| What to Do When Social Media Drives You Crazy | | Is Social Media Anxiety Disorder, known as SMAD, the newest affliction resulting from our love affair with Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites? Researchers have stopped short of actually classifying SMAD as a disorder, but it's no doubt a problem. Sure, you could quit using your social sites altogether — but then you’d be, well, bored and lonely.
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| Xbox One’s New Controller: Hands On | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:27 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| In the run-up to Tuesday’s big Microsoft Xbox One reveal, many pondered the fate of the beloved Xbox 360 controller, perhaps the best gaming controller in the business. Would Microsoft make it radically different? Bigger? Unwieldy? Add a touchpad like Sony? Today we have our answer. It’s different and yet, based on what I now know and have experienced firsthand, it’s also somehow better.
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| Father of GIFs: 'It's Pronounced JIF' | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:13 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Steve Wilhite, father of the Graphics Interchange Format, has ended the heated debate on how to pronounce "GIF." Wilhite, then working at CompuServe, debuted the file format in June 1987. He accepted a lifetime achievement award Tuesday at the Webby Awards for his creation. Instead of giving a vocal acceptance speech, he flashed a GIF on the big screens: "It's pronounced JIF, not GIF." ~ Steve Wilhite, the father of GIFs.
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| Why 'Dots' Is the Most Scarily Addictive Social Game Yet | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:01 PM | Chris Taylor |
| About 12 years ago, I happened to take my Palm Pilot (remember those?) to a friend's house. A friend of a friend asked if she could borrow it. Sure, I said. She proceeded to download a game called Bubblet, then curled up on the couch with it for the next hour. My curiosity was piqued, and soon I, too, was a Bubblet junkie. It was a simple game — you got a screen full of bubbles and double-tapped to pop connected ones of the same color.
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| Did Microsoft Just Kick Apple Out of the Living Room? | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 6:23 PM | Pete Pachal |
| If you want to see what the Apple TV will look like, I hope you were tuned to Spike at about 1 p.m. Eastern today, because we got a pretty solid picture of the rumored device: a powerful all-in-one entertainment hub with a hands-free interface that smartly integrates live TV with a wealth of streaming and downloadable media. I'm speaking, of course, of the Xbox One, Microsoft's freshly unveiled new game console.
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| Xbox One Will Currently Not Play Xbox 360 Games | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:29 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| The newly announced Xbox One will not be able to play previous generation Xbox 360 games, Microsoft confirmed Tuesday. The Xbox One is designed on an x86 architecture, on a new eight-core chip. The Xbox 360 uses a Xenon processor, with PowerPC architecture, making the systems incompatible. "The Xbox One hardware is not compatible with Xbox 360 games.
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| The Audacious Plan to End Hunger With 3D-Printed Food | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:35 PM | Quartz |
| Anjan Contractor’s 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. And indeed Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer.
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| Microsoft Announces the Xbox One | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:15 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| After months of speculation and rumors, Microsoft detailed its next generation console — the Xbox One — to a packed room in Redmond, Wash., Tuesday. The Xbox One, described by Don Mattrick, president of the Interactive Entertainment Business for Microsoft, was designed and built "as an all-in-one system to align games, TV and entertainment." Its predecessor, the Xbox 360 was released almost eight years ago, on Nov.
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| Microsoft's New Xbox: Live From the Unveiling | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:00 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Microsoft finally reveals its plans for the next major Xbox gaming console update on Tuesday, and Mashable is here to provide live updates.
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| Vine: 12 Ways to Make Your Videos Stand Out | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:30 AM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| You've had some fun with Vine, but now you want to get serious. Here are 12 tips to turn you into a Vine pro. With Vine, you have six seconds to really impress a viewer. Thankfully, six seconds is more than enough time to dazzle someone, tell a story or share a laugh. These tips range from technical best practices to creative guidelines. 1.
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| Why Social Media Is the Front Line of Disaster Response | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:15 AM | Zoe Fox |
| Nearly one million people are affected by natural disasters each year. In the U.S. alone, some 400 people die from disasters that cost the economy $17.6 billion. Helping respond to these cataclysmic events, social media is now a go-to tool for those effected by disasters. One in five Americans has used an emergency app.
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| How to Help Victims of the Oklahoma Tornados | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:12 AM | Zoe Fox |
| One of the most devastating tornados in U.S. history tore through Oklahoma City Monday, wreaking considerable damage to the suburb of Moore. The Oklahoma City medical examiner's spokesperson originally reported at least 51 deaths, including 20 children, though those counts are no longer thought accurate. The storm reduced homes to piles of rubble and destroyed entire neighborhoods.
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| Apple Paid No Taxes on $74 Billion in Income, Senate Panel Says | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:48 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to testify before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday to refute charges the company paid no taxes on tens of billions of dollars in overseas income. The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is expected to release findings Tuesday claiming Apple didn't pay taxes on at least $74 billion in overseas income. In response, Apple has released a statement explaining that the U.S.
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| Woman Finds Missing Dog in Oklahoma Tornado Rubble | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:30 AM | Christine Erickson |
| Barbara Garcia, a survivor of the massive tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., found her dog alive under the rubble during an interview with CBS News. Before finding the dog, Garcia says in the interview that she was holding him while sitting on a stool in her small bathroom. The tornado tore through her neighborhood, destroying her home. She never lost consciousness, but was covered in the rubble.
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| YouTube: The Newest Dog Toy | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:25 AM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| Did you hear that YouTube has hit the impressive milestone of one billion visitors a month? What the video-sharing site didn't reveal, however, is how many of those visitors are actually human. We have found evidence of increasingly addicted dogs turning to YouTube to watch footage of their fellow four-legged friends.
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