| Google's 'Star Trek Computer' Voice Search: Hands On | | Google engineers sometimes like to say the Star Trek computer is the ideal search engine. You can talk to it like it were a person, ask it anything, and it'll tell you the answer — verbally. During the keynote at Google I/O developer conference, the company demonstrated how it's bringing exactly that technology to the Chrome browser. Although the upgrade isn't available yet, Mashable got some hands-on time with it at the I/O.
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| This Brainy Desk Lamp Has a Personality | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:18 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| These days, even lamps in your house can be programmed via Arduino. A Canadian design company called Fabule has developed Clyde, an LED desk lamp that can be programmed with personality modules in its "brain." It's compatible with Arduino, an open-source electronics program. For example, when Clyde is in "afraid of the dark" mode, he can light up depending on how dark a room is.
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| Why Was Hacker 'Weev' Put in Solitary Confinement? | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:37 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Infamous hacker and Internet troll Andrew Auernheimer, better known as Weev, said he wasn't afraid of going to prison. But he is now being held in "administrative segregation," which is a euphemism for solitary confinment. His lawyer and supporters claim he's being punished for tweeting and posting messages to SoundCloud from behind bars.
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| Is Marissa Mayer About to Buy Tumblr for $1 Billion? | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:02 PM | Chris Taylor |
| In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league of social media, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to be closing in on a $1 billion acquisition deal with David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr. Details of the talks leaked out earlier Thursday via AllThingsD, a site which prides itself on its Yahoo sources in particular. A later report in AdWeek, via its own sources, cited $1 billion as the figure currently under discussion.
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| Military Robots Will Patrol World Cup | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:47 PM | Discovery News |
| Even non-soccer fans know how hooliganism can quickly turn a harmless match into a veritable war zone, full of riots, stabbings, even death. To help keep the peace at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, FIFA has decided to go high-tech by enlisting military robots for security.
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| How Technology Made World Domination Easier | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:59 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Technology has changed the way we do things. Yes, that's probably the "duh" statement of the year. But take a moment to flash back to the olden days (like 1992) and think about how you shopped, flirted and planned for world domination. Not a computer in sight, right? SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Doghouse Diaries lays out all the tasks that have changed because of computers and the Internet.
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| Solar Scooter is World's Most Guilt-Free Vehicle | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:33 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Electric cars are great for the environment, right? Well, yes, but their carbon footprint isn't exactly zero. You're still drawing that electricity from somewhere, mostly coal-fired power stations. How about a solar-powered vehicle, then? There aren't a lot of those around — for cars, the physics don't quite make sense yet. There's a solar-powered plane, though that's hardly practical for the average commuter.
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| Republicans and Democrats Lock Horns Over Obamacare on Twitter | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:21 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Republicans are promoting their 37th attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as "Obamacare" — with the Twitter hashtag #ObamacareInThreeWords. Democrats all the way up to the White House took the hashtag and spun it in favor of the bill, turning it into a full-blown Twitter spat. While House Republicans often attempt to repeal the ACA, such a move is an absolute non-starter in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
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| Type 'Beam Me Up' on Bing for a 'Star Trek' Surprise | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:44 PM | Charlie White |
| Microsoft's Bing search engine just got even more inventive, creating a strange new world where no web geek has gone before. To take a unique trip, simply type "beam me up" in the Bing search engine, and see what happens. Once you've been beamed up, click on any of the designated hotspots. You'll hear realistic Starfleet-regulation sound effects as you're transported to a variety of locations throughout the universe.
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| Screaming Arm Wrestler Will Haunt Your Eardrums | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:23 PM | Annie Colbert |
| At the 2013 European Arm Wrestling Championships, one competitor relied on more than just her biceps to intimidate an opponent. A competitor from Lithuania used eardrum-shattering yells and horror movie-style faces in a fierce bout with an arm wrestler from the Ukraine. The woman's unusual technique couldn't help her get an upper hand — err, arm — in the tournament, but she might at least have a future on the Internet.
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| Bill Gates Is World's Richest Man Once Again | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:00 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Thanks to a recent stock surge, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is once again the world's richest man, a title he hasn't held since 2007.
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| 9 Management Lessons We Learned From Michael Scott | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:49 PM | The Daily Muse |
| After nine long years, The Office is coming to an end Thursday night. And while there are plenty of things we'll miss — Jim and Dwight's pranks, Kevin's one-liners, and all the Andy drama — no one will ever replace the man who started it all. In honor of the show's finale, we decided to review the management stylings of Michael Scott and share a few nuggets of workplace wisdom we’ve gained from him over the years.
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| ESPN's On-Air Mystery Prompts Speculation | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:34 PM | Sam Laird |
| ESPN's show First Take has gained a reputation for its commentators blowing hot air, but this takes things to a whole new level.
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| Smart Rifle Shoots Target, Then Shares to the Web | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:23 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| There's a new rifle in town, and it's not a simple new weapon. It's a high-tech smart rifle that allegedly makes even novice shooters very accurate. With its lasers, built-in computer and color graphic display, you could say it's a rifle with its own brain and eyes. "Think of it like a smart rifle.
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| Prototype Your Own Google Glass App With This Tool | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:59 PM | Emily Price |
| Think you have the perfect idea of a Google Glass app, but don't have the high-tech specs (or perhaps the technical expertise) to make it happen? Now you can create your own Glass apps without having Glass or any coding experience. Well, sort of. Glass Sim is a prototyping tool for Google Glass that lets you create a quick visualization of what the app of your dreams might look like if it ever became a reality.
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| Fired Amy's Baking Company Waitress Shares Story on Reddit | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:41 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Days after the worst Kitchen Nightmares on Gordan Ramsay's show had a series of public meltdowns, one of their victims is having her moment in the spotlight—on Reddit, one of the places currently on the "most loathed" list for Amy's Baking Company. Katy Cipriano (a self-declared alias) was a waitress whose mistreatment at the hands of her employer, Amy Bouzaglo, was shown on this week's episode of Kitchen Nightmares.
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| 8 Quirky 'Arrested Development' Protest Posters | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:31 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Everyone's favorite dysfunctional family, the Bluths, are making a highly anticipated return to a Netflix-screening device near you. But first, we remember all the antics that made the Arrested Development gang so entertaining for three seasons. Antics like Lindsay Bluth Funke's erratic, yet passionate, devotion to various charities is a fan favorite (can anyone say "Neuter Fest '98"?).
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| Google Uses Dracula to Hype New 'All Access' Music Service | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:48 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Google's first video promo for Google Play Music All Access, which launched Wednesday during Google I/O, walks us through the new subscription service's features with help from the world's most famous vampire, Dracula. Craving for the perfect music to best suit his taste, Dracula picks a song, turns the song into a radio station of related tracks and uses the unlimited skip feature until he finds something he likes.
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| Instagram Photos You're Tagged In Go Public | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:44 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Two weeks ago, Instagram announced users could begin tagging themselves and others in photos through Instagram's iOS and Android apps. Those photos have been quietly filling up a hidden profile section called "Photos of You," which goes public for the first time Thursday. You can now pull up the profile of almost anyone on the service — anyone who doesn't have a private account, that is — and browse photos he or she appears in.
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| Pebble Smart Watch Raises $15 Million, Releases Official SDK | | Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:19 PM | Christina Warren |
| Everyone's favorite smart watch — the Pebble — just raised $15 million in Series A funding. The company also released the next evolution of its official SDK, now known as the PebbleKit. Led by Charles River Ventures, the $15 million Series A isn't the biggest amount of funding we've seen in the hardware space, but it's impressive when you consider the context of the round — and Pebble's crowdfunding roots.
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