| Top 25 Most Popular Celebrities on Chinese Social Media | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 10:32 PM | Anita Li |
| We know Justin Bieber is the most-followed celeb on Twitter, and Rihanna is well-liked on Facebook, but who's popular on Chinese social media? It's a question that few people in the west likely ask, but with the rise of social networks such as Sina Weibo (China's Twitter) and Renren (China's Facebook) among China's 1.4 billion people, it's one that is important to consider.
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| Your Typical St. Patrick's Day, As Told By GIFs | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 10:03 PM | Neha Prakash |
| This Sunday marks a momentous day for everyone. It's the holiday created solely for the purpose of bad choices, shamrock headbands and acceptable alcoholism: It's St. Patrick's Day. It's the one day when leprechauns and non-Irish folk celebrate in solidarity, because everyone loves a good cold green beer. But after years of St. Paddy's Day attempts at 18-hour-long bar binges, you've realized a pattern in the way the day's events unfold.
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| 10 St. Patrick's Day Stock Photos That Look Weirder Than the Real Thing | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 9:17 PM | Annie Colbert |
| The green beer, the Irish smooching — St. Patrick's Day brings out the o'weird in lasses and lads. No matter how much green vomit and creepy leprechauns fill your St. Paddy's Day, the people celebrating in stock photos will probably out-weird you. (Well, maybe.) SEE ALSO: 25 Animals Ready to Shamrock for St. Paddy's Day We waded through the shamrocks to find 10 of o'ddest St.
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| Apple Tells Us Why iPhone Is the Best After Galaxy S4 Launch | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 8:32 PM | Anita Li |
| You've seen the specs: a 5-inch screen with 441 pixels per inch, 1080p display, a quad-core 1.9GHz processor and a 13-megapixel camera. Feature for feature, Samsung's next-generation Galaxy S4 has the iPhone beat. But just two days after the S4's launch, Apple released a webpage explaining why its flagship smartphone is better than the competition. SEE ALSO: Samsung Galaxy S 4 Compared "There's iPhone.
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| Top 10 Tech This Week | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 7:15 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| It was another exciting week in tech, with lots of news coming out SXSW as well as the world of tech in general. The two biggest Top 10 Tech stories of the week came from two of the biggest tech giants, Google and Samsung.
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| Hands-On With SXSW 2013's Best Apps | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 6:24 PM | Emily Price |
| The Interactive portion of SXSW 2013 is now history, and it featuredproved to be a launching space for lots of new apps. The rollouts included new apps for making you smarter while you're at work, as well as a few fun additions. Here we get our hands on the best apps we found.
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| Facebook Stops MessageMe Users From Finding Friends | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 5:11 PM | Anita Li |
| UPDATE: MessageMe co-founder Arjun Sethi told Mashable that the company will have more updates on Tuesday morning."We're currently working to make sure our users don't encounter any errors in the application when using it." Facebook has cut off MessageMe's ability to access its "Find Friends" function, according to a report.
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| TechPet Brings Your iPhone to Life Tamagotchi-style | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 4:55 PM | Camille Bautista |
| You fed it, put it to bed and picked up after the pixelated poops. You were inconsolable after it died, but it returned after a simple reset. Remember your first Tamagotchi? Bandai, the same company that gave us our favorite virtual pet, released a new version of TechPet, a toy that turns your iPhone into a dog.
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| Pebble Watch SDK Coming in April | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 4:25 PM | Emily Banks |
| Developers will soon be able to get their hands on a proof-of-concept software developer's kit (SDK) for the immensely popular Pebble watch. The company announced Saturday it will publish the watchface SDK the second week of April. In this initial release, the SDK will be fairly limited; developers won't yet have access to the accelerometer or communication between watchfaces and smartphones.
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| This Week's Biggest Moments in 25 Photos | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 4:08 PM | Emil Lendof |
| Feels like just yesterday it was Monday. So many things happened this week that we should remember. The new leader of the Roman Catholic Church was appointed, Pope Francis I. China also got a new leader by appointing Xi Jinping as its new president. With the economic uncertainty in Europe, the Swiss central bank pledged to keep up its defense of the Swiss Franc.
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| Pokemon-Themed Nintendo 3DS XL Coming Soon | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:47 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Pokemon fans, Nintendo is giving you the chance to feel the Poke-love. The company announced that it will release a limited-edition Nintendo 3DS XL game system later this month, built with Pokemon fans in mind. The Pikachu system features the iconic, lighting-shooting character right on the front. The new 3DS XL will be adorned in bright yellow and feature Pikachu's happy, smiling face.
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| Homemade LEGO Contraption Folds and Launches Paper Airplanes | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:33 PM | Emily Banks |
| With LEGO, robotics and paper airplanes, this contraption couldn't get much cooler. YouTube user Hknssn built a LEGO robot that folds and launches paper planes. It's as impressive to see in action as it sounds. It took 600 hours to build the device, which is comprised of more than 6,000 bricks. It uses two NXT LEGO computers that control servomotors, touch and color sensors, and a compressor that launches the folded plane into the air.
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| 40+ Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:42 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| This week started amid the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive conference and concluded with big news in the mobile world as Samsung revealed its Galaxy S4. As the ice thaws and spring begins, Mashable has you covered in the social media and tech space. Make sure to check in for every breaking update and ongoing coverage.
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| 5 Unforgivable Crapware Offenders | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:13 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| Crapware (a.k.a. bloatware, nagware, foistware) is like the school bully that trips you on your way to the front of the class for a book report. He isn’t in the hallway after class shaking you down for lunch money or beating you up by the flag pole, but he makes your life just a bit more difficult.
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| New 'Game of Thrones' Trailer Shows Who's Fighting Whom | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:04 PM | Charlie White |
| Just when we thought Game of Thrones had released its last trailer before the season 3 premiere on March 31 on HBO, along comes this commercial-length tease that reveals new scenes and dialog. The quick half-minute spot, entitled "War Preview," serves dual purposes — hyping up the series for the faithful, as well as quickly summing up who's fighting whom (and who wants whom dead) for series newcomers.
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| The Danger of Gaining More Twitter Followers | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 1:15 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| We're all a little obsessed with gaining new Twitter followers, but the number really isn't as important as the quality of your tweets. If you tweet it, they will come. Some Twitter users aren't as complacent as all that, however. Those who are #TeamFollowBack, for instance, will follow anyone who follows them in support of boosting each other's social media presence.
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| 7 Beer Apps for Superior Suds on St. Patrick's Day | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 12:56 PM | Gloria Dawson |
| Drinking beer on St. Patrick's Day is a custom that dates back centuries and is celebrated throughout the world. But it's high time to add some technology to the tradition, and that's just what the suds scene has done lately. There's a brewery in Alaska that's using spent grains (waste from the brewing process) to power the brewery. The Alaska Brewing Co.
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| 'Game of Thrones'-'Princess Bride' Mashup Is Perfection | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 12:15 PM | Emily Banks |
| In case you've never noticed all the parallels between Game of Thrones and The Princess Bride, this video, released ahead of the third season of HBO's hit show, will do it for you. And it will remind you just how adorable young Fred Savage was when learning the disappointment that stories don't always work out the way you'd expect. "Geez, Grandpa, what'd you read this thing to me for?" Game of Thrones fans understand your pain, kid.
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| Retina iPad mini Could Arrive In Second Half Of 2013, Says Analyst | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 12:08 PM | AppAdvice |
| The much-rumored iPad mini with Retina display could be launched in the second half of 2013. That's according to DisplaySearch analyst Paul Semenza, who based his prediction on supply chain data. Semenza has told CNET that the Retina iPad mini will have a resolution of 2,048 x 1,536. No surprise there. That's the same as the resolution of the full-size iPad with Retina display, which, at 9.7 inches, has a pixel density of 264 ppi.
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| Mars Discovery Highlights Need for Sample-Return Mission | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:47 AM | Space.com |
| The announcement this week that Mars definitely could have supported some form of life in the ancient past is an unmistakable reminder that future missions to the Red Planet should focus on bringing Martian rock samples back to Earth, a celebrated planetary scientist says. NASA unveiled the discovery on Tuesday (March 12) with a bold announcement that Mars could have supported primitive life at some point billions of years ago.
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| Job Interviewing 101: How to Succeed in Different Situations | | Saturday, March 16, 2013 10:04 AM | Heather Huhman |
| Did you know the average employer may receive upwards of 100 applications per job opening? In addition, even if an applicant does land an interview, it can be difficult to navigate through the process since every interviewer is different. So, how can job seekers ensure they are reading each situation correctly?
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