One of the best pieces of work advice I’ve ever received—and yes, it was from my mother—was to make sure to take my lunch hour. If you've gotten into the unhealthy habit of eating lunch at your desk, never seeing sunlight or feeling outside air on yo...
Google Cloud Messaging just got a big revamp during the big Google I/O conference held in San Francisco on Wednesday, and it's now a whole lot faster.
At the Google I/O keynote at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Wednesday , Google announced enhancements to its Android location services. It will be rolling out three new APIs to developers, all of which take advantage of all the sensors available...
Google opened its I/O keynote on Wednesday by quoting a jaw-dropping stat: 900 million Android activations. The figure comes after Google had claimed 400 million activations at last year's show. The OS was introduced four and a half years ago. As of ...
The Internet is moving away from its roots of anonymous users lurking on forums. With a few notable exceptions like Reddit and 4chan, online spaces are moving away from letting commenters hide behind meaningless usernames. Facebook and other social n...
Just a week after a previous online blackout, Syria is once again cut off from the global Internet. The latest disruption started at 07:01 UTC/03:01 a.m. ET, according to Internet monitoring firm Renesys. As Google and Akamai confirmed the outage, Sy...
Disney has received a lot of flak this week, and it isn't for anything Star Wars-related. The media conglomerate gave Merida, the refreshingly tomboyish heroine of 2012 Pixar film Brave, a sexualized makeover as part of her induction into the elite s...
John McCain's new bill would strip Fox of its broadcasting license if it went subscription-only to spite Aereo.
Nvidia's Shield is now available for early pre-order to those who've signed up to Nvidia's email list, and will open to the general public on May 20. The Shield, which is dropping "Project" from its name, is a hybrid controller and touch screen gamin...
Nearly a year after Page was forced to skip several big Google events as a result of losing his voice, he has finally opened up about what happened.
Whether you're exploring a new city or trying to find the fastest route to a new restaurant in your neighborhood, there are many apps to help you navigate. Depending on whether you'd prefer to arrive by bike, foot or car, you might prefer one app ove...
The New Yorker on Wednesday launched "Strongbox," an online system for sources to send files and messages to the magazine's journalists with "a reasonable amount of anonymity," as Senior Editor Amy Davidson put it. A source can use Strongbox to send ...
Google's annual developer conference Google I/O kicks off on Wednesday, and if it's like last year's spectacle, you'll want to watch the live event online.
Sometimes a phrase brings two words together, and the combined definition is more meaningful than the sum of the parts. Thus is so with "custom activation," a recent favorite of both marketers and PR folks. On its own, custom refers to something that...
Ol' Dirty Bastard and Eazy-E will be brought back to life as holograms for the 2013 Rock the Bells festival.
A video is never guaranteed to go viral, but a few factors make it significantly more likely. In the first few months of 2013, viral videos covered all kinds of topics: a serious look at female self-esteem, a silly competition between two Star Trek a...
E-books are helping fuel overall growth in the publishing industry. According to BookStats figures released Wednesday by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), trade books generated $15 billion in reven...
TNT and TBS announced Wednesday that they will be the first national entertainment networks to live stream their content 24/7. The plan, announced during the Upfronts in New York, will begin this summer. Viewers will be able to watch the two networks...
Whether you're unemployed, underemployed or just looking for something a bit more interesting, the Mashable Job Board is full of listings to take your career to the next level. Since 2005, Mashable has been committed to bringing the top digital, soci...
Google is reportedly preparing its subscription music service, and BlackBerry messenger is headed to Android and iOS this summer.
Google is kicking off its annual developer conference, Google I/O, this morning at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Last year’s keynote brought with it Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Nexus 7 tablet and a jaw-dropping demo of Google Glass, complete w...
Google Glass may be the most hyped piece of technology in years, but according to a new study, only one in 10 American smartphone owners would wear them.
Google's stock topped $900 a share in early trading Wednesday for the first time in the company's history, less than three months after it hit $800 for the first time. The latest surge in the stock price comes as Google is expected to make several bi...
Angelina Jolie wrote a heartfelt column, "My Medial Choice" for the New York Times Tuesday, detailing her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy at age 37. She explained that her choice was based on her abnormally high genetic predispos...
As part of its Star Wars Weekends event (running from May 17 to June 9), Disney is giving fans the chance to put their face on a 3D-printed Stormtrooper figurine. The D-Tech Me experience at Disney’s Hollywood Studios uses a high resolution single-sh...
A sign-up page for a new version of Google Maps for the desktop has briefly become available online, showing a plethora of new features and a new design. The page, unearthed by Droid Life, is no longer available, but it's likely to show up again tomo...
An online campaign is attempting to "rebrand" Abercrombie & Fitch by donating its clothes to the homeless, after an author alleged that company CEO Mike Jeffries "doesn't want larger people shopping in his store." The comments, made by Robin Lewis, w...
Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, begins Wednesday morning, and it has a tough act to follow. The company set the bar high last year with a product- and event-dominated agenda, including the well-reviewed Nexus 7 tablet, a big step up...
Einstein's special relativity has proven more useful than ever, as scientists have now used it to discover an alien planet around another star. The newfound world — nicknamed "Einstein's planet" by the astronomers who discovered it — is the latest of...
A new salvo has been fired in the ongoing Apple-Samsung war.
