| 'The Guardian' Is Finally Moving to 'Guardian.com' | | The Guardian's international editions are proliferating, but before the newspaper launches an online edition in Australia later this year, it's uniting all of its websites under a single domain, theguardian.com. Currently, The Guardian operates three websites. The primary one is guardian.co.uk. It has a second URL for its U.S. operation, guardiannews.com, which redirects to guardian.co.uk on section and article pages.
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| 3D-Printed 'Bionic' Ear Can Hear Beyond Human Ability | | 2:38:37 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Scientists at Princeton University have designed a bionic ear that can hear better than human ears. And get this: It was printed using an off-the-shelf 3D printer. We've heard of 3D printers someday building human organs before, but what's noteworthy about this project is this printed ear intertwines embedded electronics.
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| Apple Ad: iPhone is Most-Used Phone for Listening to Music | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:37 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Samsung may sell more smartphones, but a new Apple ad claims that more people listen to music on their iPhones than any other phone. The 60-second ad, which broke Thursday night, is a bit of a stylistic departure for the brand. The music is downbeat — even somber — the visuals are grainy, even a bit gritty. Images show people grooving to music on their iPhones while practicing their dance moves, studying and even coming out of the shower.
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| Bikes Made From Trash Power Film Festival | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:57 PM | Discovery News |
| A group of students in France crafted wooden, energy-producing stationary bicycles from trash. These novel bikes were recently used to power a film festival screening in St. Étienne. The whole thing started last year when a group of green-minded engineering students at the School of Mines in Saint-Étienne started an “eco-projections” initiative to show documentary films powered by electricity-generating bikes.
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| Lost Apollo 11 Moon Dust Found in Storage | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:41 PM | Space.com |
| Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon have been found inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years. The samples — collected by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin — were rediscovered last month by an archivist who was going over artifacts tucked away at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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| Prepare for the Cicada Invasion With This Creepy-Crawly Time-Lapse | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:16 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The cicada swarms are coming, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. You will step on a cicada shell, one will fall in your hair and that buzzing drone will haunt your entire summer. But instead of fearing the creepy crawlers, appreciate this miraculous act of mother nature with a time-lapse by filmmaker Samuel Orr. Orr is determined to change the bad rep these bugs have gotten with this video he's been producing since 2007.
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| This Telepresence Robot Is Powered By a Smartphone | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 8:38 PM | Emily Price |
| What if you could have your smartphone greet customers while they’re shopping in your store or have a tablet work as a babysitter? That’s the idea behind R.bots Synergy SWAN, a telepresence robot with that works with any Android or iOS device. To make the robot work, you attach your smartphone or tablet. The device charges while its docked, and the robot interacts with the world around it.
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| Password Protection Act Bars Employers From Demanding Login Info | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 8:14 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| What kind of experience do you have in the field? Who are your references? What's your Facebook password? If the Password Protection Act becomes law, it would make it a crime for employers to ask that third question. The PPA was introduced in the House of Representatives Wednesday by Reps. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.).
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| Let's Drive a Snowmobile Off a Cliff | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:55 PM | Charlie White |
| What's it like to drive a snowmobile off a cliff? Thanks to B.A.S.E. (Buildings, Antennas, Spans and Earth) jumper Erik Roner and his trusty trio of GoPro cameras, we get to experience just that without having to risk our necks. Roner performed this exhilarating jump in honor of his late friend, Shane McConkey, who suffered a fatal accident while ski-B.A.S.E.
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| 3 Manly Pinterest Alternatives for Your Beard and Bacon Needs | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:30 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Are the images in your Pinterest feed not quite manly enough for you? If you think the virtual pinboard site is a little too feminine, you’re not alone. In a recent Pew study of social media users, 25% of women said they used Pinterest, compared to a meager 5% of men. Since Pinterest’s creation, a number of similar websites have popped up that offer pins in what they consider manlier topics.
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| 10 Things That Wish They Were Turtles | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:18 PM | Neha Prakash |
| It's World Turtle Day, hooray! Today, we finally get to celebrate the awesomeness of the shelled reptiles of the planet. These chill dudes really don't get the recognition they deserve, constantly being out-cuted by puppies and cats and singing goats. But we know what's up — turtles are just swell with their rock-hard shells and affinity for helping lost fish.
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| Watch: We Spoke With a Solar Impulse Pilot as He Flew to Texas | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 6:59 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Can an airplane flying during the day and night really cross the United States running only on solar power? The team at Solar Impulse is setting out to prove it's possible — and Mashable spoke with one of the pilots live as he flew from Phoenix to Dallas. Solar Impulse pilot André Borschberg talked with us via in-cockpit satellite phone about keeping focus during the approximately 18-hour stretches of flight.
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| How 1.8 Million Online Activists Helped End the Boy Scouts' Gay Youth Ban | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 6:43 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Millions of online activists, signing some 124 different petitions, helped to end the Boy Scouts of America's century-long ban on gay members. According to online petition platform Change.org, 1,866,000 signatures were collected on petitions advocating the Boy Scouts change its policy. To celebrate this milestone, Change.org created this infographic, which is a timeline of the advocates work leading up to the milestone decision.
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| Google Brings Intelligent Search to Google+ Photos | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 6:31 PM | Christina Warren |
| Google is now making it easier for users to find their own photos using Google Search. On its Inside Search blog, the company explained that users can now search for and through their photos hosted in Google+ Photos. Searching for the query "my photos" offers up this result, personalized with your own Google+ photographs. But it gets better. The system actually uses machine learning so that you can target your queries to be more specific.
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| Ashton Kutcher: 'I Don't Think Anyone Has Mastered Mobile' | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 6:24 PM | Emily Price |
| Actor and prominent startup investor Aston Kutcher took the stage at CTIA Thursday to talk about mobile, and specifically mobile apps. During a fireside chat at the wireless trade show Kutcher talked about how he discovers the apps that he uses and invests in, as well as how he currently sees the wireless industry.
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| Electric Chevy Spark to be Offered for Lease at $199/Month | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:31 PM | Charlie White |
| Chevrolet's Spark electric vehicle just got a price tag and delivery date attached to it on Thursday, and it's looking good. The company announced lease pricing of the Spark EV at $199 per month for 36 months.
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| Watch Jennifer Aniston Strip in Hilarious 'We're the Millers' Trailer | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 4:22 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Sometimes, people are strippers. And sometimes, strippers have a hard time convincing people that stripping is their chosen profession, apparently — as we learn from Jennifer Aniston's skin-baring character in the funny new We're the Millers trailer. Aniston plays Rose, whose neighbor David (Jason Sudeikis) needs help completing a mandatory drug deal.
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| Google Plans First Expansion of Same-Day Delivery Service | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 4:04 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Two months ago, Google entered the same-day delivery business with a pilot program for a service called Google Shopping Express, which many billed as an attempt to compete with the likes of eBay Now and Amazon Prime. Now, Google plans to expand availability of its service for the first time since launch.
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| Join Us in Malaysia for Tech Empowerment Event WomenDeliver+SocialGood | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 3:18 PM | Casey Brown |
| Building on our long-standing commitment to social good, Mashable is thrilled to announce our next event, WomenDeliver+SocialGood. This summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 27 at 7 p.m. MYT, will address how digital tools can address the challenges women and girls face across the world. WomenDeliver+SocialGood is being held on the eve of the Women Deliver conference, the largest women's health and empowerment conference to date.
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| Chris Hadfield and Fellow Astronauts Talk About Life in Space | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:54 PM | Amanda Wills |
| The Internet's favorite astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield may no longer tweet from the International Space Station, but that doesn't mean he's giving up on social media outreach. NASA hosted a Google Hangout Thursday with Hadfield and fellow astronauts Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn.
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| Anthony Weiner Is Playing It Safe on Twitter | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:52 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Anthony Weiner's Twitter account feels human again — but a very safe human. Weiner first returned to Twitter last November, but his tweets lacked the, ahem, personality of his former social presence.
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| 30 Overused Buzzwords in Digital Marketing | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:48 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| We've all sat through meetings that are teeming with buzzwords. Optimization! Synergy! Collaboration! Engagement! While some buzzwords actually have substance (i.e. big data), many people use (and overuse) buzzwords just to try to sound smart, when in fact, they have no idea what's going on. Over the past 30 days, we've led you through the buzzword lexicon — highlighting the most confusing jargon in the digital marketing dictionary.
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| Jon Stewart Rips Senators for Letting Apple Off Easy on Corporate Taxes | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:27 PM | Nextgov |
| Jon Stewart derided a Senate panel's kid-gloves treatment of Apple Inc.’s testimony on its complex corporate tax structure. Tuesday's hearing in front of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations was meant to discuss the corporate tax laws that allow Apple to shelter more than $102 billion through a web of foreign subsidiaries.
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| 7 Transformative Photos of Change | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:21 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| Around the world, the seasons are changing. In some parts of the world it's getting colder, while for many of us, summer has officially arrived. With the change of the seasons comes a host of other changes: a move to a new place, a vacation away from home or perhaps a landmark life event like a graduation. To celebrate the changes that accompany this time of the year, this week the theme of the Mashable Photo Challenge is change.
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