| Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson Tests the Smallest Car in the World | | Small cars are nice in a crowded city, where parking spaces are tight, but how small is too small? In the latest episode of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson tests the smallest car in the world — the P45. Built by Clarkson himself, the P45 is not only far smaller than any car you've seen, it's even smaller than most bikes. Of course, such tiny size comes with certain...disadvantages.
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| This Hackable Mini Drone Can Now Be Yours | | 2:18:39 AM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Drones are here to stay, which is now a thought that hardly anybody doubts. The technology is getting cheaper, its applications are endless, and soon new regulations will finally open the door for them to fly freely. Liberalization is going to be closely followed by miniaturization. We've already seen examples of miniature drones in the civilian as well as the military world.
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| Facebook is Too Damn Powerful | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:50 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Look on the bright side, Facebook: you saw a massive spike in traffic Thursday evening. Unfortunately, it was all going to an error page. Another bright side: the web-wide Facebook redirect crisis — which essentially hijacked users of CNN, the HuffPo, Hulu, Kayak, Mashable, NBC, the Washington Post, Yelp, and every other one of the more than a million websites that lets you use Facebook to login — didn't last longer than oh, 25 minutes.
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| First White House Petition Crosses Raised Response Threshold | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:52 PM | Nextgov |
| The first petition posted to the White House's We the People website has crossed the threshold to receive an official administration response since the threshold for such a response was raised in January. The White House's Digital Strategy Office raised the threshold from 25,000 signatures in one month to 100,000 signatures in one month, saying it was difficult to provide full and timely responses under the existing threshold.
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| The Never-Ending Smartphone Checking Cycle | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:17 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| We've all been there — you take out your smartphone to make a call and 10 minutes later, after checking your email, Twitter and Instagram, you forget why you took it out in the first place. This comic by H. Caldwell Tanner of Loldwell shows that we're all guilty of it. Can you break the cycle? Let us know in the comments. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable Comic illustration by H.
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| Twitter Search Results Now Surface Old Tweets | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 8:41 PM | Emily Price |
| Twitter has started rolling out an update that allows you to see older tweets in search results. Search results on Twitter were previously limited to tweets that had been made over the past week. The update significantly increases that time period (though Twitter has not said specifically by how much), surfacing older tweets based in part by how popular those tweets have been over time.
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| How Facebook Briefly Killed the Internet | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 8:09 PM | Christina Warren |
| For a few minutes this evening, Facebook was redirecting users visiting dozens of websites — including Mashable — to cryptic error pages. The reaction online was pretty much what you'd expect, with — as the The Next Web noted — hashtags like "Facebookmageddon" and "Facebocalypse" common amongst Twitter users.
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| 8 Romantic Gifts for Space Lovers | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 7:49 PM | Amanda Wills |
| Is your significant other a wannabe astronaut? We found eight out-of-this-world gifts for your favorite space nerd this Valentine's Day.
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| This NES Lunchbox Will Make You the Coolest Kid at School | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 6:27 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Forget SpongeBob or Darth Vader. The coolest lunchbox we've ever seen is made out of a classic Nintendo Entertainment System. Redditor Stanstanlol posted this heavily modified console to r/pics Thursday morning, saying it was a project he'd worked on the night before. He told Mashable he'd found the non-working console for sale for $10.
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| BlackBerry 10 Phones Will Not Come to Japan | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 6:05 PM | Christina Warren |
| BlackBerry 10 might be finding early success in Canada but it won't extend to Japan. First reported by Japanese newspaper the Nikkei business daily and confirmed by AllThingsD, Blackberry's global roll-out for its new platform and Z10 handset will not include Japan. In a statement to AllThingsD, BlackBerry said in part: Japan is not a major market for BlackBerry, and we have no plans to launch BlackBerry 10 devices there at this time.
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| Time For This? Sweet Brown Stars in Local Commercial | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 5:44 PM | Sam Laird |
| Sweet Brown — she of the legendary "Ain't nobody got time for that!" YouTube fame — has hit the big-time of small-time local TV advertising. This ad for Shortline Dental in Tulsa, Okla., plays off Brown's autotune-ready news quote from last April. The spot's premise? Toothaches: Ain't nobody got time for that. Quality dental care: Everybody got time for that.
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| 43 Breathtaking Photos You'll Never Forget | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 5:33 PM | Nina Frazier |
| On Feb. 5, Sony announced the World Photography Awards shortlist of finalists in both professional and open categories. From over 120,000 submissions, this list of 43 images has been curated from submissions spanning 170 countries— a record number of entries to date. Astrid Merget, creative director of the World Photography Organisation, said.
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| Twitter Being Used to Cast a Movie | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 4:22 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| It's no secret that Twitter's data has been shown to predict box office performance weeks before a movie opening. However, the company's latest venture takes it much further back in the production cycle. Adam Bain, president of global revenue at Twitter, said he was making the rounds in the Hollywood studios recently when a producer gave him a proposal: "One studio chief said 'This is amazing.
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| Kai the Hitchhiker Remix Is Autotune Smash | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:39 AM | Annie Colbert |
| Kai the Hitchhiker hatcheted his way into the heart of the Internet this week. The eccentric home-free nomad found web fame when Fresno's KMPH FOX 26 interviewed Kai after he stepped in — hatchet in hand — to help a save a man and woman.
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| The Rise of Moscow's Prosperous Startup Cluster | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:14 AM | Monty Munford |
| Like Yellowstone Park, Macchu Pichu, the Vatican, Timbuktu and the Taj Mahal, Moscow’s Red Square is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Best visited in winter with snow on the ground and a furry hat on the head, the area is guarded by the startling onion dome of St. Basil’s Cathedral. It is an extraordinary place to experience, not only for its stark beauty, but because of its history and the events it has overseen.
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| First Ubuntu Phones Coming Sooner Than You Think | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:50 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Ubuntu, the Linux-based operating system running on plenty of corporate servers, will arrive on smartphones in October 2013, according to the man leading the project. Developers will get access to the mobile OS in late February.
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