| Why Isn't LinkedIn Blocked in China? | | The Chinese government blocks most of the world's major social media sites — Twitter and Facebook, among others. It even restricts Internet users' access to Slideshare. But not LinkedIn. It seems China knows the network has much to offer the Middle Kingdom. Enough to, apparently, permit unrestricted site access. One reason LinkedIn may have avoided government censorship is China's difficulty connecting with the rest of the world online.
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| LG's 65-Inch 4K TV Costs $7,999 in the U.S. | | LG has launched a 55- and a 65-inch 4K TV set in the U.S., priced at $6,999 and $7,999, respectively. Both devices belong to LG's LA9700 series and come with Ultra High Definition resolution, meaning 3840 x 2160 pixels, or 8.3 million pixels per frame.
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| Apple Store Being Built Above 15th-Century Spanish Ruins | | 2:09:30 AM | Luisa Rollenhagen |
| Madrid's new Apple store won't just be harboring your run-of-the-mill iPhones and iPads in its basement. According to The Verge, the store is being built right on top of 15th century hospital ruins. While constructing the basement of the store, workers discovered walls belonging to the foundations of an old hospital. According to El País, the walls belonged to the Buen Suceso hospital, which was located next to a church of the same name.
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| Project Harnesses Artistic Potential of Email | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 11:42 PM | Bonnie Wertheim |
| Despite concerns around privacy and data security and the NSA, we remain curiosity about the content of other people's emails. Email has become the cultural touchstone that letter writing once was, and although snooping through other peoples' sent emails is frowned upon, it can be illuminating.
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| Facebook Facelift Craze Makes for Pricey Profile Pictures | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 11:06 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| That Facebook profile picture is crucial. At the very least, it's your image, a semi-public glimpse into who you are. It can also be a branding tool or a peek at what potential employers can expect. And of course, as the first Facebook iteration had it, the profile picture can serve as a subjective indicator: hot or not. For some (or arguably all) of the above reasons, keeping up appearances is a social media consideration.
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| Sharknado Takes Twitter by Storm | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:21 PM | Chris Taylor |
| In what surely counts as the most laughable premise since Samuel Jackson got tired of all those snakes on his plane, the TV movie Sharknado debuted on the Syfy channel Thursday night. It features pretty much what you'd imagine from that title: a freak weather system sweeping up schools of sharks into a tornado that drowns and devastates Los Angeles. For folks on Twitter, it was cause for a feeding frenzy.
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| This Song Banishes Vertical Videos on Smartphones | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:43 PM | Hannah Orenstein |
| There are few things more annoying than watching a video filmed vertically on an iPhone. The shot is almost always cropped awkwardly and the black sidebars leave you wanting to see more. Jonathan Mann, a YouTube legend who has written, performed, filmed, and uploaded an original song every day for the past 1,649 days, knows a thing or two about filming.
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| Artistic Robot Decides What to Paint Next | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:58 PM | PSFK |
| Some people would say that painting takes years of practice and cannot be mastered by everyone. But if that's the case, how would those people explain a robot that learned to paint in a fraction of that time? e-David is an ordinary welding machine that has been equipped with sensors, a camera and a control computer — not to mention painting supplies that consist of five different brushes and a 24-color palette.
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| Facebook Hashtags Have Marketing Potential, Privacy Issues | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:19 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| When Facebook announced the rollout of its Twitter-like hashtag program last month, it wasn't immediately clear how marketers could take advantage. Facebook didn't provide much information, except to say that there would be no hashtag-related advertising, at least not yet. Many marketers rushed ahead anyway, eager to try the hashtags out. Colin Sutton, U.S.
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| 'Out of the Furnace' Trailer Shows Christian Bale's Gritty Side | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:54 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Things get dicey pretty quickly in Out of the Furnace's first official trailer, which was released Thursday by the film's distributor, Relativity. Shedding the role of the Dark Knight and Bruce Wayne, Christian Bale returns to the big-screen for a role that still seeks to do good — but with less gadgets and more grit. Bale plays Russell, a Rust Belt blue-collar worker who cares for his terminally ill father.
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| The Typewriter Is Back — to Save Privacy | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:42 PM | Chris Taylor |
| You know how to make sure a government agency — or if you are a government agency, then Wikileaks — won't eventually read everything you type? By dumping your laptop and clacking the keys on something like an old-fashioned Selectric, then hand-delivering the result to your correspondent. That appears to be the rationale behind the Russian government's decision to purchase new typewriter equipment.
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| Bruce Lee Comes Back to Life in Johnnie Walker Ad | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:33 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| Chalk it up to CGI magic. Martial arts legend and action star Bruce Lee died 40 years ago, but whiskey purveyor Johnnie Walker has brought him — or at least his likeness — back to life. Its 90-second "Hail to the Game Changers" ad features Bruce Lee wandering through a Hong Kong hotel, expounding on his philosophy about how to be a game changer.
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| College Increases Security With Iris Scans | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:57 PM | Discovery News |
| The Minority Report's eye-scanning technology has become as everyday as attending classes at a small college in South Carolina. Administrators are testing out the use of iris scanners to control access to certain buildings. Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. has been evaluating the scanners for four months. Students and faculty have the irises in their eyes scanned by looking into a mirror that has a camera behind it.
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| Baby's First Year Beautifully Captured One Second at a Time | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:42 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Baby Indigo entered the world on July 9, 2012. His father, Sam Christopher Cornwell, started the camera rolling on his son's day of birth and continued to capture snippets of footage every day to Indigo's first birthday. SEE ALSO: The 10 Most Viral YouTube Videos of 2012 Cornwell stitched together the footage, a few seconds at a time, to create a beautiful time-lapse video.
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| Never Mind the Royal Baby, a Mini Horse Is Giving Birth Live | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:34 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Unless you're the Royal Baby's number one fan, you probably haven't staked out a spot in London to welcome the future British monarch. Never fear, though, because there is a mini horse giving birth live on YouTube and that's almost as cool. The mare, named Becca, is pregnant with her sixth foal. The 10-year-old miniature horse has been on labor watch for about a week, thanks to The Pet Collective and Little Hooves.
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| DefCon Hacker Conference to Feds: 'We Need Some Time Apart' | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:24 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| At last year's DefCon, the world's largest hacker conference, NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander showed up in blue jeans and a tucked-in T-shirt to give the keynote speech, asking hackers to join forces with the NSA. "We can protect the networks and have civil liberties and privacy, and you can help us get there,” he said.
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| 11 Minutes of Pure Beatboxing Genius | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:19 PM | Hannah Orenstein |
| Using only his voice and a microphone, Australian beatboxer Tom Thum gave a dynamic performance at TEDxSydney in May. His 11-minute act was uploaded to YouTube earlier this week and instantly went viral, accruing more than 1.4 million views in two days.
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| Pearl Jam Announces New Album, Debuts 'Mind Your Manners' | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:08 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| YouTube is quickly becoming Pearl Jam's (and Pearl Jam fans') best friend. The band dropped a couple bombs (in video form) on the video-sharing site today when the countdown clock on the band's website hit 00:00:00:00. With the gaggle of digital goose eggs came word of Pearl Jam's 10th studio album, Lightning Bolt, which will drop via Monkeywrench Records on Oct.
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| 8 Weirdest Pieces of Vintage Royal Baby Merchandise | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:57 PM | Annie Colbert |
| The Royal Baby hubbub has swag-pushers on overdrive. Expect London store shelves filled with decorative plates, golden thimbles and commemorative scrunchies when Baby Cambridge arrives. Before Royal Baby enthusiasts stuff their pockets with celebratory goodies, however, they can prepare with vintage merchandise from Prince William's birth.
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| Xbox's New Lead: 5 Things You Should Know About Julie Larson-Green | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:40 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Former Windows head Julie Larson-Green now holds the top spot for the Xbox division. The new job comes as part of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's aggressive company restructuring plan, which he announced Thursday morning. Larson-Green fills the void left by Don Mattrick who departed last week to become the CEO of floundering mobile game company Zynga.
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| First-Person Janitor Game Makes You Clean Up Alien Guts | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:30 PM | Taylor Casti |
| Gamers are used to entering worlds in which they unleash rounds of bullets with reckless abandon, slaughtering everything that crosses their path and leaving trails of blood that would make Quentin Tarantino shield his eyes. Visceral Cleanup Detail brings this gore to the forefront in an unexpected way: You don't get to make the mess. You have to clean it up.
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| Distort Reality Through Reflection for Our Photo Challenge | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 4:03 PM | Annie Park |
| For this week's Mashable Photo Challenge Guest Series, we want to see you use reflection to take a picture. "Follow the light and use that as your guide to find the best reflections," said this week's guest curator, Dylan Isbell, a freelancer who has photographed for Newsweek, NPR and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Be creative with this.
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| Hands On With the Nokia Lumia 1020 | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 3:44 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Nokia finally unveiled its worst-kept-secret flagship Windows Phone, the Lumia 1020, on Thursday. We spent some time with the device, and even test-drove its jaw-dropping 41-megapixel camera. The Nokia Lumia 1020 doesn't feel like a camera when you hold it, which is a leg up over other camera-phone hybrids such as the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom.
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| Tom Hanks Transforms Into Walt Disney in 'Saving Mr. Banks' | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 3:44 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Disney has broken the seal on the first movie trailer for Saving Mr. Banks, which tells the story of how Mary Poppins made its transition from pages of a book to the silver screen. Helmed by John Lee Hancock, the flick highlights Walt Disney (played by Tom Hanks) and his efforts to persuade author P.L.
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