Facebook may be gearing up to launch its first-ever smartphone by next year, a new report suggests. According to The New York Times, engineers have been sought by recruiters to work on building hardw...
Videoconferencing apps like FaceTime give you direct and live interaction with another person — and conventional phone calls let you do the same thing — but that’s hard to do while ...
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Have you ever struggled with taking a picture outdoors on your iPhone because of the oppressive glare of the sun washing out the Retina display? A new Kickstarter project might have the perfect solut...
How many times have you gone out for some fancy food, and ended up spending the evening yelling into the ear of your dinner companion? An accomplished sound engineer has figured out a way to solve th...
“If you’ve ever picked up a guitar for the first time and tried to play a favorite song, you know how discouraging it can be. The gTar completely changes that,” says Drew Houston, D...
Live broadcasting by Ustream SpaceX’s Dragon capsule will today attempt to dock with the International Space Station. If everything goes as planned, SpaceX would become the first private compan...
The Pinterest-like website for learning that the founders of Grockit launched Thursday now has a Facebook integration that shows your friends what you’re learning. Learnist, the newly launched ...
A private spaceship is preparing to link up with the International Space Station for the first time Friday (May 25) in a historic step for commercial spaceflight. The unmanned Dragon capsule, built b...
Smacking the ketchup bottle to get that last dollop out is a (small) but wide spread problem most people would rather avoid. Scientists at MIT did just that and created a secret substance they dubbed...
Gabe Zichermann is a public speaker, designer, and author of the books Game-Based Marketing and Gamification by Design. Follow him @gzicherm Most of the interest in gamification and user engagement f...
A former Manhattan store owner confessed Thursday morning to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 — the boy whose disappearance sparked the now-famous face on the milk carton. If you canR...
Want to know when items you pin on Pinterest go on sale? Now you can — up to a point — thanks to a new feature launched this week at a site called Lyst. Lyst, a London-based startup, is a...
Coaching tip: Combine the best basketball video game ever with footage of today’s most electrifying dunker to create Internet gold. That’s what the online sports media network SB Nation d...
Watch previous episodes of Behind the Launch here! In Mashable‘s new video series, Behind the Launch, we’re taking cameras behind the scenes at Vungle, an in-app video advertising startup...
A New Jersey mayor and his son were arrested Thursday by the FBI for allegedly infiltrating and sabotaging a website tied to an effort to recall him. The story gives a new and troubling definition to...
Mashable has interviewed plenty of luminaries in its time, but few can compete with comic book legend Stan Lee — the creative force behind iconic Marvel characters including Spiderman, Iron Man...
Instagram’s jaw-dropping $1 billion price tag became a lot more understandable on Thursday with the release of Facebook Camera for iOS. The app — which was in development before the socia...
Reflections are all around us. Outside Mashable HQ here in New York City, we are in the midst of a rainstorm. When you gaze into the puddles near 23rd Street from just the right angle, you can see re...
A political campaign in California aims to increase the price of cigarettes by one dollar and use the proceeds to fund cancer research. They’ve released this hilarious video on Tuesday to get t...
Dish Network fired back at Fox Broadcasting on Thursday — by filling a suit of its own to protect its Hopper product that lets users fast-forward through ads. In the initial suit filed by Fox, ...
If you got married the day after your company went public and was valued at over $100 billion, wouldn’t you want the frontman of your favorite band to entertain guests at your wedding? Billie J...
President Barack Obama is no stranger to Twitter; he held his first Town Hall on the microblogging network, at the White House, complete with Master of Ceremonies Jack Dorsey, just under a year ago. ...
Electric Imp What it is: A card that can add connected control to any appliance. How you can use it: Until hardware manufacturers add Imp-compatible slots to their machines, you cant. When they do, y...
It’s been two days since private spaceflight company SpaceX launched its Dragon capsule on its mission to dock with the International Space Station — and though the mission isn’t co...
The White House has unveiled its plan to bring governance into the mobile-centric twenty-first century. Dubbed the “Roadmap for a Digital Government,” the plan has two central tenets. Fir...
The Facebook Platform’s stated mission is to “build the social web.” With help from social app developers, it certainly met its goal. May 24 marks the fifth anniversary of Facebook ...
ModCloth, an online retailer of affordable women’s clothing and accessories, has launched a private label collection made up mostly of designs submitted and voted upon by its Facebook community...
Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a nonprofit organization that promotes youth entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment and underemployment. Follow him @askgerber. ...
A California federal jury ruled on Wednesday that Google did not infringe on Oracle’s patents in developing the Android operating system. Following a week of deliberations, the jury in the inte...
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