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We may be excited for Super Mario 3D Land, but there’s one group who certainly isn’t. PETA says that when Mario dons a Tanooki suit in the game, he’s giving the green light to would-be fur wearers. According to PETA, “Tanooki may be just a ‘suit’ in Mario games...

Orchestra To-Do is a task manager app with a beautiful interface and many useful functions, including the sharing and assigning of different tasks. Upon opening the app, you are asked to log in or sign up for an account. It’s completely painless and takes only a few seconds. Small pop-ups, ...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today. City Clears Occupy Wall Street Protests in Zucotti Park Hundreds of New York...

After a short-lived rebranding to “O.co,” Overstock.com will once again be known as Overstock.com. The company’s bold experiment with calling itself by that single-letter domain name began in June, but ended this month. “We have been listening to our customers and have lea...

Have you ever dropped your mobile phone in the toilet, er, loo? A new study reveals almost 15% of Britons have. That might explain how 16% of mobile phones have poop on them. GoodMobilePhones.co.uk surveyed 1,937 mobile users over 18 and found that 31% of respondents have damaged their mobiles w...

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: 140Fire Quick Pitch: 140Fire adds an interactive overlay to video ads to increase e...

YouTube has just updated its Android app to version 2.3.4, and while the changes aren’t exactly groundbreaking, they do add-in some pretty useful new functionality. Regardless of if you’re a big video watcher, or someone who’s more into uploading your own clips, there should be...

The weekend stayed busy here at Mashable, where we found tons of news and views for you to read — but if you missed it, the Weekend Recap is here to help. We published helpful hints, shopping tips, well-supported opinions about social media and even a way to dig up an extremely old iPod and...

Twenty-five years ago, a little golden cartridge changed video games. The Nintendo Entertainment System, at first the bastion of platformers and racers that echoed their arcade forerunners, suddenly became a gateway to sprawling adventure. The Legend of Zelda was cryptic, hard as hell, and hooked...

iTunes Match is now available and ready for sign-ups. Apple introduced the service back at WWDC 2011; it’s a way to access all your iTunes music via the cloud, for a fee. Similar to Amazon’s Cloud Player and Google Music, iTunes Match offers users the ability to access their music li...