Cruises Then and Now: The Tech Behind Titanic [VIDEO]

The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank 100 years ago today, ending up in a watery grave 12,600 feet below the surface of the sea. But that was 100 years ago. Could that happen today?

Let’s take a look at the tech behind the Titanic, explore the innovations made since… read more

Mobile Mistrust: Are Texters Cheaters? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Do mobile phones make you suspicious? Do texters have something to hide?

That’s what a couple of recent studies suggest. College students trust text messages less than phone calls, video chats and face-to-face conversation when communicating with their peers. And it may be a case of guilty consciences — 35%… read more

Baseball Home Openers: Social Media’s Best Shots [PICS]

1. A head of the game

The New York Mets tweeted this photo of a fan with a Shea… read more

5 Retro Games Brought Back From the Dead By Kickstarter

Who can forget their first computer game? It wasn’t just kind of awesome, it’s what took up most evenings and every weekend. If you’re the type to have spent far too many hours playing these games in the 1980s and ’90s, you might want to clear your schedule now.

Some… read more

Where and When Do Most People Lose Their Phones? [INFOGRAPHIC]

If you’ve never lost a cellphone, you’re either very lucky or a big ol’ liar. With $30 billion worth of phones lost in the U.S. every year, we bet your phone has contributed to the heap at one time or another.

I can count on 47 hands the times I’ve seen… read more

J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore Site Is Now Open to the Public

With the books and movies all finished, are you suffering from Harry Potter withdrawal?

Maybe it’s time to head over to Pottermore, an online hub developed by J.K. Rowling for fans of the boy wizard. The free site is now open for all to join.

Users will be treated to… read more

Working Remotely: Is It Right For You?

Sara Ferraioli is a Manager in the Human Resources Contracts division 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 on Twitter .

More than 34 million Americans work at home at least occasionally,… read more

8 Hilarious ‘Titanic’ Parodies to Lift Your Sinking Spirits

1. Titanic Super 3D

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This Week in App News

As always, here’s Mac AppStorm’s weekly roundup of news and this week, it isn’t related to Facebook’s purchase of Instagram. Enjoy!

Apple patches up Flashback trojan with official fix

Since Apple officially recognised the FlashBack Trojan back at the start of the month (and simultaneously releasing a patch for OS X… read more

35 Macro Photographs That You Will Love

35 Macro Photographs That You Will Love

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IndieGoGo’s Co-Founder Wants Kids to Launch 10 Startups in 10 Years

Slava Rubin, co-founder and CEO of crowdfunding website IndieGoGo, has an ambitious plan to plant the seeds of entrepreneurship in the minds of students: He wants them to launch a new startup every year for ten years in middle school through college.

“The best way for students to become entrepreneurs is… read more

Uranus Auroras Spotted by Hubble Telescope Scientists [VIDEO]

Conditions are bizarre on the peculiar seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus. Much is different from our planet, including auroras, which were spotted by the Hubble telescope last November.

The space telescope, Earth’s workhorse of observational power, snagged images of a couple of auroras on the surface of Uranus… read more

Is a Yacht Philippe Starck’s ‘Revolutionary’ Apple Project? [RUMOR]

World-famous French designer Philippe Starck told a French radio station on Friday that he’s working on a “revolutionary” secret Apple project that will surface in eight months. The designer said that he couldn’t reveal more details because of Apple’s “religious cult of secrecy.”

Apple flatly denied Starck’s involvement with… read more

Google Doodle Pays Homage to Street Photographer Robert Doisneau

Today’s Google Doodle features photographs from the famed French photographer Robert Doisneau on his 100th birthday.

Born April 14, 1912, Doisneau was one of the original street photographers — he wandered the streets of Paris snapping away with his Leica camera decades before thousands of Brooklyn’s hipsters would do the same… read more

4 Ways to Outdo Your Competitors

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Do you ever feel like there’s a competitor around every corner? Budding entrepreneurs often hesitate to follow their business dreams because they believe their target market is… read more

Advanced Portrait Retouch on a Male Subject in Lightroom 4 – Part 1 of 3

Introduction

This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom which can be purchased from the link above.

Lightroom can be a powerful advanced editor, and we often use it for portrait retouching. While it does not… read more

Best of the Week #218

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Elegant Photo Editing with CameraBag 2

With apps like Instagram and services like Facebook, it seems everyone now is taking pictures and submitting them out to the world via the Internet. Taking pictures is just one part of the equation though. Those who want a perfect picture know that editing typically follows the capture. Manipulating light… read more

72% of Adults Are Local News Enthusiasts [STUDY]

Social media connectivity and the digitization of news have not squashed American fervor for local news, a Pew study says. Nearly three quarters of adults are consistently plugged into local news — so much so that 32% of survey participants say the loss of local outlets would majorly impact their… read more

These Contact Lenses Give You Superhuman Vision

Contact lens wearers can get a new perspective on their environment with the latest vision technology — contact lenses that let the wearer focus on two fields of view at once. Wearers can keep an eye on a projected image while their surrounding scenery can also be looked at… read more

5 Things That Waste Your Time at Work [INFOGRAPHIC]

Aside from the time you purposefully waste at work — checking Facebook or playing Draw Something, as the kids do — there’s a lot of other stuff that can slow you down at the office. The productivity of a “knowledge worker” (read: non-farmer) hinges on communication and the ability to… read more

How a Sports Fanatic Turned His Blog Hobby Into a Career [VIDEO]

Back in 2003, when blogs were just catching on with the mainstream, college student Matthew Cerrone started a GeoCities site called MetsBlog.com to track his favorite baseball team. Fast-forward nine years and he’s turned the hobby into a full-time job.

Cerrone’s story offers a window into how sports fans today… read more

HTC Titan II: The Other LTE Windows Phone Is Big, Beautiful, Pricey [REVIEW]

The HTC Titan II is HTC’s first LTE Windows Phone, and one of just two LTE Windows Phones currently on the market.

Debuting alongside the Nokia Lumia 900 on April 8th, the handset is HTC’s followup to the original Titan, a massive Windows Phone the company debuted in late 2011.

Under… read more

Pinterest Users: What’s the World’s Most Beautiful Country? [INFOGRAPHIC]

The world has fallen in love with Pinterest, the social network with beautiful images at its core. Now Pinterest users get to decide where they most love in the world.

A crowdsourced project created by travel site First Choice — living in an interactive HTML5 infographic — is asking globally-minded Pinterest… read more

Interview: Meet Bret Michaelsen from Pastelink.me

Coming up with an idea for a new app that would help you and others isn’t that hard. If an idea was all that counted, the Angry Birds success story wouldn’t be that rare. What’s difficult is seeing your vision through to completion, actually building the product you’ve dreamed of,… read more

Mashable Is Seeking a Director of West Coast Sales

Are you based in San Francisco and looking for your next career opportunity? If so, there may be a place for you on Mashable‘s growing sales team. We’re looking for smart, resourceful candidates with ad sales and digital media experience for our Director of West Coast Sales opening.

The Director of… read more

Julian Assange’s TV Show to Premiere Next Week

Julian Assange

Julian Assange, 40, is an Australian-born political activist and journalist known for his controversial website WikiLeaks, which… read more

Daily Inspiration #1108

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

RIM Almost Let Other Phones Use the BlackBerry Network [REPORT]

Research in Motion was on the verge of adopting a strategy that would have opened the company’s BlackBerry network to competing phones before a change in management led to its downfall, a new report claims.

According to Reuters, former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie wanted to allow wireless carriers in North America… read more

‘Wide Open’: Weekly Photography Challenge

This week your photographic challenge picks up on this weeks image collection – 25 Dreaming Images Shot Wide Open.

The images in the collection were all shot with large Apertures. Remember a large aperture (a big wide open hole in your lens) translates to a low number. So the shots all… read more

Apple Releases Update to Remove Flashback Trojan

Apple has issued a new software update that also serves to remove the most common variant of the Flashback Trojan.

The update, which was released via Software Update on April 12, supersedes the previous software updates issued to patch the Java vulnerability that allowed malicious software to track users on more… read more

Fans Topple Pane of Glass Onto NHL Player’s Head After Playoff Win [VIDEO]

A group of over-exuberant fans banging on a pane of glass knocked the section of spectator protection onto an unsuspecting NHL player Thursday night. The Boston Bruins had just scored an overtime goal to steal a Stanley Cup Playoffs win in front of their home crowd, when Krejci got caught… read more

Netflix’s Unlimited Employee Vacation Policy: Why It Works

Netflix employees have one less thing to keep track of: the amount of vacation days they take. Co-founder Reed Hastings recently told Bloomberg Businessweek that Netflix has an unlimited vacation policy.

In an effort to separate itself from bureaucratic corporations, Netflix, with its 900 employees, abandoned the typical vacation allotment… read more

5 Mobile Apps for Seasonal Allergy Sufferers

1. Allergy Advisor

Allergy sufferers can check their local weather and pollen forecast every morning with Allergy Advisor and… read more

Online Poker: One Year After the Biggest Bust in Gaming History

On the anniversary of the biggest shakeup in the online gaming world, poker in the digital age is a far cry from what it was just one year ago. But according to industry experts, poker may be back online in the next few years.

This Sunday, April 15 — called the… read more

‘Software Engineer’ Tops List of 2012′s Best Jobs

Do you code for a living? Then congratulations, you have the best job in America right now, according to a new survey.

CareerCast, a site for job seekers, listed the top 200 jobs of 2012. Software engineer had the best overall score when you average work environment, income, stress level,… read more

Pinterest Contest Addresses Dangers of Driving in Heels [VIDEO]

Confused — a U.K. insurance comparison website — has started a Pinterest campaign to steer people away from driving in platforms and pumps.

The Pinterest contest calls for users to submit the craziest shoes they have ever worn while operating a car. Present submissions include giant height-altering heels and… read more

Mashable Is Nominated for a Webby Award

We’re pleased to announce that Mashable has been nominated for a Webby Award in the Websites category for best business blog.

Business coverage has always been core to Mashable since our days covering early Web 2.0 companies. Today, we continue to document how digital transforms business at all levels. Beyond business… read more

Google’s Amazing Growth, By The Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

Google may not be the new kid on the block anymore, but it’s still growing like one.

As this infographic from Statista shows, the company continues its upward trajectory, at least if you go by revenues, stock price, net income and market share. As of the first-quarter of 2012, Google… read more

NAB: Broadcasters Conference Highlights Digital Content

At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, digital media professionals will present, educate and collaborate on the industry’s latest technology. The show takes place April 14-19 in Las Vegas, Nev.

Founded in 1923, NAB has certainly come a long way from its roots in film and radio advocacy. Now the… read more

Time Out Free: A Small Step Toward Healthier Computer Use

If you’re reading this article then in all likelihood you spend a significant amount of time on your Mac, whether for work or play. However, while the increasing digitization of the modern world has led to real tangible benefits such as unparalleled communication, the easy spread of ideas and, of… read more

How To Use Ink: Your Mac’s Built-In Handwriting Recognition Feature

Chances are pretty good that up until now, you had no idea that there is a built-in application on Macs that is capable of pretty decent handwriting recognition. The application, called Inkwell, is built into the Mac operating system and is shown only if you have a graphics tablet plugged… read more

Smashing Special: What’s Going On In The WordPress Economy?

In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It’s an economy that thousands of people, the world over, are benefiting from (including me!). It is an economy built… read more

30 Minimalist Logo Designs

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Every designer loves a foray into the minimalist — even if you make your bread and butter designing wildly grungy logos for metal bands using absurd, busy fonts and lots of black and red (not that this is a common niche for designers who do want to… read more

Startup Stops Sites Selling Your Information in One Click

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: SafeShepherd

Quick Pitch: SafeShepherd finds and removes your information from websites that sell it.

Genius Idea: Automating each… read more

JK Rowling Upgrades Website, Teases First Adult Book

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling released details of her forthcoming adult novel, The Casual Vacancy, alongside her newly redesigned website Thursday.

Until Thursday, the author’s website, JKRowling.com, had been under construction and inaccessible for several months.

The new design reflects a cleaner, more streamlined aesthetic. It’s available in a variety of… read more

7 YouTube Channels of Nerd Entertainment

If two left feet keep you from Dancing with the Stars, or the thought of visiting the Jersey Shore makes you break out in hives, then listen up.

There’s a new breed of entertainment being produced by nerds for nerds on YouTube, and we have some of the best of… read more

89 Photography Links & Photographs To Rock Your Socks

The Toads return from a wonderful Easter weekend to share this week’s list of tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs encountered during their weekly adventures online.  This list contains some really wonderful photographs and images as delivered by some truly talented folks.  The Toad really hopes you enjoy viewing these… read more

Is Boeing Developing a Super-Secure Spy Phone? [VIDEO]

Earlier this week it was reported that aerospace and defense firm Boeing is developing its own mobile phone for the James Bonds of the world — namely, the defense and intelligence communities.

The phone will compete with other “highly secure communication devices,” but will have a lower price-point… read more

How to Make An Entire Mall Think You’re Famous [VIDEO]

Thomas Elliot is a “famous” dude who has Virginia shoppers going nuts over him — for doing nothing at all.

Along with his team at Chill Hill Media, Elliot (whose name is actually Thomas Cramer — his middle name is Elliot) entered MacArthur Center Mall in Norfolk, Virginia with the intention… read more

Mashable Photo Challenge: Work in Progress

Last week in the Mashable Photo Challenge we were happy to see you explore the idea of firsts. A gallery of our featured photos can be found in this post and on our Facebook page.

This week we want you to look at the next step. Show us a work in progress. As with your… read more

Elon Musk: Why I’m a Space Junkie [VIDEO]

If all goes well on April 30, Elon Musk’s Dragon spaceship will become the first private space vehicle to rocket off into space and dock with the now-completed International Space Station.

It will be yet another major milestone for Musk, who seems to make a career of them.

The 40… read more

NFL Star Has Epic Twitter Implosion, Claims He Was Hacked [UPDATED]

National Football League wide receiver Jabar Gaffney offered a lesson in how not to use Twitter — by posting a train wreck-like series of tweets that had his name trending worldwide Thursday afternoon.

Gaffney posted an expletive-laden stream of messages to do with his wife, following another recent profane tweet… read more

Daily Inspiration #1107

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

20+ Macro Photography of Ants by Andrey Pavlov

20+ Macro Photography of Ants by Andrey Pavlov

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Create Your Own App in WordPress With Script Manager

WordPress may just be the most versatile web app ever. You could use it to power your site or blog (as we do here at AppStorm), or you could turn it into an eCommerce store, discussion board, photo gallery, or almost anything else with the wide range of plugins and… read more

Google Announces 2-for-1 Stock Split

Google is planning a two-for-one stock split that will take effect sometime after June 21. The split, which investors have been requesting for some time, is designed to preserve the power of existing shareholders.

The company is planning to create a new class of non-voting capital stock, to be listed on… read more

3 Marketing Lessons From Facebook’s Instagram Acquisition

Matthew Siegel is the co-founder of Indaba Music, an online community of musicians making and promoting music. He was named one of Billboard’s “30 Under 30” power players of the music industry in 2010. Follow him @matthewlsiegel.

This week, pages upon pages of commentary have been written about Facebook’s… read more

9 Ways to Follow Coachella on Social Media

1. Facebook

Stay apprised of Coachella updates and tips by following the music festival on Facbeook.

Click here to view… read more

Nest Labs Hires Apple’s Former Patent Chief for Honeywell Lawsuit

The same patent lawyer who defended iPad, iPod and iPhone technology is now defending thermostat tech for Nest Labs.

Nest Labs announced on Thursday that Richard Lutton Jr., Apple’s former chief intellectual property officer, will be joining the startup thermostat maker as general counsel.

His first task will be to… read more

Amazon Plans to Lower Ebook Prices, But Does It Need To?

In the wake of the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and book publishers over ebook pricing, Amazon is in a renewed position of strength. Emboldened by Wednesday’s news, the online retailer has already made plans to lower ebook prices.

In an emailed statement, Amazon said “[The settlement] is a big… read more

Can a Tech Meetup Change the World? [VIDEO]

Name: New York Tech Meetup

Big Idea: Bring together entrepreneurs, investors, developers and tech nerds in order to level the playing field and change the way the world is run.

Why It’s Working: New York Tech Meetup mobilizes Silicon Alley’s eco-system into a powerful social and political force — and it’s… read more

Digital Painting of F1 Heroes

Formula 1 has always been very popular all over the world, specially in Brazil. I remember watching Senna every Sunday with my whole family and the memories are great. Polish designer Piotr Buczkowski decided to make a tribute to the best F1 drivers by painting some portraits and the result… read more

All-in Yoga: Your At Home Yoga Companion

I don’t think we can necessarily say something like "yoga is all the rage these days" anymore, but it is safe to say that yoga has become a fairly steady, mainstream workout activity for many people.

We have resources all around us and make no mistake about it, there are plenty… read more

Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion Into Your Websites

Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. Actually, they did not use to play any role at all; rather, they were drowned by a flood of rational functionality and… read more

30 Pixel Perfect iPad App Designs

Have you started work on a new app? Are you in need of some design inspiration? Well, your in luck. Today we have a showcase of 30 beautifully designed pixel-perfect iPad UIs that will stimulate your inspiration in no time.

If you know of any others please leave a… read more

How Digital Populism Is Reshaping the Body Politic

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Find The Necessary Paperwork For Your Small Business With One Site

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: License123.

Quick Pitch: License 123 connects business owners with applications, forms and other paperwork they need, based… read more

Be Up To Date Using Mac Apps

Be Up To Date Using Mac Apps

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Animator Creates Incredible Musical Painting With $5 iPad App [VIDEO]

Thanks to tablet technology, creating a music video has become as simple as swiping a finger — well, sort of.

Art Decade, a band consisting of duo Ben Talmi and Binod Singh Jr., recently debuted its music video, Western Sunrise, which was made almost entirely using Procreate, a $5 iPad app…. read more

How to Pop a Balloon in 300 Easy Steps [VIDEO]

The technology we cover at Mashable is usually pretty high tech. It takes some true ingenuity to make a low-tech machine that will catch our eye. But this ridiculously inefficient, over-the-top Rube Goldberg contraption is it.

The Purdue University Society of Professional Engineers team spent over 5,000 hours creating it,… read more

Use Attractive and Cute Cartoon Wallpapers for Mac

Use Attractive and Cute Cartoon Wallpapers for Mac

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Why CEOs Should Allow Facebook in the Workplace [INFOGRAPHIC]

Many CEOs forbid use of social media at work, but recent research shows that web surfing leads to increased productivity.

This Keas infographic explores the benefits of social media in the workplace, showing that social connections make people happier and a brief recess involving Internet-browsing increases productivity.

An Academy of Management experiment… read more

Mashable Photo Challenge Results: A Week of Firsts

Last week we introduced a new Mashable Photo Challenge: We asked you to send us a photo that embodied your idea of a first.

We wanted to give you a prompt that was open to your discretion, and we were thrilled to receive so many fantastic entries that interpreted this… read more

‘Glee’ Gets a Big Welcome Back From Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]

Glee returned Tuesday night after a six-week hiatus. But the FOX show’s struggling ratings didn’t keep devoted fans from making the “Big Brother” episode of Glee a smash on Twitter — the hashtag #gleeisback was trending.

Glee tantalized its audience with a cliffhanger right before its break in February. The show’s return answered… read more

Disconnect: 5 Business Benefits of Working Out

Eric Siu is the Vice President of SEO at Evergreen Search Marketing. He also writes about SEO topics such as the 10 Immutable Laws of SEO. Follow him @ericosiu

Disconnecting in the digital age seems like a virtue and a sin. The reality is, it’s hard to unplug. So much of… read more

Daily Inspiration #1106

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

TNT Pumps Up the Promo Drama With Crashes, Guns, Fights, Bikini [VIDEO]

TNT, according to the cable network’s catchphrase, knows drama.

So, when it needed to promote its channel launch in Belgium, it brought the drama in a big way — with ambulances, bike crashes, fistfights, gunslinging and a woman on a motorcycle in her underwear.

In the video, a button labled… read more

App Store Deals This Week: 3 – 10 April 2012

There are plenty of deals to be had on the App Store, however with such a huge number of apps, it is impossible to scout out the best ones without a bit of help. Well, that’s where we come in! From now on, Mac AppStorm will be publishing every Wednesday… read more

13 Creative Google+ Cover Photo Hacks

1. Mike Tungate

This cover banner features a high desert lightning storm. Spooky!

Click here to view this gallery.

Google+ overhauled… read more

Theophilus London Remixes His Album, Animated-GIF Style [PREMIERE]

Brooklyn rapper Theophilus London is about to drop a remix version of his debut album, Timez Are Weird These Days, but Mashable readers can listen to one of the tracks today!

Bing is sponsoring the album, titled Timez Are Weird These Nights, which will be released on April 24.

The track Mashable… read more

10 Mac Apps Your Grandparents Will Love

This post is part of a three-part series of roundups dedicated to finding apps for your home and family life. Today, in part two, we’ll focus on fun and useful apps that your grandparents might enjoy. Reread part one here.

Switching to a Mac-centric household can be hard on certain members… read more

Keep Your Menubar Items in Order with MenuBar ReArranger

I’m a big fan of menu bar apps, if you’ve read a few of my articles you probably have noticed how much I’m used to having easy access to certain features directly though the menu bar, without having to quit what I’m doing.

Being a fan of these types of apps, I have… read more

The Art of Vectoring Hair

We’ve previously looked in detail of the theory work and techniques used in skin shading, now we’re going to look into vectoring hair.

Rendering hair in vector is one of the more challenging areas when learning to vector portraits, yet rendering is not the only thing you need to consider. Assuming… read more

Instagram: From Zero to $1 Billion in 17 Months [INFOGRAPHIC]

When Instagram launched its first app in October 2010, it did not strike most people as the kind of startup that would be acquired for $1 billion.

“We were all like, ‘what’s the big deal? It’s just photos and filters,” Brian Blau, a Research Director with the Consumer Technology and… read more

Blog Comments Could Help Catch a Killer

A woman named Betty Wheeler was killed in a hit-and-run incident while she was out walking in Waynesboro, Virginia last week.

On Tuesday, the car-culture blog Jalopnik posted the picture above, which shows the only piece of evidence found at the scene. The car part, an air dam, is allegedly… read more

Lost Your Phone? The Government Wants to Find it For You

If you’re one of the many cellphone owners who’ve ever left their mobile device behind at a crowded restaurant, packed bar or city-crossing taxi, you know the heart-sinking shock felt when you reach for your phone only to find it missing — all because some quick-fingered swindler grabbed it while… read more

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Becomes a Movie Character

Emmy Award winner Anthony LaPaglia will play a detective tracking a young Julian Assange in an upcoming film that focuses on the WikiLeaks founder’s early forays into Internet hacking.

Golden Globe winner Rachel Griffiths will play Assange’s activist mother. Assange himself will be played by film newcomer Alex Williams.

The… read more

Time Out New York Makes a Major Bet on ECommerce

Online retailers have become a growing threat to lifestyle magazines over the past few years, hiring away influential editors and building their own magazine-like interactive spreads.

Now magazines are fighting back — by establishing online shops of their own.

Time Out New York, a weekly print and digital magazine covering film,… read more

CloudOn Brings Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader To Your iPad

In January CloudOn launched its iPad app allowing you to access and work with Microsoft Office documents directly on your iPad, saving those documents to DropBox. Tuesday, the company took its app a step further, adding support for Adobe Reader as well as the ability to also store and access… read more

Can This Online Anti-Poverty Campaign Grab the G8′s Attention?

Advocacy non-profit ONE is hoping to tackle extreme poverty by planting digital and physical seeds that represent a commitment to fight global poverty.

ONE launched a new campaign called Thrive on Tuesday, beginning with an online petition urging G8 members to take action against the worldwide cycle of poverty.

“We’re good… read more

16 Ways Educators Can Use Pinterest [INFOGRAPHIC]

Teachers are known for their organizational skills, so chances are they’ll love Pinterest‘s intuitive and logical design.

The social network’s user experience has helped it earn a top spot among today’s most popular social networks. Therefore, we predict that teachers will give it a gold star, too.

Our friends at OnlineUniversities.com… read more

How Instagram’s $1 Billion Sale Helps Other Photo-Sharing Startups

When Facebook decided to acquire Instagram for a whopping $1 billion on Monday, the two companies weren’t the only ones with reason to pop open a bottle of champagne.

The acquisition has lent legitimacy to a whole genre of startups — photo-sharing apps — previously accused of being a fad.

“Every… read more

10 Hip MacBook Decals [PICS]

1. Typewriter

We like the retro reference with this old school decal.

Cost: $7.99

Click here to view this gallery.

You know… read more

Rufus Wainwright Wants You to Instagram His Video

Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright wants fans to use Instagram to create a lyric mosaic for his new single, Out of the Game.

Users and fans are tasked with taking Instagram photos that represent a word in the lyrics of the song, “Out of the Game.” Users add the hashtag #OutOfTheGame to the… read more

Daily Inspiration #1105

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Subway Hero Is All That and a Bag of Chips [VIDEO]

Violence is no laughing matter, especially because it seems to happen often in New York City subways. YouTube user EITANNOYZE uploaded this video, seemingly shot on a smartphone, which shows a man and a woman kicking and hitting each other on the 6 train.

The odd part, however, is what… read more

China: The World’s Largest Online Population [INFOGRAPHIC]

China has come online extremely quickly in recent years. Today, one in five Internet users are Chinese — that’s half a billion people. And while growth has evened out since 2007, it shows no sign of stopping.

Chinese Internet users spend about the same amount of time online as their U.S…. read more

30 Great Open Source Mac Apps

An open source application is a piece of software for which the source code is available and in the public domain. Developers are able to download the code and modify, contribute and change it to suit their needs. This means businesses can ‘tweak’ software according to their needs and individuals… read more

Ozzie Guillen Suspended for Fidel Castro Comments; Twitter Talks Back

1. @EdgeofSports

The Nation editor Dave Zirin said others in pro sports have much more to apologize for than… read more