Put on a helmet, because your brain will require some protection after watching this video crammed with mind-blowing facts. AsapScience hits you upside the head with a smack of knowledge. You'll gasp at the massive data transfer numbers contained in ...
Amazon is continuing to build outs its Prime Instant Video catalog in 2013. The retail giant announced Friday that it has signed a licensing agreement with A+E Networks to bring past seasons of shows from A&E, History, Lifetime and Bio to its streami...
A lot of people are hoping 2013 is the year they find love -- or at least a lot of dates. Grant Langston, vice president of customer experience at eHarmony, tells Mashable an increase in sign-ups happens every year on Christmas Day, bumps up on New Y...
Streaming live on Mashable, College Hunks Hauling Junk founder Nick Friedman will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST) Thursday, Jan. 3. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council's #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship pro...
Washington's fiscal cliff crisis may have been deferred for a couple of months. But if you're a fan of Andrew Sullivan's popular political blog The Daily Dish, you've got less than a month before you hit another, less dramatic cliff -- one roughly th...
The Recording Academy just revealed the host and performers for Bruce Springsteen's MusiCares Person of the Year tribute during Grammy Week.
So much for Facebook Poke killing off Snapchat. Facebook's new iPhone app, which copies Snapchat's self-destruct feature for messages, disappeared from the top of Apple's most downloaded apps list almost as quickly as messages disappear from the app....
Using Soundcloud and YouTube, astronaut Chris Hadfield beamed a song to Earth. He recorded "Jewel in the Night" aboard the International Space Station.
The holiday spirit is contagious, so it's no surprise tech companies, non-profits and other organizations have embraced giving back this winter. While volunteering time and donating money have long been holiday staples, digital tools and online commu...
This beautifully designed iPhone alarm clock app will change your mornings. The minimalist Rise Alarm Clock for iPhone by Simple Bots is a refreshing way to wake up. The unique alarm clock is intelligently intuitive. Fresh out of slumber, you won't h...
Never leave the house without your smartphone? New research is trying to ensure that will take care of your keys, too. A house key app under development for smartphones lets users wave their phones at doors to unlock them. The app, called ShareKey, a...
Some of the greatest moments in local news history involve nothing to do with the actual news. It used to be impossible to see how local stations in other states were making viewers face palm. Luckily, we've been graced with the presence of YouTube. ...
An emotional photo of President Barack Obama as he learned details of the tragic Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. is among photos recently posted to the White House's Flickr page. In the photo, Obama has his arms cro...
Join Us Live Now The 2013 International CES is only a few days away, but the conversation about what to expect has been heating up for some time. Join Mashable today at 11 a.m. EST for a Google+ Hangout where Mashable Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff, T...
Unless you're a five-year-old kid, there's nothing fun about dirt. It builds up everywhere and nobody really wants to clean it up. iRobot knows this. That's why it keeps spitting out fresh new robots to do all the dirt-ridden jobs we struggle to avoi...
It's a fact -- people who track their calorie intake and activity level are more likely to lose weight and keep it off. There are myriad of health and fitness apps available -- most are free and some cost a few dollars. At Mashable we've tested numer...
A rare Martian meteorite recently found in Morocco in contains minerals with 10 times more water than previously discovered Mars meteorites.
A newly patented revolving door can supposedly detect potential threats and prohibit them from entering a building.
If you receive a message purporting to be from Facebook with the subject "LEGAL NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION" -- don't worry, it's legitimate. Facebook is sending proposed settlement notices to members of a class-action lawsuit against the co...
It's that time of year again. While there have been drips and drabs of Super Bowl announcements over the past few weeks and months, the season has begun in earnest with the airing of Doritos' "Crash the Super Bowl" contest. For the sixth year in a ro...
Egraphs is a startup that uses digital technology to connect sports stars and fans in a completely new way. Can its new twist on the autograph take off?
Steven Sinofsky headed up Microsoft's development of Windows 7 and Windows 8. Now he's tackling the next frontier: blogging. Sinofsky, a longtime Microsoft employee who parted ways with the company two months ago, launched a blog Thursday called Lear...
With the easy accessibility for your kids to share photos online, where should you draw the line between what's appropriate etiquette and what isn't?
Despite its uncertain future, the annual CES is always the year's first taste of the new technologies that will define it. With hundreds of companies peddling thousands of products, it's easy to get lost in the noise of pre-show chatter, but out of t...
The latest report from Android Developers is out, and, lo and behold, Android is still a very fragmented platform. Android 2.3 or Gingerbread is present on 47.6% of devices -- down from 55.8% in October 2012 but still very dominant. Android 4.0 or Ic...
ComScore's new U.S. smartphone market share numbers are in, and the trend that's been going on for years hasn't changed: Google's Android and Apple's iOS are gaining, while everyone else is losing. In the three-month period ending November 2012, Goog...
By now, thankfully, most Apple watchers have stopped making wild product-based pronouncements about the company that begin with the words "Steve Jobs would." As in: Steve Jobs would have nixed Apple Maps; Steve Jobs would never have allowed Siri to l...
The Internet has received more than its share of criticism from parents who condemn it as unsafe or addictive. But it's starting to seem more likely that not having the Internet is the worse option. A new study by Oxford University's department of ed...
The way businesses use social media in 2013 will change the way customers and companies interact on the medium. Here's what you'll see.
For more than 100 years, artist-in-residence programs at colleges, museums and municipalities have allowed artists to immerse themselves in a new community to create original works and build their portfolios. In September, that opportunity was offere...
