| 'Battlefield 4' Trailer Officially Debuts Online After Early Leak | | A 17-minute trailer for Battlefield 4 was officially released Tuesday, after it leaked online ahead of schedule. Entitled "Fishing in Baku," the gameplay reveal was posted on Battlefield's official website, as well as its official YouTube channel. "These 17 minutes of Battlefield 4 gameplay provide an exclusive look at BF4's single-player campaign.
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| Tumblr Now Hosts Over 100 Million Blogs | | Tumblr has reached a big milestone: More than 100 million blogs and 44.6 billion blog posts have been created using the platform. The milestone, noticed by the folks from The Next Web, comes after a very successful 2012, in which Tumblr became on of the top 10 most visited sites in the world.
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| Ocean Array Could Clean 7,250,000 Tons of Plastic | | Millions of tons of tiny bits of plastic float in giant patches — or gyres — in oceans around the world. There are five large patches of plastic. One of them, the North Pacific Gyre, is roughly twice the size of the United States. All of them are a problem. These bits of plastic look like food to fish and birds and once consumed, end up killing these animals.
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| March Madness Slam Dunks This Week's Social TV Rankings | | Madness reigned on the social TV rankings this week. The NCAA men's basketball tournament accounted for 15 of the 20 top programs on cable and broadcast. More than half of the first week's games earned a million mentions on social media. But the real star of the week was Nickelodeon; the Kids' Choice Awards secured almost 20% of all social interactions on cable last week, with more than 13 million mentions.
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| Judge Recommends Dismissal of Ceglia Facebook Ownership Lawsuit | | Three years ago, New York-based woodchip salesman and convicted felon Paul Ceglia filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that the Facebook CEO reneged on a deal that promised him a majority stake in the social network. It appears the case may soon come to a close, however, after U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie Foschio moved to dismiss Ceglia's suit on Tuesday.
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| What's the Fastest Cloud Storage Service? | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:58 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| From Dropbox and Google Drive to SkyDrive, all of the major online storage services have their own unique strengths, but we wanted to answer one question: Who has the fastest cloud?
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| Flipboard 2.0: Now With Pinning, People Tagging, Search and Ecommerce | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| If there were two things missing from earlier versions of Flipboard, it was the ability to 1) bookmark content and 2) have conversations about it. Those are two features the Palo Alto, Calif., startup has included in Flipboard 2.0, launching on iPhone and iPad devices Tuesday. "It's the most ambitious thing the company has ever done," Eric Feng, Flipboard's CTO, said of the app update in an interview at Mashable's offices last week.
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| Why Introverts Have All the Fun | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:59 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| If you've ever read or heard author Susan Cain talk about the power of introverts, you already know that they can be misunderstood. Being introverted isn't the same thing as being shy or agoraphobic, it just means you often feel more comfortable in low-key environments.
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| Which Carrier Offers the Best iPhone 5 Plan? | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:55 PM | Christina Warren |
| T-Mobile is finally getting the iPhone 5, meaning that Apple's latest and greatest is available on every major U.S. wireless carrier. In addition to the iPhone 5, T-Mobile has done away with cellphone contracts and moved to flat-rate pricing. The company hopes its new plans — as well as its monthly installment payments for the device itself — will lure customers away from the likes of AT&T and Verizon.
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| Facebook Partners With Goldbely to Gift Your Favorite Foods | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:49 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook Gifts are about to get more delicious. Food-delivery startup Goldbely announced a partnership with Facebook Tuesday, which will bring some of the nation’s best food to Facebook. The Y Combinator-backed startup has searched the globe looking for the best eats, and has made some available on its site for anyone to order and have delivered to their doorstep.
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| HealthKeep Social Network Catalogues Your Medical Records | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 7:59 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Keeping track of your medical records can get complicated. HealthKeep, a health-based social network, is looking to help people organize their patient history with a timeline of symptoms, medications and conditions. Social media isn't always the best place for sharing health concerns due to privacy issues, but HealthKeep's users join anonymously so no identities are revealed.
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| Will That Tweet Get You Fired? This App Warns You | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 7:51 PM | The Daily Dot |
| If you've complained about your boss or job on Twitter, watch out for a warning from a new app called FireMe!. Ricardo Kawase and his team at the University of Hannover, Germany, created the tool, which tracks certain negative phrases about bosses and jobs and rates how likely they are to get the poster fired.
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| Is Social Media the New Chocolate During Lent? | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:03 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Social media use is a hard habit to shake. You try to stay away, but your fingers are itching for one quick click, just another good scroll to last you through the day. Sometimes, you find yourself coming back for more without even realizing. It's reflex, the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you remember at night. Hourly Facebook checks were standard for Lucy Church, and Lent became a time to make the change.
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| Why Mapping Your DNA Could Save Your Life | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 1:07 PM | Lauren Drell |
| You may think you know yourself like the back of your hand, but unless you've been DNA tested, there's probably a lot you don't know about yourself. Within each of the 50 trillion cells in your body rests the microscopic DNA that programs your entire being — your hair color, your height, your freckles (or lack thereof), your likelihood of developing cancer and whether or not you can taste cilantro.
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| T-Mobile Launches 4G LTE Network | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:14 PM | Pete Pachal |
| T-Mobile announced it was launching its 4G LTE network at an event this morning in New York City. The network will come online in seven cities to start and is planned to reach 200 million by the end of 2013. LTE on T-Mobile is now active in Baltimore, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Jose and Washington D.C. The carrier says it will cover 100 million Americans by midyear, and the full 200 million before 2014 rolls around.
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| Facebook Turns Red as SCOTUS Marriage Equality Hearings Begin | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:41 AM | Zoe Fox |
| Marriage equality activists are protesting outside the Supreme Court Tuesday, as the nation's highest court begins two days of hearings about two same-sex marriage laws. As can be expected in this day and age, the demonstrations are not only taking place in Washington. Facebook has become a hotbed for marriage equality supporters, as profile pictures change to a red version of the Human Rights Campaign's logo.
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| Cyprus Gets World's First Bitcoin ATM | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:53 AM | NowThisNews |
| Recently bailed-out Cyprus will be home to the world's first Bitcoin ATM machine. It will accept both Bitcoins for cash and cash for Bitcoins.
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| Report: Tablets to Outship Desktops This Year | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:11 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Tablet PCs will outship desktop PCs for the first time this year, catapulting us into a true "post-PC era," according to a report by researcher IDC. Shipments of tablet PCs will surpass desktops as the former category grows by 48.7% and the latter shrinks by 4.3%, IDC estimates. In 2014, tablets will also outship portable PCs.
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