| Is 'Star Trek' Technology Still Light Years Away? | | 12:06:46 AM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| In the age of iPads, flying cars and space rovers, some gadgets that were once confined to the science-fiction world are quickly becoming commonplace 21st-century commodities. Star Trek, which aired its first episode more than 40 years ago on NBC, stood at the forefront, dazzling its fan base for decades with such high-tech gizmos as phasers and tricorders in the exploration of the final frontier.
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| Venezuela, Nicaragua Offer Asylum to Snowden | | Friday, July 05, 2013 11:50 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Edward Snowden might finally get what he's been looking for: a safe haven to avoid facing justice in the United States. On Friday, the Presidents of both Venezuela and Nicaragua said they could offer the NSA whistleblower asylum. After fleeing Hong Kong, Snowden is believed to be holed up in Moscow's Sheremyetevo airport.
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| Stay Powered Up With This Tiny USB Smartphone Charger | | Friday, July 05, 2013 11:30 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| The new CulCharge USB phone charger gets right to the point with no unnecessary frills, and it's compact enough to carry around in your pocket. The CulCharge is a simple charger made of flexible silicone that has a USB plug on one end and a connection to a phone on the other, as explained in the video above.
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| Gymnast Bends Bodies and Minds With Best Wind-Up in Baseball | | Friday, July 05, 2013 10:53 PM | Annie Colbert |
| If gymnastics doesn't pan out, Shin Soo-ji could have a future in baseball. The South Korean rhythmic gymnast took the mound to toss out a ceremonial first pitch for the Doosan Bears on July 5 and wowed even the professional ball players with her unconventional windup. Think Gumby meets a windmill and does a flip.
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| Bold Men Don Their Girlfriends' Clothes for Portraits | | Friday, July 05, 2013 10:13 PM | Quenton Narcisse |
| Photographer Jon Uriarte was having a conversation with friends about the generational changes in relationships between men and women when he had an idea. He wanted to take pictures that not only showcased these differences, but also expressed the confusion that the men were now experiencing.
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| 'Sharknado' Teaser Trailer Brings Laughs on Twitter | | Friday, July 05, 2013 9:28 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| Yes, this is another shark movie. The channel that brought you made-for-TV classics like Sharktopus and Jersey Shore Shark Attack is adding one more shark-themed film to its arsenal. SEE ALSO: 15 'Jaws'-Dropping Shark Memes Circling the Web Syfy released a teaser trailer for its latest original movie, Sharknado, a disaster flick about — you guessed it — sharks and tornados.
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| Apple May Be Working on Self-Adjusting Noise-Cancelling Headphones | | Friday, July 05, 2013 8:36 PM | Emily Price |
| Listen up — Apple may be working on its own noise-cancelling earbuds. A recently discovered patent application filed by the company shows a pair of headphones that adjust their output based on how they fit in a person’s ears. SEE ALSO: 7 iPhone Concepts That Will Make You Salivate Noise-cancelling earbuds are often affected by how they fit in the ear.
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| Remember the 'Game of Thrones' Characters You Used to Know | | Friday, July 05, 2013 7:54 PM | Allison Reiber |
| WARNING: Video includes Game of Thrones season one spoilers. Game of Thrones, you so crazy. Not only are you hopelessly addicting, but as soon as a character finds his or her way into our hearts, you go killing them off. It's an emotional roller coaster ride only George R.R. Martin could take us on.
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| Madonna Lashes Back at Haters: 'Stop Following Me On Instagram!' | | Friday, July 05, 2013 7:06 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Never one to hold her tongue or suppress her thoughts, Madonna used Instagram to respond to recent criticism about a photo she posted. The image showed the pop superstar wearing a chainmail mask that some people say resembles the face garb worn by Muslim women.
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| 7 Tips For Scoring a Date on Tinder | | Friday, July 05, 2013 6:14 PM | Adam Popescu |
| If your thumb hurts from constantly browsing Tinder, the addictive dating app, you're not alone — it boasts of a membership of about 20 million. The service is extremely simple. Cycle through potential partners, and click the green heart on profiles of those you're interested in. Otherwise, click a red "X," and you'll move on to the next profile.
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| The Popularity of Your Tweets Can Be Predicted | | Friday, July 05, 2013 5:33 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Three university researchers have come up with a model they suggest can predict how popular a tweet will be. This formula doesn't look at the content of a tweet, but focuses on the behavior of people and retweets on Twitter. "I can't tell you what kind of tweet is going to be big, but I can tell you the minutes of which one [tweet] is going to be big," Tauhid Zaman, assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, told Mashable.
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| The Ultimate Compilation of Wacky Japanese Commercials | | Friday, July 05, 2013 5:08 PM | Hannah Orenstein |
| Excuse the slight exaggeration, but everything cool comes from Japan. That's hardly a hyperbole — it's just true. Sushi. Hello Kitty. Karaoke. And now, this video. This compilation of bizarre Japanese commercials is going viral, and it's easy to see why. A commercial for breakfast cereal features disembodied heads on a playground, while an ad for bug spray stars dancers who make Prancerise look totally normal by comparison.
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| See 'Summer Triangle' in Night Sky This Weekend | | Friday, July 05, 2013 4:28 PM | Space.com |
| This weekend, during the late evening hours, search for the famous "Summer Triangle" high in the eastern sky. The triangle consists of three of the brightest stars in the sky, each the brightest in its own constellation.
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| A New High-Tech Way to Detect Crime Scene Fingerprints | | Friday, July 05, 2013 3:42 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| The latest in high-tech crime scene investigation is a "fluorescent tag" that can help identify fingerprints on bullets, knives and other metal surfaces by creating images that are accurate to the nanoscale.
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| Iceland Freezes Out Request to Grant Snowden Citizenship | | Friday, July 05, 2013 3:29 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Iceland will not help NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden escape his purgatory in Moscow's Sheremyetevo airport by giving him citizenship — at least for now. Yesterday, members of Iceland's Pirate Party introduced a bill to grant Snowden citizenship and thus protect him from being extradited to the United States, which has charged him with espionage and theft of government property for leaking top secret surveillance programs.
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| 5 Futuristic Inventions We Wish Existed | | Friday, July 05, 2013 3:12 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Who would have thought Total Recall's prediction of driverless cars or The Truman Show's forecasting of the rise of reality TV would actually come to pass? But other predictions from futurists and Hollywood visions of hoverboards, flying cars and space colonies don't exist quite yet.
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| Photo Challenge: Show Us Your Best Shots Taken After Dark | | Friday, July 05, 2013 2:57 PM | Annie Park |
| Darkness brings an exciting challenge for photographers. Once the sun sets, a window of opportunity opens. For this week's Mashable Photo Challenge Guest Series, we want to see your most stunning photos taken after dark. These might be long exposure shots, a night-time city skyline, photos of the stars or light paintings.
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| Visit 23 Museums and Zoos Free With Google Field Trip App | | Friday, July 05, 2013 2:30 PM | Emily Price |
| Google wants you to go on a field trip this summer. If you have Google’s Field Trip app installed on your phone, you can get free admission at 23 of the nation’s best museums and zoos until the end of July. Options include everything from President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington D.C. to the Bronx Zoo in New York City. SEE ALSO: Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time Google originally launched Field Trip last September.
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| Capture Your Favorite Scents on Camera | | Friday, July 05, 2013 2:11 PM | Discovery News |
| A freshly mowed lawn, lit charcoal and sunscreen are just a few summer smells that are as ephemeral as they are memorable. However, a new “smell camera” could help preserve these fragrances, not only in memory. Created by designer Amy Radcliffe, Madeleine is an “analog odor camera” based off "Headspace Capture," a technology developed for the perfume industry to analyze and recreate the odor compounds that surround various objects.
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| Lady Gaga Changes Twitter Avatar to Egg and Takes Mysterious Hiatus | | Friday, July 05, 2013 1:51 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Lady Gaga is egging us on, switching her Twitter avatar to the service's default egg image. The 27-year-old global pop star also updated her Twitter bio, causing fans to panic. The new bio reads: "This interface has been shut down temporarily. Please check back for updates." The changes have drawn comparisons to her 2011 Grammy Awards appearance, where she arrived inside an egg and later emerged from it during a performance.
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| Edward Snowden Trained as an 'Ethical Hacker' | | Friday, July 05, 2013 1:25 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| While Edward Snowden is still stuck somewhere inside Moscow's Sheremyetevo airport, details about his past keep emerging. In 2010, while working at Dell as an National Security Agency contractor, Snowden earned a certificate as an "ethical hacker," and learned some of the skills that most likely helped him siphon off the top secret documents that have revealed multiple NSA surveillance programs over the last month.
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| Samsung, HTC Earnings Disappoint: Is the Smartphone Market Saturated? | | Friday, July 05, 2013 1:06 PM | Christina Warren |
| Samsung and HTC just rolled out some holiday-hidden bad news. Is this a sign that smartphones are the new PCs? That's not a comment on their functionality, but instead what looks like a sudden saturation of the market. Just as PCs once seemed like a category with boundless growth, the smartphone segment is appearing more and more finite. And this has happened in a fraction of the time.
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| Survey Suggests 'SimCity' May Add an Offline Mode | | Friday, July 05, 2013 12:53 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| A survey sent to some SimCity players hints the game could be getting the much-requested offline mode in a patch. This counters EA's assertion the game was designed to be played only online by connecting to its servers. The survey, which popped up on Reddit on Thursday, asks players for their opinions on several patch or expansion ideas.
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| Is Space Traffic Creating More Clouds? | | Friday, July 05, 2013 11:50 AM | Discovery News |
| Very high altitude ice clouds are increasing in polar regions and space traffic may be the cause. It’s all happening in the mesosphere, a part of the atmosphere located about 50 to 100 km (31 to 62 miles) above the Earth's surface — too high for weather balloons to reach yet still not quite in space, making it a difficult place to study.
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| Microsoft Opens Xbox 360 Update to Beta Testers | | Friday, July 05, 2013 11:35 AM | Chelsea Stark |
| Microsoft invited players to install a beta version of an updated Xbox Live platform on their Xbox 360 consoles on Friday to collect feedback. Microsoft spokesperson Major Nelson posted the invitation on his blog early Friday morning. Players can log into their Xbox 360s and install the beta from the home hub of the dashboard.
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| BBC to Pull the Plug on 3D TV With 'Doctor Who' Special | | Friday, July 05, 2013 11:01 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Following in the footsteps of ESPN, which recently announced its intention to curtail its 3D programming at the end of the year, the BBC will do the same, though a special celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who will make it under the wire. Kim Shillinglaw, the BBC’s head of 3D, told Radio Times that the UK media giant plans to take a three-year break from 3D programming.
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| Everything Gmail Knows About You and Your Friends, Visualized | | Friday, July 05, 2013 10:34 AM | National Journal |
| When Google hands over email records to the government, it includes basic envelope information, or metadata, that reveals the names and email addresses of senders and recipients in your account. The feds, in turn, can mine that information for patterns that might be useful in a law enforcement investigation.
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