| Order Pizza on Your Xbox 360 With the New Pizza Hut App | | Pizza Hut has launched an app for Xbox Live, letting users order a pizza through their Xbox 360. Once you've linked your Xbox Live account with a Pizza Hut account, and chosen the nearest pizza parlor, orders can be made using the game controller, voice input or Kinect gestures. And for those looking to combine ingredients for that perfect pizza, custom orders are also available.
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| Google's Eric Schmidt Says Glass for Consumers 'a Year-ish Away' | | For those itching to get their hands on Google Glass, executive chairman Eric Schmidt has good news: The high-tech specs will likely go on sale for consumers in a year. In an interview with BBC Radio 4's World at One on Monday, Schmidt said, "It would be fair to say that there'll be thousands of these in use by developers over the next months.
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| BBQ 'Supercharger' Says it Starts Grill in Under 10 Minutes | | With the weather getting warmer, many folks are firing up the grill for meaty barbecued goodness. But according to one company, there's a downside to BBQs — long wait times. A quick scan of the interwebs shows that those who prefer charcoal generally have to wait anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes for the grill to reach appropriate cooking temperature, after it's lit.
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| Prosthetic Hand Controlled With iOS App | | Monday, April 22, 2013 10:33 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| A new prosthetic hand lets wearers have better control — thanks to an app. Users of Touch Bionics' next generation "i-limb ultra revolution" prosthetic device can configure parts of the hand using the companion iOS app, as shown in the above video. The "biosim" app allows wearers to activate 24 custom grip modes, which can help with daily tasks (e.g. tying a shoe or holding a pen).
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| 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' Director Tweets First Photo of Storm | | Monday, April 22, 2013 9:28 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| X-Men: Days of Future Past, the seventh installment in the X-Men film franchise, doesn't arrive in theaters until 2014. But fans are already getting an early glimpse of the movie on social media, particularly from director Bryan Singer on Twitter.
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| Engineers Call for 'Repairable' Cellphones to Save Money, Environment | | Monday, April 22, 2013 8:57 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Reduce, reuse and recycle is the foundation of sustainable living. However, it's time to add another "R" to the list — repair. Repairing electronic devices is equally as important as the other three green watchwords, the IEEE, a professional association for engineers, said in a statement. But most manufacturers must first make their devices more "repairable," the statement said.
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| Smart Prescription Drug Bottle Polices Painkiller Usage to Curb Abuse | | Monday, April 22, 2013 8:49 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Sometimes, too much of a substance that's supposed to help can cause serious harm. Drug overdose death rates in the United States have more than tripled since 1990, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Just in 2008, for example, the CDC says there were 14,800 deaths in the U.S. caused by prescription painkillers.
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| New Malware Hijacks Twitter Accounts for Financial Fraud | | Monday, April 22, 2013 8:11 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Cyber criminals are always looking for new ways to avoid detection, escape cyber sleuths, and carry out their cyber crimes. So it shouldn't be surprising that malicious hackers are now taking advantage of social media. A newly discovered malware, designed to gain access to users' banking credentials, uses Twitter to spread itself and reach more victims.
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| Reddit Apologizes for Boston Marathon 'Witch Hunt' | | Monday, April 22, 2013 7:54 PM | Sam Laird |
| Last Thursday night, as police in the Boston area engaged in a deadly shootout with two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, much of the social web was sure that Reddit users had successfully identified one of the two fugitives. Sunil Tripathi had gone missing from Brown University about a month prior.
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| NASA to Webcast Lyrid Meteor Shower Tonight | | Monday, April 22, 2013 7:32 PM | Space.com |
| The annual Lyrid meteor shower may have peaked overnight on Sunday and Monday, but if you missed the celestial fireworks show don't fret. NASA's got you covered.
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| iPhone Users Go on More First Dates | | Monday, April 22, 2013 6:53 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Sorry, singles with Android, BlackBerry, Windows or old-school cellphones. Your iPhone-toting compatriots are getting more first date action than you, according to a recent survey of singledom. The survey, conducted by Match.com, drew on singles both in and outside its service. Some 5,000 non-married men and women in the U.S. were asked more than 200 questions, including whether they had been on one or more first dates in the last year.
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| Rookie News Anchor Fired After Viral Gaffe | | Monday, April 22, 2013 5:54 PM | Sam Laird |
| Rookie news anchor A.J. Clemente had a tough first day on the job of his local news station. First, a gaffe made him famous on Twitter. Then he got fired.
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| Reddit Blacks Out Some Comments to Protest CISPA | | Monday, April 22, 2013 5:00 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Reddit, already a vocal opponent of CISPA, is attempting to raise awareness for the issue by blacking out some comments on the site. The blackouts appeared on some subreddits beginning Monday morning. The call on whether to join the protest and how to protest were made by moderators, Reddit GM Erik Martin told Mashable in a phone interview.
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| Netflix Adds 3 Million Streaming Subscribers, Stock Tops $200 | | Monday, April 22, 2013 4:28 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Netflix added 3 million subscribers to its streaming video service in the first quarter, bringing the total number to 36 million viewers, the company reported on Monday. Those viewers streamed 4 billion hours of programming during the quarter. The increase prompted a surge in afterhours trading for the stock, which broke $200 for the first time since 2011.
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| Social Media Day Returns June 30, 2013 | | Monday, April 22, 2013 3:52 PM | Todd Olmstead |
| Social Media Day is a day to celebrate the ways in which social media has changed our lives for the better. It's also a celebration of people — you, the people who make social media so fun, useful, informative, and enlightening. We are thrilled to share that this year's Social Media Day will be held Sunday, June 30, 2013! Last year, hundreds of meetups involving thousands of people took place across the globe.
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| 33 Songs to Speed Up Spring Cleaning | | Monday, April 22, 2013 3:33 PM | Jessica Fee |
| Spring cleaning can be a daunting task. But the right playlist turns any mundane chore into a chance to discover new songs and to remember old favorites. For this week's Music Monday, we've compiled a playlist of upbeat songs that will make you want to sing (if not dance) along while cleaning. Don't be afraid to turn your Swiffer into an air guitar or your Magic Eraser into a microphone.
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| Wearable Computing Pioneer: How Google Glass Makes Life Better | | Monday, April 22, 2013 3:16 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Long before it was a gleam in Sergey Brin's eye, Thad Starner was sporting a bulky, comparatively prehistoric version of what would ultimately become Google Glass. Starner introduced wearable computing to MIT in 1993; he now has two decades of experience in computer-aided perception. His accoutrements got the attention of Brin and Google co-founder Larry Page back in 1998, who later made him the technical lead manager on Glass.
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| A Dance to the Music of Earth | | Monday, April 22, 2013 2:59 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Remember back in October when NASA discovered the Earth was "singing" to us? Or to put it more prosaically: radio waves emanating from the Van Allen belts that circle the planet were sampled at a CD-like bit rate by orbital probes. The result of all those dangerous loose electrons whizzing around up there was called "Chorus," and it turned out to sound like whale song mixed with crickets.
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| Report: 8 Million iPhones Returned Due to Problems | | Monday, April 22, 2013 2:36 PM | AppAdvice |
| Apple returned up to 8 million iPhones to Foxconn “due to appearance of substandard or dysfunctional problems.” This could cost Cupertino’s top manufacturer up to $1.6 billion, according to a report from China Business. The report doesn’t mention specific problems with the handsets. Additionally, we don’t know which models were returned.
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| Syrian Hackers Hijack World Cup Twitter Account | | Monday, April 22, 2013 2:08 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| The official Twitter accounts of the World Cup and FIFA's President Joseph Blatter have been hacked, apparently by Syrian hackers. On Monday afternoon, both @FifaWorldCup and @SeppBlatter started sending weird tweets, hinting that hackers had taken over control of the accounts. And it quickly became clear that the messages posted were not from their real owners.
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| Mashable Nominated for 3 Webby Awards | | Monday, April 22, 2013 1:52 PM | Trevor Gowan |
| Mashable is proud to announce we have been nominated for three Webby Awards: Best User Experience, Best Business Blog and Best Mobile & Apps: News. In December 2012, Mashable launched our redesign, reflecting our journey toward changing the future of media, integrating social editorial content, highlighting rich visuals, and offering a consistent brand experience on all screens and across all devices.
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