| Mix Cocktails Like a Pro Using 'The Barman' App and Platform | | Mixing a perfect drink is usually left to skilled bartenders, but a new device and app combination may help regular folks become cocktail-creating experts in no time. After placing a glass on the Barman, a drink-mixing platform, users must pick the drink they want to make and select their drink size. The device then tells them what to pour, and when.
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| Google+ Games to Shut Down on June 30 | | In addition to all the announcements and new features Google has shown us at Google I/O, the company is also continuing its spring cleaning of features and products that don't perform. Next up on the chopping block is Google+ Games, which are going into early retirement. Google launched Games for Google+ in August 2011, offering titles from publishers such as Zynga and Rovio.
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| Google Hangouts App: One Giant Leap for Chat Kind | | Hands up if you've ever been in this situation: You start a conversation with a friend or family member at your desk on Instant Messenger. Away from your desk, you send them a text. Later on, you decide it makes more sense to speak face-to-face on Skype. All of a sudden, you've got a balkanized conversation. And it's far, far worse if you're trying to involve multiple people.
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| Headband Measures and Improves Your Focus During Any Activity | | It's a problem everyone's encountered before: Just when we need to hunker down and focus the most — studying for an exam or completing a project, for example — our minds begin to float away, and our brains become mush. A high-tech headband and mobile app aim to combat this problem by tracking and, in the process, helping users improve their focus by determining how it's affected by their environment.
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| Google Glass Gets a Competitor for Extreme Sports Fanatics | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:58 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Like Google Glass, but concerned that your activities might be too extreme for it to handle? Take a look at the Recon Jet, a Glass-like device aimed at the sports crowd. Not only is it made to be more durable, but the information shown in the head-mounted display is sports-related.
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| Hands-On With the New Google Maps | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:44 PM | Emily Price |
| Google unveiled a brand new look for Google Maps on Wednesday. Redesigned from the ground up, the new Maps can take you from space all the way inside a building, and everywhere in between. The new Google Maps will be available for the general public starting Thursday morning (you can sign up to request an invite to try it out, here).
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| The Most Famous Model for Google Glass Is Actually a Developer | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:56 PM | Pete Pachal |
| If you've been keeping up with Google Glass, you've probably seen Steven Yau. He's the man in one of the most widely circulated press photos of Glass. Before the headset became a real object that people could touch, Yau's photo — which has him wearing both Glass and a big grin — was the lead image for many articles about Google Glass, including on Mashable.
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| That's Why They're Called 'Bored' Games | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:58 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Traditional board games can still be fun, but really, who wants to read all of those instructions? SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Scott Johnson of ExtraLife shows us a very common experience: opening the box, reading the directions and ultimately resorting to electronic games. Has the same thing ever happened to you? Comic illustration by ExtraLife.
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| Lawsuit Says IRS Illegally Seized 60 Million Health Records | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 7:27 PM | Nextgov |
| A lawsuit filed in California accuses the Internal Revenue Service of illegal seizure of 60 million electronic health care records belonging to 10 million Americans. The suit filed in the Superior Court of San Diego by Robert Barnes, a Malibu lawyer representing a corporate client named John Doe Co., charged that IRS agents raided the company on March 11, 2011, in a tax case and seized the medical records.
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| Google I/O Keynote Reveals Google’s Master Plan | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:28 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| I’m still digesting Google’s 3.5 hour Google I/O 2013 keynote, but I can’t shake the notion that Google is now the world’s most powerful and important company. I’m not saying that it has the world-beating products in every category.
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| DIY iPhone Microscope Costs $8 to Make | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:52 PM | PSFK |
| Internal medicine and infectious disease specialist Isaac Bogoch and his colleagues turned an iPhone 4S into a fairly accurate microscope by attaching an eight dollar, three-millimeter ball lens to the smartphone's camera lens using double sided tape. The DIY microscope was tested with 200 slides of stool samples from school children with different types of parasitic worms in Pemba Island, Tanzania.
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| Tobias Funke's Acting Demo Reel Is What Dreams Are Made of | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:36 PM | Sam Laird |
| Got an email this morning from a "Tobias Funke," the "analrapist" (that's analyst/therapist for the uninitiated) and dilettante extraordinaire of Arrested Development fame. Seems the good doctor, in anticipation of the show's Season 4 release on May 26, is really pushing his film career.
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| Chartbeat Helps Publishers Sell Time, Not Pageviews | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:25 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Today, most online display ads are sold by the number of impressions or by click-throughs, metrics that favor sites that generate lots of pageviews, perhaps through short articles, sensationalized headlines or slideshows. What those metrics don't favor is long or engaging journalism — that is, truly interesting content that people spend a lot of time with.
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| Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Suffers Major Failure | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:44 PM | Space.com |
| The planet-hunting days of NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,700 potential alien worlds to date, may be over. The second of Kepler's four reaction wheels — devices that allow the observatory to maintain its position in space — has failed, NASA officials announced Wednesday.
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| Sci-Fi Shooter 'Metro: Last Light' Is Consistently Inconsistent | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:31 PM | Lauren Hockenson |
| There’s a lot that goes into making an exceptional cake. Sure, you can use the best ingredients, mix it perfectly, neatly put it into pans and pop it into your oven for the allotted time. But if you’re not paying close attention, you may not realize that your oven is cooking unevenly. The result? A woefully slanted cake, overbaked in some areas and underbaked in others.
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| Cutting Cable May Not Save You Money | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:17 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| You think you're saving $100 every month by cutting the cable cord, but streaming could get a lot more expensive as companies launch pay-per-view channels.
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| Watch a Drone Take Off From an Aircraft Carrier for First Time | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:05 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Northrup Grumman's X-47B drone has made aviation history as the first autonomous aircraft to take off from an aircraft carrier at sea. Carrier takeoffs are among aviation's most complicated and dangerous operations and, until now, required a human pilot. The X-47B, however, shares a problem with the legendary Indiana Jones: It can't land — on carriers, at least.
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| 8 Gut-Busting Ballpark Snacks | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:55 PM | Sam Laird |
| These eight ballpark snacks are sure to elicit moans -- of either desire, revulsion or maybe both.
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| Larry Page: Tech Is 'Not a Zero-Sum Game' | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:33 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Google CEO Larry Page delivered a highly unusual appearance on Wednesday during the company's I/O conference in which he delivered an impassioned speech discussing the competition, the importance of technology and programming's "image problem" and took questions from the audience. Page, who spoke softly as the result of a medical condition he discussed with the press earlier this week, got a huge round of applause upon his entrance.
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| YouTube Finally Makes Some Videos 'Shoppable' | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:22 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Marketers have long been experimenting with "shoppable" videos, partnering with third-party technology providers to allow viewers to click on, say, a handbag in a music video or a lipstick in a makeup how-to to pull up product information and even make a purchase. Now, Google is releasing a "channel gadget" that brings some of that functionality to YouTube.
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| Dubai Comes to Life in Mesmerizing Timelapse | | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:10 PM | Sam Laird |
| Dubai is among the world's most visually striking cities. This timelapse video takes us on a stunning trip through its streets, waterways and skyscrapers.
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