| 'Chameleon Scarf' Changes Colors to Coordinate With Your Clothes | | 12:01:10 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| The weather outside may be warming up for some, but if you're looking for a somewhat warm and geeky addition to your wardrobe, check out this do-it-yourself scarf that changes colors via LED lights. The DIY electronics site Adafruit has a tutorial for this LED-studded scarf. You'll need your own fabric, as well as Adafruit's Flora circuitry to make it all work, as explained in the video above.
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| I'll See You in Hell | | Friday, May 31, 2013 11:28 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Empty threat or a spoiler alert about your future? "I'll see you in hell" is a phrase often uttered in anger, but in this comic by Josh Mecouch of Formal Sweatpants, we see that it can also work as a way to figure out who you'll be hanging out with for eternity. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable Comic illustration by Josh Mecouch, Formal Sweatpants. Published with permission; all rights reserved.
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| Will Facebook's Account Verification System Discourage Impostors? | | Friday, May 31, 2013 10:01 PM | Adam Popescu |
| When Victor Diaz Zapanta was featured on Mashable for his Facebook account's creative timeline design, he was excited. But that sweet feeling soon soured slightly when the 29-year-old designer's account was parodied by impostors claiming to be him.
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| Nikola Tesla Statue Could Be Built in Silicon Valley | | Friday, May 31, 2013 9:28 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| To commemorate a true innovator, a California company wants to get a statue of Nikola Telsa erected in Silicon Valley. Tesla discovered various innovations in sectors including electromagnetics, electricity and earthquake machinery. In honor of Tesla, Silicon Valley company Northern Imagination is trying to raise $123,000 on Kickstarter to make the statue a reality.
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| Facial-Recognition App Can Help Identify Missing Children | | Friday, May 31, 2013 8:53 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| A new app aims to make finding missing children in the most populated country in the world a little bit easier and more of a collective effort. Advertising agency JWT China and missing children site Baby Back Home have jointly developed an app in China that utilizes facial-recognition technology to help identify missing or kidnapped kids, Creativity Online reported.
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| Huge Asteroid Cruises Past Earth | | Friday, May 31, 2013 8:18 PM | Space.com |
| An asteroid wider than nine ocean liners sailed safely past Earth today (May 31), making its closest flyby of our planet for at least the next 200 years. Asteroid 1998 QE2, which is about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) wide, cruised within 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km) of Earth at 4:59 p.m. EDT (2059 GMT) today, then slipped silently off into the depths of space once again.
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| Turn Your Facebook Timeline Into an Actual Book With Likebooks | | Friday, May 31, 2013 7:35 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| These days, your Facebook Timeline can serve as a digital scrapbook of your life: birthdays, graduations, weddings, trips to Disneyland and, yes, the time you got a puppy. A new service wants to help Facebook users move those memories from the cloud into a permanent, physical keepsake. Likebooks will convert content from your Facebook Timeline and print it in a physical book, as shown in the video above.
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| New Camera Sensor Eliminates Need for Flash | | Friday, May 31, 2013 6:22 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| No flash? No problem. A new imaging sensor could soon make it possible for photographers to take clear, sharp photos, even in dim lighting. Created by a team of researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, the new sensor is highly sensitive to both visible and infrared light, which means it could be used in everything from the family Nikon to surveillance and satellite cameras.
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| 14 Stunning Photographs That Bridge Past and Present | | Friday, May 31, 2013 5:18 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Kerényi Zoltán has turned his camera into a time machine. The Hungarian photographer and architect uses vintage photos to create a bridge between the Budapest of the past and the Budapest of the present. In the series "Ablak a Múltra" (translating to "Window to the Past"), Zoltán overlays black and white images from the website Fortepan onto his own images with a modern backdrop.
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| Judge Rejects Google's Warrantless National Security Order Challenge | | Friday, May 31, 2013 4:48 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| A California judge has rejected Google's petition to dismiss more than a dozen secretive Federal Bureau of Investigation requests for users' data. The requests, called National Security Letters (NSL), come without a judge's warrant and usually include a gag order preventing recipients from discussing them publicly. In its case, Google argued that 19 NSLs it has received from the FBI are unconstitutional and should be dismissed.
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| Would You Eat a Password Vitamin Daily to Log In? | | Friday, May 31, 2013 4:18 PM | Discovery News |
| Passwords: They’re everywhere, and most of us manage a half-dozen or so, at least. They’re also the weakest link in the authentication chain because humans aren’t great at creating passwords remembering them. A Motorola executive (and former Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency head) Regina Dugan proposed a solution at the D11 conference: pills and tattoos.
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| Samuel L. Jackson Just Trolled the Internet | | Friday, May 31, 2013 3:54 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Samuel L. Jackson followed through with his promise on Friday, after asking Reddit users to submit a 300-word monologue for him to read out loud. But not without punking the Internet in the process. Here's the beginning of his much-anticipated monologue: Hi, I'm Samuel L. Jackson. I'm sorry to disappoint you, Reddit, but I've decided to break the rules of my own competition, and I will not be reading a user-submitted entry as my monologue.
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| Tumblr's Creative Director Leaves | | Friday, May 31, 2013 3:26 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Tumblr's creative director and fifth employee, Jacob Bijani, has left the company less than two weeks after it was acquired by Yahoo. In a post to his personal Tumblr, Bijani writes that he plans to take some time off "to digest the last few years" and that he has "about a dozen different projects planned" — projects, we assume, he'll want to get started after that break.
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| Obama Wants You to Follow The Audubon Society on Twitter, Sort Of | | Friday, May 31, 2013 3:12 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| President Barack Obama has a Follow Friday suggestion for all you Twitter users out there: environmental/bird appreciation group The Audubon Society. #FF: @audubonsociety — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 31, 2013 What's up with this #FF? It's a playful response to a recent slideshow from satirical news outlet The Onion, "19 Tweets From The Audubon Society/Barack Obama Twitter Feud" (warning: language).
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| Updating Your Twitter Profile Is Now Much Easier | | Friday, May 31, 2013 3:12 PM | Emily Price |
| Twitter has now made it even easier to upload a new profile picture, header image or background image to your profile. SEE ALSO: Twitter Now Supports More and Longer Lists You can edit profile photos by clicking the “Edit Profile” button at the top of your Twitter profile page, which will allow you to click and edit individual parts of your profile –- such as the profile picture, background image and even your personal description.
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| Digital Wand Brings Abstract Paintings to Life | | Friday, May 31, 2013 2:58 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Every famous painting has a good muse. Sometimes, when the muse is a person, an abstract version might appear on canvas. So what would the models of Picasso paintings look like in real life? Hungarian artist Flóra Borsi conceptualized classic paintings by digitally manipulating the compositions.
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| Hulu Plus Gets a Facelift on Wii, Roku and Samsung TVs | | Friday, May 31, 2013 2:46 PM | Christina Warren |
| Hulu has rolled out a new interface for Hulu Plus on Roku, select Samsung TV and Blu-ray players and the Nintendo Wii. The update mirrors changes made to the PlayStation 3 Hulu Plus interface last fall and this spring's Apple TV redesign. The update is more living room-centric, with a focus on larger artwork, an easier way to scroll through recommendations and improved search.
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| Little Vegetarian-in-the-Making Explains Why He Won't Eat Animals | | Friday, May 31, 2013 2:35 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Little Luiz Antonio didn't want to eat his octopus. Not because he was being a typical toddler with a picky palate — he explained to his mother that "these animals ... you gotta take care of them ... and not eat them." Luiz's mother teared up as she answered questions about how animals end up on the dinner table.
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| Beautiful Women Eat for Free at Fast Food Restaurant | | Friday, May 31, 2013 1:56 PM | Neha Prakash |
| They say there's no such thing as a free meal but, if you're beautiful, you can eat for free at this Brazilian chain of fast food restaurants. It may sound like an offensive concept at first, but it's actually quite the opposite.
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| Bill Nye: 'When Rush Limbaugh Says I'm Not a Scientist, I'm Charmed' | | Friday, May 31, 2013 1:31 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Bill Nye the Science Guy is firing back at conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, who last week on his show proclaimed Nye is nothing more than a talking head on television. "Bill Nye is not a science guy; that's why he's a TV personality," Limbaugh said after Nye appeared on Piers Morgan Live to discuss tornadoes. "Bill Nye is not a scientist.
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| 7 Social Media Tips for CEOs | | Friday, May 31, 2013 1:16 PM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| Businesses can no longer afford to have top leaders sit on the social media sidelines, a new study finds. More than three-quarters of executives worldwide believe it is a good idea for CEOs to participate in social media, the research from public relations firm Weber Shandwick and research partner KRC Research found. The study identified a wide array of benefits that come with top executives who are socially active online.
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| Razer's New Blade Laptop Boasts Its Thinnest Gaming Rig | | Friday, May 31, 2013 12:57 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Razer has announced its new Blade gaming laptop, the thinnest and lightest laptop it has ever produced, and the thinnest machine available for serious gamers. The company, which started as a high-end gaming accessory creator, only joined the laptop game in the last two years. Its new Blade, the third of Razer's laptops to carry that name, is a 14-inch, aluminum-bodied laptop packed with Intel's newest Haswell processor.
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| Internet Falls in Love With Freida the Throw Away Kitty | | Friday, May 31, 2013 12:38 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Say meow-llo to Freida the Throw Away Kitty. The tiny feline might sound unwanted, but she's quickly becoming "the most awww-triggering cat on the Internet." Freida was rescued from a ditch in rural Maine on April 10, her long hair painfully matted to her emaciated 2-pound body. Frieda's wide, golden eyes told her story: she needed help and fast.
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| Billions of Geotagged Tweets Visualized in Twitter's Amazing Maps | | Friday, May 31, 2013 12:06 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Ever wonder what it would look like to plot every single geotagged tweet since 2009 on a map? Twitter has done just that. Twitter posted these maps of Europe, New York City, Tokyo and Istanbul on its blog Friday. They use billions of geotagged tweets: Every dot represents a tweet, with the brighter colors showing a higher concentration of tweets.
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