| Facebook Video Ads Said to Be Delayed Until Fall | | Facebook has pushed back the introduction of video ads in its News Feed until the fall, according to a report. Advertising Age cites a "source familiar with the product" as saying the launch, originally set for the spring and then summer, is now being delayed another season. Facebook declined comment on the matter.
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| 10 Best Google Nexus 4 Cases | | 3:26:31 AM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| In our never-ending quest to find you the very best case for your smartphone of choice, we've taken a look at what's available for the Google Nexus 4. We have found 10 very different cases, with materials ranging from neoprene to shiny aluminium. With levels of protection varying from light to triple-layer, super-shields, we think you'll find a cover to suit your favorite Android device.
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| Google Drive Gets 18 New Languages | | Google has added support for 18 new languages to its Google Drive web app suite. Besides Drive itself, this includes Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Amharic, Basque, Chinese (Hong Kong), Estonian, French (Canada), Galician, Icelandic, Khmer, Lao, Malaysian, Nepali, Persian, Sinhalese, Spanish (Latin America), Swahili, Urdu and Zulu.
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| Is Your Private Information Safe on Social Media? | | More than 12 million Americans were victims of identity fraud in the past year, according to a recent study. Twelve million. I was one of them. Against my better judgment, I curiously clicked on a questionable direct message from a friend, and like that, my Twitter account was phished. Luckily, I changed my passwords and implemented damage control before things got out of hand.
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| Secret Life of Cats Revealed in GPS Tracking Study | | Oh, cats — those furry little enigmas — we love 'em, but can hardly understand 'em. What exactly are our feline friends up to when we're not around? A joint study between BBC Two's Horizon programme and the Royal Veterinary College answered that question by equipping 50 cats with GPS tracking devices and micro-cameras to monitor their activity away from home.
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| 'Lego Movie' Teaser Trailer Gives First Look at Film | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:26 PM | Anita Li |
| You may be familiar with Legos in block-form, but the popular line of construction toys is entering new territory: motion pictures. Billed as the "first-ever, full-length theatrical Lego adventure," The Lego Movie follows the story of an ordinary Lego figurine named Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt) who — in a case of mistaken identity — is enlisted to help save the world alongside superheroes.
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| Future Navigation May Let You 'Feel' Your Way Around | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:01 PM | Discovery News |
| When the GPS device in your car wants you to make a right turn, a robotic voice says, "turn right" and shows you which way to go on a screen. The next generation of devices, however, could tell you to turn right by letting you "feel" your way around. Vibrations from a wearable GPS device would give directions with a pattern of pulses that the wearer would feel.
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| Man Loses Home Following Overly Funded Kickstarter Project | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:03 PM | Luisa Rollenhagen |
| You apparently can have too much of a good thing. Ed Carter only wanted to raise $21,000 through Kickstarter to finance a deluxe edition of "Glory to Rome," a board game produced by his company, Cambridge Games Factory. He ended up raising more than $73,000, with pledges from more than 1,600 people. SEE ALSO: 20 Funniest YouTube Videos According to Reddit After that, things started to go downhill for Carter.
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| Ancient Cambodian City Revealed in Laser Scan | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:31 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Airborne laser scanning has revealed the remnants of a vast urban structure in the vicinity of Angkor Wat, a famous temple in Cambodia. The study, which will be published soon in the journal PNAS, follows earlier research that showed Angkor Wat to have been one of the world's most complex preindustrial cities.
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| 9 Ways to Dance About Architecture | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:58 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Martin Mull famously said, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." But what if you actually did dance about architecture? SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics illustrates a variety of architectural forms and their corresponding dances. Which one is more your style — Bauhaus Bounce or Cubist Shuffle? You can purchase Snider's comics as prints through his poster shop.
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| The 17 Stages of a Food Coma | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:30 PM | Hannah Orenstein |
| Think back to last Thanksgiving. Your meal probably started out normally enough — a few slices of turkey here, a few dozen spoonfuls of mashed potatoes there — and ended with you clutching your food baby while passed out on the couch at 6 p.m. in front of the football game. We don't blame you. Food is delicious. Food comas, however, are not. Just like a bad break-up, they leave you bloated, sluggish and miserable.
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| Saudi Arabia Could Block WhatsApp Within Weeks | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:03 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Since banning Viber, Saudi Arabia appears to have its set its sights on another popular Internet messenger smartphone application. This time it's WhatsApp, which could be blocked in just a few weeks unless it complies with local regulations. The country's Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) is considering banning WhatsApp in the coming weeks, probably before Ramadan, which starts on July 9.
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| You Would Die If Superman Punched Your Face | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 7:32 PM | Quenton Narcisse |
| If you watched Superman's life unfold on a white board yesterday, you're aware of his wide range of superhuman abilities. One swipe of his right fist is enough to send you into another dimension. But imagine if you were on the other end of that punch. SEE ALSO: The 10 Most Viral YouTube Videos of 2012 YouTube sensation Vsauce3 gives a scientific breakdown of how much damage Superman could incur on an average human.
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| Double Rainbow Guy Stands up to Yosemite Wildfires | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 7:01 PM | The Daily Dot |
| The Double Rainbow Guy has a new sight to behold — and it's a lot more deadly than a post-shower sky. Paul "Bear" Vasquez first noticed the wildfires making their way through central California and Yosemite National Park on Sunday — part of what's feared to be the worst season in a century. He had been talking on the phone with a CNN reporter, but he immediately grabbed his camera and started filming.
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| 9 Creative Ways to Leave a Tip | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:30 PM | Molly Horan |
| If you want to avoid being a terrible person, always tip your waiter or waitress. You could also make a lasting impression by leaving a tip with a little flare. You have your whole meal to decide on a way to present the money you'll leave, and the possibilities are endless.
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| Tom Wheeler Will Probably Be the Next FCC Chairman | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:11 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| President Obama's choice for the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, will likely get the job, if Tuesday's confirmation hearing is any indication. How can we be so sure? Senate Commerce Committee Chair Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) told Wheeler he was "certain" he would get the job before the hearing even got to several of the major issues facing the FCC.
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| Google Challenges Secret Court's Gag Orders | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:42 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| In its latest push against secrecy, Google has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to ease its gag orders and allow the company to publish more data about the requests it receives from the court.
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| Miss Utah Gets Another Shot After Miss USA Interview Flub | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:34 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Miss Utah Marissa Powell didn't win Sunday night's Miss USA pageant after botching her interview question, but she did win most viral moment of the evening. In the interview portion of the competition for the final five contestants, the 21-year-old awkwardly responded to judge NeNe Leakes's question about income inequality.
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| The Bitcoin Taxman Cometh | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:00 PM | National Journal |
| If I were to write a book and sell a few million dozen copies in my local bookshop, I'd owe the government a cut of that income in taxes. The rules about buying and selling goods in U.S. dollars are well known and reasonably simple to understand. But what if I decided to sell my book online in return for Bitcoins — how much would I owe the taxman then? No one has any idea.
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| James Franco Launches Indiegogo Campaign to Fund 3 Films | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:52 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Actor James Franco is turning his pockets to the public to wrangle funds for his latest project, Palo Alto Stories, a series of three features that will be adapted from pieces of his 2011 fiction-writing debut.
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| Huawei Shows Off Ascend P6, the 'World's Slimmest Smartphone' | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:39 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Chinese electronics manufacturer Huawei billed its new Ascend P6 model as the "world's slimmest smartphone," during an unveiling event in London on Tuesday. The Huawei Ascend P6 is 6.18 mm in depth, which is thinner than competitors like the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S4 (7.6 mm and 7.9 mm, respectively). This new model is now the flagship smartphone in Huawei's Ascend P series.
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| App Crowdsources Locations of Every Surveillance Camera | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:25 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| We're always being watched. And a new app lets you know it. Surv combines user input and technology to create maps with detailed descriptions of the locations and types of surveillance cameras. Kaza Razat and Khalid Mills developed the app after realizing how little access to this information law enforcement agencies have.
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| John Mayer's Prancercise Music Video Is Astounding | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:18 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| The 'Prancercise Lady' has teamed up with musician John Mayer for the most bizarre music-plus-exercise combination imaginable. By now, you've probably heard of Prancercise, Johanna Rohrback's patented breed of equine inspired exercise. In the original viral video, she gallops to some generic, lyric-less rock music. But in this video, she Prancercises to John Mayer's latest single, "Paper Doll," in perfect harmony.
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| Disney's 'Frozen' Teaser Will Melt Your Funny Bone | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:58 PM | Allison Reiber |
| Meet Sven and Olaf: a lovable yet unsuspecting duo in Disney's Frozen that gets into a rather sticky situation on an icy lake. Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) joins forces with a hardy mountain man (voice of Jonathan Groff) and his trusty reindeer, Sven, on an epic journey to find her sister Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel).
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| Giant Snake Opens Door to Your Nightmares | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:41 PM | Laura Vitto |
| Today, in horrifying things: A giant yellow snake successfully opens a door. The video below, which stars a 16-foot albino burmese python, was uploaded two years ago by Vimeo user Jenner. However, the snake, named "Julius," is the latest pet to experience Internet fame.
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| This Was The Coolest Thing I Played at E3 | | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:30 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| This year's E3 was amazing: dozens of terrific-looking games for fans, press and industry to demo and watch. Yet one really stood above the pack, even if it was a simple tech demo. Still, most demos don't let you dogfight in space through the power of virtual reality. CCP developer Dave Gundry said the team was so excited when they got their Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets that they wanted to make something to test the technology.
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