| Overly Attached Boyfriend, Is That You? | | Overly Attached Girlfriend, meet your match. A new YouTube video called "ONE NIGHT misunderSTANDing" (get it?) shows an overeager suitor creeping out his just-met lady-friend following a casual encounter. While he's not Overly Attached Boyfriend of meme fame, he certainly deserves the moniker. Watch the entire video, above; then, let us know what you think in the comments.
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| Google Chrome for Android Updated With Autofill and Password Sync | | Google has updated its Chrome web browser for Android, adding several interesting upgrades. The new Google Chrome for Android enables users to access their saved passwords and have forms autofilled when they're signed into Chrome — just like the desktop version. This release also brings several stability improvements and a fix for blank-page loads in certain scenarios.
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| 'Arrested Development' Release Date Coming Soon | | 2:27:46 AM | Christina Warren |
| Taste the happy, Michael! Details for the global launch of the fourth season of Arrested Development are coming soon. The much-loved cult sitcom is making its small-screen return, thanks to Netflix. Last year at NAB Show, Netflix formally announced the return of the Bluths this year. At the Television Critics Association press tour in January, the release date was confirmed for May.
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| Facebook's New APIs Help Brands Monitor, Respond to Comment Replies | | Just a week after launching comment replies on Facebook, the social network updated its API Wednesday to help brands better monitor and respond to them. In a post on its developer blog, Facebook product engineer Alex Madjar says developers can now set up different comment "views" on posts. The first view is called "top level comments," which are standalone comments on a post that are not replies to individual comments.
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| Samsung Gets Its Own 'Stores' Inside Best Buy | | 1:15:15 AM | Christina Warren |
| Best Buy and Samsung have teamed up to bring special Samsung-branded sections to Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile. Dubbed the Samsung Experience Shop, the store-within-a-store offers customers a chance to explore and interact with Samsung's mobile products and accessories, as well as get help or training for Samsung mobile products they already own.
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| One Year Later, Half of Instagram's 100M Users Come From Android | | Within a year after launching its Android app, nearly half of all Instagram's user base comes from the Google-powered operating system. Instagram revealed this statistic in a blog post celebrating its one-year anniversary Wednesday. The popular photo-filtering and -sharing app currently has 100 million monthly active users.
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| Kareer.me Helps Recruiters Find Talent Before They Need It | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 11:03 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: Kareer.me One-Liner Pitch: It's a discovery network for finding awesome employers — LinkedIn meets StumbleUpon. Why It's Taking Off: Company culture attracts the best applicants, and recruiters need a better way to show it off.
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| Portable Solar Charger Powers Up an iPhone in 2 Hours | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 10:28 PM | Charlie White |
| Solar chargers are getting even more convenient, and here's the latest example: This folding USB solar array from Brown Dog Gadgets captures power from the sun, delivered to you in a portable fold-up package. This Kickstarter project's products were all designed to be simple and cheap.
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| Club W Is Your Wine Matchmaker | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 9:58 PM | Andrea Smith |
| Finding a bottle of wine that suits your tastes — and doesn't turn out to be a disappointment once uncorked — isn't easy for the non-sommelier. Club W, an online wine club, wants to change that by identifying what you like and making suggestions.
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| The Sad Truth About Your Drawing Skills | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:59 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| When it comes to doodling, there's no stick figure beyond your capabilities. Sun rays are a piece of cake, clouds are no big deal (if you concentrate really hard) and trees eventually came with years of practice. And that about covers the extent of your drawing skills.
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| 'The Science of Cats' Will Tickle Your Whiskers | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:36 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Perusing cat pics is the Internet's favorite pastime, but what do we really know about our four-legged feline friends (other than their uncanny ability to make anything viral/adorable)? ASAP Science points out some quirky facts about cats we should all know, such as how each cat has a unique "noseprint" similar to a human's fingerprint. Also, every time you give Boots some catnip, you're simply enabling drug abuse.
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| Design Your Digital Invites With 'Phoster' | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:01 PM | Camille Bautista |
| The days of snail mail invitations are far behind us, with every backyard barbecue, birthday celebration and concert broadcasted through Facebook event pages or text message. Though you can let hundreds of friends know about your next party with the click of a button, the convenience takes away from the fun of planning: the invites.
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| Twitter Updates Mobile Apps to Support New Twitter Cards | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 7:42 PM | Emily Price |
| Twitter launched an updated version of its apps for Android and iPhone Wednesday, adding, amongst other features, support for the new Twitter Cards it announced at a developer event Tuesday evening. New Card options bring additional types of content — specifically, app, product information, and photo galleries — within the expanded portion of tweets.
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| Why 'The Breakfast Club' Could Never Happen Today | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 7:31 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The Breakfast Club is a harrowing tale of five strangers breaking stereotypes and forming the bond of a lifetime. But at its core, it's just about detention and the lengths kids will go to to keep themselves entertained. It's an '80s flick through and through. Just ask the cast's hair.
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| YouTube Signs Major Music Deal With Universal | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 7:18 PM | The Daily Dot |
| YouTube's takeover of the pop music landscape appears to be going global. Music Weekly reported Wednesday that France's Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM) and worldwide publishing powerhouse Universal Music Publishing have both reached international agreements with YouTube, the newest power player in the major music market.
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| California Wants Companies to Disclose Everything They Know About You | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 7:02 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Have you ever wondered how much personal information Google or Facebook has about you? If you have, you certainly wouldn't be the first one. In Europe, a student named Max Schrems requested that Facebook disclose all the information the social network had on him and he received a stack of 1,222 pages. In the United States there is no legal requirement for companies to disclose such information to their customers.
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| Get Nostalgic With These Classic LucasArts Games | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 6:43 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| LucasArts had a three-decade career as a developer, publisher and licenser of games. On Wednesday, Disney announced it would be shuttering LucasArts as a studio and publisher, changing the company's focus to distributing licenses to Lucasfilm content. The news led many fans to reminisce about their favorite games from LucasArts.
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| Bob Costas Quotes Ludacris on Live TV; Hilarity Ensues | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 6:29 PM | Sam Laird |
| Bob Costas is such a baller. The legendary sportscaster appeared on MLBTV Tuesday evening and was faced with an important question: Who's your favorite rapper? Lesser middle-aged white men may have stumbled here, stuttering and stammering while trying to spit out the first name that came to mind. But not Costas. He handled the situation like the bona fide professional he is.
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| Exclusive: 'American Idol' Letting Viewers Pick Show Theme via Twitter | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 5:40 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| American Idol producers — for the first time in the show's 12-season run — will let the public determine one episode's theme this season, Idol's wireless sponsor AT&T exclusively told Mashable before Wednesday night's show. After host Ryan Seacrest makes the announcement during the April 3 performance show, people will be able to submit their suggestions on Twitter using hashtag #ATTIdolTheme.
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| Animals Say 'Cheese' at Zoo Picture Day | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 5:29 PM | Neha Prakash |
| It's that time of the year again — picture day at the zoo. Animals don their trendiest threads and prepare for their time in front of the camera. It's an important day since this is the photo that goes in the yearbook that all their animal buddies will sign before summer. In reality, Zoo Portraits is a project by photographer Yago Partal who was inspired when creating an image campaign.
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| Zynga Launches Online Gambling in the UK | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 5:16 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Zynga on Wednesday began testing the waters for Internet gambling with the UK-only introduction of ZyngaPlusPoker and ZyngaPlusCasino. The downloadable and web-based versions of Zynga’s real money games for play in the UK is the prelude to the introduction of Facebook- and mobile-based versions of the games, Barry Cottle, Zynga's chief revenue officer and EVP, wrote on the company's blog on Tuesday.
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| What to Expect From Facebook's Android Announcement | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 5:01 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook is holding an event at its Menlo Park headquarters Thursday to show the world its “new home on Android.” No one is certain what exactly Facebook’s “new home” will be, but we’ve got a few a few solid hints.
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| TV Advertising Still Dominant, Still Growing | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 4:19 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Though the print and radio industries have both suffered from the rising popularity of online advertising, one industry remains immune: television. U.S. advertisers are expected to increase their spending on TV this year by nearly $2 billion to $66.35 billion, according to forecasts from eMarketer. By 2017, that number is expected to reach $75 billion, an increase of 14% over five years.
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| Porsche Unveils Panamera S E-Hybrid, Its First Plug-In Electric Car | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 4:07 PM | Charlie White |
| The plug-in hybrid trend must be getting serious when Porsche jumps into the ring. The German car manufacturer announced on Wednesday the Panamera S E-Hybrid, its first plug-in hybrid. True to the Porsche tradition, this four-door sedan is no slouch in the performance department, with its parallel hybrid gas/electric combo power plant creating a respectable 416 hp.
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| Parachute on Mars Flaps in Wind | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 4:07 PM | Amanda Wills |
| Photo evidence confirms the parachute that helped Curiosity rover safely land on Mars last August has shifted in the wind.
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| Bitcoin Plunges By Nearly $30 As Largest Market Suffers Outage | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 4:05 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The value of digital currency Bitcoin fell from above $145 to below $117 Wednesday as Mt. Gox, the largest market for trading the digital currency, suffered an outage for approximately an hour. At the time of writing mid-afternoon Wednesday, the value seems to have leveled out at about $125, a $20 drop for the day. "Due to high volume trading at the moment, there is a lag in trading and order cancellation," reads a statement from Mt.
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