I’m not immune to charms of giant ultra HD screens, glowing white booths filled with futuristic sports cars and celebrities sporting the latest headphones, but my favorite part of CES 2013, by far, is the back alleys -- especially the tiny booths in ...
LAS VEGAS -- Are we ready for self-driving cars? Google's got some competition on the road these days. Toyota introduced its Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle at the 2013 International CES. We got a chance to catch up with Jim Pisz, corporate m...
A Ryan Gosling "Hey Girl" meme reference slipped in among the tweets Warner Bros. Pictures sent this week to promote the premiere of "Gangster Squad."
A rusty 48-year-old tower standing in the Atlantic Ocean may soon get a makeover for modern energy. The one-time lighthouse even may accommodate energy researchers and staff for overnight stays. Officials at the U.S. Department of Energy want to retr...
Using quirky campaigns, actor Edward Norton and other celebs are battling on crowdfunding site CrowdRise to raise the most money for their charities.
January is the perfect time to change yourself for the better. It's a new year and a brand new start, which is normally why we set ourselves up for failure by turning lifestyle changes into seeming doable goals. If you've already strayed from the pat...
International CES 2013 officially opened its doors to the public on Tuesday, welcoming attendees to more than 1.85 square miles of vendor space and over 3,000 vendors. About 150,000 people are expected to rush through the cavernous grounds, taking a ...
Researchers at a South African University are putting a modern twist on a way of life for sub-Saharan shack dwellers. The iShack, or improved shack, is designed to improve living conditions with solar panels for power and electricity. The prototype s...
Several American banks, among them Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and others, have been the target of cyberattacks in recent months. While no bank records or personally identifiable information have been stolen from any bank, customers have ...
We've been tracking our Mashable team members at CES 2013 in Las Vegas as they all dash across the convention center in pursuit of the newest tech trends. Outfitted with Nike+ Fuelbands, our reporters and editors have had their every move monitored. ...
The long-anticipated 2013 International CES came and went in a flurry of techno-goodness. Luckily, Mashable's team was in Las Vegas so that nothing that happened at this year's CES stayed there. And there was definitely a lot to remember and report o...
The uNu DX Protective Battery Case for iPhone 5 doubles your talk time, letting most iPhones last for two days on one charge. While that's still far from what feature phones can manage, it's a significant improvement and would come in handy in many s...
What's great about the morning? Bacon. What's not so great about the morning? Having to shave. Thankfully, now you can combine both.
New research shows the effects of a bad hire go beyond a minimum cost; 41% of employers estimated the costs of a bad hire to be more than $25,00.
From heat waves and hurricanes to earthquakes and droughts, 2012 shattered weather records around the world. And more bizarre conditions are welcoming 2013 with a bang, as a snow storm blanketed palm trees in Jerusalem for the first time in 21 years ...
You did Timberlake proud, ladies (and drummer dude). But may we suggest adding Anna Kendrick via Pitch Perfect to your trio? (Skip to 1:25 to hear her rap.) We out. Heard any other good versions of these songs? Share them in the comments below. Video...
After five days of hitting the ground running, the Mashable team at CES 2013 can finally rest. The Las Vegas convention is over, and the Mashable staff in attendance have collectively covered hundreds of miles. We tracked their progress using Nike+ F...
Gmail rolled out its new Compose feature in October, allowing users the option of a cleaner, more efficient format. Some users rejoiced, while others found the changes difficult to use. Thankfully, Gmail hasn't made the new feature mandatory; you can...
As John F. Kennedy once noted, the Chinese word for "crisis" is composed of the characters for "danger" and "opportunity." So characteristically, amid the hand-wringing at CES about the show's decreased relevance, a handful of Chinese brands saw a bi...
Remember the Rubik's Cube? Of course you do. Invented in 1974 and sold non-stop from 1980 onward, the fiendishly difficult six-faced puzzle has fascinated the planet for generations. It is widely regarded as the best-selling toy in the world, shippin...
The NFL playoffs are back this weekend with four thrilling divisional matchups, and the U.S. is abuzz, waiting to see who's going to survive these games and advance to the conference championships. Now, thanks to a powerful new tool on Facebook, you'...
There's been some confusion around the rumors indicating that Apple is considering a cheaper version of the iPhone. As of today, no one really knows what's going on. So much so that even Reuters misfired, pulling a story based on comments made by App...
It was another busy week at Mashable and in tech news, as our staff literally ran around Las Vegas testing and viewing some of the newest gadgets at CES 2013. In case you missed any of our top stories out of Vegas or the other news stories happening ...
Aaron Swartz, online activist and founder of Infogami, a service later merged with Reddit, committed suicide in New York City on Jan. 11, the Tech reports. The news was revealed to the Tech by Swartz's uncle Michael Wolf and confirmed by Swartz’s att...
Sometimes, you just have to use a little Force. When a petition calling on the Obama Administration to begin building a Death Star by 2016 blasted past the 25,000 signatures necessary for an official response late last year, the White House could hav...
A new study has found that almost half of U.S. adults online don't understand where Facebook funds are coming from. The study, conducted by by The Search Agency, surveyed 2,006 American Internet users. Of those surveyed, only 54% could say how Facebo...
After controlling small satellites in the International Space Station on Friday morning, two teams of high school students took home top prizes for their programming skills. The teams were part of the Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge, an annual compet...
LAS VEGAS -- Sculpteo is making it easy to create your own 3D iPhone case. Winner of this year’s Best of Innovations award at CES, the company has released an app called 3DP Case that lets you create a three dimensional case for your phone in just a ...
In a memo titled "This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For," the Obama White House formally (and finally!) responded Friday to a petition asking to secure the resources to begin construction on a Death Star by 2016. Sorry, Dark Side suppor...
LAS VEGAS –- Pebble, the company that raised almost 8 million to create an e-ink smart watch, announced at CES this week that it will start shipping the watch to its Kickstarter backers on Jan. 23. We caught up with Pebble’s creator, Eric Migicovsky,...
