| AT&T Enters the World of Home Automation | | Armed with a smartphone and an app, you can control many aspects of your digital life. You can unlock your front door from afar with Lockitron, change the temperature in your home using a Nest thermostat or check in on what the nanny is doing with the kids using an easy-to-install home security camera. Of course you need to remember the passwords to control and manage all those apps and devices.
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| The New York Times Already Has a Google Glass App | | Google Glass owners — all several of you — rejoice, as you can now peruse The New York Times on your shiny pair of augmented reality glasses. The official New York Times Google Glass app lets users get breaking news alerts and hourly news updates, with the option to have article summaries read aloud.
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| 'XCOM' Becomes a Tactical Shooter in 'The Bureau' | | Players can again enter the 'XCOM' universe and fight aliens later this summer, this time in a tactical third-person shooter, 2K Games announced Friday. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is 2K's attempt at turning the popular turn-based strategy franchise into a faster-paced shooter, while still keeping the signature difficulty of the franchise.
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| Remember When Space Was Totally Awesome? | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:54 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| If you're nostalgic for those times you could spend hours playing games instead of being an adult, you are not alone. YouTube cartoon channel Animation Domination High Def posted this sensory-pleasing song and video of all the things we miss from our 80s and 90s childhoods, back-to-back with all the things we loathe from responsible adulthood.
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| Man Proposes to His Girlfriend With a Drone | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:39 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| In the age of Internet and ubiquitous technology, we've seen a lot of great, original marriage proposals, even geekily romantic ones. But this one, made with the aid of a drone, might very well top the geek scale. SEE ALSO: Will Dummy Cities Be Used to Test Drones in the U.S.? In a video posted to YouTube, a man from San Francisco, Calif., Jason, proposed to his girlfriend, Christina.
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| Get Ready for Summer With This Mega Trailer Mashup | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:20 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| This summer, superheroes will face down evil, robots will clash with monsters, and monsters will ... go to college. Those are just a few of the plot lines this season's surefire blockbusters hold in store, along with zombies, magic, ghosts, fast cars, faster snails, space adventures and three hung-over dudes.
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| George Lucas Museum Wants Your Facebook Likes | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:08 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Not so long ago, in a city near, near the Bay, a certain retired filmmaker decided to build a place he could hang his Death Star-sized art collection and share it with a public eager for inspiration. Now he needs you, loyal citizens of the Lucas Empire, to show your support for the project. The George Lucas Cultural Arts Museum is currently just a dream.
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| Show Us the Beauty of Your Hometown | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:26 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| When the luxury of travel to another city or country eludes us, we can turn to familiar haunts to get away from it all — without getting away at all. The comfort of a hometown haven can be as invigorating as a trip to a new land.This week for the Mashable Photo Challenge, we want to see your hometown escapes: the local spots in your life that are most important to you.
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| Aaron Swartz Documentary Seeks Funding on Kickstarter | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:19 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| When Internet activist and hacker Aaron Swartz committed suicide, his death resonated far beyond his circle of friends, family and acquaintances, touching technology's greatest minds, other Internet activists, and millions of people whom he never met. His far-reaching influence is what motivated director Brian Knappenberger to decide to make a documentary on his life and death, and to launch a Kickstarter to fund it.
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| Instapaper Bought By Betaworks — Why the Big Fuss? | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 7:51 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Do you use Instapaper? No, me neither. But the $3.99 app, which lets you save stuff to read later when outside a wifi or 3G zone, has a small and highly devoted following. Which is why a small segment of Twitter went nuts at the news Thursday that Instapaper was being bought by Betaworks, the burgeoning media tech company that bought the assets of Digg last year.
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| Yahoo's Chairman Resigns | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 6:59 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Fred Amoroso, Yahoo's chairman of the board, is resigning his position, the company announced late Thursday. Amoroso took over as Yahoo's chairman in May at the same time that Ross Levinsohn was appointed interim CEO. As chairman, he led the team that investigated Yahoo's former CEO Scott Thompson for fabricating some of his credentials. He also played a part in helping bring Marissa Mayer in from Google to serve as Yahoo's new CEO.
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| Chevy Spark EV is World's Most Efficient Electric Car, Says GM | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 6:35 PM | Charlie White |
| The upcoming Spark EV is the most efficient production electric vehicle in the world, according to GM. The company backs up that audacious claim with some hard numbers about the Spark EV's EPA mileage stats for combined city and highway driving — measured at the equivalent of 119 miles per gallon. An equally impressive stat for the Spark EV is the EPA's estimate of its range, 82 miles per charge.
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| Mobile Apps Are the New Network TV, Without the Ad Dollars | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 5:55 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Researcher Flurry reported on Thursday that the audience for mobile apps has hit 58 million in primetime — 8 p.m. — a figure that rivals that of the top three TV networks on a very good night, but revenues are still just a fraction of those of TV. The IAB estimates that the U.S. mobile ad market brought in $3.4 billion in 2012. The IAB didn't break out revenues for apps vs.
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| Wounded Veterans Send Inspiring Message to Boston Survivors | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 5:11 PM | Annie Colbert |
| "We stand with you." Those are the powerful words delivered by U.S. veterans to survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings in this new video. Shoulder 2 Shoulder, a Virginia-based Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, produced the YouTube clip that features veterans from the Wounded Warrior Community. The vets show off all the amazing things they can still do despite their disabilities.
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| 10 Places You Can't Use Google Glass | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:14 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Google Glass, the tech giant's augmented reality eyeglasses project, lets you capture photos, record video and surf the web all at eye level. But this kind of innovation isn't free of limitations. Currently, Explorer editions are only available for a chosen few. Even so, certain places and activities have already forbidden the use of Google Glass, whether for safety, privacy or copyright issues.
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| Baby Mugging Meme Serves Up Kids in Cups | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:09 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Got some kids laying around? Just throw 'em in dishware and they'll keep for an extra few days. "Baby mugging," the latest photo fad sweeping Instagram, has nothing to do with stealing kids' cookies, but is a goofy illusion that makes little ones look like they're peeking out of your favorite mug.
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| Forget the DSLR, Your Smartphone Is All You Need | | Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:53 AM | Sharlyn Lauby |
| This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Most of us walk around all day with our phones by our side. They offer us access to our email, connect us with the Internet and we can even play a few games to pass the time.
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