| 'The Dark Sorcerer' Demo Shows the Power of PlayStation 4 | | Quantic Dream, the company behind the video game "Heavy Rain," has made available the entire PlayStation 4 tech demo shown at the E3 conference. Somewhat unusual for demos of this type, the 12-minute long "Dark Sorcerer" not only has a story with a lot of dialogue — it's actually funny. In a blog post, Quantic Dream's David Cage explains how challenging it was to create a tech demo that also works as a comedy.
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| Burberry, Google Partner to Send Kisses Around the World | | Signed and sealed with with a kiss: Burberry and Google put their own spin on the digital postcard with the launch Wednesday of "Burberry Kisses," a visually immersive experience that allows you to send a digital copy of your lip imprint through the world of Google Maps. Head over to kisses.burberry.com using your desktop Chrome browser or the web browser on your smartphone or tablet.
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| Is Twubs the Next Big Twitter Chat Management Tool? | | The Twitter chat is one of the best tools for a social media professional to communicate with fans and customers, driving the conversation around the brand. Tuesday's version of existing chat platform Twubs promises to make that job even easier. Twubs, the 5-year-old hashtag platform that aggregates tweets, pics and videos into a branded page, has debuted a free, Twitter API-compliant chat tool.
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| Forget Cat Beards — It's All About the Cat Fro | | Hey, cat lovers, there's a new way to embarrass your feline and find fame on the Internet. Behold, the Cat Fro. The latest Instagram photo fad has cat owners posing with their furry friend on their head. It's the new Cat Beard, which is so three weeks ago. Web-famous, curmudgeonly kitty Colonel Meow popularized the #catfro hashtag, sharing his favorite shots on Facebook.
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| Plug Transforms iPhone Into LEGO Brick | | This simple adapter for the lightning port on the iPhone provides a platform for the gadget-obsessed user to relive his childhood, or to express her pent-up LEGO creativity. The accessory can be used to create a custom case, a phone stand or a fun toy, among other inventions. Created by a Taiwanese design company called KBme2, the accessory is unlikely to go into production as a result of LEGO's patent restrictions.
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| Mom's Photographs Capture Amazing Talents of a Superbaby | | Babies are adorable, magical blessings that bring endless joy to their parents' lives — but they can also be a bit of a handful. It's probably for the best that their fresh motor skills limit them to sitting, crawling and spitting sweet potatoes on your freshly laundered t-shirt. In these amazing photographs, Swedish photographer Emil Nyström imagines what life would be like if her daughter ran the show.
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| See Space Station and Cargo Ship in Night Sky This Week | | The International Space Station and a European cargo-carrying spacecraft are locked in a cosmic dance, and you can see it all unfold right from your own backyard. The European Space Agency's bus-size Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 (ATV-4) — a space cargo ship loaded with food, rocket fuel and experiments — launched toward the space station last Wednesday.
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| 10 Other California-Inspired Names Apple Could Have Used for OS X Mavericks | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:56 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| In a move that shifted Apple from its long-held tradition of naming its operating systems after cats, the company announced at WWDC 2013 that it's latest OS X would be called Mavericks, a popular surfing town in California. SEE ALSO: 25 Things the New Mac Pro Looks Like So in honor of this momentous change, we thought we'd suggest a few other California-inspired names that Apple could have used.
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| RoboRoach Lets You Control an Insect's Mind With an App | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:26 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Remember in high school, in your bio lab, when you had to dissect that fetal pig? You learned all about physiological systems and their processes. And remember in chemistry, when your professor made a liquid nitrogen bomb to send a trashcan rocketing into the sky? You learned what happens when liquid nitrogen is boiled in a sealed container and turns into a gas.
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| The Inside Scoop on Google's Visual Design Guidelines | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:56 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| What makes Google look like Google? A group of Google designers have shared the various quirks and guidelines behind the tech giant's visual aesthetics, giving us a glimpse at how Google works to keep a coherent look across its products.
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| Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Tweets 'Hercules' Photo Teaser | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:28 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Nothing beats Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson's Twitter musings. Not only is the actor full of priceless quotes, he also shares a stream of photos that showcase his ripped physique and otherworldly workout regimens. In addition to his usual tweets, Johnson gave his followers a cool social-media treat on Tuesday: a behind-the-scenes pic from the set of his latest project, Hercules: The Thracian Wars.
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| 12 Sketchbooks of the Pros | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:59 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| If you're an artist, your sketchbook probably looks pretty standard. But what if you're an "anthropomorphist architect?" Or an elephant? SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics illustrates sketchbooks for a variety of professions, but somewhere between marine biologist and "frustrated origamist," things get a little strange.
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| Did Apple Just Ally With Microsoft Against Google? | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:40 PM | Chris Taylor |
| It was one of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments. In Monday's WWDC keynote, Apple executive Eddy Cue was running through the new iOS 7 version of Siri, when he happened to mention Siri's default search function would be powered by Bing, not Google. That means the first default search engine on Apple's voice assistant, baked into 600 million iPhones, will be brought to you by Microsoft.
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| 7 Hot Engineering Jobs in Portland, Chicago and More | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:17 PM | Sarah Ang |
| Unemployed, underemployed or somewhere in between? The Mashable Job Board is here to help. Since 2005, Mashable has been dedicated to providing the hottest digital, social and tech news to our readership of 20 million and counting. Top companies know you excel in the digital world, so they come to Mashable to find the best and brightest minds. New jobs — including ones exclusive to us — are added every day to the Mashable Job Board.
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| Facebook, Microsoft Join Google in Government Transparency Request | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 7:02 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Following Google's lead, on Tuesday both Microsoft and Facebook released statements requesting the U.S. government's permission to publish data and be more transparent about surveillance. Earlier Tuesday, after last week's revelations about the NSA surveillance program PRISM, Google published a letter it sent to Attorney Genral Eric Holder.
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| Lonely Island on New 'Wack Album:' Watch Your Back, Rihanna | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:52 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Comedic rap trio The Lonely Island — whose T-Pain-assisted track "I'm on a Boat" earned a Grammy nod — released a third studio album Tuesday. The Wack Album features funny collaborations with Adam Levine, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams, Solange Knowles, Robyn and Billie Joe Armstrong. "Watch your back, Rihanna," Andy Samberg says in this quirky video interview with Mashable.
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| Zuckerberg Offers Another PRISM Denial | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:30 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Facebook has nothing to do with PRISM. That's what Mark Zuckerberg said for a second time on Tuesday. At Facebook's annual shareholder meeting, the company's founder and CEO said pretty much what he said last week. SEE ALSO: PRISM: Does the NSA Really Get Direct Access to Your Data? "We don’t work directly with the NSA, or with any other program," he said.
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| 17 Handwritten Notes That Will Make You Smile | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:23 PM | Molly Horan |
| While handwritten notes can cause a lot of problems (see: Romeo and Juliet; your biology class), they haven't lost their appeal. Especially when they're sweet and sincere, like the ones below. SEE ALSO: 15 Notes That Prove Kids Write the Darndest Things 1. Found tied to a balloon — the most emotionally charged balloon since the one in Up. Image courtesy of Reddit, ChrevanGohas 2.
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| See How Siri Works in iOS 7 | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:16 PM | Pete Pachal |
| With iOS 7, Apple is giving Siri a big revamp. Not only is the iPhone's voice assistant getting an optional male persona, but it's also getting some enhanced abilities, including better integration with Twitter. The gang at TechSmartt (who also did a very thorough Galaxy S4 drop test) got their hands on the developer beta of iOS 7 and took the upgraded Siri for a spin.
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| 4 Reasons Google Bought Waze | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:05 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| For Waze, mapping software proved to be a road of riches. The company's nine-year journey culminated on Tuesday, when Google agreed to pay a reported $1.03 billion to acquire the company. That price may have been inflated by a bidding war among Google, Facebook and Apple, according to rumors.
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| Reddit, Mozilla Join Coalition Demanding End to NSA Snooping | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:34 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| A group of 86 civil liberties groups and Internet companies has launched a website called StopWatching.us to demand an end to NSA surveillance and ask Congress to open an investigation into the snooping. The coalition is comprised of companies like Reddit, Mozilla and advocacy groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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| Stunna Shades With LED Lights Groove to the Music | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:10 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Listen up, party people: Get ready to ditch your old stunna shades and slap on a pair of high-tech upgrades. A Texas-based Kickstarter campaign is promoting DropShades, audio-responsive glasses that dance to the beat of music via sound-reactive technology. The rave accessories tap a tiny microphone connected to a signal processor to translate incoming sounds across six horizontal bars and LED lights.
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