iPhone 5 Concept by Ciccarese Design Click here to view this gallery. The iPhone 5 might not be arriving any time soon, but that hasn’t stopped artists and design firms from creating their own mock-ups. After analyzing the various iPhone 5 rumors, Italian designer Federico Ciccarese came up with these gorgeous renders. Ciccarese’s vision of the iPhone 5 pred […]
Installing PlayBook 2 on PlayBook 1 Click here to view this gallery. Blackberry Playbook 2.0, which arrived earlier this week, is a marked improvement on the first-generation PlayBook platform released along with the 7-inch device almost a year ago. It’s also still probably not enough to make PlayBook a winner in the consumer tablet race. When Research in Mo […]
Jennifer Borget might be a great sewer, but she hates cleaning. Her husband does most of it — the dishes, vacuuming, laundry, bathrooms — and nags her to clean up her sewing and craft area. But she refused to be a “Stepford wife,” she says, until Pinterest inspired her to make cleaning crafty. The 26-year-old TV news reporter joined Pinterest last year to ge […]
Image via @_Snape_.Click here to view this gallery.Harry Potter fans flocked to social media sites on Thursday to celebrate the news that author J.K. Rowling will be taking a crack at adult fiction. The best-selling author has announced that she will be returning to writing, and the content this time will be geared toward adults. Rowling will be working with […]
At some point, Kickstarter became more than just a way to fund art, music and other creative endeavors. It became entertaining content in itself. A new website called KickStumbler plays up the entertainment value of Kickstarter projects by applying a StumbleUpon concept to them (StumbleUpon declined to comment on what they thought about the imitation). Users […]
Black holes may be invisible, but astute observers can find them by looking for the effect of their intense gravity on other nearby celestial objects. That intense gravity can sometimes “steal” gas from nearby stars, which can collect in a spinning disk around the black hole. That spinning disk can create fast-moving wind in outer space. That’s what’s happen […]
It’s an annual rite for college basketball fans to grumble about how they would have done a better job than the NCAA’s official selection committee when picking the March Madness tournament field. This year, a team of ten Facebook-savvy fans gets a chance to prove what they know, and demystify the selection process for others, thanks to a first-of-its-kind N […]
Are you reading this story on your phone via a link on Twitter, Facebook or some other social network? You’re not alone. A new study by research firm comScore says 64.2 million U.S. citizens use their mobile devices for social networking, with more than half of them doing so “almost every day.” A full 38.2 million people use social networks on their phones o […]
Tumblr will release a new policy blocking blogs that promote self-harm — such as anorexia, bulimia, self-mutilation and suicide — in a change to the platform’s Content Policy. The company is asking its community for input on the revised policy, which will be live within the next week. “We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of […]
Mashable’s largest conference, Mashable Connect, is returning to Orlando, FL from May 3-5, and this year we will explore the future of digital with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re pleased to announce five digital leaders have joined our dynamic list of speakers. Additional Confirmed Speakers Duane Bray is a partner at IDEO, where he heads […]