Apparently, prison can be pretty boring. That's on top of it being, well, prison. Plus you've got all that potential labor just sitting around doing nothing terribly productive. Why not utilize it? That's what Santa Rita do Sapucai prison in Brazil i...
She's back! The face of the Overly Attached Girlfriend meme has resurfaced with a lip-dubbed medley of popular songs that have lyrics sometimes deemed creepy. New YouTube sensation Laina Walker, however, makes the tunes even more frightening with wit...
Our 10 favorite Pinterest pins this week are truly a visual feast for the eyes. Pinterest is a hub for some of the most striking images and useful tips on the web. This week, we came across beautiful and surreal locations -- including a gorgeous purp...
This, Android fans, is the tablet you've been waiting for. Google's Nexus 7 finally nails it for Android tablets. It has an inviting design, excellent software, and the right components inside to keep it all running. Even better, it has the right pri...
An adorable photobooth proposal between a couple received an additional unexpected surprise -- the photobooth owner posted it on YouTube. According to Reddit user NazzerDawk, who shared the video after proposing to his girlfriend, the couple was cont...
To mark the anniversary of the Sony Walkman, launched in Japan on July 1, 1979, we have collated a retro selection of cassette-themed cases for the Walkman of today: the iPhone. While audio cassettes may have had their downsides (remember trying to r...
Cory Booker, the socially savvy mayor of Newark, N.J., who has used Twitter to help residents burrow out of foot-deep snow and whose other heroics have spawned the "Super Mayor" meme, is co-founding a media startup aimed at the millennial generation ...
Jayne Mattson is Senior Vice President at Keystone Associates, a leading career management and transition services consulting firm in Boston. Mattson specializes in helping mid-to-senior level individuals in new career exploration, networking strateg...
Wish you could turn any TV into a smart one? A new gadget called the Pocket TV will convert your television into a giant Android tablet. The device is a small microcomputer that plugs into your screen's HDMI sport. Pocket TV runs on Android 4.0 and a...
After half a year living on the International Space Station, three astronauts safely returned to Earth Sunday (July 1) aboard a Russian-built space capsule. The Soyuz spacecraft landed on Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan at 4:14 a.m. EDT (0414 GMT...
Apple retired on Sunday its paid cloud service MobileMe, following a several year process led by former CEO Steve Jobs to pack up the product for good. The company announced last year that it would be closing MobileMe and urged users to move their ac...
Patty Coffey is a Partner in the Information Technology Permanent division at at Winter, Wyman, the largest and one of the most recognized staffing organizations in the Northeast. Find out more on the Winter, Wyman blog or follow @WinterWyman on Twit...
After an extra second was added to the clock on Saturday to better align it with the Earth's rotation schedule, a whole slew of websites from LinkedIn, Foursquare and Reddit to Mozlila, Yelp and Gawker sites experienced technical issues. Known as a "...
If you want to get a good sense of an era's history and culture, one good place to start is that era's most popular college majors. Take, for example, the subjects students studied at Stanford University between 1955 and today. In the muscular years ...
We looked at more than 54 million Twitter pics this week, and these gorgeous and wacky photos were the 10 most popular. Each week we round up the Top 10 Twitter Pics by statistical popularity to see what tweeters were sharing over the past week. This...
Tumblr is a goldmine for niche blogs, normally involving creative uses of photoshop, topical memes and just plain silliness. Though the micro-blogging platform has ways to discover content, with more than 62 million blogs, it's nearly impossible to f...
Who says summer is a slow time for tech? The past week provided us with a cavalcade of products and accessories for us to drool over on Top 10 Tech This Week. Seriously, this was a big week for consumer tech. Google unveiled a mountain of swag on att...
What happens when you create a YouTube video that features some of the most popular viral characters to ever hit the web? It goes viral, of course. Online parody group Barely Political posted a video on Saturday that pokes fun at the biggest complain...
Tech investor Peter Thiel is looking for 20 of the biggest innovators in Silicon Valley under the age of 20, offering $100,000 to contestants so they can further develop their projects. In a CNBC special called "20 Under 20: Transforming Tomorrow," t...
This week, our readers told haters of Oreo's new campaign to stuff it, gawked (and geeked-out) over the Google I/O keynote and fretted about Facebook’s privacy terms -- again. Clearly, there was much for our Mashable audience to discuss this week. Th...
Celebrated screenwriter Nora Ephron passed away on Tuesday night in Manhattan after a battle with leukemia. She was 71. Hollywood colleagues and devoted audiences have taken to the web this week, posting remembrances and tributes to the scribe who pa...
IBM Research announced the prototype of a mobile app that can act as a personal shopping assistant in stores. The mobile app could be branded and provided by retailers. Consumers would download the app and then input products they're shopping for and...
It's fun to imagine what life would be like with Google Glass over our eyes: How differently our environments would appear when perpetually augmented by a digital overlay, how seamlessly we would be able to receive, modify and transmit information wi...
Apple has agreed to pay Chinese Company Shenzhen Proview Technology $60 million for the name "iPad," The New York Times reports. Apple has bought the iPad name in various countries from a Proview affiliate in Taiwan for $55,000 in 2009. However, a Ch...
VideoLAN's popular media player VLC, known for being able to crunch almost any media file without the need for external codecs, has made its way to Android in beta form. VLC plays "most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streamin...
Just in case you missed our weekend full of fun, frolic and serious reporting, we've gathered it all together for you all in one handy place. It's the Weekend Recap, giving you all the news, features and helpful hints -- presented in the form of a co...
For every kid who has ever played with Hot Wheels, this video is like a crazy dream come true. Drivers Tanner Foust and Greg Tracy conquered the 60-foot double loop over the weekend at the X Games in Los Angeles. As this video explains, to achieve th...
Older Americans love new technology. They just might not be admitting it to you -- or themselves. Though 88.5% of Americans over 45 consider themselves slow to adopt new technologies, 89% will embrace something new when it's better than what they cur...
And on the second day in July, the Hotel Indigo Newcastle replaced its paper Bibles with Amazon Kindles... The UK-based hotel hasn't yet decided this is good, though. That determination will take a fortnight. In the meantime, visitors who check in wi...
No new film nor TV show is released without a trailer and soon, the same may be said about everything from books and games to fashion shows and magazine installments. Esquire is among the latest to try its hand at promotional trailers, having release...
