| 20 Desperate Dating Songs on Spotify | | Friday, June 28, 2013 10:17 PM | Quenton Narcisse |
| Breakups are never easy. And there are significant differences in the way people cope. It's normal for some to sit in bed and indulge in gallons of Haagen-Dazs while grieving. Others bounce back immediately with little emotional hangover. Yet, whatever you do to get back on your feet, music is usually involved in some way as a coping mechanism.
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| NeverWet Makes Everything You Own Water-Resistant | | Friday, June 28, 2013 9:41 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| Ross Nanotechnology has developed a product called Rust-Oleum NeverWet that does just what its name says. Just spray pretty much everything you own with NeverWet and it becomes basically waterproof. NeverWet is designed to be used on multiple surfaces by creating a superhydrophobic barrier, which repels water. When any liquid hits this barrier, it forms beads that roll of the surface without clinging on.
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| Pop Songs Get Old Hollywood Sound With Postmodern Jukebox | | Friday, June 28, 2013 7:52 PM | Hannah Orenstein |
| It's time to turn the radio dial back to your grandparents' generation. Postmodern Jukebox posted a video in February featuring a woman with her hair in 1940s-style victory rolls and a polka dot dress crooning into the microphone while a jazz band plays a bouncy melody behind her. But a few bars in, you notice that she isn't singing an Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday song.
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| 'The Wizard of Oz' Like You've Never Seen Before: In Legos | | Friday, June 28, 2013 7:00 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| This year at Brickworld Chicago, a group of online Lego builders called VirtuaLUG (Virtual Lego User Group) recreated every major scene from the original 1939 The Wizard of Oz movie, including a motorized tornado. The project involved 12 builders across three different countries, with scenes from Kansas to Munchkinland and poppy fields in the land of Oz.
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| 3D-Printed Fashion Show Draws Inspiration From Nature | | Friday, June 28, 2013 6:44 PM | Bonnie Wertheim |
| When you think about it, the fashion and tech industries aren't so different. Both create products that people use daily, follow extremely fickle trends and insist upon remaining on the cutting edge. It's unsurprising, then, that the two worlds would eventually collide.
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| Google+ at 2 Years: An Assessment | | Friday, June 28, 2013 6:40 PM | Christina Warren |
| Two years ago Friday, Google unveiled its social network Google+ to the world. In the early days, Google described Google+ as a "social layer" rather than a pure social network, partly because Google+ permeates lots of different services, and partly to offset the idea that Google+ was an attempt to directly compete with Facebook and Twitter.
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| 20 Greatest Yearbook Trolls of All Time | | Friday, June 28, 2013 12:46 PM | Gabe Bergado |
| Internet trolls have found their way out of online forums and into yearbooks. Forget the cookie-cutter inspirational quotes that usually sit under student portraits and prepare yourself for pop culture allusions, meme references and straight up trolling. SEE ALSO: 'Damn You Auto Correct' Unveils 11 Funniest Texts of 2012 Have a great summer, suckers. 1. Image courtesy of Reddit, scrapeandclean 2.
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| Blackberry PlayBook Is as Good as Dead | | Friday, June 28, 2013 11:27 AM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Poor BlackBerry PlayBook. I’m not sure it ever had a chance. From the botched launch to the distracting corporate struggles and shuffles to its ultimate demise, BlackBerry’s 7-inch tablet has been a vexed product. Today, BlackBerry (the company formerly known as RIM) essentially put a nail in the PlayBook coffin by announcing that it would not be converted to the new Blackberry 10 OS.
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| Android Gaming Console GamePop Announces Free Smaller Form Factor | | Friday, June 28, 2013 10:41 AM | Chelsea Stark |
| Android-powered television gaming console GamePop will be released in a smaller form factor free for subscribers, per an announcement on Friday. GamePop allows users to pay a subscription of $6.99 a month to access over 500 mobile games on their TVs for free each month. The original GamePop console, announced in May, is free until Sunday for those who sign up with the subscription service.
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| Japan to Launch Talking Robot Into Space | | Friday, June 28, 2013 10:18 AM | Space.com |
| A small talking robot built in Japan is about to take one giant leap into space. Kirobo — a humanoid "robot astronaut" that can converse with humans in space and on the ground — is scheduled for launch to the International Space Station on Aug. 4. Once aboard the orbiting laboratory, Kirobo will take part in the first robot-to-human conversation in space, Kibo Robot Project officials have said.
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| How Not to Apply for a Job in the Digital Age | | Friday, June 28, 2013 8:59 AM | Matt Petronzio |
| It's no secret that possessing some digital know-how can help you in today's job market. But simply owning a copy of Photoshop and having social media accounts aren't exactly the skills that employers are looking for in the digital age. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Drew at Toothpaste For Dinner illustrates what you really shouldn't boast about on your resume.
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| Is It the Dawn of the Encryption App? | | Friday, June 28, 2013 8:01 AM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Amidst surveillance programs like PRISM and Project Tempora, it might have come the time for privacy-enhancing cryptography apps.
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| 10 Top HTC First Cases | | Friday, June 28, 2013 7:54 AM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| Did you opt for the HTC First? Whether you got the phone when it first came out, or nabbed a bargain with AT&T's 99 cent "fire sale" you surely want a case to protect your handset. SEE ALSO: 5 Password Generators for Maximum Online Security We have found 10 cases tailor-made to shield the "Facebook Phone" from harm. Take a look through our top choices in the image gallery above.
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