| Facebook Now Has 9 Million Users in Pakistan | | Facebook is growing like a weed in Pakistan. In fact, the social networking service just broke the 9 million user mark — an especially impressive feat considering it only reached 8 million users earlier this year. One million users in half a year isn't bad, and it suggests that Facebook could cross the 10 million user threshold in the country before the end of this calendar year.
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| LinkedIn Update Brings More Personalization to Your Homepage | | LinkedIn unveiled two new updates on Wednesday that give its users a more personalized homepage. Called "Who's Viewed Your Updates" and "You Recently Visited," the features "are intended to provide you with more personalized insights on your activities and engagement across LinkedIn," company product lead Caroline Gaffney says in a blog post. She adds that both are displayed on the right-hand side of a user's homepage.
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| 20 Mind-Flipping Gymnastics GIFs | | 3:18:13 AM | Hannah Orenstein |
| Gymnastics is a particularly GIF-able sport because you can't help but watch each clip over and over. By your third watch, you might just be able to determine the precise number of flips and twists involved in each skill. By viewing number five, you start to contemplate the sheer muscle power and flexibility each move requires. By the eighth time, it sinks in: you will never, ever be able to move that way without ending up in a neck brace.
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| Facebook Rolls Out Rainbow 'Pride' Emoji After DOMA Decision | | Facebook rolled out a new rainbow emoji Wednesday to mark the historic Supreme Court decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. When users click on the smiley-face image below their status-update box, they now have the option to select a rainbow icon — indicating "pride" — under the "feeling" drop-down menu. A Facebook representative confirmed to Mashable that the new icon launched in light of the DOMA decision.
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| Google Glass Finds Its Way to the Operating Room | | 12:57:46 AM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The history books are quickly filling up with Google Glass firsts — everything from skydives, showers and, now, surgeries. You read that right — Dr. Rafael Grossman, also a TEDx speaker and Google Glass Explorer, has used the wearable device to live-stream a surgery.
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| First-Person Pac-Man Revamps Arcade Classic | | 12:29:47 AM | Quenton Narcisse |
| Variations of Street Fighter and Grand Theft Auto have intrigued the Internet this week, but a new Pac-Man might be the most exhilarating. Creator Tom Davies has introduced FPS-Man, a revamped, first-person edition to the classic arcade game. The main difference in this revamped version is that instead of an overhead view, gamers must collect their pac-dots without knowing what's around every corner.
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| PayPal Galactic: For All Your Future Space Purchases | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:59 PM | Emily Price |
| Soon you won’t need to be an astronaut to take a trip into space — but you'll still need a way to pay for things. The first Virgin Galactic consumer space flight is set to blast off this Christmas, and the first space hotel, created by a Russian company, is expected to be open for business within the next few years.
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| Apple's Next-Generation Devices May Include a Fingerprint Scanner | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:28 PM | Emily Price |
| The next generation of Apple devices may include a fingerprint scanner. A newly published patent obtained by the company shows a fingerprint scanner that could be embedded within products. Rumored to be included in the upcoming iPhone 5S, the scanner would add an extra layer of security to the iPhone.
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| Test Your Puzzle-Solving Skills With 'Can You Escape' Mobile App | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:32 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| For all you gamers out there looking for a real challenge, look no further: There's a free, newly updated puzzle game ready to test your skills (and patience). Can You Escape, the brainchild of MobiGrow, coaxes iPhone, iPad and Android users to employ a trial-and-error solving method to scrounge for clues, as well as sleuth out ways to escape a series of rooms.
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| Holographic Display Made for $10 | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:56 PM | Discovery News |
| Technophiles have dreamed of three-dimensional, holographic displays for decades, and in the last few years, a lot of progress has been made toward achieving that goal — from Microsoft's Holoflector prototype to efforts at creating paper that was published in the journal Nature last week. He built a color holographic video display that's as sharp as a standard-definition TV and updates images at the same rate.
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| How to Create Websites Without Learning to Code | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:29 PM | Luisa Rollenhagen |
| In May, Scroll Kit, a New York-based startup that lets users create websites without learning a single line of code, attempted to showcase its skills by recreating The New York Times' Snow Fall, an interactive multimedia report. Scroll Kit recreated the experience, and said it took only an hour to make. However, The Times eventually asked co-founders Cody Brown and Kate Ray to take down the replica, citing copyright violations.
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| 7 Big Changes Coming in Internet Explorer 11 | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:00 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Microsoft thinks very highly of its homegrown web browser, Internet Explorer. IE has been intertwined with Windows itself for over a decade, and when Microsoft debuted Windows 8 last year, it also released a new version of the browser, Internet Explorer 10, that was created specifically for the full-screen, touch-first experience that Windows 8 emphasizes.
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| 3 Ways 3D Printing Will Improve Your Business | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:45 PM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| By adding efficiency and innovation to the prototyping process — transforming the way businesses manufacture and distribute goods, and creating a whole new market for custom products — 3D printers have the potential to revolutionize the way you do business. Prototyping Many businesses start with one great idea for a product.
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| Tile Tracker With iOS App Helps You Find Lost Belongings | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:22 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| True story: On Monday, in the midst of the morning scramble to get ready for work, I was all set to go, when I couldn't find my car keys. Ten minutes of frantic searching later, I found them in a jar where I keep my pencils and pens. We've all lost things in weird places at inopportune times, and a new product, Tile, could help ease that frustration. Tiles are matchbook-sized, Bluetooth-enabled low energy devices that track your belongings.
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| 25 Tech Terms Every Entrepreneur Should Know | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:53 PM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| An industry's jargon can be hard to decipher, and tech-related terms can be particularly perplexing. Here's a quick list on the words you need to know.
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| X-Ray Shows Hidden Skeletons of Flowers | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:03 PM | PSFK |
| British photographer Nick Veasey uses an X-ray machine to uncover minute details in everyday objects and captures images of them in a different light. His series "Plant Life" focuses on various types of flowers and reminds viewers that X-ray technology is capable of much more than simply displaying human bones. Veasey believes that if you look beyond the surface of a flower or plant, its beauty is accentuated.
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| 'Angry Birds Star Wars' Goes Offline With Nerdy Relay Race | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:22 PM | Quenton Narcisse |
| Nerdist's Course of the Force, a week-long relay across California dedicated to Star Wars enthusiasts, is teaming up with Rovio and Angry Birds Star Wars for its second annual lightsaber run this week, which gives geeks some exercise and raises money for charity. The Course of the Force relay is for Star Wars supporters to celebrate their love for the series, and raise proceeds for the Make-A-Wish Foundations of California.
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| 10 Adorable Interracial Family Photos From 'We Are the 15 Percent' | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:53 PM | Molly Horan |
| The online backlash from a Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial couple inspired Michael David Murphy and Alyson West to create a site that would represent families like theirs. The couple created We Are the 15 Percent, a Tumblr page whose name refers to a statistic that indicates 15% of new marriages in the United States are interracial. The site features personal portraits sent in by families across the country.
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| Sharp Unveils World's First THX-Certified Ultra HDTV | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:42 PM | Charlie White |
| Ultra HDTV is getting more affordable, and Sharp did its part on Wednesday by unveiling a THX-certified 70-inch ultra-HD television for $8,000. That sounds like a lot, but it's a fraction of some prices quoted for the futuristic TV sets that deliver four times the resolution of a garden-variety HDTV. You won't have to wait for years to get one in your living room, either — Sharp says this new ultra HDTV will be available in mid-August.
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| Don Draper Stars in 'Mad Men' and 'O.C.' Mashup | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:16 PM | Allison Reiber |
| Every time the Mad Men gang hits California, the mood of the show visibly lightens. You can almost see the smoky haze of Manhattan lifting. All the pot smoking, sun bathing, convertible driving and day drinking seem more acceptable poolside instead of deskside. At the end of season six, Don, Megan, Stan and Ted are looking for a place to start fresh and leave their troubles behind.
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| Want to Open This Fridge Full of Free Beer? Find a Canadian | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 4:57 PM | Charlie White |
| If you're looking to quaff a free ice-cold Molson Canadian beer in one of these specially selected locations, you'll need a Canadian passport to open the refrigerator. As part of a clever online and TV ad campaign by agency Rethink Canada, fire-engine-red refrigerators full of Molson beer were strategically placed across a variety of European locations to attract crowds.
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| Win Your Friend 2 VIP Tickets to Social Media Day | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 4:40 PM | Casey Brown |
| Social Media Day is right around the corner, and we've wasted no time planning the biggest celebration NYC has ever seen. The soiree will be hosted by Mashable, Vice and Milk Studios on Saturday, June 29. It's going to be quite the party — our guest list maxed out just two days after it was announced.
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| Facebook Denies Leaking User Data to Turkish Government | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 4:31 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Facebook has not handed over user data to Turkish authorities during the country's ongoing anti-government protests, the company said in a Wednesday statement. Facebook's comments follow a Turkish government minister's claim that Facebook was "in cooperation with the state" while Twitter was refusing to supply user data, per NPR.
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| Listen to Daft Punk's 10-Minute 'Get Lucky' Remix | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 4:17 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Spotify got its hands on an exclusive remix of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" — one of the summer's hottest songs. The remix from the electronic music duo is four minutes longer than the original, which arrived in April and has since been streamed 64 million times. As with the original, this reworked version features Nile Rodgers on guitar and Pharrell on vocals, singing about late-night antics, hanky panky and one-on-one connections.
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