Games like Candy Crush will soon be losing their "free" label in the Google Play Store.Google agreed that it will change the way it labels apps in Google Play so that games with in-app purchases will no longer be listed as "free." The change is in r… - 3 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:56pm -
Conan O'Brien wants to be cool, so obviously he is getting on TinderConan enlisted the help of Dave Franco (because he's young and cool) to meet chicks on the popular dating app. They use the aliases Djengus Roundstone and Chip Whitley and proceed… - 4 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:55pm -
A Mashable investigation shows that aircraft from many nations, including the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, routinely fly over tense conflict zones such as Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. In the wake of the shooting down of Malaysia Airline… - 9 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:50pm -
IDF is reportedly requiring journalists entering Gaza to fill out a form that absolves the Israeli army of all responsibility in the event of injury or death.The form, tweeted by The Huffington Post’s Sophia Jones, was given to reporters in a conv… - 29 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:30pm -
Are Google and Samsung fighting over Tizen's role in wearables? According to a new report, the answer is yes.According to The Information, Google CEO Larry Page met with Samsung Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee at the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley. T… - 42 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:17pm -
Yo, the simple app that just sends a “yo” to your friends, has closed $1.5 million in seed funding with a $10 million valuation and is finally ready to talk about its investors. They include Betaworks, Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, and the founde… - 32 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:27pm -
Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator announced this morning that it has added to its team with several new appointments at the partner level. Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, App.net founder Dalton Caldwell, and Talkbin founder Qasar Youni… - 54 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:05pm -
All of Google’s properties will eventually bear a look inspired by ‘Material Design‘ and Android L, and Chrome OS is part of that sweeping visual overhaul, too. A new preview posted by Google “Happiness Evangelist” François Beaufort toda… - 58 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:01pm -
Indexeus.net looks like it could have been a Y Combinator project. With a slick design, snappy copy, and a bitcoin-based payment system, it looks unusually legit. But what the site is hiding is the produce of hundreds of hacking efforts from around… - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:31pm -
Metal 3-D printers exist now, but they can be expensify to purchase. A new startup called MatterFab hopes to reduce the cost associated with metal 3-D printing, with a machine that houses a high-powered laser to basically weld metal together. Read… - 2 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:00pm -
Facebook wants to make it easier for you to buy things.On Thursday, the company announced it’s testing a new way for people to buy stuff through ads and page posts with a new buy button, allowing users to purchase products and services without leav… - 24 hours ago, 17 Jul 14, 3:06pm -
2014 has been a tipping point for Pinterest, in which the site has gone from visual social network to visual search engine. Increasingly, Pinterest is not a site for socializing with friends but instead, a place to laser-focus in on your specific fav… - 1 day ago, 17 Jul 14, 2:12pm -
Adding insult to injury, Microsoft will kill some of the Nokia X Android smartphones that Nokia released earlier this year.“We plan to shift select Nokia X product designs to become Lumia products running Windows. This builds on our success in the… - 1 day ago, 17 Jul 14, 12:41pm -
Celebrities always get the VIP treatment, and now they can get it on Facebook, too. On Thursday, the company launched Facebook Mentions, an app that’s currently only available to verified pages in the U.S.That means, if you’re not a celebrity or… - 1 day ago, 17 Jul 14, 12:33pm -
You may not have heard of Imgur, but the site serves 5 million images a day to an audience of 130 million visitors a month. And its popularity among viral meme makers is both its strength and its weakness.“It’s almost like, before, one big fireh… - 1 day ago, 17 Jul 14, 9:26am -
Remember that good-looking, electric Marbel skateboard, that managed to raise over $365,000 on Kickstarter, or more than four times its goal? In case you wished someone would come up with a similar project for roller skates, you should check out th… - 17 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:42pm -
The release of the critically acclaimed Mario Kart 8 gave the Wii U a nice sales boost but Nintendo can’t rely on just one game to make the Wii U relevant. This is why when we look at the calendar of upcoming Wii U releases, we get a sinking sense… - 52 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:07pm -
We’ve seen our share of scary GoPro videos over the past several months but this latest one takes us about as close as we ever want to be to two tornadoes that simultaneously tore through large areas of Nebraska last month. The video was filmed by… - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:35pm -
Batten down the hatches, BlackBerry — Hurricane Xiaomi is barreling toward you. The Wall Street Journal reports that even though red-hot Chinese vendor Xiaomi has had trouble getting its phones approved for sale in Indonesia, the company does expec… - 2 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:04pm -
“Drinking is so 2013,” says Vapshot, creator of a pair of alcohol vaporizers aimed at the discerning partygoer for whom dumping alcohol down one’s gullet is no longer appealing. Instead of doing shots the traditional way, the Vapshot and all… - 2 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 12:43pm -
Grant George, the former head of testing for Windows, was one of several executives left on the outside looking in following a September reorganization of the Windows unit. - 31 Dec 13, 4:03pm -
Two personal finance apps, SaveUp and Mogl, offer rewards as a byproduct. Their CEOs describe them as "a bit of gummy on the financial vitamin" and "Toms shoes for food," respectively. - 31 Dec 13, 1:56pm -
Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed it has increased by 5,000 the number of layoffs it plans to implement under the restructuring plan it adopted in May 2012, bringing the expected number of job cuts to 34,000. - 31 Dec 13, 12:38pm -
With the help of StormTag, OpenSignal wants to open up its WeatherSignal crowdsourcing program to the iPhone as well as collect new types of climate data. - 8 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:51pm -
Select Netflix members are getting a chance to hide viewing of embarrassing titles from logs, recommendations and Facebook friends. - 9 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:50pm -
Good news for the people who have Hue lights and are sick of opening an app to turn them on. The Hue tap remote control that lets you press a button to control your Hue lights, hit the Apple store a bit ahead of schedule. The […] - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:57pm -
It's been almost 10 months since consumers began complaining about poor Netflix streaming because of congestion where the last-mile ISP network met Netflix's network. Why is this still an issue? - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:39pm -
Spotify's Daniel Ek wants to turn VKontakte's users into paying customers, but he won't get any help from his former Euro VP Chris Maples, who just left the company. - 2 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:25pm -
Polaroid's XS100i hits the action cam basics at a good price No, it's not a GoPro, but if you're just after a good general-purpose action cam, the XS100i is worth a look. - 11 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:48pm -
Nokia Lumia 930 is a colourful, fun Windows Phone 8.1 device The Lumia 930 has an attractive body, a great camera, the latest Windows Phone 8.1 software and a vibrant, full HD display. Hit play to watch our video review. - 3 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 11:41am -
The latest iPhone 6 rumours and more in CNET UK podcast 397 We take a look at the latest on the iPhone 6, wince as Microsoft cuts thousands of jobs, and head underground for the future of farming. - 7 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 8:23am -
Outsource your chores Too busy to clean your house or do your laundry? Outsource some ofyour domestic tasks through some clever new apps and websites.CNET.com's Kara Tsuboi reports her recommendations in the Tech Minute. - 9 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 6:05am -
The DIR-880L might just be the best home Wi-Fi router D-Link has to offer CNET editor Dong Ngo is totally serious when he says he likes this D-Link DIR-880L AC1900 Wi-Fi router. - 18 hours ago, 17 Jul 14, 9:19pm -
Tomorrow Daily 020: Microsoft layoffs, 3D-printed ice cream, and more On today's show, Ashley and Rich discuss Microsoft's new strategy, the ice cream 3D printer, and a guy building an Alien costume with unusual materials. Also, Timberman, a beautifully animated Futurama intro, and your thoughts on United Weapons Maste… - 20 hours ago, 17 Jul 14, 7:08pm -
By now, you've likely seen the mysterious, yawning hole that appeared in Russia's remote Yamal peninsula, a place whose name literally means "the end of the world." How perfectly spooky! But now that scientists made it out to investigate the hole ,… - 17 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:42pm -
On the west side of Manhattan, a new neighborhood is taking shape. This is Hudson Yards , a development that will turn a dreary section of Manhattan into a technologically advanced neighborhood of the future. But in order to do that, its designers a… - 43 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:16pm -
"Technology is the villain," Wilbur H. Ferry wrote in the March 2, 1968 edition of the Saturday Review. "I do not say that technology will be regulated, only that it should be."Read more... - 59 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:00pm -
Search Engine Land's Barry Schwartz just discovered a cheeky little Easter egg in the Google for iOS app: Drag the letters out of the Google banner and you can pinball them around your screen. Is it functional? No, but it's fun!Read more... - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:57pm -
Airbus just showed its battery-powered E-Fan 2.0 electric airplane to the public for the first time, at England's Farnborough International Airshow. Standing still, it looks like a normal if slightly odd-shaped tiny plane. In the air, though, it see… - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:37pm -
System administrators take note: That mobile employee expense app you’re building should be every bit as easy to use as Facebook. Oh, and you better deliver it quickly too, because that’s how Facebook rolls.Increasingly, organizations are finding… - 29 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:30pm -
We look at how Amazon's new ebook subscription service stacks up against similar offerings from Oyster and Scribd in terms of publisher deals, number of books, and the number of books you'll actually want to read. - 59 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:00pm -
I wrote yesterday about a report from Microsoft researchers, which goes against established password security best practices. The new guidance from the Microsoft researchers makes sense to me, because it fits how I handle password management already.… - 59 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:00pm -
Plans to favor some Internet packets over others threaten consumers’ hard-won right to use encryption, a digital privacy advocate says.Activists and tech companies fended off efforts in the U.S. in the 1990s to ban Internet encryption or give the g… - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:50pm -
It's no secret that many apps are terrible for your phone's performance. If you want to know which ones are the worst, take a look at this study from AVG, which highlights the Android apps that drain your battery most, take up the most storage space… - 59 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:00pm -
Rokus are, for most people, the best set top boxes you can buy, and today you can take advantage of a promotion that gives you two free months of Hulu+ with the purchase of a new streaming box or stick. That's a $16 value, and though it's only avai… - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:46pm -
If you work with people in multiple time zones, it can be difficult figuring out what time it is where they live. If you need a hand, Windows has the tools you need built right in.Read more... - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:30pm -
I exercise a few times a week and sometimes when I'm at the gym I see people all tricked out in crazy looking clothing. Is there really a benefit to wearing anything beyond some shorts and a cotton t-shirt?Read more... - 2 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:00pm -
A new lower price alone may not have moved the Xbox One past the PS4 on the sales chart, but Microsoft is still keeping up with its quick update cycle. The August update preview is arriving for testers, and one of the areas getting a lot of attentio… - 25 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:34pm -
I really enjoy the anonymous sharing app Secret, as the posts are quite often hilarious and I'm usually able to narrow down a sharer's identity to two or three people. (Those Engadget in-jokes are a real telltale.) For the same reasons that I like..… - 59 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:00pm -
If you fancy nabbing new tech by leveraging your Bitcoin wallet, another online retailer has just joined the fray. CEO Michael Dell alerted the masses via Twitter that his company would begin accepting the digital currency, claiming that the outfit.… - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:33pm -
When we heard that Nike had put up a secret vending machine in New York City, we definitely wanted to go find it and see what all the fuss was about. But, unfortunately, we were a little bit late to the party -- the machine is now long gone, perhaps… - 2 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:05pm -
Google's only really dipping its toe in the fiber infrastucture racket at the moment, but plans are afoot to slowly expand its Fiber gigabit internet service elsewhere. According to a report from The Telegraph, the search giant is even looking as fa… - 2 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 12:31pm -
Tonight, please join Boing Boing and Noise Pop at the Oakland Museum of California with Death Cab for Cutie bassist Nick Harmer, Wilco designer Lawrence Azerrad, and Dead Kennedys / Alternative Tentacles artist Winston Smith to explore the art and… - 1 hour ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:32pm -
Ethan Gilsdorf celebrates the origins of D&D and presents Jon Peterson's exclusive video tour of the place where E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson set out on their first adventures Read the rest - 2 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 1:01pm -
"It's only a matter of time before the chikungunya virus spreads in the U.S." Earlier this week, Boing Boing published a feature by Maggie Koerth-Baker with this very title. And now, word that "the first locally acquired case of the tropical disease… - 2 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 12:47pm -
Cosplayer Yuri Ros created this costume for a character called "Calne Miku," sporting insectile mouth-parts and terrifying symbiotic head-bugs. (more…) - 2 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 12:32pm -
"The passengers fell, one fighter stationed here says, 'from incredible heights'. As they came down, many were 'undressed by the air”. Read the rest - 4 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 10:57am -
Malaysia Plane Crash: Who Did It? (Update) | Mashable Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine with 298 people on board. Oe big looming question remains, whose responsible for shooting down the plane? The flight departed Amsterdam Airport Schiphol at 12:14 p.m. local time on July… - 16 mins ago, 18 Jul 14, 2:43pm -
Doc Ock Arms IRL | Mashable Minute | With Elliott Morgan Elliott looks at an amazing new technology from MIT that could turn you into Spiderman's nemesis, Dr. Octopus.What comic superpower would you like to have IRL? Science could get us there soon. Chat with Elliott about your dream abilities down in th… - 9 hours ago, 18 Jul 14, 6:00am -
Will Trolls Come Back to YouTube? | YouTube Weekly | Mashable Now that Google+ dropped the real name policy, will trolls return to the comments?It's YouTube Weekly, with your host Lamarr Wilson!http://twitter.com/lamarrwilsonhttp://youtube.com/lamarrwilsonhttp://instagram.com/lamarrwilsonSocially Awkward… - 17 hours ago, 17 Jul 14, 9:41pm -
Malaysia Airlines Crash: What Happened? | Mashable A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down in Ukraine near the country's border with Russia.*The number of people on the plane has been updated to 298 since the publishing of this video.… - 18 hours ago, 17 Jul 14, 8:52pm -
The Strangest Celebrity Sex Tapes You've Never Seen | Mashable We all know that Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton have sex tapes. But some of the craziest celebrity sex tapes haven't seen the light of day. Until now...Check out more comedy shorts from Mashable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SddmeHIMbvA&index… - 23 hours ago, 17 Jul 14, 4:00pm -
Should 'Let's Play' Gamers Make Money? | YouTube Weekly | Mashable What do you think? Should gamers on YouTube make money from playing?It's YouTube Weekly, with your host Lamarr Wilson!http://twitter.com/lamarrwilsonhttp://youtube.com/lamarrwilsonhttp://instagram.com/lamarrwilsonSocially Awkward (Mashable Sho… - 2 days ago, 16 Jul 14, 5:25pm -
