| Google to Cut 10% of Motorola's Workforce | | Google's Motorola is planning to cut 10% of its global workforce, the Wall Street Journal reports. The news comes from an internal company email which explains the reasoning behind the job cuts. "While we're very optimistic about the new products in our pipeline, we still face challenges," it says. "These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer.
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| Dyson’s New Fan Heater Works For All Seasons | | 2:17:15 AM | Camille Bautista |
| Dyson, the company that re-invented the vacuum and made fans cool again, introduced a new product for all four seasons. The Dyson Hot + Cool bladeless heater fan can keep you warm in the winter and provide cool air in the summer. The AM05 model is an upgrade from the previous Dyson Hot and increases the velocity of the cool air by 33%.
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| 4 Work Mistakes You Don't Realize You're Making | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 11:45 PM | The Daily Muse |
| Feeling like you're falling behind at work? It's simple: You forgot the basics. Here's how to get back on track to being a promotion-worthy employee.
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| 'Auti-Sim' Game Simulates Life With Childhood Autism | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 11:30 PM | Camille Bautista |
| In a playground filled with gleeful shouts, you approach a group of children. Suddenly, your vision turns blurry and pixelated. The echoing screams become raucous. It's the experience of sensory overload, according to a new game called Auti-Sim.
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| Make Better Presentations With the Instagram for Pitch Decks | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 10:56 PM | Dani Fankhauser |
| The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Haiku Deck One-Liner Pitch: With Haiku Deck, you can create simple and effective presentations on your iPad.
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| What's the Secret Behind Amazon's Super Smooth Drop-Down Menu? | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:34 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Some say good web design is supposed to go unnoticed. But when it's as clever as Amazon's smooth drop-down menu, people take a closer look. You may not have spent too much time thinking about Amazon.com's mega drop-down menu the last time your reordered socks, but Ben Kamens, who is lead developer at Khan Academy, broke down the principles behind the design in a post on his site.
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| The 4 Stages of Adulthood | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:59 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| There's an incredible sense of liberation when you first enter adulthood, however you might define the transition — moving out of your parents' house, going off to college, getting your first full-time job, eating cereal for dinner. You get the idea. But it doesn't last very long, does it? SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In the comic below, H. Caldwell Tanner of Loldwell shows the four stages of adulthood.
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| Hands On With the New Facebook | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:26 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Still in line for the new Facebook News Feed? Want to take a look at the menu while you're waiting for a table? We've got you covered. Check out the gallery above. The News Feed changes, which start kicking in for users Thursday, aren't just about making the site look cleaner (and more Google+ like) or increasing the size of photos. It's about giving you more options than you could possibly want for how to view content on Facebook.
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| How Syfy Turns TV Shows Into Social Phenomenons | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:02 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Syfy is striving to keep pace with viewers’ ever-changing TV viewing habits, concocting interactive digital and social tactics. An exec details the strategies on Mashable.
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| Thirst Anaylzes RSS Feeds to Determine What's Hot | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 7:59 PM | Emily Price |
| AUSTIN — Mobile app Thirst won the SXSW Accelerator in 2012 as a Twitter magazine, of sorts. It analyzed Twitter in real-time, organized tweets by topic, and presented that content in an easy-to-read way. A year later, the app is back at SXSW, now with a slightly revamped version that (instead of focusing on Twitter) now focuses on what you read online. Launched three weeks ago, the new version is closing in on 100,000 downloads.
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| Is This Star Older Than the Universe? | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 7:13 PM | Space.com |
| The oldest known star appears to be older than the universe itself, but a new study is helping to clear up this seeming paradox.
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| 4 Ways Publishers Can Optimize for Facebook's New News Feed | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 7:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Facebook unveiled its "new" News Feed Thursday, and while we won't know the full range of effects it will have on the pages of brands and publishers for some time, Facebook has provided a few clues to help administrators optimize their pages ahead of its rollout. First, let's take a look at the changes. The new News Feed is cleaner, more visual and has more filtering controls.
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| Friend Supports Hospitalized BFF With Adorable Letter | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:36 PM | Neha Prakash |
| When Redditor JoDiegoJo was dealing with short-term memory loss in 2011, her best friend found a way to make sure she was unforgettable. She drafted up this letter answering questions Jo was repeatedly asking since her memory only had a five-minute retention span. The letter is witty (note the dig on never being "aroused"), and it has the causal and goofy vibe that only two best friends share.
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| Smart Computer Mouse Carries Your Digital Identities Between Devices | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:01 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| It's a gadget we likely overlook everyday that has only seen incremental innovation in the last decade: the computer mouse. Now, a European company wants to not only make the mouse "smart," but more mobile by moving with you across devices. Designed by the team at Italy- and UK-based firm Laura Sapiens, the Ego! Smartmouse stores your digital identity and files, allowing you to move across various computers and systems.
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| NHL Fight Ends in Actual Knockout | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 5:44 PM | Sam Laird |
| Seeing a fight during an NHL game? Extremely common. Seeing an NHL fight end in an actual knockout? Extremely uncommon. Yet that's exactly what happened during Wednesday night's game between the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs. Toronto's Frazer McLaren challenged Senator Dave Dziurzynski to a go and the two traded punches for several seconds before McLaren landed his KO haymaker.
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| Pandora's CEO Is Stepping Down | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 5:38 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Pandora announced Thursday CEO Joe Kennedy will be stepping down after 10 years in charge of the company. Kennedy will stay on until a successor is found. "As part of our Board discussions of the road that lies ahead, I reached the conclusion and advised the Board that the time is right to begin a process to identify my successor," Kennedy said in a statement.
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| 'Iron Man 3' Inventor Fair Looks for a Real-Life Tony Stark | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 5:06 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Marvel Studios announced the Iron Man 3: Inventor and Innovator Fair, a competition for students that looks to find young tech groundbreakers and — perhaps — a real-life Tony Stark in the making. Sixth- through ninth-grade students throughout the United States have been asked to create projects based on themes from the movie, including securing cyberspace and engineering tools of scientific discovery.
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| Activists Want Your Help to Legalize Unlocking and Fix the DMCA | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:53 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Think the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) needs to be fixed? Now's your chance to let Congress know how you feel. Sina Khanifar, an entrepreneur and the author of a recent White House petition urging the government to re-legalize cellphone unlocking, has a new website that lets users email and tweet petitions of their own to lawmakers: FixTheDMCA.org.
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| What Facebook's New News Feed Means for Marketers | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:33 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Facebook on Thursday unveiled its first major redesign of the News Feed since 2009, making the page more visually rich, and giving users new options to filter what they see by different feed categories like Music, Photos, Games and Close Friends. At first glance, the changes appear to be a win-win for users who want more control over their Facebook homepage, but the redesign may prove to be more of a mixed bag for marketers.
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| Vacuum Sucks Up Fire in Blazing Glory | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:26 PM | Neha Prakash |
| We're all aware the Dyson vacuum cleaner is no joke. It can tackle the meanest of messes, the stickest of spills and has helped more than a few of us hide the remnants of a rager before our parents got home. Now, thanks to the YouTube channel of Photonicinduction we are all aware that the beast of all vacuums is even immune to fires.
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| The Wolfpack Is Back in 'The Hangover 3' Trailer | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:09 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Bless the comedy gods, because the wolfpack is back and up to more hilarious antics in The Hangover 3. The official trailer, which dropped Thursday, features the boys out of Thailand — the setting for the second movie — and returning to their original stomping grounds in Vegas. Even Mr. Chow has made a comeback (this time with clothes, it seems) and beloved Melissa McCarthy seems to be stopping by the Strip.
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| Is Facebook the New Google+? | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:05 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| It was a big day for Facebook, which unveiled a radical new look for the news feed, but many believe the updates look at a lot like Google+'s design.
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| Is Play Time the New Work Time? | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:02 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| All work and no play makes for less productive employees, right? That seems to be the motto at companies like Google, which sponsors fun activities for their employees during the workday. The logic behind said fun times? "Play time" increases creativity and fosters teamwork among employees.
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| The State of United States on Twitter | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 3:36 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Twitter is a vital tool for more than just casual and business-related communication. Residents rely on official state accounts in times of emergency, or during big local news stories. Tourists might use an account to find information before visiting. Most states are aware of this importance. Every Senator is on Twitter, and so are nearly all members of the House of Representatives.
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| Quiz Reveals Likelihood You'll Die by 2023 | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 3:31 PM | Discovery News |
| A new mortality index allows people older than 50 years old to take a quiz and find out their odds of meeting their maker by 2023.
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| Facebook Gets Simpler, More Complicated | | Thursday, March 07, 2013 3:25 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Here's the first thing you may notice about the new Facebook — the word "Facebook" doesn't appear anywhere on it. Just one blue-on-white, lowercase "f." It's indicative of a couple of things — first of all, Facebook is so famous it doesn't need to use its full name any more. Secondly, the company has a new religion: make the design as clean as possible.
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