| Learn About Overfishing With This Interactive Web Aquarium | | Friday, May 17, 2013 9:08 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| The human race has had a profound effect on the planet. Unfortunately, it hasn't always been positive. One of the overlooked issues we've caused is overfishing. By fishing too much, we have diminished the population of fish in a way that, according to many scientists, can even threaten oceanic ecosystems.
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| Report: Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Mull $1.1 Billion Tumblr Purchase | | Friday, May 17, 2013 8:21 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Yahoo looks to be very seriously eyeing a Tumblr acquisition, according to a report from AllThingsD. The tech blog is reporting that the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday to mull a $1.1 billion all-cash bid for Tumblr. ATD cautions that the deal could fall apart, but was on track as of Friday evening. If the board votes in favor of the deal, it could be announced Monday, a day in which Yahoo has already scheduled a major press conference.
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| Nintendo Will Get Revenue From All YouTube Videos Featuring its IP | | Friday, May 17, 2013 7:51 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Nintendo will collect revenue from fan-made YouTube videos that feature content from its games, according to a statement by the company. That means any time someone uploads a walkthrough or "let's play" video — a popular format where players demo the first 10 to 30 minutes of a game — Nintendo will be able to collect royalties on it.
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| Wi-Fi Network Breaks Speed Record | | Friday, May 17, 2013 7:40 PM | Discovery News |
| Think your network is fast? Getting a gigagbyte-sized movie over your local wireless network to your hard drive in a few seconds is old hat. Now there's a network that can push a 2-hour, high-definition movie to a computer a mile away in less time than it takes to read a single word. At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, a new record has been set: 40GB per second over a distance of about .6 of a mile.
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| 'Bang With Friends' Gets Booted From App Store | | Friday, May 17, 2013 7:06 PM | Christina Warren |
| We might need to call it "Banned With Friends." A week after debuting the new mobile client for anonymous friend banging, the iOS version of Bang With Friends (BWF) was removed from the App Store by Apple. Bang With Friends debuted in January and quickly took off in popularity. The concept is simple: Users log in with Facebook and select what friends they want to bang.
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| Robot Alarm Clock Dances by Your Bedside | | Friday, May 17, 2013 6:57 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If you've tried every alarm clock app and gadget under the sun but waking up on time still proves difficult, a beside companion that dances and talks might do the trick. No, it's not a human, it's a robot. Southern California-based Nuts and Voltz has developed a working prototype for an iPhone- and iPod-compatible robot alarm clock that wakes you up in quite a unique way.
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| Does Tumblr Lose Its Cool If It's Acquired? | | Friday, May 17, 2013 6:27 PM | Christina Warren |
| In the news business, when you start seeing enough reports about something, it usually means that at least part of those reports are true. That's why the media and tech worlds are in such a tizzy today, with multiple reports surfacing that Yahoo is close to acquiring Tumblr for as much as $1 billion.
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| Google Glass Stole the Show at Google I/O 2013 | | Friday, May 17, 2013 5:58 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Google made a lot of announcements in its marathon keynote to kick off Google I/O on Wednesday, but its most buzzed-about product was almost a no-show at the event. Google Glass barely got a mention, even though this is the first I/O where the tiny wearable computer is actually in developers' hands. The glaring omission didn't stop Glass from stealing the show for the rest of the conference, though.
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| Air Force Expects iPad Deployment to Save $50 Million Over 10 Years | | Friday, May 17, 2013 5:38 PM | TabTimes |
| The U.S. Air Force is expecting to save a serious amount of cash as a result of deploying 18,000 iPads. With the iPads brought in to replace heavy, paper-bound flight manuals, a spokesman for the Air Force's Air Mobility Command has said that the deployment will save $750,000 per year on fuel alone and "well over $50 million" in total costs over the next 10 years.
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| MetroPCS Abandons FCC Net Neutrality Suit | | Friday, May 17, 2013 4:55 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| MetroPCS dropped its lawsuit challenging the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules Friday, leaving Verizon the FCC's sole legal opponent in the case. T-Mobile purchased MetroPCS last month; T-Mobile is not involved with the net neutrality lawsuit. The FCC's rules bar landline-based broadband providers from discriminating between different kinds of Internet traffic.
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| Watch Steve Aoki's New Music Video Featuring Ray Kurzweil | | Friday, May 17, 2013 4:10 PM | Todd Olmstead |
| Electronic musician Steve Aoki is a self-professed "Apple geek" and otherwise a big fan of technology. For his new music video for the track "Singularity," which Mashable is presenting for the first time exclusively, he recruited futurist and technologist Ray Kurzweil to participate.
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| Where to Find Mashable at Internet Week New York | | Friday, May 17, 2013 3:43 PM | Trevor Gowan |
| For one week in May, 45,000 Internet professionals come together in NYC to celebrate Internet business and culture at more than 400 events for Internet Week New York 2013, from May 20 to 27. Mashable is proud to be a media partner for this year’s event. You can see and hear from the Mashable team at these Internet Week events: Pete Cashmore, Mashable's founder and CEO, is kicking off Internet Week on Monday, May 20 at 1:30 p.m.
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| Instabeat Is Google Glass and Nike FuelBand for Swimmers | | Friday, May 17, 2013 3:30 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Wearable gizmos are the next frontier in the world of technology. And fitness trackers like Fitbit or Nike+ FuelBand already give runners a great way to track their workouts. But what about swimmers? Until now, they've been left out of the gadget tracker fad. But Instabeat, a wearable accessory for swimmer's goggles, might change that. Think of a mix between Google Glass and a Nike+ FuelBand and you get Instabeat.
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| When Will Humans Upload Their Brains to Computers? | | Friday, May 17, 2013 3:16 PM | Discovery News |
| In the new techno-thriller Upload, a young computer scientist with a sketchy past and distrust of society decides to take the ultimate leap forward by scanning his brain and uploading his memories, personality and consciousness into a simulated world of his own making. Raymond wants to live forever, controlling his environment and interactions with other humans as a god-like being.
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| Reporter Crowdfunds Alleged Footage of Mayor Smoking Crack | | Friday, May 17, 2013 2:21 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is denying the reported existence of camera-phone footage showing him partaking in crack cocaine. How is that video not online yet, you ask? Gawker's John Cook posted a story describing the video, but refused to pay the sources the $200,000 they demanded for the file. Cook — who broke the story Thursday — has turned to crowdfunding platform IndieGoGo to raise the cash for the footage.
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| Google Offers Makes Its Way to Google+ | | Friday, May 17, 2013 2:06 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Google's deal-of-the-day service is coming to Google+, so users can see and share limited-time promotions directly with their news stream.
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| Google I/O 2013: What We've Learned | | Friday, May 17, 2013 1:40 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| As Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, nears the end, it's time to take a look back at some of the biggest announcements the company made.
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| Huge Rock Crashes Into Moon, Sparks Giant Explosion | | Friday, May 17, 2013 1:29 PM | Space.com |
| The moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into it in March, creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen on the moon since they started monitoring it. The meteorite crashed on March 17, slamming into the lunar surface at a mind-boggling 56,000 mph (90,000 kph) and creating a new crater 65 feet wide (20 meters).
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| Samsung TecTiles Finally Come to Galaxy S4 | | Friday, May 17, 2013 1:10 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Samsung's programmable TecTile technology is finally coming to the Galaxy S4. TecTiles are Samsung's near-field communications (NFC) stickers that be placed around the house or car, so you can automate certain tasks.
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| G8 Opens Up to Your Community With G-everyone Meetups | | Friday, May 17, 2013 12:50 PM | Casey Brown |
| Mashable is excited to announce G-everyone, a 24-hour digital convening that will unite local groups around the world to discuss the pressing issues addressed at the G8 Summit. Organized through Mashable’s Meetup Everywhere platform, G-everyone meetups will take place on the eve of the G8, a forum of the world's eight wealthiest Western countries.
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| Building Solar in Spain Instead of Germany Could Save Billions | | Friday, May 17, 2013 12:22 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Building solar and wind projects in the wrong place is wasting billions of dollars in Europe. Siemens says it would make sense to build solar power plants in sunny countries in Europe rather than in cloudy ones. And wind turbines should be built in windy places. These blindingly obvious suggestions run contrary to what’s actually happening.
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| Is Gamification Just a Fad? | | Friday, May 17, 2013 11:53 AM | Dani Fankhauser |
| A term called gamification has taken UX by storm over the past few years, a trend likely spurred by Foursquare's success with badges. Whether they understand it or not, app designers desire to create a gamified experience, a supposedly sure route to the elusive engagement that makes free apps valuable. Even in the news business there is a hunger for gamification.
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| Congress to Grill Tim Cook Over Apple's Offshore Wealth | | Friday, May 17, 2013 11:40 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Mr. Cook is going to Washington. Apple CEO Tim Cook will testify before Congress Tuesday about the company's approximately $100 billion held overseas — more than double the estimated $45 billion it keeps in the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) wants to grill Cook on Apple's offshore accounts and on the general phenomenon of offshoring.
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| Original 'Sonic the Hedgehog' Speeds on to Android | | Friday, May 17, 2013 11:13 AM | Chelsea Stark |
| The original Sonic the Hedgehog is now available for Android through Google Play. Sega released the port, which has been modified for touch controls, to Android Thursday. Along with all the original Sonic the Hedgehog goodness, players will also be able to unlock Tails and Knuckles, characters that originally appeared in later Sonic the Hedgehog games.
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