| U.S. Employee Outsourced His Job to China, Watched Cat Videos Instead | | Nowadays, sneaking in a personal call or quick browse through Facebook during work is typical on-the-job behavior. But what if you abandoned work completely and outsourced your job to, say, China? That's precisely what one U.S. developer got away with last year, paying a Chinese consulting firm 20% of his six-figure salary to do his job.
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| Waldo Who? Instagram Dog Makes it All About Finding Momo | | Instagram users have their noses pressed up to their smartphone screens trying to spot the app's most elusive dog. Momo the border collie and his talent for blending in to scenery has made #FindMomo the real-life version of Where's Waldo? Ontario-based graphic designer and Momo's best human friend, Andrew Knapp, discovered the dog's knack for hiding in plain sight while playing fetch.
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| Bird Singing Dubstep Is Feathered Skrillex | | Move over, Skrillex. One bird is giving the dubstep king some competition with his fat, feathery beats. In a 45-second YouTube video, Harvey the cockatiel tweets out heavy bass and energetic whirrs that wouldn't sound out of place in a club. In our humble opinion, the yellow-and-grey bird demonstrates such musical prowess that he could be an honorary nightingale.
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| This App Turns Your Phone Into a Virtual Urgent Care Center | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:57 PM | Andrea Smith |
| It's flu season and chances are you know someone who's coughing and sneezing their way through it right now. For many people, especially those who are away from their regular doctor for whatever reason, diagnosing symptoms can become a scary thing. We know many people self diagnose using the Internet. A recent Pew research report found eight in 10 online health inquiries start at a search engine.
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| See the Coolest Feature of the 2014 Corvette Stingray | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:04 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The 2014 Corvette brings many new features to the design of the iconic sports car: muscular lines, carbon-fiber parts and redesigned tail lights to name a few. But the most head-turning feature may be the dashboard's retracting LCD screen.
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| Afghan Students Sneak Prank Names Into Apple Maps | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 5:10 PM | Zoe Fox |
| We've all seen that Apple Maps is a far cry from perfect, but the Wall Street Journal's Kabul bureau chief may have just discovered some of its most amusing glitches while browsing on his iPad. Yaroslav Trofimov discovered a street named "Bad Monkey" and another named "MoJo Way." After discovering these unlikely streets on Apple Maps, he shared his findings to Twitter, UN Dispatch reports.
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| How Facebook Graph Search Could Disrupt Online Dating | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 3:27 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| When Mark Zuckerberg set out to build Facebook in the fall of 2003, he was still trying to figure out exactly what the website should be. One conclusion he arrived at pretty early on was that it shouldn't be branded as a dating site.
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| Announcing a Live Chat With SportsNetworker Founder Lewis Howes | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 3:00 PM | Scott Gerber |
| Streaming live on Mashable, SportsNetworker founder Lewis Howes will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST) Thursday, Jan. 17. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Howes will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site.
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| Google Says it Didn't Kill That Donkey | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 1:09 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Google on Wednesday answered a query that had been consuming the blogosphere for 24 hours: Why did the donkey lie down on the road? The speculation began when an image of a donkey lying on its side in the middle of a dirt road in the Kweneng region of Botswana emerged on Street View. Then @TheRealSheldonCooper tweeted his suspicions about the photo to his 149,000 followers.
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| 7 Ways Mobile Apps Are Driving Revenue for Businesses | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 12:08 PM | Ryan Matzner |
| From leveraging specific features like GPS all the way down to the mere fact that people are walking around with Internet-connected computers in their pockets, smartphones open a whole new world of opportunities for marketers at businesses from large and small. The following are some key ways businesses are getting an extra boost via mobile apps. 1.
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| Footage of London Helicopter Crash Aftermath Uploaded to YouTube | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 11:32 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Two people were killed and 12 more injured after a helicopter struck a construction crane and crashed into a busy street in London Wednesday morning. Almost immediately after the incident, video of the aftermath was posted to YouTube. The footage here, which Mashable verified by cross-referencing local media reports and Google Street View data, shows flaming wreckage on Wandsworth Road in central London.
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| SmartBash Was an Unforgettable Night at CES 2013 | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:18 AM | Jennifer Diamond |
| It was an unforgettable evening of celebration, networking and digital inspiration at Mashable's SmartBash at CES in Las Vegas. Presented by LG, the SmartBash brought partying to a new level with the company's latest cutting edge products and, of course, specialty cocktails like the Smartini. Mashable's community came together to network and talk about the innovations at CES.
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| The 100 Most Beautiful Songs in the World, According to Reddit | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:01 AM | Matt Silverman |
| A thread in r/AskReddit on Monday posed the question, "What is the most beautiful song you've ever heard?" User McSlurryHole challenged the community: Think to yourself, what is the most beautiful song you have ever heard, im not talking about your favourite song, or the most technical, or something that made you cry, I just want to know the song that made you say "holy shit...
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| Why Printed Books Will Never Die | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:33 AM | Josh Catone |
| Measured en masse, the stack of "books I want to read" that sits precariously on the edge of a built-in bookshelf in my dining room just about eclipses 5,000 pages. The shelf is full to bursting with titles I hope to consume at some indeterminate point in the future. It would be a lot easier to manage if I just downloaded all those books to an iPad or Kindle.
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| Amazon's Lovefilm Signs TV Deal With NBCUniversal | | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:48 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Amazon's UK streaming video subsidiary Lovefilm has signed a deal with NBCUniversal to bring hundreds of TV episodes from its catalogue to British users. The TV shows on offer include newer shows, such as the U.S. version of The Office, 30 Rock and Heroes as well as cult classics such as David Hasselhoff's Knight Rider. "This deal with NBCUniversal strengthens our exceptional and unrivalled on-demand TV offer.
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