| Watch the Empire State Building's Fourth of July Light Show | | During yesterday's 4th of July celebration, NYC's Empire State Building had another chance to show off its new lighting system. The LED lights, first showcased in November 2012, were created by Philips Color Kinetics. The system can display 16 million colors, and is capable of showing effects such as ripples, cross-fades, sparkles, chasers, sweeps, strobes and bursts.
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| 10 Fourth of July Photos From Mashable Readers | | Meat, sweets and fireworks dominated your photo submissions for the Fourth of July. Many Mashable readers — who spent the holiday basking in the sun's glow, captured images of their Independence Day — and sent them our way via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Vine, along with the hashtag #Social4th. SEE ALSO: Show Us How You Celebrate Independence Day Relive the United States' 237th birthday by flipping through the gallery, above.
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| Michael Jackson Was Top Pick to Star in 'Doctor Who' Film | | David Tennant, Matt Smith, Tom Baker — these are the famous names that have become synonymous with BBC's popular sci-fi series, Doctor Who. Improbably, another well-known figure could have been added to this list: Michael Jackson. In the late 1980s, the King of Pop was Paramount Pictures' top pick for the lead role in a Doctor Who movie.
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| Cities Celebrate Social Media Day With Unique Twists | | 1:27:06 AM | Danielle Odiamar |
| Social Media Day is a global event that celebrates the technologies that connect us across the world. This year, events took place on six continents, all in the spirit of the ways social media changes our lives and empowers us to do good. Each year, the Social Media Day celebrations get increasingly creative. This year, many cities found ways to take advantage of the day's growing popularity by taking unique approaches to their events.
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| Ecommerce Site Lets You Search for Clothes by Uploading Photos | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 10:49 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| For ladies and gents looking to spruce up their wardrobe, a new social ecommerce platform lets users upload photos of a specific item of clothing, and then provides a results page that includes matches for that specific outfit. Called O'Share, the fashion platform is a partnership between ecommerce company Rakuten, visual search engine ViSenze and Asian fashion social network Clozette, The Next Web reported.
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| Hackers Sabotage Jay-Z's Magna Carta Android App | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 9:34 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Jay-Z can now add at least one more to his list of 99 problems. Two weeks ago, the rapper and entrepreneur announced that he was dropping Magna Carta Holy Grail — his 12th studio album — on July 4 via an Android app exclusively for a select number of Samsung smartphones. The move has seen some success: More than half a million people have downloaded the sponsored app.
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| Where to Watch Major Fourth of July Fireworks Shows Online | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 8:23 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If you can't go outside to see fireworks in person, are based in a town with a fire ban or live abroad, major Fourth of July fireworks shows from around the U.S. are being streamed online Thursday night. SEE ALSO: 50 Patriotic Facts About the United States New York City, Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular: NBC is broadcasting its huge 37th annual display at 8 p.m.
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| 'Anchorman' Stays Classy in 8-Bit Remake | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 8:02 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Ron Burgundy is still in a glass case of emotion, but now that case is made in 8-bit. In a new video, YouTuber CineFix gives Anchorman the old-school gaming treatment, which perfectly matches the cult film's retro world.
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| A New Way to Heal Broken Bones: 3D-Printed Casts | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 6:55 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Breaking a bone is unpleasant all around — and having to wear a smelly, clunky plaster cast is like getting kicked when you're down. At least, that's how Jake Evill felt after breaking his hand. He told Wired that his plaster cast felt "archaic." Evill, a recent graduate of Victoria University in New Zealand, wants to update the process of healing of broken limbs with something a little more modern: 3D printing.
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| Vibrating Train Windows Transmit Ads Directly Into Your Head | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 5:41 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Billboards. Radio ads. Pop-up banners. You see and hear advertising everywhere these days, and a new concept literally bring ads into your skull. Sleepy commuters in Germany, who rest their heads on public train windows, have recently gotten a surprise when they heard an ad that no one else can, as explained in the video above.
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| Every Weird Johnny Depp Face in Under 2 Minutes | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 5:09 PM | Neha Prakash |
| It's pretty much a universal truth that Johnny Depp has a beautiful face. But he can certainly contort it into some seriously goofy (and frightening) guises. This ScreenJunkies supercut highlights the best of Depp's kooky faces, highlighting everything from his early flicks like Edward Scissorhands to blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean and Oscar contenders like Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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| Iceland's Pirate Party Wants to Make Snowden a Citizen | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 4:38 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Members of Iceland's Pirate Party have introduced a bill that would grant Edward Snowden Icelandic citizenship. This would protect him from extradition to the United States should he make it to the North Atlantic country and receive asylum there. Snowden is currently stuck in a legal limbo at the transit center in Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport.
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| Harry Potter's Diagon Alley Is Now on Google Street View | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 4:18 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| The shops of Diagon Alley from Harry Potter are now on Google Maps' Street View. It's no Marauder's Map, but Google now lets you explore the set of Diagon Alley from the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in London. In Street View mode, you can see 360-degree images of Ollivanders Wand Shop, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes joke shop and Mr. Mulpepper’s Apothecary.
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| Hundreds of 'Restore the Fourth' NSA Protestors March in New York City | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 3:34 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Approximately 300 protestors demonstrating against the National Security Administration's surveillance programs marched three miles from New York City's Union Square south to Federal Hall onThursday. The march was one of 50 such protests organized in cities across the country. The Restore the Fourth protests originated on Reddit less than a month ago.
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| Dell Considers Move Into Wearable Computing | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 3:17 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Dell is considering a move into wearable computing, a potential growth area that might offset sinking PC sales. The company is "exploring ideas in that space," Sam Burd, Dell's global vice president of personal computing, told The Guardian. "Looking ahead five years, we expect devices and form factors to continue to change. There will still be a need for 'static' computing on desktops, but there will be a real need for mobile devices.
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| 10 Epic GIFs From Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 3:05 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| You could call competitive eating a sport — or you could call it gross. Either way, Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest has become an American tradition on the Fourth of July. The annual eating competition challenges participants to eat as many hot dogs as possible in a 10-minute time period, in front of millions of ESPN viewers and a live audience on Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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| 12 Siblings Who Got the Short End of the Stick | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 2:30 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| Those who grew up with brothers and sisters know it's all about fairness. Who got the larger slice of cake? Who took the car on Saturday night? Who picked the TV show everyone watched? In most of these instances, one sibling triumphed. We've compiled 12 instances that will make you feel better about your own sibling quibbles — or perhaps dredge up bad memories.
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| Samoa Crowdsources 3D Map to Help During Natural Disasters | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 2:21 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Technology is coming of age in Samoa, it seems. The island nation’s government reached out to its citizens to create a 3D mapping tool that will be used in the formulation of environmental initiatives and to help in times of natural disasters.
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| NASA Marks Fourth of July With Double Rocket Launch | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 1:40 PM | Space.com |
| NASA launched two small rockets from Virgina's Eastern Shore on Thursday in an early Fourth of July fireworks display aimed to probe the electrical eddies of the Earth's upper atmosphere. The two small rockets blasted off within 15 seconds of each other from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va.
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| 7 People Who Think America Turned 2,013 Years Old Today | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 1:12 PM | Neha Prakash |
| If we're focusing on the positive then let's just say that there are a lot of very patriotic people on Twitter. But if we're being a tad bit critical (as all Americans should be), there are also a lot of people on Twitter who are unaware about U.S. history, the general calendar system and all things reality. Those people have sponsored today's post with their witless tweets proclaiming a "happy 2013th birthday" to America.
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| 50 Patriotic Facts About the United States | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:58 PM | Neha Prakash |
| It's the land of the free and the home of the brave. From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters, this land was made for you and me. So, you know the lyrics to "This Land is Your Land" — but how much do you really know about the states we call home sweet home? This Independence Day, brush up on your U.S. history with 50 facts about the grand ol' United States from list-maker extrodinaire Mental Floss.
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| Vine's iOS Update Unlocks a Whole New Vine Experience | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:21 PM | Emily Price |
| Vine released an update to its iOS app on Wednesday, its biggest refresh since the app’s launch earlier this year. Among other enhancements, a number of Twitter features are now available within the app, as well as a few new features — including a dramatic update to the app's camera — which, in many ways, make Vine feel like a totally new app.
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| Watch Fireworks Set Off in Slow-Motion 'Matrix' Style | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:08 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| What do fireworks look like when they're filmed at 240 frames per second? Glad you asked. Jeremiah Warren used a GoPro Hero3 camera attached to a ceiling fan to simulate a famous scene in The Matrix in which Neo (Keanu Reeves) dodges a series of bullets. The result is a fireworks show like you've never seen before.
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| 44 Obscure Facts You Didn't Know About U.S. Presidents | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 11:29 AM | Allison Reiber |
| Which president enjoyed skinny-dipping in the Potomac River? Who let their alligators run rampant through the White House? Who whipped out his — well, let's just say you probably didn't learn these facts in history class. In honor of Independence Day, we've gathered a star-spangled list of facts about all 44 Presidents of the United States.
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| 10 Popular TV Characters Reimagined as American Revolution Figures | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 11:02 AM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Your favorite TV characters from shows like Homeland, Mad Men, Game of Thrones and True Blood have striking similarities to key Revolutionary War figures. Don't believe us? Just ask The Connectivist, a site that delivers a potent dose of pop culture history comparisons just in time for the Fourth of July in the gallery above.
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| France Accused of Spying on Citizens' Communications | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 10:40 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| French newspaper Le Monde accused France's government of illegally monitoring citizens' internal and external communications in a report Thursday. Le Monde immediately compared the French program to the recently revealed PRISM surveillance program in the United States.
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| The 'Father of the Internet' Remembers Douglas Engelbart | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 10:31 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Douglas Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse who died on Wednesday at the age of 88, had tremendous influence over many of the computing technologies we now take for granted. There aren't many people with similar esteem, but Vint Cerf, often called the "father of the Internet" (along with his colleague, Bob Kahn) for his pioneering work on computer networks, is one of them.
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| 15 Most-Followed Politicians on Twitter | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 10:14 AM | Sarah Ang |
| Follow whomever you like on Twitter — friends, family, coworkers, celebrities or squirrels. When it comes to politicians, we don't always love what they have to tweet about — but it's a pretty direct way of obtaining information straight from their offices. Below, find 15 politicians with the highest follower counts (POTUS dominates the lead by almost 30 million).
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| Yahoo Buys Xobni and Other News You Need to Know | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 9:34 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. A group called Restore the Fourth is organizing street demonstrations across the country to rally against recently revealed NSA surveillance programs. Twitter is revamping its ads to bring users more relevant promoted tweets.
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| Independence Day Google Doodle Takes You on a Fourth of July Road Trip | | Thursday, July 04, 2013 9:26 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Google's interactive Google Doodle for Independence Day is one of our favorites from the search giant so far. The Doodle takes you on a road trip across America with a family of cute animated dogs. Each click brings up a new photo from the road trip across 13 locations in the United States, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore.
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