| Tiny 'Space Suit' Protects Bugs From Vacuum | | Those cool pictures from electron microscopes of fleas, bedbugs and other tiny creatures have one drawback: The animals die during the process, which means scientists miss out on imaging the bugs while they’re alive — and miss out on filming important biological functions. Tiny “space suits” might be the answer. Electron microscopes make images by beaming electrons at the subject matter.
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| Facebook Hires Fired Apple Maps Executive | | Facebook has hired the manager who led the development of Apple's widely criticized Maps app. Richard Williamson joined the social network as its director of engineering this month, according to his LinkedIn profile. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that he has been at Facebook for the past few weeks.
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| Funny or Die's Steve Jobs Biopic 'iSteve' Debuts Online | | iSteve, Funny or Die's biopic of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, premiered Wednesday, after the humor site delayed its release out of respect for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Originally scheduled for April 15, the film's release date was pushed to April 17. As Funny or Die's longest project to date, the nearly 80-minute comedy is a parody of the biopic film genre.
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| CRAPCHA Pranks You With Hopeless CAPTCHA Tests | | We've all run into them while trawling the interwebz. Designed to deter spambots, CAPTCHAs are kinds of online tests that involve a visual-perception task such as identifying distorted text. The aim, of course, is to confound computers, while remaining easy enough for humans to solve. In practice, however, many people find themselves scratching their heads over confusing CAPTCHAs.
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| Baldur's Gate: How Two Guys Brought a Classic Back From the Dead | | Baldur's Gate was a breakout hit in the late '90s. It was one of the most immersive PC role-playing games of its time, with an engrossing story and thousands of lines of dialogue. It also put BioWare — a studio founded by two medical doctors and powered by more than a 70 untested devs — on the map.
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| Wanderu Makes It Much Easier to Book Bus Trips | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:59 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: Wanderu One-Liner Pitch: Wanderu makes it easy to book travel via buses and trains. Why It's Taking Off: It's the first time consumers are able to route and book a trip that spans multiple bus carriers in one place.
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| Syrian Pro-Government Hackers Strike NPR Website | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:01 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| You can't employ good journalists without making a few enemies along the way, as National Public Radio recently learned the hard way. After putting the violent situation in Syria under the microscope, NPR found its site on the receiving end of vandalism, courtesy of the Syrian Electronic Army. The SEA is a group of Middle Eastern hackers that acts as an attack dog for the current regime under President Bashar al-Assad.
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| New Form of Pig Latin Brings Home the Aconbay | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:00 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Idday ouyay eakspay Igpay Atinlay asway away idkay? No, that isn't a stream of typos — it's Pig Latin for, "Did you speak Pig Latin as a kid?" For the uninitiated, Pig Latin is a made-up language that moves the first consonant of a word to the end with an added "ay," and adds "way" to the end of a word that starts with a vowel. Got it? Good.
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| Study: Teens Watch More Mobile Video Than Older Peers | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:28 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| It might be no surprise to parents that their 12- to 17-year-olds are watching more video on mobile devices and less on plain old TV than those slightly older. A Nielsen report that analyzed media habits of 12- to 34-year-olds, found that those in the 12 to 17 age range spend seven hours and 48 minutes per month on average watching video on a mobile phone.
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| Twitter Donates Promoted Trend to 'One Boston' | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 6:56 PM | Sam Laird |
| Entertainers, athletes and ordinary citizens aren't the only ones aiding Boston residents after Monday afternoon's deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon. Twitter lent a helping hand of its own on Tuesday in the form of a donated promoted trend on the microblogging network. That's the #OneBoston hashtag you can see at the top of Twitter's list of worldwide trends.
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| 10 Powerful Images of NYC Showing Its Love for Boston | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 6:11 PM | Annie Colbert |
| The rivalry between New York City and Boston took a timeout Tuesday. Following Monday's bombings at the Boston marathon, the Big Apple put aside its typical Beantown smack talk to show solidarity with its neighbor to the north. The New York Yankees, Mayor Bloomberg's office and the New York Stock Exchange all showed their support in touching ways. SEE ALSO: 10 Touching Acts of Kindness at Boston Marathon 1.
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| DoSomething.Org Has 1 Million Texting Teens | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:56 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| DoSomething.org, the service that uses SMS messaging to connect teens with volunteer opportunities that don’t require money, a parent or a car, is now texting with more than 1 million teens. The not-for-profit organization made the announcement Tuesday at AllThingsD's Dive into Mobile Conference in New York City.
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| Here's What the Big Bang Sounded Like | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:43 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| In the beginning, there was a righteous bass. So says physicist John Cramer, who has not only found evidence of the sound created during the Big Bang, but has also created a simulation of the low, deep noise emitted as the universe came into being. After the Big Bang, the universe expanded so rapidly that matter itself resonated to create a deep bass noise, and sound waves themselves became stretched and warped.
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| Twitter Mentions of 'Boston' Increased 20,000% | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:26 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Monday's horrific bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon were covered in real-time on Twitter. It was where many people got real information as the events unfolded, along with a dose of misinformation. If you thought your Twitter feed was filled with information about the Boston attack, you weren't wrong.
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| HTC One Comes to T-Mobile April 24 | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:07 PM | Stan Schroeder |
| T-Mobile has finally revealed the launch date for HTC One on its network: April 24. Answering questions from several Twitter users about the HTC One, T-mobile simply replied it will be launching the LTE version of the device on April 24.
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| White House Once Again Threatens to Veto CISPA | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:53 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| As it did when the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, first passed the House Intelligence Committee last year, the White House on Tuesday said President Barack Obama's senior advisors would recommend he issue a veto threat on privacy grounds if the bill reached his desk in its current form.
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| Yahoo Earnings Beat Estimates, But Core Problems Remain | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:49 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Yahoo's profits in the first quarter beat Wall Street estimates, but the company's core advertising business still appears to be heading in the wrong direction. Yahoo reported earnings-per-share of .38 on revenue of $1.07 billion for the March quarter, beating the consensus estimate for earnings of .24 per share, but coming in below the $1.1 billion in revenue that analysts had expected.
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| Google Fiber TV Gets HBO and Cinemax | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:44 PM | Stan Schroeder |
| Google Fiber TV customers won't have to look elsewhere for their Game of Thrones fix anymore, as Google has just added HBO and Cinemax channels to its TV lineup. For $20 per month (tax not included), customers will be able to add an HBO package to their plan. The package, which is available today, includes HBO, HBO2, HBO Signature, HBO Family, HBO Latino, HBO Comedy, and HBO Zone.
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| Hands On With Facebook Chat Heads for iPhone and iPad | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:25 PM | Christina Warren |
| Facebook just updated its iOS app to version 6.0, adding support for chat heads and a new news feed. Chat heads debuted with Facebook Home last week and are available to all Android users as part of the Facebook Messenger app. The idea behind chat heads are to allow users to keep a running list of conversations going without having to stop what they are doing and switch apps.
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| Watch a 90-Year-Old Grandma Love the Oculus Rift | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:14 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| The Oculus Rift headset is an out-of-this-world piece of technology, capable of using realistic virtual reality experiences inside of games. While that might be impressive to people raised on the Internet, imagine how impressive it is to someone who has seen the rise of technology over the last nine decades. Paul Rivot gave his grandmother, Rachel Mahassel, a chance to test out the Oculus Rift.
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| What’s Next for Facebook Home | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:14 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Facebook Home is going international; chat heads have escaped the Home asylum and are arriving (in a limited fashion) on the iPhone. Now the social network is teasing future upgrades.
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| Rand McNally Brings Its Classic Road Atlas to iPad | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:56 PM | Emily Price |
| Before everyone had a smartphone in their pocket, a good road atlas was found in every car’s glove box, with many of those created by Rand McNally. A staple in the space for the past 90 years, the Atlas creator celebrated its 90th birthday this week with the release of an ebook version of its 2014 Road Atlas as well as an interactive iPad app.
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| 7 iPhone Concepts That'll Make You Salivate | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:39 PM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| Are you excited about the next-generation Apple iPhone? Do you wonder what kind of improvements iOS 7 might bring? We have taken a look at some cool concept designs from Apple fans, who have imagined their visions of future iPhones, both in terms of hardware and software. SEE ALSO: 5 Futuristic Concept Phone Designs Take a look through our selection of stunning concept videos in the gallery above.
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| Why Brands Should Be Human on Social Media | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:31 PM | ClickZ |
| The success of any social program is ultimately determined by its ability to connect on a one-to-one, human level. But how can your brand be more human?
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| 10 Touching Acts of Kindness at the Boston Marathon | | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 2:54 PM | Annie Colbert |
| In the 24 hours since the Boston Marathon bombings, amazing stories of kindness have also emerged. From the first responders who ran fearlessly toward the smoke to the Bostonians who opened their doors to stranded runners, the Internet has found solace in reading and sharing the firsthand accounts of people who stepped up to help in a moment of tragedy.
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