Hiring Interns: Do's and Don'ts 1 hour, 32 minutes ago Hiring interns for your company means more than just finding a pair of hands to get you coffee or feet to run your clothes to the dry cleaner. Interns can be the future of your company, so it makes sense to hire the smartest and most capable workers Last year, nearly 60% of interns were converted … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Is The FBI Dumb, Evil, Or Just Incompetent? 3 hours, 9 minutes ago Your government is worried. The world is “going dark.” Once upon a time, telephones were the only way to talk to someone far away, and the authorities could wiretap any phone they wanted. Nowadays, though, suspects might be communicating via Facebook, Google Hangouts, WhatsApp, … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Android this week: Nexus 7 cloned for $149; Google Edition HTC One; Chrome beta updated 4 hours, 25 minutes ago Small slate shoppers have a new option to choose this week: Hisense debuted a tablet that looks like a Nexus 7. The Sera 7 Pro tablet uses the same basic hardware as Google’s own tablet –with a few improvements, even — but costs $50 less. WalMart is the exclusive retailer for the … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Supermassive Black Hole Jets 5 hours, 39 minutes ago This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) and radio waves from … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Supermassive Black Hole Jets 5 hours, 39 minutes ago This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) and radio waves from … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
7 stories to read this weekend 9 hours, 9 minutes ago It is a really long weekend here in United States, and what that means is a lot of time to read this weekend. I certainly plan to do that. Here is a short list of my recommendations for the weekend. The story of an eye witness: Jack London, a San Francisco writer, wrote about the 1906 earthquake … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
The First Six Months Developing For The Computer On My Face 12 hours, 8 minutes ago Editor’s note: Jon Gottfried is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio, Co-Founder of the Hacker Union, and a StartupBus Conductor. Follow him on Twitter @jonmarkgo. Being one of the first cyborgs in the world, I have been privy to a unique set of bizarre experiences that have led … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
FOMO the Movie: The Terrifying Social Truth 12 hours, 9 minutes ago For all the amazing ways social media has changed our lives, it's come with some downsides, as well. Chief among those is FOMO — that is, of course, Fear of Missing Out, a documented disease among social media addicts Surely you're familiar with the feeling. A simple night relaxing at home … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
50M Matches Strong, Hot Mobile Dating App Tinder Is Ready To Go Global, And Move Beyond Flirting 12 hours, 24 minutes ago Digital dating is nothing to scoff at; it’s a big business, and it’s changed a lot of lives — mostly for the better. Yet, while dating has seen enormous progress during the Digital Era, there’s still a lot garbage out there, and the space is still mostly dominated by a … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Elon Musk Wants to Build an Electric Pickup Truck 12 hours, 39 minutes ago How did you spend you Friday night? Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk spent his answering questions about paying back the government and musing about the next kind of electric vehicle he might like to make. After posting a number of tweets about his thoughts on proper taxation and how he did (PayPal … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Askem Gets You the Answers You Need, Fast 13 hours, 8 minutes ago The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: AskemThe Pitch: Askem aims to simplify your decision-making process Why It's Taking Off: Askem lets you share your … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Google Now's “Topics” Page Returns And Shows You How Much Google Knows About You, But It Only Works On Android 13 hours, 35 minutes ago A few weeks ago, Google briefly made a “Google Now” topics page available on the web and then took it down again. The page showed a list of topics Google believed you were interested in, based on your search history. Now this feature is back, but it’s a bit different from the … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Video Captures Scary Washington Bridge Collapse 14 hours, 4 minutes ago More proof that the cameras are everywhere. The frightening collapse of a bridge in Washington State on the busy Interstate 5 was actually caught by a surveillance camera. A huge portion of the bridge fell into the Skagit River on Thursday night after an over-sized freight truck struck part of the … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Myspace's New Architects Reveal How to Rebuild a Brand 14 hours, 41 minutes ago There's perhaps nothing harder than changing the public perception of a brand once it's been imprinted in popular culture's psyche. Especially when it's left a bad taste in users' mouths. But that was exactly the job facing Ben Johnston and Jess Huddart, CEO and creative director of Josephmark, the … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Alfonso Ribeiro, Will and Jaden Smith Do the Carlton Dance 15 hours, 27 minutes ago Gather 'round nerds, '90s kids and fans of Carlton Banks Will Smith and son Jaden recently made an appearance on the BBC's Graham Norton Show. In the video above, they perform a father-son rap together, which is kind of cool. But the real fun starts at the 3:45 mark, when none other than Smith's … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Interview: The Summer of Larry (Ellison) Is About to Sail Into Port Via America's Cup 15 hours, 44 minutes ago A few weeks ago, Larry Ellison threw a party in San Francisco for the premiere of “The Wind Gods: 33rd America’s Cup,” a documentary that also called attention to a whole lot of high-tech sailing set to take place starting in July in the San Francisco Bay. But that 34th … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
UCLA Surgeons Live Vine Brain Surgery 16 hours, 8 minutes ago Doctors at UCLA Health in Southern California documented a brain surgery on Thursday by using Instagram and Vine, showing yet another ground-breaking use of social media in the hospital setting. We've already witnessed the world's first live-tweeted open-heart surgery from Houston, as well as a … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Ultra-Rare Apple I Computer Up for Auction 17 hours, 6 minutes ago An Apple I computer, the low-powered PC that started it all for the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founder Steve Wozniak and the then very new Apple Computers, is up for grabs on May 25. All you need is somewhere north of a half a million dollars. The still-working computer goes to the highest … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
News Corp. Board Approves Split 17 hours, 31 minutes ago News Corp.’s board approved the company’s separation into two publicly traded entities, moving a step closer to splitting its entertainment businesses from the publishing division. The media company on Friday also outlined the terms of the share distribution, named the board directors … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
From Arrested Development to Dr. Who, How Binge Watching Is Changing Our Culture 17 hours, 39 minutes ago Why do we binge watch? One way to answer this question is to say, well, we binge on TV for the same reason we binge on food. And these psychological factors are no doubt apt. But the anthropological ones are perhaps just as useful and a little less obvious because culture is a thing of surfaces and … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Hanson Beer Mmmhops to Make Its Debut 17 hours, 45 minutes ago Nearly two years after pop band Hanson announced it would be introducing a beer line, Mmmhops is almost ready for its debut. That's right, dear readers — you'll be able to sip your way into '90s nostalgia. Called Mmmhops — a reference to the brothers' popular "MMMBop" song from 1997 … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Why Tumblr Was a Massive Steal for Yahoo 17 hours, 56 minutes ago The blockbuster acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion — all cash — has been portrayed as a gigantic gamble on the part of the acquirer. However, for those of us who believe there can be specific guidelines around the valuation of interest graphs, it looks more like it might … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
The Xbox One Misses the Perfect Set-Top Box Target 18 hours, 14 minutes ago The Xbox One could have been the true center of your TV universe that let you throw all those other boxes away. read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Better Place Runs Out of Juice, Reportedly Plans Bankruptcy 18 hours, 18 minutes ago Better Place's plan to create a world full of electric vehicles that swap their batteries when they run out of juice is reportedly dead. read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Ask A VC: Index Ventures' Danny Rimer On The Future Of Ecommerce And More 18 hours, 18 minutes ago On this week’s Ask A VC episode, Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer joined us in the studio. Rimer has been in the venture industry for over 11 years so he had plenty to share on how VC has changed, and the differences in the venture world in Europe and the U.S. Rimer, who has led the … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Officials: Stopping 3D-Printed Guns Could Be Impossible 18 hours, 22 minutes ago As the world's first 3D-printed handgun starts to be replicated, authorities are scrambling to react to a technological advancement that only a few weeks ago sounded more like science fiction than fact.. But according to a leaked bulletin by the Department of Homeland Security, any effort to stop … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Syrian Electronic Army Taunts Twitter in Latest Hack 18 hours, 49 minutes ago The Syrian Electronic Army claimed credit for hacking one of British television network ITV's Twitter accounts Friday. One of the SEA's hijacked tweets linked to a story about Twitter's recently introduced two-step verification, aimed at preventing such hijackings. "Just kidding. The Syrian … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Sony's Cute Speaker Ball Is Music to our Ears 18 hours, 59 minutes ago I'm kind of in love with Sony's little egg-shaped speaker, the SRS-BTV5. The tiny, tennis-ball-sized gadget is so cute, it really deserves a name other than the seemingly random series of characters. Maybe Veronica. It looks like a Veronica. At least mine does, but that's probably because it's … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Salesforce Shares Crash After Earnings Disappoint 19 hours ago Shares of Salesforce.com ended the day down by more than 5 percent a day after the company reported earnings that fell short of expectations. Salesforce shares closed at $43.25 a share, down $2.44, or 5.25 percent. Yesterday the company said it earned 10 cents a share on a non-GAAP basis on sales … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Google and Microsoft Kiss and Make Up Over YouTube App 19 hours, 6 minutes ago Windows Phone customers won't be shut out of seeing YouTube videos after all. After tussling over the YouTube app for Windows Phone, Google and Microsoft have settled their differences now that Microsoft has agreed to include ads in the app. The YouTube app, like other major apps on Windows Phone, … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Soccer Player Ejected for Dropping Trou on the Field 19 hours, 19 minutes ago If you're going to get thrown off the field, you might as well go in style, right? This pants-less goal celebration definitely qualifies It comes courtesy of Mario Djurovski, a Macedonian midfielder for Thai soccer club Muangthong United. After a sweet score, he drops trou, puts his shorts on … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
BMW Fires a Legendary Motorcycle Into the 21st Century 19 hours, 25 minutes ago BMW's bikes have always been an amalgamation of form and function, which makes them more purposeful than pretty. The Concept Ninety finally manages to balance the two. read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Microsoft, Google Working Together on YouTube App for Windows Phone 19 hours, 28 minutes ago After a brief spat, Google said Friday it is working with Microsoft to craft a YouTube app for Windows Phone that meets its terms of service. “Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube’s API terms of … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
'The Simpsons' Theme Park Coming This Summer 19 hours, 30 minutes ago Look alive, Simpsons fans — everyone's favorite animated family is getting its own expanded area at the Universal Orlando Resort. Woo-hoo! The Simpsons franchise has had a presence at Universal Studios Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood since 2007. In 2008, The Simpsons Ride launched in … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Microsoft And Google Bury The Hatchet To Work On A Windows Phone YouTube App With Ads 19 hours, 37 minutes ago Once a upon a time, Microsoft saw fit to put together a YouTube app for Windows Phone and it was actually pretty great — it let users download videos straight from the app and there was nary an ad to be found. To absolutely no one’s surprise, Google wasn’t too pleased: after all, … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
30 Things You Didn't Know About Return of the Jedi 19 hours, 39 minutes ago Tomorrow sees the 30th anniversary of the release of Return of The Jedi. To celebrate, here are 30 things you might not have known about the movie. read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Why Tumblr Won't Move Yahoo's Needle 19 hours, 45 minutes ago When Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer announced that the Internet giant would spend $1.1 billion to acquire blogging site Tumblr, she promised not to “screw it up.” Maybe the young chief should have instead emphasized what the six-year-old fledging startup can do for Yahoo. The … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Here Are 4 New Arrested Development Clips to Prepare You for the Weekend 19 hours, 47 minutes ago We're only days away from the new Netflix-only season of Arrested Development, but it still can't come soon enough. Here are four clips to hold everyone over until Sunday. read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
3D-Printed Splint Helps Baby Breathe Again 19 hours, 52 minutes ago When a baby was afflicted with a condition that blocked his ability to breathe, professors at the University of Michigan developed a 3D-printed splint that saved the child's life. Baby Kaiba Gionfriddo was only six weeks old when he stopped breathing and turned blue, as explained in the video … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Report: Google wants to connect the developing world with wireless 19 hours, 56 minutes ago You might have thought Google’s gigabit fiber plans in the U.S. were big, but Google may have even bigger broadband ambitions in the developing world. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google is working with governments and local regulators in countries all over Africa and Southeast … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Report: Google wants to connect the developing world with wireless 19 hours, 56 minutes ago You might have thought Google’s gigabit fiber plans in the U.S. were big, but Google may have even bigger broadband ambitions in the developing world. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google is working with governments and local regulators in countries all over Africa and Southeast … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
VMware’s revolving door keeps on spinning 19 hours, 57 minutes ago A week after VMware announced its top-priority Infrastructure-as-a-Service play, two more executives associated with de-emphasized technologies have left the company. Both execs, Javier Soltero and Kevin Henrickson joined VC company Redpoint Ventures as … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
VMware’s revolving door keeps on spinning 19 hours, 57 minutes ago A week after VMware announced its top-priority Infrastructure-as-a-Service play, two more executives associated with de-emphasized technologies have left the company. Both execs, Javier Soltero and Kevin Henrickson joined VC company Redpoint Ventures as … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Gillmor Gang Live 05.24.13 (TCTV) 20 hours, 1 minute ago Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific time. read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Tech Time Warp of the Week: Apple's (Other) 1984 Advertising Masterpiece 20 hours, 6 minutes ago Everybody remembers Apple's remarkable George Orwell-inspired 1984 Super Bowl ad. It's still talked about as one of the greatest Super Bowl ads of all time. But buried in the company's marketing vault is another landmark video from the same year. It wasn't inspired by Orwell. It was inspired by Dan … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Customize and Code Your Own Robots With Linkbot 20 hours, 9 minutes ago California-based company Barobo is all about robots. Their newest invention, Linkbot, is a modular robotic platform that lets you build and customize your own robot, block by block, like LEGOs You start with a single bot. It's ready to go as-is, but you can add your own flavor by connecting two or … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Laptop Week Review: Samsung 700T Fly Or Die 20 hours, 11 minutes ago In lieu of a formal review, Matt Burns and I sat down to take a look at the Samsung 700T AKA ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T, a convertible tablet that has a small button on the keyboard that pops out the Windows 8 tablet that forms the brains of the machine. The device is a bit chintzy – more pressed … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Australian researchers get closer to scalable quantum computing 20 hours, 17 minutes ago Researchers in Australia are making progress in their quest to construct a scalable quantum computer, having developed a method for extracting information from an electron racing around a phosphorus atom in silicon, the MIT Technology Review reported Wednesday. The achievement suggests that … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
Australian researchers get closer to scalable quantum computing 20 hours, 17 minutes ago Researchers in Australia are making progress in their quest to construct a scalable quantum computer, having developed a method for extracting information from an electron racing around a phosphorus atom in silicon, the MIT Technology Review reported Wednesday. The achievement suggests that … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
California Clears SideCar Ride-Sharing App, Months After Competitors 20 hours, 18 minutes ago Peer-to-peer ride-sharing service SideCar is cleared to operate in California, the California Public Utilities Commission is expected to announce today. Not that this changes anything about how SideCar operates; after being sent a cease-and-desist order and fined $20,000, the company kept its … read on the original website save to clipboard add to Instapaper
