| Grand Canyon Tightrope-Crossing Was Most-Tweeted Show Last Week | | We already knew social buzz equals higher television ratings. But now we know exactly what shows are leading the way based on tweet volume. Nielsen's SocialGuide has released its top-10 list of the most social TV programs, ranked by Twitter activity — the first of what will eventually be weekly rankings.
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| Turn Your iPhone Into a 3D Camera With Poppy | | 3:45:31 AM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The 3D revolution is upon us. Pictures, movies, printing — and now, camera phones. Poppy, an iPhone accessory invented and designed by a duo based in Seattle, will turn your smartphone into a 3D camera. The device, whose Kickstarter campaign began Wednesday, captures 3D photos and video clips by mashing up two stereographic images via the iPhone’s single camera.
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| These Spellbinding GIFs Put Greek Statues Into Motion | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 9:59 PM | Allison Reiber |
| These classical Greek statues haven't stretched their limbs in centuries — if they're lucky enough to have limbs. But digital artist Zach Dougherty puts these intrinsically solid works of art into motion in his dazzling GIFs.
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| 6 Tips for Defusing Tech Tantrums | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 9:45 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| My daughter had taught herself to swipe open an iPhone before she could walk, and since then, has found a few favorite apps she can navigate to, fiddle with and, occasionally, delete (along with emails, it turns out). She is not yet two years old, but despite our best efforts, she is drawn to the glow of a smartphone or tablet like the proverbial moth to flame.
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| '@SummerBreak' Web Series Fueled by Viewer Feedback | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 9:28 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Though only 15 webisodes deep, social media’s first reality series is already making some noise on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Instagram. @SummerBreak, a daily web series that details the lives of high school seniors as they spend their final summer together before college, has so far amassed more than 115,000 Twitter followers and has bagged roughly 500,000 views on YouTube since its debut almost two weeks ago.
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| An Online Toy Company Turns to Facebook for Design Ideas | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 8:43 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Toy companies like Lego have experimented here and there with crowdsourcing, listening to customers' input and churning out products they're looking for. But it's the core of Squishable's mission. The New York startup allows fans to choose and design plush, furry stuffed animals.
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| Olympic Pool Transforms Twitter Emoticons Into Light Show | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 8:11 PM | PSFK |
| Artist Jennifer Wen Ma and lighting designer Zheng Jianwei have transformed Beijing’s Water Cube into an interactive lighting display that runs from dusk to 10 p.m. daily. The installation visualizes the emotions of Chinese social media service Sina Weibo’s millions of users with its ever-changing color.
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| Is Google Building a Games Console? | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 7:44 PM | Chris Taylor |
| The Sony PlayStation 4, Micrsoft Xbox One and Nintendo Wii U can look forward to yet more competition soon, if a new report is to be believed. Google is building a videogame console based on the Android OS, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cites "sources familiar with the matter." Google would neither confirm nor deny the report.
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| The Wendy Davis Filibuster: A Win for New Media | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 7:32 PM | Kate Sommers-Dawes |
| In this democracy, with its relatively low voter turnout (about 60% in 2012, depending on who you ask) and highly partisan Congress, anything that sparks engagement in the political process is a plus. Enter Texas State Senator Wendy Davis. By now, you've heard of her. But, as of Tuesday morning around 11 a.m. CDT, when she began her epic, near-eleven-hour filibuster on the floor of the Texas state senate, she was largely unknown.
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| Tim Berners-Lee Calls PRISM 'Shocking' on Private Social Platform | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:32 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is calling the National Security Administration's Internet surviellance program "shocking" on a little-known social platform called State. PRISM is "an affront to right of privacy, and an overreach of government power," Berners-Lee wrote in the opening post of a thread on State, which is still in closed alpha with a few thousand people.
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| The Hackers Behind 4 Years of Cyberattacks Against South Korea | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:24 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Part of the mystery shrouding the cyberattacks on South Korea has been lifted. Online security firm Symantec revealed on Wednesday that one single group — codenamed the DarkSeoul Gang — is responsible for four years of cyberattacks against the country. The cyberattacks have been persistent over the past few years, with the country's authorities blaming its neighbors and enemies from North Korea.
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| Immigration Reform Bill Increasing Work Visas Passes Senate | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:18 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill on a 68-32 vote Thursday. The bill offers 11 million people living in the country illegally a path to citizenship while also dramatically increasing the number of worker visas for high-skilled workers. The bill raises the H-1B visa cap to 110,000 from 65,000, though a provision allows an even higher extension to 180,000 if the labor markets demand it.
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| 'Humans Are Awesome' Video Celebrates Daring Adventure | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:58 PM | Charlie White |
| In his video "Humans Are Awesome," YouTube user Gerry B. put together his favorite GoPro action shots in a dazzling tribute, showing the lengths to which people will go to have fun and live life to its fullest. Not only does Gerry's video show what those tiny, go-anywhere GoPro video cameras can do, but it's a kickass showcase of this editor's tremendous aesthetic sense.
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| Sean Parker's 9,500-Word Wedding Defense, by the Numbers | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:50 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster and an early insider at Facebook, gave the media he loathes much to chew on Thursday afternoon when he unleashed an impassioned, 9,500-word essay on TechCrunch defending his recent wedding. Parker's June 1 wedding in Big Sur, Calif., became national news after reports emerged that the wedding caused damages to a campsite used for the wedding and Parker had to pay $2.5 million in penalties.
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| From Stonewall to SCOTUS: The History of the Fight for Marriage Equality | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:29 PM | zoebfox |
| After the Supreme Court's historic ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, President Obama shared a video to Facebook documenting the history of the fight for marriage equality. SEE ALSO: 11 Brands Celebrate DOMA Ruling Made by the Obama campaign's Organizing for Action and HardPin, this two-minute video, "LGBT Timeline: Love Is Love," maps the 13 states where gay marriage is legal.
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| Watch NASA Launch New Sun-Watching Probe Tonight | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:11 PM | Space.com |
| NASA will launch its newest solar observatory tonight, kicking off a two-year mission to study how energy moves around the active sun. A rocket carrying the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph satellite, or IRIS, is scheduled to take off from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:27 p.m. EDT tonight underneath a carrier aircraft.
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| Tesla vs. Local Car Dealers: White House Petition Nears Deadline | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:26 PM | Charlie White |
| Tesla sells its electric cars directly to customers, but car dealers in many states in the U.S. don't want to face the competition of direct sales of new cars. This is a crucial issue for Tesla, whose business model depends on direct sales. One Tesla stockholder has petitioned the White House to prevent states from forbidding the direct sales.
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| Spotify Expands its Presence in New York City | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:23 PM | Christina Warren |
| Spotify is growing its presence in New York City. The company will move to a new headquarters in Chelsea later this year, meaning more than 130 new engineering jobs will be added to the city by the end of 2014. Mayor Michael Bloomberg made the announcement at Spotify's NYC headquarters Thursday, where he also revealed that the New York City Mayor's Office has joined the digital music service.
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| Android Users: Facebook Wants You to Test Its Latest App | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:11 PM | Emily Price |
| Do you own an Android device? Then Facebook wants you to help it test the next version of its app. Taking advantage of Google's beta testing tool launched at the I/O conference earlier this year, Facebook is now offering every Android user the ability to try out the new version of its Android app early. This will help the social network correct any issues with the app before launching to the general public.
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| Create a Virtual Concert on GIG-IT to Win Social Media Day VIP Tickets | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 2:48 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| GIG-IT, a new social game coming to Facebook in July that lets players create 3D concerts featuring virtual versions of famous musicians, is getting in the Social Media Day spirit. GIG-IT is throwing a contest, and one winner will receive two VIP tickets to the big Social Media Day party at New York City's Milk Studios on June 29.
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| LIVE: Ask This Mobile App Founder Your Design Questions | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 2:48 PM | Dani Fankhauser |
| Welcome to our live Hangout with Keenan Cummings, the designer and cofounder of Days, a mobile app that incubated at TechStars. We'll be talking with Cummings about mobile app design, his workflow process and trends in the industry. SEE ALSO: 7 Photo Editing Apps to Use With Instagram Recently at Designer's Debate Club, a meetup Cummings also cofounded, the discussion was on whether designers needed a formal education.
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| 8 Tips for Pranking Your Co-Worker | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 2:38 PM | AmandaWills |
| An office that pranks together, stays together. Thanks to the Internet, you have an endless toolbox at your fingertips to pull off the perfect joke. If you're a newbie to the pranking world, don't worry — I've been at this for years. (My prank at age 5 almost got my grandfather arrested.) SEE ALSO: 50 Amazingly Epic Pranks Since day one on the job, Mashable Video Production Manager Evan Engel has been pulling pranks on me.
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| Foursquare Comes to Windows 8 | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 2:27 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Microsoft showed off a Windows 8 app for Foursquare this morning at the company's Build 2013 developer conference. The new Foursquare app was designed specifically with tablets in mind, said Microsoft Vice President Steve Guggenheimer as he showed the app for the first time publicly. The app has large, full-screen entries for venues, with an emphasis on photos.
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| Study: Global Ecommerce to Hit $1.2 Trillion This Year, Led by Asia | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 1:50 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Ecommerce sales are forecast to increase 17% to $1.2 trillion worldwide this year, led by growth in the Asia-Pacific region. Indonesia is expected to experience greater ecommerce growth, proportionately speaking, than any other country this year, according to estimates published Thursday by eMarketer. Online sales are expected to increase 71.3% to $1.8 billion.
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| 10 Love Stories Told Through Inanimate Objects | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 1:23 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| You know the story. Boy/girl meets girl/boy. Initial love or hate, a few ups and downs, a sprinkling of drama and then — bam! — happy ending. The following videos pay homage to the conventional patterns of romance, but also come with an adorable twist, like all good love stories do. You see, none of the protagonists are living, breathing objects. SEE ALSO: 10 Moments of Touching Puppy Love Their stories, however, are just as charming.
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| Book Turns Weather Data Into Watercolor Paintings | | Thursday, June 27, 2013 1:07 PM | PSFK |
| Before we get dressed in the morning, most of us consult apps or widgets that predict the day's forecast for us so we can suit up appropriately. These sources serve a purely pragmatic purpose, providing us with information that will make us a little more prepared to take on each new day.
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