| Report: Google+ Users Spent an Average of About 7 Minutes There in March | | Google+ is catching up on a lot of fronts to Facebook, but it's still lagging in one key metric: Time spent. The average user spent 6 minutes 47 seconds on Google+ in March vs. 6 hours, 44 minutes on Facebook according to figures Nielsen supplied to Mashable. However, that number is down for Facebook. In March 2012, the average was 7 hours, 9 minutes per person.
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| See the First Trailer for Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity | | Gravity, the new movie from Alfonso Cuarón, best known for his sci-fi movie Children of Men, now has an official teaser trailer. While Gravity is also a sci-fi film, its setting its vastly different from Children of Men's ugly, dystopian future Earth. In it, two astronauts (played by Sandra Bullock and George Clooney) get stranded on a damaged space station with no communications with Earth.
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| Half-Life 2 Now Officially Supports the Oculus Rift | | Valve has updated its Half-Life 2 shooter with the support for virtual reality head-mounted display Oculus Rift. The feature is experimental, and is available in the game's beta version. It has some known issues, Paragon reports, such as problems with the zoomed-in UI and a hard-to-read HUD, but if you're up for destroying zombies in a virtual reality setting, it's still probably your best bet.
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| Glowing Robots Injected Into Eyes May Save Your Sight | | Tiny, glowing robots could soon be injected into the eye to alert doctors of low oxygen levels that can lead to blindness. Led by Bradley Nelson, a professor of robotics and intelligent systems at ETH-Zurich, researchers created devices 1 millimeter in length and one third of a millimeter in width that, once injected, can be steered through the eye’s vitreous fluid via external magnetic fields.
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| New Olympus PEN Camera Uses 50-Year-Old Design | | The Olympus PEN F, launched in 1963, was a very advanced camera for its time. Now, for the F's 50th anniversary, Olympus is paying homage to its design with its new flagship model in the digital PEN line of mirrorless cameras, the E-P5. You can instantly feel the retro styling when you look at the E-P5.
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| Internet Connects Dying Girl to Her Musical Hero — in a Day | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:53 PM | Chris Taylor |
| New Jersey 19-year-old Marie Sowler was diagnosed with stage 4 leukemia. Her sister and father pitched in with a double bone marrow transplant. Sadly, it didn't work. Marie has been given just days to live. Her fondest wish is to meet Kellin Quinn, lead singer for indie band Sleeping With Sirens. And thanks to the combined information-spreading powers of Reddit and Twitter, that wish looks like it is about to come true.
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| Startup Gets You Weekly Cash Gifts For Your Work | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:12 PM | Dani Fankhauser |
| The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Gittip One-Liner Pitch: Gittip is a cash gift platform for professionals and groups to fund each other's work.
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| Odd Celebrity Pairings Make For Hideous Offspring | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 10:59 PM | Neha Prakash |
| For the most part, celebrities are an attractive bunch. And when attractive people mate, they usually make cute babies. But it may turn out that only applies in very specific instances — and only if celebs are extremely particular in picking the best partner.
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| Want Those Snapchats Back? That'll Be $300 | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 10:14 PM | Chris Taylor |
| In the digital world, few things are ever truly deleted or destroyed. Not if you have the money to get them back. That's why one company is making hay out of a new service Thursday that offers to recover Snapchats — those supposedly self-destructing pics beloved by teens and twentysomethings — from the recipient's phone. For a cool $300 to $500 per device.
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| Coach's Confused Tweet Takes Twitter to Task | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 10:04 PM | Sam Laird |
| Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our insular little social media world that it's easy to forget just how deep we've all dove into the Internet rabbit hole.
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| Watch TV With Faraway Friends in This Virtual Living Room | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 9:21 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Whether it's during the latest episode of Game of Thrones or a football game on TV, chances are you might be engaging with a second screen and tweeting, Facebook posting and otherwise communicating with friends about what you're watching. Now a social TV startup wants to bring that shared experience back to a single screen.
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| iPad Mini Sales Aren't So Bad After All | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:48 PM | TabTimes |
| Apple component supplier Pegatron dismissed reports that iPad mini demand is stuttering to a halt. Bloomberg journalist Tim Culpan reported that Pegatron CEO Jason Cheng said iPad mini revenues had dropped and were “more on demand, while the price has been stable." Just one day after that report, Cheng is now accusing Culpan of twisting his words.
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| 25 Priceless Texts Only Mom Could Write | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:14 PM | Neha Prakash |
| With Mother's Day just around the corner, it's that time we appreciate all that Mom has done for us over the years. Yes, those 3 a.m. feedings were crucial and packing our lunches was a big deal, but there's something else that they've done that really proves how much they care — texting. We all know moms would much rather pick up a phone and give us kids a ring to chat about our day or make sure we are eating our veggies.
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| McCain Introduces Bill for 'a la Carte' Cable TV | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 7:34 PM | Charlie White |
| Hate having to pay for hundreds of cable TV channels when you watch less than a dozen? How about those blackout rules that make it so you can't watch your favorite NFL team when a home game isn't sold out? If Sen. John McCain gets his way — and that's a big "if" — those two annoyances could be a thing of the past. Sen. McCain introduced a bill Thursday in Congress, the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013.
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| How Much Would It Cost to Be the Great Gatsby? | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 6:48 PM | Chris Taylor |
| The highly anticipated movie from Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, opens this weekend. Whether or not Luhrmann has done justice to Fitzgerald's quintessential Jazz age novel — or even bested the 1970s Robert Redford version — is open to debate. What seems clear is that the filmmaker has remained true to one essential component of Gatsby's character — his sheer opulence.
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| Tastiest Vines of All Time: Ryan Gosling Refusing Cereal | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 6:31 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Ryan Gosling, if you don't eat your cereal, you'll get all skinny and look more Mickey Mouse Club than Notebook. Film director Ryan McHenry is trying to get the dreamy actor to stuff his belly with wheaty nuggets of breakfast goodness, but the Gos is having no part of it.
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| Hackers Stole $45 Million From ATMs | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 6:23 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Federal prosecutors have accused eight people of being part of a global "cybercrime organization" said to be responsible for the theft of $45 million from ATMs around the world. Seven of the eight suspects have been arrested, while authorities say the eighth was reportedly murdered in the Dominican Republic last month. The eight suspects are accused of comprising the global heist's New York cell, stealing $2.8 million from area ATMs.
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| State Department Compels Gunsmith to Remove 3D-Printed Gun Files | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 5:59 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Cody Wilson, the mind behind the "Liberator," the world's first 3D-printed handgun, said he didn't know what would happen once he uploaded the blueprints for the gun online. Now he does. The Department of State, through its Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance, forced Wilson to take down the online blueprints for the "Liberator" and all the other 3D-printed weapon parts that he has made available online.
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| Your Future Samsung TV May Bend and Twist | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 5:22 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| A new Samsung patent describes a TV with a flexible display that viewers could bend by using a remote control, just like changing the channel.
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| Meet the World's Cutest Baseball Fanatic | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:49 PM | Sam Laird |
| "CC" is 18 months old and probably knows more about the New York Yankees than most grown-up baseball fans. Watch her drop knowledge in this adorable video.
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| How to Hack Google Like NSA's Top Cyberspies | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:37 PM | Nextgov |
| There’s a reason they call it cyberspace: Like space, the Internet has grown so expansive that we’ll likely never know all its secrets. Indeed, cyberspace is so deep and complex that even the National Security Agency’s top cyberspies are struggling to comprehend it. But that hasn’t stopped them from trying.
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| Apply to be a Listening Intern for 'The Onion' | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:21 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Unemployed and feeling demotivated in the job hunt? Lucky for you, The Onion is hiring for some pretty competitive and exciting new positions. The latest listing is for a "listening intern" who is willing to lend a ear to the geniuses within the company.
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| Twitter Buys Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:10 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Twitter has acquired a scalable computing startup called Ubalo, the two companies announced Thursday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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| Texas Congressman Will Arm Twitter Follower With an AR-15 | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 3:28 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Many members of congress use Twitter to stay in touch with their constituents. Some use it to arm them. Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), used his Twitter account Wednesday to announce an AR-15 giveaway. He invited all interested U.S. citizens to submit their names in hopes of winning the same kind of assault weapon that was used in the Sandy Hook massacre and has since become a symbol for those opposing new gun regulations.
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| YouTube Introduces Paid Channels | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 3:24 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| After months of rumors, YouTube finally introduced a pilot program for paid channels on Thursday. YouTube will now let a few dozen of popular channels charge viewers a subscription fee of 99 cents or more per month, the company announced in a blog post. Each of these channels will offer two weeks of free viewing before charges kick in and some will provide discounts for those who sign up for an annual subscription.
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| Facebook Home Hits 'About 1 Million' Downloads, Looks to the Future | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 3:19 PM | Emily Price |
| Four weeks ago, Facebook launched Facebook Home, a launcher for Android that brings the social network's experience front and center. The company on Thursday invited a small group of reporters to its campus to discuss Facebook Home, its successes and challenges, and what we can expect to see added to the platform in the future.
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