| Live From the Apple Keynote: Tim Cook Reveals What's Next | | Greetings from the Moscone Center in foggy San Francisco, where Apple CEO Tim Cook takes the stage Monday morning at WWDC. Apple developers from around the world will bear witness to the company's first product update since the iPad Mini was launched last October. Widely expected to take center stage in Cook's speech: major OS upgrades for iPhones, iPads and Macs.
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| Mike Tyson Steals the Show in Tony Awards Opening Number | | Neil Patrick Harris kicked off his hosting duties for the 2013 Tony Awards with a show-stopping opening number Sunday night. The eight-minute-long act featured musical recaps of nominees, including Kinky Boots, Motown: The Musical, Pippin, Bring It On and Matilda the Musical.
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| Viral Video Recap: Must-Watch Memes of the Week | | Who needs a cup of joe when you can kick-start your Monday with a hilarious dose of viral videos? Watch slow-mo water droplets, a falcon hunting a professional racing cyclist, the Philadelphia Orchestra performing on a delayed flight and a social experiment showing how laughter is contagious in this week's viral video recap. And of course, there's also our weekly cat video.
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| Alphabet Soup 2.0 Is GR8 | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 11:58 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Childhood flashback food alphabet soup made lunch a tasty game. In this Sunday Comic, Maria Scrivan updates the soup for the Web 2.0 generation. SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics Mmmm — TTYL, time 4 soup. Comic written and illustrated by Maria Scrivan. Published with permission; all rights reserved.
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| 10 Tips for Company Color Schemes | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 10:45 PM | Scott Gerber |
| A startup could offer the most innovative software, the most disruptive service, the greatest thing ever available for purchase in the history of commerce — but if the company color scheme is off-putting, its customers might decide to shop elsewhere. SEE ALSO: 10 Tools for Creating Brilliant Color Schemes What color conveys about a brand is more complex than you think.
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| 25 New Script Libraries and Plugins on GitHub | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 10:03 PM | Grace Smith |
| Git is a powerful, open-source distributed version control system and social code repository. GitHub is the world's largest open-source community, hosting millions of public repositories. Users add innovative new projects on a daily basis. With the latest new Repos available to fork and explore, it can be difficult to stay updated.
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| What Did the NSA Find Through the Internet? | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 8:31 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| The facts about the secret NSA surveillance program, known as PRISM, remain hazy. Did Internet companies like Google and Facebook give the U.S.
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| Real Google Interns: 'The Internship' Movie Kind of Nails It | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 7:46 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| How accurately does The Internship, which arrived in theaters this weekend, portray tech giant Google's environment and culture? We asked a real Google intern and a former intern-turned-full-timer just how well the Shawn Levy-directed movie depicts their employer.
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| Top 20 Most Shocking Moments From 'Game of Thrones' | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 7:00 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| Audiences still haven't stopped buzzing about last week's Game of Thrones, which inspired Vine posts, comedy sketches and Twitter trends. The finale will air on Sunday, and fans are eagerly speculating about what the episode will hold. In honor of three seasons of plot twists, unexpected beheadings and epic slaps, we rounded up the top 20 Game of Thrones moments so far.
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| Hands-On With the Week's Top Apps | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 6:24 PM | Emily Price |
| Several interesting apps were released this week. Disney released its own Draw Something competitor called Scribblemix that lets you trade drawings back and forth with friends. What's more, Facebook released a major update to Facebook Home, and Hulu put out a big update for the iPad. Curious about how all these apps look? Check out Mashable's hands-on video, above, featuring our favorite apps from this past week.
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| Bag2Go Luggage Has GPS In Case Your Airline Loses It | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 5:30 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Misplaced luggage is one of the most headache-inducing problems that can befall a weary traveler. Thanks to Airbus, however, tracking down your lost suitcases is about to get a whole lot easier. European aircraft manufacturer Airbus recently unvealed the "Bag2Go," a so-called "smart bag" complete with GPS, RFID and 2G mobile data capabilities.
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| 16 Perfect-Loop Vine Posts | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 5:08 PM | Zoe Fox |
| There's something uniquely satisfying about seeing a perfect loop on a Vine video. When the Vine artist can masterfully hide the start and end points of a 6-second animation, it's a surefire recipe for success — and a reliable way to get lots of love from fellow users. It's no easy feat to create the perfect loop.
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| Superman's Gone Commercial | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 4:39 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| What if your favorite superhero chose to take brand endorsements? SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics In this Sunday comic, Superman decides to capitalize on saving the world over and over again. Does this change the plot of Man of Steel? Comic written by Larry Lambert; illustrated by Jerry King.
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| Game of Thrones: Cosplay Piano Edition | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 4:28 PM | The Mary Sue |
| When last we posted about cosplay piano, it was Catwoman tickling the ivories. This time, Sonya Belousova dons more than one costume for a Game of Thrones extravaganza. I think they've outdone themselves — there's dragons. Image courtesy YouTube, WorldOfHeroes.
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| 13 Clichéd Photo Poses You're Totally Guilty of Doing | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 4:08 PM | Allison Reiber |
| Looking cute in a photo can be tough. Sometimes, the waiter taking a picture of your birthday dinner is standing so close that you know you're about to look like a giantess. Or maybe you're stranded without a drink to hold onto, no pockets and no idea where to put your arms. SEE ALSO: 12 Most Cliché Photos on Instagram When faced with such obstacles, most of us think fast and pull out one of the old standbys.
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| See Something, Say Nothing | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 3:51 PM | The New Republic |
| In an early Tom Stoppard play called After Magritte, a family returns home after visiting an exhibit of paintings by the famous Belgian surrealist René Magritte.
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| E3 2013: What to Expect | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 3:14 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Right now, thousands of gaming industry executives, analysts and press are headed to Los Angeles to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 2013, the biggest American gaming trade show. This year's E3 is going to be full of exciting announcements. We're only a few months away from the release of two new game consoles: the Sony PlayStation 4 and the Microsoft Xbox One.
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| The Guardian's NSA Whistleblower Reveals Himself: Edward Snowden | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 3:07 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The source for British newspaper The Guardian's recent groundbreaking reports on the National Security Agency's surveillance practices unexpected revealed himself Sunday as Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old Booz Allen Hamilton employee who's been working at the NSA for four years. According to The Guardian, Snowden copied the last set of documents he intended to leak three weeks ago at his Hawaii office.
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| 'Falling Skies' Season Premiere Comes With Interactive Twitter War | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 2:34 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| The battle between extraterrestrials and humans in the alien-invasion TV thriller Falling Skies has seeped onto Twitter. As part of an interactive social TV campaign for Sunday's season 3 premiere, TNT is asking fans to pledge their allegiance — using hashtags — to either the Earth invaders (#aliens) or the human army (#resistance). Participants will immediately be "drawn into the action" in graph novel-style artwork.
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| SoHo Gives a Glimpse of Retail's Future | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 2:16 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Walk down Greene Street in Manhattan's SoHo district this week, and you'll get a glimpse of the retail store of the future — two of them, in fact. At 131 Greene Street, online jewelry retailer BaubleBar has set up a pop-up shop replete with digital touchscreens and interactive displays. Open through August 13, shoppers can use in-store iPads to design and purchase jewelry personalized with their initials and other permutations.
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| Google Glass Just Wants to See Some Porn | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 1:44 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Wherever new technology emerges, porn is soon to follow. Google Glass banned porn this week, just a day after the gadget's first nudie app debuted. But did anyone bother to ask Glass what it thought about the issue? SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics In this Sunday comic, our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech imagine how Google Glass would respond to the ban.
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| Report: Google Close to Buying Waze for $1.3 Billion | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 1:18 PM | Charlie White |
| The bidding war for crowdsourced navigation app Waze has reportedly been won by Google, which will pay "more than $1 billion" for the startup, according to Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz. Update: The newspaper later added that the deal will be worth $1.3 billion.
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| Shirtless Protester Disrupts French Open Final Match | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 12:40 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| A shirtless, flare-wielding protester wearing a mask jumped from the stands onto the court during Sunday's final match at the French Open. The match between Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer was delayed for several minutes as the protester was tackled and apprehended. Nadal later went on to defeat Ferrer 6-3, 6-2, 6-3, claiming his eighth French Open title.
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| PRISM Not as Evil as Once Thought | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 11:43 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| What we know about the National Security Agency's PRISM Internet surveillance program is in flux, seemingly changing by the hour. If you're just tuning in Sunday and you're looking for our latest understanding of PRISM, this post is for you. 1.
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| How to Start Freelancing With No Experience | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 11:15 AM | Tom Ewer |
| Freelancing sounds like a great opportunity, but many don't know how to start. Fortunately, it's easier than it seems -- just follow these 5 steps.
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| Apple WWDC 2013: What to Expect | | Sunday, June 09, 2013 10:03 AM | Pete Pachal |
| In less than 48 hours, the first official Apple event in seven months will be underway. Apple hasn't thrown one of its product parties since the unveiling of the iPad mini back in October, and Monday morning's keynote to kick off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) promises no less than a detailed look at the future of the company's two major platforms: iOS and OS X.
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