| Google Publishes Detailed Map of North Korea | | With the help of its community of citizen cartographers, Google has launched a detailed map for North Korea in Google Maps. To build a complete map from what Google calls "very limited map data," the company used the data from users who added it using the Google Map Maker over the past few years. Though the new map offers a fascinating insight into the most isolated country in the world, Google readily admits it still needs work.
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| U.S. Military Wants 'Mission Impossible' Self-Destructing Devices | | Self-destructing tapes from the "Mission Impossible" TV series and films served fictional spies well during the Cold War. Today, the U.S. military wants a modern version of vanishing electronics that are able to disappear upon command in the environment or a human body. The U.S.
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| Is This the iPad 5? | | New images have surfaced of what may be our first look at the iPad 5. Obtained by 9to5Mac from a accessories maker in China, the photos show the rear-panel of a 9.7-inch iPad, with a similar look and feel to Apple’s recently released iPad mini. The panel is all black, with an iridescent black apple in its center, and looks to be almost as thin as its pint-sized counterpart.
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| Here's the Best Worst On-Air Reporting in January | | Monday, January 28, 2013 11:40 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Reporting live from Nowheresland: This is a journalist who can't get rid of the giggles. Live television is almost asking for some epic mishaps and bloopers — ask any on-air news anchor or reporter. Just because they call action, doesn't mean everyone is set to go. And the best occasions are when the journalists aren't aware the cameras are rolling and America gets to watch its local TV reporter embarrass themselves into television history.
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| Ask Siri To Buy Your Next Movie Tickets | | Monday, January 28, 2013 11:21 PM | Emily Price |
| Now you can ask Siri to handle picking up tickets to the latest blockbuster. Apple rolled out iOS 6.1 Monday, adding Siri support for Fandango in the process. After the update iOS users can ask their favorite digital assistant to find movie times for them, ultimately launching the Fandango app on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch where they can complete a purchase for tickets.
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| Everything You Wanted to Know About Facebook Groups | | Monday, January 28, 2013 10:38 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Once upon a time, Facebook users joined groups to self-identify; groups lived in your About section, next to your favorite books, movies and quotes. (Anyone remember "Grab Your Balls... We're Playin' Tennis?") But no more. Now, Pages have replaced traditional groups. And today's groups revolve more around communication, sharing and interaction.
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| Facebook Is Down for Some Users | | Monday, January 28, 2013 8:56 PM | Christina Warren |
| If you're having problem logging into Facebook this evening, you're not alone. The site is experiencing outages in parts of the United States. The outage seems to be sporadic. Some Mashable staffers in San Francisco have access while others do not. The same is true in New York City, where some users can login without issue and others are unable to connect. According to DownRightNow.com, Facebook started experiencing issues about 8:00 p.m.
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| Digital Republicans Have Weekly Twitter Chat to Rejuvenate Before 2016 | | Monday, January 28, 2013 8:26 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Online collaboration might be the Republicans' path to victory in 2016, a former member of Mitt Romney's digital staff believes. Accordingly, he has organized a weekly Twitter chat to help Republican digital staffers foster an atmosphere of partnership following Romney's loss.
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| Apple Maps: Come Visit My Butt | | Monday, January 28, 2013 7:52 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Apple CEO Tim Cook has personally acknowledged the numerous problems with the Maps app, launched late last year. He's in the midst of devoting considerable resources to fixing it. He has deputized Apple's Mr. Fix-it, Eddy Cue, to sort out the problem. So we feel a little bad pointing out yet another error in Apple Maps — but this is one we just couldn't resist.
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| MPAA Wants to Use Drones to Shoot Movies | | Monday, January 28, 2013 7:29 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Drones are routinely used to kill terrorists and conduct surveillance operations in the Middle East. But we've already seen that they have countless other applications, like protecting endangered species, transporting medical supplies and even delivering burritos. Soon enough, movie-making could be added to the list.
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| Turn Vine Videos Into GIFs With This Mac App | | Monday, January 28, 2013 6:50 PM | Christina Warren |
| Want to turn your Vine video clips into an animated GIF? A new Mac app makes it a snap. Over the weekend, Twitter engineer Esten Hurtle created VineGifR, a simple Mac app that turns a Vine URL into an animated GIF file. The app — which is still in its early stages — is incredibly easy to use. Just open it up, paste in a Vine URL and select the file name and where you want to save your GIF.
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| App Crash Reporter Crashlytics Joins Twitter | | Monday, January 28, 2013 6:13 PM | Emily Price |
| App crash-reporting service Crashlytics announced Monday that it will be joining the flock at Twitter. Launched a little over a year ago, the company helps developers determine what specific line of code is causing their app to crash so that they can more quickly correct the problem. Twitter is an existing customer of the service, as are a number of other high-profile apps including Waze, TaskRabbit, Yelp, and Kayak.
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| 4 Reasons Your UX Investment Isn’t Paying Off | | Monday, January 28, 2013 5:42 PM | UX Magazine |
| We all know the business case for doing user experience (UX) work: Investing upfront in making products easy to use really pays off. It reduces project risk, cost, and time while improving, efficiency, effectiveness, and end user satisfaction. (Don’t know the business case? Read this or this. Or this.) But what if you’re investing in UX and not getting results? There can be many factors behind an under-performing user experience effort.
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| YouTube: Super Bowl Ads Shown Before the Game Get 600% More Views | | Monday, January 28, 2013 5:16 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Is putting your Super Bowl ad on YouTube before the big game a good idea? It is if you want to get more views for your video. According to YouTube's research, ads that ran online before the Super Bowl last year got 9 million views, in average. Those that waited? 1.3 million. The six-fold difference explains why there has been an onrush of 2013 Super Bowl videos on YouTube already.
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| The Future of Community Management | | Monday, January 28, 2013 4:24 PM | Meghan Peters |
| Community management has come a long way since the first Community Manager Appreciation Day in 2009. We're interacting with our audiences in new formats and on new platforms, such as Instagram and Pinterest. Our online conversations have become more sophisticated with tools that allow us to curate social updates and host live video chats.
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| College Degrees That Earn the Most Money | | Monday, January 28, 2013 10:28 AM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| New college graduates who have a background in engineering can expect to cash in when they hit the job market, a new study finds.
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