| Samsung Wins Over Apple in Fortune's New Global 500 List | | Fortune has released its annual Global 500 list, ranking the world's largest corporations by revenue. The top of the list is dominated by oil companies, but the largest IT company is currently Samsung Electronics, in 14th place with $178.6 billion in revenue. Apple lags 5 places, sitting in 19th place with $156.5 billion in revenue.
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| 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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| How to Make Your Content Go Viral | | No one can guarantee 10 million pageviews, but most of the time, the content people share isn't random. Jonah Berger explains the science of virality.
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| Architecture Innovation Would Turn Air Pollution Into Biofuel | | What if air pollution could be converted into something useful, like biofuel? That’s the idea behind a new concept by Royal College of Art student Chang-Yeob Lee. Lee wants to transform London’s BT Tower — one of the city’s tallest buildings — into a structure capable of capturing air pollution in the area and then transforming it into usable biofuel.
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| Cats and Bacon: How They Rule the Internet | | Monday, July 08, 2013 11:35 PM | Sam Laird |
| For many of us hardcore Internet users, the meaning of life boils down to two things: cats and bacon. This infographic details their online domination.
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| iCracked is Banking on Your Cracked iPhone Screen | | Monday, July 08, 2013 10:59 PM | Megan Hess |
| The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: iCracked One-Liner Pitch: A network of iTechs in every city provides customers with device repair, buyback, insurance or redistribution.
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| CollegeHumor Goes Digital for First Feature Film | | Monday, July 08, 2013 10:30 PM | Adam Popescu |
| CollegeHumor releases Coffee Town on Tuesday, the first feature length film produced by the hugely popular video site. The film, which follows the love lives of flirtatious baristas and customers, will be available on iTunes, Amazon, PlayStation, Xbox, on-demand and cable. Prices vary, with iTunes charging $6.99.
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| 8 Twists on Just Girly Things | | Monday, July 08, 2013 9:28 PM | Molly Horan |
| If you've ever scrolled deep into the Tumblr Dashboard, you've probably come across the ubiquitous Just Girly Things snapshots. The photos on this site, and others inspired by it, are blurry moments in the life of a mythical universal teenage girl who loves life ... and hair products.
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| How George R.R. Martin Got the Idea for 'Game of Thrones' | | Monday, July 08, 2013 8:57 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Still reeling from the death of your favorite character on Game of Thrones? Too bad — George R.R. Martin is already plotting the death of everyone else you've grown to love in his mega-hit book series that's now a popular HBO show. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, John Kovalic of Dork Tower wonders what in Martin's dark past could have turned him into such a cutthroat (pun intended) author.
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| No Movie Trailer Is Complete Without This One Line | | Monday, July 08, 2013 8:41 PM | Hannah Orenstein |
| How many times have you heard a deep male voice boom, "One man ..." in a movie trailer? "Only one man can save the planet." "Only one man can discover the truth." "Only one man can stop it." (This has got to be one busy dude.) SEE ALSO: 10 Epic Movie Supercuts YouTube user Solid Wooden Pecker created this supercut featuring dozens of movie trailers which use the famous "one man" phrase.
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| The Hut Where the Internet Began | | Monday, July 08, 2013 8:14 PM | The Atlantic |
| When Douglas Engelbart read a Vannevar Bush essay on a Philippine island in the aftermath of World War II, he found the conceptual space to imagine what would become our Internet.
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| Corning Developing Glass Resitant to Germs, Sun Glare | | Monday, July 08, 2013 7:57 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| The maker of Gorilla Glass — the really tough material used on a lot of phone and tablet screens — is developing glass technology that is anti-reflective and anti-microbial. In June, Corning senior vice-president and operations chief of staff Jeffrey Evenson spoke at the MIT Technology Review Mobile Summit 2013, where he revealed the innovations that they're working on.
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| Giant Exoskeleton Mimics Your Every Move | | Monday, July 08, 2013 7:34 PM | Discovery News |
| While it may not be as robust as the Amplified Mobility Platform Suits that tear through Pandora in the movie Avatar, a new robotic exoskeleton is strong enough to handle a light jog and includes hands that are nimble enough to pick up an egg without cracking it. Developed by Sagawa Electronics, the Powered Jacket MK3 boasts an aluminum and carbon fiber frame that weighs only 55 pounds, despite being almost seven-and-a-half feet tall.
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| 24 Songs With Featured Artists Who Almost Steal the Show | | Monday, July 08, 2013 7:16 PM | Marissa Cetin |
| Not quite a duet, a featured artist on a song acts as more of a supportive friend, pitching in a helpful vocal to boost a song to perfection and even that No. 1 spot. The MVP of featured spots this year is easily Pharrell Williams (and potentially ever — see Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot" and "Beautiful;" Britney Spears' "Boys;" Ludacris' "Money Maker").
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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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| Facebook Adds Folder Support to Facebook Home | | Monday, July 08, 2013 5:50 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook updated Facebook Home on Monday by adding folders, a simple way to store and organize apps, to its existing launcher. One of the biggest complaints from those who downloaded Facebook Home at launch involved the lack of folders for organizing apps. After receiving quite a few 1-star ratings in Google Play, the social network took a closer look and attempted to correct some of the issues.
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| EA Removes Aaron Hernandez From 'Madden 25' and 'NCAA 14' | | Monday, July 08, 2013 5:07 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| EA Sports cut former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez from its upcoming Madden 25 and NCAA 14 games. Hernandez was charged with murder on June 26 in the death of Odin Lloyd and was released from the Patriots shortly after his arrest. SEE ALSO: 7 'World of Warcraft' Weddings You Won't Believe "We have made a decision to remove Aaron Hernandez from Madden NFL 25 and NCAA Football 14," EA said in a statement.
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| Ellie Goulding's 'Burn' Sets Fire to Social Media With Vine Stunt | | Monday, July 08, 2013 4:48 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Ellie Goulding's latest music video endeavor, "Burn," has so far racked up more than 200,000 views on YouTube. In the clip above, Goulding stands front and center on an airport runway, grooving and crooning to the jam. "We, we don't have to worry about nothing," the English songstress sings.
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| Viral Video Recap: Must-Watch Memes of the Week | | Monday, July 08, 2013 4:32 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The long weekend came with a glorious, dazzling bang — but that firework has since fizzled out. To cure your case of the Mondays, check out this week’s edition of our viral video recap.
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| Don't Invite FBI Agents to the Summer BBQ | | Monday, July 08, 2013 4:08 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Barbecues should be about summer fun and grilling everything in sight. Unfortunately, FBI agents have a hard time distinguishing between types of grilling. SEE ALSO: More Comics In this Amelia Bedelia-style comic, we see why it's best to leave your FBI agent friends off the guest list for your next backyard shindig. Comic written by Larry Lambert; illustrated by Jerry King.
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| Here's Every NTSB Tweet Since the Asiana Flight 214 Crash | | Monday, July 08, 2013 4:03 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates every air disaster in the United States, has been actively tweeting since Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed in San Francisco Saturday morning. Full NTSB investigations typically take several months. However, the NTSB has been keeping the public updated with available information and photos via Twitter over the past three days — it's even responding to some tweeted questions.
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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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| Snowden: I Don't Want to Live in a World Where Everything Is Recorded | | Monday, July 08, 2013 3:38 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Edward Snowden knew what was coming. Sitting in a Hong Kong hotel on June 6, he said the U.S. government would launch an investigation and accuse him of violating the Espionage Act. In a new excerpt from the video interview with The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald and independent filmmaker Laura Potrais, Snowden further explained his reasons for leaking the top secret documents that have revealed far-reaching NSA surveillance programs.
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