The Pink Panther has been rebooted more times than your aunt’s 1998 iMac -- and yet, he returns again. Franchise owner MGM is putting a modern, live-action/CGI-hybrid twist on The Pink Panther, making it into a family film that centers on the big pin...
Some call the leak a "new low in Russian tradecraft." Others "a wake up call about the way you do business." But the State Department official caught saying "fuck the EU" in a bugged phone conversation about the future of Ukraine -- which was promptl...
With the Super Bowl long behind us and March Madness winding down, Major League Baseball's opening day offers a fresh start for sports fans around the nation. The first day of MLB play signals the arrival of spring, a new hope for each city's fan bas...
Jason Segel might want to look into joining co-star Neil Patrick Harris on Broadway now that How I Met Your Mother has ended. When fielding questions from students during a recent visit to Inside the Actor's Studio, the pair were asked to step into t...
An online video of a police officer knocking a woman over, apparently without provocation during the calm aftermath of a NCAA riot in Tucson, has University of Arizona students furious and the police department investigating the matter. A crowd had a...
Microsoft unveiled a series of new features for Office 365's Outlook users, including an Android web app, and tools for decluttering your inbox and collaborating on documents. Jeff Teper, the Redmond, Wash. company's corporate vice-president, reveale...
The Finnish army has started a "24-7 live-monitoring" operation following a Russian military air-force drill that is occurring just 150 miles from the border between the two countries. It has people asking: Is Finland the next Crimea? After #Crimea, ...
Walmart's logo may be blue, but the company is going green. The retail giant unveiled a prototype of a new truck at the Mid-America Trucking Show Wednesday that -- if it reaches the road -- could decrease the amount of emissions the company's enormou...
The declining relevance of landline phones might not be too surprising for the connected generation, but only 10 years ago, 92.7% of U.S. households had a working landline phone. Now, that number has dropped to 58.1% of U.S. households, while the the...
Less than a week after Apple pledged to make its emoticons more racially diverse, African telecom Oju has stepped into the fray with an app that lets you send emoticons of color. The Android app includes the gamut of basic emotions, including happy, ...
HoverBall, a piece of drone-powered sports equipment under construction at the University of Tokyo, has the potential to change the face of sports forever. For the first time, a ball that goes up doesn't have to come down. If their HoverBall prototyp...
Die-hard SNL fans fondly remember "Celebrity Jeopardy", which starred a mustachioed Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek. Now, Kenan Thompson has taken the helm as "Alex Treblack" in "Black Jeopardy". The mustache may be gone, but there's still plenty of laug...
Lacking a little Hoff in your life? It's the perfect day, then, to upload your photos to Google+, as Google has just introduced a new feature: Auto Awesome Photobombs. "Upload a new self-portrait, or a group photo with friends, and leave some room fo...
Gmail is now a decade old. The email juggernaut, which turns 10 on April 1, grew quickly over the last few years, accruing more than 425 million global active users by 2012. Google hasn't released any other metrics or data about its user base since t...
Everybody's a comedian -- at least they think they are on April Fools' Day. Of course, planning an elaborate prank on your friends and family in real life takes a lot of time and energy. Who wants to spend countless hours on a one-time event when you...
Email is not sexy. That is to say, the design and functionality of electronic mail, since its inception, have remained fundamentally consistent and relatively unexciting-- we type out messages, send them to our contacts and wait for a reply. In 10 ye...
Take a second look -- these are all photographs of identical twins. In this photo series by Beijing artist Gao Rongguo, identical twins over age 50 were photographed side by side to highlight the differences in aging. All of the twins in the series w...
No April Fool’s joke: There’s a comedy cable network in your pocket, and you'll be happy to see it. Further blurring the lines between TVs and mobile devices, Comedy Central launched an all-new app Tuesday that will offer a generous helping of its fl...
In 2013, Zuck only earned a buck. Going by salary at least, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earned just $1 for the year, according to a regulatory filing released on Monday. In Silicon Valley, though, earning a token salary is a sure sign that you've ma...
Just when you think you've seen every form of food photography Instagram has to offer, a game changer come along and tosses everything up in the air -- with pizza, of course. When commercial photographer Jonpaul Douglass isn't cruising Los Angeles fo...
Malaysian authorities on Tuesday released the full transcript between the pilots of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and air traffic control. The final words from the cockpit: “Good Night Malaysian three seven zero.� Although officials believe the plane ...
Here's a fact that will make you feel old: Gmail is 10 years old today. On April 1, 2004, Google introduced the beta version of its webmail feature, originally available by invitation only. Ten years later, Gmail boasts more than 425 million users. R...
For consumers, the recent price war over storage has been a pleasant surprise. For Internet companies, though, it's been a cause for an extended wave of high fives. “One of my CEOs declared to me the other day that last week's activity in the cloud m...
The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. With the World Cup fast approaching, ESPN has rolled out another commercial whet the sporting appetite. While not quite in line with the gravitas of its first promo, this newest advertisements has a drama a...
Who would win in a fight between Loki, Katniss Everdeen, Veronica Mars, Beatrice “Tris� Prior and Khan? (The answer is Loki. Duh, he’s a god.) But this is a popularity contest, and the votes are all coming from social media. Now who would win? We’ll ...
VH1 unveiled four upcoming TV shows focusing on cats for a new programming day called Feline Fridays. These aren't just any cats, though. They're sassy cats. In a statement shared first with Mashable, VH1 President Tom Calderone, explained how the ne...
Gmail, the popular email service hosted by Google, turns 10 years old on Tuesday. By 2012, it reached 425 million active global users, making it today's most in-demand email service. And it's only climbing upward, now estimated to have more than 500 ...
It's April Fools' Day, so for Google employees, it's basically Christmas morning. The tech giant spends an inordinate amount of time and resources every April 1 on pranking the Internet -- because, they own half of it -- so why not? This year's prank...
Facebook continues to dominate on iOS and Android, by time spent, but its lead has slipped slightly. The average U.S. user spent an average of 2 hours and 42 minutes per day on mobile devices in the first three months of this year, according to new d...
The crack of the bat. The smell of fresh cut grass. The...pain of opening your wallet for overpriced beers at the stadium concession stands. You betcha, baseball is back. Monday was Opening Day for Major League Baseball and few things feel more Ameri...
