Looking for a new way to attract some attention at the bar? A new app called BlinkDrink can probably help -- but it comes with some built-in risk.

Can a crowdfunding site succeed in China? If a new company can get the attention of a small percent of China's more than 1.4 billion people, the impact could be huge, and the revenue even bigger. Still in private beta and launching in early December,...

Just like during MTV's Video Music Awards, performances by Lady Gaga and Katy Perry will bookend the iTunes Festival, while Justin Timberlake and other artists will take the stage in the middle of the month-long concert series. Gaga will kick off the...

Did you know that around 38 billion plastic water bottles end up in landfill every year? That one bottle can take over 400 years to degrade? That in the U.S. we spend over $15 billion a year on bottled water? You can help save the planet -- and save ...

Rumor has it that the next-gen iPhone will be offered in gold -- plus there's some supposedly leaked pics. We say, why not go ahead of the curve by dressing up your iPhone 5 with a gold case? That way, if the reports are true, you'll already be right...

Want to spend your weekend looking at pictures of patio furniture and homemade baked goods? Unfortunately, Pinterest is down for some users.

British researchers are developing software to make robots so smart they could even become friends or even co-workers.

David Frost, the famed British broadcaster best known for conducting a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, is dead at 74. Frost died following a heart attack on board the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship, where he was giving a s...

Do you spend hours searching for reaction GIFs on Reddit? Can you recite every line in each Star Wars episode? Did you ace your freshman astronomy course? If any or all of these questions directly relate to you, then congratulations: You're a certifi...

No matter what your age or motivation, it’s not as impossible as it may seem to reinvent your career. Here’s how.

You had better enjoy anime legend Hayao Miyazaki's next film, The Wind Rises, because it'll be his last. The news comes courtesy of Koji Hoshino, one of the heads of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli; this is what he said at the Venice Film Festival, where Mi...

Although CES and Mobile World Congress, which take place in January and February, are the first big consumer electronics events of the year, it's Berlin's IFA that gives us the first important announcements after the summer doldrums. As such, IFA (wh...

It seems to happen every few months. A picture of a historical figure with a quote credited to them gets passed around the Internet, then someone points out that it wasn’t them who said it. Then someone posts a snarky “Don’t trust Internet quotes — A...

LG's pocket-sized G Pad 8.3 tablet is the first 8-inch mobile device with a full HD display.

It's been a busy week in the tech world, but if Miley's twerking escapades scared you off the Internet for the past little while, have no fear -- we've got you covered. Mashable has rounded up this week's 25 best digital media resources, which are li...

Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced his retirement. While we're sure some are sad to see him go, others are excited for the dawn of a new era at the company -- in particular, all the products that Ballmer retired during his time there. S...

Headed to the beach this holiday weekend? Maybe it's best to leave the tech at home. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this Sunday comic, Maria Scrivan remembers a simpler time when taking a book to the beach just meant getting sand in the pages. ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving a 40-year-old mystery about some unusual-looking craters on Mars.

When Google introduced its first ads for the Moto X at the beginning of the month, we were told they were not part of the "real" Moto X ad campaign that was coming later. This ad may be the first component of that campaign. Unlike the previous execut...

Can you believe Miley's childhood-ruining VMA performance was just seven days ago? Fortunately, a lot more than that went viral this week.

The United States Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) efforts to stay ahead of drug dealers has, according to a New York Times report, helped launch one of the most unusual and wide-ranging phone-record access programs seen yet. According to a report in ...

Klamr, a new multi-task messaging app for iOS and Android debuted on the App Store Friday. It's a Swiss Army knife type of service combining some of the most beloved social functions: messaging, social planning, location search, reviews, chat, and ph...

Though IFA Berlin is officially four days away, Acer has decided to unveil its product lineup, starting with a huge smartphone called the Acer Liquid S2. The device sports a monstrous 6-inch, 1920x1080 pixel screen, a 13-megapixel camera on the back ...

LG has announced it would have a wide variety of new audio and video gadgets on display at IFA Berlin, held September 6-11, and it's already starting to deliver. The company just announced a wall-mountable 55-inch OLED TV, called LG Gallery, which is...

They say robots will soon take over the world -- and on Labor Day, why not let them? But just for today.

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. The war on drugs makes use of a phone database l...

August presented a fairly standard crop of viral ads. There was the requisite number of game trailers (three) and sports-themed videos (eight), plus some die hard videos from previous months (three). In other words, the usual fare floated to the top ...

Some of the most successful startups have sidestepped traditional advertising for a more iterative and experimental approach: growth hacking.

Labor Day comes the first Monday of September each year in the U.S. to celebrate the American workforce, though most people spend it enjoying the last unofficial weekend of summer. And some workers are treated to a day off, which is always a plus. Ki...

MTV beamed Miley Cyrus' VMA performance all the way to the USS Enterprise. Captain Kirk may seem like the twerking type, but Miley's foam finger antics dismayed even the womanizing starship skipper. Spock, Sulu and Lieutenant Uhura watched with paine...