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Have you got the new Twitter.com yet? That was the question of the day at Mashable HQ Thursday, as the rollout of the service’s redesigned homepage seemed to defy rhyme or reason. Ostensibly, according to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo at … Continue reading →

Recently, Swedish fashion chain H&M admitted to using computer-generated models to showcase a range of collections on its website. The virtual models look completely human, but if you look closely, they all have the same body shape and pose. The … Continue reading →

After hibernating its Allen Telescope Array back in April due to lack of funding, the SETI institute has announced it has now secured the funding to restart the ATA and resume search for extraterrestrial life. The telescope array consists of … Continue reading →

Apple has updated its plans for a cutting-edge “spaceship”-like campus that resembles something you might find in an episode of The Jetsons. More details about the construction of the eco-friendly Apple Campus 2 were posted online this week by the … Continue reading →

The past year didn’t see the emergence of the next Facebook or Twitter. Rather, it saw social and digital spread to new places and along the way enabled a wave of new opportunities for content creators and marketers. Recently, I … Continue reading →

Twitter just unveiled a major redesign, aimed at simplifying the interface and attracting new users to the popular social network. It’s a top-top-bottom change, revamping the website, mobile apps, and even TweetDeck, the company’s social-network integrator software. The new look … Continue reading →

The Virginia Tech campus, scene of a horrific shooting back in 2007, reported that shots were fired on campus again Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. USA Today was the first major outlet to tweet the story to its nearly 205,200 … Continue reading →

Pope Benedict XVI used a Sony tablet to illuminate a Christmas tree in central Italy during a lighting ceremony Wednesday. His Holiness seems fairly comfortable using tablet computers — and platform agnostic. In fact, he sent his first tweet from … Continue reading →

Remember having to cover part of the television when playing a split-screen video game so your friends wouldn’t cheat by looking at your screen? Well no more we say! Sony has tapped the miracle of 3D technology to let you … Continue reading →

Food journalists, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, met while working together on the New York Times Cookbook. As they wrote the book, the noticed a shift in the online foodie community from content consumption to creation and hatched an idea … Continue reading →