| Android's Jelly Bean Usage Eclipses Gingerbread for the First Time | | Jelly Bean, the latest version of Android, has surpassed Gingerbread as the dominant operating system for the first time. According to the Android Developers' Dashboards section, 37.9% of users are running Android version 4.1 and 4.2 on their smartphones, while Gingerbread (2.3) slips into second place with 34.1%. Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) takes third place with 23.3%.
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| When You Search Google, Only 13% of the Screen Has Real Results | | Monday, July 08, 2013 7:04 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Search is supposed to be the heart of Google, right? But an entrepreneur has pointed out that the search engine's site design doesn't cater much to showing organic search results these days. Aaron Harris, the cofounder of Tutorspree, explained in a blog post that he looked at "the amount of real estate given to true organic results," by searching "auto mechanic" on Google, from his office in New York City.
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| This Brain Part Decides What Goes Viral on Social Media | | Monday, July 08, 2013 6:01 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Ever heard of the Temporo-Parietal Junction? No, it's not a train station, nor is it a 60's-style rock group. The TPJ, as it's also known, is the area of the brain that gets activated when we're thinking about how to share something and who to share it with.
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| Shake Your Huxtable to the Cosby Version of 'Blurred Lines' | | Monday, July 08, 2013 3:49 PM | Annie Colbert |
| The connection between the opening credits of 80s TV classic The Cosby Show and 2013 summer jam "Blurred Lines" might not seem obvious at first. But play a little six-degrees game on IMDb.com, and the link becomes obvious. Bill Cosby's TV daughter was Keisha Knight Pullium (aka Rudy Huxtable), who starred on Tyler Perry's House of Payne.
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| Exclusive: 'Curse of Chucky' Trailer Brings Killer Doll Back to Life | | Monday, July 08, 2013 3:47 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| The Child's Play movie franchise, starring the world's scariest killer doll, is making a comeback this fall with Curse of Chucky. The sixth film in the horror series breaks the franchise's nine-year hiatus from scaring the bejesus out of children and adults alike. Mashable is exclusively debuting the movie's official trailer, above.
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| iOS 7 Beta 3 Arrives for Developers | | Monday, July 08, 2013 3:38 PM | Christina Warren |
| Just two weeks after iOS 7 beta 2 arrived with iPad support, Apple has released iOS 7 beta 3 to registered developers. Apple unveiled iOS 7 at WWDC 2013 on June 10 and offered its first beta to developers the same day. For now, the release cycle appears to be every two weeks for a new beta — which is faster and more consistent than iOS betas in the past.
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| Meet Pitchfork's Ambitious New Film Site 'The Dissolve' | | Monday, July 08, 2013 3:24 PM | Todd Olmstead |
| Pitchfork will launch The Dissolve, a new website devoted to movies and film criticism, on Wednesday. It's Pitchfork's second foray outside of music news and commentary, following "visual culture" site Nothing Major. Today, Mashable is giving you the first look at The Dissolve, which was announced in May.
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| Jay-Z Breaks Twitter Silence With Candid Rapid-Fire Tweets | | Monday, July 08, 2013 2:29 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Jay-Z's self-imposed Twitter hiatus didn't last long. The rapper, whose Magna Carta Holy Grail album debuted this month, returned to the service Monday — despite claiming in mid-June that he had reached his "yearly allotment" of tweets. Jay-Z promised to resume tweeting no sooner than 2014, so his rapid-fire tweets came as a surprise to everyone, causing #MCHG to become a worldwide trending topic on Twitter.
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| Garmin's Portable Head-Up Display Adds a High-Tech Touch to Cars | | Monday, July 08, 2013 9:51 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Garmin has launched a portable head-up display, a first for the satellite navigation company. The device, which is simply called HUD (heads-up display), projects turn-by-turn driving navigations onto a transparent film on the windshield or an attached reflector lens.
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| Reddit Serves Up a PR Crisis to Golden Corral | | Monday, July 08, 2013 9:26 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| The restaurant chain Golden Corral was a hot topic on Reddit Monday morning as images surfaced of purported disgusting kitchen conditions and a video by an alleged employee charged that the chain keeps its meat by the dumpster. A Reddit user named GCWhistleblower posted four pictures of a kitchen overflowing with garbage near food that is spilling out of boxes.
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| Are Social Discovery Apps Too Creepy? | | Monday, July 08, 2013 7:18 AM | Amy Burke |
| The premise of social discovery seems simple: Uncover the people and events around you, in real time, based on user interests and/or locations. But many worry today's social apps define privacy in very different and sometimes concerning terms. In 2012, Instagram revamped its privacy policy to much protest, and Path settled a case with the FTC over its personal information collection practices.
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