| A Password You Wear on Your Wrist | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:57 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Mobile security startup PassBan offers smartphone owners a slew of authentication options—including one you can wear.
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| Portable Bluetooth Speaker Lets You Listen to Emojis | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:37 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Sometimes a smiley just isn't enough. If you've ever wanted to send a sound to express anger or delight — or you just love cat noises — the creators of TeleSound have got you covered. TeleSound, a portable sound messenger, allows people to send more than 1,000 sounds from a smartphone or tablet. The device connects wirelessly via Bluetooth and uses a free iPhone or Android app to send emojis.
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| Online Gaming Giant to Buy Atlantic City Casino | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:12 PM | The Daily Dot |
| After being drummed out of the U.S. two years ago, the parent company of several of the internet's biggest online gaming sites is looking to reestablish itself with a brick-and-mortar toehold on the Jersey shore. Even before New Jersey Gov.
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| Like, You Will: Star Wars Nesting Dolls | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:33 PM | Neha Prakash |
| J.J. Abrams might have been tasked with bringing the Star Wars characters back to life on the silver screen, but artist Andy Stattmiller is trying to shrink the whole franchise. Stattmiller has created an entire set of nesting dolls replicating the galaxy far, far away. Everyone, from Han Solo to Obi Wan, C3PO to Vader, makes an appearance — just much smaller than we've seen them before.
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| Take a Look at Facebook's Redesigned Timeline | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:13 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook is testing a new Timeline design. Currently live in New Zealand, the new look brings a slimmed down toolbar to the top of profile pages and repositions other content. First spotted by The Next Web, we had a friend in New Zealand grab some screenshots of the update for us so we could take a closer look. Check out the two photos below.
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| The Evolution of a Coffee Addict | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:01 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| It started with one cup when you were 17 years old. You probably didn't like the bitter taste, but you just needed a boost to finish that sociology paper before your 8 a.m. class. Nowadays, you finish your second cup of coffee before even stepping foot into the office. (Or maybe you're on a whole new level, like this this guy who ordered a $50 Starbucks drink.) SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In the comic below, H.
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| Baby Elephant Playing in the Mud Redefines Cute | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:04 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Baby elephant Navann here is just having the time of his life. No cares, no worries, he's just a little kid and wants to play in some mud. The energetic pachyderm does more slipping and sliding than actual standing in those mud baths but seems to be living by the Hakuna Matata school of thought. SEE ALSO: Sledding Pugs Will Make You Appreciate Winter Navann lives with his mom and nanny at the Elephant Nature Park in northern Thailand.
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| Damon Lindelof Goes on Hysterical Twitter Rant Against Bieber's Hat | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 6:30 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Justin Bieber was photographed leaving his London hotel room in a yellow spiky hat, thus providing fodder for a millennium's worth of Bieber jokes. And while there are plenty of Bieber haters to call out the pop idol for his hideous life choices, the last person we expected to take a swing was Damon Lindelof, of Lost fame.
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| Tweeting Bikes Coming to South by Southwest | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:37 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Digital ad agency Razorfish will peddle its services at South by Southwest via some 20 self-tweeting bicycles. The bikes, which will be planted strategically or "bike bombed" at events during the Interactive portion of the festival, will include GPS devices that will transmit location data to Razorfish's social media team. Each of the 20 bikes will have its own Twitter ID ("PennyTheBike" is one) and will tweet in its own personality.
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| Making a Harlem Shake Video? There's an App for That | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:13 PM | Emily Price |
| A new Android app promises to help make your Harlem Shake video dreams come true. Called Harlem Shake Video Creator, the app offers step-by-step directions for creating your own Harlem Shake clip, as well as a built-in music track for making the magic happen. Once your masterpiece is complete, you can upload your creation directly to YouTube from the app.
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| Groupon Fires CEO Andrew Mason | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:48 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Twenty-four hours after reporting disappointing first-quarter earnings (a move that sent its stock down more than 25% in after-hours), Groupon announced Thursday afternoon that co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason will no longer hold the top post at the company.
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| Pope Benedict XVI's Tweets Have Been Removed | | Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:24 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| After tweeting his farewell, the entire Twitter history of Pope Benedict XVI has been deleted today from the @Pontifex account. No official statement has yet explained why Benedict's past tweets were deleted. The name on the account has also been changed to "Sede Vacante," which in Italian means "vacant seat." To read the old tweets, there's a link to the Vatican's official news website, where they are all stored.
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