| Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Captured on Video | | Thinking about buying a Galaxy S4, but you're not sure if its 5-inch form factor is too big for your hands? Maybe this video, captured by UK's mobile operator Three, will convince you to get an S4 mini instead. In the video, we get a close, detailed look at the Galaxy S4 mini, which was officially announced on Thursday.
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| Belarus Now World's Biggest Spam Source | | The Eastern European nation of Belarus has surpassed the United States as the world's biggest email polluter, sending out an average of more than 12 million spam messages every day. In January, researchers from the Gulf Breeze, Fla., Internet-security firm AppRiver said Belarus was responsible for a little more than 3 million spam messages per day.
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| Travel Through the Galápagos Islands via Google Street View | | 12:02:43 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If you have no exciting vacation plans coming up, don't fret: Google Street View has you covered. It'll soon take you on a virtual journey through the Galápagos Islands. The virtual views won't be live until later this year, but Google will then take you on a trip through these Pacific islands via Street View, as explained in the video above.
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| Tumblr Catalogs Clichéd 'Area Man' Pose in Local Newspapers | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:19 PM | Neha Prakash |
| What's the go-to pose for a local newspaper portrait of an "area man" or "area woman"? Apparently, you can't go wrong with the "I Mean Business" arms-folded-across-the-chest stance. The new Tumblr "Local People Arms Crossed" documents, well, just that. They took a look at several local newspapers and noticed a very common trend.
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| Burger King's Whopper Holder is the Ultimate in Lazy Dining | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:11 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Labor-intensive Whopper eating is a thing of the past with the Whopper Holder. The Hands-Free Whopper is an actual product, which was distributed by the chain to celebrate its 50th anniversary in Puerto Rico. As the video above shows, there are some practical advantages to the device. However, the major function of the Whopper Holder is promotional, just like the burger-scented cologne the chain released in 2008.
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| Top 5 iOS Travel Apps for Your Summer Vacation | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:51 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Between pricey flights, hotels and foreign shopping sprees, travel may be one of the best indicators of consumer confidence. And with unemployment going down, and even real estate seeing a modest comeback, that confidence seems to be rising. Last summer, one in five Americans said they planned on taking a vacation, according to a survey by the market research firm Harris Interactive.
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| Pregnancy App Glow Uses Big Data to Help Couples Conceive | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:14 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| A new pregnancy app from a PayPal cofounder aims to use big data and machine learning to help couples get pregnant. Max Levchin demoed Glow this week onstage at the annual All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Glow, which tracks and forecasts fertility, according to Levchin, hasn't launched publicly yet. "It's a big data or machine-learning-driven approach, where we look at our accuracy as the consumers ...
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| Use Your Phone to Open Your Door with the August Smart Lock | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:55 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| If you've ever wondered why you can unlock your car by pressing a button, but still have to fumble for your metal keys to get in your house, then the August Smart Lock might be for you. The $199 device, which will go on sale later this year, lets you secure your door over the Internet. Using August you can bar unwanted visitors and give access to friends and relatives — even for a short period.
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| Complex Algorithm Auto-Writes Books, Could Transform Science | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:36 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Could a sophisticated algorithm be the future of science? One innovative economist thinks so. Phil Parker, who holds a doctorate in business economics from the Wharton School, has built an algorithm that auto-writes books. Now he's taking that model and applying it to loftier goals than simply penning periodicals: namely, medicine and forensics.
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| 11 Superlative Spelling Bee Moments | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:40 PM | Sam Laird |
| The Scripps National Spelling Bee has produced some seriously fantastic photos so far. Here are a handful of our favorites.
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| Mystery of Moon's Lumpy Gravity Explained | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:00 PM | Space.com |
| A pair of spacecraft that meticulously mapped the moon's gravitational field has helped astronomers solve the long-standing mystery of why the moon is so gravitationally lumpy.
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| Coke Social Can Splits Into Two for Easy Sharing | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 6:39 PM | Charlie White |
| Summer's coming up, and if you go strutting around with an ice cold soda in your hands, everyone will be hoping you'll share it with them. Now some creative ad people have attempted to solve that problem with the Coke Social Can, a container that splits in two so you can share its contents.
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| New 'Dots' Prices Show Virtual Economies Are Hard to Manage | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 6:23 PM | Quartz |
| This month's iPhone game sensation, Dots, released a slew of new features today, including a version for iPads. But the change that caught our eye is more subtle: Shrinkers now cost twice as much as they used to.
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| Twitter Now Supports More and Longer Lists | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 6:06 PM | Emily Price |
| Twitter lists got a refresh on Thursday, giving users the ability to create more lists on the social network and include more people on those created. Previously capped at 20, now you can create up 1,000 lists on Twitter. Those lists can now include up to 5,000 accounts, substantially larger than the previous cap of 500 accounts. Twitter announced the update via Twitter, of course, in a tweet from its @TwitterForNews account.
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| Patrick Stewart's Heartfelt Response to Domestic Violence | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 5:52 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Patrick Stewart has been a longtime advocate for victims of domestic violence. But at Comicpalooza 2013, audience member Heather Skye got a personal message from the actor about the topic. During a Q&A, Skye told Stewart she was inspired and healed by a speech about violence towards women that he made to Amnesty International. She then asked him about his proudest life accomplishment outside of acting.
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| Texas Police May Soon Need Warrants to Read Emails | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 5:11 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Good news, denizens of the Lone Star State: You might be about to get some of the best email privacy protection in the country. Earlier this week, Texas legislature passed a bill, HB 2268, requiring state police to get a warrant based on probable cause before reading emails, regardless of how old they are.
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| School Kids Play With Soccer Stars in Charming Candid Video | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:59 PM | Sam Laird |
| Manchester United and Netherlands star Robin van Persie hosted his annual soccer festival for kids recently in Rotterdam. At one point during the event, he and two other pros — Karim Touzani and Tonny Vilhena — took some time for a quick game of keep-away with a few of the young players. The result — the video, above — has become a hit on the sports web with more than 400,000 views in just two days.
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| World: We Have Lost the First Webpage. Professor: Oh, I Have a Copy of It Here | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:47 PM | The Atlantic |
| Last week, NPR's All Things Considered featured a story called "The First Web Page, Amazingly, Is Lost." The piece ended with a plea: Perhaps someone out there, someone listening to their radio, picked up an old optical disk drive that was lost at a conference in 1990. Check your bookshelves. Check your basement. The early web might still be out there. Soon, a comment appeared on the NPR story.
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| Fan TV Set-Top Box Might Be the Easiest Way to Watch TV | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:42 PM | Charlie White |
| Fan TV, unveiled on Thursday, lets viewers concentrate on TV shows and movies rather than apps or content providers. The two-part device consists of a gently curved base component that plugs into the TV, and a smaller companion remote with a touch surface. The hook: Fan TV helps you quickly and easily find your favorite programs, regardless of origin. It then delivers the shows via streaming video or live TV, and can even record like a DVR.
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| 'Borderlands 2' Meets 'Dungeons & Dragons' for Final Expansion | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:21 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| If you like a little tabletop gaming mixed in with your first-person shooters, and are itching for more Borderlands 2 content, you'll be excited about the upcoming final downloadable expansion for the game, coming in June. In Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep, your previously leveled-up characters take on a whole new adventure, packed full of gaming and fantasy tropes.
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| 'After Earth' Mobile Game Hits Android and iOS | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:12 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| The After Earth mobile game arrives Thursday to iOS and Android, just a day before its movie namesake hits theaters. The After Earth game is an endless runner, similar in feel to Temple Run. The game's main character has all the tools and skills of the film's characters, and as such, the gameplay goes beyond just running. You'll have to glide, freefall and zipline through a variety of terrain on this far-future, desolate earth.
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| Patrick Stewart Says Hangover Inspired First Pizza Slice | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:58 PM | Neha Prakash |
| In case you've never been able to relate to the Captain of the Starship Enterprise, you now can — you've both had hangover-induced pizza binges. Patrick Stewart, better known as Capt. Jean Luc Picard to Trekkies, shocked the world Wednesday when he admitted he was enjoying his first ever pizza "slice." My first ever pizza "slice". Please note: the authentic NY fold.
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| Snoopy Makes His Vine Debut | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:29 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Khoa Phan, known for his stop-motion animations on Vine, has finished his first creation for Peanuts Worldwide as part of a 12-Vine deal he inked with the company to promote Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip and various projects behind the brand. "It just made sense to start with Snoopy, everyone's favorite beagle, and move on from there," Cory Cole, social media director for Peanuts Worldwide, told Mashable.
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| Police: Man Lured Teenage Girl to Her Death With Fake Facebook Page | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:19 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| A man indicted on murder charges set up a fake Facebook page to lure a teenage girl before kidnapping and killing her, according to police. Kyle Dube, 20, is accused of using Facebook in a bizarre scheme to kidnap 15-year-old Nichole Cable and later pose as a hero when he would "find" Cable.
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| Wikileaks Insider: Julian Assange Is Everything He Once Despised | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:00 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Julian Assange "has become everything he originally, rightly, despised," according to former Wikileaks spokesperson James Ball. Ball wrote about working for Assange and his decision to leave Wikileaks in an essay posted Thursday in The Daily Beast. The piece comes days after the release of We Steal Secrets, a Wikileaks documentary in which Ball dishes about Assange and working for Wikileaks.
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| Snoop Lion and Miley Cyrus Sing About 'Ashtrays and Heartbreaks' | | Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:44 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Snoop Lion, fresh off teaming up with Mashable for a Twitter chat Q&A, has unleashed his somber "Ashtrays and Heartbreaks" music video, featuring Miley Cyrus. Together, they rap and sing about filling up ashtrays, with the remnants of whatever they're smoking, to cope with the loss of loved ones.
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