| Tesla Reaches Profitability For the First Time | | Tesla Motors had reached a really important milestone in Q1 2013 — for the first time in the company's ten-year long history, it turned a profit. Tesla's GAAP profit for the quarter was $11 million; sales were $562 million, up 83% from last quarter. The company sold 4,900 vehicles in Q1. It expects to sell more than 15,000 vehicles per year in the U.S. and more than 30,000 vehicles per year globally.
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| Zynga Makes Infinite Runner Games Social With 'Running With Friends' | | Chances are by now, you’ve probably heard of Temple Run. The infinite runner-style game has you run through a virtual world level-free, trying to last as long as you possibly can without dying. Highly popular, the original version of the game is currently the 9th most downloaded iOS app of all time, and has spawned an exceptionally popular sequel, as well as several Disney-themed versions.
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| Google Earth for Android Gets Street View | | Google has updated its Google Earth Android app to version 7.1, bringing several important improvements, most notably the support for Street View. If you want to explore the Earth from the street level, zoom into an area and the Pegman — the little yellow guy signifying the availability of Street View — will appear in the right hand corner. Drag and drop him into a street and you'll jump right into Street View.
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| 200-Year-Old Device Makes Comeback With Kickstarter's Help | | A device that was developed over 200 years ago is making a comeback, thanks to Kickstarter. Patented in 1806, the camera lucida was a common optical drawing tool that helped artists accurately sketch objects, but later fell out of use. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, here's how it works: "It consists of a four-sided prism mounted on a small stand above a sheet of paper.
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| Student Lectures Teacher On How to Teach in Front of Classmates | | UPDATE: In response to the video, the Duncanville Independent School District issued the following statement to CBS: “The district is aware of the video and we are currently addressing the situation. As a district with a motto of 'Engaging Hearts and Minds' we focus on building positive relationships with students and designing engaging work that is meaningful.
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| 3 Must-Have Geolocation Apps | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:59 PM | Adam Popescu |
| They're the services turning your physical location into valuable data — and using that data to offer you a variety of services. Love them for their convenience or hate them for their invasion of privacy, geolocation applications are making a big push for your attention.
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| Apple Cars Would Be Safer Than Volvo or Google, Consumers Say | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:02 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| Today's cars have advanced crash prevention breaking, intelligent heads-up displays and pre-crash alters, but customers still think the tech companies Apple and Google can do a better job, according to a survey by CarSafetyRules.com. The study asked 1,000 new car owners in the UK which brand would be most likely to develop technologies to best improve road safety.
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| Is Eye Tracking a Privacy-Invading Technology? | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 9:28 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Eye-tracking technology has been in the news lately, thanks to rumors indicating that it would be included in the new Samsung Galaxy S4. As it turned out, Samsung's Smart Scroll actually uses a different technology but, for the American Civil Liberties Union, this is still a good time to investigate whether these kinds of technologies pose any privacy risks.
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| This Is a Graph of Your Productivity | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 9:01 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Productivity is a tricky thing to track, but you probably have a good idea of when you get your best work done. Unfortunately, it's not always at the most convenient times, is it? SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Angela Liao of 20px shows us the difference between when we expect to be productive and when we're actually productive — all in nifty graph form.
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| These Are the World's Most Reddit-Obsessed Cities | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 8:01 PM | Sam Laird |
| Reddit, as some of us know all too well, is an Internet rabbit hole if ever there was one. After your first taste of the sprawling site's funny pics and funnier comments, it's hard not to come back for more. And more. And more. But which parts of the world are most obsessed with the social media site? A recent post to the official Reddit blog holds some interesting insights.
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| Jazz Up Your Keyboard With These Wood Keys for Mac | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 7:01 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If you're an Apple fanboy or fangirl, the MacBook's design is perhaps already pure perfection to you. But if you're looking to differentiate your Mac from the rest of the crowd, check out these wood keys for your Apple laptop or desktop keyboard that add a natural accent. New York-based design firm RAWBKNY has designed wooden keys that you can affix to your existing Mac keyboard, as shown in the video above.
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| Device Ensures the Cloud Works When Your Connection Doesn’t | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 6:31 PM | Quartz |
| The "cloud" is great for places that enjoy uninterrupted power and Internet connections. But for large swathes of the world, where blackouts are common and connections unreliable, accessing files stored remotely on the Internet is a massive hassle. Forget about downloading Adobe Creative Suite. Simply working on a Google doc can be aggravating.
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| Watch Kristen Wiig's Promos for Her Epic 'SNL' Return | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 6:08 PM | Neha Prakash |
| She's back and we couldn't be happier. Comedian Kristen Wiig heads home Saturday as the host of Saturday Night Live, and if these promos are a sign of what's to come, we'll all be happily reunited. Wiig was a regular on SNL for seven years, but left in 2012 for film, including Bridesmaids.
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| This Video Game Is Controlled By a Cello | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 5:43 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| In the list of unlikely video game controllers, a cello is up there, probably next to celery stalks and maracas. Yet Joost van Dongen's Cello Fortress takes up that challenge, blending the lines between game performance art, classical music and video games. The game challenges the cello player to attack four other controller-welding players using only musical notes.
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| 50 Funniest Moments From 'The Office' | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 5:15 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The quirky characters of The Office have made TV audiences laugh, cringe and maybe even shed a tear for the past nine seasons. Whether it was terrible life advice from Michael Scott, beet farming tips from Dwight Schrute, a sweet love story between Pam and Jim or epic inter-office pranks, the show made selling paper Scranton, Pa. feel riotously relatable.
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| Huggies Device Sends You a Tweet When Your Baby Pees | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 5:00 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Since the first disposable diapers hit the market until now, parents haven't needed an electronic device to tell them when their baby has wet himself. Huggies Brazil is attempting to address this perceived need with TweetPee, a plastic device that attaches to a diaper and then tweets when your young one has urinated.
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| What's Up With This Terrible South Korean Obama Photoshop? | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:55 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Step aside, North Korea and Iran, there's a new Photoshop master in town: South Korea. Yonhap News, a publicly-funded South Korean news agency, published this photo Tuesday claiming to show South Korean President Park Geun-hye shaking hands with U.S. President Barack Obama. However, it's clearly two separate photos stitched together — very poorly.
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| Kwikset Kevo Unlocks Your Door with a Magic Touch | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:45 PM | Charlie White |
| Kwikset announced on Thursday a Bluetooth-enabled deadbolt lock that pairs up your iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, and will let you into your abode with a single touch. From the looks of it so far, there won't be an easier way to let yourself into your home.
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| Groupon Stock Jumps 15% After Beating Revenue Estimates | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:37 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Groupon may not be out of the woods yet, but it did have a better-than-expected March quarter. The daily deals company reported earnings-per-share of .03 on revenue of $601 million for the quarter, matching Wall Street's consensus estimate for earnings and beating its estimate of $589 million in revenue. That's the first Groupon has come in ahead of Wall Street's revenue projections since the first quarter of 2012.
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| Facebook Phone Is Now Just 99 Cents | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:13 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| This is not a good sign. Barely a month into the first "Facebook Phone's" life, the Facebook Home-sporting HTC First price has been slashed from $99.99 with a two year contract to just 99 cents with the same AT&T two-year agreement. AT&T's own web site makes the situation look, if possible, worse, by displaying the original HTC First price, $350.99 and subtracting $350.
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| Fall in Love With John Krasinski Lip Syncing to Katy Perry | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:06 PM | Neha Prakash |
| In case Jim Halpert's pranks and cutesy-ness with Pam on The Office don't get you all doe-eyed and swooning over the dude, actor John Krasinski's recent appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon will surely set your heart aflutter. The actor played a round of lip sync with Fallon and proved that he could do a mean impersonation of Katy Perry.
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| Data Analysis of David Bowie’s Career Expressed in 'Sonifications' | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 3:25 PM | PSFK |
| David Bowie is the king of musical reinvention. For more than 40 years, he's created a collection of music that is difficult to pigeon-hole. Composer Alexis Kirke and electronic music pioneer Martyn Ware came together to analyze the data of Bowie's shape-shifting oeuvre.
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| RadioShack's Ad for Beats Pill Is Crazy Suggestive | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 3:01 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| You don't usually expect this sort of ad from RadioShack, which is best known as the place to grab some nano batteries or an Ethernet cord. Perhaps the chain is trying to lure some younger customers to its stores.
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| Iron Man 3's Tony Stark and Tesla's Elon Musk: Separated at Birth? | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 2:45 PM | Charlie White |
| By now, many of you have seen Iron Man 3, but now it's time to step back and think for a second: Who is this Tony Stark, anyway? Could PayPal co-founder, techno-entrepreneur and Tesla and SpaceX innovator Elon Musk be his real-world twin? Here's food for thought: this infographic lays out the stark similarities between these two dudes.
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| This Is What the World Looks Like Through Google Glass | | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 2:35 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Wearing Google Glass is an experience that's hard to describe accurately. When you tell people that it creates a virtual screen that appears to float in front of you, they tend to get the idea that it's very distracting or obtrusive. That's not the case, although the display is certainly "there" when it's on. A picture would convey the idea much better, but how do you photograph a virtual screen? It turns out to be easier than it sounds.
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