight, at night, at sports...

The popular iOS video-sharing app Vine will be coming to Android in the near future, according to its founders.The Verge is reporting the app — which Twitter launched in January — will bri...

Even if you're the "Iron Chef" of you own home, if you can't fully see what you're chopping up for dinner, your guests may complain that little bits of fingernail are not part of the recipe. With that...

Armed with a smartphone and an app, you can control many aspects of your digital life. You can unlock your front door from afar with Lockitron, change the temperature in your home using a Nest thermos...

Google Glass owners — all several of you — rejoice, as you can now peruse The New York Times on your shiny pair of augmented reality glassesThe official New York Times Google Glass app let...

Players can again enter the 'XCOM' universe and fight aliens later this summer, this time in a tactical third-person shooter, 2K Games announced Friday.The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is 2K's attempt at...

You've seen the latest Man of Steel trailer and are primed for the summer blockbuster's June 14 release. But that's still almost two months away, so what to do until then? Here's something to tide you...

Google Glass owners — all several of you — rejoice, as you can now peruse The New York Times on your shiny pair of augmented reality glassesThe official New York Times Google Glass app let...

If you're nostalgic for those times you could spend hours playing games instead of being an adult, you are not alone.YouTube cartoon channel Animation Domination High Def posted this sensory-pleasing ...

In the age of Internet and ubiquitous technology, we've seen a lot of great, original marriage proposals, even geekily romantic ones. But this one, made with the aid of a drone, might very well top th...

This summer, superheroes will face down evil, robots will clash with monsters, and monsters will ... go to college. Those are just a few of the plot lines this season's surefire blockbusters hold in s...

Players can again enter the 'XCOM' universe and fight aliens later this summer, this time in a tactical third-person shooter, 2K Games announced Friday.The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is 2K's attempt at...

Sports fans that use a tablet or smartphone — the "second screen" — during live game broadcasts are becoming more and more common these days. For this year's Super Bowl, a Century 21 Real ...

The "bullet-dodging" scene from 1999's The Matrix is one of the most iconic action sequences in film history. It's irreplaceable, right?In a way. The folks at CineFix released their own, homemade vers...

The House of Representative's version of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, probably won't be taken up in its entirety by the Senate, according to a new report. CISPA passed ...

Not so long ago, in a city near, near the Bay, a certain retired filmmaker decided to build a place he could hang his Death Star-sized art collection and share it with a public eager for inspiration. ...

In a litterbox far, far away (under the stairs), Luke Hairballer and Han Whiskero battle Kittytroopers and Dog Vader.That's the basic plot — give or take a gerbil playing Yoda — of "Paw Wa...

When the luxury of travel to another city or country eludes us, we can turn to familiar haunts to get away from it all — without getting away at all. The comfort of a hometown haven can be as in...

So you sit down for some important programming, whether a Barack Obama speech or your favorite sitcom. You've got all the fixings: Comfy chair, tasty snacks and, of course, your second screen device o...

When Internet activist and hacker Aaron Swartz committed suicide, his death resonated far beyond his circle of friends, family and acquaintances, touching technology's greatest minds, other Internet a...

If you're nostalgic for those times you could spend hours playing games instead of being an adult, you are not alone.YouTube cartoon channel Animation Domination High Def posted this sensory-pleasing ...

Do you use Instapaper? No, me neither. But the $3.99 app, which lets you save stuff to read later when outside a wifi or 3G zone, has a small and highly devoted following. Which is why a small segment...

Like other tech companies, Microsoft has advertised some of its products in the past by offering free Wi-Fi in public places like subways and park benches. Now, the company is doing something a little...

Sports fans that use a tablet or smartphone — the "second screen" — during live game broadcasts are becoming more and more common these days. For this year's Super Bowl, a Century 21 Real ...

Fred Amoroso, Yahoo's chairman of the board, is resigning his position, the company announced late Thursday.Amoroso took over as Yahoo's chairman in May at the same time that Ross Levinsohn was appoin...

The "bullet-dodging" scene from 1999's The Matrix is one of the most iconic action sequences in film history. It's irreplaceable, right?In a way. The folks at CineFix released their own, homemade vers...

The upcoming Spark EV is the most efficient production electric vehicle in the world, according to GM. The company backs up that audacious claim with some hard numbers about the Spark EV's EPA mileage...

Google Glass, the tech giant's augmented reality eyeglasses project, lets you capture photos, record video and surf the web all at eye level. But this kind of innovation isn't free of limitations.Curr...

Researcher Flurry reported on Thursday that the audience for mobile apps has hit 58 million in primetime — 8 p.m. — a figure that rivals that of the top three TV networks on a very good ni...

Like other tech companies, Microsoft has advertised some of its products in the past by offering free Wi-Fi in public places like subways and park benches. Now, the company is doing something a little...

In March, Pinterest rolled out a new site design with larger images, a cleaner layout, and several new discovery and navigation features. Since that time, users have praised and criticized various asp...

"We stand with you." Those are the powerful words delivered by U.S. veterans to survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings in this new video.Shoulder 2 Shoulder, a Virginia-based Service Disabled Veter...

So you sit down for some important programming, whether a Barack Obama speech or your favorite sitcom. You've got all the fixings: Comfy chair, tasty snacks and, of course, your second screen device o...

After missing analysts' expectations for three consecutive quarters, Amazon beat the Street's forecast, reporting earnings of $0.18 per share compared to earnings of $0.28 per share last year. Wall St...

Comedian Nathan Fielder made parents across the country Google "rehab" with a little game that he challenged his 39,000 Twitter followers to playThe fun all started with this tweet encouraging followe...

Google Glass, the tech giant's augmented reality eyeglasses project, lets you capture photos, record video and surf the web all at eye level. But this kind of innovation isn't free of limitations.Curr...

So you sit down for some important programming, whether a Barack Obama speech or your favorite sitcom. You've got all the fixings: Comfy chair, tasty snacks and, of course, your second screen device o...

Fresh from the Jimmy Kimmel School of Blowhard Shaming comes this video of ever-expansive NFL Draft fans pontificating, as they do, on pro prospects' relative strengths and weaknesses. The catch? The ...

You'll have to put aside those dreams of a Minority Report-style interface for just a bit longerLeap Motion, the pint-sized technology that can turn an average desktop or laptop into a gesture-control...

The House of Representative's version of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, probably won't be taken up in its entirety by the Senate, according to a new report. CISPA passed ...

Ever since Facebook introduced its new cover photo design back in fall 2011, brands, celebrities and ordinary folks have been challenged on how exactly to use that prominent piece of real estate.For t...

Twitter issued an update on Thursday for Twitter for Mac for the first time since 2011, bringing a number of improvements to the Mac version of the app.Most notably, the update improves photo sharing....

What happens when you create a car advertisement depicting suicide? Hyundai tried that stunt in the UK last week, and by Thursday the Hyundai ad had certainly garnered plenty of attention, but not at ...

Mary and Martha, starring Oscar-winner Hilary Swank and nominee Brenda Blethyn, tells the dramatic story of two mothers who bond over the malaria-induced deaths of their sons.Leading up to the film's ...

Ever wonder if your pooch is active enough?A new product called FitBark attempts to help you find out. A sort of FitBit for your canine companion, the device keeps track of how active your dog is, and...

When the luxury of travel to another city or country eludes us, we can turn to familiar haunts to get away from it all — without getting away at all. The comfort of a hometown haven can be as in...

Got some kids laying around? Just throw 'em in dishware and they'll keep for an extra few days"Baby mugging," the latest photo fad sweeping Instagram, has nothing to do with stealing kids' cookies, bu...

Want to go to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, often referred to as WWDC? Hopefully you got in early because the event sold out in just two minutes.Cult of Mac reports tickets were gone in just...

Google released its traditional six-month Transparency Report Thursday, the seventh since the company started releasing this type of data in 2010. And, according to the report, which covers July to De...

Comedy fans should look no further than YouTube to get a mega serving of standup. The company announced on Tuesday the first-ever YouTube Comedy Week, a collection of live events, video premieres and ...

Different brands have different business methods, but they all have at least one goal in common: to engage audiences effectively. Today's brands want to beat the competition by getting consumers to en...

The National Football League is cooking up a heap of digital ways for fans to follow along with the 2013 NFL Draft, which kicks off on Thursday night at Radio City Musical Hall in New York City.From i...

The "Beyoncé as Mrs. Carter in H&M" advertising campaign continues with a new commercial that features the global superstar decked in H&M garb and introduces fans to "Standing on the Sun,...

Schadenfreude: The satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune. It's a pretty narcissistic point of view — but it's not as bad if the misfortunes are fictional, right? Matt Moore...

In March, Pinterest rolled out a new site design with larger images, a cleaner layout, and several new discovery and navigation features. Since that time, users have praised and criticized various asp...

Comedian Nathan Fielder made parents across the country Google "rehab" with a little game that he challenged his 39,000 Twitter followers to playThe fun all started with this tweet encouraging followe...

Sunil Tripathi, a 22-year-old Brown University student who has been missing since mid-March, was confirmed dead Thursday after authorities recovered his body from the Providence River this week. Tripa...

If you learn one thing from this video, it's that you should never bring a Ouija board to jury duty.If you learn two things, it'll probably be about giraffe pee. If you learn all five things, great. D...

Despite the warm praise for its Boston Marathon bombings coverage, The New York Times Co.'s plan to sell The Boston Globe is still on.On a Q1 2013 earnings call Thursday, Times Co. CEO Mark Thompson s...

A measure that would require law enforcement to get a warrant to read citizens' emails regardless of their age or whether they have been opened passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a voice vote Th...

Vice President Dick Cheney made a Texas-sized fashion statement when he showed up to the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center wearing a cowboy hat.Sure, the gathering of the five livin...

It's safe to say that Game of Thrones and Friends exist in two completely different realms — figuratively and literally — since one is in the mythical time and place of Westeros and the ot...

The forthcoming PlayStation 4 can track players' positions in a room, using the light bars on the system's new controller, according to a video Sony released Thursday morning.The video focuses on the ...

All five living United States presidents — Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter — are in attendance at Thursday's dedication of the George W. Bush ...

A report from PC services company Soluto claims the "best performing" Windows laptop is one that wasn't primarily made to be used with Windows: Apple's MacBook ProIn creating this report, Soluto claim...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Most of us walk around al...

Mashable's Events Board is a great place to find the leading conferences in your industry — whether that's advertising, technology, media or public relations. This week, we're highlighting five ...

Nintendo is bucking tradition and skipping out on a larger presentation at this year's E3, instead focusing on smaller, closed-door events at the show.The company's CEO Satoru Iwata made the announcem...

Mary and Martha, starring Oscar-winner Hilary Swank and nominee Brenda Blethyn, tells the dramatic story of two mothers who bond over the malaria-induced deaths of their sons.Leading up to the film's ...

Stop what you're doing right now and look at Bill Clinton wearing a fedora. If that's not the awesomest thing you've ever seen, then perhaps a one-way trip to Mars or a squirrel dressed as a pirate is...

Ever wonder if your pooch is active enough?A new product called FitBark attempts to help you find out. A sort of FitBit for your canine companion, the device keeps track of how active your dog is, and...

The worldwide market share of Android tablets is just a few percentage points below that of Apple's iPad, new research says. Meanwhile, Windows tablets have carved out a significant but "niche" market...

Charles Schwab & Co. has been suffering from denial-of-service attacks, blocking access to the site for two hours on Tuesday and slowing the online operations of the financial services firm interm...

After bouncing around several top-level domains over the past couple of months, BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay has finally found a home in IcelandThe Pirate Bay's search for a TLD — initiated...

Don’t cry for Apple. It’s got billions of dollars, strong revenues (even if profits are dipping a bit), legions of customers and fans, a product line many companies would kill for and a de...

The New York Times Company is planning to introduce several new products and initiatives at the end of this year and early next, including a lower-priced option for digital subscribers, the company an...

Want to go to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, often referred to as WWDC? Hopefully you got in early because the event sold out in just two minutes.Cult of Mac reports tickets were gone in just...

Google released its traditional six-month Transparency Report Thursday, the seventh since the company started releasing this type of data in 2010. And, according to the report, which covers July to De...

Spring is more torturous than winter. Sure, you survived the cold, dreary weather, but now the sun is shining and everything is bright and beautiful — and you're still stuck at work or school.Th...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories....

LinkedIn launched LinkedIn Contacts Thursday, a new mobile and web solution for building and maintaining relationships that are important to you.“All of us know that professional networking is s...

Type “Star Trek” into Google, and you’ll get more than 71 million results for the iconic, 47-year-old sci-fi franchise. It boasts legions of fans and continues to generate fresh cont...

Different brands have different business methods, but they all have at least one goal in common: to engage audiences effectively. Today's brands want to beat the competition by getting consumers to en...

You'll have to put aside those dreams of a Minority Report-style interface for just a bit longerLeap Motion, the pint-sized technology that can turn an average desktop or laptop into a gesture-control...

There's no denying it: We're pretty attached to those rectangular gadgets in our bags and pockets. Indeed, a new survey found that even when offered a hotel discount in exchange for unplugging while o...

What does it take for a brand to engage with its audience on Twitter?Social media startup Nestivity released a list of the top 25 most engaged brands on Twitter Thursday, taking a look at what exactly...

Ever since Facebook introduced its new cover photo design back in fall 2011, brands, celebrities and ordinary folks have been challenged on how exactly to use that prominent piece of real estate.For t...

Despite the warm praise for its Boston Marathon bombings coverage, The New York Times Co.'s plan to sell The Boston Globe is still on.On a Q1 2013 earnings call Thursday, Times Co. CEO Mark Thompson s...

The forthcoming PlayStation 4 can track players' positions in a room, using the light bars on the system's new controller, according to a video Sony released Thursday morning.The video focuses on the ...

A report from PC services company Soluto claims the "best performing" Windows laptop is one that wasn't primarily made to be used with Windows: Apple's MacBook ProIn creating this report, Soluto claim...

LG plans to launch a smartphone with a flexible OLED display in Q4 2013, the company has announced during its financial results callNo details about the device were disclosed. Making an entirely flexi...

Nintendo is bucking tradition and skipping out on a larger presentation at this year's E3, instead focusing on smaller, closed-door events at the show.The company's CEO Satoru Iwata made the announcem...

Don’t cry for Apple. It’s got billions of dollars, strong revenues (even if profits are dipping a bit), legions of customers and fans, a product line many companies would kill for and a de...

Different brands have different business methods, but they all have at least one goal in common: to engage audiences effectively. Today's brands want to beat the competition by getting consumers to en...

The New York Times Company is planning to introduce several new products and initiatives at the end of this year and early next, including a lower-priced option for digital subscribers, the company an...

Artist Leon Keer has worked on a large number of 3D street paintings in the last couple of years at events around the world. Because these street paintings have to be viewed from an exact vantage poin...

Former President Bill Clinton officially joined millions of other Twitter users Wednesday night, tweeting from the handle @BillClintonWhile comedian and television host Stephen Colbert previously got ...

LinkedIn launched LinkedIn Contacts Thursday, a new mobile and web solution for building and maintaining relationships that are important to you.“All of us know that professional networking is s...

Although graphics in 3D computer games has gone really far in the last decade or so, the water in most of them does not look very real — especially when you throw a couple of solid objects into ...

Although graphics in 3D computer games has gone really far in the last decade or so, the water in most of them does not look very real — especially when you throw a couple of solid objects into ...

Almost two and a half decades ago, CNN became a household name with its 24-hour coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf and Operation Desert Storm. Never before had viewers been literally bombarded wi...

Almost two and a half decades ago, CNN became a household name with its 24-hour coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf and Operation Desert Storm. Never before had viewers been bombarded with nonstop...

The recent onslaught of "Draw My Life" videos — in which someone's life is represented by a series of crude drawings — had to include North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at some pointIn this p...

Yahoo announced Wednesday that it struck a deal with production company Broadway Video to exclusively stream Saturday Night Live content.In an official blog post, CEO Marissa Mayer revealed that the p...

The Hubble Space Telescope is aging. But there was a time when it was merely a twinkle in some astronomer's eye.In fact, we know exactly who that astronomer was, and when he first told the world about...

Bill Clinton received a warm welcome from Twitter, after the former U.S. president officially joined the microblogging network Wednesday nightWelcome to Twitter @billclinton, 42nd President of the Uni...

No bedtime routine with your kids is complete without a good story. And now, one Idaho-based company has added a futuristic twist to the age-old ritual.Smart PJs, based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, has desi...

Americans are increasingly engaging with political issues on social media — leading some to become civic activists offline, a study from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Pr...

Does the four-hour work week really exist?Even before the bestseller hit stores in 2007, entrepreneurs everywhere had been searching for author Tim Ferriss' elusive algorithm for the se...

The recent onslaught of "Draw My Life" videos — in which someone's life is represented by a series of crude drawings — had to include North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at some pointIn this p...

Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone — may have died over 90 years ago, but you can still hear his voice todaySmithsonian researchers recovered Bell's voice from a historical ...

The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.Name: CoFoundersLabOne-L...

How bad does LeBron James want to win a second straight NBA title? Well, the Miami Heat superstar is doing something most of us would never consider: abstaining from TwitterJames told Fox Sports Wedne...

Zynga has officially launched Draw Something 2, the followup to its highly-successful Pictionary-like mobile app Draw Something, which was released last year.Unveiled during the company’s earnin...

Robin van Persie is one of the world's top soccer players, starring for Manchester United and the Dutch national team. Many fans know him simply as "RVP." Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad is a man in ...

For two days, New York became the center of the 3D-printing world, with some of the industry's leading companies gathering at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Monday and Tuesday3D Systems, Mak...

Admit it — you've had your fair share of "first world problems." Whether you ran out of sriracha sauce or have too many smudges on your glasses, you've complained about trivial situations that p...

Almost two and a half decades ago, CNN became a household name with its 24-hour coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf and Operation Desert Storm. Never before had viewers been literally bombarded wi...

If you're looking for a portable Bluetooth speaker, JBL just rolled out its JBL Charge, a beer-can sized speaker that promises great sound and plenty of battery life. The speaker's 6000 mAh lithium-io...

Have you always wanted to meet Tim Cook? Those dreams can now become a reality — if you happen to have $90,000, that is.A posting on the site Charity Buzz is offering a once-in-a-lifetime oppor...

For all of their advantages, smartphones still fall a little short for some — specifically, for those living with visual impairmentWhile apps like Siri and SayText do offer a good deal of assist...

Ah, sports fails — the Internet gift that keeps on giving. The 2012-2013 NBA regular season recently finished, offering of up a fresh crop of LOL-worthy mistakes from the greatest basketball pla...

The Voice is a huge hit, thanks in part to its strong integration of social TV and the second screen. Now NBC is hoping to replicate that success with a new live competition show airing this fall call...

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that a new U.S. $100 bill — first announced back in 2010 — will debut on Oct. 8, 2013.This is only the fourth time in U.S. history that the $100 bil...

Even if it pains us to say it, we are growing tired of those cosplay cats and dressed up dogs. It's time for a new animal to don a fetching get-up for our amusement. And Sugar Bush may just be that ne...

Does the four-hour work week really exist? Even before the bestseller hit stores in 2007, entrepreneurs everywhere had been searching for author Tim Ferriss' elusive algorithm for the s...

For the past three years, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has tracked our sun as it approaches something called "solar maximum," which is the scientific term for the star's peak in solar activ...

Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone — may have died over 90 years ago, but you can still hear his voice todaySmithsonian researchers recovered Bell's voice from a historical ...

If you're looking for a portable Bluetooth speaker, JBL just rolled out its JBL Charge, a beer-can sized speaker that promises great sound and plenty of battery life. The speaker's 6000 mAh lithium-io...

For all of their advantages, smartphones still fall a little short for some — specifically, for those living with visual impairmentWhile apps like Siri and SayText do offer a good deal of assist...

There have been dozens of Rube Goldberg videos passing across our desks, but this one has to be the most elaborate we've ever seen. A combination of falling dominoes and outlandish tricks, this video ...

Flippered robots inspired by sea-turtle hatchlings could shed light on how the ancestors of terrestrial animals first evolved to crawl on land, researchers say.Such research could also lead to amphibi...

Frequent travelers who constantly fly across multiple time zones know how hard it is to even maintain a semblance of a "normal" sleep schedule. A new device from an Australian-based sleep research com...

Oblivion, the sci-fi mind-bender topping the box office charts this week, is the first big popcorn movie of the season. Set in the year 2077, the film stars Tom Cruise and is notable for being an orig...

Last year, as part of Congress' mandate to prepare the American airspace for the age of the unmanned aerial vehicle -– or drone -– the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was ordered to ...

T-Mobile customers interested in the BlackBerry Q10 can sign-up for notifications of the device's availability starting on April 29.Mashable Tech Editor Pete Pachal called the Q10 "the best keyboard p...

No matter how deeply the ways of the web become engrained in us, a few people will always remember the early days. For example, one time many years ago while flipping through a book, perhaps it was "W...

Urban Outfitters, an early adopter of Twitter's Vine app, is teaming up with Converse for a contest offering a cross-country trip for the best Vine that documents "a day in the life of your Converse s...

Zynga's stock fell as much as 12% in after-hours trading after the company reported that revenues fell 18% in its latest quarter compared to the year-ago period.Though Zynga's revenues were higher tha...

London-based luxury manufacturer Luvaglio is selling a laptop that's valued at $1 million. In an attempt to combine luxury with functionality, the customized product can feature diamond-encrusted keys...

The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.Name: CoFoundersLabOne-L...

Australian authorities have arrested who they claim is a 24-year-old "self-proclaimed leader" of the LulzSec hacking group, which has taken credit for several high-profile hacks and Distributed Denial...

Summer’s just around the corner — have you started working on your swimsuit body yet?Whether you can’t find the time or just plain can’t afford a gym membership, the Internet i...

For the past three years, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has tracked our sun as it approaches something called "solar maximum," which is the scientific term for the star's peak in solar activ...

Worried about the security of your Twitter password after the @AP hack? A New York-based web developer has created a website to help you checkCoote's site, ismytwitterpasswordsecure.com, greets you wi...

Rocker Bon Jovi's final U.S. stop on his "Because We Can" tour will likely be the tour's most-watched concert. Why? Aside from the people attending the April 25 show in San Jose, Calif., fans nowhere ...

It was nothing short of fate when Abigail Harrison spotted her hero, astronaut Luca Parmitano, in an airport security lineAt just 15 years old, Harrison knows what she wants to do with her life: becom...

George R.R. Martin is many things. Among them: brilliant author, nerd demigod and the creative force behind HBO's hit series Game of Thrones. But here's one you may not have guessed. Martin is also, a...

Robin van Persie is one of the world's top soccer players, starring for Manchester United and the Dutch national team. Many fans know him simply as "RVP." Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad is a man in ...

What's a big tech release like Google Glass without a little competition? Tokyo-based entrepreneur Takahito Iguchi, pictured above, has created a wearable computing device called Telepathy One and ...

Prepare to take your humor back to fifth grade, space nerdsOne of NASA's Mars exploration rovers was wheeling around our next-door planet neighbor when a quick spin and thrust left wheel tracks that r...

An attempt by a handful of Reddit users-cum-wannabe digital forensics experts to find the perpetrator of last week's fatal Boston Marathon bombing has been rightfully criticized as unhelpful by multip...

Do certain videos or movie scenes send you into full-on waterworks mode?For some, it's a clip of a soldier returning home from overseas to surprise his or her family. For others, Ethan Hawke's "Oh Cap...

NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope has snapped stunning new photos of Comet ISON, which could become one of the brightest comets ever seen when it zips through the inner solar system this fallHubble...

Good ideas can come from anywhere — while drinking your morning coffee, having dinner with friends or while traveling the world. When you've come up with your best idea, you remember what you we...

The Great Gatsby is one of the most anticipated films of the spring, and in typical Baz Luhrmann tradition (Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!) the soundtrack is an event itself.Today, Mashable is exc...

For many of us in today's visually-obsessed culture, self-image is a fragile thing. We were reminded of that last week, when a Dove ad featuring a forensic artist who draws portraits of women as they ...

The next Xbox is on its wayMicrosoft sent out invitations Wednesday to a press event at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters. Promising “A New Generation Revealed,” the May 21 event is expecte...

Oblivion, the sci-fi mind-bender topping the box office charts this week, is the first big popcorn movie of the season. Set in the year 2077, the film stars Tom Cruise and is notable for being an orig...

You know that moment when you're carrying your iPad in one hand and your water bottle or drink in the other ... and the two somehow come together? You know it can have disastrous effects on your carry...

Last year, as part of Congress' mandate to prepare the American airspace for the age of the unmanned aerial vehicle -– or drone -– the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was ordered to ...

In a matter of months, Apple shareholders deftly transitioned from being owners of the world’s pre-eminent growth story to musty dividend drawers in the world’s premier blue chip value sto...

Any resident of Westeros will vow eternal disdain for King Joffrey Baratheon. Even his Uncle Tyrion is happy to slap him around for being such an arrogant little foolAnd (almost) any resident of real ...

No matter how deeply the ways of the web become engrained in us, a few people will always remember the early days. For example, one time many years ago while flipping through a book, perhaps it was "W...

The world is on the brink of its second major disease eradication. Polio may soon meet the fate of smallpox, the last natural case of which was found in 1977. Bill Gates knows that this enormous globa...

Binoculars may seem archaic in the era of superzoom cameras, but they're still extremely useful in specific situations, such as observing wildlife. That's why Sony sees a bright future for its line of...

In the simplest sense of the word, a map is a spatial representation of something. It provides us with a sense of context, scale and location. Maps began as 2D depictions, but technology and data enab...

If you're longing to see the world, these beautiful photos can transport you to another place — at least for a little whileLast week, we asked to see your photos from far, far away for the Masha...

For the past three years, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has tracked our sun as it approaches something called "solar maximum," which is the scientific term for the star's peak in solar activ...

Nokia has added a WhatsApp button for instant messaging to its new Asha 210 smartphone — the first phone to do so.The mobile manufacturer announced this week that the low-budget Asha 210 ($72), ...

London-based luxury manufacturer Luvaglio is selling a laptop that's valued at $1 million. In an attempt to combine luxury with functionality, the customized product can feature diamond-encrusted keys...

What if time travel were a possibility? What moment in time would you choose to adventure back to and experience for yourself? While we all might have different times we'd select for our journey, most...

Tap and buy: Come 2017, approximately 25% of online retail transactions in the U.S. will take place on mobile devices, more than double the number that occurred in 2012, according to an eMarketer stud...

Investors and analysts can't seem to decide whether Apple just gave them good news or bad news.Apple's stock has been on a roller coaster ride since the company released its March earnings report shor...

"Two blogs diverged in a Dashboard, and sorry I could not follow both..." or something like that is probably what Robert Frost would say if he were here to see the 21st century travelerToday, it does ...

The Wii U sold disappointingly for Nintendo and affected the company's bottom line for the last fiscal year, according to financial earnings released early Wednesday.The next-generation console was re...

Rocker Bon Jovi's final U.S. stop on his "Because We Can" tour will likely be the tour's most-watched concert. Why? Aside from the people attending the April 25 show in San Jose, Calif., fans nowhere ...

NASA this week took a handful of cheap but powerful smartphones, slapped them to a gigantic rocket and blasted them into low-earth orbit to see how they'd fare. The project, called PhoneSat, is one of...

It was nothing short of fate when Abigail Harrison spotted her hero, astronaut Luca Parmitano, in an airport security lineAt just 15 years old, Harrison knows what she wants to do with her life: becom...

The conversation between this corgi dressed as a panda and its owner probably went a little something like this:Corgi: "Let's do something fun today."Human: "Yay! I have a great idea!"Corgi: "It scare...

If there's any piece of emerging technology that most closely resembles the cyberpunk imaginings of science-fiction writers, it's Google Glass. The product achieved a notable symbolic milestone this w...

Social resumes are nothing new — and we've seen impressive ones popping up in recent months. From an online application mimicking an Amazon product page and interactive infographics to a 6-secon...

Days after it introduced its first mobile ads, Tumblr updated its iOS app to version 3.3.1, adding several important new featuresThe new version lets users share posts via social networks such as Twit...

Rocker Bon Jovi's final U.S. stop on his "Because We Can" tour will likely be the tour's most-watched concert. Why? Aside from the people attending the April 25 show in San Jose, Calif., fans nowhere ...

What could be better than Zach Braff launching a campaign to get his new film funded on Kickstarter? How about Zach Braff launching a campaign to get his new film funded on Kickstarter and it's an in...

Whether you're unemployed, underemployed or just looking for something a bit more interesting, the Mashable Job Board is full of listings to take your career to the next level.Since 2005, Mashable has...

The average TV commercial is said to cost around $350,000, but it's safe to say this ad for Allied Irish Bank was well south of thatThe ad was shot entirely with an iPhone 5. “It was a big decis...

The Obama administration's social media outreach apparently does not extend to countering market-moving falsified tweets about the White House.Midday on Tuesday, a hacked Associated Press Twitter acco...

Coca-Cola on Wednesday unveiled a global marketing campaign that employs 61 URLs with snackable content around the theme of "The Ahh Effect," a new positioning for the brand.The campaign uses the URL ...

Last week Twitter launched Twitter #Music, its new stand-alone music service. A mobile app as well as a web service, Twitter Music helps music lovers discover new tunes, and with the help of Rdio and...

You know that moment when you're carrying your iPad in one hand and your water bottle or drink in the other ... and the two somehow come together? You know it can have disastrous effects on your carry...

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference will take place this year between June 10-14 at San Francisco's Moscone West, the company announced on Wednesday.As with previous years, the conference will foc...

What could be better than Zach Braff launching a campaign to get his new film funded on Kickstarter? How about Zach Braff launching a campaign to get his new film funded on Kickstarter and it's an in...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories....

Amazon is planning to release a TV set-top box, according to a report.The company is planning to launch the item this fall, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, which cites "three people familiar with...

Oculus Rift, the next-generation virtual-reality headset that raised more than $2.4 million on Kickstarter, will soon be available to gamers everywhere. As a result, everyone and their grandmother is ...

The world is on the brink of its second major disease eradication. Polio may soon meet the fate of smallpox, the last natural case of which was found in 1977. Bill Gates knows that this enormous globa...

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What if time travel were a possibility? What moment in time would you choose to adventure back to and experience for yourself? While we all might have different times we'd select for our journey, most...

So you thought a Terminator-like future of metal machines mowing each other down on battlefields sounded pretty cool, did you? Well, wipe that smile off your face, fleshy one. Killer robots are a real...

Prepare to take your humor back to fifth grade, space nerdsOne of NASA's Mars exploration rovers was wheeling around our next-door planet neighbor when a quick spin and thrust left wheel tracks that r...

Superman fans who want to see "Man of Steel" one day early can do so at Walmart, which has partnered with Warner Bros to sell tickets for an advance screening of the movie.The tickets will become avai...

If there's any piece of emerging technology that most closely resembles the cyberpunk imaginings of science-fiction writers, it's Google Glass. The product achieved a notable symbolic milestone this w...

In a matter of months, Apple shareholders deftly transitioned from being owners of the world’s pre-eminent growth story to musty dividend drawers in the world’s premier blue chip value sto...

For Cody Wilson, the world's most notorious 3D printing gunsmith, it all started with a simple question: "Can you use a 3D printer to print a gun?" The answer to that question might come sooner than a...

Coca-Cola on Wednesday unveiled a global marketing campaign that employs 61 URLs with snackable content around the theme of "The Ahh Effect," a new positioning for the brand.The campaign uses the URL ...

What could be better than Zach Braff launching a campaign to get his new film funded on Kickstarter? How about Zach Braff launching a campaign to get his new film funded on Kickstarter and it's an in...

The trailer for Sofia Coppola's latest directorial effort, The Bling Ring, is making waves after hitting the interwebs TuesdayInspired by real-life events, the film follows a group of fame-obsessed te...

It seems HTC One will not be the only Android flagship that suffered from the delay flu this year, at least on some carriersT-Mobile has announced that Samsung Galaxy S 4 will be available on April 29...

The Internet industry in Pakistan is at an extremely exciting point, and the outlook for local entrepreneurs and venture capitalists is strong in the mid to long runAs the sixth largest country in the...

Twitter is currently testing two-factor authentication, and plans to roll it out to users soon, according to a reportThe microblogging network is conducting internal tests before gradually debuting th...

Alongside the buzz about Twitter becoming our primary source of news is the realization that not everything you read on the microblogging network can be trusted. Usually, this is because people are to...

So you thought a Terminator-like future of metal machines mowing each other down on battlefields sounded pretty cool, did you? Well, wipe that smile off your face, fleshy one. Killer robots are a real...

Samsung's Galaxy S III was one of the most successful Android smartphones of all time, but is the Galaxy S4 a worthy successor?In a word: yes. The Galaxy S4 manages to build on the framework that help...

It seems HTC One will not be the only Android flagship that suffered from the delay flu this year, at least on some carriersT-Mobile has announced that Samsung Galaxy S 4 will be available on April 29...

There are touchscreen displays and 3D displays, but now there’s one that combines the two: a flexible screen that users can pinch, poke and stretch.The screen, designed by Dhairya Dand and Rob H...

Are keyboard phones still relevant? For BlackBerry, a company that practically invented the QWERTY phone, the answer could prove pivotal to its future. You can see how much BlackBerry understands that...

By now, you're familiar with the cinnamon challenge. Maybe you know someone brave enough to ingest a spoonful of cinnamon on film. Or perhaps you were foolhardy enough to try it yourself. There's even...

Nike updated its Nike+ FuelBand app Tuesday to include the ability to share more information about a workout with Facebook friends.Users can now capture photos of their workout, such as a view fr...

An Indian cricket team will introduce augmented reality-enhanced tickets for its fans next month. The Royal Challengers Bangalore are just the latest of a handful of sports clubs to use the still-emer...

Alongside the buzz about Twitter becoming our primary source of news is the realization that not everything you read on the microblogging network can be trusted. Usually, this is because people are to...

There are many ways to measure your life, like achieving milestones, tracking your bank account and even seeing how tall you grow. But what about observing the size and shape of your bike?SEE ALSO: Mo...

Robot Combat League, Syfy's new reality series pitting 12 expensive, 8-feet-tall humanoid machines against each other in tournament-style face-offs, ends Tuesday night with the final two robots. And w...

Image via Rob Kim/Getty ImagesAlright, Internet, you had your fun today with hipper-than-hip hipsters and meme faces, but now the time has come to go home.Robert De Niro met Lil Bub. Yes, the legenda...

If there's one thing the Internet loves, it's cat videos. If there's another, it's people getting dunked on.In that spirit, the world's premier basketball league recently released its countdown of thi...

In an effort to be a safer driver, many people, myself included, have started using voice-to-text mobile apps like Siri to keep two hands on the steering wheelHowever, a new study by the Texas A&M...

With weeks of speculation, rumor-mongering and paranoid misinformation leaks, the NFL Draft is riddled by smoke screens and uncertaintyBut what if social media holds all the true answers? That's the p...

A new mobile app called Focus Twist mimics the experience of Lytro’s focus-shift technology on your iPhone, allowing you to change the focal point of a photo after snapping a shot.To create a ph...

Image via Rob Kim/Getty ImagesAlright, Internet, you had your fun today with hipper-than-hip hipsters and meme faces, but now the time has come to go home.Robert De Niro met Lil Bub. Yes, the legenda...

Apple had a good day. The market cheered the company's fiscal second quarter results despite the fact that the company's year-over-year profits declined for the first time since 2003However, the big p...

Don't hold your breath for any big Apple product launches this summer.Apple's CEO Tim Cook suggested during the March quarter earnings call Tuesday that the company will not be releasing any new produ...

Nike updated its Nike+ FuelBand app Tuesday to include the ability to share more information about a workout with Facebook friends.Users can now capture photos of their workout, such as a view fr...

Women in information technology jobs are earning roughly the same salaries as their male counterparts, provided they share equal levels of experience and education and parallel job titles, a recent re...

By now, you're familiar with the cinnamon challenge. Maybe you know someone brave enough to ingest a spoonful of cinnamon on film. Or perhaps you were foolhardy enough to try it yourself. There's even...

The endlessly addictive Tetris may be good for the treatment of lazy eye, according to a study released by McGill University scientists. The act of following Tetris pieces down the screen causes both ...

An Indian cricket team will introduce augmented reality-enhanced tickets for its fans next month. The Royal Challengers Bangalore are just the latest of a handful of sports clubs to use the still-emer...

Scott Fujita is a winner. He attended UC Berkeley, played 11 NFL seasons and won a Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints in 2010So it's no real surprise Fujita announced his retirement from pro footb...

Apple beat Wall Street's estimates for revenue and sales of the iPhone and iPad in the March quarter, but the company's profits declined year-over-year for the first time in a decade.Apple sold 37.4 m...

Robot Combat League, Syfy's new reality series pitting 12 expensive, 8-feet-tall humanoid machines against each other in tournament-style face-offs, ends Tuesday night with the final two robots. And w...

The sequester, a series of federal budget cuts that went into effect in March, forced the FAA to cut employees' hours by approximately 10% — air traffic controllers included. That loss is alread...

If there's one thing the Internet loves, it's cat videos. If there's another, it's people getting dunked on.In that spirit, the world's premier basketball league recently released its countdown of thi...

What do technologist turned philanthropist Bill Gates and South Korean rap sensation Psy have in common? Both have achieved major accomplishments in the tech world: Psy's is the first video to hit 1 b...

If you wear your phone’s headset while driving to send voice-activated text messages, you may be putting yourself and other drivers in danger. A new study from researchers at the Texas Transport...

Jake Johnson is apparently just as good at impersonating Internet celebs as he is being irresistibly goofy as Nick Miller on Fox's New GirlThe self-proclaimed "competitive" actor sat down with MadeMan...

BlackBerry has announced that its long-awaited keyboard phone running BlackBerry 10 software, the Q10, will launch on May 1 in Canada.Canadian carriers Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility and Telus will al...

SpaceX's Grasshopper rocket soared 820 feet into the air, held steady against winds and finally landed safely.SEE ALSO: Elon Musk on How SpaceX Saved Dragon Spacecraft From Certain DoomHomepage image ...

Are you down on certain segment of the current generation of teens and 20-somethings because you think they're nothing but a bunch of vapid, status-obsessed dingbats more concerned with picking the ri...

Apple had a good day. The market cheered the company's fiscal second quarter results despite the fact that the company's year-over-year profits declined for the first time since 2003However, the big p...

Add another amazing Internet coincidence to the list of WTF moments. With 80 billion-ish people online (estimation), weird flukes shouldn't be that rare, but how often do these moments involve the coo...

Don't hold your breath for any big Apple product launches this summer.Apple's CEO Tim Cook suggested during the March quarter earnings call Tuesday that the company will not be releasing any new produ...

Facebook has been quietly reworking the design of its mobile brand Pages, the first results of which are now on display on Facebook's mobile web and iOS apps. New designs will be coming to Android ...

The Associated Press falsely tweeted on Tuesday news that the White House was subjected to two explosions and President Obama had been injured. The message was a part of an alleged hack on the wire se...

Are you a ninja in the kitchen? Can you chop an onion without crying and split an apple in half with your bare hands? Then we applaud your skills! And we've collected 10 further cooking hacks that you...

Scott Fujita is a winner. He attended UC Berkeley, played 11 NFL seasons and won a Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints in 2010So it's no real surprise Fujita announced his retirement from pro footb...

Automaker Hyundai recently held what seems like the best office-wide contest ever, asking its R&D engineers to show off their ideas. And they certainly did, unveiling a multi-rotor flying electric...

The world of video games is nothing short of creative. Starting back in the early 1980s, when graphics were limited, both developers and players had to use their imaginations to ensure enticing gamepl...

Apple beat Wall Street's estimates for revenue and sales of the iPhone and iPad in the March quarter, but the company's profits declined year-over-year for the first time in a decade.Apple sold 37.4 m...

Within hours of last Monday's Boston Marathon bombing, a pair of college students had already scraped together a plan to raise money for victims and their families. Nick Reynolds and Chris Dobens, fr...

We live in an age of information, it is said again and again. But that doesn't mean we live in an age of good information, as last week seemed intent on bearing out. Each day, we have to weigh the cre...

With weeks of speculation, rumor-mongering and paranoid misinformation leaks, the NFL Draft is riddled by smoke screens and uncertaintyBut what if social media holds all the true answers? That's the p...

Earlier this month, surveillance video of a bumbling, oddly dressed burglar attempting to break in to a grocery store became a viral sensation, notching more than 6 million views on YouTube and shout ...

Caleb Solomon knew something big had happened when he heard The Boston Globe's newsroom fill up with noise. Like many of today's newsrooms, The Globe's tends to be relatively quiet, but that changed l...

What do technologist turned philanthropist Bill Gates and South Korean rap sensation Psy have in common? Both have achieved major accomplishments in the tech world: Psy's is the first video to hit 1 b...

Oxygen will begin airing GIFs during its TV shows starting May 8 with Best Ink 2, a competition show for tattoo artists hosted by Fall Out Boy rocker Pete WentzIn the past, GIFs had been used only onl...

It would cost $10 billion to fund superhero Iron Man's lavish high-tech lifestyle in Iron Man 3 — about $9 billion more than past films.Fictional billionaire Tony Stark is the CEO of his company...

The top 500 brands on YouTube generate 442 million views per month, averaging 884,000 each, according to a report.Outrigger Media's analysis, which used its Open Slate analytics platform, also shows t...

A bill allowing states to collect sales tax from online retailers that lack a physical presence in their borders appears primed to pass the Senate this week. The Marketplace Fairness Act passed a proc...

Volkswagen illustrates its DSG Tiptronic Transmission's automatic transmission with a YouTube ad that automatically skips itself.The ad, aimed at Brazilian consumers and supporting the VW Fusca, lasts...

Celebrities love to share their deep thoughts in 140 characters on Twitter. That's not to say though that these tweets feature profound words of wisdom. In fact, most of the time, celebrity Twitter st...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who currently lives on board the International Space Station, shows off his photography skills from space.SEE ALSO: What Happens When You Wring Out a Washcloth in Sp...

If you wear your phone’s headset while driving to send voice-activated text messages, you may be putting yourself and other drivers in danger. A new study from researchers at the Texas Transport...

Like the idea of syncing files but don't trust the cloud? You're a prime candidate for BitTorrent Sync, the peer-to-peer service's app that copies and syncs files between computers. Introduced in Janu...

In an attempt to beef up its online video viewership, The New York Times announced Tuesday that its videos are now available in full for free to everyone, including those without a subscription to the...

Are you down on certain segment of the current generation of teens and 20-somethings because you think they're nothing but a bunch of vapid, status-obsessed dingbats more concerned with picking the ri...

The first official trailer for the upcoming Thor 2: The Dark World is now onlineUnlike the first trailer preview, released in November 2012, this full-length trailer shows less space scenes and reveal...

Add another amazing Internet coincidence to the list of WTF moments. With 80 billion-ish people online (estimation), weird flukes shouldn't be that rare, but how often do these moments involve the coo...

Every earnings report from Apple is viewed as a market moving event, but even by that standard, today's report is huge.For months, Apple's perception on Wall Street and Main Street has been tarnished ...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting storiesN...

Lil Bub is here to bring the cheer.Stretch your smile muscles and prepare for a rush of serotonin because the Internet's cutest cat has 15 tidbits of joy to share. Bub has a seemingly magical power ov...

In 1967, the American social psychologist Stanley Milgram sent out 160 packages to randomly chosen individuals in the U.S., asking them to forward them to a single individual living in Boston. The tas...

In an age dominated by social media, the quality of our long-distance interactions is diminishing. There's only so much you can say in a 140-character tweet, it's tough to express yourself in a Facebo...

Cap'n Crunch is looking for a comeback and placing bets on social media — and a touch of nostalgia — to make it happen.The cereal brand is launching an online late-night talk show for its ...

We live in an age of information, it is said again and again. But that doesn't mean we live in an age of good information, as last week seemed intent on bearing out. Each day, we have to weigh the cre...

Marketers just got a powerful new way to reach fans on Facebook: interactive images powered by ThingLink.The popular interactive-image platform officially hit Facebook on Tuesday morning. That means p...

Malware has gone global, with Asia and Eastern Europe the two main malware hotspots, according to a new report from an online security company. The company says hackers are using new techniques, such ...

A new clock radio helps ensure you won't be caught off guard when severe weather affects your area.The new American Red Cross ZoneGuard weather alert clock radio from Etón will flash its integrat...

Oxygen will begin airing GIFs during its TV shows starting May 8 with Best Ink 2, a competition show for tattoo artists hosted by Fall Out Boy rocker Pete WentzIn the past, GIFs had been used only onl...

Celebrities love to share their deep thoughts in 140 characters on Twitter. That's not to say though that these tweets feature profound words of wisdom. In fact, most of the time, celebrity Twitter st...

Like the idea of syncing files but don't trust the cloud? You're a prime candidate for BitTorrent Sync, the peer-to-peer service's app that copies and syncs files between computers. Introduced in Janu...

In an attempt to beef up its online video viewership, The New York Times announced Tuesday that its videos are now available in full for free to everyone, including those without a subscription to the...

The branded Twitter accounts for the CBS television network news shows 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, as well as the Twitter account of at least one CBS affiliate TV station, were hijacked over the weekend ...

Cap'n Crunch is looking for a comeback and placing bets on social media — and a touch of nostalgia — to make it happen.The cereal brand is launching an online late-night talk show for its ...

Volkswagen illustrates its DSG Tiptronic Transmission's automatic transmission with a YouTube ad that automatically skips itself.The ad, aimed at Brazilian consumers and supporting the VW Fusca, lasts...

Pizza Hut is launching an app for Xbox Live, letting users order a pizza through their Xbox 360Once you've linked your Xbox Live account with a Pizza Hut account, and chosen the nearest pizza parlor, ...

For those itching to get their hands on Google Glass, executive chairman Eric Schmidt has good news: The high-tech specs will likely go on sale for consumers in a year.In an interview with BBC Radio 4...

With the weather getting warmer, many folks are firing up the grill for meaty barbecued goodnessBut according to one company, there's a downside to BBQs — long wait times. A quick scan of the in...

During the Miami Heat's incredible 27-game winning streak earlier this season, forward Shane Battier told NBA.com that he's a superstitious fellow. As the Heat won game after game, Battier said he was...

Apple reportedly has started planning production on a new iPhone this year, but there's still plenty of time to stock up on cool cases for your iPhone 4's and 5'sSEE ALSO: 7 Super-Slim iPhone CasesWe'...

Apple reportedly has started planning production on a new iPhone this year, but there's still plenty of time to stock up on cool cases for your iPhone 4's and 5'sSEE ALSO: 7 Super-Slim iPhone CasesWe'...

Only on Twitter, folks. Seriously, you can't make this stuff upLuis Suarez, our antagonistic protagonist, here, is something of a bad boy in the soccer world — that is, not necessarily known for...

A new prosthetic hand lets wearers have better control — thanks to an app.Users of Touch Bionics' next generation "i-limb ultra revolution" prosthetic device can configure parts of the hand usin...

X-Men: Days of Future Past, the seventh installment in the X-Men film franchise, doesn't arrive in theaters until 2014. But fans are already getting an early glimpse of the movie on social media, part...

Reduce, reuse and recycle is the foundation of sustainable living. However, it's time to add another "R" to the list — repair.Repairing electronic devices is equally as important as the other th...

Sometimes, too much of a substance that's supposed to help can cause serious harm.Drug overdose death rates in the United States have more than tripled since 1990, according to the Centers for Disease...

Meet Seventh Woods. He's got an awesome name and is a high school hoops prodigy who dominates on the basketball court. Oh yeah, and one more thing: he is, apparently, just 14 years oldNo 14-year-old s...

Cyber criminals are always looking for new ways to avoid detection, escape cyber sleuths, and carry out their cyber crimes. So it shouldn't be surprising that malicious hackers are now taking advantag...

Last Thursday night, as police in the Boston area engaged in a deadly shootout with two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, much of the social web was sure that Reddit users had successfully ide...

The annual Lyrid meteor shower may have peaked overnight on Sunday and Monday, but if you missed the celestial fireworks show don't fret. NASA's got you covered.Scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Fli...

Only on Twitter, folks. Seriously, you can't make this stuff upLuis Suarez, our antagonistic protagonist here, is something of a bad boy in the soccer world — that is, not necessarily known for ...

Sorry, singles with Android, BlackBerry, Windows or old-school cellphones. Your iPhone-toting compatriots are getting more first date action than you, according to a recent survey of singledom.The sur...

Korean pop star Psy had the bar raised high for his first song since "Gangnam Style" and, believe it or not, he's breaking records again.In the first 24 hours after its debut, his video for the new so...

Kobe Bryant, NBA superstar and recent master of the social media arts, did a pretty cool thing this weekendHis Lakers played their first playoff game of the season on Sunday, against the San Antonio S...

The Internet giveth, and the Internet taketh awayOne day after a viral gaffe brought rookie news anchor A.J. Clemente some short-lived fame on Twitter, the good-natured — but apparently mistake ...

Coming up next: Contestants from around the globe duke it out to become the first humans on Mars. Their life stories are inspiring; their training is fierce, and around every corner is another dramati...

X-Men: Days of Future Past, the seventh installment in the X-Men film franchise, doesn't arrive in theaters until 2014. But fans are already getting an early glimpse of the movie on social media, part...

Warning: The above video is NSFWLast week, the women of the University of Maryland chapter of the Delta Gamma sorority got told; told bad. In what may be the most insane, expletive-laden email of all ...

Reddit, already a vocal opponent of CISPA, is attempting to raise awareness for the issue by blacking out some comments on the site.The blackouts appeared on some subreddits beginning Monday morning. ...

Netflix added 3 million subscribers to its streaming video service in the first quarter, bringing the total number to 36 million viewers, the company reported on Monday. Those viewers streamed 4 billi...

Cyber criminals are always looking for new ways to avoid detection, escape cyber sleuths, and carry out their cyber crimes. So it shouldn't be surprising that malicious hackers are now taking advantag...

In celebration of Earth Day, a website called HooplaHa.com is asking for people everywhere to submit their own Vines of Earth-friendly acts of kindness under the hashtag #GivingVineHooplaHa, a self-pr...

Social Media Day is a day to celebrate the ways in which social media has changed our lives for the better. It's also a celebration of people — you, the people who make social media so fun, usef...

Spring cleaning can be a daunting task. But the right playlist turns any mundane chore into a chance to discover new songs and to remember old favoritesFor this week's Music Monday, we've compiled a p...

Kobe Bryant, NBA superstar and recent master of the social media arts, did a pretty cool thing this weekendHis Lakers played their first playoff game of the season on Sunday, against the San Antonio S...

Long before it was a gleam in Sergey Brin's eye, Thad Starner was sporting a bulky, comparatively prehistoric version of what would ultimately become Google Glass.Starner introduced wearable computing...

Remember back in October when NASA discovered the Earth was "singing" to us? Or to put it more prosaically: radio waves emanating from the Van Allen belts that circle the planet were sampled at a CD-l...

Apple returned up to 8 million iPhones to Foxconn “due to appearance of substandard or dysfunctional problems.” This could cost Cupertino’s top manufacturer up to $1.6 billion, accor...

The official Twitter accounts of the World Cup and FIFA's President Joseph Blatter have been hacked, apparently by Syrian hackers.On Monday afternoon, both @FifaWorldCup and @SeppBlatter started sendi...

The Internet giveth, and the Internet taketh awayOne day after a viral gaffe brought rookie news anchor A.J. Clemente some short-lived fame on Twitter, the good-natured — but apparently mistake ...

Mashable is proud to announce we have been nominated for three Webby Awards: Best User Experience, Best Business Blog and Best Mobile & Apps: News.In December 2012, Mashable launched our redesign,...

Google Earth just upped its cool factor. With the help of motion-control technology, now you can use your hands to fly over mountains, cityscapes and famous landmarks.The company announced on Monday &...

What did you do with your old smartphone after you upgraded to the latest iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy III? According to a November 2012 survey by Lookout, 62% of American households have old cellphones...

Often in the summer when the temperatures soar, humidity hits 100%, and all attempts at conserving energy go out the window, we experience what's called a brownout. That's when the stresses and demand...

Monday is Earth Day — the one day of the year where we celebrate the planet that nurtures us, gives us life and provides us with enough beauty to fill our Instagram feedsSo celebrate our home pl...

Reddit, already a vocal opponent of CISPA, is attempting to raise awareness for the issue by blacking out some comments on the site.The blackouts appeared on some subreddits beginning Monday morning. ...

Vine has become a hot app for iPhone users, and brands are just beginning to discover how to market on the platform. Celebrities and comedians have found ways to reach out to fans, and now musicians a...

Sure, Spring weather is lovely — the flowers, new life and warm weather give us reason to spend time outdoors. But don't forget that nature comes with an infestation of pollenThat pesky, neon ye...

Those hoping for Eventbrite to go public may have to wait a while longer.The popular online ticketing service announced Monday that it has raised another $60 million in financing led by Tiger Global M...

Spring cleaning can be a daunting task. But the right playlist turns any mundane chore into a chance to discover new songs and to remember old favoritesFor this week's Music Monday, we've compiled a p...

Last week Vine made its debut in the political world with the fist 6-second animated attack ad. Today, the White House joins the Vine bandwagon, publishing its first Vine through its official Twitter ...

Your Tumblr mobile experience is ad-free no more: On Monday, Tumblr announced that is now serving ads in its iPhone and Android apps. The ads are native, taking the form not of banner ads but of posts...

Monday is Earth Day which means it's time for people around the world celebrate the planet and advocate its protection. But it's hard to find the perfect way to express your appreciation on this holid...

In what may be a new world record, 30 skiers pull off a major backflip while holding hands on the slopes of Mont-Saint-Sauveur in Quebec.SEE ALSO: World's Best Jump Roper Makes It an Extreme SportHome...

Acer is holding an event on May 3 called "Redefining the computing experience." What's in store is anyone's guess, but the company is hoping to capitalize on the hype for the upcoming movie Star Trek:...

The initial yield of Yahoo's $30 million acquisition of Summly is now on display. The company relaunched its flagship app for iPhone and iPod touch devices Monday morning, which uses Summly's artifica...

Is Facebook Home a hit? The reception for this Android software has been decidedly mixed, but there is at least one statistic the social network can tout: As of this weekend, Home has been downloaded ...

We are living in the age of the entrepreneur — more people are starting up, and it's ever important to stand out in the crowd. When pitching investors, then, it's crucial that entrepreneurs do t...

Yael Bar-tur is a former communications liaison for the Israeli Military and graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She has been an analyst for the New York City Police Department. Alej...

Bob Garfield and Doug Levy explain the rules of the relationship era in their book Can’t Buy Me Like: How Authentic Customer Connections Drive Superior Results.Dear Bob & Doug,I run a social...

Nokia teased a possible new QWERTY phone, coming later this week. The company said it would reveal "something new" early on Wednesday.The announcement, revealed on Nokia's Conversations blog, will com...

The Volkswagen iBeetle might not be the Apple iCar you've been dreaming of, but it's one step closer.The German car manufacturer announced on Monday at the Shanghai Auto Show it's partnering with Appl...

Apple returned up to 8 million iPhones to Foxconn “due to appearance of substandard or dysfunctional problems.” This could cost Cupertino’s top manufacturer up to $1.6 billion, accor...

An Antares rocket, one of two launchers developed with NASA backing to fly cargo capsules to the International Space Station, blasted off on its debut mission on Sunday, successfully depositing a dumm...

After a week filled with all forms of memorable events, we bring you those best captured in photos. Last Monday the annual Boston Marathon was victim to a terrible act. Yet, looking beyond that the pe...

Long before it was a gleam in Sergey Brin's eye, Thad Starner was sporting a bulky, comparatively prehistoric version of what would ultimately become Google Glass.Starner introduced wearable computing...

When Grooveshark's co-founder and CEO Sam Tarantino talks about what happened to his music startup between 2011 and early 2012, he doesn't hold back: It was, he says, "a year of getting punched in the...

A new Comedy Central special is hitting Twitter and Vine next. And you won't have to pay a penny to laugh.#ComedyFest will be a multipronged social attack geared toward experimenting with bringing old...

In 2009, a video for Evian featuring babies on rollerskates became the most-viewed ad ever. Now, the babies are back and the video has racked up more than 12 million views in three days, proving that ...

Google Earth just upped its cool factor. With the help of motion-control technology, now you can use your hands to fly over mountains, cityscapes and famous landmarks.The company announced on Monday &...

EBay is calling on some 40 million of its users to fight a national legislation that would give states the power to collect sales tax from out-of-state online retailers.John Donahoe, eBay's CEO, sent ...

What did you do with your old smartphone after you upgraded to the latest iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy III? According to a November 2012 survey, 62% of American households have old cellphones lying arou...

Are you celebrating Earth Day? This year on April 22, more than one billion people "acknowledge the amazing planet we call home and take action to protect it."This year Earth Day is looking at "The Fa...

Whether you're unemployed, underemployed or just looking for something a bit more interesting, the Mashable Job Board is full of listings to take your career to the next level.Since 2005, Mashable has...

If you just woke up or even if you're heading out to work, take a moment to lean down and give good old Mother Earth a kiss; it is Earth Day, after all. Google's marking the day with a lively animated...

Sure, Spring weather is lovely — the flowers, new life and warm weather give us reason to spend time outdoors. But don't forget that nature comes with an infestation of pollenThat pesky, neon ye...

What did you do with your old smartphone after you upgraded to the latest iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy III? According to a November 2012 survey by Lookout, 62% of American households have old cellphones...

Your Tumblr mobile experience is ad-free no more: On Monday, Tumblr announced that is now serving ads in its iPhone and Android apps. The ads are native, taking the form not of banner ads but of posts...

Acer is holding an event on May 3 called "Redefining the computing experience." What's in store is anyone's guess, but the company is hoping to capitalize on the hype for the upcoming movie Star Trek:...

We are living in the age of the entrepreneur — more people are starting up, and it's ever important to stand out in the crowd. When pitching investors, then, it's crucial that entrepreneurs do t...

Nokia teased a possible new QWERTY phone, coming later this week. The company said it would reveal "something new" early on Wednesday.The announcement, revealed on Nokia's Conversations blog, will com...

Vine has become a hot app for iPhone users, and brands are just beginning to discover how to market on the platform. Celebrities and comedians have found ways to reach out to fans, and now musicians a...

Monday is Earth Day, which means it's time for people around the world to celebrate the planet and advocate its protection. But it's hard to find the perfect way to express your appreciation on this h...

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It was a big week for apps.This week Twitter finally launched its highly anticipated music service, and Facebook brought its new Chat Heads features to the iPhone.Yahoo launched a new tablet app for Y...

It's been a tiring week for anyone in the media — and a sobering one for anyone in the media with a conscience. The coverage of the Boston Marathon saga, from the bombing on Monday to the captur...

Internet use in China has surged in recent years, with more than 42% of its 1.4 billion people logged online. As of 2012, the country boasts 564 million web users — a 10% jump from the year befo...

How can a $6,400 toilet get even more extravagant? Trick it out with the latest techWhen Wisconsin-based manufacturer Kohler debuted the Numi in 2011, it already boasted a foot warmer, a heated seat t...

Fortune cookies tend to have a 50:50 satisfying-to-disappointing ratioSometimes, you'll get a cookie that's stale, soggy and obviously past its expiration date. What's most disappointing, though, is w...

The long-awaited return of Superman to theaters is fast approachingMan of Steel, the franchise's ambitious reboot, is set to premiere on June 14, and the latest trailer suggests it will be a surefire ...

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created Superman for the first issue of Action Comics — way back in 1938. You'd think after three-quarters of century — and hundreds of comics, movies and TV s...

Earth Day, annual holiday of environmental sustainability, is on Monday, and green lifestyle and sustainability are especially in vogue.It also happens to mark the beginning of peak travel season in v...

Chris Crowell is a veteran kindergarten teacher and contributing editor to Children's Technology Review, a web-based archive of articles and reviews on kids apps, technology toys and video games.A liv...

How can a $6,400 toilet get even more extravagant? Trick it out with the latest techWhen Wisconsin-based manufacturer Kohler debuted the Numi in 2011, it already boasted a foot warmer, a heated seat t...

Better late than never. The TSA finally opened a 90-day period to comment on its controversial full-body scanners last month, following a D.C. court of appeals decision issued in July 2011. The public...

In our connected culture, turn away for a second and you could miss something great — or downright ridiculous.You wouldn't want to miss any of that, would you? Thankfully, Mashable has you cover...

It's natural to have an inexplicable need for more social media followers, fans and subscribers. If Twitter has #TeamFollowBack, what can you do to get more likes on Facebook?SEE ALSO: More Sunday Com...

It was a big week for apps.This week Twitter finally launched its highly anticipated music service, and Facebook brought its new Chat Heads features to the iPhone.Yahoo launched a new tablet app for Y...

Have you ever wondered what it's like be Arnold Schwarzenegger driving a car? No? Well, actor and comedian Will Sasso certainly has given it a lot of thought. So much so that he started imitating the ...

I've always considered myself a strong interviewer, but I'll admit it: I was rocked by my first all-day interview (a.k.a., five and a half hours of back-to-back meetings with multiple people in the co...

The Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles have introduced a Game Design merit badge to help encourage its members to get interested in a variety of science and technology fields.The L.A. Girl Scouts chap...

Despite the web's lack of water and sunshine, GIF flowers are blooming across Tumblr Dashboards, proving that spring is finally here.Throughout winter, even, Internet users patiently waited for warmer...

If you want to bring pieces of your favorite game to life, sometimes all it takes is a little bit of paint and your favorite toysRedditor DrBeakerMD posted the above photos of four Borderlands 2-inspi...

Better late than never. The TSA finally opened a 90-day period to comment on its controversial full-body scanners last month, following a D.C. court of appeals decision issued in July 2011. The public...

Put on a pair of these magic underpants called Fundawear, and you'll be able to feel your lover's touch from anywhere on the planetFundaware is a clever combination of a smartphone app and tiny vibrat...

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A U.S. spaceflight company is hoping the third time's the charm in order to launch a brand-new rocket into space on its maiden flight on Sunday (April 21).After two delayed launch attempts, the privat...

If you have a spare $15 million, this gold- and diamond-encrusted iPhone 5 could be yours.The handset, which is inlaid with 600 flawless white diamonds and includes a gold-plated antenna and back pane...

We all have busy lives, with very little time for anything. Granted, we should still try to make time for something like Star Wars. Especially if we're talking about the movie that started it all, Sta...

After a tragic week in Boston, here's some good news: Online campaigns have raised well over $1 million for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and shooting at MITThe strength of online communities...

Electronic Arts will release the first big SimCity patch Monday to help players with some of the most complained-about bugs, though it still won't contain the most-requested feature: offline mode.SimC...

The long-awaited return of Superman to theaters is fast approachingMan of Steel, the franchise's ambitious reboot, is set to premiere on June 14, and the latest trailer suggests it will be a surefire ...

The best part of Facebook Home (and the latest update to Facebook Mobile) is Chat Heads — mostly because you can make funny composites by strategically placing your friends' faces throughout you...

Watch this helicopter video that tells the story of the final moments before Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was apprehended by police.Late Saturday, Mass. State Police released this...

A U.S. spaceflight company is hoping the third time's the charm in order to launch a brand-new rocket into space on its maiden flight on Sunday (April 21).After two delayed launch attempts, the privat...

Michael Dennis is the CEO and founder of FindHire, an innovative sourcing, interviewing, and hiring software platform. Connect with Michael and the FindHire team on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.The...

We all have busy lives, with very little time for anything. Granted, we should still try to make time for something like Star Wars. Especially if we're talking about the movie that started it all, Sta...

The Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles have introduced a Game Design merit badge to help encourage its members to get interested in a variety of science and technology fields.The L.A. Girl Scouts chap...

Despite the web's lack of water and sunshine, GIF flowers are blooming across Tumblr Dashboards, proving that spring is finally here.Throughout winter, even, Internet users patiently waited for warmer...

Electronic Arts will release the first big SimCity patch Monday to help players with some of the most complained-about bugs, though it still won't contain the most-requested feature: offline mode.SimC...

The long-awaited return of Superman to theaters is fast approachingMan of Steel, the franchise's ambitious reboot, is set to premiere on June 14, and the latest trailer suggests it will be a surefire ...

The best part of Facebook Home (and the latest update to Facebook Mobile) is Chat Heads — mostly because you can make funny composites by strategically placing your friends' faces throughout you...

Watch this helicopter video that tells the story of the final moments before Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was apprehended by police.Late Saturday, Mass. State Police released this...

The long-awaited return of Superman to theaters is fast approachingMan of Steel, the franchise's ambitious reboot, is set to premiere on June 14, and the latest trailer suggests it will be a surefire ...

Cell-phone users are all too familiar with that sinking feeling you get when opening up an extravagant bill.Hidden fees and additional charges can rack up, especially when you're not keeping track of ...

We’d have really slow moving Disney films, but those princesses would be 10 times cuter"A Facebook conversation occurred...I needed a break from finals...and this happened,” writes Phillip...

You may want to be Facebook friends with your doctor, so you can ping him or her a quick question or maybe an image of a bug bite for an online diagnosis. But the question being asked by the medical c...

Citizen, a mobile tech company in Portland, Ore., has taken its health and wellness programs in an interesting direction. The company encourages its employees to submit health and fitness data such as...

As the tragic events of this week unfolded, many of us across the country sat glued to our TVs, news sites and Twitter feeds hungrily searching for updates about the Boston Marathon bombing, or the Wa...

Cell-phone users are all too familiar with that sinking feeling you get when opening up an extravagant bill.Hidden fees and additional charges can rack up, especially when you're not keeping track of ...

Oh, cats. Is there anything they won't lick? Apparently not, as this video — starring an unnamed Russian kitty — demonstratesEvidently lured in by something tasty on the edge of a powered-...

It was another exciting week in tech. And if you missed it, worry not — that's why we're here with Top 10 TechIn a week with few product announcements, the biggest was perhaps the long-awaited T...

Cell-phone users are all too familiar with that sinking feeling you get when opening up an extravagant bill.Hidden fees and additional charges can rack up, especially when you're not keeping track of ...

You may want to be Facebook friends with your doctor, so you can ping him or her a quick question or maybe an image of a bug bite for an online diagnosis. But the question being asked by the medical c...

Chona Kasinger is a freelance photographer and writer based in Seattle. Her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, MTV Hive, Marie Claire and The Huffington Post. View her website at chonakasinger.c...

Forget haptic feedback. When combined, two pieces of virtual-reality tech offer an immersive gaming experience that puts you in the middle of the actionTexas-based startup Virtuix posted a YouTube vid...

We’d have really slow moving Disney films, but those princesses would be 10 times cuter"A Facebook conversation occurred...I needed a break from finals...and this happened,” writes Phillip...

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck — Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated ap...

The New York Knicks have launched an Instagram-specific microsite to collect fan photos from Madison Square Garden and around the world during the team's 2013 playoff runFound at Knickstagram.com, the...

Film projects on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter have raised $127 million in pledges since April 2009, Kickstarter's Stephanie Pereira announced onstage at TFI Interactive. The $127 million figure h...

Who's got the time and money for dance clubs when you can keep the party at home with FlashFlow? A Kickstarter project is currently raising funds for FlashFlow, a gadget that syncs your lights —...

It wasn't so long ago, really, that Twitter became the go-to platform for sports stars looking to connect and interact with fans in new ways. Opinions, news, photos — athletes could share their ...

Massachusetts State Police released five images taken of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's hiding spot after he was discovered in a boat parked in a Watertown, Mass. backyard. The boat's owne...

As the tragic events of this week unfolded, many of us across the country sat glued to our TVs, news sites and Twitter feeds hungrily searching for updates about the Boston Marathon bombing, or the Wa...

Oh, cats. Is there anything they won't lick? Apparently not, as this video — starring an unnamed Russian kitty — demonstratesEvidently lured in by something tasty on the edge of a powered-...

Antares, a new American rocket designed to fly cargo missions to the International Space Station for NASA, is poised to make its launch debut from the U.S. East Coast today (April 20) after a three-da...

Everyone sees the world differentlyWhile the countless photos of historic landmarks may seem redundant, they represent something more to travelers: an experience. And sometimes the most exceptional p...

“If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” I heard those words early in my journalism career. Reporters are trained to verify information they receive by confirming with a trusted ...

This map, created by a Syracuse University professor and student, shows approximately 200 tweets sent from the scene of the Boston Marathon with the #BostonMarathon hashtag during the hours immediatel...

As with humans, some cats just have "it" — that mysterious quality that somehow sets them far apart from lesser kittiesWe have found 10 such kitties that are almost certainly more awesome than t...

Forget haptic feedback. When combined, two pieces of virtual-reality tech offer an immersive gaming experience that puts you in the middle of the actionTexas-based startup Virtuix posted a YouTube vid...

What do Dove soap, Korean pop star Psy, and BASE jumping all have in common? They all scored viral video hits this week and were the subject of some of our most-discussed stories.In this week's Top Co...

Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might have a social media presence on Russian site Vkontakte and on Twitter, but finding him on Facebook is harder than you might think.It's become a...

The New York Knicks have launched an Instagram-specific microsite to collect fan photos from Madison Square Garden and around the world during the team's 2013 playoff runFound at Knickstagram.com, the...

Ever wonder why you procrastinate, even when you know you have to finish something important? Well, there may just be a magical reason behind it all.SEE ALSO: More Comics on MashableIn this comic, Jos...

A robot was used by police in Watertown, Mass. to pull the tarp off the boat in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston bombing case taken into custody last night, was hiding, author...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) posted a statement to Facebook Saturday morning urging the Obama administration to consider labeling Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston bombings who wa...

Kristina Anderson was shot twice in the back and once in the foot on April 16, 2007, when a gunman massacred 11 members of her Virginia Tech French class. Thankful to have made a complete physical re...

It wasn't so long ago, really, that Twitter became the go-to platform for sports stars looking to connect and interact with fans in new ways. Opinions, news, photos — athletes could share their ...

The New York Knicks have launched an Instagram-specific microsite to collect fan photos from Madison Square Garden and around the world during the team's 2013 playoff runFound at Knickstagram.com, the...

Ever wonder why you procrastinate, even when you know you have to finish something important? Well, there may just be a magical reason behind it all.SEE ALSO: More Comics on MashableIn this comic, Jos...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) posted a statement to Facebook Saturday morning urging the Obama administration to consider labeling Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston bombings who wa...

Who's got the time and money for dance clubs when you can keep the party at home with FlashFlow? A Kickstarter project is currently raising funds for FlashFlow, a gadget that syncs your lights —...

It wasn't so long ago, really, that Twitter became the go-to platform for sports stars looking to connect and interact with fans in new ways. Opinions, news, photos — athletes could share their ...

The Pentagon has for the first time detailed $30 million in spending on Air Force cyberattack operations and significant new Army funding and staff needs for exploiting opponent computers.Since 2011, ...

Everyone sees the world differentlyWhile the countless photos of historic landmarks may seem redundant, they represent something more to travelers: an experience. And sometimes the most exceptional p...

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck a rural area of southwestern China Saturday, claiming at least 100 lives and injuring approximately 2,000. The earthquake also happened to interrupt the marriage cere...

“If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” I heard those words early in my journalism career. Reporters are trained to verify information they receive by confirming with a trusted ...

This map, created by a Syracuse University professor and student, shows approximately 200 tweets sent from the scene of the Boston Marathon with the #BostonMarathon hashtag during the hours immediatel...

Alan Carniol is the Founder of InterviewSuccessFormula.com and author of Top 10 Interview Questions You Must Know How to Answer, a free report available here. Follow Alan and Interview Success Formula...

As with humans, some cats just have "it" — that mysterious quality that somehow sets them far apart from lesser kittiesWe have found 10 such kitties that are almost certainly more awesome than t...

What do Dove soap, Korean pop star Psy, and BASE jumping all have in common? They all scored viral video hits this week and were the subject of some of our most-discussed stories.In this week's Top Co...

This map, created by a Syracuse University professor and student, shows approximately 200 tweets sent from the scene of the Boston Marathon with the #BostonMarathon hashtag during the hours immediatel...

After Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston bombing case taken into custody last night, was discovered in a boat parked in a Watertown, Mass. backyard by its owner Friday, police enliste...

What do Dove soap, Korean pop star Psy, and BASE jumping all have in common? They all scored viral video hits this week and were the subject of some of our most-discussed stories.In this week's Top Co...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) posted a statement to Facebook Saturday morning urging the Obama administration to consider labeling Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston bombings who wa...

The Pentagon has for the first time detailed $30 million in spending on Air Force cyberattack operations and significant new Army funding and staff needs for exploiting opponent computers.Since 2011, ...

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck a rural area of southwestern China Saturday, claiming at least 100 lives and injuring approximately 2,000. The earthquake also happened to interrupt the marriage cere...

Blame the heat of the moment or a hard-to-spell name, but Fox affiliate apparently identified Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as actress Zooey Deschanel.Though the purported gaffe could have...

The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.Name: Repost.UsOne-Liner...

Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov made spaceflight history high above Earth on Friday when, at age 59, he became the oldest person ever to venture outside a spacecraft during a spacewalk.Vinogradov,...

Blame the heat of the moment or a hard-to-spell name, but Fox affiliate apparently identified Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as actress Zooey Deschanel.Though the purported gaffe could have...

After an unprecedented manhunt that shut down the city of Boston, bombing suspect Dzhozkar Tsarnaev was taken into custody alive Friday evening following a standoff with police. Here's how it all went...

After an unprecedented manhunt that shut down the city of Boston, bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken into custody alive Friday evening following a standoff with police. Here's how it all went...

Gaming system and accessory maker Razer will make good on a fake, 90% discount coupon that many customers used to place purchases in the company's UK store"A few days ago, a coupon code that provided ...

"I'll always remember that interview!" anchor Sheinelle Jones of Good Day in Philadelphia tweeted after grilling Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte about his forthcoming reality showShe and co-anchor Mike Je...

Jeff Bauman, who lost two legs in the Boston Marathon bombings earlier this week and helped identify the attackers, is without health insurance... and the Internet wants to help.Bauman has become a na...

Blame the heat of the moment or a hard-to-spell name, but Fox affiliate apparently identified Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as actress Zooey Deschanel.Though the purported gaffe could have...

A newly launched Kickstarter project could bring a little nostalgia to your feet, with 8-bit socks. The creators say their line of '90s video game-inspired socks go beyond nostalgia: These accessories...

Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov made spaceflight history high above Earth on Friday when, at age 59, he became the oldest person ever to venture outside a spacecraft during a spacewalk.Vinogradov,...

When Panasonic unveiled an electronic touch pen for writing on a TV screen earlier this year, it appeared to be a solution searching for a problem. Now that we've had a chance to try it for ourselves,...

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were found by a relatively old-fashioned method: A witness told cops he made eye contact with a man at the scene who was wearing a baseball cap and who...

Blame the heat of the moment or a hard-to-spell name, but Fox affiliate apparently identified Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as actress Zooey Deschanel.Though the purported gaffe could have...

If an adorable robot asked you a series of personal questions ("Who do you love most in the world?" "What really scares you?"), would you be more inclined to answer than if asked by a human?As a part ...

Eagerly waiting for HTC One to show up in stores? If so, we have good news: HTC's flagship smartphone has finally arrived to AT&T and Sprint's stores, as well as T-Mobile's websiteAT&T and Spr...

Like a genie magically emerging from a bottle, Justin Bieber in hologram form arises from a golden cube in will.i.am's futuristic "#thatPOWER" music video, which debuted FridayAside from the dancing d...

Have you got, or are planning to get, an HTC One? Then we congratulate you. The flagship Android handset is going to be very popularWe've taken a look at what cases are available for the One. We've fo...

Gaming system and accessory maker Razer will make good on a fake, 90% discount coupon that many customers used to place purchases in the company's UK store"A few days ago, a coupon code that provided ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been in orbit for 23 years and, to celebrate this milestone, the space telescope revisited the famous Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion.But on this particul...

T-Mobile, two days after announcing it would launch the HTC One smartphone on April 24, is now allowing interested customers to purchase the device — contract-free — though its websiteThe ...

Google has spent more than $1 billion in solar and wind energy projects but it ultimately has no control over the fuel that produces the electricity that powers its data centers. Google today is propo...

Jeff Bauman, who lost two legs in the Boston Marathon bombings earlier this week and helped identify the attackers, is without health insurance... and the Internet wants to help.Bauman has become a na...

Mario Paint was a 1992 Nintendo release for the SNES that allowed players to draw simple pictures and make custom stamps, one pixel at a timeUsers could also make music by using these stamp icons R...

Gaming system and accessory maker Razer will make good on a fake, 90% discount coupon that many customers used to place purchases in the company's UK store"A few days ago, a coupon code that provided ...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old at-large suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing, likely used Twitter under the handle @J_tsar, evidence collected by several observers indicates.Friends of Tsar...

Electronics manufacturer LG hinted it may be removing one of the essential ingredients needed for doing your laundry: water. Although there's no patent or details available yet, LG's Senior VP for Hom...

"I'll always remember that interview!" anchor Sheinelle Jones of Good Day in Philadelphia tweeted after grilling Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte about his forthcoming reality showShe and co-anchor Mike Je...

In the spirit of digital freedom, the new Ai Weiwei play, which Mashable was first to review last week, is being livestreamed online to promote a free and open Internet. The show,  "#aiww: T...

Jeff Bauman, who lost two legs in the Boston Marathon bombings earlier this week and helped identify the attackers, is without health insurance... and the Internet wants to help.Bauman has become a na...

When Panasonic unveiled an electronic touch pen for writing on a TV screen earlier this year, it appeared to be a solution searching for a problem. Now that we've had a chance to try it for ourselves,...

It’s no secret that late Apple CEO Steve Jobs was keen on bringing the company’s technology to the automotive world. In fact, according to longtime Apple board member Mickey Drexler, ̶...

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The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were found by a relatively old-fashioned method: A witness told cops he made eye contact with a man at the scene who was wearing a baseball cap and who...

A newly launched Kickstarter project could bring a little nostalgia to your feet, with 8-bit socks. The creators say their line of '90s video game-inspired socks go beyond nostalgia: These accessories...

Bethesda announced Friday it will release a new survival horror game game The Evil Within by the creator of the Resident Evil franchise. The company spent the week posting cryptic teasers on Vine for ...

After months in production, Amazon Studios unveiled 14 original pilots Friday. Six are for a children's series and eight are for a comedy series, at least two of which will debut as full shows on Amaz...

When Panasonic unveiled an electronic touch pen for writing on a TV screen earlier this year, it appeared to be a solution searching for a problem. Now that we've had a chance to try it for ourselves,...

It's been rumored before, but Microsoft has dropped the first official word that it's working on Windows 8 tablets smaller than 10 inches. In a call with investors about the company's latest earnings ...

Ramzan Kadyrov, President of the Chechen Republic and avid Instagram user, posted a message to the service Friday denying any connection to brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, th...

Twitter is cozying up with another television broadcaster to promote video content.BBC America tweeted Thursday night that it has partnered with Twitter to launch the first "in-Tweet branded video" th...

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were found by a relatively old-fashioned method: A witness told cops he made eye contact with a man at the scene who was wearing a baseball cap and who...

Reddit is currently under a malicious DDoS attack, according to the site's official Reddit status account on TwitterThe attack seems to have started early Friday, coinciding with the breaking story ab...

Have you got, or are planning to get, an HTC One? Then we congratulate you. The flagship Android handset is going to be very popularWe've taken a look at what cases are available for the One. We've fo...

You might not have noticed, but Facebook has rolled out a new main logo and refreshed the design of other icons for the first time in years.Facebook's logo no longer includes the faint blue line at th...

A member of the LulzSec hacker group was sentenced to one year in prison for breaching Sony's servers in June 2011, Reuters reportsCody Kretsinger, who pleaded guilty in April 2012 to charges of consp...

Eagerly waiting for HTC One to show up in stores? If so, we have good news: HTC's flagship smartphone has finally arrived to AT&T and Sprint's stores, as well as T-Mobile's websiteAT&T and Spr...

Did you know that Pepsi traded soda syrup for a small fleet of Soviet warships? Did you know that the Iranian government banned mullets in 2010?WATCH: Last Week's Episode of Reddit FactsYou would if y...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been in orbit for 23 years and, to celebrate this milestone, the space telescope revisited the famous Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion.But on this particul...

After months in production, Amazon Studios unveiled 14 original pilots Friday. Six are for a children's series and eight are for a comedy series, at least two of which will debut as full shows on Amaz...

The shelter-in-place warning to the residents of Boston spread throughout social media Friday as Boston police continue the massive manhunt for the second man suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings...

Have you got, or are planning to get, an HTC One? Then we congratulate you. The flagship Android handset is going to be very popularWe've taken a look at what cases are available for the One. We've fo...

Nancy Friedman is the co-founder of KidzVuz.com. She blogs about her 20-year quest to lose the same 10 pounds and other of life's dilemmas at FromHiptoHousewife.com.In the real world, you might not th...

College — it's the best four years of your life. OK, fiveMaybe six — you know, if those transfer credits were never accepted. Whatever, man.SEE ALSO: More Comics on MashableBelow, you'll f...

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the remaining at-large suspect in Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon, appears to have a profile on VK, a social network popular with Russian speakers in Russia, Eastern Eur...

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were found by a relatively old-fashioned method: A witness told cops he made eye contact with a man at the scene who was wearing a baseball cap and who...

Bitcoin has gone up and down recently, and even the Treasury Department is jumping into the virtual currency's fray. Some argue, however, that the monetary program isn't really a currency at all....

In the spirit of digital freedom, the new Ai Weiwei play, which Mashable was first to review last week, is being livestreamed online to promote a free and open Internet. The show,  "#aiww: T...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting storiesG...

Google has spent more than $1 billion in solar and wind energy projects but it ultimately has no control over the fuel that produces the electricity that powers its data centers. Google today is propo...

If an adorable robot asked you a series of personal questions ("Who do you love most in the world?" "What really scares you?"), would you be more inclined to answer than if asked by a human?As a part ...

Mario Paint was a 1992 Nintendo release for the SNES that allowed players to draw simple pictures and make custom stamps, one pixel at a timeUsers could also make music by using these stamp icons R...

Electronics manufacturer LG hinted it may be removing one of the essential ingredients needed for doing your laundry: water. Although there's no patent or details available yet, LG's Senior VP for Hom...

In the spirit of digital freedom, the new Ai Weiwei play, which Mashable was first to review last week, is being livestreamed online to promote a free and open Internet. The show,  "#aiww: T...

It's been rumored before, but Microsoft has dropped the first official word that it's working on Windows 8 tablets smaller than 10 inches. In a call with investors about the company's latest earnings ...

Generally, in life, parents are entrusted with providing their children plenty of gems of knowledge and advice to carry them successfully into adulthoodBut in this family, it's August the toddler who ...

Reddit is currently under a malicious DDoS attack, according to the site's official Reddit status account on TwitterThe attack seems to have started early Friday, coinciding with the breaking story ab...

A member of the LulzSec hacker group was sentenced to one year in prison for breaching Sony's servers in June 2011, Reuters reportsCody Kretsinger, who pleaded guilty in April 2012 to charges of consp...

Ramzan Kadyrov, President of the Chechen Republic and avid Instagram user, posted a message to the service Friday denying any connection to brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, th...

Did you know that Pepsi traded soda syrup for a small fleet of Soviet warships? Did you know that the Iranian government banned mullets in 2010?WATCH: Last Week's Episode of Reddit FactsYou would if y...

A member of the LulzSec hacker group was sentenced to one year in prison for breaching Sony's servers in June 2011, Reuters reportsCody Kretsinger, who pleaded guilty in April 2012 to charges of consp...

Nancy Friedman is the co-founder of KidzVuz.com. She blogs about her 20-year quest to lose the same 10 pounds and other of life's dilemmas at FromHiptoHousewife.com.In the real world, you might not th...

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the remaining at-large suspect in Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon, appears to have a profile on VK, a social network popular with Russian speakers in Russia, Eastern Eur...

Drama unfolds in real-time in the Boston area as police pursue suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. After a shootout with police, one of the suspects in the bombing is dead and the other remains a...

Reddit is currently under a malicious DDoS attack, according to the site's official Reddit status account on TwitterThe attack seems to have started early Friday, coinciding with the breaking story ab...

Confusion reigned in Watertown, Mass. late Thursday night after a campus police officer was shot and killed at MIT in nearby Cambridge. A carjacking followed by a massive police operation ensued in Wa...

Confusion reigned in Watertown, Mass. late Thursday night after a campus police officer was shot and killed at MIT in nearby Cambridge. A carjacking followed by a massive police operation ensued in Wa...

Drama unfolds in real-time in the Boston area as police pursue suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. After a shootout with police, one of the suspects in the bombing is dead and the other remains a...

There's at least one in every family, every workplace, every social circle. They may be your best friends. You may know their secret, or they may be firmly in the closetWe're talking, of course, about...

NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered three exoplanets that may be capable of supporting life, and one of them is perhaps the most Earth-like alien world spotted to date, scientists announced T...

We've all been there: searched for the perfect animated response to a Gchat conversation, only to realize that GIF you had in mind is now MIA. What gives, Tumblr?Perhaps it's time you step up your gam...

Perhaps fashion designer Kenneth Cole should stay off Twitter during sensitive political moments — or at least, his social media manager should.After provoking harsh criticism for a February 201...

Still bummed about the fact that Google is killing its RSS feed service, Google Reader, on July 1? Us tooBut there are other ways to read the headlines from your favorite websites. We've covered a bun...

Bored with driving? Now there's "Reinventing the Wheel (RITW)," a steering wheel cover that lets you entertain yourself by playing a drum set along with whatever you're listening to on your car stereo...

Reuters accidentally published a pre-written obituary for George Soros on Thursday afternoon, declaring that the business titan had died at the ripe old age of "XXX."Soros is alive and 82 years old, a...

This cat and sloth are best friends. In related news, the Internet's head exploded today.SEE ALSO: 15 Funky Hybrid Animals That Deserve a Chance at LifeMashable composite, images courtesy of Flickr, N...

Mercedes-Benz's new concept SUV, announced for the Shanghai auto show (April 21-29), is a highly capable and modern-looking vehicle, but where it really shines is in the area of laser headlights, whic...

Chances are you've given something you've enjoyed online a thumbs-up before, or rated your latest purchase or Netflix movie a 3 out of 5 stars, but have you ever expressed your opinion in color?Knotch...

Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Richard DesLauriers said during a press conference Thursday that the footage the FBI released showing its two suspects in the Boston bombing case is the o...

When it feels like all the photos in your social feeds have been altered by a filter or perfected with editing software, a moment illuminated by completely natural light can be a welcome change of sce...

In our multitask-heavy culture, chatting on social media networks while watching television has become the order of the day. We love sharing our thoughts in real time about the shows we're watching. A...

We've all been there: searched for the perfect animated response to a Gchat conversation, only to realize that GIF you had in mind is now MIA. What gives, Tumblr?Perhaps it's time you step up your gam...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation posted to YouTube Thursday surveillance camera footage which it says shows the bureau's two suspects in its investigation of Monday's attack on the Boston MarathonT...

GE's new HDlive ultrasound creates a clear and colorful 3D image of a fetus in utero. Parents get an excellent view of their child-to-be and doctors are able to see details that let them more accurate...

Carlos Gomez got some big hits to help his Milwaukee Brewers to a dramatic win over the San Francisco Giants Wednesday night. As is often customary in the sports world, teammate Ryan Braun was eager t...

First it was doctored photos of missiles. Then came a fake stealth fighter and claims of sending monkeys into space. Now Iran has bent the laws of physics and create...

LG, last seen terrorizing elevator riders (or at least pretending to), has moved on to the men's room to make the case that its monitors are "so real it's scary." To test the theory, the company insta...

Still bummed about the fact that Google is killing its RSS feed service, Google Reader, on July 1? Us tooBut there are other ways to read the headlines from your favorite websites. We've covered a bun...

Next time you wonder how Google can afford to buy dozens of startups every year, consider just how much money it has on hand.The search giant's cash pile grew to just more than $50 billion in the Marc...

Despite reports that Windows 8 has been torpedoing PC sales, Microsoft's third quarter wasn't too bad. The company's revenues of $20.49 billion were just under what analysts were expecting and its ear...

Bored with driving? Now there's "Reinventing the Wheel (RITW)," a steering wheel cover that lets you entertain yourself by playing a drum set along with whatever you're listening to on your car stereo...

Remember when your mom used to tuck you into bed? You'd be all snuggly and warm and she'd read to you that sweet story "Goodnight Moon."There would be red balloons and cows jumping over the moon, mice...

The ties between Star Trek and NASA go back a long way. Mae Jemison, the first black female astronaut, credits Star Trek character Nyota Uhura as her inspiration to join NASA, and went on to have a wa...

Those ultrathin, super-contrasty and tack-sharp OLED screens are one of the new darlings of the television world. Some of the newest curved OLED TVs debuted at CES 2013 in January, but so far, when it...

Brad Paisley and LL Cool J made news recently for the release of a poorly-received new single entitled "Accidental Racist." In the song, Paisley suggests that people from the south are caught between ...

We learned from the recent Ogilvy ad campaign for Dove that, when it comes to physical features, women tend to give themselves less credit than they deserveBut what about men? How would an average guy...

In a world where malware targeting Android phones is used more and more everyday, security updates are fundamental to keep users away from malware and hackers. That's why the American Civil Liberties ...

Crafting a resume that is unique and impressive is the goal of every job seeker. However, there is no one blueprint to follow in this process. Despite that lack of guidance, one surefire way to preven...

While there are a plethora of music services, they differentiate by focusing on various aspects of how we interact with musicPandora is great for creating instant playlists and background musicSpotify...

We've all been there: searched for the perfect animated response to a Gchat conversation, only to realize that GIF you had in mind is now MIA. What gives, Tumblr?Perhaps it's time you step up your gam...

Full disclosure: Jetpack Joyride is still one of my favorite iOS games. It was simple enough to figure out and play a game while waiting for a train, but the achievements, power-ups and depth meant I ...

Chances are you've given something you've enjoyed online a thumbs-up before, or rated your latest purchase or Netflix movie a 3 out of 5 stars, but have you ever expressed your opinion in color?Knotch...

Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Richard DesLauriers said during a press conference Thursday that the footage the FBI released showing its two suspects in the Boston bombing case is the o...

Have you ever needed to charge your phone in a hurry before heading out the door? Or do you want to discover the little-known tricks you can pull to personalize and further protect your device?Our sma...

Tablet maker Archos announced on Thursday a new line of unlocked Android smartphones — its first attempt at the wireless market.The models — Archos 35 Carbon ($99.99), Archos 50 Platinum (...

Twitter billed its foray into music discovery as a mechanism to "surface songs people are tweeting about." Yet Twitter doesn't actually plan to make any money off of the music itself. So why bother? I...

When it feels like all the photos in your social feeds have been altered by a filter or perfected with editing software, a moment illuminated by completely natural light can be a welcome change of sce...

Onetime MLB superstar Jose Canseco's Twitter feed is one of the truly bizarre — yet invaluable — treasures of the sports Internet. He posts opinions and theories on an expansive range of i...

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, passed the House of Representatives Thursday on a bipartisan vote of 287-127 with 18 representatives not voting. CISPA now faces the tough ...

We're 100% positive The Beatles wouldn't condone Shaken Baby Syndrome, just as The Clash probably wasn't all that interested in "locking the cash box." Yet their lyrics have led us to believe otherwis...

Now that Twitter Music is finally out, we know what it is and what it isn'tIt's not a music streaming service, and Twitter isn't (directly) selling music with it. It's a music discovery service, simil...

Two 10th-grade students wanted to know what happens when you wring out a water-soaked washcloth in zero gravity. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who currently lives on the International Space Stati...

It has been three days since the devastating bombings at the Boston marathon. No suspects have been named or are in custody. The web has begun to consume itself, gnawing on its own tail in search of c...

Mashable's Events Board is a great place to find the leading conferences in your industry — whether that's advertising, technology, media or public relations. This week, we're highlighting five ...

An ongoing brute-force attack on WordPress-based websites has compromised more than 90,000 blogs, but there are simple ways to make sure your blog won't be next to fall.Brute-force attacks, as their n...

We learned from the recent Ogilvy ad campaign for Dove that, when it comes to physical features, women tend to give themselves less credit than they deserveBut what about men? How would an average guy...

Bitfloor, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S., has shut its doorsBitfloor said it would cease trading operations and return the remaining funds to usersThis is not the first time Bitfloor suspend...

If you can't stop feeding one little green monster candy, you can get another fix Thursday as Cut the Rope: Time Travel hits iOS and Android.The second follow-up to ZeptoLab's incredibly successful Cu...

NOTE: The music starts at 1:15Boston is on the minds of people all over the world after Monday's horrific twin bombings shook the city during the Boston Marathon, leaving three dead and nearly 200 oth...

It's Thursday — time to cuddle up with Kevin Gisi and another episode of Socially Awkward, our weekly video roundup of the weirdest, funniest, most WTF moments on the Internet!This week, we've g...

Sure, Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca were buddy-buddy in the Star Wars movies, but ever wonder if the Wookie and Harrison Ford got along when the cameras were off? Turns out the two were archenemies, an...

Sure, Han Solo and Chewbacca were buddy-buddy in the Star Wars movies, but ever wonder if the Wookiee and Harrison Ford got along when the cameras were off? Turns out the two were archenemies, and all...

Those ultrathin, super-contrasty and tack-sharp OLED screens are one of the new darlings of the television world. Some of the newest curved OLED TVs debuted at CES 2013 in January, but so far, when it...

Tribeca Film Festival this year challenged people to use Twitter's Vine app to create six-second films — with a "beginning, middle and end" — for a chance to win money and notorietyMore th...

When Intel lifted the veil from its stealthy media division in February, many outsiders scratched their heads. Why was the chip manufacturer, which has tried and failed to sell consumer products befor...

We learned from the recent Ogilvy ad campaign for Dove that, when it comes to physical features, women tend to give themselves less credit than they deserveBut what about men? How would an average guy...

In early April, a father helped his son rocket to Internet stardom with the Tumblr "Reasons My Son is Crying." The dad documented the moments in which his toddler would burst into tears for somewhat r...

Happy National High Five Day! Each year, on the third Thursday of April, the world comes together to smack palms in a display of celebratory enthusiasm. It's a hand gesture that has become an integral...

In a world where malware targeting Android phones is used more and more everyday, security updates are fundamental to keep users away from malware and hackers. That's why the American Civil Liberties ...

When it feels like all the photos in your social feeds have been altered by a filter or perfected with editing software, a moment illuminated by completely natural light can be a welcome change of sce...

The ties between Star Trek and NASA go back a long way. Mae Jemison, the first black female astronaut, credits Star Trek character Nyota Uhura as her inspiration to join NASA, and went on to have a wa...

Psy does not appear to be a one-hit wonder. The South Korean rapper's follow up to "Gangnam Style" has had a very impressive debut, tying the record for quickest-to-reach-100-million-views."Gentleman,...

Nokia sold 5.6 million Lumia phones in the March quarter, a 27% increase from the previous quarter and a new record high, the company revealed in its earnings report Thursday.Lumia sales were slow to ...

Facebook announced what it calls "the next evolution of Facebook Platform for mobile" at the company's Mobile Dev Con in New York City Thursday.Just as Facebook transitioned from HTML5 to more native ...

We learned from the recent Ogilvy ad campaign for Dove that, when it comes to physical features, women tend to give themselves less credit than they deserveBut what about men? How would an average guy...

You can get a new perspective on the sun today, thanks to a special webcast devoted to our closest star.The online Slooh Space Camera — which broadcasts footage of the night sky and celestial ob...

Tablet maker Archos announced on Thursday a new line of unlocked Android smartphones — its first attempt at the wireless market.The models — Archos 35 Carbon ($99.99), Archos 50 Platinum (...

President Barack Obama is set to speak at 11 a.m. ET Thursday at an interfaith memorial service honoring the victims of Monday's attack at the Boston Marathon. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney s...

GE's new HDlive ultrasound creates a clear and colorful 3D image of a fetus in utero. Parents get an excellent view of their child-to-be and doctors are able to see details that let them more accurate...

Carlos Gomez got some big hits to help his Milwaukee Brewers to a dramatic win over the San Francisco Giants Wednesday night. As is often customary in the sports world, teammate Ryan Braun was eager t...

First it was doctored photos of missiles. Then came a fake stealth fighter and claims of sending monkeys into space. Now Iran has bent the laws of physics and create...

Evernote launched an update to Skitch for Mac and iOS Thursday, adding a number of new PDF features to the desktop and mobile versions of the app, as well as new stamps and a plain text option for fil...

LG, last seen terrorizing elevator riders (or at least pretending to), has moved on to the men's room to make the case that its monitors are "so real it's scary." To test the theory, the company insta...

We're 100% positive The Beatles wouldn't condone Shaken Baby Syndrome, just as The Clash probably wasn't all that interested in "locking the cash box." Yet their lyrics have led us to believe otherwis...

Next time you wonder how Google can afford to buy dozens of startups every year, consider just how much money it has on hand.The search giant's cash pile grew to just more than $50 billion in the Marc...

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Forget the upcoming Ashton Kutcher film. It's all about Justin Long and his performance in iSteve, Funny or Die's new Steve Jobs biopic that debuted Wednesday. If you worship the cult of Mac, drop eve...

Despite reports that Windows 8 has been torpedoing PC sales, Microsoft's third quarter wasn't too bad. The company's revenues of $20.49 billion were just under what analysts were expecting and its ear...

Remember when your mom used to tuck you into bed? You'd be all snuggly and warm and she'd read to you that sweet story "Goodnight Moon."There would be red balloons and cows jumping over the moon, mice...

Twitter's new standalone music service finally arrives today on your desktop, but even more importantly, on your go-everywhere iPhone.The social media company unveiled the new service on Good Morning ...

The ties between Star Trek and NASA go back a long way. Mae Jemison, the first black female astronaut, credits Star Trek character Nyota Uhura as her inspiration to join NASA, and went on to have a wa...

Verizon activated 4 million iPhones during the March quarter, about two million of which were LTE-enabled iPhone 5 devices, the carrier reported during its earnings call Thursday morning.Apple's iPhon...

An ongoing brute-force attack on WordPress-based websites has compromised more than 90,000 blogs, but there are simple ways to make sure your blog won't be next to fall.Brute-force attacks, as their n...

Yahoo launched a new tablet app for Yahoo Mail Thursday, with a number of features that are bound to impress not only Yahoo Mail’s current users, but mail-enthusiasts for other platforms as well...

Ever wonder what a sunny day in Maui looks like? How about a cloudy day in Seattle?Yahoo announced a new standalone calendar app Thursday — Yahoo! Weather for iPhone — that uses location-s...

The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video ArchiveBrad Paisley and LL Cool J made news recently for the release of a poorly-received new single entitled ...

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The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, passed the House of Representatives Thursday on a bipartisan vote of 287-127 with 18 representatives not voting. CISPA now faces the tough ...

Tribeca Film Festival this year challenged people to use Twitter's Vine app to create six-second films — with a "beginning, middle and end" — for a chance to win money and notorietyMore th...

When Intel lifted the veil from its stealthy media division in February, many outsiders scratched their heads. Why was the chip manufacturer, which has tried and failed to sell consumer products befor...

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Sure, Han Solo and Chewbacca were buddy-buddy in the Star Wars movies, but ever wonder if the Wookie and Harrison Ford got along when the cameras were off? Turns out the two were archenemies, and all ...

Onetime MLB superstar Jose Canseco's Twitter feed is one of the truly bizarre — yet invaluable — treasures of the sports Internet. He posts opinions and theories on an expansive range of i...

Nokia sold 5.6 million Lumia phones in the March quarter, a 27% increase from the previous quarter and a new record high, the company revealed in its earnings report Thursday.Lumia sales were slow to ...

Now that Twitter Music is finally out, we know what it is and what it isn'tIt's not a music streaming service, and Twitter isn't (directly) selling music with it. It's a music discovery service, simil...

An ongoing brute-force attack on WordPress-based websites has compromised more than 90,000 blogs, but there are simple ways to make sure your blog won't be next to fall.Brute-force attacks, as their n...

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Twitter's new standalone music service finally arrives today on your desktop, but even more importantly, on your go-everywhere iPhone.The social media company unveiled the new service on Good Morning ...

Yahoo launched a new tablet app for Yahoo Mail Thursday, with a number of features that are bound to impress not only Yahoo Mail’s current users, but mail-enthusiasts for other platforms as well...

Ever wonder what a sunny day in Maui looks like? How about a cloudy day in Seattle?Yahoo announced a new standalone calendar app Thursday — Yahoo! Weather for iPhone — that uses location-s...

Gaming is big in China and only getting bigger. And while mobile gaming is important, the PC is still by far the most popular gaming platform for the nation's young gamers (see this infographic for mo...

Explorer editions of Google Glass began rolling out to customers as of Tuesday, but the company has enforced restrictions on those lucky new owners, banning them from reselling and lending the eyewear...

Santiago Swallow may be one of the most famous people no one has heard of.His eyes fume from his Twitter profile: he is Hollywood-handsome with high cheekbones and dirty blond, collar-length hair. Nex...

Twitter is set to make a "big announcement" Thursday on Good Morning America, ABC's early-hour television show.GMA teased the reveal on its Twitter feed Wednesday nightTomorrow on #GMA: @twitter will ...

Twitter is set to make a "big announcement" Thursday on Good Morning America, ABC's early-hour television show.GMA teased the reveal on its Twitter feed Wednesday nightTomorrow on #GMA: @twitter will ...

Gaming is big in China and only getting bigger. And while mobile gaming is important, the PC is still by far the most popular gaming platform for the nation's young gamers (see this infographic for mo...

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Warning: The content of this video is graphic in nature. Please watch at your discretion.An explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant Wednesday night has reportedly left 60 to 70 people dead and hundreds ...

Warning: The content of this video is graphic in nature. Please watch at your discretion.An explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant Wednesday night has reportedly left 60 to 70 people dead and hundreds ...

Not long after reports that a massive fertilizer plant explosion occurred in Texas on Wednesday night, a map featuring key points of interest from the scene has been added to Google Maps.Reddit user O...

LinkedIn has updated its mobile app for the first time since 2011 and will run a small test of "sponsored content" i.e. ads in the streamThe test comes after LinkedIn announced a similar test of spons...

Explorer editions of Google Glass began rolling out to customers as of Tuesday, but the company has enforced restrictions on those lucky new owners, banning them from reselling and lending the eyewear...

Santiago Swallow may be one of the most famous people no one has heard of.His eyes fume from his Twitter profile: he is Hollywood-handsome with high cheekbones and dirty blond, collar-length hair. Nex...

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Twitter is set to make a "big announcement" Thursday on Good Morning America, ABC's early-hour television show.GMA teased the reveal on its Twitter feed Wednesday nightTomorrow on #GMA: @twitter will ...

It's really, really difficult to make a successful superhero game. For every great title in the bunch (Batman: Arkham Asylum), there are multiple unfathomable atrocities (Superman 64, Catwoman and Aqu...

This isn't just the double dutch you used to play in the backyard — this lady has got some major skills when it comes to jumping ropeDubbed the "world's greatest jump roper," the athlete does ev...

Electric guitars, when compared to their acoustic counterparts, have the ability to produce a much more diverse range of soundsInventor Paul Vo, of Asheville, N.C., is hoping to even out the playing b...

It's really, really difficult to make a successful superhero game. For every great title in the bunch (Batman: Arkham Asylum), there are multiple unfathomable atrocities (Superman 64, Catwoman and Aqu...

Wednesday's NHL game between the hometown Bruins and visiting Buffalo Sabres marked the first major sporting event in Boston since Monday's deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon. (A Celtics home game...

Back in January, many email marketers said increasing their lists was their top goal for 2013. Well, spring is here. Is your mailing list growing as fast as your flowers and lawn? If not, it's time to...

LinkedIn has updated its mobile app for the first time since 2011 and will run a small test of "sponsored content" i.e. ads in the streamThe test comes after LinkedIn announced a similar test of spons...

While cheap netbooks slowly die off, Toshiba is going for the complete opposite end of the market with its new KIRAbook, a high-end Windows 8 laptop that kicks off the company's KIRA line of luxury pr...

Having long since sold his social media juggernaut to Conde Nast, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian now has his eyes on a different role: part-owner of the NBA's Brooklyn NetsTo make that happen, howev...

Facebook recently updated its iOS app, giving users a new News Feed and Chat Heads, a funny name for in-app conversations.Android users are able to use Chat Heads on apps outside of Facebook, while iO...

The New Zealand Parliament couldn't contain itself on Wednesday after approving an amendment to the country's 1955 marriage laws that legalizes gay marriage — its members immediately broke into ...

Tumblr users spend an average of 14 minutes per visit, Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp revealed on stage at a paidContent conference in New York City Wednesday. That's about a minute-and-a-half long...

Battery technology has improved over the past decade, but now scientists claim they have made a giant leap in power storage, giving lithium-ion batteries 30 times more power and the ability to recharg...

This isn't just the double dutch you used to play in the backyard — this lady has got some major skills when it comes to jumping ropeDubbed the "world's greatest jump roper," the athlete does ev...

In another step toward going fully mainstream, Bitcoin is now being accepted by OKCupid. The dating site started accepting payments in the crypto currency on Tuesday, joining a series of other compani...

Disney and Lucasfilm reportedly told CinemaCon attendees Wednesday that after Star Wars: Episode VII arrives in 2015, fans will see a new Star Wars movie every subsequent summerThese annual releases w...

Fifty years from now, you will look back with regret at all the hours you spent watching cat videos and reading mind-numbing celebrity gossip. At least, that's what the people of the future say in thi...

One year ago Read It Later officially changed its name to Pocket. Originally a service for just saving online articles to read later, along with the name change Pocket also added the ability to save o...

Electric guitars, when compared to their acoustic counterparts, have the ability to produce a much more diverse range of soundsInventor Paul Vo, of Asheville, N.C., is hoping to even out the playing b...

Innovation in the mobile phone space, for many of us, means the latest smartphone or tablet from Apple or Samsung. But for millions of people in the developing world, simpler developments for feature ...

Just hours after the Boston Marathon bombings Monday, scammers were already using the tragedy to fuel their malware campaigns, according to a study by Romanian anti-virus firm Bitdefender.The study fo...

Back in January, many email marketers said increasing their lists was their top goal for 2013. Well, spring is here. Is your mailing list growing as fast as your flowers and lawn? If not, it's time to...

The city of Provo, Utah, had a mystery announcement scheduled for today, and now we know what it is: It's the next city to get Google FiberThe news, posted on the official site of Provo, has been conf...

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, whose "Thrift Shop" hip-hop single premiered on Mashable in August and months later reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100, unleashed an elaborate music video for their n...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a statement Wednesday afternoon essentially scolding several media outlets after they incorrectly reported that an arrest had been made in the investigation ...

While cheap netbooks slowly die off, Toshiba is going for the complete opposite end of the market with its new KIRAbook, a high-end Windows 8 laptop that kicks off the company's KIRA line of luxury pr...

Having long since sold his social media juggernaut to Conde Nast, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian now has his eyes on a different role: part-owner of the NBA's Brooklyn NetsTo make that happen, howev...

That's Celeste Corcoran and her daughter Sydney in the photo above. They went to the Boston Marathon finish line Monday afternoon to watch a relative complete the legendary race. When a bomb went off ...

Facebook recently updated its iOS app, giving users a new News Feed and Chat Heads, a funny name for in-app conversations.Android users are able to use Chat Heads on apps outside of Facebook, while iO...

In a tersely written post to Tumblr's staff blog last week — one that inspired a winning satire from The New Yorker's Caitlin Kelly — Tumblr CEO David Karp announced that Storyboard, a com...

Filibustering — a governmental practice basically built in to allow lawmakers to hear themselves speak for long periods of time — is perhaps one of the dullest things to go on in real life...

I never buy a pair of glasses without the help of Ingrid, the young woman who works in my local optical store and appraises different styles on my face. But Glasses.com wants to replace Ingrid in my l...

When you think of turn-based strategy, it's hard to not think of heavyweight developer FiraxisCivilization has become a staple of the genre, allowing players to conquer the globe starting with the daw...

Being one of the co-founders of the notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay means you constantly live on the edge of legality. But Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may have crossed that line completely. ...

Tumblr has long been a silent communicator. The company keeps its staff blog focused on the creative side of things, while its support blog seems to have little to do with site notifications—not...

Twitter accounts are frequently run by "social media managers" — that is to say, qualified specialists in social media — and yet, nary a crisis goes by without a distasteful tweet or Faceb...

YouTube's been making us scream "WTF?" since 2005But it's not like you needed us to remind you of that. Thousands upon thousands of videos are out there in the YouTube-sphere, many of them spurring th...

Battery technology has improved over the past decade, but now scientists claim they have made a giant leap in power storage, giving lithium-ion batteries 30 times more power and the ability to recharg...

A new private rocket is set to launch into space for the first time on April 17, potentially marking a leap forward for American commercial spaceflight.Orbital Sciences Corp.'s unmanned Antares rocket...

In another step toward going fully mainstream, Bitcoin is now being accepted by OKCupid. The dating site started accepting payments in the crypto currency on Tuesday, joining a series of other compani...

Murilo Pitol doesn't play for Manchester United or FC Barcelona. But who needs Champions League when you've got YouTube? SEE ALSO: We May Have Just Seen the Best Goal in Soccer History [VIDEO]Pitol, a...

Food shots are everywhere — hipsters, grandma's, foodies can't stop sharing every appetizer, dessert and cocktail they ingest. Photos fly to Instagram before taking the first bite. It's annoying...

The infamous comedy duo Cheech and Chong are known for their films and love of cannabis, which makes April 20 the perfect day to celebrate both on social mediaIn celebration of their new animated feat...

Twitter on Wednesday introduced keyword targeting for advertising, meaning that you may see Promoted Tweets based on stuff you have tweeted aboutIn a blog post, Nipoon Malhotra, product manager for re...

OK, not exactly. Dan McLaughlin, one of the first people to receive Google Glass, only has one pair of the device, but he is using it to show us the packaging and contents of the Google Glass boxIt's ...

Innovation in the mobile phone space, for many of us, means the latest smartphone or tablet from Apple or Samsung. But for millions of people in the developing world, simpler developments for feature ...

Apple's stock collapsed below $400 during midday trading Wednesday, a decline of more than 6% on the day and the first time that the stock has fallen below that milestone since December 2011.The stock...

Microsoft has added two-step verification to Microsoft accounts (formerly known as Windows Live ID), the account customers use to sign in to services such as Outlook.com, Messenger and SkyDrive, and t...

Newspapers worldwide are putting up metered paywalls at a record pace in an effort to convert their large, free-reading online audiences into paid subscribers. In the UK, The Times, The Sunday Times, ...

Disney and Lucasfilm reportedly told CinemaCon attendees Wednesday that after Star Wars: Episode VII arrives in 2015, fans will see a new Star Wars movie every subsequent summerThese annual releases w...

Medium, the publishing platform launched by Twitter's co-founder Ev Williams, has acquired a long-form journalism startup called Matter for an undisclosed sum, the two companies announced Wednesday.Ma...

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, whose "Thrift Shop" hip-hop single premiered on Mashable in August and months later reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100, unleashed an elaborate music video for their n...

Photographer Matej Peljhan puts a twist on classic children's book The Little Prince with a touching series featuring a 12-year-old boy living with muscular dystrophy.Luka's degenerative disease restr...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a statement Wednesday afternoon essentially scolding several media outlets after they incorrectly reported that an arrest had been made in the investigation ...

One year ago Read It Later officially changed its name to Pocket. Originally a service for just saving online articles to read later, along with the name change Pocket also added the ability to save o...

Cheese spread company Kerry LowLow has created a video called “Adland Gal” that mocks the cliched women we see in diet commercialsOn its Facebook page, the company questions the stereotype...

A new Legend of Zelda game set in the same universe as the Super Nintendo classic A Link to the Past is coming to Nintendo's 3DS this holiday season. It was one of a slew of new games announced during...

In a tersely written post to Tumblr's staff blog last week — one that inspired a winning satire from The New Yorker's Caitlin Kelly — Tumblr CEO David Karp announced that Storyboard, a com...

A Facebook fan is worth $174 to a brand, up 28% since 2010, according to Syncapse, a social media marketing firm.Syncapse worked with research firm Hotspex on a survey based on data collected from mor...

Humanity is about to undertake a bold experiment. If all goes as Google hopes, many of us will be strapping on Google Glasses later this year. The post-PC era in effect since the introduction of the i...

Be prepared to be blown away as you watch 10,000 iPhones beautifully fall like dominoes in this epic visual masterpiece.Aatma Studio — the makers behind the viral iPhone concepts that envisioned...

Being one of the co-founders of the notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay means you constantly live on the edge of legality. But Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may have crossed that line completely. ...

Wingsuit flight videos have a way of making viewers' palms sweat. Add the danger of zipping through a narrow cave and your hands will feel like a Florida swamp.SEE ALSO: The 10 Most Viral YouTube Vide...

Looking for a quick primer on the difference between men and women's psyches? Look no further than this Norelco ad and Dove's insanely viral "sketch artist" campaign.While the Dove campaign — al...

Microsoft and Foxconn, the world's largest manufacturer of consumer electronics, just made a deal that will give Microsoft a cut of every Android device Foxconn makes.The terms of the deal weren't dis...

Shortly after Samsung's announcement that its flagship phone, the Galaxy S 4, will be coming to the U.S. in April, the carriers and retailers started releasing exact dates and pricing for the deviceTh...

Twitter accounts are frequently run by "social media managers" — that is to say, qualified specialists in social media — and yet, nary a crisis goes by without a distasteful tweet or Faceb...

Marissa Mayer's tenure as CEO of Yahoo seems to have helped the company in at least one noticeable way so far: more people want to work there now.During Yahoo's first-quarter earnings call Tuesday, Ma...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting storiesY...

A new private rocket is set to launch into space for the first time on April 17, potentially marking a leap forward for American commercial spaceflight.Orbital Sciences Corp.'s unmanned Antares rocket...

While the big tech companies battle it out for smart watch supremacy, TomTom, the company known for GPS mapping and driving directions, is making inroads in the fitness spaceThe company, which previou...

Food shots are everywhere — hipsters, grandma's, foodies can't stop sharing every appetizer, dessert and cocktail they ingest. Photos fly to Instagram before taking the first bite. It's annoying...

Samsung has officially announced its Android flagship, the Galaxy S 4, for the U.SOne of the most powerful smartphones around is coming to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, U.S. Cellular, ...

The infamous comedy duo Cheech and Chong are known for their films and love of cannabis, which makes April 20 the perfect day to celebrate both on social mediaIn celebration of their new animated feat...

The rumored June release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf for Nintendo 3DS has a lot of people excited — and embarrassed.SEE ALSO: More Comics on MashableIn this comic, Scott Johnson of ExtraLife, s...

Whether you're unemployed, underemployed or just looking for something a bit more interesting, the Mashable Job Board is full of listings to take your career to the next level.Since 2005, Mashable has...

If you've ever wished for a gadget that can nag you about your eating habits the way your mom used to, only in a much more subtle way, then the HAPIfork may be for you. And now you can get your finger...

Google Apps users were taking to Twitter Wednesday morning to report issues with the popular cloud-based email and productivity suite.Because this how I wanted to start my day. Gmail/Google Apps is do...

Google Apps users were taking to Twitter Wednesday morning to report issues with the popular cloud-based email and productivity suiteUPDATE: About 9:30 a.m. ET, Gmail and other Google Apps appeared to...

Medium, the publishing platform launched by Twitter's co-founder Ev Williams, has acquired a long-form journalism startup called Matter for an undisclosed sum, the two companies announced Wednesday.Ma...

Patton Oswalt will wrangle the Internet's biggest celebs as host of the 2013 Webby Awards. The actor and comedian also hosted last year's shindig, making him the Billy Crystal of Internet award shows....

Humanity is about to undertake a bold experiment. If all goes as Google hopes, many of us will be strapping on Google Glasses later this year. The post-PC era in effect since the introduction of the i...

Be prepared to be blown away as you watch 10,000 iPhones beautifully fall like dominoes in this epic visual masterpiece.Aatma Studio — the makers behind the viral iPhone concepts that envisioned...

Reddit users have created a subreddit to examine photographic and video evidence from Monday's explosions at the Boston Marathon to identify the bomber or bombers responsible. In their very public att...

Wingsuit flight videos have a way of making viewers' palms sweat. Add the danger of zipping through a narrow cave and your hands will feel like a Florida swamp.SEE ALSO: The 10 Most Viral YouTube Vide...

While the big tech companies battle it out for smart watch supremacy, TomTom, the company known for GPS mapping and driving directions, is making inroads in the fitness spaceThe company, which previou...

If you've ever wished for a gadget that can nag you about your eating habits the way your mom used to, only in a much more subtle way, then the HAPIfork may be for you. And now you can get your finger...

Entertainers, athletes and ordinary citizens aren't the only ones aiding Boston residents after Monday afternoon's deadly bombings at the Boston MarathonTwitter lent a helping hand of its on Tuesday i...

Those cool pictures from electron microscopes of fleas, bedbugs and other tiny creatures have one drawback: The animals die during the process, which means scientists miss out on imaging the bugs whil...

Facebook has hired the manager who led the development of Apple's widely criticized Maps app.Richard Williamson joined the social network as its director of engineering this month, according to his Li...

In the beginning, there was a righteous bass.So says physicist John Cramer, who has not only found evidence of the sound created during the Big Bang, but has also created a simulation of the low, deep...

iSteve, Funny or Die's biopic of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, premiered Wednesday, after the humor site delayed its release out of respect for victims of the Boston Marathon bombingOriginally sch...

We've all run into them while trawling the interwebz. Designed to deter spambots, CAPTCHAs are kinds of online tests that involve a visual-perception task such as identifying distorted text. The aim, ...

Baldur's Gate was a breakout hit in the late '90s. It was one of the most immersive PC role-playing games of its time, with an engrossing story and thousands of lines of dialogue. It also put BioWare ...

NBA superstar Kobe Bryant suffered a devastating injury recently, but he's been putting on a social-media clinic sinceByrant ruptured his left achilles during a game Friday night, ending his season an...

The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.Name: WanderuOne-Liner P...

You can't employ good journalists without making a few enemies along the way, as National Public Radio recently learned the hard way. After putting the violent situation in Syria under the microscope,...

The latest Man of Steel trailer to hit YouTube gives us our fullest look yet at the new Superman flick, and promises a sure-fire summer blockbusterIt showcases plenty of emotional drama and tension, a...

Idday ouyay eakspay Igpay Atinlay asway away idkay? No, that isn't a stream of typos — it's Pig Latin for, "Did you speak Pig Latin as a kid?"For the uninitiated, Pig Latin is a made-up language...

Baldur's Gate was a breakout hit in the late '90s. It was one of the most immersive PC role-playing games of its time, with an engrossing story and thousands of lines of dialogue. It also put BioWare ...

It might be no surprise to parents that their 12- to 17-year-olds are watching more video on mobile devices and less on plain old TV than those slightly older.A Nielsen report that analyzed media habi...

Tragedies such as the Boston Marathon bombings can make sports seem meaningless. But they can also remind us of the powerful role sports play in society, as both communal escapes from stress and symbo...

Entertainers, athletes and ordinary citizens aren't the only ones aiding Boston residents after Monday afternoon's deadly bombings at the Boston MarathonTwitter lent a helping hand of its own on Tuesd...

The rivalry between New York City and Boston took a timeout TuesdayFollowing Monday's bombings at the Boston marathon, the Big Apple put aside its typical Beantown smack talk to show solidarity with i...

The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.Name: WanderuOne-Liner P...

DoSomething.org, the service that uses SMS messaging to connect teens with volunteer opportunities that don’t require money, a parent or a car, is now texting with more than 1 million teens. The...

In the beginning, there was a righteous bass.So says physicist John Cramer, who has not only found evidence of the sound created during the Big Bang, but has also created a simulation of the low, deep...

Monday's horrific bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon were covered in real-time on Twitter. It was where many people got real information as the events unfolded, along with a dose of mi...

T-Mobile has finally revealed the launch date for HTC One on its network: April 24. Answering questions from several Twitter users about the HTC One, T-mobile simply replied it will be launching the L...

As it did when the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, first passed the House Intelligence Committee last year, the White House on Tuesday said President Barack Obama's senior adv...

Yahoo's profits in the first quarter beat Wall Street estimates, but the company's core advertising business still appears to be heading in the wrong directionYahoo reported earnings-per-share of $0.3...

Google Fiber TV customers won't have to look elsewhere for their Game of Thrones fix anymore, as Google has just added HBO and Cinemax channels to its TV lineupFor $20 per month (tax not included), cu...

When a tragedy like the Boston Marathon bombing happens, it can be tough to define the line between sports news and hard news. This week, one of America's most iconic magazines gets it right. Above is...

Facebook just updated its iOS app to version 6.0, adding support for chat heads and a new news feedChat heads debuted with Facebook Home last week and are available to all Android users as part of the...

The Oculus Rift headset is an out-of-this-world piece of technology, capable of using realistic virtual reality experiences inside of games. While that might be impressive to people raised on the Inte...

Facebook Home is going international; chat heads have escaped the Home asylum and are arriving (in a limited fashion) on the iPhone. Now the social network is teasing future upgrades.The first update ...

Before everyone had a smartphone in their pocket, a good road atlas was found in every car’s glove box, with many of those created by Rand McNally.A staple in the space for the past 90 years, th...

Are you excited about the next-generation Apple iPhone? Do you wonder what kind of improvements iOS 7 might bring?We have taken a look at some cool concept designs from Apple fans, who have imagined t...

The success of any social program is ultimately determined by its ability to connect on a one-to-one, human level. But what does it actually mean to be human in social media? Is it having a fun and en...

If you've been interested in trying out Mailbox's app, but didn't feel like waiting behind thousands of people in line, now's your chance.Mailbox, the much-hyped email app for iPhone, announced Tuesda...

In the 24 hours since the Boston Marathon bombings, amazing stories of kindness have also emergedFrom the first responders who ran fearlessly toward the smoke to the Bostonians who opened their doors ...

In the 24 hours since the Boston Marathon bombings, amazing stories of kindness have also emergedFrom the first responders who ran fearlessly toward the smoke to the Bostonians who opened their doors ...

We mean really, really big. In the latest trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness, we get another glimpse into the tough choices that captain James T. Kirk (played by Chris Pine) has to face — and o...

LG sent invitations to the press Tuesday afternoon telling them to "save the date" for an event in New York City on May 1.The invitation didn't specify an exact time or place, or what would be on the ...

We've all felt that twinge of uncertainty when making a purchase online. It's cheaper, but we worry that by buying sight unseen, we won't receive exactly what we anticipatedThat's why more shoppers, e...

The rivalry between New York City and Boston took a timeout TuesdayFollowing Monday's bombings at the Boston marathon, the Big Apple put aside its typical Beantown smack talk to show solidarity with i...

Mad Men's Jon Hamm and his scruffy beard recently paid Elmo a visit on Seasame Street to bestow his wisdom upon viewers. In this "Word of the Day" skit, which airs April 18 on PBS, Hamm teaches us abo...

Mad Men's Jon Hamm and his scruffy beard recently paid Elmo a visit on Sesame Street to bestow his wisdom upon viewers. In this "Word of the Day" skit, which airs April 18 on PBS, Hamm teaches us abou...

Students at Boston College are organizing an event for those who didn't finish the Boston Marathon on Monday in light of the bombings that took place at the finish line.A Facebook event — titled...

The James B. Hunt Library at North Carolina State University looks a lot like the library of the future on the outside and insideIt boasts of cutting-edge technology and modern architectural design. T...

Bethesda Softworks, publisher of Fallout, the Elder Scrolls franchise and Dishonored, teased an upcoming unannounced game via a cryptic Vine video posted Tuesday.The Vine shows four scenes: It starts ...

Monday's horrific bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon were covered in real-time on Twitter. It was where many people got real information as the events unfolded, along with a dose of mi...

A message board on the popular site Reddit is offering little acts of kindness in the form of pizza to people displaced from the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday.People from all over the U.S. are flo...

Internet ad revenues in the U.S. increased by 15% in 2012 to $36.6 billion, driven by significant year-over-year increases in revenue for mobile, search and digital video ads, according to a new repor...

A Boston Marathon volunteer who claims to have been near ground zero of Monday's deadly explosions has been sharing intimate details of his experience on Reddit under the pseudonym "Zadmxm." Zadmxm's ...

Facebook Home will start rolling out to users outside of the U.S. on Tuesday, Facebook's head of mobile engineering Cory Ondrejka revealed at ATD's Dive Into Mobile conferenceFurthermore, Ondrejka sai...

Sleep — it's as much a beloved activity as it is an elusive one. Whether because of school, work, your social life or a combination of the three, getting a good night's rest is rarely in the car...

Yahoo's profits in the first quarter beat Wall Street estimates, but the company's core advertising business still appears to be heading in the wrong directionYahoo reported earnings-per-share of $0.3...

Google Fiber TV customers won't have to look elsewhere for their Game of Thrones fix anymore, as Google has just added HBO and Cinemax channels to its TV lineupFor $20 per month (tax not included), cu...

When a tragedy like the Boston Marathon bombing happens, it can be tough to define the line between sports news and hard news. This week, one of America's most iconic magazines gets it right. Above is...

Facebook is updating its iOS apps to include the chat heads feature this week, with the necessary update hitting the app store Tuesday, the company has announcediPhone users who download the update wi...

Samsung's Galaxy S 4 is now available for pre-order at AT&T and U.S. Cellular.At AT&T, users can pre-order the Galaxy S 4 in either White Frost or Black Mist — both in 16GB capacities &#...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is very optimistic about Android. Its path, however, is separate from the path of Chrome OS, as Schmidt has more or less put to rest persistent rumors that the two operating sy...

Advanced strategies to fight cancer are taking inspiration from experiments in the final frontier of outer space, researchers say.The gravity experienced in low-Earth orbit, which is 10,000 to 1 milli...

Evernote is launching a month-long mentorship program to recruit developers interested in creating products for the Evernote platform.With Evernote Accelerator, developer teams will be invited to work...

Before everyone had a smartphone in their pocket, a good road atlas was found in every car’s glove box, with many of those created by Rand McNally.A staple in the space for the past 90 years, th...

Vanishing are the days when readers' contributions to the papers they read are limited to the 'letters to the editor' section. The latest publication to open its arms to reader contributions — i...

Microsoft said it is slashing the prices for its Windows Azure cloud service as part of an effort to better compete against Amazon's existing hosting and storage platform.The company said it will now ...

The development of NASA's biggest, most powerful rocket yet is running ahead of schedule and on budget, its primary contractor said Wednesday.The towering Space Launch System (SLS) is a 384-foot (117 ...

Have you ever wondered how music has evolved over the years? One YouTube video tries to answer that question by distilling 10 centuries of song into four-and-a-half minutes.A quintet of singers, colle...

DoSomething.org, the service that uses SMS messaging to connect teens with volunteer opportunities that don’t require money, a parent or a car, is now texting with more than 1 million teens. The...

Google has released a lot of new information about Google Glass, including the specs and new tools for developers. It also slipped out a brief FAQ page on Glass, and it answers a few questions no one ...

Leap Motion Tuesday announced a partnership with Hewlett-Packard to bring the startup's motion-control technology to HP devices.While the announcement didn't say what kinds of devices would be have Le...

Kobo has upped the ante when it comes to high-resolution e-readers. Its latest device, the Kobo Aura HD, has a 6.8-inch, 265 PPI screen — the highest resolution 6.8-inch e-ink screen aroundWith ...

LG sent invitations to the press Tuesday afternoon telling them to "save the date" for an event in New York City on May 1.The invitation didn't specify an exact time or place, or what would be on the ...

Apple's so-called “iPhone mini” could grab 11% of the low-end smartphone market within its first year on the shelvesIn the worst-case scenario, the budget iPhone could cannibalize about 30...

Who's jolly, red and not wearing any pants? The new Kool-Aid man, that's who. Kraft Foods on Monday unveiled a new computer-generated version of the iconic, and often times destructive, punch bowl. Ta...

We've all felt that twinge of uncertainty when making a purchase online. It's cheaper, but we worry that by buying sight unseen, we won't receive exactly what we anticipatedThat's why more shoppers, e...

It looks like Google Glass will be an ad-free space, at least initially.On Monday, Google released its Google Mirror API, which lets third-party developers begin building applications for the smart gl...

With 150 million photos uploaded (and evaporating) each day, Snapchat is a success. Even so, it has a reputation, fair or not, as a platform for teens to share racy (even nude) pictures of themselves....

Actress and Interwebs charmer Alison Brie rolls out the adorableness with spot-on meme imitations.MadeManDotCom's Paul F. Tompkins presented Brie with images of the web's biggest celebrities and asked...

The James B. Hunt Library at North Carolina State University looks a lot like the library of the future on the outside and insideIt boasts of cutting-edge technology and modern architectural design. T...

Google has updated its YouTube iOS app to version 1.3, with the most notable improvement being support for live streamingOddly enough, the update comes right after Coachella, which was streamed to You...

Bethesda Softworks, publisher of Fallout, the Elder Scrolls franchise and Dishonored, teased an upcoming unannounced game via a cryptic Vine video posted Tuesday.The Vine shows four scenes: It starts ...

Twitter is aiming to increase engagement on its platform by adding video content from Viacom and NBC, according to a report.The social network is in talks with Viacom and NBCUniversal about bringing m...

A message board on the popular site Reddit is offering little acts of kindness in the form of pizza to people displaced from the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday.People from all over the U.S. are flo...

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is instantly recognizable to the average teen or twenty-something, but he doesn't look like a typical celebrity. No fancy clothes. No "look at me" haircut. Not covered i...

Peer-to-peer car-sharing service RelayRides is going social, enabling users to rent a car through Facebook by harnessing their social networkIn a process the company is calling “Renting Social,&...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories....

A Boston Marathon volunteer who claims to have been near ground zero of Monday's deadly explosions has been sharing intimate details of his experience on Reddit under the pseudonym "Zadmxm." Zadmxm's ...

Facebook Home will start rolling out to users outside of the U.S. on Tuesday, Facebook's head of mobile engineering Cory Ondrejka revealed at ATD's Dive Into Mobile conferenceFurthermore, Ondrejka sai...

Facebook is asking for 7-figure commitments for video ads set to launch on the platform this summer, according to a report.Citing "three executives briefed on the product," Advertising Age reports tha...

Facebook is updating its iOS apps to include the chat heads feature this week, with the necessary update hitting the app store Tuesday, the company has announcediPhone users who download the update wi...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is very optimistic about Android. Its path, however, is separate from the path of Chrome OS, as Schmidt has more or less put to rest persistent rumors that the two operating sy...

Evernote is launching a month-long mentorship program to recruit developers interested in creating products for the Evernote platform.With Evernote Accelerator, developer teams will be invited to work...

Vanishing are the days when readers' contributions to the papers they read are limited to the 'letters to the editor' section. The latest publication to open its arms to reader contributions — i...

The development of NASA's biggest, most powerful rocket yet is running ahead of schedule and on budget, its primary contractor said Wednesday.The towering Space Launch System (SLS) is a 384-foot (117 ...

Buildings in Boston and New York were lit up Monday evening in tribute to the victims of the earlier explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Boston Police Department Commissioner Ed Da...

Google has released a lot of new information about Google Glass, including the specs and new tools for developers. It also slipped out a brief FAQ page on Glass, and it answers a few questions no one ...

Leap Motion Tuesday announced a partnership with Hewlett-Packard to bring the startup's motion-control technology to HP devices.While the announcement didn't say what kinds of devices would be have Le...

A message board on the popular site Reddit is offering little acts of kindness in the form of pizza to people displaced from the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday.People from all over the U.S. are flo...

Bob Garfield and Doug Levy explain the rules of the relationship era in their book Can’t Buy Me Like: How Authentic Customer Connections Drive Superior Results.Dear Bob and Doug:We are a sneaker...

Google has updated its YouTube iOS app to version 1.3, with the most notable improvement being support for live streamingOddly enough, the update comes right after Coachella, which was streamed to You...

Logitech has added two new Harmony Universal remotes to its lineup: the Logitech Harmony Ultimate and the Logitech Harmony Smart ControlBoth will use Logitech's new Harmony Hub, which makes it easier ...

Early Tuesday morning, The Boston Globe reported details of the 8-year-old boy who died in the Boston Marathon bombings, identifying him on Twitter as Martin Richard and his parents as William and Den...

Early Tuesday morning, The Boston Globe reported details of the 8-year-old boy who died in the Boston Marathon bombings, identifying him on Twitter as Martin Richard and his parents as William and Den...

When you think electric vehicle, cars like the Tesla Model S or Chevy Volt might come to mind. But a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup wants to change that perception with what they claim is the "world'...

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The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, is headed to a full vote in the House of Representatives Wednesday or Thursday of this week.CISPA passed the House Intelligence Committee l...

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Two explosions occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon. The news and images, including some graphic photos, unfolded on social media just before 3 p.m. According to a twe...

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Google Glass is about to ship — to developers and early adopters, that is.Google contacted Glass Explorers Monday afternoon to let them know both hardware and software for Google Glass are now r...

Google Glass is about to ship — to developers and early adopters, that is.Google contacted Glass Explorers Monday afternoon to let them know both hardware and software for Google Glass are now r...

Dove posted on Monday a three-minute ad on YouTubethat teaches a vital lesson about how we view ourselves compared to how others see us. Trust us, it's worth your time.A former forensic artist for the...

It looks like mass production for the next iPhone is finally getting under way.Both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal report hearing from sources that Foxconn, Apple's Asian manufacturing partner,...

For all those curious about what it's like to develop for Google Glass, your wait is over.On Monday, the search giant released its Google Mirror API, which allows developers to begin creating applicat...

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When police didn't take immediate action after a parent reported that his sixth-grade son was being bullied, the Wisconsin father took matters into his own hands — on Facebook.On March 26, dad M...

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Cellphone service in the Boston area is currently experiencing disruptions, following the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.Much of the service disruption seems to be due to increas...

JOIN THE LIVE CHATVISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOVPresident Obama will address the nation at approximately 6:00 p.m. ET Monday, following at least two deadly blasts in Boston that seemed to target the Boston Mara...

Google Person Finder, a tool the company built following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, has been activated for use following the deadly Boston Marathon explosions Monday afternoon.Shortly after launchi...

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Two explosions occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon. The news and images, including some graphic photos, unfolded on social media just before 3 p.m. Journalists on the...

Two explosions occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon. The news and images, including some graphic photos, unfolded on social media just before 3 p.m. According to a twe...

Two of the country's most notorious survivalists — the Hermit of North Pond in Maine, and The Mountain Man of Utah, were found and arrested in the last few weeks. And a case of a missing family,...

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Most Americans now know the feeling of typing something into a social media input box, thinking again, and deciding against posting whatever it was. But while it certainly seemed like a widespread phe...

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Nicholas Felton, the designer who was instrumental in creating Facebook Timeline, is leaving the companyFelton shared the news, appropriately, on his Facebook Timeline. He didn't mention what his next...

For all the worry about screen time and kids getting lost in video games while using an iPad, one new accessory actually encourages creativity and imagination.The Kids Drawing Easel for iPad from CTA ...

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Samsung, whose flagship devices all sport a plastic chassis, is considering launching the Galaxy Note 3 "phablet" with a metal exterior, SamMobile reports citing its insidersThe same source claims tha...

Outgoing FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will become a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute advising it on telecommunications policy, the group announced MondayGenachowski follows several previous FCC...

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Renowned Turkish pianist Fazil Say was convicted Monday by a court in Turkey of insulting Islam in messages he posted on TwitterSay, 42, received a 10-month jail sentence on a five-year suspended basi...

Facebook Home can make spending time in your real home a little less boring — at least that's the suggestion in a new ad for the product.Facebook's latest video for Home shows a young woman chec...

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Charging it will offer a "superior value for Sprint shareholders," Dish Network on Monday announced it was making a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel.Dish is offering Sprint shareholders $17.3 billi...

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Samsung, whose flagship devices all sport a plastic chassis, is considering launching the Galaxy Note 3 "phablet" with a metal exterior, SamMobile reports citing its insidersThe same source claims tha...

Outgoing FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will become a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute advising it on telecommunications policy, the group announced MondayGenachowski follows several previous FCC...

Simon & Schuster, the only major publisher to continually refuse to make any of its e-books available to lending libraries, is shifting its stance. The publisher announced Monday that it is making...

EA is shuttering three of its Facebook games on June 14: Sim City Social, The Sims Social and Pet Society.Those games' players are being notified by the Playfish forums and the Facebook fan pages. Pla...

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Charging it will offer a "superior value for Sprint shareholders," Dish Network on Monday announced it was making a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel.Dish is offering Sprint shareholders $17.3 billi...

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In recent weeks, the digital currency Bitcoin has soared and then dipped in value, along the way attracting more public attention than ever before and speculation as to whether it could become an esta...

Microsoft is reportedly joining Apple, Samsung and LG in the race to develop a smart watchThe software giant is working on designs for a touchscreen watch device, according to the Wall Street Journal,...

You've seen how astronauts cry in space, but what about how they sleep?Chris Hadfield, who currently lives on the International Space Station, explained how he catches some Zs in a zero-gravity enviro...

Helicopters swoop in to attack an armor-less Tony Stark at his California mansion in new Iron Man 3 footage released at the MTV Movie Awards. The billionaire hero summons a prototype suit to defend hi...

The MTV Movie Awards doesn't usually show much in the way of actual awards (they have a "best shirtless category" — though there's no complaints, here), but it does promise a slew of antics by c...

The long-awaited teaser trailer for Catching Fire, the second installment in The Hunger Games trilogy, debuted at the MTV Movie Awards. Actor Liam Hemsworth introduced the clipThe new footage gives fa...

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Add two more to the growing roster of magazines integrating e-commerce capabilities onto their sites: Time Inc.'s Essence magazine and Conde Nast's Teen Vogue.At Essence.com, a new "Beauty Matchmaker"...

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Facebook launched its third Facebook Home ad late Friday. And look who makes an appearance: it's a screaming, yelling goat.Keep watching this new commercial, entitled "Launch Day," and you'll see it's...

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Have you been itching to give Facebook Home a try? Now you can, as long as you currently have one of the supported HTC or Samsung handsets, or are willing to shell out $99 for the HTC First, which you...

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If you're interested in getting into CrossFit — but you don't have the resources to access a proper "box" — CrossFit Unboxed is a new iPhone app that may be just the ticket to help you get...

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Just like Twitter, it was only a matter of time before Vine became a political platform. On Friday, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) released what might be the very first politic...

Fans of Grand Theft Auto games know that while carjacking, cop evasion and general mayhem are all important elements of each game, the franchise is nothing without its awesome soundtracks.Every time y...

In a job listing that appeared and then disappeared, Apple seemed to hint that it really is working on bendable or flexible screens.The job listing, which was first reported by 9to5mac.com, seemed to ...

Do you like Twitter? More importantly, are you a "power user" skilled in the Twitter arts? Twitter just might hire you to run its TwitterAn online job posting for a social media manager position at th...

Sending or receiving a text while driving distracts a person from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds, which at 55 mph is the equivalent of driving the length of an entire football field, blind. Di...

If you've ever tried to organize a video game night for kids or adults, you know finding enough controls and couch space, along with games that everyone can agree on, is a bit of a challenge.Thankfull...

Do you prefer listening to live music instead of prerecorded music? Well, instead of waiting in line for concerts, the Concert Vault app is bringing the shows to you.The recently released iPad app giv...

An Estonian software team has invented a program that will allow countries (or private space companies) to keep their satellites from bumping into each other without revealing the location of their ow...

Been to the movies lately and feel a sudden bout of deja vu? You know you've never seen this movie before, but somehow you know, instinctively, what is about to happenWhy does this keep happening, you...

LONDON — At a theatre here, the characters and elements of a serendipitous meeting came together: A play about a dissident Chinese artist starring a British-born Chinese man and reviewed by an A...

It's a universal question; "What should I make for dinner?" Apps and websites are already helping to make that a little easier — people are turning to technology to search for recipes and inspir...

Sending or receiving a text while driving distracts a person from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds, which at 55 mph is the equivalent of driving the length of an entire football field, blind. Di...

You think you know social? How about who uses it? Well, you might not know it as well as you would have guessed.A new study from the Pew Research Center and Docstoc shed some light on just who uses so...

You've probably never heard of Havard Rugland. But "Kickalicious?" Maybe that rings a bellIt's the title of Rugland's astounding trick-kick YouTube video, which went viral shortly after hitting the we...

Want to install Facebook Home on a device that isn't an HTC One X, One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III or Galaxy Note II? Well, unfortunately, Facebook has gone out of its way to make that difficult.Not...

In a job listing that appeared and then disappeared, Apple seemed to hint that it really is working on bendable or flexible screens.The job listing, which was first reported by 9to5mac.com, seemed to ...

There's not much to this Kmart ad except for 11 instances in which the word "ship" sounds like another word. Yet Kmart and ad agency DraftFCB Chicago get maximum mileage out of the scenario, adding in...

Dogs can perform all sorts of tricks, but sometimes Sparky can't quite master his own coordination.The excitement of playing fetch, chasing squirrels and sniffing butts can prove overwhelming to the k...

It all just started because Dom Deltorto thought this was an amusing story. Deltorto, a london-based animator, had his Macbook Pro stolen from his apartment on Feb. 4. The laptop had a tracking softwa...

Comedic genius Jonathan Winters died of natural causes Friday at age 87 in his California home with family and friends by his side. News of his death sparked a worldwide topic on Twitter as fans and c...

Apple sold millions of iPhone 3GS units, only stopping production of the handset late last year. This means even as we're looking ahead to the potential iPhone 6 launch, there are still plenty of 3GS ...

Have you been itching to give Facebook Home a try? Now you can, as long as you currently have one of the supported HTC or Samsung handsets, or are willing to shell out $99 for the HTC First, which you...

Dr. Seuss' acclaimed book "Oh, The Places You'll Go" is an inspiration, encouraging us all to chase our dreams, pursue our goals and never be afraid to fall.But is the story just as inspirational all ...

In a mix of old-school design and new technology, you can relive your childhood days of do-it-yourself block-building while controlling creations with your iPhoneiHelicopters.net offers a selection of...

Dogs can perform all sorts of tricks, but sometimes Sparky can't quite master his own coordination.The excitement of playing fetch, chasing squirrels and sniffing butts can prove overwhelming to the k...

This policeman's helmet camera filmed a high-speed chase so heart-pumping that you may just feel like you were there for the ride.SEE ALSO: Shark Scares the Crap Out of KayakerHomepage image courtesy ...

If you're interested in getting into CrossFit — but you don't have the resources to access a proper "box" — CrossFit Unboxed is a new iPhone app that may be just the ticket to help you get...

A 41-year-old actress who claimed the Internet Movie Database unfairly disclosed her real age lost a case against the site this week after a federal jury in Seattle rejected her lawsuit.Huang "Junie" ...

Cat GIFs clog the Internet with their cuteness. Let's add to that tube-blocking hairball with a collection of loop-animated felines that are more weird than adorable (though still quite adorable).Humm...

The knights of Westeros are depended on to keep their Lords and Ladies safe, but no one told them just how they needed to defend their HousesWhile swords are fine for the common knights, only the best...

During his lifetime, Ray Bradbury fought against the digization of his books, only agreeing in late 2011 to publish one novel — Fahrenheit 451 — in e-book form at the insistence of publis...

A benches-clearing brawl broke out during last night's MLB game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. The Padres may have won the physical fight, but the Dodgers' Twitter team won the ...

Do you like Twitter? More importantly, are you a "power user" skilled in the Twitter arts? Twitter just might hire you to run its TwitterAn online job posting for a social media manager position at th...

Earning money for your personal shopping sounds like it would be a big scam, right? But with a new gaming app from a Denver-based startup, you can legitimately get cash when you buy certain products.T...

If you've ever tried to organize a video game night for kids or adults, you know finding enough controls and couch space, along with games that everyone can agree on, is a bit of a challenge.Thankfull...

Facebook Home is now available for select Android devices in the Google Play store.Facebook Home is Facebook's new Android launcher that aims to bring a more "people-centric" view to your smartphone. ...

You think you know social? How about who uses it? Well, you might not know it as well as you would have guessed.A new study from the Pew Research Center and Docstoc shed some light on just who uses so...

If you're interested in getting into CrossFit — but you don't have the resources to access a proper "box" — CrossFit Unboxed is a new iPhone app that may be just the ticket to help you get...

Wireless operators have access to an unprecedented volume of information about users’ real-world activities, but for years these massive data troves were put to little use other than for interna...

Cat GIFs clog the Internet with their cuteness. Let's add to that tube-blocking hairball with a collection of loop-animated felines that are more weird than adorable (though still quite adorable).Humm...

In our never-ending quest to bring you the best of YouTube, we have tirelessly searched the social video site for some excellent examples of dogs in slow motionWhether it's canines cavorting at the do...

Been to the movies lately and feel a sudden bout of deja vu? You know you've never seen this movie before, but somehow you know, instinctively, what is about to happenWhy does this keep happening, you...

LONDON — At a theatre here, the characters and elements of a serendipitous meeting came together: A play about a dissident Chinese artist starring a British-born Chinese man and reviewed by an A...

A Twitter Music website is now live, confirming that a music service from the company will arrive soon.Attempting to sign in on the site redirects users to an authorization request for an app called &...

Astronaut Chris Hadfield, who currently lives on the International Space Station, shows us what would happen if you felt sad in zero gravity.SEE ALSO: This Song Was Recorded in SpaceHomepage image cou...

It's a universal question; "What should I make for dinner?" Apps and websites are already helping to make that a little easier — people are turning to technology to search for recipes and inspir...

If you've ever tried to organize a video game night for kids or adults, you know finding enough controls and couch space, along with games that everyone can agree on, is a bit of a challenge.Thankfull...

A lawn care company recently discovered that people in New England were talking about their product, but mostly in relation to deals and rebates. Meanwhile, customers in Colorado seemed to be obsessed...

Do you prefer listening to live music instead of prerecorded music? Well, instead of waiting in line for concerts, the Concert Vault app is bringing the shows to you.The recently released iPad app giv...

LONDON — At a theatre here, the characters and elements of a serendipitous meeting came together: A play about a dissident Chinese artist starring a British-born Chinese man and reviewed by an A...

From Mark Foley to Anthony Weiner, here are five politicians whose technology mistakes cost them their jobsSEE ALSO: 10 People Who Lost Jobs Over Social Media MistakesHomepage image courtesy of NowThi...

There's not much to this Kmart ad except for 11 instances in which the word "ship" sounds like another word. Yet Kmart and ad agency DraftFCB Chicago get maximum mileage out of the scenario, adding in...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange isn't the only one unhappy about a potential movie regarding his lifeOscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, best known for Scarface, JFK and Platoon, expressed his disa...

Happy National Grilled Cheese Day! It's a holiday loved by the tastebuds of cheese freaks and loathed by the tummies of the lactose intolerantWhile the ooey gooey delight might not be considered the f...

Want to install Facebook Home on a device that isn't an HTC One X, One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III or Galaxy Note II? Well, unfortunately, Facebook has gone out of its way to make that difficult.Not...

It's a familiar scenario: A young woman is torn between several suitors all under the glare of millions of viewers. Except this time the suitors are actually phones and there aren't millions of viewer...

I won’t deny it, things are bad in PC land right now. The IDC is reporting the biggest drop in PC shipments since the firm started tracking such things in 1994: a 13.9% decline year over year an...

Dr. Seuss' acclaimed book "Oh, The Places You'll Go" is an inspiration, encouraging us all to chase our dreams, pursue our goals and never be afraid to fall.But is the story just as inspirational all ...

In a mix of old-school design and new technology, you can relive your childhood days of do-it-yourself block-building while controlling creations with your iPhoneiHelicopters.net offers a selection of...

Are you casually browsing new career opportunities or are you knee-deep in your job search? Mashable readers on the West Coast, we’ve got you covered. Connect with recruiters from Edelman, Yelp,...

Are you casually browsing new career opportunities or are you knee-deep in your job search? Mashable readers on the West Coast, we’ve got you covered. Connect with recruiters from Edelman, Yelp,...

They Might Be Giants boast one of the most diverse and full catalogs of any band of the last 30 years. In March they released Nanobots, the 16th studio album in their three-decade career.Though the ba...

If you grew up in the '90s, you remember those classic Saturday morning ads that played alongside your favorite cartoons. Whether for sugary cereals or gimmicky toys, '90s commercials were incredibly ...

Apple has gotten a lot of flack over the last month for its after-sales service practices in China, and perhaps rightfully so. But instead of being exploited by Apple, police have discovered that some...

The knights of Westeros are depended on to keep their Lords and Ladies safe, but no one told them just how they needed to defend their HousesWhile swords are fine for the common knights, only the best...

Dr. Seuss' acclaimed book "Oh, The Places You'll Go" is an inspiration, encouraging us all to chase our dreams, pursue our goals and never be afraid to fall.But is the story just as inspirational all ...

Recognizing the best in video for social good, YouTube announced the four winners of its fourth annual DoGooder Video Awards Friday.The categories, which include "Best Non-Profit Video" and "Funny for...

In a mix of old-school design and new technology, you can relive your childhood days of do-it-yourself block-building while controlling creations with your iPhoneiHelicopters.net offers a selection of...

Charlie Shrem knew it would be difficult to convince investors to fund his startup, but he never expected that he'd have to beg on camera to raise the money he needed.Shrem launched an online service ...

Making electronic implants for the body is hard to do: Tissue is delicate and stiff components can irritate it. Then there’s getting those implants into the relevant organ without invasive surge...

Responsive design is rapidly becoming the new standard in our industry, along with its evolving carousel of best practices, platforms and tools. The movement has caused a shift in thinking, especially...

Ken Block, the viral video superstar driver, usually creates videos for DC Shoes, the company co-founded in 1993, but this time he's helping out another hugely successful viral brand, GoPro cameras.In...

When fashion and technology mix, the results can garner unwelcome attention. And that’s just what the makers of this smart bracelet are hoping will happen. A new high-tech wristband recently rel...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital worldToday, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. ...

The dating game can be rough, but it's important to keep your head up and stay optimistic — without contacting your girlfriend from fifth grade.SEE ALSO: More Comics on MashableIn these comics, ...

Sports fan or not, you've definitely seen the viral video by now. You know the one. It immediately became the stuff of Internet legend in December 2011Following a state championship football game in T...

Comedic genius Jonathan Winters died of natural causes Friday at age 87 in his California home with family and friends by his side. News of his death sparked a worldwide topic on Twitter as fans and c...

Randi Zuckerberg is CEO of Zuckerberg Media and Editor-in-Chief of Dot Complicated.My 22-month-old son Asher can already navigate multiple apps on his own and says, “Phone? Hello!” every t...

Making electronic implants for the body is hard to do: Tissue is delicate and stiff components can irritate it. Then there’s getting those implants into the relevant organ without invasive surge...

Responsive design is rapidly becoming the new standard in our industry, along with its evolving carousel of best practices, platforms and tools. The movement has caused a shift in thinking, especially...

A lawn care company recently discovered that people in New England were talking about their product, but mostly in relation to deals and rebates. Meanwhile, customers in Colorado seemed to be obsessed...

From Mark Foley to Anthony Weiner, here are five politicians whose technology mistakes cost them their jobsSEE ALSO: 10 People Who Lost Jobs Over Social Media MistakesHomepage image courtesy of NowThi...

In a mix of old-school design and new technology, you can relive your childhood days of do-it-yourself block-building while controlling creations with your iPhoneiHelicopters.net offers a selection of...

It's a familiar scenario: A young woman is torn between several suitors all under the glare of millions of viewers. Except this time the suitors are actually phones and there aren't millions of viewer...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital worldToday, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. ...

Making electronic implants for the body is hard to do: Tissue is delicate and stiff components can irritate it. Then there’s getting those implants into the relevant organ without invasive surge...

Ken Block, the viral video superstar driver, usually creates videos for DC Shoes, the company co-founded in 1993, but this time he's helping out another hugely successful viral brand, GoPro cameras.In...

Sports fan or not, you've definitely seen the viral video by now. You know the one. It immediately became the stuff of Internet legend in December 2011Following a state championship football game in T...

Responsive design is rapidly becoming the new standard in our industry, along with its evolving carousel of best practices, platforms and tools. The movement has caused a shift in thinking, especially...

Big, bigger, but not yet biggest: According to the Association of American Publishers's StatShot study released Thursday, ebooks made up nearly a quarter (22.55%, to be precise) of U.S. trade publishe...

Get ready to rockTwitter is about to launch its long-rumored standalone music app Friday, according to a report.The app's existence was rapidly becoming one of the worst-kept secrets in social media, ...

Tech companies are already well known for some of the extra benefits they offer their employees, but several companies stand head and shoulders above others in keeping their workers happy, a new poll ...

When you gotta go, you gotta go. There's no stopping nature's call. But if you're working in an office and sharing a bathroom, timing is everything. The frustration of getting to the door, only to hav...

When you gotta go, you gotta go. There's no stopping nature's call. But if you're working in an office and sharing a bathroom, timing is everything. The frustration of getting to the door, only to hav...

The official purpose of the International Space Station is Science: Astronauts living on the orbital laboratory spend the majority of their time in space testing microgravity's effect on physical obje...

Laptops, sadly, get stolen every day (at a rate of one every 53 seconds, according to an oft-quoted Gartner study). But not all of those bereft owners get to see the thieves using their machine from 3...

Ryan Seacrest claims he's using Twitter's much-rumored music app — and is loving it.The American Idol host posted a tweet Wednesday evening indicating that he was playing with the unreleased app...

Nuclear fusion, the energy source that fuels the sun and other active stars, could one day propel rockets that allow humans to go to Mars and back in 30 days, researchers say.Fusion-powered rockets pr...

LeBron James has become a master of social media, but does this quality as an overshare? First LeBron had the viral tweet after winning last years NBA title. Then there was his starring role in the Mi...

Seeking new ways to fund longform journalism, newspaper and magazine publishers have lately released a range of short, inexpensive ebooks, featuring repackaged feature articles (see The Atlantic's The...

Get ready to rockTwitter is about to launch its long-rumored standalone music app Friday, according to a report.The app's existence was rapidly becoming one of the worst-kept secrets in social media, ...

Tiger Woods has been the talk of this year's Masters since at least a week before the tournament officially started Thursday morning. But Tiger became the sports web's buzziest subject on Thursday aft...

There are plenty of smart thermostats available, but the Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat can match its touchscreen display's background color to the wall behind it, or any other color. And that's jus...

American Idol producers last week asked viewers to use Twitter to submit suggestions for a theme for the April 24 episode, marking the first time the show is letting the public influence contestants' ...

Imagine the kind of havoc a malicious hacker could cause if he or she were able to take over an airplane simply using his Android phone. With a tap of his or her fingers, the hacker could arbitrarily ...

You've written your will. You've talked to your family about end-of-life care. But have you told Google what you want to happen to your Gmail or YouTube accounts?That's the stated purpose behind a too...

The official purpose of the International Space Station is Science: Astronauts living on the orbital laboratory spend the majority of their time in space testing microgravity's effect on physical obje...

Ask any startup founder for advice, and he or she will probably tell you that it's important to celebrate the milestones large and small. Startup life is a rollercoaster, and if you get caught up in t...

The entire food porn industry has blossomed out of the filtered haven that Instagram provides, but the field is still too new for etiquette rules. When is it OK to snap a pic of your food? Are mid-bit...

LinkedIn on Thursday confirmed a previous report, that it acquired 3-year-old newsreading app Pulse. The news was announced jointly on the companies' respective websites Thursday afternoon.AllThingsD ...

LinkedIn on Thursday confirmed a previous report, that it acquired 3-year-old newsreading app Pulse. The news was announced jointly on the companies' respective websites Thursday afternoon.AllThingsD ...

To the delight of basketball fans the world over, it's almost NBA playoff timeA new ad, above, hypes the postseason by taking a look back at LeBron James' epic Game 7 performance against the mighty Bo...

Sometimes the most stunning photos are the least manipulated. In a world dominated by photo-editing tools, scenes captured in natural light can feel like a breath of fresh airFor this week's Mashable ...

Breanna Stewart, a superstar freshman on the UConn women's basketball team, has more than 4,700 tweets to her nameYet none of those posts happened between Oct. 13 and April 9 of this year. Why? In Ste...

LeBron James has become a master of social media, but does this quality as an overshare? First LeBron had the viral tweet after winning last years NBA title. Then there was his starring role in the Mi...

Punctuation is hard, we get it. There are commas, and semi-colons and colons — sometimes there are even brackets, slashes and parentheses. It's a lot to wrap your head around, but sadly, punctua...

Annual U.S. social ad revenue is expected to reach $11 billion by 2017, according to a recent study by BIA/Kelsey.The jump would represent a growth rate of more than 18% over the next five years. BIA/...

The father of the teen who committed suicide after a photo of her alleged rape went viral says he can't understand how there can be a digital trail of a crime and the police do nothingWriting on his w...

The latest episode of Reddit Facts is upon you, and we've got some delicious tidbits about Middle-Earth fan fiction, shark fetuses, and a horrifying but totally real product called The Baby Cage.MORE ...

Sometimes the Internet makes you laugh. Sometimes it provokes a big "WTF?" Oftentimes it does bothThis is one of those times. The video you see above is called "How Animals Eat Their Food," and involv...

New Yorkers and San Franciscans probably have a few things in common: Proximity to an ocean? A poppin' tech scenes? But the opposite coasts don't share a lot when it comes to disposition. Well, at lea...

There's a good chance that you don't even have Facebook's Graph Search yet, but even for those who have it, it's safe to stay few have gotten past the "getting to know you" stage.If anyone is to be co...

There are plenty of smart thermostats available, but the Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat can match its touchscreen display's background color to the wall behind it, or any other color. And that's jus...

Do you love rumors about Cher and pictures of adorable chihuahuas?Then you'll want to watch the first episode of Mashable's newest YouTube show, Socially Awkward, with your intrepid host Kevin Gisi.MO...

Students often come up with excuses for not doing homework — the dog ate it, the printer's broken, the Internet was down. While teachers still can't guess the real reason why a paper's late, the...

The most powerful solar flare of the year erupted from the sun on April 11, sparking a temporary radio blackout on Earth, NASA officials say.The solar flare occurred at 3:16 a.m. EDT (0716 GMT) and re...

Global sensation Psy, whose viral video for "Gangnam Style" last year became the first clip in YouTube's history to reach 1 billion views, unleashed his follow-up single Thursday.The South Korean rapp...

The song "Yakety Sax" is an irrefutable classic. Don't think you've heard it? You have — trust us. The pop-jazz diddy by saxophonist Homer "Boots" Randolph III and James Q. "Spider" Rich becam...

In a closed-door session, the House Intelligence Committee approved the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as (CISPA, by an 18-2 vote. The bill is now headed to...

You've written your will. You've talked to your family about end-of-life care. But have you told Google what you want to happen to your Gmail or YouTube accounts?That's the stated purpose behind a too...

Christina Milian may be a Grammy-nominated pop star and actress, but it turns out she's also a huge geek. Milian, who's currently the social media correspondent for The Voice, refers to herself as a "...

The photo above serves as a harsh reminder of the consequences of texting while driving. The unfinished text, never sent, was typed by 22-year-old Alexander Heit as he was driving through a small town...

Your browser does not support iframes.We don't know who this MLB fan is or where he comes from, but he's a national hero in my book. Watch above as he catches a foul ball in his beer then chugs the br...

Ask any startup founder for advice, and he or she will probably tell you that it's important to celebrate the milestones large and small. Startup life is a rollercoaster, and if you get caught up in t...

Turntable.fm has the best and worst luck of any startup. After launching its social music streaming service in early 2011, Turntable received the kind of media exposure and hype that most companies wo...

The Internet sure encourages idiosyncratic thrill-seekers, especially when it comes to eating thingsYouTube is rife with videos of people eating objects you'd never even dream of putting near your mou...

LinkedIn on Thursday confirmed a previous report, that it acquired 3-year-old newsreading app Pulse. The news was announced jointly on the companies' respective websites Thursday afternoon.AllThingsD ...

Who would have thought a song about bowel cancer testing could be so contagious?"The Poo Song," commissioned by the Scottish government, urges older folks to screen for the disease with a fecal examin...

If you liked the big screen of Samsung's Galaxy Note smartphones, the company has something even more massive coming. The Samsung Galaxy Mega line, which will hit Europe in May, is led by a monstrous ...

A friend of mine, Sam, recently listed his Nokia Lumia phone for sale online. After making arrangements to meet a buyer, he went to the AT&T store to have them wipe his phone of personal data. Unf...

Ed Sheeran sings about building LEGO houses in his hit song, so it only seems fitting for Sheeran to have a a music video that reflects his subject matter. Enter Dylan Woodley of Insomniac AnimationsW...

Punctuation is hard, we get it. There are commas, and semi-colons and colons — sometimes there are even brackets, slashes and parentheses. It's a lot to wrap your head around, but sadly, punctua...

Samsung's recently unveiled Series 9 Ultrabook is now available for purchaseThe 13.3-inch Ultrabook is powered by an Intel Core i7 processor ticking at 2GHz, 4GB of RAM memory and 128GB of SSD storage...

The latest episode of Reddit Facts is upon you, and we've got some delicious tidbits about Middle-Earth fan fiction, shark fetuses, and a horrifying but totally real product called The Baby Cage.MORE ...

Who says you need a big fancy boat to fish? While deep sea fisherman may have space on deck to catch fish by the tons, Isaac Brumaghim caught a fish, which attracted a much larger shark that he named ...

Since January, 2012, BMW has been field-testing 700 electric ActiveE cars. Now the company wants you to see what sort of mileage and data those experimental cars are accumulating, and on Thursday roll...

Sometimes the most stunning photos are the least manipulated. In a world dominated by photo-editing tools, scenes captured in natural light can feel like a breath of fresh airFor this week's Mashable ...

Mashable's Events Board is a great place to find the leading conferences in your industry — whether that's advertising, technology, media or public relations. This week, we're highlighting five ...

There's a good chance that you don't even have Facebook's Graph Search yet, but even for those who have it, it's safe to stay few have gotten past the "getting to know you" stage.If anyone is to be co...

Google announced on Wednesday YouTube accounts and channels can be linked to Google+ pages.The company is inviting YouTube creators to a beta test that would ultimately allow a single account to ...

The entire food porn industry has blossomed out of the filtered haven that Instagram provides, but the field is still too new for etiquette rules. When is it OK to snap a pic of your food? Are mid-bit...

The judge presiding over the Bradley Manning court-martial case ruled in a pre-trial hearing Wednesday that a member of the secretive team that raided the Osama Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad will b...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has the best view in the galaxy. Orbiting 230 miles above Earth, the International Space Station is home to Hadfield until MayWhile he spends most of his day doing ty...

The most powerful solar flare of the year erupted from the sun on April 11, sparking a temporary radio blackout on Earth, NASA officials say.The solar flare occurred at 3:16 a.m. EDT (0716 GMT) and re...

Sometimes the Internet makes you laugh. Sometimes it provokes a big "WTF?" Oftentimes it does bothThis is one of those times. The video you see above is called "How Animals Eat Their Food," and involv...

The Xbox creative director who told fans upset about the potential always-online functionality of Microsoft's upcoming console to "deal with it" has departed the company.According to Polygon, Adam Ort...

Nuclear fusion, the energy source that fuels the sun and other active stars, could one day propel rockets that allow humans to go to Mars and back in 30 days, researchers say.Fusion-powered rockets pr...

People despise being told the areas they're lacking and how they can improve. But, for a few tools that make winning easier, it's worth swallowing your pride.A recent post by LinkedIn on the arsenals ...

Foursquare hasn't checked out just yet.The social check-in service has raised another round of financing totaling $41 million, led by Silver Lake Partners with contributions from Andreessen Horowitz, ...

In a closed-door session, the House Intelligence Committee approved the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as (CISPA, by an 18-2 vote. The bill is now headed to...

To the delight of basketball fans the world over, it's almost NBA playoff timeA new ad, above, hypes the postseason by taking a look back at LeBron James' epic Game 7 performance against the mighty Bo...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg waded further into the world of politics on Thursday with a Washington Post op-ed announcing FWD.us, a group of tech luminaries arguing for immigration reform.In the opini...

The Internet sure encourages idiosyncratic thrill-seekers, especially when it comes to eating thingsYouTube is rife with videos of people eating objects you'd never even dream of putting near your mou...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital worldToday, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. ...

Global sensation Psy, whose viral video for "Gangnam Style" last year became the first clip in YouTube's history to reach 1 billion views, unleashed his follow-up single Thursday.The South Korean rapp...

There's a good chance that you don't even have Facebook's Graph Search yet, but even for those who have it, it's safe to stay few have gotten past the "getting to know you" stage.If anyone is to be co...

The Internet sure encourages idiosyncratic thrill-seekers, especially when it comes to eating thingsYouTube is rife with videos of people eating objects you'd never even dream of putting near your mou...

Since January, 2012, BMW has been field-testing 700 electric ActiveE cars. Now the company wants you to see what sort of mileage and data those experimental cars are accumulating, and on Thursday roll...

Who would have thought a song about bowel cancer testing could be so contagious?"The Poo Song," commissioned by the Scottish government, urges older folks to screen for the disease with a fecal examin...

Mashable's Events Board is a great place to find the leading conferences in your industry — whether that's advertising, technology, media or public relations. This week, we're highlighting five ...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has the best view in the galaxy. Orbiting 230 miles above Earth, the International Space Station is home to Hadfield until MayWhile he spends most of his day doing ty...

Bitcoin, the world's most popular virtual currency, yesterday took a huge nosedive — from its all-time-high of $265 to as low as $105 — but the reason is not a DDOS as some have speculated...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg waded further into the world of politics on Thursday with a Washington Post op-ed announcing FWD.us, a group of tech luminaries arguing for immigration reform.In the opini...

Microsoft is looking to shrink its Surface tablet to 7 inches, if you trust a recent report from the Wall Street JournalThe new, 7-inch Surface should launch later this year, but no details about the ...

If there’s one thing that all job seekers have in common, it’s that they hate writing cover letters. With a passion.But why? It’s not like they’re very long. And when you reall...

Because stories are traditionally told through word of mouth, they are at risk of getting lost from one generation to the next. A new app called StoryPress seeks to safeguard these personal tales by l...

Staying visible at dusk or dawn is a key concern for cyclists and runners on the road. One Kickstarter project brings eye-catching illumination to the streets with fiber optic safety vests designed to...

Lest you doubt we are entering the age of a cybersecurity industrial complex—and that such a system doesn't necessarily have the average Internet user in mind—take look at the numbers.Acco...

Hankering for more details on Iron Man 3? A new behind-the-scenes featurette reveals some tantalizing tidbits on what fans can expect for Tony Stark and his foes this time around.Posted to YouTube on ...

3D imagery, the kind that gives depth and, sometimes, artificial reality to static images is often astonishing and almost always hard to create. Every time you see another Apple iWatch or iPhone 6 con...

Microsoft is looking to shrink its Surface tablet to 7 inches, if you trust a recent report from the Wall Street JournalThe new, 7-inch Surface should launch later this year, but no details about the ...

The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.Name: See.MeOne-Liner Pi...

If there’s one thing that all job seekers have in common, it’s that they hate writing cover letters. With a passion.But why? It’s not like they’re very long. And when you reall...

Mac users who can't wait to get their hands on the rebooted city-building game SimCity finally have a release date to look forward to: June 11And there's more good news. Not only do the server issues ...

Smartphone cameras are quickly replacing point-and-shoots in pockets, everywhereWhile users can definitely take some impressive shots with an iPhone camera, they're limited by its built-in lens. One a...

Would you pay $2,500 to play pick-up hoops with retired NBA chucker Antoine Walker? How about $12,500 for lunch with NFL great Lawrence Taylor? Or $5,000 to have Gary Payton talk smack in-person at yo...

We're not all cut out to be master chefs, and culinary school isn't for everyone. But if you're tired of making mac and cheese in the microwave, taking an online cooking course might just be your kitc...

Lest you doubt we are entering the age of a cybersecurity industrial complex—and that such a system doesn't necessarily have the average Internet user in mind—take look at the numbers.Acco...

We all make mistakes, but when newspapers do it, they can't just let it slide. The correction must follow, placing an irreversible black mark on the publicationThe Tampa Bay Times figured if they were...

Many called it the ad of the year, sports-themed or otherwise. The Turkish Airlines spot (embedded above) that dropped in December pitted sports mega-stars Kobe Bryant and Lionel Messi against one ano...

Staying visible at dusk or dawn is a key concern for cyclists and runners on the road. One Kickstarter project brings eye-catching illumination to the streets with fiber optic safety vests designed to...

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Confession Bear, one of the go-to "advice animal" memes on Reddit, is typically used as a medium for admitting minor quirks, like embarrassing TV addictions or intimate bathing practicesOne Redditor, ...

3D imagery, the kind that gives depth and, sometimes, artificial reality to static images is often astonishing and almost always hard to create. Every time you see another Apple iWatch or iPhone 6 con...

Mac users who can't wait to get their hands on the rebooted city-building game SimCity finally have a release date to look forward to: June 11And there's more good news. Not only do the server issues ...

Game of Thrones characters spend half their time getting from point A to point B. Messages get lost, signals get crossed, ravens get killed and eventually no one knows who is alive, who is king and wh...

Smartphone cameras are quickly replacing point-and-shoots in pockets, everywhereWhile users can definitely take some impressive shots with an iPhone camera, they're limited by its built-in lens. One a...

The art of storytelling is timeless. There's nothing like hearing old tales of your grandparent's teenage days — but the narrative connection often loses its spark when Grandma lives across the ...

Worldwide PC shipments plunged 13.9% in the first quarter according to IDC, which noted that Microsoft's introduction of Windows 8 hurt overall sales by confusing consumers."At this point, unfortunate...

Foursquare launched a major update to its iOS app Wednesday, now with more focus on what’s around you rather than who.While the app is certainly all about checking in — and has a new large...

Ribbon, a San Francisco payments company, made headlines early Wednesday with the launch of a new in-stream payment option for Twitter that lets users buy and sell items directly through the news feed...

Another day, another Kate Upton dating hypothetical ruling the Twitter websOne day after a March Madness hero's bold advance lit up the sports Internet, the supermodel became a worldwide trending topi...

We all make mistakes, but when newspapers do it, they can't just let it slide. The correction must follow, placing an irreversible black mark on the publicationThe Tampa Bay Times figured if they were...

NASA unveiled a $17.7 billion spending plan for 2014 today that continues major ongoing space exploration projects, while including funds to kick-start an audacious new mission to capture a small aste...

Gmail turned 9 this month, and before we know it, it will be heading off to middle school. It's grown up fast. In fact, it knows 57 languages now — the latest one being Cherokee.Google's email p...

There are plenty of scientists out there trying to solve our impending energy crisis. Many of their creations never leave the lab. Here's one that is on its way to commercialization — and just f...

In early 2012, Tumblr hired an editorial team to cover the "ideas, themes and people" of the vast blogging community. That team launched Storyboard, which produced hundreds of fascinating stories on e...

The Game of Thrones we all know and love is a product of HBO, which means we get lots of blood, guts, cursing and nudity. Like tons of nudityBut what if George R.R. Martin sold the rights to the show ...

Since it debuted in March 2012, the popular comic book Saga has illustrated the following: robot sex, a giant with five-story-tall sagging testicles, a child prostitution ring on a brothel planet call...

Do you know what would make sports 84% more awesome? CatsSure, you'd have to clean up hairballs on the court and scoop poop off the pitch, but all the extra litter and tuna costs would be totally wort...

Warning: Graphic, potentially disturbing content. Proceed with caution.Want to get in shape before swimsuit season, but paleo just isn't doing the trick? We guarantee you'll lose your appetite immedia...

Bitcoin, the world’s most popular virtual currency, dropped from a high of $265 to a low of $156 in a period of six hours Wednesday afternoon. Pretty much everyone the Daily Dot has spoken to re...

LeBron James is the world's greatest basketball player — at this point, there's no room for debate and disagreeing with that statement is akin to copping to not knowing the gameBut he never ceas...

Two hours and 14 minutes. That's how long on average it takes for workers to sift through the stacks of email they get every single day. When you break down the eight-hour work day, that comes out to ...

How do you get noticed when you're selling a pair of headphones in today's crowded personal audio market? Why not create headphones that mock a product that's loved by some and hated by many? Enter Be...

Many called it the ad of the year, sports-themed or otherwise. The Turkish Airlines spot (embedded above) that dropped in December pitted sports mega-stars Kobe Bryant and Lionel Messi against one ano...

An amazing new photo from a telescope in Chile has captured the most detailed view yet of a green glowing blob 3,300 light-years away from Earth.The new image, released April 10 by the European Southe...

Expecting parents have enough to worry about: buy a crib, find some tiny shoes and, oh, give your baby a name that will last him or her a lifetime. No pressure.Initially, we relied on baby name books....

Game of Thrones characters spend half their time getting from point A to point B. Messages get lost, signals get crossed, ravens get killed and eventually no one knows who is alive, who is king and wh...

Twitter's CEO has expressed an interest in embracing ecommerce in the past, but it looks like one startup may have just beat it to the punch.Ribbon, a San Francisco payments company, announced a new f...

The art of storytelling is timeless. There's nothing like hearing old tales of your grandparent's teenage days — but the narrative connection often loses its spark when Grandma lives across the ...

Who is the best action movie star? A Facebook app — Bracket Battle Royal — from online movie ticketer Fandango is pitting 32 of film's toughest personalities against each other to crown a ...

Arrested Development returns on May 26 and Netflix wants you drooling with excitement by the time the Bluth family comes backTo keep the anticipation growing, Netflix has released a series of teaser p...

As lawmakers prepare to discuss the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, Internet freedom activists are ramping up their campaign against it. On Wednesday, the advoca...

Foursquare launched a major update to its iOS app Wednesday, now with more focus on what’s around you rather than who.While the app is certainly all about checking in — and has a new large...

Ribbon, a San Francisco payments company, made headlines early Wednesday with the launch of a new in-stream payment option for Twitter that lets users buy and sell items directly through the news feed...

Another day, another Kate Upton dating hypothetical ruling the Twitter websOne day after a March Madness hero's bold advance lit up the sports Internet, the supermodel became a worldwide trending topi...

Samsung has launched its first ads for the Galaxy S 4, its would-be iPhone 5-killer. Don't expect any Apple bashing, though. These are straight-up lifestyle and feature-focused spots.The ads, which br...

New optical technology paves the way for more efficient ocean-spanning transmissions.Researchers at AT&T have devised a way to increase the distance that large amounts of data can travel through a...

The Man of Steel is back this summer in Zack Snyder's reboot of the Superman film series, and Clark Kent is spending just as much time asking questions about his past as he is saving livesThe newest t...

Your mind is about to go for a trip — as in a vacation, not a drug-triggered tripping sessionPush play to take off on a mental vacay to some of Earth's most beautiful places. Filmmaker and phot...

NASA unveiled a $17.7 billion spending plan for 2014 today that continues major ongoing space exploration projects, while including funds to kick-start an audacious new mission to capture a small aste...

Gmail turned 9 this month, and before we know it, it will be heading off to middle school. It's grown up fast. In fact, it knows 57 languages now — the latest one being Cherokee.Google's email p...

In early 2012, Tumblr hired an editorial team to cover the "ideas, themes and people" of the vast blogging community. That team launched Storyboard, which produced hundreds of fascinating stories on e...

The Game of Thrones we all know and love is a product of HBO, which means we get lots of blood, guts, cursing and nudity. Like tons of nudityBut what if George R.R. Martin sold the rights to the show ...

Dropbox began as a consumer-focused service, but as anyone who works with digital files knows, it has been adopted by businesses — both large and small — en masse. After dabbling with busi...

Fourteen months ago, Tumblr hired an editor-in-chief and executive editor to launch Storyboard, a Tumblr that pledged to chronicle the ideas, themes and people of the blogging network. Late Wednesday,...

Foursquare has launched a major update to its iOS app, rethinking the location-based service as a discovery tool instead of primarily a way to see what your friends are doing. Search is much more prom...

During the April 11 episode of Community, NBC is throwing a GIFathon, where viewers are encouraged to create and post GIFs on Tumblr using hashtag #CommunityGIFathon.The best GIFs posted between 8 p.m...

Since it debuted in March 2012, the popular comic book Saga has illustrated the following: robot sex, a giant with five-story-tall sagging testicles, a child prostitution ring on a brothel planet call...

Lost or stolen tech produces a sickening feeling. In the moment you realize your laptop is gone for good, you feel helpless.But should you find yourself the victim of computer theft, Hack College has ...

Tensions across the Korean peninsula have been rising for weeks now. And U.S. and South Korean authorities are on alert for a possible North Korean missile launch. In this environment, it's easy to ma...

In a "supercut," a fan makes a mega-edit of a film, television show, music video, etc. into one big, fat montage. The genre is huge on YouTube.We have picked our 10 favorites examples, ranging from Ar...

iFixit has torn down yet another gadget — this time it's the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift, which — somewhat surprisingly — turns out to be quite easy to repairThe Oculus Rift ...

Electronic music producer and DJ Boys Noize released an interactive music video for his song "Stop," sharing the clip first with Mashable to premiere. The video above is the non-interactive version. T...

Many called it the ad of the year, sports-themed or otherwise. The Turkish Airlines spot (embedded above) that dropped in December pitted sports mega-stars Kobe Bryant and Lionel Messi against one ano...

Do you buy a lot of children's breakfast cereal? Then you might see some new Facebook ads for those products cropping up on Facebook thanks to a new program from the company called Partner Categories....

An amazing new photo from a telescope in Chile has captured the most detailed view yet of a green glowing blob 3,300 light-years away from Earth.The new image, released April 10 by the European Southe...

Old Spice's marketing efforts of late have been hit or miss, but the brand seems to have found its groove again with a couple of new ads for its bar soap that mock conventions of '80s-era ads for simi...

Happiness levels captured by Tweets rise logarithmically with distance from our average location, say computer scientists studying Twitter sentimentThe way sociologists and anthropologists study moder...

MTV will introduce the Giffies, a GIF-based "awards show" that will honor memorable moments from the MTV Movie Awards, MTV exclusively told Mashable on WednesdayDuring the April 14 broadcast, a GIF ar...

Twitter's CEO has expressed an interest in embracing ecommerce in the past, but it looks like one startup may have just beat it to the punch.Ribbon, a San Francisco payments company, announced a new f...

Arrested Development returns on May 26 and Netflix wants you drooling with excitement by the time the Bluth family comes backTo keep the anticipation growing, Netflix has released a series of teaser p...

Hon Hai Precision Technology, the electronics manufacturer perhaps better known to consumers as Foxconn, saw its sales for the first quarter decline by 19% year-over-year, according to Reuters, in wha...

Why are the birds in Rovio Entertainment's hit mobile-game series so angry? Is it really because the green pigs stole their eggs, or is it because otherwise the game would be mind-numbingly boring?SEE...

A year ago this week, Facebook surprised the world by announcing an agreement to acquire Instagram for a whopping $1 billion one month shy of its initial offering on the stock market. At the time, Ins...

General Motors, whose decision to pull advertising from Facebook days before that company's IPO last year, has returned to Facebook with a test program for its Chevrolet Sonic."Chevrolet is testing a ...

Samsung has launched its first ads for the Galaxy S 4, its would-be iPhone 5-killer. Don't expect any Apple bashing, though. These are straight-up lifestyle and feature-focused spots.The ads, which br...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories....

Your mind is about to go for a trip — as in a vacation, not a drug-triggered tripping sessionPush play to take off on a mental vacay to some of Earth's most beautiful places. Filmmaker and phot...

Expecting parents have enough to worry about: buy a crib, find some tiny shoes and, oh, give your baby a name that will last him or her a lifetime. No pressure.Initially, we relied on baby name books....

Dropbox began as a consumer-focused service, but as anyone who works with digital files knows, it has been adopted by businesses — both large and small — en masse. After dabbling with busi...

During the April 11 episode of Community, NBC is throwing a GIFathon, where viewers are encouraged to create and post GIFs on Tumblr using hashtag #Greendale GIFs.The best GIFs posted between 8 p.m. a...

Movie fans can vote using Instagram photos and hashtags — for the first time ever — in the MTV Movie Awards' Best Hero category leading up to and during the April 14 ceremonyMTV launched t...

Forever alone? Fear not — Japanese students from the University of Tsukuba have developed a "girlfriend coat" to keep you company.The device looks like a normal coat except for its neon-colored ...

A snippet of code from the latest beta version of OS X Mountain Lion indicates that Apple's upcoming Macs will support the new 802.11ac wireless standard, also called 5G Wi-Fi.The code, which is prese...

For seniors who might balk at the idea of upgrading to a smartphone, a Singapore-based company is developing intuitive apps that they hope will ease the transition.Silverline Mobile, which was develop...

A year ago this week, Facebook surprised the world by announcing an agreement to acquire Instagram for a whopping $1 billion one month shy of its initial offering on the stock market. At the time, Ins...

General Motors, whose decision to pull advertising from Facebook days before that company's IPO last year, has returned to Facebook with a test program for its Chevrolet Sonic."Chevrolet is testing a ...

Days before T-Mobile begins selling the iPhone 5 in stores, the mobile carrier is luring customers with an offer that lets them trade up from an iPhone 4 or 4S — at no cost upfront."Our message ...

A new trailer for the upcoming science fiction film, Elysium, is out, and it's a treat for fans of the genreMatt Damon and Jodie Foster are starring in the movie which depicts a future (year 2154, to ...

Rehtaeh Parsons was just 15 years old when she was allegedly raped by four boys at a friend's home in 2011. She was just 17 when she hanged herself in the bathroom of the family's home in Halifax, Nov...

Some may argue that Justin Bieber's songs are masterpieces out of the gate (they would be mostly of the tween persuasion). But Steve Pycroft felt that, while Bieber's songs had potential, one song in ...

Forever alone? Fear not — Japanese students from the University of Tsukuba have developed a "girlfriend coat" to keep you company.The device looks like a normal coat except for its neon-colored ...

"There's no one like Jack Black," comedian Bob Saget said at an event honoring — and skewering — Black's multifarious career in the TV, movie and music industries."I'm sorry, I read that w...

The NHL's Los Angeles Kings beat the New Jersey Devils last June to take home the franchise's first Stanley Cup titleTen months later, they're still rubbing it inThe Kings released a video Monday call...

Some may argue that Justin Bieber's songs are masterpieces out of the gate (they would be mostly of the tween persuasion). But Steve Pycroft felt that, while Bieber's songs had potential, one song in ...

If AT&T and Google Fiber compete to offer ultra-fast Internet, who wins? The city of Austin, that's whoResidents of the Texas tech hub will soon have not one, but two gigabit fiber networks to cho...

How do you give people the experience of riding in an electric vehicle without actually sitting in a car? That was the challenge designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec undertook for a project with BMW i...

One hundred and sixty-seven thousand calories, 9,200 grams of fat, 19,000 grams of sugar — these astronomical numbers are reportedly the "nutritional" specs of the 100-pound chocolate bar you se...

As any woman can tell you, shopping for designer denim is a miserable affair. Sizing has long been inconsistent across brands — an Ann Taylor "6" might be a Diane von Furstenberg "10," for examp...

Apple's iMessage and FaceTime are running normally again after the company reported that "some users" were affected by service interruptions.The Cupertino, Calif. company's system status page indicate...

Whether you're writing a story, making crafts or coming up with a new business venture, a good idea can be hard to find. But with a little ambition, a dash of determination and a pinch of creativity, ...

In the past 36 hours, I've spent more time on Facebook than I have in the past three months. I've been liking photos, commenting, and checking in. I'm becoming a real Facebook gadfly. This is all due ...

NAB Show 2013 kicked off earlier this week, with broadcasters, video professionals and digital media startups gathering in Las Vegas to talk about the future of the big screen, the small screen and th...

For seniors who might balk at the idea of upgrading to a smartphone, a Singapore-based company is developing intuitive apps that they hope will ease the transition.Silverline Mobile, which was develop...

After weeks of excavation, scientists outside of Mexico City have uncovered one of the most well-preserved wooly mammoths ever found.SEE ALSO: 10 Astonishing New Species Recently DiscoveredHomepage im...

Kids are horrifying. Whether in a classic palm-sweater like The Shining or a straight-to-DVD, "For the love of God, don't open that door!" flick like The House of the Devil, children always up the cre...

Yes, Apple ended up paying millions to license the design for a sleek, iconic Swiss timepiece for its clock in iOS 6. But even if you're a fan of Apple's stock clock, why be boring by sticki...

Spike Albrecht sure knows how to live up his momentThe little-used Michigan guard played the best game of his life in the biggest game of his life on Monday night. Then he woke up the next morning and...

Anyone who's ever listened to the ring of their cellphone while fumbling through a jam-packed purse to try to fish it out, will appreciate the simplicity of the Pursecase. It's a small clutch purse th...

If your DVR skipped a beat, you somehow forgot that Season 6 of Mad Men started on Sunday (*shudder*), or you simply want to bask in the glory of 1960s Madison Avenue again, don't worry: you can stop ...

We may see a brand new iPad in just a few months.DigiTimes reports that production for the next-generation tablet will begin between July and August of this year. In addition to the production timeli...

In literal proof to the adage that there's no such thing as a free lunch, the Internal Revenue Service is looking into making employees pay a tax for the gratis meals that have now become a fixture at...

If you don't have a verified account on Twitter, don't feel too bad: neither do Jack Dorsey's parents.The Twitter co-founder's parents Tim and Marcia Dorsey tweeted this week that they would like to b...

One hundred and sixty-seven thousand calories, 9,200 grams of fat, 19,000 grams of sugar — these astronomical numbers are reportedly the "nutritional" specs of the 100-pound chocolate bar you se...

Remembering the passwords for all your sites can get frustrating. There are only so many punctuation, number substitutes and uppercase variations you can recall, and writing them down for all to find ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert died this month after battling cancer, but RogerEbert.com will live on. The website, which is home to his and other critics' movie reviews, unveiled a ne...

For seniors who might balk at the idea of upgrading to a smartphone, a Singapore-based company is developing intuitive apps that they hope will ease the transition.Silverline Mobile, which was develop...

As goes pornography, so goes the tech industry. When the porn business embraced VHS over Betamax and Blu-ray over HD DVD, videophiles of all tastes followed their lead. The next big innovation might b...

Electronic Arts has been voted the worst company in America by Consumerist readers, passing up Bank of America, Ticketmaster and Carnival Cruise Lines to win the "golden poo" award for the second year...

Google launched a new look for Google Play Tuesday. Rolling out now to Android phones and tablets, the redesigned storefront has a cleaner look, making it easier to find what you’re looking for....

Facebook is testing emoticons in the status updates on user profiles, allowing members to add anything from a smiley face to an ice cream cone to messages.The social network — which has rolled o...

TripAdvisor has acquired Jetsetter, a flash sales site for high-end travel deals, for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced late Monday.For TripAdvisor, the acquisition helps boost its members-o...

The U.S. Navy's ambition to put laser guns on ships is nothing new. But after years of research, it seems that the solid-state Laser Weapon System (LaWS) is ready for prime time. The Navy announced on...

Every day, we handle a hundred different tasks at once: email notifications, work assignments, chats from friends, reminders to pick up the kids or walk the dog. All these tasks can impair our ability...

In 2011, a New Jersey YouTuber named John McKelzey had what he considered to be a completely legal video removed from YouTube because it violated the site's terms of use.Last week, he learned that agr...

In the past 36 hours, I've spent more time on Facebook than I have in the past three months. I've been liking photos, commenting, and checking in. I'm becoming a real Facebook gadfly. This is all due ...

The headline really says it all: Vivian Clark might be one of the most unique, crazy, and strange games we've ever seen, and it's been hiding inside another game this whole time.A while ago, we told y...

It's no secret that Facebook isn't the best place for keeping secretsOwen Campbell-Moore, a computer science student at Oxford University, designed a method to encrypt secret messages inside photos on...

Yes, Apple ended up paying millions to license the design for a sleek, iconic Swiss timepiece for its clock in iOS 6. But even if you're a fan of Apple's stock clock, why be boring by sticki...

Dawn Siff, the plucky journalist who created what may have been the world's first Vine resume, has gotten a jobSiff has landed at the Economist Group's commercial unit as a project manager. The Econom...

Remember when Grandpa would steal your nose as a kid? For the children who didn't get their honkers back, there's a place for them on InternetThe subreddit r/nonose/ features hilariously horrifying ph...

Washington D.C.'s famed cherry blossoms have finally (finally) bloomed, ringing the Tidal Basin with puffy pink clouds of flowers.At night, the trees' colors fade. They become silhouettes against the ...

At this point, Pandora isn't anything new; however, we have rounded up a few tips and tricks to help you get the most out of the Internet radio service. Whether you want to make your playlists searcha...

If you feel bad about leaving your dog home all day while you work, DirecTV will offer a solution of sorts: TV programming for dogs.The satellite provider will begin offering DogTV for $5.99 a month i...

We've all had those days when you just want to kiss your own reflection. It doesn't come around much, but once in a blue moon, your hair does that flippy thing and your skin glows and you feel like Ge...

If your DVR skipped a beat, you somehow forgot that Season 6 of Mad Men started on Sunday (*shudder*), or you simply want to bask in the glory of 1960s Madison Avenue again, don't worry: you can stop ...

NASA's robotic Mars explorers are taking a cosmic break for the next few weeks, thanks to an unfavorable planetary alignment of Mars, the Earth and the sun.Mission controllers won't send any commands ...

Dawn Siff, the plucky journalist who created what may have been the world's first Vine resume, has gotten a jobSiff has landed at the Economist Group's commercial unit as a project manager. Though Sif...

Prepare for a bite from the travel bug, delivered via MuppetKermit the Frog is exploring the world on an epic adventure that includes exotic locales and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. OK, not the Ker...

Austin is about to get Google's high-speed Internet network — Google Fiber — which runs 100 times faster than today's average broadband connection.The news comes just one year after the co...

There are folks who consider the smartphone or tablet a work of art. If you're one of them, you may want to fill your masterpiece with some artwork by the masters.Studying art —past and present ...

Facebook is testing emoticons in the status updates on user profiles, allowing members to add anything from a smiley face to an ice cream cone to messages.The social network — which has rolled o...

An experimental 3D-textured solar cell is set to be bolted to the outside of the International Space Station (ISS), where it will experience 16 "sunrises" each day as part of a harsh performance test....

Michael Rothman is an entertainment veteran with experience covering music, movies and TV for AOL, Hollywood.com and US Magazine. But his love for cinema dates back to his youth growing up in South Fl...

Japanese teenagers have been busy these days — busy rocking the Internet, that is. First, Japanese girls conquered the meme world with "hadoukening," stealing killer moves straight out of Dragon...

When Microsoft re-launched Hotmail as Outlook.com last year, it was rebirth for the service. Although it received generally positive reviews, Outlook.com still lacked the two-factor authentication tha...

If you had invested $1,000 in Bitcoin just two months ago and sold it yesterday, you would have made about $9,000 in profit.Once reserved to the darkest corners of the Internet, Bitcoin is a digital c...

Web sensation George Takei, the 75-year-old actor and author who first shot into fame as Hikaru Sulu in the Star Trek TV series in the 1960s, accepted a prize Monday night for Distinguished Achievemen...

For the relaunch of the Mashable Photo Challenge, we asked you for images inspired by song lyrics. We received a range of impressive submissions whose lyrical inspirations ranged from Simon & Garf...

The Internet is a weird place where things you never thought would go together actually blend perfectly — like Macklemore's swagger and Brick Tamland's ... grace.That's exactly what Jake Healy d...

Melinda Gates is no stranger to technology. After working at Microsoft in various roles for nine years, she understands tech, specifically, how it can help people overcome obstacles, disrupt the statu...

Every day, we handle a hundred different tasks at once: email notifications, work assignments, chats from friends, reminders to pick up the kids or walk the dog. All these tasks can impair our ability...

Legendary entrepreneur Richard Branson will be on hand with Mashable's own Pete Cashmore for a Google Hangout this morning to discuss travel, business and whatever topics come upThe Hangout coincides ...

Ever wondered how Google's visionary (pun intended) gadget, Google Glass, actually works? Well, artist Martin Missfeldt created an infographic that explains the wonders of technology behind Google's t...

Remember when Grandpa would steal your nose as a kid? For the children who didn't get their honkers back, there's a place for them on InternetThe subreddit r/nonose/ features hilariously horrifying ph...

Country singer Brad Paisley has turned to Twitter to address the controversy surrounding his new song with rapper LL Cool J called "Accidental Racist," saying the entire album was intended to "evoke f...

Washington D.C.'s famed cherry blossoms have finally (finally) bloomed, ringing the Tidal Basin with puffy pink clouds of flowers.At night, the trees' colors fade. They become silhouettes against the ...

Early explorers risked their lives to reach the ends of the world, but not purely for the advancement of mankind. In reality, their bravery was motivated by one very powerful prospect: the possibility...

In a recent interview with Bill Clinton, Stephen Colbert tweets from @PrezBillyJeff on behalf of the former President.Homepage image courtesy of NowThisNews Read more...More about Twitter, Stephen Col...

If you feel bad about leaving your dog home all day while you work, DirecTV will offer a solution of sorts: TV programming for dogs.The satellite provider will begin offering DogTV for $5.99 a month i...

The Webby Awards announced on Tuesday the nominees for its 17th annual Internet extravaganza of excellenceNike led the nominations with 17 nods, followed by Google, HBO and The New York Times with 12 ...

We've all had those days when you just want to kiss your own reflection. It doesn't come around much, but once in a blue moon, your hair does that flippy thing and your skin glows and you feel like Ge...

Pandora has now passed 200 million registered users for its online radio service, the company announced Tuesday.It took Pandora six years to sign up its first 100 million registered users — a mi...

NASA's robotic Mars explorers are taking a cosmic break for the next few weeks, thanks to an unfavorable planetary alignment of Mars, the Earth and the sun.Mission controllers won't send any commands ...

Dawn Siff, the plucky journalist who created what may have been the world's first Vine resume, has gotten a jobSiff has landed at the Economist Group's commercial unit as a project manager. Though Sif...

Remember when Grandpa would steal your nose as a kid? For the children who didn't get their honkers back, there's a place for them on InternetThe subreddit r/nonose/ features hilariously horrifying ph...

If you have ever traveled somewhere new, you can remember that exhilarating feeling of finding a secret that's a little bit off the beaten path and isn't printed in every travel guide.The joy of explo...

Now that spring is finally here, the animals that migrate are returning to their rightful warm place — that includes chickens, apparently.A cute little girl in the video above is shown in a fiel...

Last year, a relatively unknown artist who goes by BAKER scored a YouTube hit with "Not Gonna Wait." The video has racked up nearly 7 million views since July. BAKER credits the song's success to pres...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital worldToday, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. ...