The 90-year-old tortoise Mrs. T has been unable to walk since rats viciously chewed off her front legs while she was hibernating. Now, her devoted owners have given her a second chance at mobility, by attaching wheels from a model aircraft set onto her shell.
The newest high-speed camera on the block won’t be making its way into Michael Bay’s hands anytime soon, but it will be making his ‘splosions look rather poky. See, this camera will be helping scientists watch atoms zoom around at 28,000 miles-per-second.
Facebook users have proven the "donate now" button on the social platform is an extraordinarily powerful tool.
It has only been two days since the donation button to help the people of Nepal affected by a devastating earthquake went live at the top of Facebook feeds across the world. In that time, more than half a million people have donated and raised more than US$10 million in funds for International Medical Corps (IMC), according to Facebook.
Nepal was devastated on April 25 by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, which killed thousands of people. IMC has been behind the massive global relief effort, as the capital of Kathmandu along with other areas, lie in ruin. The social network will also donate an additional US$2 million to local recovery efforts in the region, after agreeing to match donations up to this point. Read more...
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The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center recently received a treasure trove: 85 cubic feet of Arthur C. Clarke’s papers, shipped from his home in Sri Lanka. Including a high-school notebook, where the young Clarke rated the science fiction stories he read. And an early draft of Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
We tend to think of the ivory trade as an elusive black market of hardened criminals and shadowy elites, operating in the darkest recesses of the Internet. But as it turns out, there are plenty more ordinary ivory buyers and sellers, including just about anyone on Craigslist.
Grand Theft Auto V is basically an alternate reality where people can play God and recreate fake real life situations in a digital setting because it’s always giggle inducing to see pixels act as humans. Here’s the ending Paul Walker tribute scene from Fast and Furious 7 re-done in GTA V.
If you want to see strange and exotic landscapes, you don’t have to travel the solar system; you just have to take a closer look at our own planet. From fiery pits to rock formations that seem to defy gravity, these views show us a side of the Earth that looks almost alien, but are wholly terrestrial.
We’ve seen it demoed on stage. We used a janky (but amazing) prototype—but until today we’ve never actually seen Microsoft’s real holographic headset in person. Now, here it is: a weird, futuristic visor with four visible cameras, two speakers and what looks like six buttons scattered all over its big plastic headband. Let’s take a closer look at hardware behind Microsoft’s augmented, holographic, reality. This is HoloLens.
It's not just you: Facebook posts from certain user accounts are mysteriously disappearing left and right.
Content from select Facebook pages, including Mashable's, have been disappearing over the past hour or soMashable's posts to the social network from the last three hours have disappeared, including a story published early Thursday about Jeff Bezos' phallic space rocket.
Facebook told Mashable that it is currently "trying to identify the bug."
More about Facebook, Media, and Social MediaBREAKING: @Facebook is not letting people post and/or making already published posts disappear. We are in this together. On @Twitter.
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Here's our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
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There was a time when people proudly wore pins and badges of notable space achievements on their clothes. Such pins were very popular in the Soviet Union—and anybody could buy almost any kind, choosing from a wide variety of these little decorative items.
From Captain Crunch to miso soup, we all eat differently each morning. It’s highly regional. It’s remarkably personal. It’s your breakfast. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, photograph your breakfast.
From marketing and advertising to social media and PR, the Mashies are all about the very best in digital.
Want to attend? There's only one month left to submit your work to be considered for Mashable's annual celebration of the agencies and brands that are paving the future of communication on new digital platforms
Submit your work now by 12 a.m. on June 5 for the chance to win. There are several new awards this year, including two in our brand-new Public Relations category, and for the first time ever, we'll be accepting submissions for our coveted Overall Awards. Read more...
More about Events, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, and The MashiesThe probe would start alongside the recently proposed European unified digital market.
The European Union has decided to finally get serious about mitigating Silicon Valley's influence in Europe. It's actions in recent months, including investigations of Facebook and Google, are in part aimed at paving the way for its own companies to be more competitive. Now the EU commission is launching a separate investigation into how online platforms list search results and how they use customer data, says the Financial Times—all as part of a general plan for a "unified digital market" announced last week that could bring stricter rules for Netflix, WhatsApp, and Skype.
If you know anything about blood types, then you know how they add an extra wrinkle to blood donations. Match donor and recipient blood types incorrectly, and you could even kill a patient. That’s why scientists are working on artificially changing donated blood into type O, the universal donor.
Head over to Microsoft’s how-old.net, upload a photo of yourself, and the site will spit out a prediction for how old you are—as well as your gender. Did it guess right? Probably not. But that doesn’t mean it’s not fun.
As key provisions of the Patriot Act are about to expire in June, Congress is in a big hurry to figure out how to reform surveillance. Unfortunately, none of the bills being seriously considered will fix the United States’ broken surveillance apparatus.
A childhood spent building everything from castles, to spaceships, to monsters is all one really needs to remind themselves why Lego is the ultimate toy for everyone from toddlers to seniors. But check out the trailer for Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary for even more reasons to love all those colorful plastic pieces.
Following up on the Fairground Mixer released last year, Lego has just introduced another set that is sure to make you nostalgic for a childhood spent getting sick on carnival rides. Its new Lego Creator Ferris Wheel is almost two-feet tall and features twelve suspended gondalas capable of taking the ten included minifigs for a magical ride.
Elon Musk's electric car batteries could soon also charge up your home.
In the not-so-distant future, your home may be powered by Tesla.
There are plenty of hair-brained plans to destroy net neutrality rules, but the latest is, like, hair-brained minus the brain part. You won’t be surprised to hear that the man behind it is attention addict and presidential hopeful Rand Paul. We need to have a chat about facts, Rand.
From your high school promposal to buying your very first car, throw it back to the moments you miss for this week's Vine challenge
Recreate the scene using stop-motion animation, or share some of your favorite childhood photos in a creative way. We're also open to reposts of old Vines — the ones you made before HD, or even pre-ghost mode (remember that?)
Submit using the hashtag #MashTBT, and we'll revine and feature some of our favorites next week
The theme was inspired by this month's #MashFlix film, The D Train, which follows Jack Black's character back to the good ol' days, as he tracks down a former classmate and plans his high school reunion Read more...
More about Film, Vine, Social Media, Mashable Vine Challenge, and ThrowbackThe companies will provide seniors in Japan with iPads loaded with apps that remind them of medical appointments and other daily tasks.
IBM and Apple today announced a plan to provide an iPad support service to seniors in Japan. The iPads will come loaded with a suite of "quality of life apps," including those that allow seniors to coordinate medical reminders, shopping, doctor appointments, household maintenance, household cleaning, and transportation.
