| Tumblr Now Hosts Over 100 Million Blogs | | Tumblr has reached a big milestone: More than 100 million blogs and 44.6 billion blog posts have been created using the platform. The milestone, noticed by the folks from The Next Web, comes after a very successful 2012, in which Tumblr became on of the top 10 most visited sites in the world.
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| Ocean Array Could Clean 7,250,000 Tons of Plastic | | Millions of tons of tiny bits of plastic float in giant patches — or gyres — in oceans around the world. There are five large patches of plastic. One of them, the North Pacific Gyre, is roughly twice the size of the United States. All of them are a problem. These bits of plastic look like food to fish and birds and once consumed, end up killing these animals.
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| Here's Everything You Need to Know About Google Keep | | Google Keep, the search giant's note-taking service, launched last week to much debate. How does it compare to Evernote? Does it live up to the hype? Well, we tested out Google's newest app — looking at everything from its interface to its functionality — and put it all on video. Watch our hands-on with Google Keep, above. What do you think of the app? Do you plan to download it? Tell us in the comments.
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| March Madness Slam Dunks This Week's Social TV Rankings | | Madness reigned on the social TV rankings this week. The NCAA men's basketball tournament accounted for 15 of the 20 top programs on cable and broadcast. More than half of the first week's games earned a million mentions on social media. But the real star of the week was Nickelodeon; the Kids' Choice Awards secured almost 20% of all social interactions on cable last week, with more than 13 million mentions.
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| Judge Recommends Dismissal of Ceglia Facebook Ownership Lawsuit | | Three years ago, New York-based woodchip salesman and convicted felon Paul Ceglia filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that the Facebook CEO reneged on a deal that promised him a majority stake in the social network. It appears the case may soon come to a close, however, after U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie Foschio moved to dismiss Ceglia's suit on Tuesday.
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| Doctor Who's New Star: Why I Shun Twitter, Online Fans, Old 'Who' | | Are you a Doctor Who fan, yet? If not, the return of season 7 this Saturday on BBC America might be your best opportunity to jump in. Why? Because the Doctor's brand new co-star, the feisty Jenna-Louise Coleman, has never really watched the show either — and kind of likes it that way. "It was never on when I was growing up," Coleman tells Mashable in a thick Lancastrian accent that's nothing like her London-born character, Clara Oswald.
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| What's the Fastest Cloud Storage Service? | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:58 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| From Dropbox and Google Drive to SkyDrive, all of the major online storage services have their own unique strengths, but we wanted to answer one question: Who has the fastest cloud?
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| A Tribute to the Mainframe Computer in Movies | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:30 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Hollywood is always a little ahead of the times. Movie makers have been predicting technology trends for ages — even the Jetsons and Flintstones could've told you about Skyping. But sometimes movies really just phone it in with their tech references. Case in point: the elusive "mainframe." The buzzword is used in everything from Sky Kids to James Bond and everyone, somehow, knows exactly what it is and what to do with it.
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| Flipboard 2.0: Now With Pinning, People Tagging, Search and Ecommerce | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| If there were two things missing from earlier versions of Flipboard, it was the ability to 1) bookmark content and 2) have conversations about it. Those are two features the Palo Alto, Calif., startup has included in Flipboard 2.0, launching on iPhone and iPad devices Tuesday. "It's the most ambitious thing the company has ever done," Eric Feng, Flipboard's CTO, said of the app update in an interview at Mashable's offices last week.
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| Why Introverts Have All the Fun | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:59 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| If you've ever read or heard author Susan Cain talk about the power of introverts, you already know that they can be misunderstood. Being introverted isn't the same thing as being shy or agoraphobic, it just means you often feel more comfortable in low-key environments.
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| Which Carrier Offers the Best iPhone 5 Plan? | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:55 PM | Christina Warren |
| T-Mobile is finally getting the iPhone 5, meaning that Apple's latest and greatest is available on every major U.S. wireless carrier. In addition to the iPhone 5, T-Mobile has done away with cellphone contracts and moved to flat-rate pricing. The company hopes its new plans — as well as its monthly installment payments for the device itself — will lure customers away from the likes of AT&T and Verizon.
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| Facebook Partners With Goldbely to Gift Your Favorite Foods | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:49 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook Gifts are about to get more delicious. Food-delivery startup Goldbely announced a partnership with Facebook Tuesday, which will bring some of the nation’s best food to Facebook. The Y Combinator-backed startup has searched the globe looking for the best eats, and has made some available on its site for anyone to order and have delivered to their doorstep.
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| NATO Researchers Say Stuxnet Attack Was an 'Act of Force' | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:43 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Stuxnet, the destructive cyber-attack that crippled Iran's nuclear program in 2009, was an "act of force," and probably illegal under international law, according to NATO legal experts. The conclusion was reached by the researchers of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Tallin, Estonia, as reported by the Washington Times.
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| 9 TweetDeck Alternatives for Mobile | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:16 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| TweetDeck announced in a blog post in early March that Twitter will remove its older apps from their respective app stores in May. That means TweetDeck for iPhone and Android, respectively, won't be available for much longer, and the apps will stop working soon after they're removed.
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| HealthKeep Social Network Catalogues Your Medical Records | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 7:59 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Keeping track of your medical records can get complicated. HealthKeep, a health-based social network, is looking to help people organize their patient history with a timeline of symptoms, medications and conditions. Social media isn't always the best place for sharing health concerns due to privacy issues, but HealthKeep's users join anonymously so no identities are revealed.
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| Will That Tweet Get You Fired? This App Warns You | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 7:51 PM | The Daily Dot |
| If you've complained about your boss or job on Twitter, watch out for a warning from a new app called FireMe!. Ricardo Kawase and his team at the University of Hannover, Germany, created the tool, which tracks certain negative phrases about bosses and jobs and rates how likely they are to get the poster fired.
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| William Shatner 'Appalled' by IRS 'Star Trek' Parody | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 7:07 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| The original Captain Kirk is not happy following revelations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) spent thousands of taxpayer dollars to produce a Star Trek parody video. On Friday, the IRS admitted they spent $60,000 to make training videos that parodied TV shows Star Trek and Gilligan's Island, the Associated Press reported.
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| 7 Amazing Startups to Watch | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:41 PM | Emily Price |
| Startup incubator Y Combinator has funded more than 500 startups, including big names such as Reddit, Socialcam, and Airbnb. The incubator brings in a new class of startups twice a year. Those startups relocate to Silicon Valley for three months, get curtain-ready, and then demonstrate their startups at a Demo Day in front of investors.
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| Check Out This RPG Trapped in an Excel Spreadsheet | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:26 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Prepare to lose hours of your workday. An accountant has built a role-playing game that works inside of Excel Spreadsheets. Arena.Xlsm is the product of Cary Walking, whose LinkedIn profile lists him as a CPA and MBA student in Ontario, Canada. It is an expansive RPG with 2000 enemies that include necromancers, succubi and balrogs; over a thousand collectible items, and four possible endings all contained in one Excel Workbook.
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| 10 Ways the Internet Built on the HRC's Marriage Equality Logo | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:19 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Marriage equality is a serious and controversial issue, but leave it to the Internet to bring a dose of levity. The Human Rights Campaign's pink and red version of its logo spread across Facebook on Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments in two same-sex marriage cases. Never missing the opportunity to parody the news, Facebook and Tumblr users began creating their own, less weighty versions of the image.
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| Baby Giraffe Learning to Walk Will Brighten Your Day | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:57 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Take a moment to appreciate the circle of life by watching this baby giraffe stand up. It's truly a precious moment, during which we dare you to not say "awwwww" five times. The calf's mom, Petal, is a 6-year-old endangered Rothschild giraffe at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center and gave birth earlier that morning. Petal's baby wasted no time gettin' up and at 'em after being alive for only 30 minutes.
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| How the T-Mobile iPhone 5 Changes the Game | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:48 PM | Pete Pachal |
| In case you haven't heard, there's a new iPhone in town. T-Mobile announced today it would begin selling the iPhone 5, becoming the last major wireless carrier in the U.S. to do so. But it changes things for other iPhone customers, too. First, a little background: To accommodate different radio technology and spectrum, there are actually two versions of the iPhone 5 (three if you count China, but that's not relevant here).
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| 'Parks and Recreation' Superheroes Keep Pawnee Safe and Awesome | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:34 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Never fear, Leslie Knope is here! Knope and her colleagues are currently undergoing a bit of a Clark Kent crisis. They are mid-level bureaucrats at the parks department by day, superheroes by night. At least they are in the mind of Vicktrola, the artist that dreamed up this masked posse of quirky co-workers.
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| James Cameron Donates Submarine to Science | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:17 PM | Discovery News |
| Director and ocean explorer James Cameron announced today on the one-year anniversary of his solo dive to the the bottom of the Marianas Trench, that he is donating his submersible Deepsea Challenger to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. SEE ALSO: James Cameron Deep-Sea Dive Reveals New Species The move comes at a time when WHOI is in the process of reassembling its three-person Alvin submersible after a two-year overhaul.
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| Google Glass Is Coming Soon — For Some | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:13 PM | Sam Laird |
| Google Glass has selected its first group of "normal" users, people who pitched the company on how they'd use the futuristic product if given an early look.
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