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From Foursquare to Angry Birds to Farmville, there’s no denying social gaming is exploding. Riding this trend, new ideas and inspiration site PSFK recently challenged designers to use social gaming to combat climate change. At this month’s Gaming for Good … Continue reading →

People awaiting Microsoft’s shiny new user interface for Xbox 360 will have to keep holding their breaths. The update, which adds the tiles aesthetic seen on Windows phones and Windows 8, was supposed to go live around 10 a.m. EST … Continue reading →

Technology has permanently changed the way we listen to music. One of the artists credited (or blamed) for that shift is T-Pain, the perpetually auto-tuned R&B and rap hit-maker. Some years ago, auto-tune was inescapable. Every rapper seemed to have … Continue reading →

When Shane Snow co-founded Contently a year ago he had just 48 cents in his bank account. Fast forward to the end of 2011 and the startup is on track to clear over $1 million in revenue. Watch Snow’s interview … Continue reading →

A YouTube video of a poll worker casting a vote for an elderly lady went viral; arrested Russian bloggers uploaded a jubilant photo from the police bus on Twitter. In Russia, a country with Europe’s highest Internet penetration, social media … Continue reading →

Nonprofits that want more donations in 2012 had better up their game. A new study from Fenton and GlobeScan suggests that donations to nonprofits next year will remain at 2011 levels. The survey, which polled nearly 2,500 people in the … Continue reading →

Like auditions for a part in a play or tryouts for a sports team, developers have their own rituals for landing hot gigs: hackathons. Facebook recently held its own competitive coding session with teams from 14 schools. Their assignment was … Continue reading →

Google’s celebrating a pretty big app market milestone: 10 billion apps served…er..downloaded. In a blog post, the search giant announced the landmark for the store, which serves its mobile OS-phone-carrying customers, noting that app downloads have been accelerating over the … Continue reading →

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. One of our favorite things about the end of the year: the awesome music mashups that talented DJs and video editors put together. Every year … Continue reading →

PayPal is taking an online beating after allegedly shutting down an account for a charitable gift buying program run by the popular “craft fail blog,” Regretsy. Regretsy was organizing a holiday gift exchange in which its readers could buy toys … Continue reading →