Humans are able stick their arms into cluttered areas like a refrigerator or reach across a table set for dinner without knocking anything over. Robots aren’t so good at that. In fact, until now, researchers generally design robots to not touch anyth...
David Ferrer is a Spanish tennis star. He's playing in the upcoming Mutua Madrid Open tournament. That event happens to be sponsored by Samsung, so Ferrer sent a tweet on Tuesday in which he gave a big ol' shout-out about how much he loves his new Ga...
If your smartphone is attached to your hip, your blood flows like a Twitter feed and you're fairly certain your eyes permanently see through an Instagram filter, then maybe it's time to disconnect for a bit? A new summer camp aims to help adults take...
Artists often need to supplement their incomes with something a little more substantial, and that especially goes for poets. For instance, did you know that Robert Frost ran a dairy farm to earn some extra cash? Or that Maya Angelou sang calypso musi...
Jason Collins' historic first-person article in which he announced he was gay helped Sports Illustrated's website set an all-time traffic record.
What happens when you cross-breed soccer and basketball? This amazing alley-oop.
Ex-NFL star and eternal Twitter legend Chad Johnson did a pretty awesome thing over the weekend.
Looking for a quick way to creep out your friends? Meet FaceSwap, an iPhone app that lets you instantly swap faces -- yes, faces -- with your friends in photos. Using Face detecting technology the app is able to find all of the faces in a photo, crop...
Actors have a saying: There are no small roles. IBM is seriously challenging that expression, however, now that it's created a short film where the actors are actually individual atoms. A Boy and His Atom would be just like any number of unremarkable...
Remote desktop applications are a popular category in the App Store, but many of the solutions often involve confusing download instructions or a clunky interface. If you're looking for a fairly pain-free setup, consider the following iPad apps, whic...
UPDATE: Luke Barnett explained why he and partner Tanner Thomason launched the Kickstarter campaign. "We both really like the idea of Kickstarter, but let's be honest, Kickstarter is the Internet's equivalent to panhandling. And panhandling is totall...
Henry Gribbohm, the New Hampshire man who lost $2,600 in life savings at a carnival game only to score a stuffed banana as consolation, may see his luck turn around. Comedy site CollegeHumor launched a Facebook campaign Tuesday to buy back Gribbohm's...
In order to raise cash for planned dividend payments and stock buybacks, Apple has sold $17 billion in bonds Tuesday in one of the largest corporate bond sales in history. The amount of money Apple has raised through a bond sale is not unheard of -- ...
In theory, you know your mom better than anyone, so don't let a random email dictate what to buy her for Mother's Day. In addition to showcasing your sensitivity, choosing your own gift will let you avoid an email scam that could end with a stolen cr...
Samsung is all-in on mirrorless cameras. After launching the NX300 earlier this year, now the company unveils the NX2000, a more affordable model that's aimed at people who want to upgrade from point-and-shoots but want something more compact and aff...
As Google Glass makes its way into the hands of consumers, the first videos recorded on the stylish headgear are hitting the web. Users are finding some interesting, creative and downright beautiful applications for the wearable tech. But long-haired...
Christie's, a 250-year-old auction house with showrooms spanning from New York to Shanghai, is expanding it's online catalog to reach new -- namely, younger -- customers more akin to making purchases from their laptop computers than in a formal aucti...
While Facebook offers a wonderful way to keep in touch with friends and family, as with any social network, there is potential for people you'd rather not be in touch with to contact you. If this happens to you on Facebook, you can easily "block" som...
Ever get so hungry that you can't even Google correctly? Apparently, it's a thing and Snickers is on it. To capitalize on this phenomenon, the brand recently ran an SEO campaign that targeted users who misspelled words in Googel, sorry Google searche...
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...
T-Mobile on Wednesday announced it had completed its merger with MetroPCS. The company will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday using the ticker symbol "TMUS." "The combination of T-Mobile and MetroPCS creates an even stronger disr...
Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Apple made one of the largest bond sales ever on...
An image of HTC M4, a smartphone similar in appearance to HTC One but reportedly much cheaper, has been unearthed by PhoneArena. The M4 seems to be just a codename; the device could have some form of HTC One branding, according to the report. Whateve...
Spring is here! The flowers are in bloom, the sun is shining and new life is all around. It's just like the movie Bambi, except you're probably not in love with a skunk! The best part of this season (and any other time of the year, really) is all the...
Tim Cook will make his second appearance as CEO of Apple at the annual D: All Things Digital conference in California this month, the publication revealed. Cook will headline the three-day conference on the opening night. D11 is due to kick off on Tu...
The Pirate Bay has a new top level domain (TLD) again: thepiratebay.sx, registered in the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. While this latest move will instill various puns related to the Pirates of the Caribbean films, the search for a safe TLD is l...
It has been nearly a year since Facebook became a public company. In that time, the stock has crashed and burned and staged a significant comeback -- and that was just in the first six months. After falling to as low as $17.55 a share in early Septem...
The smartphone market has spoken, and it's clear people want big-screen, powerful smartphones. That's just what the LG Optimus G Pro is, and now it's coming to the U.S. under AT&T's banner. AT&T locked an exclusive deal on the new phone, and the Opti...
Microsoft is closer to bringing gamers a more immersive experience through Illumiroom, according to documents released online this week. Microsoft's IllumiRoom uses a Xbox Kinect and a projector to extend the gaming experience beyond the borders of t...
LinkedIn added the ability to showcase users' talents in a whole new way Wednesday: pictures and video. Now LinkedIn users can add visual content to their profile pages, giving more depth to the written content already displayed on the site. For inst...
