| A Test Drive Takes a Sexy Turn in Renault's Prank Video | | We've already seen Pepsi punk a car dealer in a test drive scenario. Now it's time to turn the tables. In this ad for Renault, created by Unruly, a couple of guys take a Renault Clio for a spin. After a humdrum beginning, the salesman shows of a "va va voom" button, which initiates a tableau of a romantic scene between a couple (set against the Eiffel Tower, natch) and then, inevitably, some jiggly, lingerie-clad ladies.
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| Google Play Movies Come to India and Mexico | | Google Play movies are now available for rent in India and Mexico, Google has announced. Users in those countries can watch movies on the web or through the Google Play Movies & TV Android app. Google has also started rolling out support for 6 Indic languages in Gmail on the feature phone browser: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. Users can switch to the desired language in the browser's settings.
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| Video Imagines World in Which Homeless Use Square | | Technology has made a lot of things obsolete — including cash. And since most of us aren't walking around with quarters and dollar bills overflowing from our wallets, the homeless have had to adopt new money-collecting tactics. Comedian John Elerick has imagined a world in which homeless people resourcefully use iPhones and Square — not to mention credit-card minimums — to prevent passersby from shrugging them off.
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| Google Harnesses Knowledge Graph, Facial Recognition to Give Movie Insight | | The Google Play Movies and TV app is debuting a new feature that gives greater insight into your favorite actors, films and shows — thanks to the search giant's Knowledge Graph. If you've ever found yourself mulling over the name of an unidentified actor or song while watching a film, the app's new "info cards" will provide facts related to any movie being watched on an Android tablet.
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| Whoa! Mini-Supernovas Discovered | | Astronomers have discovered a new kind of supernova, a star explosion so weak that scientists dubbed it a miniature stellar blast. Supernovas represent the deaths of stars, which collapse in powerful explosions. They generally are classified into two main types; the new class, called Type Iax, "is essentially a mini-supernova," said lead researcher Ryan Foley, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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| Everything You Loved (and Hated) About the '90s in 1 Song | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:57 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Rugrats and Trapper Keepers and Fresh Prince, oh my! It's the '90s! It was your childhood, when Lisa Frank, MTV's golden age and Nickelodeon cartoons had a place before Disney stars became a thing. It was the best 10 years in the world. No? Bad stuff happened in the '90s? Blasphemy. No one ever talks about that, we're too busy naming every Hanson song and counting our scrunchies.
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| iOgrapher Turns an iPad Mini Into a Video Shooting Powerhouse | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:00 PM | Charlie White |
| You might scoff at someone shooting video with an iPad, but what if it were an iPad mini, wearing this sleek double-handled iOgrapher mount? It accommodates different lenses, makes it easier to hold your iPad mini steady, and if that's not rock-solid enough, it lets you mount it on a tripod. This Kickstarter project was created by high-school media arts teacher Dave Basulto of South Pasadena, Calif.
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| 10 Technologies You Don't Need to Upgrade | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:59 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| The tech industry is in constant flux. There's always a new laptop, smartphone or tablet (or, dare we say, "phablet") to make you and your devices feel ancient. But did you know you use technologies every day that don't require any upgrades? SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Angela Liao of 20px highlights the different objects and "gadgets" that our generation hasn't really grown out of using.
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| Ford Challenges Developers to Tackle Car Data | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:25 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Ford is taking what may be the first step in creating a new, cohesive, multi-screen, contextually aware experience between smartphones and cars. The automaker announced this week at the New York International Auto Show, the Ford Personalized Fuel-Efficiency App Challenge, an app-development contest that will let developers tap into Ford’s OpenXC API and give them direct access to data collected by Ford cars.
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| 10 Things on the Internet That Don't Make Any Sense | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:00 PM | Annie Colbert |
| The Internet can be a scary and confusing place filled with error pages, pop-up ads and nervous-looking cats. Navigating the world wide web without a map (or a helmet) can lead you to weird places. YouTube puppet duo Glove and Boots reveal the 10 things on the Internet that just don't make any sense to them. Even though their brains are made of cotton, you can probably still relate.
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| 8 External Battery Packs to Charge Your Phone on the Go | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 7:42 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| It wasn't too long ago that we didn't need to worry about our cellphones dying at inopportune moments. In fact, the batteries could last us for days without needing a charge. But now that our smartphones are, well, smarter, and we use them for dozens of functions, their batteries drain a lot faster.
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| Inside the Biggest Cyberattack in History | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 7:16 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| A cyberattack originally targeting a single company is now being described by experts as one of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in Internet history.
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| Can T-Mobile Change Wireless in America? | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 7:00 PM | Pete Pachal |
| T-Mobile wants to kill the wireless contract. I think I speak for everyone in America when I say, "Have at 'em, cowboy." The company's plan to change the way the U.S. wireless industry does business is bold — and it might even have a shot — but as the nation's fourth-largest carrier, it's got a big uphill battle on its hands.
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| Smartphone Users Check Facebook 14 Times a Day | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 6:45 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Think you use your phone to look at Facebook a lot? Unless you're doing it at least 14 times a day, you're actually below average. That's just one of the surprising revelations in a research report by IDC released Wednesday. The study tapped 7,446 iPhone and Android users in the U.S.
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| Create Your Own 'Game of Thrones' Coat of Arms With HBO Tool | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 6:29 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| HBO is drumming up more online buzz for Game of Thrones season three with a tool that lets you build your own family arms — sigil, house name and motto included. Available in two dozen languages, JoinTheRealm.com helps you create a coat of arms, or the tool can generate one for you. After all, you can't be a Lord in Westeros battling for the Iron Throne without a sigil for your bannermen to proudly wear.
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| Virtual Game Helps the Blind Navigate New Environments | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 5:26 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Learning to navigate a new home or location can be a challenge for the visually impaired, but a new project may help the process. Researchers in the Department of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School developed a virtual game to help the blind find their way through new surroundings using computer generated layouts of public buildings.
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| Google Maps Adds Real-Time Public Transit Info | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:53 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Good news, New York City-based commuters: Google Maps added Wednesday real-time subway departure times for the seven lines that have such data available. These include the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and Times Square - Grand Central shuttle. The Metropolitan Transit Authority's other lines require an expensive overhaul before they'll be able to provide real-time data.
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| Tyrion Lannister's 9 Most Epic Lines | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:32 PM | NowThisNews |
| Peter Dinklage's character returns on Sunday with the season premier of Game of Thrones. This mashup of his nine best lines should tide you over until then.
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| Announcing a Live Chat With Disqus Founder Daniel Ha | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:22 PM | Scott Gerber |
| Streaming live on Mashable, Disqus founder Daniel Ha will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) Thursday, March 28. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Daniel will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site. Daniel Ha is the CEO and cofounder of Disqus.
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| 10 Interesting Google Glass Winners and Their Wacky Ideas | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:17 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Last month, Google asked tech enthusiasts to submit ideas for what they would do with Google Glass with the hashtag #ifihadglass as part of a contest to pick out the first group of non-developers who can pre-order a pair of the augmented reality glasses. On Wednesday, Google notified each of the winners by replying to the winning submissions on Twitter and Google+ from the Project Glass account.
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| Click and Grow Smart Garden Seeks Seed Money on Kickstarter | | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:01 PM | Andrea Smith |
| Click and Grow, the Smart Garden that uses sensors to help you grow plants, is turning to Kickstarter for seed money for version 2.0. If funded, the new Smart Herb Garden will let you grow three plants at once, a step up from the single plant versions offered now. Although some gardeners were born to grow beautiful plants with a little water and a lot of sun, others need a boost.
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