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| {"new":[{"_id":"53aa49bfb05f9d0e45001879","id":"2014/06/25/120-sports-espn-cord-cutters","title":"120 Sports Wants to Be ESPN for Cord Cutters","title_tag":null,"author":"Jason Abbruzzese","post_date":"2014-06-25T00:01:55-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:01:55 -0400","sort_key":"1wZEpd","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/25/120-sports-espn-cord-cutters/","content":{"plain":"Two of the largest U.S. professional sports leagues have entered into a joint venture to launch a new video startup tailored to mobile fans and cord cutters that miss being able to tune in to ESPN.\n\n120 Sports launched on Wednesday with equity stakes from Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League, as well as Time Inc., college-sports syndicator Campus Insiders and digital-sports media company Silver Chalice. The operation is already sizable with more than 130 staff based out of Chicago. \n\nSee also: 20 Funniest YouTube Videos According to Reddit\n\nThe startup features video on demand of sports highlights from professional hockey, baseball, basketball, NASCAR, golf and college sports, as well as eight hours of daily live programming from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. ET (starting at 4 p.m. on Sundays). The major gap is the NFL, which means no professional football highlights. Negotiations between the NFL and 120 Sports are ongoing, according to a 120 Sports spokesperson.\n\nFrom YouTube to original-content producers like Hulu and more recently Yahoo, companies are flocking to online video; however, sports have lagged behind. Leagues like the NBA and MLB have their own video platforms, but few startups have tried to weave sports video into a package aimed at the daily sports consumer.\n\nJason Coyle, president of 120 Sports, said at a media briefing that its goal is to provide users with a combination of classic sports coverage and digital media.\n\n\"120, we believe, is a television-quality sports network that's created exclusively for digital audiences. News, highlights, like look-ins, analysis, conversations moving at the speed of Twitter, sports to sport, topic to topic, 120 seconds at a time,\" he said.\n\nThe site is supported entirely by ads, and launched with a variety of sponsors, including Verizon, Nissan and Geico. A spokesperson declined to provide details on the revenue split between the equity and content partners.\n\n120 Sports offers an array of live original programming that is quickly transferred into a searchable video-on-demand library of clips. While the site won't be able to show a live game in its entirety, it will offer live \"look-ins\" to important moments. 120 Sports is available as a free app on iOS and Android (it will arrive in the Google Play store on July 14), as well as through the web at 120Sports.com, with plans to eventually expand to connected devices.\n\nThe name for 120 Sports comes from the two-minute segments produced and distributed through the company's 24-hour network. Video content will include original shows with dedicated hosts that discuss the day's news, highlights and controversies in the sports world. 120 Sports and its affiliated leagues said the content is editorially independent, and will be free to touch on all corners of the sports world.\n\nThe tone is meant to relate to sports fans in a casual way; hosts are not allowed to wear suits.\n\nGame video from the leagues involved will be the centerpiece, providing users with highlights that are closely integrated with system data; this data, in turn, presents related stories to whatever is being watched. Tiles that run along the bottom of the app change, as the user moves through different topics and teams. \n\nJoe Inzerillo, chief technology officer of MLB Advanced Media, which helped build and powers the tech infrastructure of 120 Sports, said meshing data and video required the building of a custom back end that allowed for the seamless combination of video combined with a variety of other content, including relevant stats, photos and tweets.\n\n\"We really had to deconstruct the production process to make [video and data] both parallel and equal,\" Inzerillo said. \"You can see the fact that it's not just television. It's not just a television production. It really is something unique.\"\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":44,"twitter":7,"linked_in":27,"google_plus":7,"total":85},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI1LzlmL0xlYnJvbmFuZER1LmUzNmEyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/5474a8f6/d48/Lebron-and-Duncan.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI1LzlmL0xlYnJvbmFuZER1LmUzNmEyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/02a55a67/d48/Lebron-and-Duncan.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI1LzlmL0xlYnJvbmFuZER1LmUzNmEyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/197316c4/d48/Lebron-and-Duncan.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI1LzlmL0xlYnJvbmFuZER1LmUzNmEyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/7deabd02/d48/Lebron-and-Duncan.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI1LzlmL0xlYnJvbmFuZER1LmUzNmEyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/6f8174d5/d48/Lebron-and-Duncan.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/Vm5mIm","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"funny-youtube-videos-reddit"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"120 Sports, a new joint venture for online sports video, wants to satisfy the ESPN withdrawals of cord cutters and mobile-sports fans.","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"53a9eb2297b2f84e5c0003f5","id":"2014/06/24/pebble-becomes-a-fitness-tracker-with-new-misfit-watchapp","title":"Pebble Becomes a Better Fitness Tracker With New Misfit Watchapp","title_tag":null,"author":"Christina Warren","post_date":"2014-06-24T17:18:15-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:18:15 -0400","sort_key":"1wZy6z","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/pebble-becomes-a-fitness-tracker-with-new-misfit-watchapp/","content":{"plain":"Your Pebble smartwatch will be able to do double-duty as a fitness tracker, thanks to a new partnership with Misfit. Misfit makes fitness and sleep monitor Shine, and worked with Pebble to create a watchapp that lets Pebble owners count steps and track activities without needing a smartphone.\n\nThe watchapp will also interact with an upcoming version of Misfit's iOS app to offer additional tracking metrics, such as calories burned and distance traveled. \n\nSee also: The Complete Guide to the Pebble Smartwatch\n\nMisfit is the latest company Pebble is working with to extend the functionality of its smartwatch. There are already Pebble apps for RunKeeper, Puma and Strava, and many other third parties have written apps to take advantage of Pebble's accelerometer, or to pair with existing smartphone apps.\n\nPebble said the Misfit watchapp partnership is just the first of an ongoing collaboration between Pebble and the fitness company, and that both companies want to focus on bringing \"health and fitness tracking to all.\"\n\nNot needing a smartphone is a great move in the right direction for truly converging the wearable worlds of fitness trackers and smartwatches.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":366,"facebook":45,"linked_in":26,"google_plus":5,"total":442},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzdjL1BlYmJsZV9TbWFyLjkwY2E5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/bfe7a4db/cb9/Pebble_Smartwatch_Wearbable-39.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzdjL1BlYmJsZV9TbWFyLjkwY2E5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/a3ff91da/cb9/Pebble_Smartwatch_Wearbable-39.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzdjL1BlYmJsZV9TbWFyLjkwY2E5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/e9d8a878/cb9/Pebble_Smartwatch_Wearbable-39.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzdjL1BlYmJsZV9TbWFyLjkwY2E5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/062d5358/cb9/Pebble_Smartwatch_Wearbable-39.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzdjL1BlYmJsZV9TbWFyLjkwY2E5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/a1f7c532/cb9/Pebble_Smartwatch_Wearbable-39.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1o0lCYI","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/22/pebble-smartwatch-guide/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Your Pebble smartwatch is now more of an activity tracker, thanks to a new watchapp.","channel":"Tech","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/tech/"},{"_id":"53a9e6d397b2f84e5c0000b8","id":"2014/06/24/faa-amazon-drones-2","title":"FAA Clarifies That Amazon Drones Are Illegal","title_tag":null,"author":"Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai","post_date":"2014-06-24T16:59:51-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:59:51 -0400","sort_key":"1wZxOL","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/faa-amazon-drones-2/","content":{"plain":"Amazon drones aren't taking off anytime soon -- at least not until the Federal Aviation Administration says otherwise. \n\nOn Monday, in a document inviting public comment on drone policy, the FAA clarified that delivering packages using a drone isn't legal. \n\nSee also: Drone Beat: 418 Crashes Worldwide, Spying on a World Cup Team and More\n\nThe agency didn't mention Amazon in the document specifically. But the FAA seemed to suggest that Amazon -- like every other business -- falls under its regulations which, they say, already prohibits the commercial use of drones.\n\nAmazon, though, was unmoved. This \"has no effect on our plans,\" said Paul Misener, Vice President of Global Public Policy for Amazon. \"This is about hobbyists and model aircrafts, not Amazon.\"\n\nIn its \"Notice of Interpretation with Request for Comment,\" the FAA included a list of activities that are not permitted under current regulations, including \"delivering packages to people for a fee,\" as first noted by Ars Technica.\n\nIn a footnote, the FAA clarified that even if the shipping is free or offered as part of a \"purchase or other offer,\" it still would be considered a commercial use of drones and thus not allowed.\n\nBrendan Schulman, a lawyer who specializes in drones, said the FAA is trying to reassert its authority by reiterating that these kinds of uses are not permitted.\r\n \r\nThe legal status of drones in the U.S. is complicated. According to the FAA, only amateurs and people with a special FAA permission -- a so-called Certificate of Authority -- are legally permitted to fly drones, though that has been disputed.\n\nThis spring, a federal Appeals Court judge ruled that FAA drone regulation isn't valid since the agency didn't ask for public comment when initially drafting the drone rules, which is a federal requirement. The FAA is appealing the ruling and, in the meantime, insists that no commercial use of drones is allowed. \n\nThe agency is supposed to publish new rules on drones by 2015, and developers are in a race to be ready with products for what is believed will be a multi-billion dollar market. In the meantime, it has allowed some universities, research organizations and law-enforcement agencies to use drones in a limited way. \n\nOn June 10, the FAA announced that BP had permission to fly drones, the first time a company was granted permission to fly a drone over American land.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\n\nBONUS: Drones vs. Government: Who Owns America's Skies?"},"shares":{"twitter":381,"facebook":40,"linked_in":18,"google_plus":2,"pinterest":2,"total":443},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI1L2Q5L2FtYXpvbmRyb25lLmE4ZDViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/5acbdde2/315/amazon-drones.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI1L2Q5L2FtYXpvbmRyb25lLmE4ZDViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/35a839e0/315/amazon-drones.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI1L2Q5L2FtYXpvbmRyb25lLmE4ZDViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/e5afdb20/315/amazon-drones.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI1L2Q5L2FtYXpvbmRyb25lLmE4ZDViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/0bdfd155/315/amazon-drones.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI1L2Q5L2FtYXpvbmRyb25lLmE4ZDViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/f5c8aa99/315/amazon-drones.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1nAI49a","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/21/drone-beat-7/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"The FAA has made it clear that you won't be able to get your packages delivered by a drone anytime soon.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a9e43fb05f9d0e4500002e","id":"2014/06/24/japans-new-robots-are-scary","title":"Japan's New Robot Museum Guides Are All Too Human","title_tag":null,"author":"Lance Ulanoff","post_date":"2014-06-24T16:48:51-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:48:51 -0400","sort_key":"1wZxE7","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/japans-new-robots-are-scary/","content":{"plain":"If you\u2019re searching for the uncanny valley, look no further than the work of Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro. He has been creating humanoid robots for years, and his latest incarnation -- which is so realistic it's scary -- will act as robot guides at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Japan (Miraikan).\n\nThe museum will welcome three robots, introduced in Japan on Tuesday. There\u2019s the youthful-looking Kodomoroid, the adult female Ontonaroid and the baby-like Telenoid. With the exception of Telenoid, these robots look remarkably lifelike, have eerily expressive faces and are designed, in a limited sense, to move and communicate like real people. The \"uncanny valley\" theory holds that human recreations in art (computer animation) and science (robotics) that look very near humanlike, but not quite, can actually can induce a feeling of revulsion.\n\nSee also: SoftBank's New Robot Knows Exactly How You Feel. (That's Creepy.)\n\nKodomoroid is like a life-sized RSS reader. Its job in the museum will be to continuously recite news, mixing mix up with different voices and languages. Ontonaroid, on the other hand, will be able to carry on limited conversations with museum visitors. However, not everything went smoothly; robots' voices were occasionally out of sync with their mouths and sometimes the robots didn\u2019t respond at all to commands.\n\nOf the three, Telenoid may be the most disturbing (or adorable, depending on your perspective). Introduced a few years ago, the all-white Telenoid has a humanoid face, but its legs end just below the hips in round stumps; the arms are little more than pointy protuberances. The huggable robot is designed to be a companion for the elderly and children.\n\nAll three robots, which, starting Wednesday, will be part of the museum's \u201cAndroid: What is Human?\u201d exhibition, can be operated by remote control and through direct human interaction.\n\nNone of Ishiguro\u2019s robots offer the autonomy of a Honda ASIMO. The 4-foot-tall humanoid robot, which does not have a human face, can walk up stairs, jump, dance and kick a ball. It can even bring you a tray of tea. Ontonaroid and Kodomoroid can move their heads, arms and torsos, but they cannot stand up and walk around; in most cases, they need humans behind the scenes to operate.\n\nThese androids also represent a departure from Softbank\u2019s recently unveiled robot that can detect emotions, Pepper. While it has a face, Pepper looks more cartoonish than human. It's also more mobile, articulate and autonomous than the museum robots. Even so, Ishiguro sees Pepper\u2019s development and price ($2,000 when it hits shelves next year) as a good sign for robotics.\n\n\"Robots are now becoming affordable \u2014 no different from owning a laptop,\" Ishiguro said.\n\nIshiguro has a sort of obsession with lifelike robotics. He has built models that have acted in plays opposite humans, and even built a robot that looks almost like him. This demonstration, like a number of his others, highlights the uncanny valley\u2019s core problem: If you come extremely close to human replication but are just short of the mark, the results are often considered grotesque.\n\nFor more on the uncanny valley, watch the video below.\n\nAdditional reporting by the Associated Press"},"shares":{"facebook":44,"twitter":254,"linked_in":15,"google_plus":19,"total":332},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2M3L0phcGFuZXNlX2h1LmNiMDQ0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/62d9eedf/eff/Japanese_humanoid_robots.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2M3L0phcGFuZXNlX2h1LmNiMDQ0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/1b60d023/eff/Japanese_humanoid_robots.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2M3L0phcGFuZXNlX2h1LmNiMDQ0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/440397df/eff/Japanese_humanoid_robots.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2M3L0phcGFuZXNlX2h1LmNiMDQ0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/7971d7a3/eff/Japanese_humanoid_robots.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2M3L0phcGFuZXNlX2h1LmNiMDQ0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/a0b43a09/eff/Japanese_humanoid_robots.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1pJHitD","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"softbank-emotional-robot"}]},"excerpt":"A museum in Japan is welcoming three very lifelike robots, all ready to engage and guide visitors.","channel":"Tech","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/tech/"},{"_id":"53a9e407b589e436c7000031","id":"2014/06/24/global-warming-business-leaders","title":"Here's a Huge Dose of Climate Reality From Bipartisan Business Leaders","title_tag":null,"author":"Andrew Freedman","post_date":"2014-06-24T16:47:54-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:47:54 -0400","sort_key":"1wZxDc","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/global-warming-business-leaders/","content":{"plain":"Last week, it was former Republican EPA administrators who spoke out on the need to address manmade global warming. This week, it's the turn of business leaders. \n\nOn Tuesday, a bipartisan group of business leaders and former politicians, including President George W. Bush's treasury secretary, Henry Paulson Jr., issued a sharp warning about disastrous economic consequences if manmade global warming is not addressed in the near future. In a new report, the group found that extreme heat and sea level rise will threaten human health and put up to $3.5 billion in property in jeopardy by 2030, with even more severe and expensive impacts to come after that.\n\nSee also: New Data Confirms May Was Earth's Warmest on Record\n\nThe report's findings were based in part on climate science and economic research findings from the Rhodium Group, a consulting firm for the financial industry, and also drew from other recent scientific analyses.\n\nThe report was produced by the Risky Business Project, a joint initiative of Paulson, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and hedge fund manager Thomas Steyer. Though the report is ostensibly nonpartisan, Steyer has said he will put up to $100 million toward electing candidates who favor taking action to address climate change risks -- no matter their party. \n\nAccording to The Huffington Post, the White House will be meeting with leaders of the project later this week as part of its climate policy efforts.\n\nThe report was produced by a committee that included Gregory Page, the chairman of Cargill Inc., former treasury secretary Robert Rubin, and former Republican Senator Olympia Snowe. \n\nHere are six key takeaways from the report:\n\nClimate change is not a liberal plot, but more like a predatory \"interest-only loan\"\n\nBecause long-lived greenhouse gases that cause global warming, such as carbon dioxide, remain in the atmosphere for up to 1,000 years, climate change is a cumulative problem. What we emit today will haunt us for centuries. The report highlights this unique aspect of the climate problem, putting it in terms business leaders (and college students struggling with student loans) can relate to.\n\n\"By not acting to lower greenhouse gas emissions today, decision-makers put in place processes that increase overall risks tomorrow, and each year those decision-makers fail to act serves to broaden and deepen those risks. In some ways, climate change is like an interest-only loan we are putting on the backs of future generations: They will be stuck paying off the cumulative interest on the greenhouse gas emissions we\u2019re putting into the atmosphere now, with no possibility of actually paying down that \u201cemissions principal.\u201d\n\nAt a press conference Tuesday, Paulson told reporters that climate change is a more difficult and risky problem than the 2008 financial crisis, which he dealt with at the Treasury Department. Climate-related risks, he said, \u201care much more perverse and cruel than we saw with the financial crisis because they accumulate over time, and the longer we wait the worse it gets.\u201d\n\nSea level rise is going to be extraordinarily expensive, even in the near term.\n\nIn just the next 15 years, the report found, higher sea levels combined with storm surge impacts will likely boost the annual average cost of coastal storms along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico by up to $3.5 billion. \"Adding in potential changes in hurricane activity, the likely increase in average annual losses grows to up to $7.3 billion, bringing the total annual price tag for hurricanes and other coastal storms to $35 billion,\" the report said.\n\nThe report found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, by 2050, between $66 to $106 billion of existing coastal property in the U.S. will be below sea level. This would grow to up to $507 billion by 2100.\n\nProperty losses will be highest along the Southeast and Atlantic coasts, the report found. Other research has shown that the epicenter of the sea level rise problem is the state of Florida, where tens of billions in prized coastal real estate could be underwater by the end of the century.\n\nExtreme heat is not just uncomfortable, it's also a drag on the economy\n\nThe report found that by 2050, the average American will experience between 27 and 50 days each year with temperatures higher than 95 degrees Fahrenheit, which would be three times the average during the past 30 years. By the end of the century, there could be as many as 100 days each summer over 95 degrees.\n\nThis added heat could cause labor productivity to wither, with a projected decline in the productivity of outdoor workers of 3%. It may also increase heat-related deaths, the report says.\n\nMidwestern and Southern farmers' losses could be Northern farmers' gain\n\nUnless emissions decline significantly, the report predicts that national production of commodity crops, including corn, soy, wheat and cotton, will decline by 14% by midcentury, and 42% by the end of the century. This could have major repercussions for global food supplies, hitting at the same time as populations continue to soar in the developing world.\n\nThe report found that on a large scale, national and global food systems \"are resilient,\" but that there are risks for vulnerable individual farming communities.\n\n\"A defining characteristic of agriculture in the U.S. is its ability to adapt. But the adaptation challenge going forward for certain farmers in specific counties in the Midwest and South will be significant. Without adaptation, some Midwestern and Southern counties could see a decline in yields of more than 10% over the next 5 to 25 years should they continue to sow corn, wheat, soy and cotton, with a 1-in-20 chance of yield losses of these crops of more than 20%.\"\n\nA hotter country will require more power\n\nAs average temperatures increase and extreme heat events become even more prevalent as they are now, the report projects that the U.S. will need to build up to 95 gigawatts of new power generation capacity within the next 25 years to power our air conditioners and other systems. This works out to about 200 coal or natural gas-fired power plants, which is ironic, since burning fossil fuels for energy is the major cause of global warming in the first place.\n\nCompanies are under increasing pressure from shareholders and their workforce\n\nBloomberg told reporters that companies are now under greater pressure to disclose and address their climate change risks as more people become aware of the economic risk involved. In addition, young people seeking to work at major corporations, Bloomberg said, want to work for companies that are taking action to address climate change. Chief executive officers, Bloomberg said, are being held accountable for new things every day, and that it's conceivable that if a company has a major loss due to a climate change-related extreme weather event, that CEO could be fired. \n\n\u201cIf they are not prepared, they better have a good retirement plan,\u201d Bloomberg said.\n\nThe Risky Business project commissioned a more technical report on the economic consequences of global warming, which was carried out by the Rhodium Group. Rhodium also partnered with Risk Management Solutions, a catastrophe-modeling company. \n\nA separate, international effort under the auspices of the United Nations will analyze the global economic impacts of climate change in a report due for release in September.\n\nSee also: What Irreversible Antarctic Ice Melt Could Mean for Some U.S. Cities \n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":240,"facebook":52,"linked_in":15,"google_plus":1,"total":308},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2NmLzZfMjRfMTRfYW5kLjk1OWM3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/b8f89ef5/975/6_24_14_andrew_costclimatepic.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2NmLzZfMjRfMTRfYW5kLjk1OWM3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/ce4c8d75/975/6_24_14_andrew_costclimatepic.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2NmLzZfMjRfMTRfYW5kLjk1OWM3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/c4c9f07f/975/6_24_14_andrew_costclimatepic.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2NmLzZfMjRfMTRfYW5kLjk1OWM3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/e6309d7c/975/6_24_14_andrew_costclimatepic.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2NmLzZfMjRfMTRfYW5kLjk1OWM3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/db3b57bc/975/6_24_14_andrew_costclimatepic.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/Vl7JuJ","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/23/may-earths-warmest-record/"},{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/05/12/antarctic-melt-findings-us-cities/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"The new report from the \"Risky Business\" project found that global warming will cost the U.S. economy billions each year during the next several decades, but that what happens after that is largely up to political leaders who must decide on emissions reductions.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a9e35d97b2f84e5c000059","id":"2014/06/24/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-trailer-posters","title":"4 Gnarly 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Posters and 1 New Trailer","title_tag":null,"author":"Brian Anthony Hernandez","post_date":"2014-06-24T16:45:08-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:45:08 -0400","sort_key":"1wZxAw","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-trailer-posters/","content":{"plain":"In the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, sai-wielding Raphael gives his best Batman voice impression to scare intrepid reporter April O'Neil (Megan Fox) after she captures the secretive shell-clad heroes pummeling bad guys on her camera phone. \n\nFans unlocked the film's second trailer and four character posters (below) late Monday and Tuesday in an interactive \"Turtle Reveal\" Twitter stunt that required them to tweet hashtags -- such as #TeamLeonardo -- associated with each crime-fighting turtle.\n\nSee also: 11 Fake Movies Never Coming to a Theater Near You\n\nWhile the first trailer introduced us to storyline of director Michael Bay's modern adaptation, this second attempt gives us a deeper dive into the plot involving the villainous Shredder.\n\nThis reboot, which hits theaters Aug. 8, also stars Will Arnett as cameraman Vern Fenwick, William Fichtner as Shredder, Alan Ritchson as Raphael, Noel Fisher as Michelangelo, Jeremy Howard as Donatello, Pete Ploszek as Leonardo and Danny Woodburn as Splinter.\n\nTake a look at these posters that feature Donny, Leo, Mikey and Ralph. \n\nBONUS: 12 Weirdest Pizzas Ordered by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":218,"facebook":59,"google_plus":1,"linked_in":7,"total":285},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzFhL3RtbnRkb25hdGVsLjAwN2VlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/e57ea158/e27/tmnt-donatello-thumbnail.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzFhL3RtbnRkb25hdGVsLjAwN2VlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/e14fdc18/e27/tmnt-donatello-thumbnail.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzFhL3RtbnRkb25hdGVsLjAwN2VlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/88f36600/e27/tmnt-donatello-thumbnail.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzFhL3RtbnRkb25hdGVsLjAwN2VlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/da980289/e27/tmnt-donatello-thumbnail.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzFhL3RtbnRkb25hdGVsLjAwN2VlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/dbc58e57/e27/tmnt-donatello-thumbnail.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1o0y0bb","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"fake-movie-trailers/"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":17279,"data-layout":"list","data-title":"top","class":"content-gallery"},{"data-id":16873,"class":"content-gallery"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Fans unlocked the new \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\" trailer and four character posters of the turtles in an interactive Twitter stunt. ","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a9e1afb589e436c7000002","id":"2014/06/24/zappos-windows-phone","title":"Zappos Launches Native Windows Phone App","title_tag":null,"author":"Karissa Bell","post_date":"2014-06-24T16:37:56-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:37:56 -0400","sort_key":"1wZxty","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/zappos-windows-phone/","content":{"plain":"You can now add Zappos to the list of companies slowly making their way to Windows Phone.\n\nThe Las Vegas-based retailer launched its first Windows Phone app Tuesday. Zappos developed the app through a partnership with Microsoft.\n\nSee also: 10 Apps to Help You Find Lunch Fast\n\nUnlike some Windows Phone apps -- such as the one recently launched for Pinterest -- Zappos' app is a true native app, and not just a shortcut to its mobile site. \n\n\"Windows Phone doesn't have a lot of native apps,\" Aki Iida, Zappos' head of mobile, told Mashable. \"When you build web apps, one of the main challenges that you have is you have to build the same experience for all devices. With native experience, you can build technology that allows you to make all the transitions much smoother and easier.\"\n\nThe Windows Phone app has the same basic functionality as Zappos' existing iOS and Android offerings, including free shipping on all orders placed through the app. However, it has fewer features overall. For example, the Windows Phone app doesn't allow users to initiate returns, track orders or manage their account information.\n\nThis highlights a much bigger problem with the Windows Phone platform. Companies are often reluctant to spend the time and resources developing native Windows Phone apps, and even when they do -- as we've seen recently with Pinterest, Spotify and Instagram, which is still in beta more than a year after its launch -- the apps are rarely on par with their iOS and Android counterparts. \n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":34,"twitter":198,"linked_in":14,"google_plus":3,"total":249},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2IxL1phcHBvc19XaW5kLmQyYmVlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/e9670b46/ac4/Zappos_Windows.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2IxL1phcHBvc19XaW5kLmQyYmVlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/cb293081/ac4/Zappos_Windows.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2IxL1phcHBvc19XaW5kLmQyYmVlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/54bd7014/ac4/Zappos_Windows.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2IxL1phcHBvc19XaW5kLmQyYmVlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/eedd2087/ac4/Zappos_Windows.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2IxL1phcHBvc19XaW5kLmQyYmVlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/d1bd2479/ac4/Zappos_Windows.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1jLFaMd","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"lunch-apps"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"You can now add Zappos to the list of companies slowly making their way to Windows Phone.","channel":"Tech","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/tech/"},{"_id":"53a9de96b589e43f19000094","id":"2014/06/24/humble-store-one-million-charity","title":"Online Games Raise $1 Million for Charities in Six Months","title_tag":null,"author":"Chelsea Stark","post_date":"2014-06-24T16:24:40-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:24:40 -0400","sort_key":"1wZxgI","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/humble-store-one-million-charity/","content":{"plain":"It's easy to get gamers to do good, especially when all they have to do is buy more games. Humble, the team behind pay-what-you-want game bundles, said its new game store business venture has raised $1 million for charity in the last six months.\n\nHumble's store donates 10% of every game sold to five charities: the American Red Cross' disaster relief fund; charity:water, which provides clean drinking water for impoverished people; Whole Land Trust, focused on saving the world's rain forests; Child's Play, which brings video games and toys to children's hospitals; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization founded to protect online freedom.\n\nSee also: How a 25-Hour Gaming Binge Will Raise Millions for Charity\n\nHumble got its start creating pay-what-you-want bundles of DRM-free games for PC, Mac and Linux, an idea co-founder John Graham said came from seeing how much communities like Reddit loved limited-time sales. After the first bundle in 2010 made $1.27 million with more than 130,000 customers, Graham and his partner Jeff Rosen knew they were on to something.\n\nEach limited-run bundle has generated hundreds of thousands to millions in sales, which customers can split between developer Humble and selected charities at whatever ratio they'd like. Through this method, Humble has already raised $39 million for the 15 different charities it has partnered with over the years. While the bundles focused primarily on indie games at the beginning, Humble began focusing on many different types of packaged content, including triple-A games, ebooks, albums and comedy specials.\n\n\"Wherever there is the intersection of a content creator selling digitally, and a consumer who wants to buy stuff, that's where we see ourselves. It's our jobs to see both of them happy,\" Graham said.\n\nThat idea eventually extended to the Humble Store, which puts indie games next to triple-A titles in a permanent online storefront. While Humble did away with the pay-what-you-want formula for the storefront, Graham said it still fit into the plan.\n\n\"Every time you try an experiment there are fears about changing the model. But we thought we could be useful to game developers. There are certain times in a game's life cycle where it may not make sense to be in a bundle, or they have been in a bundle recently. The store adds a certain level of usefulness for us,\" Graham said.\n\nIt can also be useful for smaller developers, as Humble has created a widget allowing them to sell their games on their own websites without having to worry about processing or product delivery. Coming from a small developer himself, Graham said it was a service he wished he had.\n\n\"If people are visiting your website and following your blog, they probably want to buy your game,\" he said. \"You never want to close yourself off from your community.\"\n\nGraham said his plan to continue to encourage gamers to continue to come back to Humble, either via the bundles or the store, is by curating good content. That means, to him, of working with games no matter what their size.\n\n\"We can show people who just like to play a first person shooter a charming indie game they'd never discover otherwise,\" Graham said. \"We've built this community of gamers who just like good games.\"\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":172,"linked_in":25,"facebook":173,"google_plus":31,"total":401},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzM3L0NoYXJpdHl2aWRlLmE3ZDU1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/04be3e45/2ed/Charity-video-game.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzM3L0NoYXJpdHl2aWRlLmE3ZDU1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/5efe859f/2ed/Charity-video-game.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzM3L0NoYXJpdHl2aWRlLmE3ZDU1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/67186e8f/2ed/Charity-video-game.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzM3L0NoYXJpdHl2aWRlLmE3ZDU1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/d2b56a34/2ed/Charity-video-game.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzM3L0NoYXJpdHl2aWRlLmE3ZDU1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/2240256b/2ed/Charity-video-game.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1wsEvaq","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/01/extra-life-gaming/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"It's easy to get gamers to do good, especially when all they have to do is buy more games.","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a9de87b589e43f19000083","id":"2014/06/24/cbs-fall-schedule","title":"When Does 'Big Bang Theory' Return? 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Woven into the slew of premiere dates are also the season finales of Under the Dome and Extant, which start their seasons on June 30 and July 9, respectively. \n\nAll the premiere dates are listed below: \n\nThursday, Sept. 11\r\n7:30-8:25 p.m. ET -- Thursday Night Football pre-game show\r\n8:25 p.m. ET -- NFL Thursday Night Football (Pittsburgh @ Baltimore)\n\nSunday, Sept. 21\r\n7-8 p.m. -- 60 Minutes (season 47 premiere)\r\n8-9 p.m. -- Madam Secretary(series debut)\r\n9-10 p.m. -- The Good Wife(Season 6 premiere)\n\nMonday, Sept. 22\r\n8-8:30 p.m. -- The Big Bang Theory (Season 8 premiere)\r\n8-9 p.m. -- The Big Bang Theory (new episode)\r\n9-10 p.m. -- Scorpion (series debut)\r\n10-11 p.m. -- Under the Dome(season finale)\n\nTuesday, Sept. 23\r\n8-9 p.m. -- NCIS (Season 12 premiere)\r\n9 p.m.-10 p.m. -- NCIS: New Orleans(series debut)\r\n10-11 p.m. -- Person of Interest (Season 4 premiere)\n\nWednesday, Sept. 24\r\n8:00-9:00 PM -- Survivor (season 29 premiere)\r\n9:00-11:00 PM -- Extant (two-hour season finale)\n\nFriday, Sept. 26\r\n8-9 p.m. -- The Amazing Race (season 25 premiere)\r\n9-10 p.m. -- Hawaii Five-0 (Season 5 premiere)\r\n10-11 p.m. -- Blue Bloods (Season 5 premiere)\n\nSaturday, Sept. 27\r\n10-11 p.m. -- 48 Hours (Season 27 premiere)\n\nSunday, Sept. 28\r\n10-11 p.m. -- CSI (Season 15 premiere)\n\nMonday, Sept. 29\r\n8:30-9 p.m. -- Mom (Season 2 premiere)\r\n10-11 p.m. -- NCIS: Los Angeles(Season 6 premiere)\n\nWednesday, Oct. 1\r\n9-10 p.m. -- Criminal Minds (Season 10 premiere)\r\n10-11 p.m. -- Stalker(Series debut)\n\nMonday, Oct. 27 \r\n8-8:30 p.m. -- 2 Broke Girls(Season 4 premiere)\n\nThursday, Oct. 30\r\n8-8:30 p.m. -- The Big Bang Theory (Regular timeslot premiere)\r\n8:30-9 p.m. -- The Millers (Season 2 premiere)\r\n9-9:30 p.m. -- Two and a Half Men (Season 12 premiere)\r\n9:30-10 p.m. -- The McCarthys (Series debut)\r\n10-11 p.m. -- Elementary (Season 3 premiere)\r\n \r\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":171,"facebook":12,"linked_in":6,"total":189},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzA5L0JpZ0JhbmdUaGVvLmFmNWYxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/96c0a812/fb7/BigBangTheoryNEW.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzA5L0JpZ0JhbmdUaGVvLmFmNWYxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/0db485dc/fb7/BigBangTheoryNEW.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzA5L0JpZ0JhbmdUaGVvLmFmNWYxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/eeaeb8b5/fb7/BigBangTheoryNEW.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzA5L0JpZ0JhbmdUaGVvLmFmNWYxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/3bb68977/fb7/BigBangTheoryNEW.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzA5L0JpZ0JhbmdUaGVvLmFmNWYxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/09967e50/fb7/BigBangTheoryNEW.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1jLJrPE","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/01/07/netflix-original-series-2014/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"CBS's fall TV premiere dates are here, but unlike previous years, the network is rolling out new episodes of their fall shows over two months.","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a9de7397b2f827c5000063","id":"2014/06/24/samsung-new-uhd-tvs","title":"Samsung Announces New 85-Inch UHD TV and Curved Sets","title_tag":null,"author":"Karissa Bell","post_date":"2014-06-24T16:24:06-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:24:06 -0400","sort_key":"1wZxga","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/samsung-new-uhd-tvs/","content":{"plain":"Samsung announced three new UHD televisions on Tuesday, including two curved sets and a monstrous $10,000 addition to its HU8550 series.\n\nAt a whopping 85 inches, the new TV is the largest set in Samsung's HU8550 lineup, though it's not the company's largest UHD TV, which is 110 inches. The television will sell for $10,000 when it becomes available later this month.\n\nSee also: Samsung Bets Big on Curved TVs\n\nThe two new curved sets -- part of Samsung's new HU7250 lineup -- come in more manageable 55- and 65-inch varieties, and will retail for $2,200 and $3,300, respectively, when they hit stores in August. The new curved offerings are powered by a quad-core processor, and include Samsung's UHD Dimming feature, which adjusts the display's brightness and contrast. They also have the ability to display content from four different sources onscreen, simultaneously.\n\nFinally, Samsung announced its new HU6950 series, new flat screens meant to be more affordable UHD TV offerings. The sets come with some of the same features as Samsung's flagships, including UHD Dimming, UHD Upscaling and multiscreen capabilities. The HU6950 lineup come in 40-, 50- and 55-inch options, and will cost between $1,000 and $2,000.\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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The video debuts simultaneously at 5 p.m. ET on June 26 on MTV, MTV Hits, Logo TV, MTV.com, LogoTV.com, VH1.com and Vevo.com.\n\nSee also: Nailed It: Demi Lovato Slays 'Give Me Love' Bridge in Duet With Ed Sheeran\n\nThe 21-year-old vocalist filmed the video, directed by Ryan Pallotta, in Los Angeles on June 8 during the city's annual Pride Parade at which Lovato was the grand marshal.\r\n \r\n\"The energy was electric and radiates in this video\" Lovato said. \"For me, 'Really Don't Care' is an anthem that represents being comfortable in your own skin and not caring what others think. Pride defines that.\"\n\nThe premiere of \"Really Don't Care\" on Thursday will lead into Logo TV's inaugural Trailblazers one-hour TV special (9 p.m. ET), which will honor leaders in the LGBT community, including the cast of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black,\" NBA player Jason Collins and DOMA over-turners Edie Windsor and Roberta Kaplan. \n\n\"Really Don't Care\" is the fourth single from her fourth studio album Demi, which she promoted heavily last year with several interactive Twitter campaigns. In 2013, she challenged fans to unlock the video for \"Heart Attack,\" the first single from the album, by tweeting words from the single along with #UnlockHeartAttack. Last year, she also asked fans to tweet the names of songs on her then-upcoming album in hashtag form. If people tweeted each song title enough, she would let them hear that song for the first time. This resulted in more than one dozen worldwide trending topics.\n\nPreviously, Lovato released a lyric video for \"Really Don't Care\" (below) featuring Brazilian fans lip-syncing as the song's lyrics splashed across the video. \n\nThis post has been updated to reflect that Lovato's music video will appear on TV and online simultaneously. A previous version of the post stated that it would air on TV first.\n\n BONUS: 11 Ways Demi Lovato's 'Heart Attack' Is Actually a Nicholas Sparks Movie\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a9836db589e44349001aae","id":"2014/06/24/social-media-day-global-networks","title":"Join Us for a Discussion About Global Social Media Networks","title_tag":null,"author":"Ryan Lytle","post_date":"2014-06-24T09:55:56-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:55:56 -0400","sort_key":"1wZrcw","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/social-media-day-global-networks/","content":{"plain":"Mashable first launched Social Media Day in 2010 to celebrate and honor the growth of digital and social media. Now in its fifth year, Social Media Day has evolved into a worldwide celebration with hundreds of communities organizing events.\n\nWhile many may first think of Facebook and Twitter when discussing the growth of social media, hundreds of platforms are being used globally on a daily basis. So Mashable and social media dashboard Hootsuite are leading a discussion with users of some of these global platforms, including WeChat, Sina Weibo, VK, Xing, ask.fm and Viadeo.\n\nSee also: The Power of Expanding Your Network by One\n\nThe Google+ Hangout on Air will begin on Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET on the Mashable Google+ page. Do you have any questions for the panel? Share them in the comments below or tweet them with #SMDay.\n\nJoin the Social Media Day Movement\n\nSign up to attend or organize your own event on the Mashable Meetup Everywhere page.\r\nUse the #smday hashtag on Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and any other social network of your choice.\r\nFind your Mashable Meetup community:\n\nOther Social Media Day Resources:\n\nSocial Media Day Meetups Happening Worldwide\r\nHow to Organize a Mashable Meetup\r\nHow to Make Social Media Day Official in Your City\r\nCelebrate Social Media Day 2014"},"shares":{"twitter":1036,"facebook":119,"google_plus":12,"linked_in":49,"total":1216},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzVkL3NtZGF5aGFuZ291LmE3ZDlhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/ada7675b/645/smday-hangout1.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzVkL3NtZGF5aGFuZ291LmE3ZDlhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/4f301750/645/smday-hangout1.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzVkL3NtZGF5aGFuZ291LmE3ZDlhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/8c3438fc/645/smday-hangout1.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzVkL3NtZGF5aGFuZ291LmE3ZDlhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/732faf36/645/smday-hangout1.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzVkL3NtZGF5aGFuZ291LmE3ZDlhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/205cd99a/645/smday-hangout1.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1qGT35I","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/13/1connection-social-media-day/"}]},"excerpt":"Many think of Facebook and Twitter discussing the growth of social media, but hundreds of platforms are being used globally on a daily basis.","channel":"Social Media","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/social-media/"},{"_id":"53a8c23712d2cd54e9000787","id":"2014/06/23/wimbledon-2014-day-one","title":"First Day of Wimbledon Serves Up Victories, Upsets","title_tag":null,"author":"Alex Magdaleno","post_date":"2014-06-23T20:11:24-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:11:24 -0400","sort_key":"1wZekA","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/23/wimbledon-2014-day-one/","content":{"plain":"While most sports fans have their eyes turned toward Brazil for the World Cup, the tennis world is watching one of the most prestigious tennis tournaments -- Wimbledon -- take place in London.\n\nThe two-week tennis tournament began on Monday, in search of a more exciting storyline than the one that emerged last year: Andy Murray becoming the first British man to win Wimbledon in 77 years.\n\nSee also: Watch Roger Federer Play Tennis Through Google Glass\n\nNaturally, all eyes are on Murray and his attempt to defend his historical title for the second year in a row. Murray handedly and comfortably beat Belgium's David Goffin on the first day of Wimbledon.\n\nStill, favorites such as Novak Djokovic should never be counted out. Nor should Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer -- especially as Nadal tries to inch closer to Federer's Grand Slam record.\n\nIn the women's games, with Serena Williams suffering a less than stellar year with early exits in both the Australia and French Open, Maria Sharapova stands a chance at reclaiming the Wimbledon trophy that's eluded her since her defeat of Williams in 2004 -- at the age of 17.\n\nMeanwhile, Sloane Stephens, a talented quarter finalist at the tournament in 2013, was knocked out in the opening round to Russia's Maria Kirilenko. Similarly, the other half of the Williams sisters, Venus, struggled to find a win against Spain's Maria Teresa Torro Flor, but ultimately came out on top.\n\nCheck out Wimbledon's first serves of the opening day below.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"linked_in":14,"facebook":45,"twitter":521,"google_plus":6,"total":586},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzYxLzQ1MTEwNzY4Ni5kMWIxZi5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk5NTB4NTM0IwplCWpwZw/d021835f/661/451107686.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzYxLzQ1MTEwNzY4Ni5kMWIxZi5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNzV4MTc1IwplCWpwZw/ab32dc74/661/451107686.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzYxLzQ1MTEwNzY4Ni5kMWIxZi5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkzNTB4MzUwIwplCWpwZw/f79f2d8a/661/451107686.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzYxLzQ1MTEwNzY4Ni5kMWIxZi5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk4MHg4MCMKZQlqcGc/b2e2fae0/661/451107686.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0LzYxLzQ1MTEwNzY4Ni5kMWIxZi5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNjB4MTYwIwplCWpwZw/e551bab6/661/451107686.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/V6QKfN","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/05/21/roger-federer-google-glass/"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":17255,"data-layout":"list","class":"content-gallery"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"On the opening day of Wimbledon, all the compelling storylines of one of tennis' most prestigious tournaments begin to emerge.","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a8a38cb589e443490007ce","id":"2014/06/23/withings-activite","title":"This Watch Is Smart, But It's Not a Smartwatch","title_tag":null,"author":"Samantha Murphy Kelly","post_date":"2014-06-23T18:00:42-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:00:42 -0400","sort_key":"1wZci6","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/23/withings-activite/","content":{"plain":"Smart gadget company Withings, known largely for its popular smart scale, just launched a wristband activity tracker that looks far more like a watch than others we've seen to date. In fact, the wearable is -- dare we say it? -- beautiful. \n\nThe Withings Activit\u00e9 is a Swiss-made timepiece that monitors steps taken, calories burned, distance traveled and sleep patterns. It doesn't come with the technology found in a typical smartwatch (like notifications and text messages), but it's a smart device with a traditional watch face. And sure, fitness trackers are neither new nor unique these days, but its design is something worth appreciating.\n\nSee also: Why Are Smartwatches So Ugly?\n\nThe device comes in two colors (silver and black), while the watch case is made of stainless steel. It also features a crystal of unbreakable sapphire glass that includes touchscreen capabilities to tap between modes. The (real) leather strap comes from one of France\u2019s most successful tanneries used by various prestigious French design houses. For the times you want to take it to the gym or even a pool, you can use an interchangeable plastic strap.\n\nUnlike many fitness trackers and smartwatches today (we're looking at you, Fitbit, Samsung and Pebble), Activit\u00e9 has a classic round face and traditional analog display. It features two hand dials, one showing the time and a sub dial with a percentage highlighting activity targets such as steps or sleep. Fashion watches tend to have circular faces as well as an analog display, so Activit\u00e9's design by nature is far more fashionable than the square-shaped smart models on the market. \n\nOverall, connected wristband devices have developed a reputation for being clunky; many have displays that are arguably too large, while the bands are often rubber and the interface can look childish. Most aren't something you'd want to put on to go to a fancy dinner. But Activit\u00e9 is a tracker you could dress up or down, depending on the occasion.\n\nTrue to many smart wearables available now, it connects to iOS devices via Bluetooth and works with a corresponding app, Withings Health Mate. The app lets users develop personal activity plans and provides feedback to help them achieve goals along the way. It's not available for Android just yet.\n\nBut a combination of beauty and brains doesn't come lightly. The Activit\u00e9 device will cost $390 when it goes on sale this fall.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":217,"twitter":827,"google_plus":22,"linked_in":43,"pinterest":4,"stumble_upon":47,"total":1160},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2ViL1dpdGhpbmdzV2F0LjUzMGMzLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/849ba8a4/a86/WithingsWatch.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2ViL1dpdGhpbmdzV2F0LjUzMGMzLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/49c64419/a86/WithingsWatch.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2ViL1dpdGhpbmdzV2F0LjUzMGMzLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/0018f290/a86/WithingsWatch.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2ViL1dpdGhpbmdzV2F0LjUzMGMzLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/36bd19ef/a86/WithingsWatch.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2ViL1dpdGhpbmdzV2F0LjUzMGMzLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/5435fd41/a86/WithingsWatch.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1jJSIb9","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"why-are-smartwatches-so-ugly"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Withings' Activit\u00e9 fitness tracker looks like a watch, but it's not a smartwatch.","channel":"Tech","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/tech/"},{"_id":"53a8a27e12d2cd54e9000254","id":"2014/06/23/iran-arrests-world-cup-video","title":"Iran Arrests 2 Who Made Celebratory World Cup Video","title_tag":null,"author":"Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai","post_date":"2014-06-23T17:56:05-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:56:05 -0400","sort_key":"1wZcdD","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/23/iran-arrests-world-cup-video/","content":{"plain":"In Iran, fun and festive videos sometimes gets you arrested. \n\nJust a few weeks after arresting, and later releasing, six people for starring in a lip-synched version of Pharrell William's \"Happy,\" Iran reportedly arrested two actors who participated in a video in support of the country's World cup team on Monday.\n\nThe names of the two are currently unknown, but the official IRNA news agency reported that they are both 23-year-olds who live in Shahroud, a city around 250 miles east of Tehran. Only their initials, S. M. and M. L. have been published. \n\nSee also: Inside the Push to Get All 32 World Cup Teams on Twitter\n\nThe police in Shahroud arrested them following an investigation into the \"vulgar\" video (embedded below), police commander Colonel Rahmatollah Taheri said, according to Agence France-Presse.\n\nThe video, produced by the London-based Ajam Band, features amateur clips made by Iranian fans across the world. It's unclear which of the people in the video are the ones that have been arrested. The exact reasons for their arrest are also unclear.\n\nBut hardliners in the country have recently shown little restraint when it comes to clamping down on Internet freedom and freedom of speech online, jailing YouTube viral stars as well as tech bloggers. \n\n\"They're trying to make a point about the world cup festivities, and this is the only way they can scare people,\" Internet researcher Mahsa Alimardani told Mashable. \"It's really ridiculous.\"\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":769,"facebook":108,"linked_in":17,"google_plus":12,"total":906},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzEzL1dvcmxkQ3VwSXJhLmJlYzMxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/37490fff/2b2/World-Cup-Iran-Video.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzEzL1dvcmxkQ3VwSXJhLmJlYzMxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/ed620a86/2b2/World-Cup-Iran-Video.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzEzL1dvcmxkQ3VwSXJhLmJlYzMxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/f6249b13/2b2/World-Cup-Iran-Video.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzEzL1dvcmxkQ3VwSXJhLmJlYzMxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/2b432a11/2b2/World-Cup-Iran-Video.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzEzL1dvcmxkQ3VwSXJhLmJlYzMxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/bc39b244/2b2/World-Cup-Iran-Video.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1m79qkq","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/05/16/iran-soccer-players-twitter-verified/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Iran arrests two people for participating in a video filmed to support the country's World Cup team.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a89f81b05f9d4e33000cb7","id":"2014/06/23/yahoo-aviate-launch","title":"Yahoo's Aviate Comes Out of Beta With Powerful New Features","title_tag":null,"author":"Karissa Bell","post_date":"2014-06-23T17:43:20-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:43:20 -0400","sort_key":"1wZc1i","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/23/yahoo-aviate-launch/","content":{"plain":"Aviate, the Android launcher app acquired by Yahoo earlier this year, was updated with powerful new features on Monday. \n\nAviate, which is now open to everyone, was an invite-only beta since its launch last October. Previously, users had to request an invitation and spend time on a wait list to get access to the app.\n\nSee also: Android Launchers: Their Time Has Come\n\nUnlike many other Android launchers, which focus on customization, Aviate aims to simplify your home screen, according to Mark Daiss, the app's cofounder and Yahoo product manager.\n\n\"It's intended to be simple ... The stock Android experience is a little confusing,\" Daiss told Mashable. \"We saw this huge opportunity to innovate and move out of this app-centric model -- this grid of apps -- and really move towards something that's a little bit more compelling for the user, and gives the user information the moment it's useful without them having to search.\"\n\nAviate learns from your habits, and provides recommendations based on the time of day, and what you most likely want to see at that moment. For example, when you wake up, you may see how long you slept (the update includes sleep-tracking capabilities), the weather forecast, news headlines and a brief overview of your calendar for the day.\n\nBut the app also adds context to this information. Instead of just seeing the weather forecast, Aviate will also let you know when the weather will be significantly cooler or warmer than the day before. It also knows the places where you spend the most time, and can tell you how much traffic to expect during your morning commute.\n\nWhat's more, Aviate is continuously changing throughout the day based on your location and patterns. Once you get to work, for example, the screen will change to emphasize the apps and information you typically use while working, such as email, calendar and other productivity apps. \n\nThe latest version of Aviate was built with the Incredible Labs team, another recent Yahoo acquisition, which created the Donna virtual assistant app. While Aviate doesn't have a human-like persona, the team did build some assistant-like features into the app, particularly its calendar. \n\nAviate's calendar pulls in information from all the calendars on your device, not only displaying your events, but also acting as a smart calendar. It can automatically dial in to conference calls, and send \"I'm running late\" emails to other participants with one tap.\n\nAviate also organizes your apps into themed collections, such as music, social and news, so you can easily find apps without swiping through multiple menus. The favorites section provides easy access to text, call or email for people you contact the most often. \n\nThe new, public version of Aviate rolled out to Google Play on Monday.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":140,"twitter":651,"linked_in":58,"google_plus":11,"stumble_upon":59,"total":919},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzYwL2F2aWF0ZWFwcC5jN2E4Ni5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk5NTB4NTM0IwplCWpwZw/495a972a/34c/aviate-app.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzYwL2F2aWF0ZWFwcC5jN2E4Ni5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNzV4MTc1IwplCWpwZw/f2913327/34c/aviate-app.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzYwL2F2aWF0ZWFwcC5jN2E4Ni5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkzNTB4MzUwIwplCWpwZw/e0125f1d/34c/aviate-app.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzYwL2F2aWF0ZWFwcC5jN2E4Ni5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk4MHg4MCMKZQlqcGc/2637cde6/34c/aviate-app.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzYwL2F2aWF0ZWFwcC5jN2E4Ni5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNjB4MTYwIwplCWpwZw/3307eebe/34c/aviate-app.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/V63Wl8","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"android-launcher-apps/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Aviate is now open to everyone, and comes with some powerful new features.","channel":"Tech","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/tech/"},{"_id":"53a897b512d2cd54e90001a7","id":"2014/06/23/marissa-mayer-cannes","title":"Marissa Mayer Reportedly Made Ad Execs Wait For 2 Hours Because She Overslept","title_tag":null,"author":"Seth Fiegerman","post_date":"2014-06-23T17:10:02-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:10:02 -0400","sort_key":"1wZbv4","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/23/marissa-mayer-cannes/","content":{"plain":"Marissa Mayer had a tough time at Cannes this year.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal reports that the Yahoo CEO was scheduled to meet a group of ad executives for a private dinner during the Cannes Lions festival in France last Tuesday, but showed up \"nearly two hours late\" because she had fallen asleep. One executive in attendance from IPG is said to have left before Mayer arrived.\n\nSee also: Twitter Takes Selfies to the Next Level With Drones\n\nA rep declined to comment on whether Mayer overslept the appointment, but told Mashable in a statement that \"we value our partnership with IPG and all of our advertisers.\"\n\nThe incident may have simply been the result of jet lag, but it seems to have reinforced the narrative that Mayer and Yahoo are having difficulty wooing advertisers. \u201cIt is another instance where she demonstrated that she doesn\u2019t understand the value of clients, ad revenue or agencies,\u201d one anonymous ad executive at the dinner told the Journal.\r\nNext acquisition - Red Bull RT @dmac1: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer overslept & showed up 2 hrs late to meet with ad execs http://t.co/nyQk0vpjki\n\n\u2014 Dan Gallagher (@djtgallagher) June 23, 2014\r\n\u00a0\n\nAfter a different appearance from Mayer at Cannes, some criticized her for being too scripted and making a presentation that felt too much like \"a sales pitch.\"\n\nMayer took over as CEO of Yahoo nearly two years ago. Since then, she has worked to improve Yahoo's mobile presence through a number of acquisitions and double down on its media efforts. Yahoo's stock has soared in that time, but many credit that to Yahoo's stake in Alibaba, which is about to go public.\n\nYahoo's display ad revenue ticked up by a modest 2% last quarter compared to the same period a year earlier, though its price per ad declined.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":847,"facebook":97,"linked_in":44,"google_plus":102,"total":1090},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzRlL01hcmlzc2FfTWF5LmZjNzdiLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/4d01a06b/8f9/Marissa_Mayer.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzRlL01hcmlzc2FfTWF5LmZjNzdiLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/c86613b2/8f9/Marissa_Mayer.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzRlL01hcmlzc2FfTWF5LmZjNzdiLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/b7c68907/8f9/Marissa_Mayer.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzRlL01hcmlzc2FfTWF5LmZjNzdiLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/d0bb811c/8f9/Marissa_Mayer.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzRlL01hcmlzc2FfTWF5LmZjNzdiLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/f1ed5314/8f9/Marissa_Mayer.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1nYAS8p","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/twitter-dronies/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Marissa Mayer had a tough time at Cannes this year.","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"53a888d7b05f9d4e3300072a","id":"2014/06/23/supreme-court-largely-leaves-epa-global-warming-rules","title":"Supreme Court Clears the Way for Bulk of Obama's Global Warming Regulations","title_tag":null,"author":"Andrew Freedman","post_date":"2014-06-23T16:06:35-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:06:35 -0400","sort_key":"1wZavF","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/23/supreme-court-largely-leaves-epa-global-warming-rules/","content":{"plain":"The Supreme Court on Monday put some limits on the Environmental Protection Agency's landmark 2011 regulations aimed at cutting emissions of greenhouse gases from stationary sources like factories. But seven justices agreed to leave the vast majority of the far-reaching program intact, thereby leaving the path toward new emissions regulations unimpeded.\n\nThe decision is noteworthy for reaching a compromise between striking down the EPA's global warming program, which is a cornerstone of the Obama administration's plan to meet domestic and international climate goals, and upholding it entirely. \n\nSee also: Most Americans Support Obama's Climate Plan, Even If Their Bills Increase\n\nHere are the top takeaways from the new decision:\n\n\tFirst, this decision does not affect the proposed greenhouse gas emissions cuts from existing power plants that the Obama administration rolled out on June 2. Instead, it deals with prior regulations issued for new motor vehicles and some stationary sources, like factories and power plants.\n\n\tIn addition, the decision in this case only slightly undercuts the EPA's existing greenhouse gas emissions regulations, leaving the majority of the existing programs intact.\n\nNow for the nitty-gritty details:\n\nThe case, Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, centers on how the EPA applied the 1970 Clean Air Act's provisions when it moved in 2011 to control greenhouse gas emissions from stationary and mobile sources, such as power plants and vehicles. The majority of the court held that the agency had overstepped its bounds in how it interpreted the Clean Air Act, saying that it had essentially rewritten the law.\n\nThe majority decision, written by conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, affirmed the agency's right to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, something the Supreme Court itself had cleared a path for in Massachusetts v. 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To avoid this massive expansion in the agency's reach across the U.S. economy, the EPA decided to apply the greenhouse gas limits under the Clean Air Act only to larger stationary sources, essentially redefining part of the act. \n\nThe agency did this through a so-called tailoring rule that set a new emissions threshold that would trigger greenhouse gas emissions regulations from facilities not already subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act.\n\nThe Clean Air Act requires permits for sources that have the potential to emit more than 100 to 250 tons of a given pollutant per year, but the tailoring rule that the EPA wrote set a new threshold of 100,000 tons per year for greenhouse gases. The court rejected this change, as Scalia wrote that only Congress can change the threshold:\n\n\"In the Tailoring Rule, EPA asserts newfound authority to regulate millions of small sources\u2014including retail stores, offices, apartment buildings, shopping centers, schools, and churches\u2014and to decide, on an ongoing basis and without regard for the thresholds prescribed by Congress, how many of those sources to regulate. We are not willing to stand on the dock and wave goodbye as EPA embarks on this multiyear voyage of discovery.\" \n\nThis part of the decision was backed by a 5-to-4 vote that overturned an appeals court decision, with the court's four liberal justices dissenting. They argued that the EPA's tailoring rule was a reasonable action taken to avoid overly burdensome and far-reaching regulations.\n\nBut here's the really important part: By a 7-to-2 vote, the court allowed the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases from sources that would already need permits based on their emissions of conventional pollutants. These sources represent the vast majority of facilities that are covered by the regulations. This part of the opinion drew support from the court's four liberal justices, as well as Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy.\n\nAs a result, the EPA will be permitted to regulate pollution sources that account for 83% of the greenhouse gases coming from stationary sources in the U.S., a slight reduction from the 86% that would have been regulated had the court upheld the entirety of the regulations.\n\nThe EPA issued a statement that called the decision a \"win.\"\n\n\u201cToday, the Supreme Court largely upheld EPA\u2019s approach to focusing Clean Air Act permits on only the largest stationary sources of greenhouse gases such as power plants, refineries, and other types of industrial facilities,\u201d the EPA said. \u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s decision is a win for our efforts to reduce carbon pollution because it allows EPA, states and other permitting authorities to continue to require carbon pollution limits in permits for the largest pollution sources.\"\n\nOutside observers said the court succeeded in finding a compromise that provided a small victory to the utility companies that oppose the regulations, while also giving the rules' supporters a victory as well.\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\u201cScalia split the baby, allowing EPA to regulate big operations but preventing a great expansion in EPA authority that nobody truly wanted,\" said Tim Profeta, president of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, in a statement.\n\nRobert B. McKinstry Jr., a partner at Ballard Spahr LLP in Philadelphia, told Mashable in an interview that the decision won't hamstring the EPA's ability to rein in emissions that are causing global warming. \u201cIn terms of what the EPA is doing, the impact of this decision is I would say very little,\u201d he says. \u201cEPA\u2019s program, in this decision, emerges intact.\u201d"},"shares":{"twitter":525,"facebook":59,"linked_in":19,"google_plus":9,"total":612},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzllLzZfMjNfMTRfYW5kLjViYTllLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/b6df9af9/046/6_23_14_andrew_scalia.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzllLzZfMjNfMTRfYW5kLjViYTllLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/c7df0bb3/046/6_23_14_andrew_scalia.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzllLzZfMjNfMTRfYW5kLjViYTllLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/caf5579c/046/6_23_14_andrew_scalia.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzllLzZfMjNfMTRfYW5kLjViYTllLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/500e98ab/046/6_23_14_andrew_scalia.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIzLzllLzZfMjNfMTRfYW5kLjViYTllLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/49ff9136/046/6_23_14_andrew_scalia.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1jJMqrL","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/poll-americans-favor-obama-climate-plan/"}]},"excerpt":"The bottom line is that the court's decision struck down part of the basis for EPA's regulations, while leaving the main foundation for them intact. Future litigation will determine the ultimate fate of the newly proposed global warming rules the Obama administration announced in early June.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a87e9297b2f803a600023a","id":"2014/06/23/cards-against-humanity-too-far","title":"The 'Cards Against Humanity' Card That Actually Went Too Far","title_tag":null,"author":"Chris Taylor","post_date":"2014-06-23T15:22:49-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:22:49 -0400","sort_key":"1wZ9Pj","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/23/cards-against-humanity-too-far/","content":{"plain":"For those who haven't played it, Cards Against Humanity is a game of equal-opportunity offensiveness. Each round, a judge puts down a question card -- for example, \"What's that smell?\" or \"What's the gift that keeps on giving?\" -- and players throw in, anonymously, answer cards designed to make the judge either bust a gut laughing or possibly storm out of the room in dismay. It is most definitely NSFW. \n\nBut there is one card in the deck that went too far even for its creators -- and we found that out courtesy of a 19-year-old in Boston named Jonah Miller. \n\nSee also: Lance Armstrong Finds 'Missing Testicle' During Cards Against Humanity Game\n\nJonah, who is transgender, was playing the game one night with friends when they discovered the answer card that says \"passable transvestites.\" Many players of Cards Against Humanity keep a pile of answer cards marked \"that's not okay,\" but Jonah and his friends decided this card really wasn't okay. \n\nJonah burned the card on June 8, and posted the burning on Instagram and Tumblr with the simple caption \"DEATH TO TRANSPHOBIA.\" \n\nAnd that would have been that, except that Max Temkin -- co-creator of the game and Chicago-based designer -- picked up Jonah's Tumblr post on his blog late last week.\n\n\"I regret writing this card,\" Temkin wrote. \"It was a mean, cheap joke. We took it out of the game a while ago.\"\n\nSee also: House of Cards Against Humanity: For the Vengeful Party Planner\n\nJonah's Tumblr got more than 40,000 notes -- and the teen found himself having to explain why that particular card, in a game that includes such cards as \"poorly-timed Holocaust jokes,\" was more offensive than others.\n\n\"CAH cards are a lot of terrible things \u2014 racist, sexist, anti-semitic, etc.,\" Jonah, who is Jewish himself, wrote in a follow-up post Friday. But \"laughing at cross-dressers (especially while using an outdated/slur word) is inherently transphobic as well,\" he added.\n\nOr to look at it another way, take this video Jonah posted to his YouTube account, which succinctly explains his life story so far -- and explains why a boy in his position might be especially sensitive to such slurs.\n\nCards Against Humanity players: Should there be such a thing as too offensive in this game? 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The Schedule 13 D filing, the form that is often the precursor to a hostile takeover or another change of ownership, doesn't name the investors. The New York Post reports that one is FiveT Capital, a Switzerland investment firm with a 13% stake in the company. \n\nSee also: Unraveling American Apparel CEO's Fall From Grace\n\nInvestor Lion Capital also told the board it planned to exercise its right to add two seats of its own to the company's board, according to the Post. It's unclear whether Lion supports Charney. \n\nOn Friday, the Post reported that Charney was \"angling to gain a voting majority by packing the seven-member board with additional seats.\" \n\nAmerican Apparel reps could not be reached for comment. \n\nAmerican Apparel's board met for 10 hours last Wednesday and decided to oust the CEO and founder due to an \"ongoing investigation into alleged misconduct.\" Under Charney's contract, he has 30 days to \"resolve the conflict\" with the board before he can be fired; that would give him until July 18.\n\nThe board didn't go into details, but BuzzFeed obtained a copy of its termination letter over the weekend. 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Its predecessor, the Tianhe-1A, held the top spot on the supercomputer list in 2010. Top500 organizers note that the top 10 supercomputers are mostly unchanged from the last list, with the exception of a Cray XC30 computer, which is \"installed at an undisclosed U.S. government site,\" according to a release on the Top500.org site.\n\nOverall, the United States has by far the most supercomputers out of the top 500 systems, with China in a distant second; the UK, France and Germany lag far behind.\n\nSupercomputers are not like the computers you use at home or in the office; they're not even much like the servers you\u2019ll find in the office basement. They\u2019re comprised of thousands of nodes and designed for crunching data and solving very difficult problems -- in other words, research and development. That's why you'll find them hidden away at military facilities and laboratories.\n\nTop500 notes that the rate of performance growth for the entire list is slowing down. Performance at the low end of the list typically grew at 90% year-over-year, but has now dropped to a 55% growth rate. Part of this deceleration is attributed to the dearth of new systems at the top. Despite that lack of change, these supercomputers will get more super. Tianhe-2 is projected to reach 100 petaflops by 2018.\n\nOf the 500 systems on the list, 37 offer performance above the 1 petaflops range, nearly all of them use multicore processors, and 85% of them are running Intel processors. As for the systems themselves, 36% are built by HP and 33% by IBM. Cray builds 10%.\n\nThis is the 21st year that organizers in Germany and the United States have compiled the list.\n\nThe computer scientists measure system performance with the Linpack Benchmark, which is used in each system to solve \"a dense set of equations.\" The benchmark is not a measure of the system's overall performance, but rather its performance on that task. Top500 organizers insist that no single benchmark can effectively measure the overall performance of a given system.\n\n Have something to add to this story? 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","channel":"Watercooler","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/watercooler/"},{"_id":"53a6e516b589e44ecf003c7b","id":"2014/06/22/brazil-world-cup-hair","title":"16 World Cup Players With Bitchin' Hair, Don't Care","title_tag":null,"author":"Sylvan Lane","post_date":"2014-06-22T10:15:50-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Sun, 22 Jun 2014 10:15:50 -0400","sort_key":"1wYIyG","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/22/brazil-world-cup-hair/","content":{"plain":"World Cup players bring a lot to the pitch: athleticism, talent, passion, determination -- and incredible hairstyles. \n\nFrom dreadlocks to faux-hawks, the 2014 World Cup hairdos all deserve the Golden Comb.\r\n \r\nSee also: The 21 Most Dedicated World Cup Fans in Brazil\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":797,"google_plus":9,"linked_in":23,"facebook":275,"pinterest":5,"total":1109},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIyLzc5L2d1aWxsZXJtb29jLmZmN2UyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/102dadf4/6c9/guillermo-ochoa-world-cup.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIyLzc5L2d1aWxsZXJtb29jLmZmN2UyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/15522524/6c9/guillermo-ochoa-world-cup.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIyLzc5L2d1aWxsZXJtb29jLmZmN2UyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/4193907d/6c9/guillermo-ochoa-world-cup.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIyLzc5L2d1aWxsZXJtb29jLmZmN2UyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/b69d1511/6c9/guillermo-ochoa-world-cup.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIyLzc5L2d1aWxsZXJtb29jLmZmN2UyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/f39aae87/6c9/guillermo-ochoa-world-cup.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1wikval","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http:/http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/crazy-world-cup-fans/"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":17183,"data-layout":"list","data-title":"top","class":"content-gallery"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Because winning the tournament isn't worth squat if you don't look good.","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a58912b589e40717002470","id":"2014/06/21/fifa-world-cup-history","title":"What the World Cup Looked Like 70 Years Ago","title_tag":null,"author":"Brian Koerber","post_date":"2014-06-21T09:30:55-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Sat, 21 Jun 2014 09:30:55 -0400","sort_key":"1wYlnF","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/21/fifa-world-cup-history/","content":{"plain":"Did you know American football may be partly responsible for the success of the FIFA World Cup?\n\nWhen soccer competitions in the Olympics started to gain popularity, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), led by their president at the time, Jules Rimet, decided to stage their own international competition.\n\nThe first FIFA World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930, but the country's location in South America meant an expensive and time-consuming trip for many European teams. Only 13 teams made the trip, and Uruguay won the competition on home turf.\n\nSee also: How to Watch the 2014 World Cup\n\nAt the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, organizers dropped soccer to promote American football instead. The sport later returned to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, and American football never returned -- despite efforts to make it a medal sport at the 2024 Olympics.\n\nThe exclusion of soccer from the 1932 Olympics allowed the FIFA World Cup to grow and become a more prestigious competition in 1934, when it was held in Italy. \n\nThe tournament has been held every four years since (excluding during World War II in 1942 and 1946). In 1950, it was held in Brazil for the first time."},"shares":{"twitter":1311,"google_plus":678,"facebook":250,"linked_in":38,"pinterest":14,"total":2291},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIxLzJlL3dvcmxkY3VwdGh1LjZmNTlmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/86a41952/ef1/worldcupthumb.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIxLzJlL3dvcmxkY3VwdGh1LjZmNTlmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/22c48331/ef1/worldcupthumb.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIxLzJlL3dvcmxkY3VwdGh1LjZmNTlmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/07ecb4c4/ef1/worldcupthumb.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIxLzJlL3dvcmxkY3VwdGh1LjZmNTlmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/a8461488/ef1/worldcupthumb.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIxLzJlL3dvcmxkY3VwdGh1LjZmNTlmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/527105f9/ef1/worldcupthumb.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1lVVA4y","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"world-cup-how-to-watch"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":16951,"data-layout":"list","data-title":"top","class":"content-gallery"}]},"excerpt":"A collection of pictures and videos from the early days of the FIFA World Cup.","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a4a47ab05f9d1c8600006f","id":"2014/06/20/year-one-businesses-look-back","title":"7 Entrepreneurs Reflect on the Ups and Downs of Year One","title_tag":null,"author":"Lauren Drell","post_date":"2014-06-20T17:15:22-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:15:22 -0400","sort_key":"1wY69A","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/year-one-businesses-look-back/","content":{"plain":"Year One is the hardest 365 days for any business owner. Sales projections are based on models, not real data, and you have to work hard to create a niche for yourself and find customers in a crowded marketplace.\n\nSee also: 17 Business Models Shaking Up the Marketplace\n\nWe spoke with the purveyors of seven successful businesses in a variety of industries about what they learned in Year One, and the advice they have for other entrepreneurs who are just hitting the ground running.\n\nMaine Root\n\nPortland, ME\r\n34 Employees\r\nFounded in 2001\n\nMatt Seiler started making Fair Trade soda in 2001 while working at a Flatbread Company, a Portland pizza company. As Flatbread expanded to multiple locations to spread the gospel of natural and organic food, so too did awareness of Seiler\u2019s Maine Root soda. Today, it\u2019s sold in Whole Foods and Wegman\u2019s.\n\nYou\u2019re now a successful small business owner -- what were the early days like? \n\nMy first year was making it and self-distributing it -- that was definitely an eye opener. I was making the product, doing the design work, filling the orders, doing the accounting and delivering it; I was doing that all myself. I had a Volkswagen Jetta, and I converted to vegetable oil instead of diesel because I couldn\u2019t afford to pay for the fuel. I was loading that thing up with 50 cases, which is over 2,000 pounds. I would put 15 - 20 in the back trunk, and 15 - 20 in the back seat and then pile up as many as I could on the floor and the front seat. The thing was touching the ground, and if I had to stop when I was driving, I had to plan ahead pretty far.\r\n \r\nHow were you managing finances in that first year?\n\nIt was a total shoestring budget -- I\u2019ve never taken on any outside funding; growth was all from earnings. I was working two jobs, and then had the soda business on the side, so every penny counts. When it\u2019s like that, you\u2019re looking at your bottom line pretty darn closely, but we were able to grow through my sales. Luckily we had great relationships with suppliers with whom we worked over the years, so I was able to get longer terms. I would try and do 10-day terms with my customers I could do 30-day terms with my suppliers. We never missed paying any bills, but we were close a few times.\n\nWhat\u2019s your advice for bootstrapping small businesses?\n\nI think we have always had a pretty good mindset -- we have a \u201cdo-it-yourself and don\u2019t let anyone else help you\u201d attitude. That\u2019s really driven the ethos for how we do goods. You learn to say \u2018no\u2019 to a lot of bad deals, basically. Retailers who have 60, 90 or 120 day terms? We can\u2019t afford to let that linger, we need be able to make a deal and have it on our terms, and if it\u2019s a risk, we didn\u2019t take it, and we still don\u2019t take it. It\u2019s basic math.\r\n \r\nSerengetee\n\nUpland, CA\r\n25 Employees + 2,500 Campus Reps\r\nFounded in 2012\n\nSerengetee is a cause-oriented apparel company founded by three college students -- Jeff Steitz, Ryan Westberg and Nate Holterman -- in 2012 after they traveled the world and collected fabrics during Semester at Sea. Sales of Serengetee products benefit a cause in the fabric\u2019s country of origin. The company was started with $3,000, forcing Serengetee to bootstrap and leverage social media marketing. They found college campuses to be incubators for trends and grew to 145,000 Facebook fans in less than two years, thanks to word-of-mouth.\n\nWhat was your vision when you started Serengetee?\r\n \r\nWe were buying these incredible fabrics during Semester at Sea -- not sure what we were going to do with them. We really wanted a creative, sustainable way to give back to these countries we visited in Africa, Asia and Central America, a way to make some money to travel the world, and give back to the countries we were buying fabrics from.\n\nWhat was your experience in the first year of business?\r\n \r\nYear one was an absolutely crazy time for us; we were still students. Just managing being a college student, on top of running a growing business made every day interesting, especially with all the issues and day-to-day operations. The biggest thing that happened that first summer was when a YouTube star and former classmate named Jimmy Tatro gave us a shout-out in a video that got hundreds of thousands of views and crashed our site a few times. That gave us more orders than we have ever seen in our lives. That was an absolutely crazy, crazy week.\r\n \r\nIn the first year, did you ever feel like you were finally getting the hang of running the business or where you always facing new challenges? \n\nWe were always facing new challenges. We were making mistake after mistake, but that was also the fun of it. The first year, there was no way we felt comfortable knowing exactly what we were doing.\n\nHow did you get in the black?\r\n \r\nOne of the beauties of running an ecommerce business is selling a product and getting the money the next day, which allowed us to figure out how to make these shirts. Especially in the beginning, getting the money upfront really helped our cash flow situation. It took us a while to get these orders out, but we would call our customers to let them know what was going on, say we weren\u2019t some huge company. We had a little bit of damage control after we got all those orders, but we developed a good relationship with our customers.\n\nAnnie\u2019s Homegrown\n\nBerkeley, CA\r\n250 Employees\r\nFounded in 1989\n\nAnnie Withey founded in Annie\u2019s Homemade 1989 to provide an all-natural alternative to the \"glow-in-the-dark\" macaroni and cheese that occupied store shelves. In the mid-1990s, Annie\u2019s expanded into the organic food space, as Annie herself became a certified organic farmer in Connecticut.\n\nWhat was the most exciting thing to happen in Year One?\n\nThe biggest thing to happen to me personally in year one was receiving fan mail. People wrote to me with words of encouragement, praise and thanks, and I will never forget the thrill of seeing several envelopes, often with drawings or stickers on them, tucked inside Annie's P.O. box at our local post office.\r\n \r\nWhat was the biggest challenge during in those first 365 days?\n\nOne of the biggest challenges was not being intimidated by the marketing budgets of the mass-market conglomerates that dominated the multi-million dollar mac and cheese category. The biggest surprise was the acceptance of Annie's Shells & Cheddar by buyers in the industry because of the success of [our earlier business] Smartfood. All natural, white cheddar cheese was no longer considered an anomaly. Our history with Smartfood and its success made it easier to get Annie's on the shelves in mainstream supermarkets in New England.\n\nHow did you market this new product?\n\nAnnie's had no marketing budget in its startup days, but we did have product. We often handed out free boxes of Shells & Cheddar to get it into the hands of people to try it. We were confident that once people did try it, they would buy it. We encouraged people to read the boxes because if you wrote to Annie's with the names of friends and family, you and they would receive coupons. We attended ski slope events, street festivals, road races -- this sort of \"guerilla marketing,\" as we had learned from our Smartfood days, worked.\r\n \r\nLooking back, what advice would you give yourself in Year One?\n\nThe advice I would give myself would be self-acceptance. I spent too many years struggling with being \"Annie,\" the logical spokesperson for the company. I am much happier weeding vegetables than I am in front of a group of people in the office or board room. It's just who I am. \r\n \r\nWILL Leather Goods\n\nPortland, OR\r\n120 Employees\r\nFounded in 1981\n\nWilliam Adler was an actor who moved to Hollywood to make it big in 1974. He soon became a working actor in television, film and commercials, but the Screen Actors Guild strike of 1981 put a halt to his acting career. To pay the bills, Adler started selling colored belts on the Venice boardwalk. He soon expanded to leather goods, and WILL Leather Goods was born.\n\nWhat was that first year of business like?\n\nIn the first year, I really learned how to buy product and how to edit my line. I started to group things, and this was a big lesson because you\u2019re directing the customer on how to buy your collection. \n\nDid you ever doubt your foray into leather goods?\n\nThe biggest challenge during the first year was deciding if should I go deeply into the business, or if should I go back to acting. I wanted to continue my acting career, but I loved going to the markets and swap meets and making money every week. What I really loved doing was producing, creating and being innovative, and I was finding this wonderful outlet in the business. I was an entrepreneur. I was winging it every week, and I really enjoyed this sense of spontaneous creativity. Now 30 years later, we\u2019re quite a substantial leather goods business in America with a reputation that\u2019s really close to my heart.\n\nWhat advice would you give yourself in that first year?\n\nIn the first year, you\u2019re going to have cash flow and inventory issues. My advice is to stay focused on your sales and do what it takes to achieve those goals. See your customers, spend time with them, and build relationships, which will ultimately buy you the time needed to get your business organized.\n\nBaldwin Denim\n\nKansas City, KS\r\n20 Employees\r\nFounded in 2009\n\nMatt Baldwin owned Standard Style boutique in Kansas City, and he discovered a lack of options while looking for new lines to add to his inventory. The economy was tanking, and Baldwin decided to start his own line. The collection launched with three men\u2019s styles, produced in batches of 70. He was named one of GQ's Best New Menswear Designers in America of 2013.\n\nWhat was your vision for Baldwin on day one?\n\nI set out to create relevant denim fits, made from the best denim fabric, trims and hardware. All the product was cut and sewn in the U.S. What began as an absolute need was further solidified by my vision and passion for the apparel industry, and thus became a brand and a business of its own. I focused on design , form and function, and a value proposition to the customer. \r\n \r\nWhat were some of the challenges in the transition from shop owner to full-on designer and brand founder?\n\nI opened my first shop in 2003 and have been facing challenges and charging ahead every day since. I learned very quickly that I had to impact the market rather than allow the market to dictate my business. I look at the daily challenges of business as opportunities rather than threats. I always have hope, then follow it up with a plan; this combination of positive thinking and action has always resulted in progress. \n\nInventory management and building of the inventory plans with the trending and forecasting of sizing was an initial challenge. We were selling out key sizes so fast, but our cash was held up in broken sizes. \n\nYou started the line during a recession -- how did you stay in the black during that first year, which can be unpredictable even in the best economy?\n\nWe downsized [Standard Style] dramatically at the end of 2008, cutting a staff of 56 to 21. At that time, I knew that I had to change my business model and give my team hope for the future. That strategy led me to launch Baldwin amidst a challenging market where we all were just trying to find the bottom so we could build back up the overall business. Baldwin has always been in the black. I have been very slow and methodical in achieving growth for the brand. 2008 taught invaluable lessons given the drastic changes in the market and having to adapt and re-forecast. I sold through the initial 210 pairs and have doubled down ever since, keeping all profits in the business since day one.\n\nWhat advice would you give to a fledgling business?\n\nGet as many talented, experienced specialists around you as your overhead can profitably handle. Always surround yourself with great mentors. Stick to a distinct point of view for your brand. Don't ever lose that core DNA; it is the foundation on which you build everything else.\n\nVilly Customs\n\nDallas, TX\r\n10 Employees\r\nFounded in 2009\n\nFleetwood Hicks fell in love with cruiser bikes on a leisurely Venice Beach day during a business trip to Los Angeles. He went on to open a cruiser bike store, Fleetwood's Kit Kat, in Dallas. He soon started swapping out parts and customizing fenders, chains and tires, before realizing there was a business in fully customizable cruisers (using online 3D-modeling software). He launched Villy Custom -- named for his Bull Mastiff, DeVille, in 2009, and in 2012, Hicks received growth capital from Shark Tank\u2019s Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran.\n\nWhat was the biggest challenge of the first 365 days? \n\nManaging inventory in the bicycle industry is always a huge challenge. When you are growing the business, you have to keep your inventory tight, yet must have enough to grow the business. Projecting that growth can be very difficult when you are blazing a new trail like we did at Villy Custom. Year one, we were always running out of parts, which stunted growth that first year. That is one of the reasons I was very excited to get on Shark Tank -- so that we could have more working capital and increase our inventory levels. \n\nDid you figure out what you needed to sell to be profitable? \n\nI hate to admit it -- and maybe this is one of my weaknesses as a business owner -- but I really didn't analyze the numbers that much. I was focused on making something very unique and building \"remarkability' into our product. I knew that if we could do that, the numbers would work themselves out. If you can create something different, and you know there is a market for it, then just \u201cbuild it and they will come,\u201d like in Field of Dreams. Sales cures all. That is what Mark Cuban says to me over and over \u2026 and it\u2019s true.\n\nLooking back, what advice would you give yourself in the early days? \n\nI think the biggest mistake people make with startups is thinking they have a great idea without really investigating who their customer is and how they are going to sell the product. I would have spent more time determining those two aspects very carefully. If we had put more thought into that from day one, we would not have wasted as much time, energy and money on some of the things we've done. \n\nDos Toros\n\nNew York, NY\r\n150 Employees\r\nFounded in 2009\n\nBrothers Oliver and Leo Kremer grew up in Northern California, eating at their favorite taqueria just about every day. When they moved to the East Coast, they found a dearth of truly delicious burritos, so they decided to open their own taqueria. Today, Dos Toros has five locations, with more on the way.\n\nWhat was the vision when you first started Dos Toros?\n\nThe vision was to figure out how to make and sell truly legit burritos in New York City. We are both super passionate about burritos, and we felt confident that this was an unmet need for many New Yorkers (especially West Coast expats) and that there was a real business opportunity in meeting that need.\n\nWhat was the biggest thing to happen to Dos Toros in year one?\n\nAbout three months after opening our doors, we received a glowing New York Times review that basically doubled our business overnight. It t otally changed our trajectory -- it was unbelievable. It took a long time to truly adjust to that volume of guests. The biggest surprise was how much more efficient and effective we got -- we could do volume that was pushing us to our limit in February with relative ease by July.\n\nHow did you project sales and profits? 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One of the explosives landed between the two men, and in a split-second, Carpenter jumped on top of it, shielding Eufrazio from the blast and ultimately saving his life.\n\nSee also: Top 10 Tear-Jerker Commercials of All Time\n\n\u201cThis U.S. Marine faced down that terrible explosive power, that unforgiving force, with his own body, willingly and deliberately, to protect a fellow Marine,\u201d Obama said before presenting the marine with the Medal of Honor. \u201cYou displayed a valor in the blink of an eye that will inspire generations.\u201d\n\nThe impact of the explosion nearly killed Carpenter, taking out his eye and most of his jaw, and fracturing his arm in more than 30 places. When he made it to the hospital, he was labeled PEA: Patient Expired on Arrival. In the 24 hours that followed, his heart flatlined three separate times, he told South Carolina Living.\n\nCarpenter explains the attack and his subsequent injuries in his own words for a video produced by the Marines.\n\nCarpenter spent two-and-a-half years in the hospital after the incident, undergoing more than 30 operations and hours of physical therapy. The doctors who treated him said in a video produced by the marines that he is still known at the hospital for his endurance and positive demeanor throughout the ordeal.\n\n\u201cIt was never a 'Why did this happen to me?\u2019 attitude. He was just a fighter,\u201d Vincent Auth, one of the doctors responsible for Carpenter's reconstructive surgeries, said. \u201cHe was just very grateful, very polite and appreciative, and really just a great kid to work on.\u201d\n\nFrom the beginning, Carpenter\u2019s concern was for others. One of the marines who arrived on the scene shortly after the explosion said Carpenter kept repeating one question: Had his friend survived? Another doctor who worked with him, Debra Malone, said this attitude continued through his recovery.\n\n\u201cKyle didn\u2019t complain,\u201d Malone said. \u201cHe was so stoic through all of that. I honestly believe that Kyle made an effort to protect his family, his friends and his fellow marines. I don\u2019t think he wanted his fellow marines to see him suffer knowing that at some point they might be going off to war and they might be faced with the same challenge.\"\n\nCarpenter is the fifteenth recipient of the medal for service in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the eighth still alive, according to the Associated Press.\u00a0Created in 1861, the Medal of Honor is awarded by the sitting president of the United States to men in the military for \u201cconspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.\u201d\u00a0The statute of limitations for the medal requires that a formal recommendation be made within three years of the action.\n\nThis medal was particularly difficult to investigate because there were no witnesses to Carpenter's actions. Carpenter has no recollection of the incident due to the brain trauma he endured, and Eufrazio -- whose life he saved -- suffered a shrapnel wound to the head that left him unable to speak for two years. However, an investigation by the marines leaves little doubt about what happened that day in 2010.\n\n\u201cWhen EOD did a post-blast analysis, they said there\u2019s no way that he didn\u2019t jump on it,\u201d Michael Tinari, a\u00a0corporal from Carpenter\u2019s platoon told the Marine Times.\n\nCarpenter credits his family for his recovery, saying he is grateful for the new attitude this has given him about life.\n\n\u201cI look back, and I\u2019m actually very appreciative I had those two-and-a-half years, because those years put things in perspective more than a whole lifetime of things could if I wasn\u2019t there,\u201d Carpenter said,\u00a0according to CNN.\n\nHe described his new outlook on life in an interview with Katie Couric, saying that since his recovery, he has run a marathon and gone skydiving.\n\n\u201cFrom being injured, and absolutely being on death\u2019s front door step, I just [do] anything that comes my way that will make me experience life more; anything that will give me that feeling of \u2018I\u2019m really living,\u2019\" he said. \"I try to do absolutely everything I can.\u201d\n\nCarpenter retired from the marines in July 2013 and is now enrolled at the University of Souther California, pursuing a degree in psychology.\u00a0In remarks to the press after receiving the award, Carpenter shared what he has learned from his experiences.\n\n\u201cFreedom is a powerful and beautiful thing,\" he said. \"Be thankful for what you have. Appreciate the small and simple things. Be kind and help others. Let the ones you love know you love them. And when things get tough, trust there is a bigger plan and that you will be stronger for it.\"\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":274,"twitter":368,"linked_in":18,"google_plus":8,"total":668},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzE3L21lZGFsb2Zob25vLjcxZTA3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/fbee3a7d/3d5/medalofhonorcarpenter.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzE3L21lZGFsb2Zob25vLjcxZTA3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/9028249a/3d5/medalofhonorcarpenter.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzE3L21lZGFsb2Zob25vLjcxZTA3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/3bf79dae/3d5/medalofhonorcarpenter.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzE3L21lZGFsb2Zob25vLjcxZTA3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/321efae1/3d5/medalofhonorcarpenter.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzE3L21lZGFsb2Zob25vLjcxZTA3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/6df225e5/3d5/medalofhonorcarpenter.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1psQe6C","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2013/06/18/tear-jerking-commercials/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"A true hero.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a498b5b589e4038c0012fd","id":"2014/06/20/nba-ads-on-jerseys","title":"Did the NBA Just Make Its Biggest Move Yet to Put Ads on Jerseys?","title_tag":null,"author":"Jason Abbruzzese","post_date":"2014-06-20T16:25:10-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:25:10 -0400","sort_key":"1wY5n0","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/nba-ads-on-jerseys/","content":{"plain":"Soccer jerseys have sponsors front and center; NASCAR vehicles are essentially rolling billboards. \n\nSoon, the NBA could join them in giving advertisements a prominent position next to their athletes.\n\nSee also: The 21 Most Dedicated World Cup Fans in Brazil\n\nThe NBA logo will appear on the back of players' jerseys next season, a move that has caused speculation that ads could soon appear on the newly vacated space on the shoulder. NBA commissioner Adam Silver has called ads on jerseys \"inevitable.\"\n\nPreviously, the NBA logo only appeared on the shoulder of jerseys. \n\nStarting next season, the logo will move to the back, leaving open the space in which the league previously considered putting ads. ESPN's Uni Watch first noticed the change in the new uniforms released by the Charlotte Hornets. \n\nIt begins... RT \"@MikeKing00: Nets remove Ball Logo from back of jerseys, replace it with NBA Logo. New NBA Rule. pic.twitter.com/qqkLl2LLVW\"\u2014 Chris Creamer (@sportslogosnet) June 20, 2014\n\nOther teams have followed.\n\nNBA logo moving to back of all jerseys for \"stylistic reasons\" (aka ad patches soon) --> http://t.co/WnVxjKbnRt pic.twitter.com/wODJ0xjoZd\u2014 Paul Lukas (@UniWatch) June 19, 2014\n\nThe NBA confirmed to Mashable the move was due to style choices, but would not comment on any speculation regarding advertising on jerseys.\n\nOther U.S. professional sports have explored new, more prominent places for ads. WNBA jerseys have large ads on jerseys, introduced in 2009 as a way to bring additional revenue to the league. Major League Baseball put advertisements for the movie \"Spiderman\" on bases in 2004. The ads were removed after heated criticism.\n\nUniforms of the World Cup, From Best to Worst\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":574,"facebook":46,"linked_in":42,"google_plus":2,"total":664},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzA3L0xlYnJvbi4zYWUwNS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk5NTB4NTM0IwplCWpwZw/48dfe5eb/292/Lebron.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzA3L0xlYnJvbi4zYWUwNS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNzV4MTc1IwplCWpwZw/9551cd3d/292/Lebron.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzA3L0xlYnJvbi4zYWUwNS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkzNTB4MzUwIwplCWpwZw/30895b18/292/Lebron.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzA3L0xlYnJvbi4zYWUwNS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk4MHg4MCMKZQlqcGc/d9f71cb5/292/Lebron.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzA3L0xlYnJvbi4zYWUwNS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNjB4MTYwIwplCWpwZw/5fc696d6/292/Lebron.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1stNSIq","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/crazy-world-cup-fans"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":16411,"class":"content-gallery"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Soon, the NBA could give advertisements a prominent position next to their athletes.\r\n","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a47db997b2f8478e000115","id":"2014/06/20/hawaii-challenge-save-forests","title":"Crowdsourced Eco-Volunteers Team Up Online to Save Hawaii's Forests","title_tag":null,"author":"Katie Sola","post_date":"2014-06-20T14:30:00-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:30:00 -0400","sort_key":"1wY3zy","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/hawaii-challenge-save-forests/","content":{"plain":"A new digital initiative is harnessing the power of the crowd to track invasive species and preserve the delicate ecosystem of Hawaii\u2019s rainforests. \n\nThe Nature Conservancy and DigitalGlobe launched the Hawaii Challenge Tuesday, in which volunteers on the Tomnod crowdsourcing platform comb through aerial imagery of 30,000 acres of forest on the island of Kauai. As they go, they tag the weeds that have contributed to the loss of 50% of Hawaii\u2019s native forest so conservationists can remove them. \n\nSee also: 5 Crowdsourcing Platforms Every Developer Should Know\n\nHawaiian forests are the islands\u2019 main source of freshwater, absorbing rainwater like a sponge and releasing it slowly over time. But the ecosystem developed in isolation, and foreign species can easily upset the natural balance. The Australian Tree Fern and African Tulip Tree increase water runoff and kill native plants by blocking the sun. The fern releases millions of spores and grows to 30 feet in height. \n\nPinpointing the locations of the invading plants is key to combating them, but The Nature Conservancy has neither the time nor the resources to analyze aerial imagery of 30,000 acres of forest. Computers can be programmed to detect simple objects like cars on streets, but not a specific tree in the jungle. \u201cThe human eye is the best and most accurate mechanism for detecting these complicated patterns,\u201d explains Jason Simiye, director of landscape science at The Nature Conservancy. \n\nThat\u2019s where the crowd comes in. Volunteers on Tomnod\u2019s Hawaii Challenge examine images of the forest canopy, tagging the Australian fern\u2019s frilly fronds and the African Tulip\u2019s orange blossoms as they go. Information about endangered species in Hawaii pops up occasionally, teaching volunteers about the species they\u2019re trying to save. Senior Communications Manager Evelyn Wight explains that The Nature Conservancy is targeting the environmental community as well as those who want to help preserve the environment, but aren't sure how. \n\nIn the 18 hours after the launch, 2,000 volunteers created 170,000 tags, says Luke Barrington, senior manager of crowdsourcing at DigitalGlobe. Tomnod processes this raw data with its CrowdRank algorithm to identify the tags with the most consensus and find the leading edge of the infestation. The Nature Conservancy will use the information to kill the offending plants with \u201cThe Stinger,\u201d a helicopter with a precision herbicide applicator. \n\nGenerally, 20% of the users do 80% of the work, spending hours on the platform, scouring images for the invasive plants. \n\n\"As a retiree, I have spare time to give,\" explains active Tomnod volunteer John Roche. He used to work for the government in the environmental field, and invasive species cause problems in his British Columbia hometown too. \"If sitting at my computer scanning images will help, I'm willing to do it,\" he says. \n\nCrowdsourcing environmental assistance has become a trend in recent years. After the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010, a New Orleans health and justice group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade Zooniverse , considered to be the gold standard of eco-crowdsourcing, users help scientists classify animals in the Serengeti and track the Cailfornia condor. \n\n\u201cCrowdsourcing has the potential for us to scale our conservation efforts,\u201d says Scott Loarie, co-founder of iNaturalist.org , who is not involved with the Hawaii project. Species are going extinct a thousand times faster than in the past, but most organizations do not have the data-gathering resources they need. He compared crowdsourcing data to updating Wikipedia, saying \u201cIf you can capture a little bit of that energy, you can do great things.\u201d"},"shares":{"facebook":177,"twitter":728,"linked_in":30,"google_plus":4,"total":939},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzk0L2thdWFpLmVhMWNlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/cb5c4c1d/bc2/kauai.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzk0L2thdWFpLmVhMWNlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/522b53b6/bc2/kauai.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzk0L2thdWFpLmVhMWNlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/9e84a733/bc2/kauai.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzk0L2thdWFpLmVhMWNlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/b6944b3b/bc2/kauai.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzk0L2thdWFpLmVhMWNlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/ddf4c12e/bc2/kauai.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/UVgw6p","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"crowdsourced-developers/"}]},"excerpt":"A new digital initiative is harnessing the power of the crowd to track invasive species and preserve the delicate ecosystem of Hawaii\u2019s rainforests. 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Al-Shabab Islamic extremists from Somalia four years ago bombed two World Cup viewing locations in neighboring Kampala, Uganda, killing more than 70 people.\n\nKenya has seen a wave of terror attacks over the last six months, and experts have warned that attacks could take place against World Cup crowds. Kenya's Interior Ministry said its citizens shouldn't watch matches at \"unprotected open places.\"\n\n\"Although the government has beefed up security in all parts of the country, bars and restaurant owners are at the same time notified to maintain a high sense of security and vigilance in their premises,\" the government said in a press release.\n\nThe warning comes five days after gunmen slaughtered some 50 people in a coastal Kenyan town while World Cup matches were playing on TV. On Wednesday a bomb exploded at a World Cup viewing site in northeastern Nigeria, killing 14 people.\n\nThe U.S. State Department on Friday issued a new warning about the risks of travel to Kenya because of terrorism and high crime. It said that due to recent changes in Kenya's security situation, the embassy is relocating some staff to other countries. The U.S. Embassy has recently increased security, including putting armed Marines on the roof behind sandbag bunkers.\n\nEarlier this month the embassy warned citizens in Kenya to \"exercise caution\" at venues with World Cup crowds. The British government warned that in Nigeria \"terrorists have previously targeted places where football matches are being viewed.\" Ugandan police and the U.S. Embassy in Kampala have issued alerts about impending attacks.\n\nBars and restaurants in Kenya have reported smaller than average crowds during this year's World Cup compared with previous tournament periods.\n\nWorld Cup screening venues in 10 countries \u2014 Nigeria, Somalia, Kenya, Iraq, Tanzania, Uganda, Djibouti, Burundi, Ethiopia, Tunisia \u2014 face risk of attack, according to Robert Besseling, the lead Africa analyst at the consulting firm IHS Country Risk.\n\nKenya's security forces shot and killed five people suspected of killing 60 residents in two nighttime attacks on a coastal town this week, the Kenyan Interior Ministry said Friday.\n\nThe ministry said Friday that Kenya's police inspector general was on the country's Indian Ocean coast to oversee the process of taking fingerprints from the dead suspects to help identify them. The ministry said three AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition were also recovered.\n\nAttackers killed about 50 people in Mpeketoni, a coastal town, on Sunday night as World Cup matches were playing on TV. Ten more people were killed in a second night of attacks.\n\nKenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has blamed political forces inside Kenya for the attack, despite the fact that the Somali militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":67,"facebook":10,"linked_in":8,"total":85},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzQ5L0tlbnlhV29ybGRDLjQ3MDk4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/a2ce32e9/c1d/Kenya-World-Cup.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzQ5L0tlbnlhV29ybGRDLjQ3MDk4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/138454c2/c1d/Kenya-World-Cup.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzQ5L0tlbnlhV29ybGRDLjQ3MDk4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/6ebf7abc/c1d/Kenya-World-Cup.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzQ5L0tlbnlhV29ybGRDLjQ3MDk4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/181d2fe8/c1d/Kenya-World-Cup.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzQ5L0tlbnlhV29ybGRDLjQ3MDk4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/8dcef220/c1d/Kenya-World-Cup.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1igugmH","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Don't watch the World Cup at bars, restaurants or large parties, the Kenyan government warned its citizens on Friday. Instead, officials suggested, watch the tournament \"from the comfort of\" home.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a4208c97b2f85f54000541","id":"2014/06/20/luxury-cars-banks-brazil-protest","title":"Violent Protest Darkens World Cup Celebrations in Brazil","title_tag":null,"author":"Brian Ries","post_date":"2014-06-20T07:52:28-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:52:28 -0400","sort_key":"1wXXBV","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/luxury-cars-banks-brazil-protest/","content":{"plain":"SAO PAULO, Brazil -\u2013 Violent protesters wreaked havoc in the streets of Brazil's biggest city, S\u00e3o Paulo, on Thursday with damages totaling more than one million U.S. dollars.\n\nSee also: The 21 Most Dedicated World Cup Fans in Brazil\n\nThe rally was a celebration of the one-year anniversary of protests that led to the overturn of a proposed 10-cent hike in transit fares in the city. The proposed increases sparked mass protests last June, with more than a million people taking to the streets in over 300 cities, demonstrating against a wide range of grievances.\n\nAt least 1,300 people took part in Thursday's march, according to police.\n\nAs #ENG take on #URU, 100s have gathered at #MPL #WorldCup free fare rally on Paulista on 1st anno of hike reversal pic.twitter.com/DtdkSaYogZ\n\n\u2014 Ben Tavener (@BenTavener) June 19, 2014\r\n\u00a0\n\nThe Free Fare Movement (MPL) march began peacefully on the city's main business street, Avenida Paulista. But among the MPL demonstrators, at least 50 protesters wore masks and identified themselves as Black Bloc members.\n\nOnce the march descended on Avenida Rebou\u00e7as, where many banks are located, Black Bloc protesters began hurling rocks at glass doors and windows and spray painting anti-capitalist slogans.\n\nAt least four banks were damaged on Avenida Rebou\u00e7as alone, but MPL leaders managed to calm tempers for a while and persuade the troublemakers to rejoin the march.\n\nBranch of Caixa bank vandalised by the Black Blocs tonight in S\u00e3o Paulo. As they dispersed, police failed to keep up pic.twitter.com/hWdf72ee2Z\n\n\u2014 Ben Tavener (@BenTavener) June 19, 2014\r\n\u00a0\n\nWhen the rally arrived at Marginal Pinheiros, a major thoroughfare, demonstrators torched cardboard turnstiles in a symbolic act to end the march. The majority of the protesters then left.\n\nHowever, Black Bloc members began to burn tires and build barricades with metal poles and wood, blocking the thoroughfare in both directions.\n\nIt all happened after the Black Blocs built barricades, closing a major thoroughfare - S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s Marginal Pinheiros pic.twitter.com/Vc4opk9D5s\n\n\u2014 Ben Tavener (@BenTavener) June 19, 2014\r\n\u00a0\n\nBlack blocs burning tyres on one of S\u00e3o Paulo major thoroughfares. The #mpl Free Fare rally coming to an end, I think pic.twitter.com/DxzTJeJsi5\n\n\u2014 Ben Tavener (@BenTavener) June 19, 2014\r\n\u00a0\n\n\"Even if Brazil was the champion of the World Cup, it wouldn't make me happy,\" said Valcenie Karai, a 24-year-old protester. \"I would be happy if their victory meant something for us. But the money they spent to host World Cup has already done enough damage.\"\n\nRiot police kept their distance for most of the protest. Police sources, who didn't want to be named, said security forces wanted to avoid a repeat of last Thursday's excessive response when small demonstration a number of protesters and journalists were injured in a melee hours before the opening match of the World Cup\n\nOnce the main group of peaceful protesters had dispersed, the Black Blocs turned their attention to two luxury car showrooms located next to the road, breaking their way in by smashing the glass sides of the building. Several luxury cars were vandalized with rocks and fire extinguishers inside the Mercedes Benz showroom. The company said damages totaled an estimated $1 million.\n\nIncluding these Mercedes, on sale for $100k+. Damage by Black Blocs in S\u00e3o Paulo this evening, after #MPL protest \u2014 pic.twitter.com/ljHW9iFNXe\n\n\u2014 Ben Tavener (@BenTavener) June 19, 2014\r\n\u00a0\n\nOfficers, armed with stun grenades and tear gas canisters, began to move in at this point, sending the anarchists in all directions, with many fleeing into the narrow warren of streets in that part of the city.\n\nAn MPL protest coordinator, H\u00e9lcio Beuclair, told Mashable that the Black Blocs' behavior was out of line with the goals of the march. \u201cThis violence and damage is really out of proportion with what we're trying to achieve here \u2013 which is demanding [free transport]. But what we've seen isn't even true Black Bloc tactics, which is meant to protect protesters from police aggression. This is just vandalism.\u201d\n\nThere is no information from police as to whether anyone was detained or injured as a result of the incident. \n\nPolice say they had been requested by the MPL not to escort the protest close up, as officers usually do, but to keep their distance to avoid creating a tense atmosphere at the march. However, police later said they had been \"betrayed\" by the organizers, who they said bore overall responsibility for the vandalism. However, the MPL rebuffed the claims, accusing the military police forces of \"criminalizing social movements.\"\n\nBen Tavener is a freelance journalist based in Brazil. You can follow him on Twitter at @bentavener. The Associated Press contributed reporting to this story."},"shares":{"twitter":1077,"linked_in":31,"facebook":175,"google_plus":15,"pinterest":1,"total":1299},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzMwL0JyYXppbFByb3RlLjdmNzIwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/a3ce1bd2/126/Brazil-Protest-Black-Bloc.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzMwL0JyYXppbFByb3RlLjdmNzIwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/c5eafd14/126/Brazil-Protest-Black-Bloc.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzMwL0JyYXppbFByb3RlLjdmNzIwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/9bf36f68/126/Brazil-Protest-Black-Bloc.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzMwL0JyYXppbFByb3RlLjdmNzIwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/0c7efd59/126/Brazil-Protest-Black-Bloc.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzMwL0JyYXppbFByb3RlLjdmNzIwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/d1cbbd2a/126/Brazil-Protest-Black-Bloc.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1pr4pZH","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/crazy-world-cup-fans/"}]},"excerpt":"Damage totaling over a million U.S. dollars was wrought in the streets of Brazil's biggest city, S\u00e3o Paulo, on Thursday by violent elements of a march led by protesters seeking free public transport. Mashable was there.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a415e697b2f85f540004ce","id":"2014/06/20/youtube-emmys-tv-fine-brothers-thefinebros","title":"YouTube Natives Next to Crash Emmy's TV Party \u2014 Is 2014 the Year?","title_tag":null,"author":"Josh Dickey","post_date":"2014-06-20T07:07:09-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:07:09 -0400","sort_key":"1wXWEZ","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/youtube-emmys-tv-fine-brothers-thefinebros/","content":{"plain":"YouTube creators the Fine Bros. aren\u2019t sweating the 66th Primetime Emmys, despite that they're on the nomination ballots, which are due back Friday. Too busy cranking out three videos a week to think about much else.\n\nBut if the makers of popular shows like Kids React sneak in, they'll make history.\n\nSEE ALSO:\u00a0The Path From YouTube to Movie Star Just Got Wider\n\nThat's because no native YouTube creator has ever garnered an Emmy nod -- and by \u201cnative\u201d creator I'm talking purely YouTube-first series, not associated with pre-existing brands or TV shows. Digital nominations have sprang from the TV ecosystem, but one's come straight from the YouTube mob.\n\nThey've been eligible for a few years now. Been throwing their hats in the ring, too -- it's not a terribly high bar.\n\nAnd just in case you think no punk with a GoPro is ever winning an Emmy, remember that cable TV wasn't invited until 1988, and it took six years for that uncivilized rabble to bring one home. You'll never guess which network broke the barrier. (Hint: its name includes the letters H, B and O.)\n\nStreamed shows first became eligible for certain categories in 2008, and it took only five years for Netflix to finally crack TV's 64-year hold with three wins for House of Cards last year (directing, casting and cinematography). A smattering of web series have gotten nominations going back to 2011, but all were riding some other brand's coattails, and none have won.\n\nLast year, for instance, Machinima\u2019s web series Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn competed for Best Main Title Design; all of its rivals also had name recognition, including The Newsroom, Elementary, Vikings, American Horror Story: Asylum and Da Vinci\u2019s Demons. Other past web-only series short-form nominees with pedigree have included Jay Leno\u2019s Garage (2011); Bravo\u2019s Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen (2012); and The Office: The Farewells (2013).\n\nSurely, the YouTube-native nominee is coming. It will happen, and when it does, it will touch off a cascade.\n\nCould this be the year?\n\nMmmmaybe. The category to watch is Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program, whose 28 contenders include four native YouTube creators: Arscheerio Paul, Epic Rap Battles of History, Glove and Boots and Guy Dubai: International Gay Spy.\n\nThe other is Outstanding Short-Format Nonfiction Program, which has just one: The Fine Bros.\n\nBenny Fine -- one half of the Fine Bros. -- isn\u2019t exactly planning to be up at 5:30 a.m. when the nominees are announced July 10. Not when he's competing against established brands like NBC\u2019s Beyond The Blacklist, Food Network\u2019s Chopped After Hours and ABC\u2019s Nashville: On the Record.\n\nBut he's upbeat about submitting, as he should be.\n\n\u201cThe advantage to a thing like this is showing what new media is becoming,\u201d Fine told Mashable. \u201cThings are just starting to shift. We used to be just two guys, but we\u2019re a production company now (with some 15 employees) \u2026 and a nomination would bring us to the spotlight.\u201d\n\nBenny and brother Rafi\u00a0pump their channel with original videos every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. For their efforts they carry\u00a08.7 million subscribers and a whopping 1.75 billion views to date, flirting with the top 50 YouTubers in the world, per Vidstatsx\u00a0(6/19/14 screenshot above). \n\nThey're also working with Fullscreen on a feature film, one of only a few YouTube stars to cross over to movies, a short list that includes\u00a0Grace Helbig and Our 2nd Life.\u00a0But worrying about an Emmy? Ain't nobody got time for that!\n\nAsked whether they\u2019d done anything to get the word out for Friday's voting deadline, Fine ... wasn't quite sure.\n\n\u201cI believe we\u2019re involved with a newsletter that went to the Academy, right?\u201d he asked his manager, who was also on the call with Mashable.\n\nHis manager confirmed: They were.\n\nBack to cranking those videos, fellas.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\r\nBONUS: #5facts You Didn't Know About YouTube"},"shares":{"facebook":48,"twitter":554,"linked_in":21,"google_plus":1,"total":624},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzJjL3RoZS5maW5lLmIuNTY1OTEucG5nCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/479d96cc/dd5/the.fine_.bros_.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzJjL3RoZS5maW5lLmIuNTY1OTEucG5nCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/83e3e610/dd5/the.fine_.bros_.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzJjL3RoZS5maW5lLmIuNTY1OTEucG5nCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/237c3753/dd5/the.fine_.bros_.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzJjL3RoZS5maW5lLmIuNTY1OTEucG5nCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/5b0a2ceb/dd5/the.fine_.bros_.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzJjL3RoZS5maW5lLmIuNTY1OTEucG5nCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/3cafa18f/dd5/the.fine_.bros_.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1iqhXnN","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"If the Fine Bros, makers of popular shows like Kids React get an Emmy, they'll make history.","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a4074db05f9d1692000423","id":"2014/06/20/getting-more-from-linkedin","title":"8 Lesser-Known Strategies to Get More Out of LinkedIn","title_tag":null,"author":"Scott Gerber","post_date":"2014-06-20T06:00:15-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Fri, 20 Jun 2014 06:00:15 -0400","sort_key":"1wXVCf","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/getting-more-from-linkedin/","content":{"plain":"LinkedIn is a great platform for finding capable employees, but that's only the beginning of its value. Chances are, you are probably not using it to its fullest potential in areas like content marketing and event preparation --\u00a0yet, anyway.\n\nTo find out more, I asked eight entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) to share some lesser-known LinkedIn tips. Here's what they had to say:\r\nSee also: The Complete Guide to LinkedIn Etiquette\r\n1. Get involved in niche groups\r\n There are specific groups available for many micro-niches on LinkedIn. Becoming active and engaged in these communities is a great way to be seen as an expert and helpful resource. This leads to opportunities for lead generation, networking, partnerships and much more. The key is to give freely in those groups and not expect anything in return. Don't be the person trying to \"sell\" yourself in the groups. Give value first, receive later.\r\n\u2014 Patrick Conley, Automation Heroes\r\n2. Use it for conferences\r\nLinkedIn is a treasure trove of information. I've found it especially useful for preparing for conferences and events. I look up who's going to be there and who's speaking. I then search for their profiles on LinkedIn, and either reach out directly or through a mutual connection. The response rate is surprisingly high. A little preparation on LinkedIn goes a long way -- you'll meet the right people and they'll know about you and your business before the event kicks off.\r\n\u2014 David Adelman, ReelGenie\r\n3. Export your contacts\r\nA great tool is the contact list export option. Every quarter or so, I'll export my LinkedIn contacts and share them with my valuable referral partners. I'll invite them to go through the contacts and highlight anyone who might be a great resource or potential client for them. Generally this becomes a reciprocal practice and a great way to warm up referrals.\r\n\u2014 Darrah Brustein, Network Under 40 / Finance Whiz Kids \r\n4. Go premium\r\nI\u2019ve been pleasantly surprised by LinkedIn Premium and their InMail feature. Our company has seen phenomenal success by using the Premium subscription for recruiting, business development and partnership purposes. It has given us access to a much wider range of connections with the ability to reach out directly, which is invaluable when you have limited time.\r\n\u2014 Luke Skurman, Niche.com\r\n5. Help others\r\nLinkedIn mutual connections is an amazing tool. It shows you exactly who you are connected to, and how you may be one direct introduction away from your dream customer. However, it is easy to abuse and constantly request intros. To avoid this, when you identify a great introduction you want, go to your mutual connection and tell them that you are interested in them making that introduction. However, before they make the intro, demand that you do something that helps them first. It can be something small like a user test, or an intro you can make for them. Being clear that you have an ask upfront, but making sure your contact knows you value their time and help, will get you very far.\r\n\u2014 Brewster Stanislaw, Inside Social\r\n6. Start with warm leads\r\nWe all get bombarded with emails, messages and now LinkedIn mails. It's hard to stand out from the crowd unless there is a perception of a warm lead. The first thing to do before online marketing is to develop your offline network. Go out and meet people who are trailblazers and connectors in the sector you want to target and become their LinkedIn friends. That way, when you chose to approach someone on LinkedIn, they will notice you have many trusted connections in common.\r\n\u2014 Divya Dhar, Seratis\r\n7. Start writing\r\nLinkedIn recently opened up their publishing platform to 25,000 members. If you are one of these members, take advantage of it and start writing. If you aren't a great writer look to services like CopyMint to help polish your work before uploading to LinkedIn. Then ask your audience for feedback to help determine what to write about next. You should also respond to comments on your LinkedIn articles to start and engage conversation within your industry.\r\n\u2014 Kelsey Meyer, Influence & Co.\r\n8. Simple: Invest more of your time\r\n If you want LinkedIn to work for you, grab leads and get you connected, you have to invest some time. Logging in and checking out the \"Who's Viewed My Page\" section isn't going to cut it. Even just 15 minutes a day will really bring in results. I personally use Sprout Social to post frequently, which takes no time at all. I also use their new publishing platform where I get some pretty great social numbers on my content. I can establish my credibility with the audience that really matters: people who will need my firm's services. So the bulk of that 15 minutes I actually use to comment, chat and reach out personally.\r\n\u2014 Maren Hogan, Red Branch Media"},"shares":{"facebook":812,"twitter":1359,"google_plus":73,"linked_in":1314,"pinterest":6,"total":3564},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzc3LzA2MDUxNF9MaW5rLmJmZDA2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/2377e25c/e60/06-05-14_LinkedIn_1-2.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzc3LzA2MDUxNF9MaW5rLmJmZDA2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/8724ebc1/e60/06-05-14_LinkedIn_1-2.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzc3LzA2MDUxNF9MaW5rLmJmZDA2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/b3824d46/e60/06-05-14_LinkedIn_1-2.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzc3LzA2MDUxNF9MaW5rLmJmZDA2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/ecce79c4/e60/06-05-14_LinkedIn_1-2.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzc3LzA2MDUxNF9MaW5rLmJmZDA2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/70716bc5/e60/06-05-14_LinkedIn_1-2.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1uJc3OD","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"linkedin-etiquette"}]},"excerpt":"LinkedIn is a great platform for finding capable employees, but that's only the beginning of its value. Chances are, you are probably not using it to its fullest potential in areas like content marketing and event preparation --\u00a0yet, anyway. To find ...","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"53a39785b589e456ba000fa8","id":"2014/06/19/paris-adds-kids-bikes-to-city-bikeshare","title":"Kids As Young as 2 Can Use Paris Bikeshare","title_tag":null,"author":"The Associated Press","post_date":"2014-06-19T22:08:00-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:08:00 -0400","sort_key":"1wXOfe","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/paris-adds-kids-bikes-to-city-bikeshare/","content":{"plain":"PARIS \u2014 Not every 6-year-old can tackle the distractions of bike riding along the Seine, which on weekends and sunny days in Paris can include thousands of other cyclists, roller bladers and oblivious tourists with cameras.\n\nIt's enough to give a parent palpitations.\n\nBut the city of Paris, in a bid to train the next generation of cyclists, has added a range of kids' bikes and gliders to its bike-sharing program -- devices that could be theoretically used even by children as young as two.\n\nSee also: Animals Take Over the Paris Metro in Enchanting Photo Series\n\nAnd to ease parents' minds, they also offer helmets.\n\nMy 6-year-old was among the first to take out the new P'tit Velib' on Wednesday, riding happily along the banks of the Seine and obediently steering clear of the drop-off into the water. She pronounced the borrowed wheels exactly the same as the ones I use for my daily commute, but sized just for her.\n\nShe carefully checked the color and style against the bikes used by \"les grands\" \u2014 the grown-ups \u2014 and was satisfied that her ride had not been dumbed down or painted in pastels or primary colors. It costs at most 6 euros ($8) an hour or 12 euros a day ($16) in five of Paris' best cycling locations (seven by mid-July), with training wheels or without.\n\nI actually gasped. MT @bikepeacenyc: Paris listens to kids, introduces mini city bikes http://t.co/38CLcfd7Bx pic.twitter.com/jqDe4fS4IQ\u2014 Keith Snyder (@noteon) June 18, 2014\n\nKids can accompany their parents on the full-size bike share \u2014 there's a stand a stone's throw away at the Seine River location \u2014 but keeping your eyes on the road involves ignoring the Eiffel Tower, dozens of tour boats and gilded bridge statues.\n\nThis is not riding for amateurs.\n\nFor my daughter, the joy was in finally being able to ride with the grown-ups in parts of Paris previously unreachable on her own bike. She worried about very young riders \u2014 the program is pitched to children ages 2 to 8 \u2014 saying the distractions and the unfamiliar bikes could be too much for them. But she loved the quality of her shared bike and its responsive brakes.\n\nThe program developed after city officials discovered that about half of Parisian children learn to cycle outside the city, which has limited space for bike lanes, few green spaces large enough to accommodate amateur riders, and no easy way to get a child's bike from one point to another. I've even tried lifting one over a subway turnstile, only to find an even more unwelcome reception inside a crowded car.\n\n\"We wanted this habit of riding a bicycle, the cycling experience, to be learned at the earliest possible age and that young Parisians pick up the habit at the earliest opportunity,\" said Jean-Francois Martins, who is in charge of sport and tourism at city hall.\n\nThe very youngest get glider bikes, which give children the sense of balance before they attempt pedals. There are three successively larger sizes with pedals for older children. The program starts with 300 bikes, which must be returned to the location where they were rented.\n\nThe hope is eventually to make it resemble adult bike shares, where riders can pick up a bike in one place and drop it in another, said Joel Sick, whose association AICV runs the stand on the Seine.\n\n\"The idea now is to create a space for the youngest riders,\" Sick said.\n\nFor at least one, they sure did.\n\nThe bikes are first-come, first-serve at Berges de Seine, between the Pont des Invalides and the Pont de l'Alma; Bois de Boulogne, Porte la Muette and Rond-Point du Jardin d'Acclimatation; Canal de l'Ourcq, quai de la Marne; and Bois de Vincennes, Lac Daumesnil.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":94,"facebook":59,"linked_in":3,"total":156},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzFmL1BhcmlzQmlrZXMuYTA2NjcuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/4bfead2f/248/Paris-Bikes.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzFmL1BhcmlzQmlrZXMuYTA2NjcuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/53812ddd/248/Paris-Bikes.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzFmL1BhcmlzQmlrZXMuYTA2NjcuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/4103aed9/248/Paris-Bikes.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzFmL1BhcmlzQmlrZXMuYTA2NjcuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/6a819a60/248/Paris-Bikes.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzIwLzFmL1BhcmlzQmlrZXMuYTA2NjcuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/ed381c8d/248/Paris-Bikes.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1nR2YT0","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/04/11/animal-metro-photos/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"PARIS \u2014 Not every 6-year-old can tackle the distractions of bike riding along the Seine, which on weekends and sunny days in Paris can include thousands of other cyclists, roller bladers and oblivious tourists with cameras. It's enough to give a pare...","channel":"Lifestyle","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/lifestyle/"},{"_id":"53a380ccb589e456ba000dab","id":"2014/06/19/conan-obrien-e3","title":"See 'Clueless' Conan O'Brien Embarrass Himself at E3","title_tag":null,"author":"Chelsea Stark","post_date":"2014-06-19T20:30:51-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:30:51 -0400","sort_key":"1wXMJd","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/conan-obrien-e3/","content":{"plain":"It wasn't enough for Conan O'Brien to be a clueless gamer from his own studio. He had to take his act on the road to E3.\n\nConan spent time checking out games on the floor of the annual trade show as part of his \"Clueless Gamer\" routine. He bumbled his way through Sunset Overdrive, Forza Horizon 2, Hyrule Warriors and Sony-published student project Entwined.\n\nSee also: If Super Mario's Life Were a Pop Song\n\nHe also spent time luging down a virtual street wearing Sony's Project Morpheus virtual reality headset. 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You're a sky full of stars, such a heavenly view\"). \n\nRegardless of the garb, front man Chris Martin looks happy, a welcome demeanor for fans, considering he and Gwyneth Paltrow split up \"'with hearts full of sadness\" in March after more than 10 years of marriage. \n\nDirector Mat Whitecross filmed and released the video swiftly, recording the footage on Tuesday after the band asked fans on Twitter to show up for the taping. \n\nWe're shooting the video for A Sky Full Of Stars on the streets of Sydney tomorrow. Does anyone want to be in it!? PH\u2014 Coldplay (@coldplay) June 16, 2014\n\n250 fans needed for #ASFOSvideo tomorrow (tues). Meet 11.30am at courthouse hotel, 202 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney. Bring a smile. PH\u2014 Coldplay (@coldplay) June 16, 2014\n\nWe've already got 250 fans at #ASFOSvideo shoot location so please DONT COME DOWN if you're not here already. You won't get it in. Sorry!PH\u2014 Coldplay (@coldplay) June 17, 2014\n\nThanks to everyone in Sydney who came out to the #ASFOSvideo shoot today. Happy times. PH pic.twitter.com/IL9HXz1PxY\u2014 Coldplay (@coldplay) June 17, 2014\n\nGreat video snippet from today's #ASFOSvideo shoot in Sydney (thanks to @CarlaAslan for sending). A\nhttps://t.co/gCpQmkdg2n\u2014 Coldplay (@coldplay) June 17, 2014\n\n\"A Sky Full of Stars\" is the second single from Coldplay's sixth studio album, Ghost Stories. \n\nBONUS: 20 Trippy Scenes From Nicki Minaj's 'Pills N Potions' Music Video\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a35d7197b2f86d26002b13","id":"2014/06/19/nasa-balloon-mars-titan","title":"NASA Might Be Sending a Balloon to Saturn's Biggest Moon","title_tag":null,"author":"Katie Nelson","post_date":"2014-06-19T18:00:12-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:00:12 -0400","sort_key":"1wXKnq","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/nasa-balloon-mars-titan/","content":{"plain":"NASA is looking into the possibility of sending a quadcopter to explore Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons, according to the space agency.\n\nNASA agreed to put $100,000 toward a preliminary study of the aircraft. The quadcopter, also known as a quadrotor helicopter, would be carried by a giant balloon in order to travel quickly and unobtrusively to Titan's surface to study it. Larry Matthies, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, submitted the proposal for funding in March. The study is expected to start in July, and wrap up by April 2015.\n\nSee also: 6 Obscure NASA Sites Every Nerd Has to See\n\nThe goal of the mission is to study the variety of organisms thought to live on Titan, Matthies told Mashable.\n\n\"Titan is believed to have chemical processes that ... [are] prebiotic,\" he said. \"We could learn how life could have arisen on earth.\"\n\nUpon reaching Titan, the quadcopter would deploy from the balloon, and collect samples and photos; it would then return them to a nearby mothercraft for analysis. Previous designs for such an exploration failed. When a craft designed only to hover above Titan, like a balloon, was theorized, the craft could not land on the surface. When using a test craft designed only to touch down on the moon's surface, the craft could not travel quickly. Blending the two concepts into one aircraft would solve both issues, NASA said.\n\nThe lightweight spacecraft would weigh less than 22 pounds. It would recharge using a radioisotope thermoelectric generator stored on board the mothership. This type of generator creates power by converting radioactive material into heat.\n\nThe design is still undergoing initial study, and a timeframe for the mission has not yet been announced. But it could be a long time before a quadcopter touches down on Titan.\n\n\"This is not an approved mission. This could enable a mission sometime in the future,\" Matthies said, adding that the trip would likely not happen for at least 10 years. \n\nThis article has been updated to reflect that Titan is Saturn's largest moon, not Mars' largest moon.\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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They've lifted small catfish out of marshes in Ecuador; grabbed killifish out of nets in Cameroon; devoured dwarf fish in California aquariums; and stalked hatchery ponds in Oklahoma, continuing to kill fish even after eating their fill.\n\nArachnologist Martin Nyffeler, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, and fish ecologist Brad Pusey, of the University\u00a0of\u00a0Western Australia, pored over scientific papers, citizen reports and photos from around the world and collected 89 such instances of spiders eating fish. Their review was published June 18 in the journal\u00a0PLOS ONE.\n\nSEE ALSO: See Photos of the World's Fish-Eating Spiders\n\nFishing spiders are everywhere\n\nNyffeler has a history of studying the more exotic tastes of arachnids, which traditionally have been viewed as insectivores. He's previously published papers on earthworm-eating spiders, slug-eating spiders and, most recently, bat-eating spiders. (That last study similarly found that Antarctica is the only place not home to arachnids that eat bats.)\n\n\"Rarely, this scattered information is processed and synthesized,\" Nyffeler said. \"Very few scientists look at things from a global perspective.\"\n\nUntil now, only a handful of semiaquatic species from the Pisauridae family (or nursery web spiders) had been recognized as fish eaters, Nyffeler said.\n\nBut he and Pusey found that at least 18 different spider species from five families (Pisauridae, Trechaleidae, Lycosidae, Ctenidae and Liocranidae) have been seen catching fish in the wild. Another six species, including creatures from three additional familes (Cybaeidae, Desidae and Sparassidae), have been observed eating fish in lab settings.\n\nMost fish-eating incidents were reported in warmer climates, with a cluster in the Florida wetlands and neighboring regions. All cases involved freshwater fish -- often common ones like mosquitofish or killifish, depending on the region. The largest fish was a 3.5-inch goldfish, lifted from a garden pond in Sydney by a clever fishing spider (Dolomedes facetus).\n\nHow spiders fish\r\nWhen spiders go fishing, they often adopt an energy-saving, sit-and-wait strategy -- much like how a human fishermen might plop down on a dock with a line and hook.\n\n\"The spider typically assumes a position near the water's edge, with the rear pair of legs anchored to some vegetation or wood or rock, and their three front pairs of legs out of the water's surface,\" Pusey told Live Science in an email.\n\nThen, if a fish's fin or body brushes up against its front legs, the spider plunges in to latch on, biting its prey near the base of the head to inject a surge of deadly neurotoxins, before dragging the fish out of the water.\n\n\"It can take many minutes for the fish to die, and it is probably safer for the spider to haul it out of the water to aid in handling and reduce the potential for escape,\" Pusey said.\n\nSEE ALSO: Beastly Feasts: Amazing Photos of Animals and Their Prey\n\nFor spiders, the rewards of fishing are great. Much of an insect's weight comes from its hard exoskeleton, which isn't really useful to spiders in terms of food energy. In contrast, fish are made up of mostly muscle, and the only nondigestible parts are their scales, skin and skeleton. What's more, fish-eating spiders, on average, nab fish more than twice their size -- \"a big-ticket item,\" Pusey said.\n\nFinding more eight-legged fishers\n\nBut the spread of spiders caught preying on fish might be skewed. Relatively few fish-eating spiders were tallied in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe, the researchers noted. This may be because fewer nature enthusiasts and ecologists have been on hand to observe this behavior in the wild.\n\nIn the neotropical region in Central and South America, these incidents were likely underreported because most fish-eating spider species (in the genuses Trechalea and Ancylometes) are nocturnal and live in remote areas, the researchers said. 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The owner of an eight-unit apartment building in Manhattan, Podziba is search-engine famous in New York for how he dealt with a tenant who sublet her apartment via Airbnb, and he frequently hears from other owners, landlords, and building supervisors who suspect they have a tenant doing the same. If something goes wrong -- a party breaks out, somebody gets robbed, the cops show up, someone slips and falls -- it's not the tenant, or some sharing-economy guru in Silicon Valley, who's going to be held responsible. It will be the owner's problem. That's why at the first hint of Airbnb usage, Podziba explains, \"I tell them to do what I did: Get surveillance cameras. Hire a private investigator. And do the necessary steps to get them out.\"\n\nPodziba doesn't fit the caricature of a ruthless New York landlord. By day, the former New York City sports commissioner runs Bike New York, a nonprofit that provides safety training and organizes citywide bike tours. He also manages the five-story, red-brick building he inherited from his father on Elizabeth Street, a short walk from Katz's, the famous deli where Meg Ryan faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally. It's in his capacity as a building owner that Podziba has found himself on a collision course with one of the world's hottest startups.\n\nIn 2008 a pair of recent graduates from the Rhode Island School of Design, along with a former Microsoft engineer, launched Airbnb, a company that allows people to hop on its website, create a profile, and then rent out their spare bedrooms or entire homes. Since its inception (very first offering: a single air mattress on the floor of a San Francisco apartment), Airbnb has grown into a global hospitality brand with more than 600,000 listings in 34,000 cities and 190 countries. The company, which makes money by charging guests and hosts a percentage of each rental transaction, closed on a $450 million, late-stage round of investment in April that values it at $10 billion. The company's investors include Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz (Bloomberg LP, which owns Bloomberg Businessweek, is an investor in Andreessen Horowitz).\n\nAirbnb is near the front of a pack of startups with dizzying valuations that facilitate the so-called sharing economy. Essentially, they make it easier for people to connect with other people to monetize their stuff, from their homes to their labor (TaskRabbit), vehicles (Lyft, Uber), and parking spaces (ParkPlease, Parking Panda). Airbnb has proven to be particularly popular in New York, which has emerged as the company's largest market as well as its most turbulent.\n\nLast summer, Podziba heard from his building's superintendent that one of his tenants appeared to be frequently subletting her apartment. Every few nights a new set of occupants was seen coming and going from the third-floor unit. Podziba says he was concerned about safety. He didn't want a bunch of people he hadn't vetted constantly passing through the building. There was no doorman on-site to intervene if something should go wrong.\n\nAt first Podziba didn't know what to do. He did some research and learned that legislators in Albany had passed a law in 2010 explicitly prohibiting residents in multiunit dwellings such as his from renting out their apartments for less than 30 days, unless they were present. So not only was his tenant apparently violating her lease, which prohibited commercial use of the apartment, she also appeared to be breaking the law. Podziba contacted the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement to register a complaint. To his surprise, the regulatory agency informed him that in New York, the hefty fines for short-term rental violations aren't levied against guests or hosts. They're levied against building owners.\n\nSEE ALSO: After Showdown With Prosecutors, Airbnb Gives Up Customer Data\n\nAfter consulting with his lawyer, Podziba installed a surveillance camera to gather evidence, capturing the arrival and departure of all the luggage-toting visitors. He then hired a private investigator, who jumped on Airbnb and booked a stay in the tenant's apartment. According to Podziba, his tenant -- who was paying him $1,400 a month for the rent-controlled one-bedroom -- was charging $220 to $260 a night to Airbnb guests. Podziba sent an e-mail to Airbnb, explaining how the renegade tenant was breaking various laws on his property and requesting that Airbnb remove her illegal listings. Airbnb e-mailed back a terse response: \"As a platform, we do not arbitrate disputes between our users and third parties.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: Should Airbnb Collect Hotel Taxes?\n\nAfter a long and expensive struggle, Podziba got rid of his Airbnb-loving tenant, but he continues to harbor a strong grudge against the company -- which has created a system that directly affects his property and yet will not accept his feedback at any level. \"Airbnb is making money while letting people do whatever they want,\" says Podziba. \"It's crazy.\"\n\nIn July 2013, having been brushed off by Airbnb, Podziba vented his frustration to the New York Post, which published a juicy story alleging the tenant had made $500,000 from her apartment over four years while living with her husband in a New Jersey suburb. And so the story became just another iteration of an emergent tabloid genre, Airbnb noir: apartment-sharing mishaps, disputes, and horror stories. As the city enters the summer's high tourist season, the drama is heating up. Neighbors are morphing into informants, and tourists into contraband, as city officials conduct raids to root out stowaway Swedes and bootleg Bulgarians.\n\nThese stories get hyped by those rooting for Airbnb to take its place alongside Pets.com and Myspace in the pantheon of startup flameouts. But despite the occasional high-profile disaster, a great number of Airbnb users rate the service highly and would like to see the company solve its current problems in New York. (Airbnb has an overall 4.1 out of 5 rating in App Store.)\n\nRyan Geist, a self-employed marketing consultant, uses Airbnb to sublet a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Lower East Side when he and his girlfriend are out of town. Geist says he loves Airbnb and has no sympathy for the hotel industry, which lately has been bemoaning the loss of business to DIY hoteliers such as Geist. \"F-\u200d-\u200d- the hotels,\" he says. Geist is more sensitive to the concerns of longtime New York residents. \"It's their home,\" he says. \"Now their neighbor is never here. Now it's all these people with suitcases. But the rent is so high, what are we supposed to do? We choose to engage in this community of sharing.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: Airbnb Says It Has a Huge Impact on NYC's Economy, Except When It Doesn't\n\nIn February, Ashton Kutcher, the Hollywood actor and co-founder of venture capital fund A-Grade Investments, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to explain to millions of viewers why Airbnb and other peer-to-peer startups are running into problems in cities like New York. Kutcher, who is an investor in Airbnb and Uber, broke down the complex issues in simple terms. \"It's a Mafioso village mentality of \u2018we're not going to let the new guy come in,'\" said Kutcher.\n\nThe company has been quietly digging into its venture capital war chest to finance an all-out public-relations, advertising, and lobbying campaign to overwhelm its opponents in New York. Airbnb hired Paul Weiss, a corporate law firm, to fight on the company's behalf with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is taking a hard look at Airbnb's business practices. The company is paying $120,000 a year to Bolton-St. Johns, a lobbying firm, to advance its agenda in the statehouse in Albany, according to public records. And it hired Risa Heller Communications, a politically connected PR firm, to shape Airbnb's message in the local press.\n\nAirbnb Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky recently told Katie Couric that these political skirmishes are \"a huge risk for the company if we can't manage it. But I'm incredibly confident that we can. I believe the best things for cities will prevail.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: What Hotel Concierges Really Think of Your Dumb Questions\n\nIn March, Airbnb paid $10,000 to sponsor \"Brooklyn Night\" -- an annual reception, at which the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce plies a roomful of lawmakers in Albany with Brooklyn delicacies. According to Kantar Media, Airbnb spent $176,000 on ad space in the New York local market in 2013, up from $8,000 a year earlier. In December the company ran its first major national ad campaign, featuring dozens of Airbnb properties rendered as wholesome little birdhouses. In June, Airbnb launched an ad campaign in New York featuring local Airbnb hosts testifying on behalf of the company. In the first TV spot, a mom named Carol cooks pancakes for her Airbnb guests.\n\n\"I'm sure you'll see more advertising in the future,\" says David Hantman, Airbnb's head of global public policy. Until recently, Hantman, a former chief of staff to U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), was based in Washington. With the regulatory fight over Airbnb's future materializing in New York, rather than on Capitol Hill, Hantman is relocating to Manhattan. \"As people try and gin up opposition, there is obviously more of a robust public debate. We are going to engage in that debate.\" The company's efforts are getting an assist from the Peers Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by an Airbnb employee, that aims to be something akin to the National Rifle Association for the sharing economy. According to the group's baffling manifesto, \"Together, we are economic powerhouses, not just of money-making but meaning-making. We respect the hustle of hard work and the humility of deep connection.\" The group's website features a petition, with 234,755 signatures, protesting New York's \"poorly written\" law and calling for the state to \"legalize sharing.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: While Uber Thrives in New York, Its Competitors Lobby Regulators\n\nHantman says Airbnb is currently focused on trying to amend the 2010 state law to allow New Yorkers to rent out their apartments for less than 30 days, without being present, if the home is their primary or secondary residence. \"Our belief is that if you are renting out a home in which you actually live, there should not be a law against it,\" he says.\n\nAirbnb's current peer-to-peer rental model already works well and generates little community friction in much of the country, where people live in detached or semi-detached houses. But critics point out that in New York City the majority of renters and owners live in multiunit buildings -- and that those buildings, whether rentals, condominiums, or co-ops, by and large tend to prohibit commercial use of individual units. Thus even if Airbnb succeeds at amending the 2010 state law, a large number of Airbnb hosts in New York would still be breaking legally binding restrictions.\n\nHantman says he's aware of the issue. \"The first step is to change the law,\" he says. \"The second step is to work with landlords and co-op boards so they understand that this activity is beneficial. We know that landlords and buildings are split. Culture changes. We're confident, over time, that more and more buildings will be accepting of this activity.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: Bringing Million-Dollar Vacation Homes Into the Sharing Economy\n\nThere are two bills pending in Albany that if passed would amend the state law in favor of Airbnb's interests. The bills face intense resistance, however, from a vocal and diverse coalition of New York constituents, including affordable housing groups and hotel labor unions.\n\nWhile the legislative battle inches forward, Airbnb has taken to publicly shaming New York for being so hostile to its hosts. \"The history of New York is one of the most welcoming histories of any city in the world,\" says Hantman. \"And yet, what we've experienced over the last couple of years, is that other key cities -- Hamburg, Paris, Amsterdam -- have all been moving faster in the direction of allowing people to do this. It confuses us, quite frankly.\"\n\nThat confusion demonstrates a failing of peer-to-peer services: They've proven remarkably effective at creating trust and collaborative consumption between two parties. Yet they tend to exclude the concerns of third parties, no matter how much they may be directly impacted by the transaction. In the sharing economy, two is a party. Three is a syntax error.\n\nNick Grossman, of Union Square Ventures, who has studied peer-to-peer networks as a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, credits Airbnb's rapid growth in large part to its effective reputation management system. After every Airbnb stay, each guest is encouraged to fill out a review of the host, and vice versa. The reviews are attached to the user's profile and accumulate over time, creating incentive for both parties to be on their best behavior. \"Airbnb built a system that allows a profound amount of trust between strangers,\" says Grossman. \"It's clearly working for the people who are directly participating.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: Making the Civil Liberties Case for Airbnb\n\nNot everyone, actually: Only the guest and host get to review each other. There's no way for a neighbor or a co-op board to participate in the post-transactional reviews, nor is there any incentive for guests and hosts to be mindful of their needs. That's proven to be a systemic shortcoming in New York, where almost every real estate transaction involves a vested third party. The only way for the building owners and managers to be heard is to voice their displeasure to elected officials, lawyers, social media, and tabloids.\n\nIn October, CEO Chesky announced that Airbnb would be rolling out a \"24/7 Neighbor Hotline\" in New York, where neighbors and landlords could provide feedback on Airbnb users. Eight months later the hotline is still not up and running. Hantman says the company remains committed to the idea, but there are ongoing logistical challenges with making the pilot program work.\n\nGrossman believes that over time, peer-to-peer businesses may adapt to better incorporate feedback from affected third parties. \"They've developed these amazing and inventive schemes for developing trust and safety among users,\" he says. \"Now the next step is to add another constituency. How do you extend the ring of trust and reward hosts not just for being good to their guests but also for being good to their neighbors -- and how do you reward the neighbors for being welcoming of this new idea? It's an interesting challenge.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: Airbnb Joins Home Cooks In Trying to Disrupt the Restaurant Sector\n\nSam Hamadeh, founder and CEO of PrivCo, an agency that analyzes privately held companies, points out that Airbnb doesn't own any of its rental properties. That means the company must sustain loyal participation from its hosts, a group that is coming under increasing pressure from hostile third parties not just in New York, but in a growing number of other urban communities, including San Francisco, Paris, Barcelona, and Berlin.\n\n\"The problem is that there are so many regulatory, legal, liability, and safety issues involved,\" says Hamadeh. \"They are going to have to fight city by city. That's very tough to do. It's going to be a slog. Even if you win one city, you have to keep going.\"\n\nOn a Wednesday evening in May, Hantman is standing in a Manhattan auditorium, doing a town hall meeting with a hundred or so agitated Airbnb hosts. The mood is reminiscent of an airport lounge a few hours into a long and maddening delay. \"What's going to happen to us?\" shouts one man. Hantman waits for the din to subside. \"We're on the same side!\" says Hantman. \"We're fighting for you.\"\n\nEarlier that day, Airbnb shared some unfortunate news with the sharing economy. After months of legal skirmishing with Attorney General Schneiderman, who has asserted that much of the activity facilitated by the site is illegal, the company agreed to turn over a large batch of potentially incriminating data about its New York users. It would do so under the condition that certain identifying details such as names and addresses would be redacted, at least initially. But in the months ahead, if Schneiderman requests more specific information, the company has agreed to provide it, potentially exposing thousands of apartment sharers to legal repercussions. \"It's important to remember that this is not our ideal outcome,\" says Hantman. \"This is not what we were hoping for.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: China's Five-Star Hotels Are Desperate for Lower Ratings\n\nThere's a good chance, Hantman tells the roomful of worked-up New York hosts, that the state is only interested in cracking down on Airbnb's most voluminous users -- people brokering dozens of short-term rentals, often in multiple units in the same building. Hantman concedes, however, that he's not entirely certain what will happen. \"We're not the attorney general,\" he says. \"I don't know what he's after.\" (Schneiderman declined an interview request for this article.)\n\nThe Airbnb hosts look less than reassured. \"Are you prepared to share any of the pain with us?\" asks an anxious-looking young man named Josh. \"When the attorney general gets our information, I'm sure he's not just going to send us Christmas cards.\"\n\nThe crowd applauds. Hantman nods. \"We've been working so hard just to try and protect the hosts,\" says Hantman. \"I haven't slept in a week.\"\n\nThe Airbnb host responds, \"I'm not sleeping much either.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: The Sharing Economy Isn't Quite a Kick to Capitalism's Crotch"},"shares":{"facebook":48,"twitter":604,"linked_in":22,"google_plus":27,"total":701},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2M4L05ZQ2Zyb21FbXBpLjA2M2VmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/8cdc5bd6/72f/NYC-from-Empire-State.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2M4L05ZQ2Zyb21FbXBpLjA2M2VmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/1583d9dd/72f/NYC-from-Empire-State.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2M4L05ZQ2Zyb21FbXBpLjA2M2VmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/a1698be3/72f/NYC-from-Empire-State.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2M4L05ZQ2Zyb21FbXBpLjA2M2VmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/460e57c0/72f/NYC-from-Empire-State.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2M4L05ZQ2Zyb21FbXBpLjA2M2VmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/8aa90810/72f/NYC-from-Empire-State.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1yootAa","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{},"excerpt":"These days, when Ken Podziba answers his phone and it's a stranger on the other line, he has a pretty good idea of what they're calling about before they start talking. The owner of an eight-unit apartment building in Manhattan, Podziba is search-eng...","channel":"Lifestyle","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/lifestyle/"},{"_id":"53a31e3997b2f86d260011f6","id":"2014/06/19/endangered-fish-grand-canyon","title":"Endangered Razorback Sucker Fish Return to Spawn in Grand Canyon","title_tag":null,"author":"LiveScience","post_date":"2014-06-19T13:30:24-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:30:24 -0400","sort_key":"1wXGak","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/endangered-fish-grand-canyon/","content":{"plain":"After returning to the lower Colorado River in 2012 after a 22-year absence, the endangered razorback sucker fish is now spawning in Grand Canyon National Park, scientists announced on June 18.\n\nBiologists discovered larval razorback suckers in April and May at nine spots along the iconic Colorado River, which is home to several critically endangered fish species found nowhere else in the world.\n\n\"Razorback suckers continue to surprise us in Grand Canyon [National Park] -- first with the discovery of adults after 20 years of absence, and now with spawning within the park,\" Brian Healy, fisheries program manager for the national park, said in a statement. \"We're all hoping to see evidence that these larval fish survive to adulthood in the coming years.\"\r\nSEE ALSO: Grand Canyon: Take a Hike Through Geological Time (Photos)\r\nThe razorback sucker was one of the biggest suckers swimming in the Colorado River before the Glen Canyon Dam was built in the 1960s. Growing up to 3 feet long, with a distinctive bony keel on its back, the fish disappeared from the stretch of river flowing through the Grand Canyon in 1990. The dam chilled the river and starved it of sediment, changing the habitat for native species. The introduction of non-native fish species also hurt locals such as the razorback and humpback chub.\n\nThe razorback sucker was placed on the national endangered species list in 1991 and Colorado's endangered species list in 1979.\n\nUntil now, the only remaining wild razorback population was found in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior.\u00a0An ongoing recovery program stocked rivers in Colorado and Utah with young, hatchery-raised razorbacks.\n\nThe discovery of an adult fish in the Grand Canyon in 2012 sparked hope that the razorbacks could return to the lower Colorado River.\n\nThis March, biologists released nine adult razorbacks within Grand Canyon National Park, downstream of Lava Falls (river mile 180). Each fish carried a sonic tag, and in April, the scientists located several of the fish, as well as tagged fish that had migrated upstream from Lake Mead.\n\n\"This exciting news suggests that Grand Canyon is becoming a significant basin-wide haven for the endangered fishes in the Colorado River,\" Lesley Fitzpatrick, a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said in a statement.\n\nWhile scientists don't know why the razorback has returned, in the past two years, river conditions have become more favorable for spawning. Beaches and sandbars have reappeared along the Colorado River since the U.S. Department of the Interior began a series of massive floods in 2012 that are designed to rebuild habitat along the sediment-starved river."},"shares":{"twitter":520,"facebook":39,"linked_in":12,"google_plus":12,"pinterest":1,"total":584},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzNkL3Jhem9yYmFja3N1LjFjMDIxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/d12d6264/1b5/razorback-sucker-fish.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzNkL3Jhem9yYmFja3N1LjFjMDIxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/4dbeb096/1b5/razorback-sucker-fish.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzNkL3Jhem9yYmFja3N1LjFjMDIxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/9914b555/1b5/razorback-sucker-fish.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzNkL3Jhem9yYmFja3N1LjFjMDIxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/247a969f/1b5/razorback-sucker-fish.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzNkL3Jhem9yYmFja3N1LjFjMDIxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/f5fed20d/1b5/razorback-sucker-fish.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1pmW2OO","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{},"excerpt":"After returning to the lower Colorado River in 2012 after a 22-year absence, the endangered razorback sucker fish is now spawning in Grand Canyon National Park, scientists announced on June 18. Biologists discovered larval razorback suckers in April ...","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a3118097b2f86d26001090","id":"2014/06/19/comic-sans-cancer","title":"Designers Finally Found a Useful Purpose for Comic Sans","title_tag":null,"author":"Colin Gorenstein","post_date":"2014-06-19T12:36:07-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:36:07 -0400","sort_key":"1wXFjN","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/comic-sans-cancer/","content":{"plain":"Here are two terms that have probably never shared a sentence before: Comic Sans and cancer.\n\nThe font your elementary school teachers used to \"spice up\" curricula -- you know, the one everyone loves to hate -- is now helping to raise funds to fight cancer.\n\nSee also: A New Version of Comic Sans Actually Looks Pretty Cool\n\nComic Sans for Cancer is a campaign orchestrated by a trio of British designers who wanted to find a productive use for the most universally hated font.\n\nIt's an open invitation to the public to submit posters that somehow integrate the font. The best of the entries will be used in an exhibition in London throughout July; proceeds from the show, along with any donations, will go toward the British charity Cancer Research UK (the independent charity funds research for more than 200 types of cancer).\n\nEntries will be accepted until Friday, and guidelines can be found in full here.\r\nBONUS: 15 Crazy Fonts That Punch Comic Sans in the Face\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":562,"facebook":189,"google_plus":8,"linked_in":25,"total":784},"comments_count":0,"image":"/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4L2YyL2NvbWljc2Fuc3RoLjIwYmQyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/167b8549/187/comic-sans-thumb.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzczL1R5cGVzZXR0aW5nLmM5ZmUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/f9e6c80e/763/Typesetting_Comic_Sans.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzczL1R5cGVzZXR0aW5nLmM5ZmUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/59e2df06/763/Typesetting_Comic_Sans.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzczL1R5cGVzZXR0aW5nLmM5ZmUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/33568915/763/Typesetting_Comic_Sans.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzczL1R5cGVzZXR0aW5nLmM5ZmUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/f9a5c073/763/Typesetting_Comic_Sans.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1l5Onn2","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/04/07/comic-neue-font/"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":12851,"class":"content-gallery"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Here are two terms that have probably never shared a sentence before: Comic Sans and cancer.","channel":"Watercooler","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/watercooler/"},{"_id":"53a3022797b2f83ac2003605","id":"2014/06/19/washington-redskins-reform","title":"U.S. Government Has Been Reforming Washington's NFL Team Since 1960s","title_tag":null,"author":"National Journal","post_date":"2014-06-19T11:30:46-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 19 Jun 2014 11:30:46 -0400","sort_key":"1wXEiy","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/washington-redskins-reform/","content":{"plain":"The decades-long controversy over the Washington Redskins' name has hit a climax. On Wednesday, June 18, the United States Patent and Trademark Office\u00a0canceled\u00a0six federal trademark registrations for the team's name and logo, calling the name \"disparaging to Native Americans.\" The office\u00a0can't\u00a0stop the team from using the name, but it can (at least pending a court reversal) bar the right to registration protections.\n\nThis is the second time the office has issued such a judgment. The first time was as part of a case that began in 1992, but that decision was appealed by the team and ultimately overruled by a federal court\u00a0due in part to a lack of substantial evidence that the name is disparaging.\n\n\"We are confident we will prevail once again,\" the Redskins said in a\u00a0statement Wednesday afternoon. \"The evidence in the current claim is virtually identical to the evidence a federal judge decided was insufficient\u00a0more than 10 years ago. We expect the same ultimate outcome here.\"\n\nBut the team's critics aren't feeling too bad about their chances. \"Daniel Snyder may be the last person to realize this,\" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the floor Wednesday after the decision came down, \"but it's just a matter of time until he's forced to do the right thing and change the name.\"\n\nThere is a huge, contentious history between the Washington Redskins and the United States government. And what the history has shown is that, short of an ironclad government intervention, the Redskins aren't likely to change anything. That's what happened in the early 1960s, when the Redskins were the last racially segregated pro football team in America.\n\nEven though Washington was a majority black city by 1960, the team's then-owner, George Preston Marshall, refused to desegregate his team. His team was the team of the South, and he believed he benefited from keeping the team all white.\n\nWhat finally pushed him over the edge was John F. Kennedy's administration. As detailed in Thomas G. Smith's Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins, the team was planning to move in 1961 to a stadium built on federal land. Kennedy's Interior Secretary, Stewart Udall (father of Sen. Tom Udall, uncle of Sen. Mark Udall), gave the team an\u00a0ultimatum: Desegregate or lose the stadium.\n\nOn March, 24, 1961, Udall\u00a0told\u00a0Marshall that his department had approved regulations barring job discrimination by anyone who wants to use \"any public facility in a park area.\" At a news conference later that day, Udall said of Marshall,\u00a0\"I think it is quite plain that if he wants an argument, he is going to have a moral argument with the president and with the administration.\"\n\nAfter initial anger and push-back from Marshall, the plan worked. By late May, Marshall said that he'd go by the law even if it meant putting\u00a0\"Eskimos or Chinese or Mongolians\" on his team. Udall gave Marshall a little wiggle room, allowing the team to stand segregated until the 1962 season, after the December 1961 draft. At that draft, Marshall drafted multiple black players, eventually trading one of those picks for Bobby Mitchell, a black player who would later be inducted into the Hall of Fame.\n\nUdall later\u00a0wrote\u00a0that he moved against the team because of his \"personal convictions about civil rights\" and because he \"considered it outrageous that the Redskins were the last team in the NFL to have a lily-white policy.\" Udall didn't go over the plan with JFK ahead of time, but felt that JFK would agree with it on principle.\n\nIt's not just the U.S. Patent Office acting now. Multiple congressional leaders, including Reid, have been pushing the Redskins to change their name for months. History shows that government action to force the team's hand can work.\n\nThis post has been updated with a statement from the football team."},"shares":{"twitter":540,"facebook":52,"linked_in":10,"google_plus":3,"total":605},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzIwL3dhc2hpbmd0b25yLjNiYjM2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/ea021e85/22d/washington-redskins-nixon.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzIwL3dhc2hpbmd0b25yLjNiYjM2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/c3c58275/22d/washington-redskins-nixon.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzIwL3dhc2hpbmd0b25yLjNiYjM2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/c026d39f/22d/washington-redskins-nixon.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzIwL3dhc2hpbmd0b25yLjNiYjM2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/8c9bdb60/22d/washington-redskins-nixon.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzIwL3dhc2hpbmd0b25yLjNiYjM2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/633f4c86/22d/washington-redskins-nixon.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1sqsKTa","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{},"excerpt":"The decades-long controversy over the Washington Redskins' name has hit a climax. On Wednesday, June 18, the United States Patent and Trademark Office\u00a0canceled\u00a0six federal trademark registrations for the team's name and logo, calling the name \"dispar...","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a2c2c2b589e41b4000121f","id":"2014/06/19/halo-plans-e3","title":"As Halo Universe Comes Under One Roof, Expectations Rise","title_tag":null,"author":"Chelsea Stark","post_date":"2014-06-19T07:00:16-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:00:16 -0400","sort_key":"1wXA4M","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/halo-plans-e3/","content":{"plain":"As all things\u00a0Halo\u00a0are creatively consolidated, fans should expect more: better acting, writing and production for the new digital series, more depth and characters in the books -- and of course a totally blown-out\u00a0gaming experience when Master Chief Collection\u00a0brings the first four numbered Halo\u00a0under one title.\n\nBonnie Ross,\u00a0head of game studio 343 Industries, said\u00a0Halo has already established itself as a leading genre in transmedia. Its continued growth will help push the Xbox One, and the entire universe, forward.\n\nSee also: E3 Shows More Mature Virtual Reality, But it Still Has Room to Grow\n\n\"It was incredibly important to me that all things Halo be under 343: books, novels, action figures, toys, movies, and TV shows,\" Ross said to a small group of journalists at E3 last week. \"We want to be the right steward for the Halo universe, because that universe is one of the biggest characters in the series. We're thinking about how we can lay a solid foundation where we can tell stories for the next couple of decades.\"\n\nAlong with taking up the Halo game production mantle for Halo 4, the studio has already supervised some of the recent Halo book releases, which Ross said offer more depth on new enemies like the Forerunners. \"Halo also has a bad habit of killing all the characters at the end of the game, so the books give more depth on the characters that are still alive.\"\n\n343 Industries also supervised the first digital series, Forward Unto Dawn, which debuted as a five-part series on Machinima in 2012. Ross said the series has now had 59 million views online in total.\u00a0Now that the team has started production on Ridley Scott-produced digital series Nightfall, Ross said they were able to reflect on all the lessons from Forward Unto Dawn.\n\n\"This will have better writing, acting and set pieces,\" Ross said. \"Working with an experienced person like Ridley Scott also provides a much bigger production support network.\"\n\nNightfall focuses on a new Spartan soldier, Agent Locke, who was hinted at when 343 Industries announced Halo 5: Guardians with a teaser image that showed a then-unnamed character.\n\nMaster Chief Collection\r\nThe culmination of 343's Halo aggregation is the upcoming Master Chief Collection, announced at the Xbox press conference at E3. The set encompasses the first four numbered Halo games, giving them all an HD makeover and bringing them to the Xbox One.\n\nInstead of just loading up each game up and playing from the beginning, Master Chief Edition allows players to jump to any mission, no matter its location in the story. There are also curated playlists of missions that go on certain themes; you can play the final level from each game, or every vehicle-focused mission in a row. The single-player campaign also features a new series prologue and epilogue; the leader will lead right into Halo 5: Guardians.\n\nThe game includes all the multiplayer maps for Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4, including the PC-exclusive maps from the first two games. Just like single-player, these maps can also be selected by playlist for a longer battle experience.\n\nMaster Chief Collection is being released on the 10th anniversary of Halo 2, released on the Xbox on Nov. 9, 2004. In honor of that anniversary, some of the most iconic maps have been reimagined by their original designer, Max Hoberman, who left Bungie to found Certain Affinity. Players will also be able to switch from the updated version of Halo 2 to the classic version, to see the glaring improvements thanks to better technology.\n\nThe collector's edition will also give players access to a three-week beta for one multi-player mode in Halo 5: Guardians, which isn't due out until late 2015. The beta will run from Dec. 27, 2014 to Jan. 17, 2015. Ross said the beta was running so early so the team could get actionable feedback from fans. It will be the first time the new Halo engine for the Xbox One debuts as well.\n\nThe Halo: Master Chief Collection will be out Nov. 11, 2014 for $59.99 for Xbox One.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":75,"twitter":498,"linked_in":19,"google_plus":8,"stumble_upon":449,"pinterest":1,"total":1050},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2FhL21hc3Rlcl9jaGllLjVhYmE2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/1562e272/8d8/master_chiefness.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2FhL21hc3Rlcl9jaGllLjVhYmE2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/046f4f91/8d8/master_chiefness.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2FhL21hc3Rlcl9jaGllLjVhYmE2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/05cd80ec/8d8/master_chiefness.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2FhL21hc3Rlcl9jaGllLjVhYmE2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/af2861f4/8d8/master_chiefness.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2FhL21hc3Rlcl9jaGllLjVhYmE2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/ef46cfe2/8d8/master_chiefness.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1kQ2hoj","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/virtual-reality-e3/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"An all-in-one game, books with new characters, and a digital series with \"better writing, acting and set pieces.\"","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a2bbdbb05f9d5414000c03","id":"2014/06/19/hubble-pluto-nasa-probe","title":"Hubble Will Help Scientists Decide Next Stop For Pluto-Bound Probe","title_tag":null,"author":"Space.com","post_date":"2014-06-19T06:30:42-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 19 Jun 2014 06:30:42 -0400","sort_key":"1wXzCa","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/hubble-pluto-nasa-probe/","content":{"plain":"A NASA spacecraft's historic flyby of Pluto is more than a year away, but researchers are already thinking about where the probe will go next.\n\nScientists will use the space agency's Hubble Space Telescope to search for another faraway object that could be visited by the New Horizons probe after its Pluto encounter, which is scheduled to take place in July 2015, NASA officials announced June 16.\n\n\"I am pleased that our science peer-review process arrived at a consensus as to how to effectively use Hubble's unique capabilities to support the science goals of the New Horizons mission,\" Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, which operates Hubble, said in a statement.\n\nSEE ALSO: NASA's New Horizons Flight to Pluto in Pictures\n\n\"The planned search for a suitable target for New Horizons further demonstrates how Hubble is effectively being used to support humankind's initial reconnaissance of the solar system,\" he added.\n\nHubble will perform a test run first, searching a small patch of sky in the constellation Sagittarius for objects in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of frigid bodies (including Pluto) that circles the sun beyond Neptune's orbit.\n\nSpotting these small, dark bodies will be a challenge. Researchers will turn Hubble as fast as Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) are predicted to move against the background stars. The stars will show up as streaks in the resulting images, while any KBOs will be captured as points, NASA officials said.\n\nIf Hubble finds at least two KBOs with a specified brightness, researchers will carry out a bona fide hunt for an object beyond Pluto that New Horizons could visit. This search will cover a field of view about the size of the full moon, scientists said.\n\nThis stepwise approach was chosen because time on the powerful Hubble is so coveted and contested, with requested observing time greatly exceeding actual observing time every year. Astronomers around the world apply to use the instrument; their proposals are reviewed by an expert committee, which passes on its recommendations to the STScI director.\n\nHubble has already played a key supporting role in the $700 million New Horizons mission, which launched in January 2006 to give humanity its first up-close looks at the Pluto system. For example, Hubble has discovered four of Pluto's five known moons, spotting Nix and Hydra in 2005, Kerberos in 2011 and Styx in 2012. (The other satellite, Charon, was found in 1978.)\n\nHubble, which launched in April 1990, has also conducted a search for dust rings around the dwarf planet that could pose a danger to the fast-flying New Horizons."},"shares":{"facebook":40,"twitter":599,"linked_in":18,"google_plus":69,"total":726},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2ZjL25ld2hvcml6b25zLjkyNzQ3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/9536176a/c75/new-horizons-probe.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2ZjL25ld2hvcml6b25zLjkyNzQ3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/b96e4a5f/c75/new-horizons-probe.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2ZjL25ld2hvcml6b25zLjkyNzQ3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/e5bf8563/c75/new-horizons-probe.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2ZjL25ld2hvcml6b25zLjkyNzQ3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/7da01455/c75/new-horizons-probe.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2ZjL25ld2hvcml6b25zLjkyNzQ3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/a17f661d/c75/new-horizons-probe.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1jAwvfy","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{},"excerpt":"A NASA spacecraft's historic flyby of Pluto is more than a year away, but researchers are already thinking about where the probe will go next. Scientists will use the space agency's Hubble Space Telescope to search for another faraway object that cou...","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a23cf212d2cd5fc20011ae","id":"2014/06/18/world-cup-day-7-down-and-out-in-rio-and-manaus","title":"World Cup Day 7: So What Happened to Spain?","title_tag":null,"author":"Chris Taylor","post_date":"2014-06-18T21:29:05-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:29:05 -0400","sort_key":"1wXra1","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/world-cup-day-7-down-and-out-in-rio-and-manaus/","content":{"plain":"And then there were 29. \n\nWednesday in Brazil saw all the highs and lows we've come to expect from World Cup football: another three fantastic games; another three high scores that keeps the goal average of the 2014 tournament up where it hasn't been since the 1950s. But it also saw the effective ejection of two teams we expected to lose early -- Australia and Cameroon -- and one we didn't. One that was on the top of the world four short years ago. \n\nSee also: World Cup Day 6: Game On, But Where Is Brazil?\n\nSpain's fall from grace was so swift, and so total, that we have to start considering whether there is such a thing as the curse of winning a World Cup. Italy, winners in 2006, suffered equally devastating losses at the group stage in 2010. France won in 1998; by 2002, Les Bleus were a fractious shell of their former selves, easily dispatched in what was viewed as a national disgrace. \n\nThe French defeat, at least, was due to the fact that winners didn't used to have to play years of hardscrabble qualification games that take place between each World Cup. You're only seeing the glorious tip of the iceberg, the final stages. Two teams get to go directly there -- the host nation, and the winners of the last tournament. For many winning teams, this was a greater prize than the cup itself.\n\nSee also: World Cup Day 5: Red Viper Ronaldo Meets the Lannisters of Soccer\n\nBut what it meant in practice was that national side had spent the last four years resting on their laurels, and that's what happened to France. Sure, they've trained hard; sure, they've played friendly matches against other countries to keep themselves sharp. But a friendly is not the same as a life-or-death qualification match, no matter how hard you try to psych yourself into thinking it is. \n\nHow to explain what happened to Spain, then, which qualified for the World Cup at the top of its group? It's hard to say. Many of the players have just come off of long and successful seasons of club football in Europe, where Spanish teams excelled; they'd have to be superhuman to keep that pace up. The pressure from the extreme football-mad country of Spain, where one newspaper blacked out its front page the day Spain lost to the Netherlands, can't have helped with that exhaustion.\n\nSEE ALSO: World Cup Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four \n\nThere's also a more systemic issue. Given the sheer level of talent and number of goals on display at this tournament, it's clear that forwards have upped their game in the last four years. They're creating chances all over the pitch. Full backs in general haven't kept up, and Spain's defense seems more ill-prepared than most.\n\nAustralia, at least, can hold their heads high when they fly back to Sydney next week. The Aussies came within inches of defeating or drawing with the Netherlands, the team that demolished Spain 5-1 last Friday. Tim Cahill, the wizard of Oz, scored what is easily the goal of the day and one of the top three goals of the tournament, a stunning left-foot volley:\n\nAs for Cameroon? Yeah, not so much. The Indomitable Lions, as they're known, went down to Croatia by a tragic four goals -- this after holding Mexico to a 1-0 lead, a scoreline that was largely assisted by the tropical rain and a pitch that was nearly a swimming pool. Like Spain and Australia, they still have one game to play -- but in Cameroon's case, it's against the mighty Brazil.\n\nWell, at least that should keep the goal average wonderfully high."},"shares":{"facebook":107,"twitter":808,"google_plus":3,"linked_in":18,"total":936},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2Y1LzQ1MDgzNzY0Mi43NzkwOS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk5NTB4NTM0IwplCWpwZw/d663c710/323/450837642.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2Y1LzQ1MDgzNzY0Mi43NzkwOS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNzV4MTc1IwplCWpwZw/3200f321/323/450837642.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2Y1LzQ1MDgzNzY0Mi43NzkwOS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkzNTB4MzUwIwplCWpwZw/32d5e415/323/450837642.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2Y1LzQ1MDgzNzY0Mi43NzkwOS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk4MHg4MCMKZQlqcGc/82a74e6c/323/450837642.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5L2Y1LzQ1MDgzNzY0Mi43NzkwOS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNjB4MTYwIwplCWpwZw/cacd3244/323/450837642.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1nkQcdG","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/world-cup-day-6-game-on-but-where-is-brazil/"},{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/world-cup-day-5-red-viper-ronaldo-meets-the-lannisters-of-football/"}]},"excerpt":"And then there were 29. Wednesday in Brazil saw all the highs and lows we've come to expect from World Cup football: another three fantastic games; another three high scores that keeps the goal average of the 2014 tournament up where it hasn't been s...","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a225c3b05f9d5414000120","id":"2014/06/18/martin-sheen-jane-fonda-lily-tomlin-netflix-comedy","title":"Martin Sheen Joins Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin Netflix Show 'Grace and Frankie'","title_tag":null,"author":"Sandra Gonzalez","post_date":"2014-06-18T19:50:19-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:50:19 -0400","sort_key":"1wXpCr","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/martin-sheen-jane-fonda-lily-tomlin-netflix-comedy/","content":{"plain":"Netflix's upcoming comedy, Grace and Frankie, has just landed itself a former (TV) POTUS.\n\nThe West Wing actor Martin Sheen joined Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin's upcoming comedy for Netflix, where he will play Fonda's character's husband, Robert.\n\nSEE ALSO: 'Daredevil' Nabs Vincent D\u2019Onofrio to Play Villain in Marvel Netflix Series\n\nPer the plot, Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Tomlin) become permanent fixtures in each other's lives when their husbands announce they are in love with each other and plan to wed. The role of Frankie's husband has not yet been filled.\n\nThe 13-episode series is set to debut in 2015 and comes from Friends co-creater Marta Kaufman and Howard J. Morris, whose previous producer credits include Home Improvement and According to Jim.\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter first reported the casting.\n\nSince his days playing President Bartlet, Sheen has appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man franchise and recurred on son Charlie Sheen's Anger Management on FX.\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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But a wolf's hiccup? That will just send you into a fit of laughter.\n\nThis hiccup-afflicted wolf pup, Nikai, is the newest addition to the Wolf Conservation Center's Ambassador Pack in South Salem, New York. The eight-week-old pup will help other WCC wolves to understand the plight of their wild relatives.\n\nSee also: 15 Perfectly Looped Animal GIFs Stuck in Eternal Cuteness\n\nNikai's adorable hiccups land somewhere between a sneeze and a squeak, and they'll definitely land her a special place in your heart.\n\nTo follow the growth and adventures of young Nikai, check out WCC's website and Facebook page.\n\nBONUS: 11 Adorable Animals With Uncontrollable Hiccups"},"shares":{"twitter":412,"facebook":155,"google_plus":11,"linked_in":16,"stumble_upon":12,"total":606},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4LzNkL3dvbGZwdXB0aHVtLjk0NDQ1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/8034e621/923/wolfpupthumb.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4LzNkL3dvbGZwdXB0aHVtLjk0NDQ1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/e2c51deb/923/wolfpupthumb.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4LzNkL3dvbGZwdXB0aHVtLjk0NDQ1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/f1bcd15b/923/wolfpupthumb.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4LzNkL3dvbGZwdXB0aHVtLjk0NDQ1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/c26a1c74/923/wolfpupthumb.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4LzNkL3dvbGZwdXB0aHVtLjk0NDQ1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/4c7a63b6/923/wolfpupthumb.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1r7oe7O","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/04/23/animal-gifs"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":16121,"class":"content-gallery"}]},"excerpt":"Wolves aren't so scary when they have uncontrollable diaphragm spasms.","channel":"Watercooler","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/watercooler/"},{"_id":"53a1fcb297b2f84dca0013aa","id":"2014/06/18/yuengling-family-business-video","title":"3 Lessons in Longevity From America's Oldest Brewery","title_tag":null,"author":"Corinne Bagish","post_date":"2014-06-18T16:55:01-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:55:01 -0400","sort_key":"1wXmSN","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/yuengling-family-business-video/","content":{"plain":"The year was 1829, and times they were a-changing. Andrew Jackson had just succeeded John Quincy Adams as the United States\u2019 seventh president. Technology was a thing: William Burt patented an initial version of the typewriter, the typographer. The U.S. population, a humble 12 million spread across 24 states, hadn\u2019t yet expanded to the West Coast, but soon would. Although migration via the Oregon Trail wasn\u2019t in full force, the first wagon group would set out seven years later.\n\n1829 was also a very good year for beer. German immigrant David G. Yuengling founded a brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, that would go on to become America\u2019s oldest. What's perhaps even more impressive is that it's been in the Yuengling family all this time. Six generations and going strong, Yuengling Brewery has grown exponentially over the years. \n\nOperating the brewery initially known as Eagle Brewery (the Yuengling brand still features the eagle trademark today), wasn't smooth sailing at first. After just two years, the building was leveled by flames. And then there was Prohibition. Thanks to Yuengling's ingenuity, strategic prioritization and commitment to innovation, these were just bumps along the way in the tapestry of this 185-year-old family business.\n\nSee also: Meet 5 Small Business Owners Going Through Year One\n\nMashable spoke with Dick Yuengling, fifth generation Yuengling and current company president, and two of his daughters, Wendy and Jennifer, about how they've kept the business alive -- and in the family -- for almost two centuries.\n\n1. Pivot to survive\n\nIn 1919, Prohibition hit, and it hit hard. \u201cMy grandfather was faced with Prohibition. You employ all these people at this brewery, and all of the sudden the government says \u2018You can\u2019t make beer anymore,\u2019\" says Dick Yuengling.\n\nYuengling adapted, developing three pseudo-beer products to stay relevant. The roster included three less-than .05% alcohol \"near beers,\" one of which was marketed as an ahead-of-its-time \"energy drink.\"\n\nTo bolster profits, Yuengling also opened an ice cream shop/dairy across the street from the brewery. It was in business until 1985, and Yuengling's frosty offerings have recently returned to grocery shelves across the Mid-Atlantic.\n\nThis strategic thinking kept the brewery afloat during the trying time for suds purveyors. When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Yuengling thanked President Franklin Roosevelt by shipping a truckload of brew ... to the White House.\n\n2. Take calculated risks\r\nDick Yuengling recounts the 1950s and '60s, another tough period for the brewery:\n\n\"There were a lot of co-region breweries at the time, and we were one of them -- a lot of them were going out of business through the \u201850s and \u201960s. We were really floundering, selling maybe 70,000 or 80,000 barrels of beer. We had a great brewmaster, we had good products and I saw that we had a good foundation a successful company as all the rest of these companies were going out of business. I saw an opportunity to grow, to take some of somebody else's business when they would close up.\"\n\nHe modernized to turn the company around: \"I got more involved in the packaging operation, I'd see where we could put a machine in. Everything was done by hand in those days -- we threw cases on by hand with all returnable bottles, we piled them up by hand and loaded them up in trucks by hand. It was really an antiquated operation, and I was always fighting to economize the operation, make it more efficient. Get as many cases out as you possibly can.\"\n\nModernization has led to increased production -- the Pottsville brewery is slated to put out 400,000 barrels this year (that number was 137,000 before Dick took the reins). Across all of Yuengling's breweries (including one in Tampa), the output may reach 3 million barrels by the end of 2014.\n\n3. Keep a close eye on industry trends -- always consider where there's room to grow\n\nDick Yuengling recalls the company landscape when he took over in 1985: \"My dad got the brewery up to 137,000 barrels, but a lot of it was the cheap brand -- I wasn't put here to make that kind of beer. At the same time, in 1984 I think, Jim Cook started the Boston Beer Company and people were gravitating to better beers -- and we always had good, tasteful products. We developed different brands to go along with this craft beer thing that was just beginning back in the \u201880s. By \u201987, we had the lager brand, which is our flagship.\"\n\nKeen attention to the marketplace paid off. Yuengling Traditional Lager accounts for almost 80% of the company's sales today. And, even though Yuengling has found success, as the craft beer industry continues to boom, they haven't stopped experimenting.\n\nJennifer Yuengling explains that while the company relies on Yuengling Traditional Lager, it's important for the brand to experiment. \"We've become innovative over the last three or four years, more so than ever, with the seasonals we've come out with -- our Bock, our Oktoberfest and our Summer Wheat. The way that the craft brewery industry has evolved and emerged over the last several years, it's hard to know what brands are going to stick and what are just gimmicks. We still need to play in these other areas to stay competitive, with the seasonals, for instance, to stay fresh in the consumers\u2019 minds.\"\n\n\"You have your flagship brand and you start playing around with it, just to keep your company interesting to the consumer,\" adds Dick.\n\nAll in all, Jennifer credits the strong foundation built by generations past. \"In addition to having good luck and taking risks and having good ideas, it\u2019s also the fortitude that our ancestors put into it in surviving the trials of prohibition and the different world wars.\""},"shares":{"twitter":665,"facebook":493,"linked_in":95,"google_plus":25,"total":1278},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzdlL3l1ZW5nbGluZy5mMjQ3ZS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk5NTB4NTM0IwplCWpwZw/12bc320f/845/yuengling.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzdlL3l1ZW5nbGluZy5mMjQ3ZS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNzV4MTc1IwplCWpwZw/5423b058/845/yuengling.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzdlL3l1ZW5nbGluZy5mMjQ3ZS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkzNTB4MzUwIwplCWpwZw/25feda19/845/yuengling.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzdlL3l1ZW5nbGluZy5mMjQ3ZS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk4MHg4MCMKZQlqcGc/cfd7b569/845/yuengling.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzdlL3l1ZW5nbGluZy5mMjQ3ZS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNjB4MTYwIwplCWpwZw/a44244bd/845/yuengling.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1kOGfT4","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/year-one-businesses/"}]},"excerpt":"Six generations in, family-owned brewery Yuengling is America's oldest. Here's how they've kept the business thriving for 185 years.","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"53a1f32ab589e45fde000141","id":"2014/06/18/univision-twitter-amplify","title":"Univision Amps Up World Cup Coverage With Twitter Amplify","title_tag":null,"author":"Todd Wasserman","post_date":"2014-06-18T16:14:08-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:14:08 -0400","sort_key":"1wXmfe","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/univision-twitter-amplify/","content":{"plain":"Univision is kicking off a new deal with Twitter by letting State Farm, McDonald's and Verizon run ads on tweeted videos of World Cup highlights.\n\nThe 5- to 7-second ads come before game clips aired on Univision's @UnivisionSports Twitter handle. Univision Sports will tweet several sponsored highlights per game. This one from Wednesday's Netherlands-Australia game, for instance, features a quick ad from State Farm:\n\nSee also: World Cup's Greatest Goal Dives Headfirst Into Meme Infamy\n\n\u00a1Al 54' #NED empat\u00f3 el partido con un fant\u00e1stico gol conducto por Van Persie! M\u00edralo aqu\u00ed @StateFarmLatino http://t.co/gqypgo7oY3\u2014 Univision Deportes (@UnivisionSports) June 18, 2014\n\nThis clip from Tuesday's Russia-South Korea game included a plug for Verizon:\n\nEl segundo tiempo se abre con un disparo peligroso de Rusia. #RUS 0 \u2013 0 #KOR Mira el video aqu\u00ed @VerizonLatino http://t.co/iOQoFmOngc\u2014 Univision Deportes (@UnivisionSports) June 17, 2014\n\nTwitter introduced Amplify in May 2013. The program lets media companies \"amplify\" their Twitter engagement with video clips. Amplify now has more than 61 media partners, including all four major U.S. TV networks. Univision is the first Spanish-language partner. \n\nDavid Beck, head of social media at Univision, says because Twitter doesn't ask you what your primary language is when you sign up in the U.S., the network has no idea how many people on Twitter speak Spanish. \"That's a tough stat to get,\" he says.\n\nUnivision holds the Spanish-language rights to air the tournament in the U.S. In addition to broadcasting the games, it is streaming them via a Univision Deportes app. \n\nThe 12 Most Painful Moments of the World Cup So Far\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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Univ...","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"53a1f0c297b2f84dca001303","id":"2014/06/18/separatists-in-eastern-ukraine-refuse-peace-plan","title":"Separatists in Eastern Ukraine Refuse Peace Plan","title_tag":null,"author":"Christopher Miller","post_date":"2014-06-18T16:03:58-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:03:58 -0400","sort_key":"1wXm5o","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/separatists-in-eastern-ukraine-refuse-peace-plan/","content":{"plain":"KIEV, Ukraine -- Pro-Russian separatists said \u201cnyet\u201d to President Petro Poroshenko\u2019s suggestion on Wednesday that they disarm just days before a proposed cease-fire by Ukrainian troops begins. \n\nSpeaking to graduates at a military university in Kiev, Poroshenko said the cease-fire is a critical start to his 14-step peace plan to curb what he called the \"state of war\u201d that has engulfed the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk for months.\n\nThe president\u2019s peace proposal includes an offer of amnesty to those separatists who have not committed serious crimes as well as safe passage to those willing to leave the country.\n\n\u201cThe cease-fire time will be pretty short,\u201d Poroshenko said. \u201cWe expect that disarmament of military groups and restoration of order will take place right after it.\u201d He added that authorities also expect that \u201chostages and seized premises will be liberated.\u201d\n\nSee also: Ukraine's New President: Can a Candy King Lead a Post-Revolutionary Nation?\n\nAfter militants lay down their arms, the plan proposes the government take greater control of the Russian border while -- simultaneously -- granting the regional governments greater autonomy. \n\nBut even before the cease-fire occurs, Poroshenko said, Ukrainian forces will tighten their encirclement of separatist fighters in the city of Sloviansk and \u201cliquidate\" the militants there - a necessity, he said, to ensure the closure of the eastern border. \n\nPerhaps it was the threat to \"liquidate\" that prompted separatist leaders to swiftly reject the president\u2019s proposal.\n\n\u201cThis proposal by Poroshenko to lay down our arms is simply a tactical ploy,\u201d Myroslav Rudenko, a spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People\u2019s Republic, told Russia\u2019s Interfax news agency. \n\n\u201cIf people fall for it, there will be a new mopping-up operation. We will not put down our weapons,\u201d he said.\n\nAlexander Boroday, the self-proclaimed prime minister of the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic called the president\u2019s statement \u201cabsolutely absurd,\u201d the Russian Itar-Tass news agency reported. \u201cWe clearly understand one thing: you cannot trust the statements of Kiev,\u201d he added.\n\nSince April 6, separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk regions have seized and occupied key government buildings, held illegal referendums on secession, declared independence from Ukraine and asked for military assistance from Russia.\n\nUkraine\u2019s \u201canti-terrorist operation\u201d that began in mid-April has struggled to quash the separatists\u2019 militias, which have used surface-to-air missiles to shoot down several military aircrafts, including a transport plane carrying 40 paratroopers and nine crew members last Saturday. All were killed. \n\nThe Kiev government and Western officials say Russia has supplied manpower and weapons, including three tanks, to the militants. \n\nOn Wednesday, Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had proof that weapons from Russia were being used to fight the country\u2019s military forces. \r\nIn a statement on its website that included a series of photographs, the ministry said several man-powered air defense systems (MANPADS), like the ones used to shoot down the transport plane last weekend, had been confiscated from militants in Donetsk region. Among the weapons\u2019 crates were documents showing they had been in Russian weapons facilities as recently as April.\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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How cool is that?\"\n\nSEE ALSO: Shine On: Photos of Dazzling Mineral Specimens\n\nThe mineral likely resides beneath Earth's surface in an area called the lower mantle, between the transition zone in the mantle and the core-mantle boundary, or between the depths of 416 and 1,802 miles, scientists said.\n\nScientists have been searching for the mineral for a long time, because in order to identify a mineral one must know its chemical composition and crystal structure, Ma said.\n\nResearchers found the bridgmanite in a meteorite that had fallen to Earth near the Tenham station in western Queensland, Australia, in 1879. The meteorite, Ma said, is highly shocked, meaning it endured high temperatures and pressures as it slammed into other rocks in space. Those impacts can create shock veins of minerals within the meteorites.\n\n\"Scientists have identified high-pressure minerals in its shock-melt veins since 1960s. 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The new technique could one day help breeders create horses with tailor-made traits, such as racing speed, friendliness or docility.\n\nTricky embryos\r\nThough children are routinely born from frozen human embryos, horse embryos are much larger -- up to 0.02 inches in diameter. This means the eggs contain large amounts of fluid, and this liquid morphs into ice crystals during the freezing process, leading to cell damage. An outer shell also encapsulates horse embryos, foiling the process of cryopreservation, in which cells or tissue are preserved at below-freezing temperatures.\n\nTo overcome these challenges and create the new foals, a team collected embryos from a line of Welsh B ponies at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, then did genetic analysis and determined the sex of the embryos after perfecting the embryo-freezing technique. The embryos were frozen in liquid nitrogen, at a temperature of -321 degrees Fahrenheit (-196 degrees Celsius).\n\nNext, the team inserted the embryos into mares living at a stud farm in France. Just shy of a year later, the foals -- two males and two females -- were born in fine health.\r\nTailor-made\r\nHorse breeders could use the new technique to help preserve rare horse lineages, such as the Landais breed, or to repopulate dwindling herds with hardier individuals after disease has decimated these populations' ranks. The combination of embryo transfer and genetic analysis could make selective breeding for unique traits more precise, unlike traditional crossbreeding, the scientists said.\n\nIn addition, the method could make selective breeding via embryo transfer more feasible. Currently, breeders rely on crossbreeding as the default technique, in part because embryo transfer costs so much. 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Speaking to reporters before the hearing, the former officials lamented the polarization that has taken place between the parties on climate change, and said that Republicans will only start supporting taking action on climate change once the public demands it. \n\n\u201cWhen all of these enviro issues have been dealt with successfully in the past it\u2019s when there\u2019s strong public support for action,\u201d said William Ruckleshaus, who served as the first-ever EPA administrator when Richard Nixon established the agency in 1970. \u201cIf there\u2019s demand for action, there will be action.\u201d\n\nWilliam K. Reilly, who served as EPA administrator under President George H.W. 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Bush\u2019s first EPA chief, said she knows of several Republicans who do believe the climate is changing in part due to human activities, but they need \u201cpolitical cover\u201d in order to support policy proposals. \n\nSee also: Solar Panels Are Finally Up and Running on the White House Roof\n\nWhile the former officials said they hoped to encourage some bipartisan cooperation on the climate issue, it became immediately just minutes into the hearing that this is not going to happen anytime soon.\n\nOnce the hearing began, which was on the \u201cneed to act\u201d to address climate change, Republican senators pounced on the Obama administration\u2019s actions as a \u201cfederal takeover of the electricity system\u201d and a \u201cdisaster\u201d for the country that would have \u201cno environmental benefits.\u201d Democrats, meanwhile, hailed the proposal as a commonsense step toward addressing a major environmental problem.\n\nThe former EPA officials took in the spectacle from the witness table, like relics from a distant past in which lawmakers reached across party lines on issues like clean air and water.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":49,"twitter":483,"linked_in":17,"google_plus":7,"total":556},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4Lzk0LzZfMThfMTRfYW5kLmM3NTNkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/d9c4e9bb/be5/6_18_14_andrew_powerplant.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4Lzk0LzZfMThfMTRfYW5kLmM3NTNkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/44cf4d6c/be5/6_18_14_andrew_powerplant.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4Lzk0LzZfMThfMTRfYW5kLmM3NTNkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/d68d03dd/be5/6_18_14_andrew_powerplant.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4Lzk0LzZfMThfMTRfYW5kLmM3NTNkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/1d9e17a8/be5/6_18_14_andrew_powerplant.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4Lzk0LzZfMThfMTRfYW5kLmM3NTNkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/e0a7dc5f/be5/6_18_14_andrew_powerplant.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1uDgzOP","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/earth-warmest-may-spring/"},{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/05/09/white-house-climate-report/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Testifying in favor of the EPA carbon regulations, former EPA administrators under Republican presidents looked like relics from a bygone era in which bipartisanship was commonplace on environmental issues.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a1d01912d2cd5aaf0000de","id":"2014/06/18/homemade-battle-of-hoth","title":"Rebels Bust Out Their Glue Guns for a Homemade Battle of Hoth","title_tag":null,"author":"Andrea Romano","post_date":"2014-06-18T13:44:46-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:44:46 -0400","sort_key":"1wXjUG","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/homemade-battle-of-hoth/","content":{"plain":"Rogue Two to Rogue Leader, we've got incoming cardboard.\n\nIn the latest installment of the Homemade Movies series, YouTube channel CineFix recreates the Battle of Hoth from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back with cardboard ships, wires and just about anything else you might have lying around the house.\n\nSee also: 30 'Star Wars' Facts You Didn't Know\n\nThe rebels fight the Imperial invasion in a perfect shot-for-shot remake of the original battle. 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According to a recent study by DePaul University (for which Wanderu contributed data), 73% of bus travelers are between 18 and 35 years old.\n\nA roundtrip ticket on a bus from Indianapolis to Chicago can be as cheap as $56, even last minute, according to Wanderu. By contrast, roundtrip airfare between the same cities varies from $214 to $488 for the next month.\n\nCheap prices aren't the only reason young people choose to take a bus, according to Wanderu.\n\n\"With ground travel, the destination is only half of the experience,\" the company stated in a blog post Wednesday. \"Being able to look out the window at the great expanses of farmland and lakes is picturesque to say the least.\"\n\nRaygorodskaya and cofounder Igor Bratnikov started their company in 2012 after finding themselves stranded on a cross-country trip originally intended to be completed with ride-shares.\n\n\"We spent about an hour trying to see if we could map out our trip -- we ended up having to rent a car,\" Raygorodskaya said.\n\n\"Despite the fact that buses were the most convenient way for me to travel, the booking process was a complete headache,\" she added. \"If I'm somewhere in the middle of nowhere, and I require more than one connection, it was impossible to figure that out.\"\n\nThe various bus companies often have websites, but it can be difficult to find connections between cities and carriers, and many of the sites were impossible to use on mobile. Raygorodskaya said an easy-to-use mobile booking experience was a high priority.\n\nWanderu includes routes with well-known bus companies like Greyhound and Megabus, in addition to smaller regional carriers like Peoria Charter Bus or Turimex -- both new partners with the midwest expansion.\n\nTo find the most convenient transportation options, Raygorodskaya suggests travelers look for routed trips -- with one or more connections -- to find cheaper and even faster options than long-distance direct trips.\n\nWhether or not bus travel will expand beyond its budget-travel reputation remains to be seen. In the meantime, younger travelers with limited budgets will likely continue to use them to get where they need to go.\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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The group has a sophisticated social media strategy that allows it to boast of its advances, and, apparently, it publishes annual reports that showcase its war operations.\n\nThe group, with an estimated 15,000 members, has taken control of northern Iraq with impressive swiftness. Its advance threatens to end Iraq as we know it and perhaps destabilize the entire region. \n\nSee also: Iraq Implodes: What You Need to Know\n\nISIL has so far issued two online reports, one for 2012, and one for 2013. In these reports, called al-Naba (the news), ISIL has even included slick-looking infographics to detail the numbers and types of successful attacks the group claims to have carried out.\n\nFrom them we know the group says it has carried out over 1,000 assassinations, set off over 500 car bombs and established 30 checkpoints.\n\nThe reports -- like the militant's social media strategy -- are clearly intended to advertise the group and drive support as well as recruits. \n\nBelow are the numbers taken from the terror group's 410-page 2013 report, translated and analyzed by the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S. think tank. \n\nTotal operations: 9,540\n\n1. Suicide Car Bombs: 78 (Car bombs: 537)\n\n2. Suicide bombs: 160\n\n3. Motorcycle bombs: 14\n\n4. Roadside bombs (IEDs): 4,465\n\n5. Armed attacks: 336\n\n6. Assassinations: 1,083\n\n7. Bombings: 607\n\n8. Bombings and arson: 1,015\n\n9. Checkpoints established: 30\n\n10. Targeted attacks: 1,047\n\n11. Cities taken over: 8\n\n12. 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Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":653,"facebook":55,"linked_in":25,"google_plus":1,"total":734},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4L2YwL0lTSUwuNTZiZjYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/fa179fce/701/ISIL.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4L2YwL0lTSUwuNTZiZjYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/b26e6603/701/ISIL.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4L2YwL0lTSUwuNTZiZjYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/e4dea426/701/ISIL.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4L2YwL0lTSUwuNTZiZjYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/df13785a/701/ISIL.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4L2YwL0lTSUwuNTZiZjYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/17814590/701/ISIL.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1pIlAYu","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/13/iraq-implodes-isis-isil/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"The numbers of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) according to their own corporate-style annual internal report.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a113e9b589e4788600002c","id":"2014/06/18/migrants-boat-sinks-malaysia","title":"35 Missing as Migrants' Boat Sinks in Malaysia","title_tag":null,"author":"The Associated Press","post_date":"2014-06-18T00:21:49-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:21:49 -0400","sort_key":"1wX7nD","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/migrants-boat-sinks-malaysia/","content":{"plain":"This story was updated most recently at 3:45 a.m. ET on June 18.\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia \u2014 At least 60 people survived when a wooden boat carrying 97 Indonesian migrants capsized and sank after leaving Malaysia's west coast, but 35 others are still missing and two bodies have been recovered, Malaysia's maritime agency said Wednesday.\n\nThe boat sank shortly after midnight about 2 nautical miles (3.7 kilometers) from shore on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur while trying to leave Malaysia illegally for Indonesia, said Mohamad Hambali Yaakup.\n\nSee also: What Went Wrong Aboard the Sunken South Korean Ferry\n\nHe said survivors included 12 women and a child. The Indonesians were believed to be heading home ahead of the start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.\n\nThey were being questioned by police and immigration authorities, and Indonesian embassy officials were also on the scene.\n\nA ship and several boats were searching for further survivors.\n\nHe said authorities are still investigating the reason why the boat sank.\n\nTens of thousands of Indonesians work illegally in plantations and other industries in Malaysia. They often risk dangerous journeys in poorly equipped boats to return home.\n\nThe area the boat sank is in the Strait of Malacca directly across from Indonesia.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":70,"facebook":4,"total":74},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4LzNmL01hbGF5c2lhLjk1NmQ0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/c64864d3/547/Malaysia.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4LzNmL01hbGF5c2lhLjk1NmQ0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/12653a3a/547/Malaysia.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4LzNmL01hbGF5c2lhLjk1NmQ0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/fb16ee8f/547/Malaysia.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4LzNmL01hbGF5c2lhLjk1NmQ0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/c5503301/547/Malaysia.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4LzNmL01hbGF5c2lhLjk1NmQ0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/49fc1dc6/547/Malaysia.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1lCnXZy","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/04/18/south-korea-ferry-went-wrong/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"A wooden boat carrying 97 Indonesian migrants capsized and sank after leaving Malaysia's west coast.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a0c531b05f9d379b000202","id":"2014/06/17/stamp-auction-20-million","title":"'World's Most Valuable Stamp' Sells for $9.5 million","title_tag":null,"author":"Kari Paul","post_date":"2014-06-17T18:45:59-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:45:59 -0400","sort_key":"1wX28D","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/stamp-auction-20-million/","content":{"plain":"UPDATE, June 18, 11:20 ET The British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta stamp sold for $9.5 million on Tuesday. An anonymous bidder purchased the stamp, participating in the auction by phone. The price is below the auction house's initial estimates of $10-$20 million, but still a world record for the auction of a single stamp. \n\nA rare stamp from British Guiana is expected to break world records when\u00a0it is sold as part of an auction of the estate of a multi-millionaire and convicted murderer on Tuesday.\n\nThe \"world's most famous stamp,\" according to Sotheby's in New York City, is expected to go for between $10 and $20 million, making it the most valuable object of its size in the world.\n\nSee also: 10 Weirdest Things for Sale on eBay\n\nThe postmaster of British Guiana produced the stamp, which measures at 1\" x 1.25\", in 1856 as part of a contingency supply while he awaited a shipment of stamps from Great Britain. He created two varieties of stamps: Four-cent stamps and one-cent stamps. While several four-cent stamps from this supply still exist, the stamp to be auctioned on Tuesday is thought to be the only one-cent stamp in existence from that batch. It was rediscovered in a collection by a 12-year-old boy in 1873, then sold to numerous collectors over the years. It accrued in value until the infamous John Eleuth\u00e8re du Pont bought it for $935,000 in 1980.\n\nDu Pont, a wealthy heir to a chemical fortune, was convicted in 1997 of murdering Olympic wrestler David Schultz. He was sentenced to 13 to 30 years in prison, and died there at the age of 67 in 2010. In his will, which was contested several times by his family members, du Pont designated 20% of the stamp's proceeds to the wildlife foundation he funded, and 80% to former wrestler Valentin Jordanov Dimitrov.\n\nThe current record for a single stamp is $2.2 million for the sale of a rare misprinted Swedish stamp in 1996. The British Guiana stamp will go up for auction at Sotheby's at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":73,"twitter":672,"linked_in":17,"google_plus":9,"total":771},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4Lzg3L1N0YW1wLjM1Y2ViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/72ada31c/e26/Stamp.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4Lzg3L1N0YW1wLjM1Y2ViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/4773f0d6/e26/Stamp.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4Lzg3L1N0YW1wLjM1Y2ViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/06722a87/e26/Stamp.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4Lzg3L1N0YW1wLjM1Y2ViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/199a94e7/e26/Stamp.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE4Lzg3L1N0YW1wLjM1Y2ViLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/00806e97/e26/Stamp.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1lwLInl","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2012/07/22/weirdest-things-ebay/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"A rare one-cent stamp owned by a convicted murderer is expected to sell for a record $20 million when it is auctioned off on Tuesday. ","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a0b4f012d2cd117d0001c9","id":"2014/06/17/google-play-unblocked-iran","title":"Google Play Is Accessible Again in Iran (But Don't Get Too Excited)","title_tag":null,"author":"Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai","post_date":"2014-06-17T17:36:38-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:36:38 -0400","sort_key":"1wX13w","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/google-play-unblocked-iran/","content":{"plain":"Users in Iran can now freely access the Google Play store inside the country after a block was mysteriously lifted on Tuesday. \n\nIn August 2013, after the United States eased sanctions on computer technologies against Iran, Google announced that it would make apps available through its store in Iran. But the government blocked access to the Google Play store shortly after. \n\nSee also: Iran Sentences 8 Facebook Users to Combined 123 Years in Jail\n\nBut on Tuesday, many Iranians began talking on Twitter around 4:30 p.m. local time about the ability to successfully download apps through Google Play (Twitter has been blocked in Iran since 2009, but many have found ways to circumvent the ban). Mashable has independently confirmed that the Google Play website is freely accessible inside the country and users can download applications.\n\nBefore Tuesday, when anyone in Iran tried to download apps from the store, he would see an error message like the one below.\n\n@ListenToUs @b3hroozam \u06cc\u0639\u0646\u06cc \u062e\u0648\u062f \u06af\u0648\u06af\u0644 \u0647\u0645 \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u0631\u0648 \u0627\u0646\u062a\u062e\u0627\u0628 \u0646\u06a9\u0631\u062f\u0647\u061f pic.twitter.com/gyZp4TU7YO\u2014 Alireza Shirazi (@alirezashirazi) March 29, 2014\n\nIt's unclear why the Google Play store is now suddenly available in Iran. Google did not immediately respond to Mashable's requests for comment, and Google Play is not included in the company's transparency report, where it publishes censorship information. Iran, moreover, has a history of unblocking sites without notice -- then blocking them again.\n\nIt could simply be a glitch in Iran's censorship system. Last year, the government unblocked Facebook and Twitter in the country, but only because of a technical issue. \n\nIn the hours since the first Iranian users reported having access to the store, Google Play has been intermittently inaccessible from a computer inside the country. Different users have reported different behaviors, such as the store not displaying an app's screenshots, or only being able to connect to its website with Firefox, not Google Chrome. \n\nCollin Anderson, an independent Internet researcher who focuses on Iran, said the unblocking is probably a failure of Iran's censorship system, commonly known as the \"Filternet.\" \n\n\"The filtering apparatus fails often with different results, as a result of testing, upgrades or errors,\" Anderson told Mashable. \"The Play store was made available by Google nearly a year ago, but blocked due to the amount of circumvention and privacy tools hosted there; this has not changed and the local options have taken off. While there is evidence that the Rouhani administration has loosened some censorship on international news platform, it would be wise to be cautious about whether Play is here to stay.\"\n\nNariman Gharib, an Iranian Internet researched based in London, echoed Anderson's words. \n\n\"It's very soon to say whether Google Play was unblocked by the Iranian government or Google removed the sanction -- or if it's a glitch,\" Gharib told Mashable. \"But the important thing is Google Play is accessible in Iran, which lets users install apps directly from a safe source and update their apps for critical security updates\" that users in Iran cannot do otherwise.\n\nDozens of Iranians celebrated the lifting of the block on Tuesday, taking advantage of it by downloading and updating various apps.\n\n\u062e\u0628\u0631\u06cc \u06a9\u0647 \u0627\u0645\u06cc\u062f\u0648\u0627\u0631\u06cc\u0645 \u062a\u0635\u0627\u062f\u0641\u06cc \u0646\u0628\u0627\u0634\u062f: \u06af\u0648\u06af\u0644 \u067e\u0644\u06cc \u0622\u0632\u0627\u062f \u0634\u062f! http://t.co/DnQIE1TUKi pic.twitter.com/XYebUfyI0A\u2014 \u0647\u0627\u062f\u06cc (@wilibiligili) June 17, 2014\n\ngoogle play is now reachable in Iran !!! good news\u2014 amir ebrahim khalili (@amklll) June 17, 2014\n\nIf the unblocking wasn't a glitch after all, Anderson said, the government could still prevent users from downloading individual apps, such as circumvention tools, Facebook and Twitter. Some Iranian users said they could indeed view and download the blocked Facebook and Twitter apps in Google Play, but reports were inconsistent.\n\nTopping the list of most popular Google Play apps in Iran is Psiphon, an app that allows users to circumvent Internet censorship, followed by a FIFA World Cup app. The fact that Psiphon is available is a sign that the unblocking might be a glitch; while very popular in the country, it would naturally be one of the first targets for government censors. \n\nGoogle Play store unblocked by Iran's #filternet; third of top applications are circumvention, soccer close second. pic.twitter.com/qb3taw6K61\u2014 Collin Anderson (@CDA) June 17, 2014\n\nIran employs a relatively sophisticated censorship system to block thousands of websites and major western social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Instagram, however, is accessible in Iran, despite a court order to block it in May. The photo sharing service was also briefly blocked there in late December 2013 for less than a day.\n\nThe more tech-savvy Iranians are able to skirt such restrictions with tools like Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), proxies or the anonymity software Tor. That's how approximately 4 million Iranians use Facebook each day. The country's leaders, including President Hassan Rouhani and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are also -- paradoxically -- very active on social media. \n\nThis could be the first major western Internet service unblocked after Rouhani's promise to ease Internet censorship after his election in September 2013. However, over the past few months, the opposite has been true; censorship has increased in Iran. Over the past year, the government blocked Google Sites, along with chat services like WeChat and Cryptocat.\n\nAt this point, many signs point to this being a glitch. But if the government is making Google Play accessible for good, it could be a sign that Rouhani's government is finally ready to open up to the global Internet. \n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":605,"facebook":96,"linked_in":21,"google_plus":23,"total":745},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzJkL0dvb2dsZV9QbGF5LmQ4YmQwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/1cb2bc2f/179/Google_Play_Iran.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzJkL0dvb2dsZV9QbGF5LmQ4YmQwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/818a86ef/179/Google_Play_Iran.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzJkL0dvb2dsZV9QbGF5LmQ4YmQwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/0e7ed147/179/Google_Play_Iran.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzJkL0dvb2dsZV9QbGF5LmQ4YmQwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/458910ef/179/Google_Play_Iran.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzJkL0dvb2dsZV9QbGF5LmQ4YmQwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/28a9d635/179/Google_Play_Iran.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1vJzXvP","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/05/28/iran-jails-8-facebook-users/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"The Google Play store is now fully available in Iran, after a block on the service is lifted -- perhaps because of a glitch. Some apps, like Facebook or Twitter, however, are still unavailable.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a0b4edb589e43e45000556","id":"2014/06/17/grado-family-business-video","title":"Handmade in Brooklyn: How Grado Labs Maintains Its Tradition","title_tag":null,"author":"Lindsay Rothfeld","post_date":"2014-06-17T17:36:26-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:36:26 -0400","sort_key":"1wX13k","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/grado-family-business-video/","content":{"plain":"At his school's career day, Jonathan Grado's friends were dressed as sports players and lawyers. Jonathan walked into the classroom with headphones around his neck and said, \"I'm going to be my dad.\" \n\nBut for him, that was normal. \n\n\"Sound and heritage\" is what differentiates Grado Labs, Jonathan Grado, vice president of marketing says. \"I don't think other companies can reproduce our story that we have. We're a small family, and we're still making headphones by hand in Brooklyn, just as we were in 1953.\" \n\nSee also: 5 Generations in, Moscot Keeps Business in the Family\n\nLike many \"family brands,\" Grado Labs is run out of the building in which it was conceived. Unlike many competing brands though, Grado has not wavered from its sound-focused roots, despite the ever-evolving music industry.\n\nThree generations of Grado\n\nTheir story began 60 years ago, when John Grado, CEO of Grado Labs (and Jonathan's father), became heir to the throne, so to speak. In 1953, John's uncle started making phonograph cartridges on his kitchen table, before opening the Brooklyn factory in 1955 -- as a 9-year-old, John was immersed in the family business, as he lived just upstairs from the storefront. An eager worker, John learned the ropes by sweeping the floors, running the machines and looking over his uncle's shoulders. \n\nWhen his uncle moved out to New Jersey in 1978, John took over daily operations. \"It was like being thrown into the river as a baby. You learn to swim.\" For a more thorough timeline, Grado Labs offers a great visualization on its website. John's uncle passed down knowledge, but John claims the family's ability to decipher quality sound is also innate, inherent in Grado genes. \"I know how to listen to things,\" he says. \n\nToday, Grado Labs has around twenty-two full-time employees, and although only three of them have the Grado surname, the familial feeling pervades. Just walk downstairs and you'll find height markings on the wall, which an employee drew of Jonathan. \"Everyone in the building I've known for 23 years now. Everyone in the company is part of the family,\" Jonathan says. \n\nSteady growth, but not without struggle\n\nWhen the store first opened, the Grado family sold phonograph cartridges, turntables, speakers and accessories. It wasn't until the late '80s that the company diversified. \"When the compact disc was introduced, our cartridge sales went from 10,000 units a week, and in 1990, a low of 12,000 for the year. We knew what was coming and we had to consciously think about what we could do to diversify. We figured that we could probably make an impact in the headphone business.\"\n\nAnd when Grado made that change, sales slowed. While the company had some prestige, this was a whole new product line. \"First run of headphones, we had a desk that might have been four feet by two feet wide, and my wife and I sat down at the desk and made the headphones. We'd get an order for six pairs of headphones and we'd be jumping up and down with joy,\" John recalls. But from that point on, there's been a natural growth, he says. \"We rely on word-of-mouth advertising and the world slowly keeps expanding.\" \n\nCultivating the 'Grado sound'\n\nThe Grado product doesn't rely on bells and whistles -- it's all about the sound. While it's important to stay adaptable to what's going on in the headphone business, Grado runs its own race, Jonathan says. \"If we let everything influence us, we'd have waterproof, bluetooth, closed-back headphones, which would be cool, but we've focused on our sound. We've had 60 years to really perfect the Grado sound, and we just keep improving on it.\"\n\nWhile other companies release new product lines each year for the shock or wow factor, Grado's philosophy is to iterate to generate a better product, not just a shiny new thing to keep up with the product cycle. \"We decide to come out with new models when we have new ideas that improve on old models ... until we have those new ideas, we stick with the old models,\" John says. \n\nThe company has been working on its newly released eSeries for a year and a half, a product line that \"has been upgraded and optimized for one purpose -- outstanding dynamics and fidelity,\" the company website says. The headphones \"bring you closer to your favorite artists,\" as the superior sonic production leaves little between you and the performance. \n\n Passing the baton\r\nOne day, John will relinquish his managerial duties onto his sons, but when that day arrives, he'll still remain a guiding presence in the background. \n\nSince Jonathan's involvement in the company, Grado Labs has adapted to the digital revolution, evident by its surge on social media. The company's Facebook page has garnered just shy of 50,000 organic fans in the past two years, and unlike its competitors, Grado has a zero dollar ad budget. \n\nWhen someone buys Grado headphones, they become part of the family -- as long as they leave their shoes at the door, Jonathan jokes. As the master of Grado marketing, he understands the power of social media and cultivating close relationships with customers. \"Becoming more social and really building a strong community online that we can engage with in a split second is really powerful.\"\r\n \r\nWhile Grado Labs has an exquisite history that breathes life into its headphones, the future of the company is looking bright, and Jonathan agrees: \"I think the third generation of Grado is something to look forward to.\""},"shares":{"twitter":585,"facebook":1254,"linked_in":92,"google_plus":8,"pinterest":3,"total":1942},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzhkLzgwOTc4OTIzNzYuNmMwYzguanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/3231b5e6/bc1/8097892376_3f38ba602f_o.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzhkLzgwOTc4OTIzNzYuNmMwYzguanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/1222f65c/bc1/8097892376_3f38ba602f_o.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzhkLzgwOTc4OTIzNzYuNmMwYzguanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/3dda72c5/bc1/8097892376_3f38ba602f_o.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzhkLzgwOTc4OTIzNzYuNmMwYzguanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/1b459beb/bc1/8097892376_3f38ba602f_o.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzhkLzgwOTc4OTIzNzYuNmMwYzguanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/33d86826/bc1/8097892376_3f38ba602f_o.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1nNJyyn","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/11/moscot-family-business/"}]},"excerpt":"A family business built on sound and heritage, Grado Labs welcomes us into their home with high quality headphones, handmade in Brooklyn since 1953. ","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"53a09cbe97b2f85cd000006e","id":"2014/06/17/democrats-net-neutrality-congress","title":"Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Another Exercise in Congressional Futility","title_tag":null,"author":"Jason Abbruzzese","post_date":"2014-06-17T15:53:23-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:53:23 -0400","sort_key":"1wWZrB","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/democrats-net-neutrality-congress/","content":{"plain":"Alternate headline: powerless bill doomed to fail.\n\nTwo Democratic members of Congress -- Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Rep. Doris Matsui of California -- will propose legislation that will push the Federal Communications Commission to do whatever it can to ensure net neutrality, according to The Washington Post.\n\nSee also: FCC and Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know\n\nThe proposal comes amid the growing realization that the laws Congress has enacted may be too narrow to provide for net neutrality, forcing the FCC to plod forward in hopes that it can write regulation that keeps the Internet a level playing field while staying within the legal bounds it has already twice exceeded.\n\nThe bill gives no new power to the FCC, instead adding only political support. It will likely die in the Republican-led House of Representatives.\n\nNet neutrality and the FCC are both already highly politicized. The two Republican FCC commissioners voted against opening comment on the commission's recently proposed net neutrality rules, and GOP politicians have warned they will try to thwart new regulation seen as overly intrusive.\n\nKeep in mind, the FCC enforces rules written by Congress. Congress theoretically could pass a bill giving new, legitimate power to the FCC to enforce net neutrality. Instead, Democrats are writing a bill that would essentially cheerlead the commission, and it will likely never see a vote.\n\nAs President Barack Obama recently noted, the current slate of legislators is on track to be the least productive Congress in modern history with 23 public laws adopted in its second session.\n\nThe idea that politicians, whose job it is to propose new laws to be enforced by regulators like the FCC, would pen such a toothless bill, coupled with the reality that it almost certainly won't pass, highlights just how broken the system is.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":582,"facebook":50,"linked_in":27,"google_plus":4,"total":663},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2ZmL0NhcGl0b2wuMDI0YWUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/d04e38b6/04c/Capitol.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2ZmL0NhcGl0b2wuMDI0YWUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/f92c49c2/04c/Capitol.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2ZmL0NhcGl0b2wuMDI0YWUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/ad31d724/04c/Capitol.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2ZmL0NhcGl0b2wuMDI0YWUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/aa175f84/04c/Capitol.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2ZmL0NhcGl0b2wuMDI0YWUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/de6b200c/04c/Capitol.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/UJ3oRW","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"http://mashable.com/2014/05/14/what-is-net-neutrality"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"A bill being proposed by two Democratic members of Congress highlights just how helpless politicians have become in the net neutrality debate. ","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a08deb97b2f8417e001801","id":"2014/06/17/wici-awards-2014","title":"WiCi Awards Honors the Women Changing Communications","title_tag":null,"author":"Stacy Martinet","post_date":"2014-06-17T14:50:02-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:50:02 -0400","sort_key":"1wWYsi","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/wici-awards-2014/","content":{"plain":"Despite representing more than half of college graduates, women in the U.S. still earn $0.77 on men's dollar and make up just 17% of corporate board seats. Overcoming the odds, however, a number of boundary-pushing women are moving the digital revolution forward.\n\nWhether by protesting sexual violence in India or joining the global #bringbackourgirls campaign for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, women's role in the changing digital landscape is becoming more clearly defined. \n\nAt Mashable, we believe it's time to honor the women who are making waves. We're thrilled to be teaming up with New York Women in Communications again for the second annual WiCi Awards, which recognizes the career achievements of emerging female leaders. \n\nSee also: 10 Pioneering Women Changing the Field of Communications\n\nFrom advertising to entertainment, public relations to social strategy, women are at the forefront of change in the communications industry. The awards will recognize women in advertising, arts and entertainment, design, editorial, content creation, corporate communications, product development, public relations, social strategy and video. \n\nSubmissions are open now through Friday, July 11, so now is the time to nominate your esteemed friend, distinguished colleague or revered mentor. Any female leader is eligible for nomination -- not only New York Women in Communications members. The winners will be selected by past Matrix Award winners, as well as the New York Women in Communications leadership, and will be announced at an evening reception in New York.\n\nPast WiCi winners include Rachel Sterne Haot, chief digital officer and deputy secretary of technology of New York State, Abbey Klaassen, editor of Ad Age, Lauren Bush Lauren, CEO, creative director and cofounder of FEED Projects, and Sara Haines, ABC news correspondent."},"shares":{"twitter":588,"facebook":40,"linked_in":27,"google_plus":1,"total":656},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2Q0L1dpQ2lfQXdhcmRzLmRhNjUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/cac7a1c8/f83/WiCi_Awards_2013.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2Q0L1dpQ2lfQXdhcmRzLmRhNjUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/e8bde209/f83/WiCi_Awards_2013.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2Q0L1dpQ2lfQXdhcmRzLmRhNjUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/8adb1b38/f83/WiCi_Awards_2013.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2Q0L1dpQ2lfQXdhcmRzLmRhNjUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/c2f21162/f83/WiCi_Awards_2013.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2Q0L1dpQ2lfQXdhcmRzLmRhNjUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/4b13c605/f83/WiCi_Awards_2013.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1iDWr9K","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"wici-award-winners"}]},"excerpt":"Mashable is thrilled to be teaming up with New York Women in Communications again for the second annual WiCi Awards.","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"53a0827cb05f9d7fc50003e5","id":"2014/06/17/new-emoji-middle-finger","title":"Flipping the Bird Just Got Better With New Emoji","title_tag":null,"author":"Andrea Romano","post_date":"2014-06-17T14:01:23-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:01:23 -0400","sort_key":"1wWYe8","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/new-emoji-middle-finger/","content":{"plain":"There's a new rude little pictogram in town. \n\nOn Monday, Unicode, the standard that regulates text software across all platforms including Android and iOS devices, announced that 250 new emoji will be added to the original keyboard.\n\nSee also: 10 Emojis We Wish Existed\n\nUnicode has not published a single list of the new emoji in one place, however the Washington Post compiled a list by sorting through multiple charts. Emojipedia has also provided a list of the supposed 250 icons. \n\nSome of the new emoji you'll soon be able to enjoy include \"Rolled-Up Newspaper\", \"Beach With Umbrella \" and of course, the coveted \"Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended\". Now you're talking our language.\n\nThe additions do not include more ethnically diverse emoji, though that doesn't mean Apple or Android developers won't make those changes independently. Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged in March to work with Unicode on adding more multicultural emoji to the keyboard. \n\nDespite an obvious lack in diversity, this is a great day for the countless smartphone users who rely on emoji to get their point across and a not-so-great day for anyone who petitioned for a hot dog emoji. Sometimes texting isn't always nice.\n\nBONUS: 'Mean Girls' Emoji Is the Closest Thing to Texting Regina George \n\n\t\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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There's a new rude, crude little pictogram in town.","channel":"Watercooler","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/watercooler/"},{"_id":"53a0893b12d2cd7a850005f4","id":"2014/06/17/tinder-hookup-parody","title":"'Truth About Hookups' Takes a Hard, Hilarious Swipe at Love","title_tag":null,"author":"Andrea Romano","post_date":"2014-06-17T14:30:13-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:30:13 -0400","sort_key":"1wWY97","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/tinder-hookup-parody/","content":{"plain":"Online dating apps like Tinder can be a great way to find a fun, summer fling. Just don't get your hopes up if you're looking for true love.\n\nComedian Paul Gale explores the painful side of hookups in this hilarious and amazingly detailed sketch comedy video. 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These new findings shed light on how differences in personality can help divide up labor in species, the researchers added. Ants, bees, wasps, termites and other social insects form colonies that are often divided into specialized castes. These castes may include sterile workers and soldiers, as well as reproductive queens and males.\r\nSEE ALSO: Creepy, Crawly & Incredible: Photos of Spiders\r\nMany other animals are social as well but do not form castes that are anatomically specialized for distinct tasks. However, some research groups recently suggested that differences in personalities may help to determine the division of labor in social animals. To learn more, researchers investigated the comb-footed spider (Anelosimus studiosus), which can be found throughout the Americas, from New England to northern Argentina. These spiders form colonies, hunt together and share their webs and prey. They also communally guard egg sacs and feed immature spiderlings by regurgitating food. The scientists noted that there are two kinds of female spiders in this species: Aggressive females and docile females. \"Their personalities, unlike in many other species, are very clear-cut,\" said lead study author Colin Wright, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Pittsburgh. Past research has shown that aggressive females are more likely than docile females to attack prey and invaders. Still, \"although docile females don't participate very much at all in prey capture, aggressive spiders share prey with docile individuals,\" Wright said. \"Everyone gets to eat.\" It was unclear what role docile females actually play in these colonies, the researchers said. Some scientists had suggested docile females might \"have an overall negative impact on colony success,\" Wright said. \"Other studies, however, showed that mixed colonies performed better than colonies composed of either 100% docile or 100% aggressive colonies, showing that docile individuals must be doing something important in these colonies,\" he added. To discover what role docile females play, the scientists examined how well 141 aggressive and 148 docile female spiders performed individually at various tasks. Additionally, in experiments with a different group of this spider species, the researchers created 60 laboratory colonies, each made up of two aggressive and two docile female spiders, and investigated how those females divided up labor. Individually, aggressive females were more than twice as effective as docile females at capturing cricket prey and they also constructed webs that retained cricket prey about two-thirds longer than webs constructed by docile females. Furthermore, in colonies, aggressive females repaired webs, attacked potential prey and defended against invasive funnel weaver spiders (Barronopsis texana) nearly three times more often than docile females. But individually, offspring raised by docile females were twice as likely to survive as young spiders raised by aggressive females. In colonies, docile females took care of the young three times more often than aggressive females, by guarding egg cases, residing within clusters of progeny or regurgitating to feed offspring. \"We were surprised at how good of parents docile spiders turned out to be,\" Wright said. \"They're much better parents than aggressive spiders.\" In contrast, males \"frankly don't do much other than mate with females,\" Wright said. \"They do not display the same personality differences as do females and they do not perform essential colony functions \u2014 such as web repair, colony defense, prey capture or brood care \u2014 like females do. That is why this study, and just about every study with this species, focuses on the females.\" These findings reveal how much \"personalities can structure division of labor,\" Wright said. \"We hope other researchers will pay close attention to personality differences in their systems, because animal personalities are seemingly ubiquitous across the animal kingdom,\" he added. Future research can investigate what causes personality differences in these species. \"We do know that the personalities are largely heritable, suggesting a genetic component, but we cannot rule out other factors, such as early life learning,\" Wright said. Wright and his colleagues Tate Holbrook and Jonathan Pruitt detailed their findings online on June 16 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."},"shares":{"twitter":636,"facebook":66,"linked_in":17,"google_plus":35,"total":754},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2I0L1NwaWRlci5iOTY5Yy5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk5NTB4NTM0IwplCWpwZw/7966ac66/a20/Spider.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2I0L1NwaWRlci5iOTY5Yy5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNzV4MTc1IwplCWpwZw/8d553fa1/a20/Spider.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2I0L1NwaWRlci5iOTY5Yy5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkzNTB4MzUwIwplCWpwZw/92b32cd9/a20/Spider.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2I0L1NwaWRlci5iOTY5Yy5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk4MHg4MCMKZQlqcGc/40d22fc6/a20/Spider.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2I0L1NwaWRlci5iOTY5Yy5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxNjB4MTYwIwplCWpwZw/3fa1af3e/a20/Spider.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1oB7EQA","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{},"excerpt":"Female spiders that live together in colonies may adopt \"warrior\" or \"nanny\" roles, similar to how insects can form \"soldier\" and \"worker\" castes, scientists say. These new findings shed light on how differences in personality can help divide up labo...","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a06774b05f9d7fc500005d","id":"2014/06/17/louie-season-4-finale","title":"'Louie' Season 4 Finale Recap: He Gets the Girl (Unfortunately)","title_tag":null,"author":"Anita Li","post_date":"2014-06-17T12:06:03-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:06:03 -0400","sort_key":"1wWVTB","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/louie-season-4-finale/","content":{"plain":"Immediately after FX aired Louie's controversial attempted-rape scene in \"Pamela Part 1,\" viewers and critics alike sounded off online, with many deriding it as \"horrible\" and a \"dark moment.\"\n\nThen, we were left hanging -- forced to wait two weeks for \"Pamela Part 2\" and \"Pamela Part 3,\" the show's season finale, to witness the aftermath of Louie's actions. Those looking for a resolution will be disappointed, however, as Louis C.K. once again chooses to portray the messiness of relationships and life -- this time, with decidedly less finesse than usual.\n\nSee also: 'Louie' Episodes 11 and 12 Recap: Father Figures\n\nAt the beginning of \"Part 2,\" Louie calls Pamela to ask her out on a date. He refuses to take no for an answer, and pushes Pamela to go out with him despite her repeated rejections. Their exchange only faintly alludes to the attempted rape in \"Part 1,\" reminding viewers of Louie's similarly insistent and unwelcome behavior when trying to force himself on Pamela (Louie: \"You kissed me back.\" Pamela: \"I most certainly did not\").\n\nEventually, Pamela agrees to \"hang out,\" which Louie calls a \"date\" before gleefully hanging up on her. Their ensuing rendezvous feels stereotypically Hollywood romantic -- albeit with a Louie-esque twist -- as the two laugh through a modern-art gallery (featuring massive used q-tips, fake naked people and C.K. appearing in a video installation), and watch a meteor shower in Central Park. Impressed, Pamela declares that Louie has made a \"good move,\" and kisses him.\n\nAfter returning to Louie's place, however, Pamela tries to bolt out the door immediately after using his bathroom, but he stops her. Their resulting conversation includes a more-direct reference to the attempted rape:\r\nPamela: You're gonna wanna do things.\r\nLouie: Well, yeah, come on.\r\nPamela: You know, Louie, you just can't make people do things.\r\nLouie: I'm not making you do anything. This is -- we're having a romantic time, and you know it. Come on!\n\nUpset, Louie tells Pamela to leave. She stays, however, seemingly out of a combination of guilt and disbelief that Louie didn't come running after her -- as he usually does. \"I feel like you like me, and you wanna get close to me, and then I do it, and then you shove me away. And frankly, that hurts,\" Louie tells Pamela. \"Either you want to hurt me or you don't care.\"\n\nAt this point, the issue of Louie trying to rape Pamela in \"Part 1\" takes a back seat to the ongoing saga (since season 1) of Louie's unrequited love for Pamela; specifically, it becomes about Pamela's emotional distance.\n\nSure, relationships are messy, and there's no denying Pamela is a damaged person who runs away from her feelings and has baggage from her previous marriage -- but C.K. should not have tangled that up with the serious issue of sexual consent. By doing so, the fault for their faltered relationship shifts from Louie (because he tried to rape her) to Pamela (because she is emotionally unavailable).\n\nWhat's more, the episode concludes neatly: Pamela offers to let Louie see her underwear in exchange for staying at his place, the two trade photo sexts and they ultimately sleep with each other. In other words, Louie gets the girl. \"Part 3\" only builds upon his success, revisiting their now-serious relationship apparently months later, with Pamela hanging out with Louie's kids, Pamela meeting Louie's ex-wife Janet and Pamela watching Louie do standup.\n\nBut where are the consequences? Even though Pamela has toyed with Louie's feelings, the consequences of his attempted rape should have been clear. It would've made more sense -- both artistically and morally -- to have Pamela dump Louie, or for the two to break up.\n\nDespite the criticism it received, I supported and still support \"Part 1\" -- including the way the attempted-rape scene was handled (see my tweets, below) -- because I understood that C.K., as is his style, was forcing viewers to confront an uncomfortable issue that is rarely discussed. The episode also highlighted the hypocrisy of Louie (and many other men) who pay lip service to feminism, but don't follow through with their actions.\r\n@klemay C.K. often uses uncomfortable scenes to make viewers think about important issues. The attempted-rape scene highlighted his...\n\n\u2014 Anita Li (@neeeda) June 4, 2014\r\n\u00a0\r\n@klemay character's hypocrisy, and emphasized the heinousness of his actions. I don't think it was meant to be gratuitous (like in GoT).\n\n\u2014 Anita Li (@neeeda) June 4, 2014\r\n\u00a0\r\n@klemay I don't think the goal was character development, but rather to force viewers to confront an issue that people sweep under the rug\n\n\u2014 Anita Li (@neeeda) June 4, 2014\r\n\u00a0\n\nC.K.'s original point, however, is ultimately lost in the season finale. His attempt to portray a nuanced relationship -- which he has successfully done before, and would otherwise be acceptable in most other circumstances -- backfired because the issue of rape is black and white.\n\nWith all the moralizing that took place throughout season 4, it's odd that C.K. chose to leave this plot line ambiguous.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":44,"twitter":570,"linked_in":9,"google_plus":1,"total":624},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzAyL2xvdWllc2Vhc29uLmE4MDczLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/9b2e2567/a3b/louie-season-4-finale-12.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzAyL2xvdWllc2Vhc29uLmE4MDczLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/8d854448/a3b/louie-season-4-finale-12.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzAyL2xvdWllc2Vhc29uLmE4MDczLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/966be726/a3b/louie-season-4-finale-12.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzAyL2xvdWllc2Vhc29uLmE4MDczLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/9984370d/a3b/louie-season-4-finale-12.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE5LzAyL2xvdWllc2Vhc29uLmE4MDczLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/b85533a3/a3b/louie-season-4-finale-12.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1nM09T9","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/10/louie-season-4-episodes-11-12/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"We recap the season 4 finale of 'Louie.'","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"53a06645b589e47409000ebc","id":"2014/06/17/youtubes-subscription-music-service","title":"YouTube's Subscription Music Service Could Block Some Artists","title_tag":null,"author":"Jason Abbruzzese","post_date":"2014-06-17T12:00:57-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:00:57 -0400","sort_key":"1wWVOF","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/youtubes-subscription-music-service/","content":{"plain":"Please don't stop the music.\n\nYouTube's hotly anticipated music streaming service is on its way, and the site is making preparations to penalize record labels that haven't agreed to its terms.\n\nSee also: The Rise of Digital Music Over the Past 10 Years\n\nVideos of independent labels that have refused to agree to deals on for a new paid subscription offering will soon find their videos blocked, according to a report from the Financial Times.\n\nYouTube confirmed to Mashable that a subscription music service is int he works. \n\n\"\"Our goal is to continue making YouTube an amazing music experience, both as a global platform for fans and artists to connect, and as a revenue source for the music industry,\" a YouTube spokesperson wrote in an email. \"We\u2019re adding subscription-based features for music on YouTube with this in mind -- to bring our music partners new revenue streams in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars YouTube already generates for them each year. We are excited that hundreds of major and independent labels are already partnering with us.\"\n\nThe move marks the end of an era for YouTube, which originally launched as an inclusive platform for legal user content to be viewed by all. Now, the site that helped usher in the era of streaming video will take one of its biggest steps in commoditizing its success. \n\nThe streaming video site also doubles as the most popular streaming music platform, and Google is looking to capitalize on that popularity. But not all labels are on board with the revenue split being offered. \n\nRobert Kyncl, YouTube's global head of business, told the FT that 90% of the industry is on board, with mostly indie labels holding out. Some of those labels are home to popular European artists, including Adele and the Arctic Monkeys, as well as American artists such as Jack White.\n\nThe details of YouTube's music service that have emerged so far make it sound quite similar to services such as Spotify. Users will be able to access YouTube's considerable music library on demand on desktop and mobile devices without ads. There will also be an option for listening to selected songs offline.\n\nThe company's willingness to play hardball with indie labels follow on various other recent disputes over digital royalties in music and e-books. Amazon's new music service, which recently launched as a part of its Prime offering, has yet to come to terms with Universal Music Group. Amazon is currently in a standoff with book publisher Hachette.\n\nFT and The Guardian reported that WIN, a music industry organization, has filed a complaint with the European Commission, alleging that YouTube is offering different terms to indie labels than it has granted to larger labels.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\n\nBONUS: #5facts You Didn't Know About YouTube"},"shares":{"facebook":68,"twitter":630,"google_plus":10,"linked_in":160,"total":868},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2E1L0FkZWxlLmZjMzAxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/030809a2/c29/Adele.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2E1L0FkZWxlLmZjMzAxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/8a3a70ba/c29/Adele.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2E1L0FkZWxlLmZjMzAxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/f65fd207/c29/Adele.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2E1L0FkZWxlLmZjMzAxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/cd41c0d1/c29/Adele.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2E1L0FkZWxlLmZjMzAxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/babb0359/c29/Adele.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1slHToR","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"http://mashable.com/2014/03/19/digital-music-chart"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"YouTube's much anticipated music streaming service is on its way, and the site is making preparations to penalize record labels that haven't agreed to terms.","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"53a06d1412d2cd7a85000078","id":"2014/06/17/peer-to-peer-business","title":"Next Generation P2P: Measuring Growth in the Peer-to-Peer Industry","title_tag":null,"author":"James O'Brien","post_date":"2014-06-17T11:10:49-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:10:49 -0400","sort_key":"1wWV29","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/peer-to-peer-business/","content":{"plain":"If anything, peer-to-peer businesses are reaching for the next rung. As Internet usage expands -- as it did, acutely, during the past half decade -- the ability to connect and, perhaps more importantly, the ways that we connect, have been bridge-building engines for the P2P industry.\n\nThat's led to predictions, via Forbes, in 2013, of a 25% industry growth rate, with of some $3.5 billion in the share economy.\n\n\"Not just P2P services, but P2P commerce,\" said Tom Liravongsa, analyst, founder, and CEO of Breakupgoods. \"As the Internet has grown, so has the need to seek the better deal, and find the person who is willing to go the distance for the job or goods.\"\n\nSee also: 17 Business Models Shaking Up the Marketplace\n\nFrom providing rides, for a fee, in your own car to taking on tasks for P2P platform users -- often shopping and/or deliveries -- to putting up your apartment for rent (or seeking one to rent during your next trip), iterations of peer-to-peer businesses abound.\n\nTimmy Wahba, co-founder and director of strategic growth at Projective Space, said that, while the industry is likely to experience its share of growing pains, he sees signs of expansion within the P2P business space as well. \n\n\"P2P is the hottest concept that anyone with a mobile [device] and a task to do can understand,\" Wahba said. \"The share economy is now in our consciousness as an obvious resource, the generational divide [regarding] P2P will continue to be bridged.\"\n\nWith ideas like that in mind, let's take a look at just what's happening when it comes to examples of P2P businesses. Here's a snapshot of three, what they do and what kind of numbers they're generating, with data supplied by their in-house analysts. \n\n1. Zopa\n\nThis longstanding UK-based peer-to-peer lending service has seen the equivalent of approximately $1 billion change hands through its system, since launch in 2005. Users become either lenders or borrowers, and then requests for loans are paired with lenders that are prepared to work within the parameters the borrower represents. What follows are stats the company had to offer about its growth in recent years.\n\nTime to launch: Idea to launch: 10 months ; Funding to launch: 6 months\n\nEmployee growth: 2005: 9 ; 2014: 65 ; Percentage hired in past 12 months: 50%\n\nNumber of lenders and borrowers, combined: 2013: 130,000+\n\nRecent revenue: 2013: $8.4M ; 2014: $17M (projected)\n\nOverall percentage growth (year over year): 100%\n\n2. Airbnb\n\nLaunched in 2008, and one of the well-known players in the peer-to-peer business space, Airbnb supplies a marketplace to consumers who want to offer and/or rent accommodations around the world. Taking off on vacation for a week this summer? You can put your pad on Airbnb, set a price and pitch it to the platform's users as a place to stay. Why not make a little extra money while you're relaxing at the lake house? \n\nSimilarly, if you're touching down in L.A. for a meeting or two, there's no need to choose the costliest, most sterile hotel spots for your visit. Find a funky studio in Venice via Airbnb; you can even filter by price range and amenities, and tailor your search to include specific keywords (ocean side, for example). The numbers are a testament to the site's success -- Airbnb hosts 300,000 listings and has helped more than 4 million travelers book stays.\n\nWhile they're now a $2.5 billion company, it was a rocky start for Airbnb. The business almost shuttered in 2009, just a year into its run. But then, the founders realized a significant problem: The shaky photos on their website didn't do much to promote the spaces available for rent. The company took the labor-intensive step of snapping great shots of units, and then make that pro-image aesthetic the new standard for listings on the site. Revenue doubled in a week. \n\n3. HappyDesk\n\nThis e-platform allows users to list spaces -- from offices to boats, even your living room couch -- and rent it to others. Need some extra admin support? You can bring in services of that ilk, via HappyDesk, as well. Here's how they characterized their growth, since launch in 2014.\n\nTime to launch: Previous iteration to present company: ~12 months\n\nEmployee growth: 2013: 2 (pre-launch) ; 2014: 10\n\nNumber of users in 2014: 200+\n\nTop three resources rented via HappyDesk: Space: 75% ; Services: 15% ; Cloud: 10%\n\n\"The sharing economy is going to grow, thanks to technology,\" said Dale Hersowitz, co-founder of HappyDesk. \"Online marketplaces make it easy and affordable to find and list products and services. The next steps will be to make the process easier, more seamless and, most importantly, more secure. There is still some hesitancy in online commerce \u2026 being sure you're purchasing a great product or service. Technology can ease those concerns.\"\n\nFurthermore, says Wahba, when it comes to P2P platforms -- perhaps in still-to-come iterations -- the freelance sector might have something to anticipate about the industry's evident growth. \n\n\"P2P sites for freelancers in specific industries will become a major tool for recruitment by corporations,\" Wahba says. \"Corporate recruiters will poach the highest rated freelancers \u2026 corporate venture capital will entertain acquiring certain P2P niche marketplaces for skilled, specific freelancers -- to control access to a well vetted talent pool.\"\n\nOne thing's for certain, if there's a way to leverage P2P for more and better opportunities, freelancers are just the sector to position itself as a vanguard in that regard. The future of peer-to-peer continues to unfold; the numbers and the analysts suggest it's a bright one."},"shares":{"twitter":464,"facebook":96,"google_plus":9,"linked_in":93,"total":662},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzkxL25ldHdvcmsuMDUwYTguanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/967f2819/d30/network.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzkxL25ldHdvcmsuMDUwYTguanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/d225b6b5/d30/network.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzkxL25ldHdvcmsuMDUwYTguanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/fe38909b/d30/network.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzkxL25ldHdvcmsuMDUwYTguanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/5917ee85/d30/network.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzkxL25ldHdvcmsuMDUwYTguanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/95b01134/d30/network.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1nKezTT","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/unique-business-models/"}]},"excerpt":"Take a look at three P2P businesses that are helping people find better deals, connecting strangers and are generating solid revenues. ","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"53a04e2db05f9d477c001257","id":"2014/06/17/video-twin-tornadoes","title":"Video: Flyover Reveals Twin Tornadoes' Destructive Path in Nebraska","title_tag":null,"author":"Andrew Freedman","post_date":"2014-06-17T10:18:11-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:18:11 -0400","sort_key":"1wWUdd","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/video-twin-tornadoes/","content":{"plain":"At least two people are dead, including a 5-year-old child, and 19 critically injured after a terrifying rare pair of intense tornadoes plowed into the small town of Pilger, Nebraska, on Monday afternoon.\n\nTwin tornadoes are a rare, although not unheard of, phenomenon, and they created some dramatic imagery.\n\nSee also: 'It's Total Devastation': Twin Tornadoes Trample Nebraska Town\n\nHere's how the storms appeared as they plowed through Pilger.\n\nAfter the storms struck, the Nebraska State Patrol dispatched a helicopter to survey the damage in Pilger. What they found was near-complete devastation, along with the brown land-scarring patterns that are characteristic of only the most powerful tornadoes.\n\nSee also: Freak Thunderstorm Spawns Twin Tornadoes as Severe Outbreak Hits U.S.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":25,"twitter":622,"linked_in":16,"google_plus":2,"total":665},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2FlLzZfMTdfMTRfYW5kLjQyNzQyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/56b1b27e/754/6_17_14_andrew_twins.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2FlLzZfMTdfMTRfYW5kLjQyNzQyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/dc05bfea/754/6_17_14_andrew_twins.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2FlLzZfMTdfMTRfYW5kLjQyNzQyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/d5707d6d/754/6_17_14_andrew_twins.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2FlLzZfMTdfMTRfYW5kLjQyNzQyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/93a31c4c/754/6_17_14_andrew_twins.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2FlLzZfMTdfMTRfYW5kLjQyNzQyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/1d409a96/754/6_17_14_andrew_twins.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1ydN5LY","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/twin-tornadoes-nebraska/"},{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/thunderstorm-twin-tornadoes-outbreak/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"A flyover of the tornado damage in the small town of Pilger, Nebraska, reveals that the twin tornadoes that struck on June 16 nearly destroyed the entire town.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a03f7e97b2f855f70003e4","id":"2014/06/17/methane-tool-search-for-alien-life","title":"New Methane Detection Tool Could Boost Search for Alien Life","title_tag":null,"author":"Space.com","post_date":"2014-06-17T09:15:39-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:15:39 -0400","sort_key":"1wWTeH","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/methane-tool-search-for-alien-life/","content":{"plain":"Astronomers now have a powerful new tool to sniff out methane on alien planets. The organic molecule, considered one of the building blocks of life, could be key to finding organisms beyond Earth.\n\nUsing supercomputers, a team of scientists developed a new absorption spectrum for methane that's 2,000 times more comprehensive than previous models and can detect the molecule at temperatures up to 2,228 degrees Fahrenheit, higher than ever before.\n\n\"We've probably been waiting for this paper for 10 or 20 years,\" said MIT astrophysicist and exoplanet hunter Sara Seager, who was not involved in the study.\r\nSEE ALSO: The Strangest Alien Planets\r\nDifferent molecules absorb light in different, telltale ways. When astronomers look at how the atmospheres of exoplanets absorb starlight, they can compare it to a spectrum to identify which molecules these alien worlds are made of. But previous methane spectra left out a range of absorption lines, especially for high temperatures, because no one had undertaken the immense task of calculating how the molecules would absorb light in higher energy states, Seager told Space.com.\n\nThe new calculations, led by Sergei Yurchenko, a professor physics and astronomy at University College London, resulted in a list of nearly 10 billion spectroscopic lines, each representing a distinct color at which methane can absorb light. Their findings were detailed June 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nTo complete the task, they used some of the most advanced supercomputers in the United Kingdom, provided by the University of Cambridge's Distributed Research utilizing Advanced Computing (DiRAC) project.\n\n\"We had to use a lot of computer power,\" Yurchenko told Space.com. \"It requires millions and millions of CPU [central processing unit] hours.\"\n\nThe team believes their model could give scientists a more complete picture of the methane abundance on failed stars known as brown dwarfs and alien worlds.\n\nFor example, Yurchenko and colleagues found that the so-called \"hot Jupiter\" HD 189733b -- a well-studied, blue-colored exoplanet 63 light-years away from Earth -- might have 20 times more methane than previously believed. But methane is just one component of this alien planet's hellish atmosphere, so the finding doesn't necessarily change the current picture of HD 189733b, where temperatures climb as high as 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit (930 degrees Celsius) during the day and rain comes in the form of molten glass.\r\nA boost in the search for alien life\r\nWhile methane can be produced by geologic sources, the organic compound also could be a sign of biologic activity. That means finding methane in a planet's atmosphere could be a potential sign of life.\n\nAstronomers don't think they'll find life on a hostile planet like HD 189733b, but with current technology, scientists are often stuck looking at these hot worlds, Yurchenko said. Hot Jupiters are relatively easy to detect because they are huge planets with tight orbits and they block a large portion of light when they pass in front of their parent star. HD189733b, for example, causes a three percent drop in starlight.\n\nYurchenko said astronomers likely need better detection methods before they can analyze the atmosphere of alien planets in the habitable zone, where water and life could possible exist.\n\n\"But if we learn something now about these hot objects that we can observe, then we could get a better idea of the objects that are still to come,\" Yurchenko added.\n\nYurchenko said he is looking forward to the launch of future missions, such as the European Space Agency's Exoplanet Characterization Observatory, or EChO, and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which might produce better data about a wider variety of alien worlds.\n\nYurchenko said more research could be done to expand the model to include absorption lines for methane that's at even higher temperatures. His team is also working on expanding astronomers' spectral range for about 30 other molecules."},"shares":{"twitter":629,"linked_in":17,"facebook":57,"google_plus":75,"total":778},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzRmL0V4b3BsYW5ldHMuYTQyYmMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/f21488bb/a5a/Exoplanets.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzRmL0V4b3BsYW5ldHMuYTQyYmMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/b920cc67/a5a/Exoplanets.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzRmL0V4b3BsYW5ldHMuYTQyYmMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/858d967d/a5a/Exoplanets.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzRmL0V4b3BsYW5ldHMuYTQyYmMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/de22e2ae/a5a/Exoplanets.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzRmL0V4b3BsYW5ldHMuYTQyYmMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/f2684d2e/a5a/Exoplanets.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1pEFJ1y","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{},"excerpt":"Astronomers now have a powerful new tool to sniff out methane on alien planets. The organic molecule, considered one of the building blocks of life, could be key to finding organisms beyond Earth. Using supercomputers, a team of scientists developed ...","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"53a037dfb05f9d477c0011f5","id":"2014/06/17/picasso-painting-hidden-man","title":"Picasso Painting Reveals Hidden Man","title_tag":null,"author":"The Associated Press","post_date":"2014-06-17T08:43:08-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:43:08 -0400","sort_key":"1wWSJe","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/picasso-painting-hidden-man/","content":{"plain":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Scientists and art experts have found a hidden painting beneath one of Pablo Picasso's first masterpieces, \"The Blue Room,\" using advances in infrared imagery to reveal a bow-tied man with his face resting on his hand. \n\nNow the question that conservators at The Phillips Collection in Washington hope to answer is simply: Who is he?\n\nSee also: 10 Amazing Google Earth and Maps Discoveries\n\nIt's a mystery that's fueling new research about the 1901 painting created early in Picasso's career while he was working in Paris at the start of his distinctive blue period of melancholy subjects.\n\nCurators and conservators revealed their findings for the first time to The Associated Press last week. Over the past five years, experts from The Phillips Collection, National Gallery of Art, Cornell University and Delaware's Winterthur Museum have developed a clearer image of the mystery picture under the surface. It's a portrait of an unknown man painted in a vertical composition by one of the 20th century's great artists.\n\n\"It's really one of those moments that really makes what you do special,\" said Patricia Favero, the conservator at The Phillips Collection who pieced together the best infrared image yet of the man's face. \"The second reaction was, 'well, who is it?' We're still working on answering that question.\"\n\nIn 2008, improved infrared imagery revealed for the first time a man's bearded face resting on his hand with three rings on his fingers. He's dressed in a jacket and bow tie. A technical analysis confirmed the hidden portrait is a work Picasso likely painted just before \"The Blue Room,\" curators said. After the portrait was discovered, conservators have been using other technology to scan the painting for further insights.\n\nConservators long suspected there might be something under the surface of \"The Blue Room,\" which has been part of The Phillips Collection in Washington since 1927. Brushstrokes on the piece clearly don't match the composition that depicts a woman bathing in Picasso's studio. A conservator noted the odd brushstrokes in a 1954 letter, but it wasn't until the 1990s that an x-ray of the painting first revealed a fuzzy image of something under the picture. It wasn't clear, though, that it was a portrait.\n\n\"When he had an idea, you know, he just had to get it down and realize it,\" curator Susan Behrends Frank told the AP, revealing Picasso had hurriedly painted over another complete picture. \"He could not afford to acquire new canvasses every time he had an idea that he wanted to pursue. He worked sometimes on cardboard because canvass was so much more expensive.\"\n\nScholars are researching who this man might be and why Picasso painted him. They have ruled out the possibility that it was a self-portrait. One possible figure is the Paris art dealer Ambrose Villard who hosted Picasso's first show in 1901. But there's no documentation and no clues left on the canvass, so the research continues.\n\nFavero has been collaborating with other experts to scan the painting with multi-spectral imaging technology and x-ray fluorescence intensity mapping to try to identify and map the colors of the hidden painting. They would like to recreate a digital image approximating the colors Picasso used.\n\nCurators are planning the first exhibit focused on \"The Blue Room\" as a seminal work in Picasso's career for 2017. It will examine the revelation of the man's portrait beneath the painting, as well as other Picasso works and his engagement with other artists.\n\nFor now, \"The Blue Room\" is part of a tour to South Korea through early 2015 as the research continues.\n\nHidden pictures have been found under other important Picasso paintings. A technical analysis of \"La Vie\" at the Cleveland Museum of Art revealed Picasso significantly reworked the painting's composition. And conservators found a portrait of a mustached man beneath Picasso's painting \"Woman Ironing\" at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.\n\nDorothy Kosinski, the director of The Phillips Collection, said new knowledge about Picasso and his process can be discovered through the high-tech collaboration among museums.\n\n\"Our audiences are hungry for this. It's kind of detective work. It's giving them a doorway of access that I think enriches, maybe adds mystery, while allowing them to be part of a piecing together of a puzzle,\" she said. \"The more we can understand, the greater our appreciation is of its significance in Picasso's life.\""},"shares":{"twitter":370,"facebook":167,"linked_in":27,"google_plus":7,"pinterest":1,"total":572},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2M0L0FydFBpY2Fzc29ILjAyZDc1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/cf964a27/c9c/Art-Picasso-Hidden.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2M0L0FydFBpY2Fzc29ILjAyZDc1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/ce37c698/c9c/Art-Picasso-Hidden.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2M0L0FydFBpY2Fzc29ILjAyZDc1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/25f149f7/c9c/Art-Picasso-Hidden.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2M0L0FydFBpY2Fzc29ILjAyZDc1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/d4c53a78/c9c/Art-Picasso-Hidden.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2M0L0FydFBpY2Fzc29ILjAyZDc1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/f2b800b5/c9c/Art-Picasso-Hidden.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1q81LaK","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"google-earth-amazing-discoveries"}]},"excerpt":"Scientists and art experts have found a hidden painting beneath one of Pablo Picasso's first masterpieces.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"539f88de12d2cd71e400090a","id":"2014/06/16/virtual-school-day-wont-count-new-jersey","title":"State Won't Count 'Virtual School Day' That 96% of Students Showed Up For","title_tag":null,"author":"Colin Daileda","post_date":"2014-06-16T20:16:18-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:16:18 -0400","sort_key":"1wWH4u","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/virtual-school-day-wont-count-new-jersey/","content":{"plain":"The government of New Jersey recently declined to allow a virtual school day to count in lieu of a snow day, much to the presumed chagrin of students everywhere.\n\nPascack Valley Regional High School District gave the virtual school day a test-run on Feb. 13, another snow day during what district superintendent Erik Gundersen called \"the winter to end all winters.\" The 2,000-student district had already used up its three allotted snow days, so another snow day meant students would either have to tack on extra days at the end of the year or shorten spring break to make up for it.\n\nGundersen told Mashable that the district has issued laptops to students for a decade and that 96% of students showed up for their online classes. Regardless, the state ruled that the day won't count, because schools were still physically shut down.\n\nSee also: Starbucks Plans to Send Its Employees to College for Free\n\n\"We commend Pascack Valley Regional's innovative spirit and the efforts taken to ensure that students continue to receive a high-quality education in spite of the extreme weather the state experience [sic] this past winter,\" Evo Popoff, chief innovation officer at the New Jersey Department of Education, wrote in a letter to Gundersen regarding the virtual school day. \"However, we cannot, at this time, allow the school day to count.\"\n\nPopoff later said that the decision was \"consistent with the position we have taken in recent years even in the face of extreme weather conditions, such as Superstorm Sandy.\" You can read the full letter, and Gundersen's letter to parents about the decision, below.\n\nThe superintendent called the decision a \"very literal interpretation of state laws,\" but also said that New Jersey education officials urged them to try out a virtual school day when the district floated the idea past state officials this past February.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re hopeful that we opened up an opportunity for the state legislature to redefine what constitutes a school day,\" Gundersen said. \u201cI think there could be other aspects where we would experiment with this and I would love for the department of education to reconsider next year.\u201d\n\nHe pointed out that the district has students in virtual classrooms all the time, some of whom have to stay at home for health reasons. Those online classes count because schools are open simultaneously.\n\nGundersen's district is one of the first to try out a virtual school day -- a private school in Taunton, Massachusetts, also made a successful go of it earlier this year -- and though he clearly believes it's hard to deny that this is the way of the future, he says he understands that Pascack Valley Regional is fortunate to have the capability.\n\nFew school districts are able to provide laptops for its students, and Internet connectivity is not as widespread in other parts of the country. In fact, a 2013 survey of Advanced Placement teachers conducted by the Pew Research Center found that only 18% of students had access to the Internet and other \"digital tools\" that they would need to further their education at home.\n\nAnd even with those digital tools, online classes aren't a foolproof method for countering snow days. Extreme weather can knock out power and Internet connections, making web discussions impossible.\n\nThat said, Gundersen's district is in a position to continue experimenting with virtual classes, and the superintendent believes others in New Jersey want to keep pushing the idea.\n\n\u201cThere is interest in this, there\u2019s no doubt about it,\" he said.\r\nNJDOE Decision and Response\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":668,"facebook":117,"google_plus":5,"linked_in":17,"total":807},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2UwL0VtcHR5X0NsYXNzLjIwNjU2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/f3854989/c93/Empty_Classroom_NJ.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2UwL0VtcHR5X0NsYXNzLjIwNjU2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/0251ab5c/c93/Empty_Classroom_NJ.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2UwL0VtcHR5X0NsYXNzLjIwNjU2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/7bf9e18c/c93/Empty_Classroom_NJ.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2UwL0VtcHR5X0NsYXNzLjIwNjU2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/0ac0cab0/c93/Empty_Classroom_NJ.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2UwL0VtcHR5X0NsYXNzLjIwNjU2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/1f8d7ac2/c93/Empty_Classroom_NJ.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1oxQsv3","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/15/starbucks-college/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"The government of New Jersey recently declined to allow a virtual school day to count in lieu of a snow day, much to the presumed chagrin of students everywhere. Pascack Valley Regional High School District gave the virtual school day a test-run on F...","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"539f7b0012d2cd71e40005d6","id":"2014/06/16/binge-watching-ruining-our-lives","title":"Binge-Watching: Ruining TV, America and Our Lives","title_tag":null,"author":"Lance Ulanoff","post_date":"2014-06-16T19:17:03-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:17:03 -0400","sort_key":"1wWG99","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/binge-watching-ruining-our-lives/","content":{"plain":"The new binge-watching TV season is winding down and our viewing habits are returning to normal. Or maybe they're not.\n\nThere are always other shows that we missed. Thanks to Netflix, Amazon Prime and video on-demand, we can start from the beginning today and finish all [insert number of seasons] in a fortnight.\n\nIt's awesome. Isn't it?"},"shares":{"twitter":395,"facebook":100,"linked_in":18,"stumble_upon":20,"google_plus":447,"pinterest":4,"total":984},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2RkL0JpbmdlX1dhdGNoLmYwNTdlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/2b64d7ae/69d/Binge_Watch_TV.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2RkL0JpbmdlX1dhdGNoLmYwNTdlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/5ab38e33/69d/Binge_Watch_TV.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2RkL0JpbmdlX1dhdGNoLmYwNTdlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/b6ebf382/69d/Binge_Watch_TV.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2RkL0JpbmdlX1dhdGNoLmYwNTdlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/c2efb37d/69d/Binge_Watch_TV.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3L2RkL0JpbmdlX1dhdGNoLmYwNTdlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/f18b606a/69d/Binge_Watch_TV.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1jucffi","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{},"excerpt":"The new Binge-Watching TV season is winding down and our TV-viewing habits are returning to normal. Or maybe they're not.","channel":"Watercooler","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/watercooler/"},{"_id":"539f741512d2cd71e40005a8","id":"2014/06/16/white-house-to-send-275-u-s-forces-to-baghdad","title":"White House to Send up to 275 U.S. Forces to Iraq","title_tag":null,"author":"The Associated Press","post_date":"2014-06-16T18:47:33-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:47:33 -0400","sort_key":"1wWFGB","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/white-house-to-send-275-u-s-forces-to-baghdad/","content":{"plain":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The United State is deploying up to 275 military troops to Iraq to protect the U.S. Embassy and other American interests and is considering sending a contingent of special forces soldiers as Iraq struggles to repel a rampant insurgency, officials said Monday. The White House insisted anew the U.S. would not be sending combat troops and thrusting America into a new Iraq war.\n\nPresident Barack Obama, in a formal report to Congress, said the troops in in the deployment he was announcing would be equipped for combat and would remain in Iraq until the security situation improved. About 160 troops are already in Iraq, including 50 Marines and more than 100 Army soldiers. Some of those soldiers have only recently arrived.\n\nSee also: Militants in Iraq Post Images Showing Massacre of Soldiers\n\nUnder the authorization Obama outlined Monday, a U.S. official said, the U.S. would put an additional 100 soldiers in a nearby third country where they would be held in reserve until needed.\n\nThe White House issued the following letter on Monday:\n\nDear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)\n\nStarting on June 15, 2014, up to approximately 275 U.S. Armed Forces personnel are deploying to Iraq to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. This force is deploying for the purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and property, if necessary, and is equipped for combat. This force will remain in Iraq until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed. \n\nThis action has been directed consistent with my responsibility to protect U.S. citizens both at home and abroad, and in furtherance of U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive.\n\nI am providing this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148). I appreciate the support of the Congress in these actions.\n\nSincerely,\r\nBarack Obama\n\nSeparately, U.S. officials emphasized that a possible limited special forces mission \u2014 which has not yet been approved \u2014 would focus on training and advising beleaguered Iraqi troops, many of whom have fled their posts across the nation's north and west as the al-Qaida-inspired insurgency has advanced in the worst threat to the country since American troops left in 2011.\n\nBut the plan suggests a willingness by Obama to send Americans into a collapsing security situation, though explicitly ruling out putting U.S. troops into direct combat in Iraq, and how far he might be willing to go to quell the brutal fighting in Iraq before it morphs into outright war.\n\nOn Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. is willing to talk with Iran over ways the two long-time foes might help stop the insurgents known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It was Washington's first explicit overture to the Islamic Republic to jointly work on threats that confront Iraq, although U.S. officials quickly tamped down speculation that the discussion might include military coordination or consultation.\n\nIn an interview Monday with Yahoo! News, Kerry said the U.S. would \"not rule out anything that would be constructive\" but stressed that any contacts with Iran would move \"step-by-step.\"\n\nThe White House says the U.S. military personnel are entering Iraq with the consent of that country's government.\n\nLast Friday, Obama declared that \"we will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq.\" But he said the White House was considering other options to support Iraqi security forces. Three U.S. officials familiar with ongoing discussions on Monday said the potential of sending special forces to Iraq is high on a list of military options being considered.\n\nIt's not clear how quickly the special forces could arrive in Iraq. It's also unknown whether they would remain in Baghdad or be sent to the nation's north, where the Sunni Muslim insurgency has captured large swaths of territory collaring Baghdad, the capital of the Shiite-led government.\n\nThe mission almost certainly would be small: One U.S. official said it could be up to 100 special forces soldiers. It also could be authorized only as an advising and training mission \u2014 meaning the soldiers would work closely with Iraqi forces that are fighting the insurgency but would not officially be considered as combat troops.\n\nThe troops would fall under the authority of the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad and would not be authorized to engage in combat, another U.S. official said. Their mission would be \"non-operational training\" of both regular and counter terrorism units, which the military has in the past interpreted to mean training on military bases, the official said.\n\nSee also: After Taking 2 Cities, Militant Group Vows to March on to Baghdad\n\nHowever, all U.S. troops are allowed to defend themselves in Iraq if they are under attack. Already, about 100 Marines and Army soldiers have been sent to Baghdad to help with embassy security, according to a U.S. official.\n\nThe three U.S. officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the plans by name.\n\nObama made the end of the war in Iraq one of his signature campaign issues, and has touted the U.S. military withdrawal in December 2011 as one of his top foreign policy successes. But he has been caught over the past week between Iraqi officials pleading for help \u2014 as well as Republicans blaming him for the loss of a decade's worth of gains in Iraq \u2014 and his anti-war Democratic political base, which is demanding that the U.S. stay out of the fight.\n\nWhile the White House continues to review its options, Iran's military leaders are starting to step into the beach.\n\nThe commander of Iran's elite Quds Force, Gen. Ghasem Soleimani, was in Iraq on Monday and consulting with the government there on how to stave off insurgents' gains. Iraqi security officials said the U.S. government was notified in advance of the visit by Soleimani, whose forces are a secretive branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard that in the past has organized Shiite militias to target U.S. troops in Iraq and, more recently, was involved in helping Syria's President Bashar Assad in his fight against Sunni rebels.\n\nIn the short term, the U.S. and Iran both want the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stabilized and the Sunni-led insurgency stopped. But in the long run, the United States would like to see an inclusive, representative democracy take hold in Iraq, while predominantly Shiite Iran is more focused on protecting Iraq's Shiite population and bolstering its own position as a regional power against powerful Sunni Arab states in the Gulf.\n\nState Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said any discussion with Iran would concern ways that Iran could help press al-Maliki's government to be more inclusive and treat all of Iraq's religious and ethnic groups equally.\n\nAny talks with Iran \"would be to discuss the political component here and our interest in encouraging Iraqi leaders to act in a responsible, nonsectarian way,\" she told reporters. \"Certainly a discussion of that is something that we would be open to.\"\n\nAdditional reporting from Mashable"},"shares":{"facebook":105,"twitter":620,"linked_in":19,"google_plus":9,"total":753},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzQ3L2hlbGljb3B0ZXJ1LjBlYzcxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/f44d58b6/a6f/helicopter-us-baghdad.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzQ3L2hlbGljb3B0ZXJ1LjBlYzcxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/c0ba49fb/a6f/helicopter-us-baghdad.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzQ3L2hlbGljb3B0ZXJ1LjBlYzcxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/fdf6bf27/a6f/helicopter-us-baghdad.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzQ3L2hlbGljb3B0ZXJ1LjBlYzcxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/591710f3/a6f/helicopter-us-baghdad.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzQ3L2hlbGljb3B0ZXJ1LjBlYzcxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/1896e297/a6f/helicopter-us-baghdad.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1ltu303","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/15/militants-in-iraq-post-images-showing-massacre-of-soldiers/"},{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/12/isis-vows-march-baghdad/"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":17039,"class":"content-gallery"}]},"excerpt":" The White House is sending up to 275 U.S. Armed Forces personnel to Iraq in an attempt to provide support and security starting on June 15, 2014.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"539f6bc197b2f835c6000562","id":"2014/06/16/stegomastodon-skull-fossil","title":"Bachelor Party Unearths 3-Million-Year-Old Elephant Fossil","title_tag":null,"author":"Katie Nelson","post_date":"2014-06-16T18:12:09-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:12:09 -0400","sort_key":"1wWF8l","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/stegomastodon-skull-fossil/","content":{"plain":"Most bachelor parties are hazy memories of booze-addled debauchery. But one group of guys stumbled onto something lasting longer than a hangover.\n\nThe men were hiking through Elephant Butte State Park near Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they saw a large object protruding from the ground. They dug further and discovered what was later identified as a 3 million-year-old stegomastodon skull, and quickly snapped a few photos, which they sent to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque.\n\nSee also: 10 Amazing Google Earth and Maps Discoveries\n\nArchaeologists determined that the skull, which weighed about one ton, belonged to a prehistoric relative of the elephant that lived during the Ice Age. It likely went extinct around 10,000 years ago.\n\n\"It's almost a complete skull. The only thing that's missing is the bottom jaw. The teeth still have enamel on them,\" Randall Gann, the museum's public information officer, told Mashable. 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Share it in the comments.\n\nBONUS: How to 3D Print a Dinosaur"},"shares":{"twitter":777,"facebook":1169,"linked_in":23,"google_plus":12,"pinterest":5,"stumble_upon":10866,"total":12852},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzE0L1N0ZWdhbWFzdG9kLmExYjY5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/a04cbd6f/1d0/Stegamastodon-187-e1402933416577.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzE0L1N0ZWdhbWFzdG9kLmExYjY5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/7b523840/1d0/Stegamastodon-187-e1402933416577.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzE0L1N0ZWdhbWFzdG9kLmExYjY5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/c41b8896/1d0/Stegamastodon-187-e1402933416577.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzE0L1N0ZWdhbWFzdG9kLmExYjY5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/33d23c92/1d0/Stegamastodon-187-e1402933416577.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3LzE0L1N0ZWdhbWFzdG9kLmExYjY5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/4e104461/1d0/Stegamastodon-187-e1402933416577.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1vvOZFw","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"google-earth-amazing-discoveries"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Most bachelor parties are hazy memories of booze-addled debauchery. But one group of guys stumbled onto something lasting longer than a hangover.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"539f65b7b05f9d5758000052","id":"2014/06/16/faa-air-traffic-controller-joke","title":"FAA Will Investigate Air-Traffic Controller's Joke That Diverted Plane","title_tag":null,"author":"Jessica Plautz","post_date":"2014-06-16T17:46:14-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:46:14 -0400","sort_key":"1wWEJg","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/faa-air-traffic-controller-joke/","content":{"plain":"The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate a remark made by an air-traffic controller that diverted a Delta flight, the agency announced Monday.\n\nFlight 630 was approaching a runway at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport last week, when a controller told the pilot to circle the airport before landing, the FAA said in a statement to \n\nSee also: Score the Best Flight Deals on These 10 Sites\n\n\"An air-traffic controller instructed the pilot to make a missed approach, then quickly canceled that clearance and re-cleared him to land,\" according to the statement.\n\nIn an audio recording, the controller says, \"630, go around,\" an instruction to the pilot that the plane cannot attempt a landing on the current approach.\n\nThe controller then says, \"I'm kidding, Delta 630. After you land, I've got no one behind you. Expect to exit right.\" At that point, however, the pilot was already making the loop.\n\nListen to the recording, below:\n\nThe plane's path, including the loop before landing at the Atlanta airport, is visible on FlightAware:\n\nAtlanta television station WXIA reported that the Boeing 777 was about 1,000 feet off the ground when it aborted the first landing. The plane made a safe landing on the second approach.\n\nThe FAA said it would not discuss what a potential disciplinary action would include, until after its investigation is complete.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":31,"twitter":367,"linked_in":18,"google_plus":5,"total":421},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2RiL0RlbHRhLmVmN2YyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/73b6ee5f/8a3/Delta.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2RiL0RlbHRhLmVmN2YyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/67582c9b/8a3/Delta.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2RiL0RlbHRhLmVmN2YyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/c7fc709a/8a3/Delta.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2RiL0RlbHRhLmVmN2YyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/ac1ff73c/8a3/Delta.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2RiL0RlbHRhLmVmN2YyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/68a90834/8a3/Delta.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1oxPOxN","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2013/04/30/airfare-flight-deals/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate a remark made by an air-traffic controller that diverted a Delta flight, the agency announced Monday. 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That can shut off the engines and disable power steering.\n\nThe recall is part of a GM review of ignition switches after the company recalled 2.6 million older small cars earlier this year for a similar problem.\n\nGM also is recalling 166,000 other cars for a series of problems. The company raised its expected second-quarter charge for recall expenses to $700 million.\n\nThis latest recall brings GM's total to 17.7 million recalls this year. Americans bought 15.6 million new passenger cars and light trucks in 2013.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":99,"twitter":215,"linked_in":8,"google_plus":71,"total":393},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2ViL0dNX0NhcnMuYmIzM2UuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/22fd3c6c/fd2/GM_Cars.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2ViL0dNX0NhcnMuYmIzM2UuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/109648a0/fd2/GM_Cars.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2ViL0dNX0NhcnMuYmIzM2UuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/ed90a01f/fd2/GM_Cars.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2ViL0dNX0NhcnMuYmIzM2UuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/581401b2/fd2/GM_Cars.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2ViL0dNX0NhcnMuYmIzM2UuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/ec53474e/fd2/GM_Cars.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1juLtn6","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"auto-recalls-why"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"GM announced 3.2 million more recalls on Monday, bringing the total to 17.7 million. ","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"539f504597b2f87163000093","id":"2014/06/16/samsung-nuance-communications","title":"Samsung Reportedly Explored Acquiring Company That Powers Siri","title_tag":null,"author":"Seth Fiegerman","post_date":"2014-06-16T16:14:58-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:14:58 -0400","sort_key":"1wWDiW","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/samsung-nuance-communications/","content":{"plain":"Siri, can you say \"complicated\"?\n\nNuance Communications, a software company that develops speech recognition tools and powers Apple's Siri personal assistant, has talked with multiple companies about a possible sale, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. One of those, according to the report, just happens to Apple's rival, Samsung.\n\nSee also: How Apple Got Its Groove Back\n\nThat said, The Journal is unclear on the seriousness of these talks -- and which, if any, may lead to a deal. A representative for Nuance declined to comment on the report, and Samsung did not immediately respond to our request for comment. \n\nNuance operates the Dragon Dictation app, a popular voice dictation app, among other products. Apple launched Siri with the iPhone 4S in 2011. The voice-activated personal assistant has been criticized for its flaws, but it has gradually improved over the years and is no longer characterized as being in beta.\n\nSamsung later introduced a service similar to Siri, which it called S Voice.\n\nFor what it's worth, Siri doesn't seem to be a fan of the possible deal, although perhaps this response would change if Samsung were the owner.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":746,"linked_in":78,"facebook":680,"google_plus":213,"total":1717},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzkxL3NpcmkuM2E1NmYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/c925b0f5/dd1/siri.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzkxL3NpcmkuM2E1NmYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/bc2905fa/dd1/siri.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzkxL3NpcmkuM2E1NmYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/da87902a/dd1/siri.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzkxL3NpcmkuM2E1NmYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/9b452047/dd1/siri.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzkxL3NpcmkuM2E1NmYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/9c6870d8/dd1/siri.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1lt5Bf8","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/15/apples-new-groove/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Nuance Communications, a software company that develops speech recognition tools and powers Siri, has talked with multiple companies about a possible sale.","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"539f3ebdb05f9d313f000092","id":"2014/06/16/avengers-age-of-ultron-video","title":"Thor Calls Down Lightning in First 'Avengers 2' Set Video","title_tag":null,"author":"Cinema Blend","post_date":"2014-06-16T15:00:09-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:00:09 -0400","sort_key":"1wWC8x","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/avengers-age-of-ultron-video/","content":{"plain":"Avengers 2: Age of Ultron is currently filming at the UEA Campus Norwich in England, and we have the only video from the set. It's a Cinema Blend exclusive. Watch as Joss Whedon films an entire scene with Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, and Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, right here\u2026\n\nIt's no secret that after the events of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain America: The Winter Soldier that there are a LOT of job openings for recruits in the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. We still haven't seen the impact events of The Avengers made on Tony Stark's shiny new office tower. You know, the one he finished just in time to witness the Chitauri invasion? Well, if you have the same questions we do, then this video may offer a few clues.\n\nIn the video, we see a bunch of what looks like recruits jogging on top of or around what could be part of the recently renovated Avengers Tower. Considering the last thing we see at the end of The Avengers is Tony Stark already drawing up plans for a newly designed headquarters, and the fact that we saw the tower's re-branding confirmed thanks to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, we know that Avengers Tower is being used for something other than Tony Stark's personal playground in The Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Perhaps it's training the next generation of badasses.\n\nGiven that Director Phil Coulson is now in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D., and he looks up to (who else) Steve Rogers/Captain America, I'd be willing to bet that these are new S.H.I.E.L.D recruits training up as the first class since the H.Y.D.R.A made their lives a living hell. Keeping this in mind, it would also be a safe assumption that the new uniforms are a stylish blue in tribute to the first Avenger himself. Also, it's a nice change from the simple black uniforms everyone wore, and considering Tony Stark is kind of fond of blue from his arc reactor days, the decision was probably a mutual one. Let's just hope Clark Gregg gets that phone call for an extended cameo in The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, because a reunion between Tony and Phil would be one of those moments that'd easily make any top 10 moments of summer 2015 list. Speaking of the friends of Phil, why is Thor calling down the lightning on set?\n\nWhen you consider how the events of Thor: The Dark World panned out, maybe this this time out Thor's a reluctant warrior. After all, he's just given up the throne of Asgard and started to settle down in England with Jane Foster. Since his favorite travel method is throwing Mjolnir into the sky and taking off for parts unknown, he's probably been summoned to talk with Tony and Steve, only to leave. Of course, it could also go the other way and we'll see Thor spring into solo action investigating some piece of the puzzle himself (or maybe with another Avengers teammate). Either way, it would appear that Thor's departure would then leave Captain America and Iron Man to converse about what their next plan of attack is (and who better for the job?). And that's all well and good, provided that Chris Hemsworth can keep up his skills with his hammer:\n\nA lot of changes seem in store for The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, and with production being quite far along the path to completion, expect to start seeing Marvel slowly leak out more and more official material to slake our thirst for knowledge. At this moment, the new Avengers Tower looks tricked out and ready for action. Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and Thor all look ready for action too, and we're almost certainly in store for another first act of the character building that Joss Whedon excels at with these types of projects. We're hungry for more after getting this little taste, so stick around. If we land other awesome tidbits of Avengers action, you can bet we'll send them your way!\n\nThe Avengers: Age Of Ultron will be rocking the world when it hits theaters on May 1st, 2015."},"shares":{"twitter":657,"facebook":92,"linked_in":17,"google_plus":8,"stumble_upon":118,"total":892},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzQ4L1Rob3JUaGVEYXJrLmY0Zjk5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/bf2f6ed6/ba6/Thor-The-Dark-World.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzQ4L1Rob3JUaGVEYXJrLmY0Zjk5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/d632b99e/ba6/Thor-The-Dark-World.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzQ4L1Rob3JUaGVEYXJrLmY0Zjk5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/8a992150/ba6/Thor-The-Dark-World.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzQ4L1Rob3JUaGVEYXJrLmY0Zjk5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/408dc9da/ba6/Thor-The-Dark-World.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzQ4L1Rob3JUaGVEYXJrLmY0Zjk5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/46182796/ba6/Thor-The-Dark-World.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1uytt0t","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{},"excerpt":"Avengers 2: Age of Ultron is currently filming at the UEA Campus Norwich in England, and we have the only video from the set. 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Reps from the three companies could not be reached for immediate comment.\n\nSee also: Tesla Model S Is Top Car of 2014, 'Consumer Reports' Says\n\nBMW and Nissan would like to collaborate with Tesla on possible global vehicle-charging standards, according to the report. Nissan, BMW and Tesla control about 80% of the world's electric car sales. Nissan's sold 22,610 Leafs in the U.S. last year, coming in No. 2 next to Chevy's Volt with 23,094. Tesla sold about 18,000 Model S units. BMW's electric i3 began hitting the U.S. market last month. \n\nDespite the encouraging sales, the segment has been hurt by a lack of charging infrastructure, which contributes to consumers' \"range anxiety\" -- their fear of running out of charge too far from home or from a charging station. \n\nMusk has said the success of electric cars in general was more important to him that Tesla's success. Musk also recently stated that Tesla was considering allowing other companies to use its charging stations.\n\nTesla's stock price was up about 6% Monday afternoon on the news. \n\nHave something to add to this story? 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I\u2019m excited to continue our creative collaboration as he assumes his new responsibilities,\" Marlowe said in a statement via ABC.\n\nMarlowe will reportedly maintain a day-to-day presence at the show, which continues to be a stalwart for the network, ranking second in its time slot last season, but he will also put energy into developing new projects, as he has an overall deal with ABC Studios.\n\nCastle closed out Season 6 with a cliffhanger (of course!) that left Richard Castle's (Nathan Fillion) fate unknown, following a fiery car crash on his wedding day. The show returns for a new season in the fall -- presumably with its title character. \n\nHave something to add to this story? 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Hear it in full, exclusively on @BeatsMusic: http://t.co/VOtyumGcPL #GameBeforeTheGame\u2014 Beats Music (@beatsmusic) June 16, 2014\n\n\"There's records to break, medals to take, flags to wave,\" Jay Z raps, as players Neymar, Jr. (Brazil), Luis Su\u00e1rez (Uruguay) and Javier Hern\u00e1ndez Balc\u00e1zar (Mexico) act out their pre-game rituals. The ad is part of Beats by Dre's \"The Game Before The Game\" campaign.\n\nBeats executive Dr. Dre, who hadn't tweeted since posting \"Here\u2019s to the next episode\" on May 28 in reference to the Apple acquisition, posted this tweet about Jay Z on Sunday. \n\nWelcome to the jungle @S_C_\u2014 Dr. Dre (@drdre) June 14, 2014\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"539f1ea2b589e4735b00004d","id":"2014/06/16/become-a-programmer","title":"Is It Too Late to Change Career Paths and Become a Programmer?","title_tag":null,"author":"Quora","post_date":"2014-06-16T12:42:35-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:42:35 -0400","sort_key":"1wWzZp","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/become-a-programmer/","content":{"plain":"This question originally appeared on Quora.\n\nI am 24 years old and just started learning coding. I want to be a programmer. Am I too late in the game?\n\nAnswer by Erin Parker, founder of Spitfire Athlete.\n\nIt's never too late. So much can happen in a year, it can amaze you.\n\nI majored in economics. When I was about 23 years old, I randomly decided to go to a Railsbridge Meetup, where you learn how to make a basic Ruby on Rails app in a day. I made a basic Rails app and very much enjoyed it. A seed was planted that day.\n\nMonths later, I had an idea for a website I've always wanted to build. Although my idea was vague, I imagined [this website] would inspire women to be kick*ss go-getters. I thought it would either be a career website, or one in the health and fitness space. And I definitely wanted to call it Spitfire. I strongly felt such a product was sorely needed, and I felt I had a pretty good perspective and vision to create it.\n\nAlthough I hadn't committed to learning programming just yet, I would sketch out mocks like this:\n\nI would email these mocks to my friends and get their feedback.\n\nAt the time, I was getting pretty hardcore into lifting weights and I was seeing a lot of results. I was also having a frustrating time finding high quality, trustworthy resources for women who lift weights, and had this continuous nagging feeling that maybe I should actually do something about it.\n\nFinally, I decided to do it. Friends were asking me how I was getting in shape, how to lift weights, how to eat healthy. I decided to commit to learning Ruby on Rails and building out [my idea].\n\nI figured if I learned to program -- even if I failed -- I would have at least failed while building something that could help scale what I'd learned to potentially millions of people. And that in itself is a worthy pursuit.\n\nAt the same time, however, I decided failure was no longer an option. I wasn't going to let myself stop until I'd built what I'd envisioned in my head Spitfire could truly be. I knew that if I just persisted through the pain (like an athlete), that the end result would be well worth the temporary pain.\n\nI started teaching myself Ruby on Rails by voraciously consuming every free resource I could, like Learn Ruby the Hard Way, Try Ruby, Codecademy, Michael Hartl's book Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, the Rails Guides, and my absolute favorite, RailsCasts.\n\nI was relentless, If I didn't get something the first time, I didn't care. I would go through it again and again until it started to make sense. I would look for different explanations of the concept. I would ask my friends. When I was coding in coffee shops, if the person sitting in front of me looked like they were an engineer based on the stickers on their laptop, I would kindly ask them if they could help (I have made so many friends this way, a few of them are still really good friends).\n\nI would go to lots of developer meetups, and particularly liked Women Who Code because of their \"teach a new tutorial at each meetup\" format, and all of The Ruby Group meetups; it was easy to get help [if I was stuck].\n\nI stuck with it for months and, little by little, \"banged out\" the ideas in my head. You can still see many of my early projects here:\r\nhttp://spitfiredarkstar.herokuapp.com/\r\nhttp://spitfiredauntless.herokuapp.com/\r\nhttp://spitfirehellcat.herokuapp.com/\r\nhttps://spitfireocelot.herokuapp.com/\n\nI worked the most on this one:\r\nhttp://spitfireathlete.herokuapp.com/\n\nThe site was quite feature-rich. It was pretty, had nice UX, and was a culmination of all the great Ruby on Rails stuff I had learned. Unfortunately though, no one was using it!\n\nIt was exhilarating and discouraging at the same time. I felt like I had this great skill set, but that I was building stuff that nobody wanted.\n\nWhen I asked my friends why they weren't using it, I learned that what they really wanted was for me to \"just tell them how to work out.\" And they wanted something that looked nice on their mobile phones, so they could train at the gym.\n\nSo I decided to change directions completely, learn jQuery Mobile, and I built this.\n\nWhat absolutely fascinated me about this was, despite the fact that it was ugly and utterly simple, people actually used it! And they wanted more. And they wanted it as (gasp) a native iOS app.\n\nAs a datapoint, it had been about six months since I started learning Rails.\n\nI tried resisting the nagging realization that I might have to pick up iOS development if I wanted to take this further. I really tried getting jQuery Mobile to work, but very quickly realized it's only great for prototyping (or very simple apps).\n\nThis was around April 2013. I decided I was going to become an iOS developer -- so what if I didn't have a computer science [degree]? [I thought,] I have more drive and determination than most people. They may outsmart me, but I just never give up. I've already gone so far. Why stop now? \n\nSo I voraciously went through every iOS resource I could find. I did all the exercises, the challenge exercises, and finished every book I could get my hands on from start to finish. I frequently attended the Women Who Code iOS meetups and benefited from the Big Nerd Ranch books on Obj-C and iOS, Ray Wenderlich's Tutorials, and Apple's Documentation.\n\nI built tons of tiny little apps (that's how you learn!). I also made a promise to myself that I was not going to ever think of any technology as \"hard,\" because I think that's a self-imposed ceiling. So I quite fearlessly ended up learning a bunch of stuff that scares away most iOS developers -- and although I don't use [most of] it today, I realize it made me a much stronger developer, despite many long nights of [feeling stuck].\n\nHere is a photo of me giving a tech talk at a meetup on how to make a custom Rails API and then send that data to your iPhone app using AFNetworking.\n\nThat was May 2013, [and I was] 24-years-old. I made myself give this talk, even though I had only just learned how to actually do what I was talking about. I felt very much like an \"iOS impostor,\" and like I had just begun to get over the feeling of being a \"Rails impostor.\"\n\nHere is a screenshot of learning tableviews and transferring the concept of the Spitfire App to iOS, even though I ended up building everything again from scratch. I made this after two weeks of learning Obj-C.\n\nMonths went by. Little by little, I got better. (iOS is a very interface-heavy system, and if you don't learn design, all your apps will look ugly. It's almost impossible to separate yourself from the front-end when in XCode. So I decided I should also probably learn design and Photoshop via the Hack Design curriculum.)\n\nPhotoshop was a lot easier to learn than programming, so eventually I made these really pretty mocks:\n\nEventually, around October 2013, I turned these mocks into the \"Spitfire Athlete pre-Alpha\" app. Here is a screen shot of the actual app running on my device:\n\nAfter a couple months of struggling with Core Data and many passionate TestFlight users asking for more features, I decided it was time to turn this crazy passion of mine into a startup -- and I recruited an incredible cofounder, Nidhi Kulkarni, a razor-sharp MIT computer science grad who, like me, was also an athlete (she competed in D1 rowing while at MIT).\n\nWith two technical, highly-driven ladies at the helm of Spitfire, I felt our productivity [multiply ten times]. We started together around November 2013; I was nearing the end of age 24, and knew I was on the verge of something pretty exciting.\n\nWe participated in the Code Path iOS Mobile Bootcamp together, a free bootcamp for professional-level iOS developers. We finished Spitfire Athlete alpha, and at demo day (which was judged by VPs of engineering from top mobile companies in Silicon Valley), we won \"Best iOS App\" and \"Best Overall App.\" That was pretty cool, because I was definitely the only non-CS major in the entire class!\n\nI turned 25 in January 2014. In April 2014, we launched to the App Store and were featured on the home page in Best New Apps, as well as all over the Health and Fitness category. We now have tens of thousands of users and have gotten so much love mail, it makes me truly believe the journey so far has been worth it.\n\nToday, you can download the app from the App Store here: Spitfire Athlete.\n\nI decided to write this answer because I recently had to renew my iOS Developer subscription. I thought, \"Has it been a year? No way. Time goes by so fast.\" And then I remembered what it felt like when I first started.\n\nI hope this answer inspires you and those who read it to learn how to program and make what you're passionate about become a reality, because the rewarding feeling of having built something that tens of thousands of people love is indescribable.\n\nMore Q&A on Quora:\n\n\u00a0\n\n\tWhat is a typical day like for a software engineer at Google?\r\n\tI am 35 and I have not achieved much in life. Is it too late?\r\n\tHow do people work 80-100 hours a week and not get burnt out?\n\n\u00a0\n\n\u00a0\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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Happy hunting!\n\n\tSenior Engineer - Video - AJ Plus at Al Jazeera Media Network - AJ Plus in San Francisco, California\r\n\tEngineer - Infrastructure & Web Technologies (WAS/WebSphere/IIS) at Target in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota\r\n\tSenior Application Developer at NuData Security in Vancouver, British Columbia"},"shares":{"twitter":794,"linked_in":910,"facebook":3795,"google_plus":294,"pinterest":6,"total":5799},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2Lzk4L1Byb2dyYW1tZXIuNDFiNDIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/daad519d/b18/Programmer.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2Lzk4L1Byb2dyYW1tZXIuNDFiNDIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/f2697107/b18/Programmer.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2Lzk4L1Byb2dyYW1tZXIuNDFiNDIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/792d93e7/b18/Programmer.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2Lzk4L1Byb2dyYW1tZXIuNDFiNDIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/c45a6d76/b18/Programmer.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2Lzk4L1Byb2dyYW1tZXIuNDFiNDIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/82db28f5/b18/Programmer.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1i4RwUE","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"A Quora user answers the question: Is it too late to learn to code?","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"539f184c97b2f871e8000005","id":"2014/06/16/man-replaces-britney-spears-work-bitch","title":"A Man Added Himself to Every Frame of a Britney Spears Music Video","title_tag":null,"author":"Brian Koerber","post_date":"2014-06-16T12:15:56-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:15:56 -0400","sort_key":"1wWzzC","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/man-replaces-britney-spears-work-bitch/","content":{"plain":"Living fancy like Britney Spears isn't easy. You have to work for it.\n\nGal Volinez committed some serious time and effort to the task. He inserted himself into every scene of Spears' video for \"Work Bitch,\" replacing the pop star with footage of himself. If this isn't how you spent your weekend, you wasted your Saturday.\n\nSee also: You Can Buy Ryan Gosling's Soul for $15 on Etsy\n\nIt's a little on the odd side, to be sure. But you have to hand it to him: Every scene and dance move is perfectly replicated, then laid over Spears' original.\n\nBONUS: 11 Weirdest Things for Sale on Alibaba\n\n\t\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":6247,"twitter":701,"linked_in":13,"google_plus":7,"total":6968},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzI5L2JyaXQuMTc4NDQuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/445df5a2/d09/brit.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzI5L2JyaXQuMTc4NDQuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/a8affa21/d09/brit.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzI5L2JyaXQuMTc4NDQuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/b1321bb9/d09/brit.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzI5L2JyaXQuMTc4NDQuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/92b67e30/d09/brit.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzI5L2JyaXQuMTc4NDQuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/09e778a9/d09/brit.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1nKbKlT","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"etsy-souls"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":16373,"class":"content-gallery"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Work it out. ","channel":"Watercooler","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/watercooler/"},{"_id":"539f0d9cb589e405ef000006","id":"2014/06/16/dominos-siri-dom-app","title":"Move Over, Siri; Domino's 'Dom' Really Delivers","title_tag":null,"author":"Karissa Bell","post_date":"2014-06-16T11:30:26-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:30:26 -0400","sort_key":"1wWyRA","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/dominos-siri-dom-app/","content":{"plain":"Domino's added a virtual assistant feature that brings Siri-like functionality to its iOS and Android apps Monday.\n\nThe feature, nicknamed \"Dom,\" allows users to browse the menu and add items to their cart by speaking to the app.\n\nSee also: 10 Apps to Help You Find Lunch Fast\n\nDomino's partnered with Nuance, the company behind the Nina virtual assistant platform, to bring voice-enabled ordering to the Domino's app.\n\nNuance tried to make the voice sound natural and humanlike, customizing the technology for Domino's. The company aimed to make the experience resemble interactions with a live person in the store or on the phone, said Robert Weideman, executive vice president of Nuance's enterprise division.\n\n\"It's our best ever synthesized text to speech voice on a mobile application,\" Weideman told Mashable. \"It acts just like a person a would.\"\n\n\"Dom\" recognizes natural speech patterns and will help customers build and place orders as well as explore the menu. You can ask questions like, \"Do you have any sandwiches?\" or say things like, \"I want to order a pizza.\" The assistant will follow up with, \"What kind of pizza do you want?\" \n\nThe feature, which is in both the iOS and Android version of the Domino's app, is still in beta, so it will continue to improve as more people use it.\n\n\"It's made your smartphone like ordering in the store,\" said Dennis Maloney, vice president of multimedia marketing for Domino's. \"You're talking to Dom, like you would talk to someone when you're in the store one on one -- it's that much of an interactive experience.\"\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"pinterest":3,"twitter":445,"facebook":261,"linked_in":185,"google_plus":22,"total":916},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzI5L0RvbWlub3MxLmpwLjgzMzcyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/55152e9d/e12/Dominos1.jpg1.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzI5L0RvbWlub3MxLmpwLjgzMzcyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/321347e7/e12/Dominos1.jpg1.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzI5L0RvbWlub3MxLmpwLjgzMzcyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/457ea56c/e12/Dominos1.jpg1.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzI5L0RvbWlub3MxLmpwLjgzMzcyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/f338c76f/e12/Dominos1.jpg1.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzI5L0RvbWlub3MxLmpwLjgzMzcyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/3ab418ce/e12/Dominos1.jpg1.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1nJVpO1","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"lunch-apps"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Domino's lets you order pizza with a computer-generated voice named \"Dom.\" ","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"539ef1c612d2cd0c86000d2c","id":"2014/06/16/instacart-44-million-funding","title":"Grocery Delivery Startup Instacart Brings Home $44 Million in Funding","title_tag":null,"author":"Jason Abbruzzese","post_date":"2014-06-16T09:31:41-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:31:41 -0400","sort_key":"1wWx0F","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/instacart-44-million-funding/","content":{"plain":"That's a lot of leafy greens.\n\nInstacart, the same-day grocery delivery startup, has raised $44 million in a Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Box CEO Aaron Levie and Y Combinator president Sam Altman also pitched in.\n\nSee also: 7 Fresh Apps to Upgrade Grocery Shopping\n\nThe new investment follows on an $8.5 million round from almost a year ago. \n\nGrocery delivery services, particularly those that can complete an order on the same day, has become one of the more popular but crowded spaces in the startup service market. \n\nInstacart competes directly with other grocery services like Amazon Fresh and FreshDirect, and more broadly with other delivery options like UberRUSH and Google Shopping Express.\n\n\"As we think about the future of ecommerce, groceries are among the last huge untapped opportunities. While many have tried to crack the code, few have met with success,\" Jeff Jordan, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, said in a press release.\n\nInstacart is a bit leaner than its competitors. The startup crowdsources shoppers that can use their own cars to shop at local stores and make deliveries, avoiding the need for major overhead costs like trucks and warehouses. \n\nApoorva Mehta started the company in 2012 after having worked on Amazon's supply chain process, having seen the company's difficulties with grocery delivery firsthand.\n\nThe company now operates in ten major cities and has plans to expand into seven more by the end of 2014. Instacart says it can launch in a new city in just two to three weeks due to the simplicity of its model.\n\nMehta said that the company plans to use the funding to fuel its expansion.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ve proven out our model in 10 cities across the U.S., and it works,\u201d Mehta said in the press release. \u201cInstacart\u2019s customer base in every city is growing by double digits monthly, and we\u2019ve developed a great playbook for geographic expansions. This funding will enable us to expand even more quickly and establish a wide, national footprint over the next 18 months.\u201d\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":289,"twitter":741,"linked_in":32,"google_plus":20,"pinterest":2,"total":1084},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzgzL0dyb2NlcmllczEuMmY5NWYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/c21e508c/381/Groceries1.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzgzL0dyb2NlcmllczEuMmY5NWYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/71bfe04d/381/Groceries1.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzgzL0dyb2NlcmllczEuMmY5NWYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/c3c81b30/381/Groceries1.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzgzL0dyb2NlcmllczEuMmY5NWYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/359f8bd4/381/Groceries1.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzgzL0dyb2NlcmllczEuMmY5NWYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/3d73ed2a/381/Groceries1.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/SNonkv","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/apps-grocery-shopping"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Instacart, the same-day grocery delivery startup, has raised $44 million in a Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"539eeddc97b2f8117f001937","id":"2014/06/16/farside-of-the-moon","title":"Exoplanets Explain Why the 'Dark Side' of the Moon Has No Face","title_tag":null,"author":"Space.com","post_date":"2014-06-16T09:15:08-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:15:08 -0400","sort_key":"1wWwKE","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/farside-of-the-moon/","content":{"plain":"Heat radiating from the young Earth could help solve the more than 50-year-old mystery of why the far side of the moon, which faces away from Earth, lacks the dark, vast expanses of volcanic rock that define the face of the Man in the Moon as seen from Earth, researchers say.\n\nThe Man in the Moon was born when cosmic impacts struck the near side of the moon, the side that faces Earth. These collisions punched holes in the moon's crust, which later filled with vast lakes of lava that formed the dark areas known as maria or \"seas.\"\n\nIn 1959, when the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 transmitted the first images of the \"dark\" or far side of the moon, the side facing away from Earth, scientists immediately noticed fewer maria there. This mystery -- why no Man in the Moon exists on the moon's far side -- is called the Lunar Farside Highlands Problem. \n\nSEE ALSO: How the Moon Evolved: A Photo Timeline\n\n\"I remember the first time I saw a globe of the moon as a boy, being struck by how different the far side looks,\" study co-author Jason Wright, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, said in a statement. \"It was all mountains and craters. Where were the maria?\"\n\nNow scientists may have solved the 55-year-old mystery; heat from the young Earth as the newborn moon was cooling caused the difference. The researchers came up with the solution during their work on exoplanets, which are worlds outside the solar system.\n\n\"There are many exoplanets that are really close to their host stars,\"lead study author Arpita Roy, also of Penn State, told Space.com. \"That really affects the geology of those planets.\"\n\nSimilarly, the moon and Earth are generally thought to have orbited very close together after they formed. The leading idea explaining the moon's formation suggests that it arose shortly after the nascent Earth collided with a Mars-size planet about 4.5 billion years ago, with the resulting debris coalescing into the moon. Scientists say the newborn moon and Earth were 10 to 20 times closer to each other than they are now.\n\n\"The moon and Earth loomed large in each other's skies when they formed, \" Roy said in a statement.\n\nSince the moon was so close to Earth, the mutual pull of gravity was strong. The gravitational tidal forces the moon and Earth exerted on each other braked their rotations, resulting in the moon always showing the same face to Earth, a situation known as tidal lock.\n\nThe moon and Earth were very hot shortly after the giant impact that formed the moon. The moon, being much smaller than Earth, cooled more quickly. Since the moon and Earth were tidally locked early on, the still-hot Earth -- more than 4,530 degrees Fahrenheit (2,500 degrees Celsius) -- would have cooked the near side of the moon, keeping it molten. On the other hand, the far side of the moon would have cooled, albeit slowly.\n\nThe difference in temperature between the moon's halves influenced the formation of its crust. The lunar crust possesses high concentrations of aluminum and calcium, elements that are very hard to vaporize.\n\n\"When rock vapor starts to cool, the very first elements that snow out are aluminum and calcium,\" study co-author Steinn Sigurdsson of Penn State said in a statement.\n\nAluminum and calcium would have more easily condensed in the atmosphere on the colder far side of the moon. Eventually, these elements combined with silicates in the mantle of the moon to form minerals known as plagioclase feldspars, making the crust of the far side about twice as thick as that of the near side.\n\n\"Earthshine, the heat of Earth soon after the giant impact, was a really important factor shaping the moon,\" Roy said.\n\nWhen collisions from asteroids or comets blasted the moon's surface, they could punch through the near side's crust to generate maria. In contrast, impacts on the far side's thicker crust failed to penetrate deeply enough to cause lava to well up, instead leaving the far side of the moon with a surface of valleys, craters and highlands, but almost no maria.\n\n\"It's really cool that our understanding of exoplanets is affecting our understanding of the solar system,\" Roy said.\n\nFuture research could generate detailed 3D models testing this idea, Roy suggested. The authors detailed their findings June 9 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters."},"shares":{"twitter":558,"facebook":48,"linked_in":11,"google_plus":60,"pinterest":1,"total":678},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzU1L01vb25jb21wb3NpLjc5YjUwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/c522eee2/a71/Moon-composite-NASA.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzU1L01vb25jb21wb3NpLjc5YjUwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/c2353b1d/a71/Moon-composite-NASA.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzU1L01vb25jb21wb3NpLjc5YjUwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/bd70ad89/a71/Moon-composite-NASA.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzU1L01vb25jb21wb3NpLjc5YjUwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/2ad54253/a71/Moon-composite-NASA.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzU1L01vb25jb21wb3NpLjc5YjUwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/01462778/a71/Moon-composite-NASA.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1lHMmxj","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{},"excerpt":"Heat radiating from the young Earth could help solve the more than 50-year-old mystery of why the far side of the moon, which faces away from Earth, lacks the dark, vast expanses of volcanic rock that define the face of the Man in the Moon as seen fr...","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"539eea8f97b2f8117f001388","id":"2014/06/16/dreamworkstv-awesomeness-tv-shrek","title":"DreamWorksTV Hits YouTube With Shrek the Ogre 'Vlogger'","title_tag":null,"author":"Josh Dickey","post_date":"2014-06-16T09:00:57-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:00:57 -0400","sort_key":"1wWwwV","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/dreamworkstv-awesomeness-tv-shrek/","content":{"plain":"DreamWorks Animation has launched its YouTube arm, DreamWorksTV, with a slew of \"vloggers\" that you've come to know on the big screen (including Shrek, Puss in Boots and Kung Fu Panda) -- and quite a few original newcomers, too.\n\nAs of Monday morning, DWA is officially cashing in on the No. 1 reason it\u00a0bought Awesomeness TV for $33 million plus incentives last year: so it could leverage its popular animated characters online and help launch a bunch of new ones.\n\nSee also: 5 YouTube Channels to Learn Amazing Video Effects\n\nDreamWorksTV \"combines DreamWorks Animation\u2019s expertise as a global family entertainment brand with the digital savvy of AwesomenessTV,\" the company said in a statement. DWA also shared several video clips exclusively with Mashable that will appear on DreamWorksTV for its Monday launch and in the coming days, including Shrek dispensing dubious oral hygiene advice (above) and original animated series Gorillaville (below).\n\nBesides vlog posts from its stable of time-tested 'toons, DreamWorksTV is also featuring original live-action shorts, including\u00a0family-friendly reality shows Prank My Parents and\u00a0Record Setter Kids; original animated web series like Jimmy Blue Shorts and Report Card.\n\nif there was any doubt that AwesomenessTV is a huge part of this new effort, look no further than its founder, Brian Robbins, who is overseeing it for DreamWorks Animation.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re tapping into the invaluable knowledge that Brian has amassed from his success with AwesomenessTV to create a unique, short-form, laugh-out-loud mobile experience for families,\u201d DWA's CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said. \u201cThis is a huge opportunity for the DreamWorks brand.\u201d\n\nAdditional series include kid-comedian sketch comedy show OMG; ensemble comedy Public Pool, which is actually about the goings-on at a public pool; Fifi: Cat Therapist, about a house cat who dispenses advice to neighborhood animals; best-of-web-shorts curation Watch This; and RetroToons, highlights from DreamWorks Animation's classic media library.\n\nLook for more original series on DreamWorksTV as summer rolls on, including\u00a0Richie Rich, an original scripted series based on the comic book character.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":893,"facebook":133,"linked_in":36,"google_plus":28,"total":1090},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzIwL3NocmVrLmRyZWFtLmZkNGQ1LnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/9af44084/328/shrek.dreamworks.tv_.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzIwL3NocmVrLmRyZWFtLmZkNGQ1LnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTE3NXgxNzUjCmUJanBn/8aae1842/328/shrek.dreamworks.tv_.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzIwL3NocmVrLmRyZWFtLmZkNGQ1LnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1MHgzNTAjCmUJanBn/7425660f/328/shrek.dreamworks.tv_.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzIwL3NocmVrLmRyZWFtLmZkNGQ1LnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTgweDgwIwplCWpwZw/d44ed6f2/328/shrek.dreamworks.tv_.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2LzIwL3NocmVrLmRyZWFtLmZkNGQ1LnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTE2MHgxNjAjCmUJanBn/9ee98939/328/shrek.dreamworks.tv_.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1vqVk54","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2013/01/19/video-effects-tutorials"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Other web series will include Puss in Boots, Kung Fu Panda and quite a few original newcomers, too.","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"539ee73297b2f8117f00134d","id":"2014/06/16/isil-tal-afar-iraq","title":"Militants Seize Another Key Iraqi Town","title_tag":null,"author":"The Associated Press","post_date":"2014-06-16T08:46:33-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:46:33 -0400","sort_key":"1wWwiZ","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/isil-tal-afar-iraq/","content":{"plain":"BAGHDAD \u2014 Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north.\n\nThe town of Tal Afar, with a population of some 200,000 people, was taken just before dawn, Mayor Abdulal Abdoul told The Associated Press.\n\nSee also: This Is What Iraq Looked Like This Week\n\nThe town's ethnic mix of mostly ethnic Shiite and Sunni Turkomen raises the grim specter of large-scale atrocities by Sunni militants from the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, who already claim to have killed hundreds of Shiites in areas they captured last week.\n\nTal Afar's capture comes a week after Sunni militants took Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit in a lightning offensive that has plunged Iraq into its worst crisis since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops.\n\nA resident in Tal Afar, 420 kilometers (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, confirmed the town's fall and said over the telephone that militants in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns and flying black jihadi banners were roaming the streets as gunfire rang out.\n\nThe local security force left the town before dawn, said Hadeer al-Abadi, who spoke to the AP as he prepared to head out of town with his family. Local tribesmen who continued to fight later surrendered to the militants, he said.\n\n\"Residents are gripped by fear and most of them have already left the town for areas held by Kurdish security forces,\" said al-Abadi.\n\nAnother resident, Haidar al-Taie, said an aircraft was dropping barrel bombs on militant positions inside the town on Monday morning and that many Shiite families had left the town on Sunday, shortly after fighting broke out.\n\nSecurity at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was strengthened and some staff members were sent elsewhere in Iraq and to neighboring Jordan, the State Department said Sunday. A military official said about 150 Marines have been sent to Baghdad to help with embassy security.\n\nThe State Department also issued a travel warning for Iraq on Sunday night, which cautioned U.S. citizens to avoid \"all but essential travel to Iraq.\" The warning said the Baghdad International Airport was \"struck by mortar rounds and rockets\" and that the international airport in Mosul has also been the target of militant assault.\n\nOn Monday, Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Saad Maan Ibrahim told a press conference that Iraqi security forces killed 56 \"terrorists\" and wounded 21 in operations just outside the capital over the last 24 hours. He made no mention of Tal Afar and left without taking any questions.\n\nTal Afar is only 150 kilometers (93 miles) from the border with Syria, where ISIL is fighting against President Bashar Assad's government and controls territory abutting the Iraqi border. It lies on a main highway heading from Mosul to Syria, boosting the Islamic State's drive to link areas under its control on both sides of the border.\n\nTal Afar's capture came just hours after Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, addressing volunteers joining the security forces, vowed to retake every inch of territory seized by the militants.\n\n\"We will march and liberate every inch they defaced, from the country's northernmost point to the southernmost point,\" al-Maliki said. The volunteers responded with Shiite chants.\n\nFighting in Tal Afar began on Sunday, with Iraqi government officials saying that ISIL fighters were firing rockets seized from military arms depots in the Mosul area. They said the local garrison suffered heavy casualties and the main hospital was unable to cope with the wounded, without providing exact numbers.\n\nOver the weekend, militants posted graphic photos that appeared to show their gunmen massacring scores of captured Iraqi soldiers."},"shares":{"twitter":31,"facebook":11,"pinterest":1,"total":43},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2E5L2lzaWwuZGYwZTMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/780c32ed/8fb/isil.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2E5L2lzaWwuZGYwZTMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/c11b005c/8fb/isil.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2E5L2lzaWwuZGYwZTMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/91949a0f/8fb/isil.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2E5L2lzaWwuZGYwZTMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/b1580505/8fb/isil.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2E5L2lzaWwuZGYwZTMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/51ede832/8fb/isil.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1uxCGWH","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"iraq-baghdad-insurgents-photos"}]},"excerpt":"The capture of Tal Afar compounds the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"539ee45812d2cd0c86000c68","id":"2014/06/16/game-of-thrones-season-4-finale","title":"8 'Game of Thrones' Characters Primed to Take the Iron Throne","title_tag":null,"author":"Max Knoblauch","post_date":"2014-06-16T08:34:17-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:34:17 -0400","sort_key":"1wWw77","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/game-of-thrones-season-4-finale/","content":{"plain":"Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilers for the Season 4 finale. If you haven't seen it, stop reading now. Seriously. You don't want this.\n\nJust when we were starting to get used to things, Game of Thrones' Season 4 ends in a way that leaves us scratching our heads and having no idea what'll happen next.\n\nTywin Lannister, the puppet master of the Iron Throne and likely the smartest man in Westeros, is dead. While possibly the show's biggest villain, aside from the white walkers, it was hard not to fall for Tywin's cunning and premeditated evilness. In a weird way, we'll actually kind of miss him.\n\nSee also: The Brutal Truth About 'Game of Thrones' Dads\n\nAnd so, the chessboard of Westeros is without a clear leader yet again. Below, we look at the eight characters with the best shot at the title now that the Iron Throne is minus another lion.\n\nOf course, George R.R. Martin has shown us time and again to never get our hopes up, so who knows. Maybe Hodor will be king. Anything is possible.\n\nBONUS: 5 'Game of Thrones' Facts Every Fan Should Know"},"shares":{"twitter":653,"facebook":74,"linked_in":18,"google_plus":8,"pinterest":1,"total":754},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2QwL1Rocm9uZXMuNTQ2NWEuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/187f098a/780/Thrones.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2QwL1Rocm9uZXMuNTQ2NWEuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/b275336a/780/Thrones.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2QwL1Rocm9uZXMuNTQ2NWEuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/e6b07ce2/780/Thrones.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2QwL1Rocm9uZXMuNTQ2NWEuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/8c73b3fe/780/Thrones.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2QwL1Rocm9uZXMuNTQ2NWEuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/42d510c2/780/Thrones.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1uwGGqA","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/14/game-of-thrones-fathers-charts/"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":17073,"data-layout":"list","data-title":"top","class":"content-gallery"}]},"excerpt":"Besides Hodor, obviously.","channel":"Watercooler","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/watercooler/"},{"_id":"539ecf97b05f9d547a002d3e","id":"2014/06/16/lets-talk-about-the-best-part-of-22-jump-street-when-its-over","title":"Let's Talk About the Best Part of '22 Jump Street': The End Credits","title_tag":null,"author":"Jordan Hoffman","post_date":"2014-06-16T07:05:46-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:05:46 -0400","sort_key":"1wWuJs","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/lets-talk-about-the-best-part-of-22-jump-street-when-its-over/","content":{"plain":"Editor's note: Every week Mashable presents \"Let\u2019s Talk About,\" a look back at the biggest WTF stuff from the weekend\u2019s new releases. If you haven\u2019t seen the movie, be warned: This is a SPOILER MINEFIELD.\n\nThis week: Let's talk about 22 Jump Street ...\n\nBased on their past work, filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have earned Hollywood carte blanche (a phrase that's pronounced 'Cate Blanchett' when lunkhead Channing Tatum says it in 22 Jump Street).\n\nLord and Miller turned the thin kids' book Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs into a viable and exciting film franchise. They took what sounded like a punchline about product placement, The LEGO Movie, and delivered something that'll end up on many critics' Top 10 lists.\u00a0In between, they took an unsexy assignment -- resurrected a musty ol' television IP, just like it was the late 1990s or something.\n\nSEE ALSO:\r\nLet's Talk About 'Edge of Tomorrow': It's Great, But We Got Gripes\r\nLet's Talk About How 'Maleficent' Totally Cheapens the Best Part of 'Frozen'\r\nLet's Talk About Quicksilver in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'\r\nLet's Talk About 'Godzilla': Blue Fire, Mothra and Very Creepy Monster Sex\n\nThe result, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum's 21 Jump Street, was so refreshing and fun that few doubted Lord and Miller wouldn't have the goods for the sequel. And the sequel does have the goods. It's breezy, funny and relentless in its self-reflexive \u201clet's do it again\u201d attitude, mocking sequels and the movie business, but in a way that keeps most of its focus on the Hill-Tatum bromance instead of anything as ephemeral as plot.\n\n22 Jump Street is a gag-a-minute and very enjoyable, but it mostly fast-food humor instead of a sit down meal -- much of it relying on performance-based humor. And that is a tiny bit of a disappointment, at least compared to the visual dynamism we've come to expect from the duo after the choreographed sugar-rush of The LEGO Movie.\n\nThat is, until, 22 Jump Street ends.\n\nThere's precedent for this, as the closing credits to 21 Jump Street were no joke:\n\n... but this new one jumps a whole lot further. If the whole sequel's joke is that first they were in high school, now they are in college, what about 23 Jump Street?\n\nThe Chief (Ice Cube) is clear on where they're going next: Medical School!\n\nThus begins a lightning-paced barrage of scenes from upcoming Jump Street films (with hilarious posters and taglines, too.) As the numbers increase to 25, to 28\u00a0to 30\u00a0and beyond, we see Hill and Tatum running around busting baddies in cooking school, flight school, fireman school, as foreign exchange students and at dance school. (The last one prompting Hill to exclaim \u201cfinally something I'm good at!\u201d before seeing him in tights. Tagline: \u201cPointe and Shoot!\u201d)\n\nIn one iteration -- all while the names of the hardworking crew members fly by -- Ice Cube makes reference to contract negotiations and, wouldn't you know it, Hill has been replaced by Seth Rogen. (This time they go to seminary school, so the outfits are even more ridiculous.)\n\n2121 Jump Street naturally brings the boys to outer space.\n\nDue to the furious pace of the whole montage it's hard to recall if the interplanetary launch was before or after the cheesy 1980s Saturday Morning cartoon version gets introduced. Or the cheesy 90s-ish toy commercial. (This bit is very reminiscent of Lord and Miller's ad for Bronte Sisters action figures ...\n\n... though this time it calls back to Rob Riggle's bullet-riddled male appendage from the first movie.)\n\nThe first rule of show business is to leave the audience wanting more. Considering that 22 Jump Street is all about the absurdities of sequels, the hilarity of the film's closing credits will have you aching for a world of endless Hill-Tatum hijinks. I'm pretty sure they left off undersea adventure, so maybe we can get that one next.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"twitter":431,"facebook":38,"linked_in":17,"google_plus":3,"total":489},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2RjL0xldHMuVGFsay4uNzU5YmIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/0a5db98d/a3c/Lets.Talk_.About_.21.Jump_.Street.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2RjL0xldHMuVGFsay4uNzU5YmIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/3e2217c1/a3c/Lets.Talk_.About_.21.Jump_.Street.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2RjL0xldHMuVGFsay4uNzU5YmIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/219d9b22/a3c/Lets.Talk_.About_.21.Jump_.Street.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2RjL0xldHMuVGFsay4uNzU5YmIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/480993eb/a3c/Lets.Talk_.About_.21.Jump_.Street.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2RjL0xldHMuVGFsay4uNzU5YmIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/cfd2b2bd/a3c/Lets.Talk_.About_.21.Jump_.Street.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/T0kvgr","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Wait'll you see the plan for \"23 Jump Street\" and beyond.","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"539ecef1b589e46c20005062","id":"2014/06/16/netflix-binge-shows","title":"It's Season Finale Time; Here's What to Binge-Watch Next","title_tag":null,"author":"Yohana Desta","post_date":"2014-06-16T07:03:13-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:03:13 -0400","sort_key":"1wWuGZ","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/netflix-binge-shows/","content":{"plain":"The sun is shining, the water is sparkling and summertime is upon us. \n\nThat means it's time to shut the windows, burrow into your bed and binge on Netflix. \r\n \r\nNow that your favorite spring shows like Mad Men, True Detective and Broad City are on break, you've got to queue up something else to get hooked on. It's better than Big Bang Theory reruns.\n\nSee also: The 7 Best Reality Shows on Netflix\n\nWe've rounded up shows available on Netflix that will fill the Scandal-shaped hole in your life. Here are our top recommendations.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":2102,"twitter":714,"linked_in":23,"google_plus":9,"stumble_upon":6,"pinterest":3,"total":2857},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2IzL3RydWUuMDFlOGUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/80430da5/4ef/true.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2IzL3RydWUuMDFlOGUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTc1eDE3NSMKZQlqcGc/bc831ddb/4ef/true.jpg","query":true,"size":"175x175#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2IzL3RydWUuMDFlOGUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMzUweDM1MCMKZQlqcGc/610d2fdc/4ef/true.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"350x350#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2IzL3RydWUuMDFlOGUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJODB4ODAjCmUJanBn/c3893b39/4ef/true.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"80x80#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE2L2IzL3RydWUuMDFlOGUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMTYweDE2MCMKZQlqcGc/bc7bdd3f/4ef/true.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"160x160#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1qIK9lv","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"netflix-reality-shows"}],"gallery":[{"data-id":17043,"data-layout":"list","data-title":"top","class":"content-gallery"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"It's time to fill that 'True Detective'-shaped hole in your heart. Ten solid TV shows to binge-watch on Netflix.","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"539e96d3b589e46c20003af9","id":"2014/06/16/halt-and-catch-fire-episode-3-recap-high-plains-hardware","title":"'Halt and Catch Fire' Episode 3 Recap: High Plains Hardware","title_tag":null,"author":"AJ Marechal","post_date":"2014-06-16T03:03:39-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 03:03:39 -0400","sort_key":"1wWqX9","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/halt-and-catch-fire-episode-3-recap-high-plains-hardware/","content":{"plain":"Cardiff Electric\u2019s PC venture is well underway in episode 3 of Halt and Catch Fire, but Joe\u2019s ambition seems to be hitting the computer cooling fan -- whether it's Cameron stalling when it comes to the BIOs code, or Gordon\u2019s team struggling with Joe\u2019s laptop vision, the upload speed for Cardiff\u2019s PC mission has slowed to a crawl.\n\nLike the pilot episode, \u201cHigh Plains Hardware\u201d opens with the death of an animal -- this time, a bird outside of Gordon\u2019s home. Gordon solemnly watches the bird struggle, and even offers to take it in to get help. Donna and his neighbor, however, tell him to let the bird pass. Gordon's sadness over the death of the helpless bird would soon be better understood -- that day at Cardiff Electric, he would be forced to lay off 46 people.\n\nSEE ALSO:\r\n'Halt and Catch Fire' Episode 2 Recap: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt\r\n'Halt and Catch Fire' Episode 1 Recap: Keep Your Stories Straight\n\nThe bloodbath at Cardiff (a consequence of the PC venture and exodus of clients to IBM) leaves Gordon with a small team of engineers tasked with building Joe\u2019s near-impossible PC design: a portable computer the size of a briefcase that weighs less than 15 pounds. Most of the engineers scoff at that notion, though Gordon maintains cautious optimism that they will be able to accomplish the build.\n\nMeanwhile, Joe is courting venture capitalists to infuse Cardiff with money for the PC venture, but gaining little ground. Investors know about the drama with IBM and are skittish when it comes to getting involved with Cardiff. Bosworth, however, has pull with old-money investors in the South -- investors that completely undercut Joe\u2019s brash authority. One man agrees to invest in Cardiff so long as Bosworth is in charge of all financial decisions; Joe reluctantly agrees.\n\nBut when Bosworth totes Joe to a dinner at wealthy woman\u2019s home, he reaches his boiling point -- the wealthy woman treats investment like a social accessory, and offers $10 million for an 80% stake. Joe is flabbergasted by this lowball offer and subsequently flips out on her during dinner.\n\nCameron\u2019s BIOs rut is briefly alleviated when she receives her first paycheck. She blows some of it on junk food, but also befriends some punk squatters and ends up buying a hotel room for them to all party in. The boozing and dancing helps distract Cameron from the work at hand, but she cannot escape her Cardiff mission for long -- a shoddy stick and poke tattoo on her arm of geometric shapes inspires a manic coding mission on the hotel bathroom mirror that ends up going nowhere. She leaves the hotel, frustrated.\n\nWe once again see how far Joe is willing to go to manipulate people to get what he wants. In order to capsize the deal between Bosworth and his wealthy female friend, Joe privately seduces the wealthy woman\u2019s \u201cboyfriend,\u201d who Joe discerned earlier is actually gay. In one glance after the hookup, the woman realizes Joe sees through her showy relationship with the man and is humiliated -- she pulls out of the investment deal, leaving Bosworth to ask Joe what the hell he did or said to throw it under the bus.\n\n(Later, it\u2019s implied he and Cameron sleep together once again -- the attraction between them seems to grow when work becomes intense.)\n\nThroughout \u201cHigh Plains Hardware\u201d we watch Donna quietly battle with her own perception of her husband -- Gordon is having trouble assuming a managerial role at Cardiff, given his docile nature. And during a meeting at Texas Instruments (where Donna works), Donna encounters an old high school peer with whom she seems to share a spark -- when she embarrassedly recalls being in the high school band, the handsome, charming exec replies, \u201cYou were just marking time, waiting for something better to come along.\u201d His comment reads on Donna\u2019s face -- her clearly thinking of Gordon.\n\nIt doesn\u2019t help that Donna\u2019s mother is in town to remind her of the life that is available to some women in the world -- travel, luxury. Nevertheless, Gordon and Donna do share a bond. It is Donna who inspires Gordon with a sophisticated way to tackle the Cardiff PC space issue, though Gordon does not credit Donna when he presents it to his team. Donna is intelligent, but craving more from her marriage.\n\nGordon and a Cardiff employee -- who has been rubbing Gordon the wrong way throughout the episode -- are driving in a car when they are suddenly T-boned. The near-death experience shifts something in Gordon, and he promptly fires the man from Cardiff on the spot, still in the smoking car.\n\nWhen he arrives home, Gordon swears he can still hear the bird chirping outside, struggling through its final breaths. It did not die that morning, or the next day, or the next day. Donna asks Gordon to handle it, but Gordon, bloodied from the car accident and bleary-eyed from work, refuses.\n\nDonna has to take matters into her own hands, carrying out the task that would typically be ascribed to the \u201cman of the house.\u201d She goes to the garage and picks up a shovel -- from High Plains Hardware -- and heads outside. There, she finds the bird still vaguely alive, but covered in ants. Gordon remains inside, not wanting to be involved. With one deft movement, Donna mercy-kills the bird, and, perhaps also, an era in her marriage.\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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But sadly, it took Tyrion finding the love of his life, Shae, in his dad's bed. \n\nSee also: 17 'Game of Thrones' #TBT Photos Worthy of the Nostalgia Throne\n\nSo, basically, a happy Father's Day all around. \n\nAnd for a season already high on the death count, this episode really sent the numbers off the charts. 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Hometown kid and Star Wars director George Lucas has decided to build his $1 billion Museum in Chicago rather than San Francisco, members of the Lucas camp have confirmed to Mashable. \n\nChicago mayor Rahm Emanuel was to announce the news with a \"glorious rollout\" on Thursday, our source said -- but Emmanuel just got scooped by columnist Michael Sneed of the Chicago Sun-Times. \n\nLucas has been angling to build the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum, or LCAM, ever since he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in October 2012 for $4.05 billion. The museum will house Lucas's extensive artwork collection, costumes from the Star Wars movies, and interactive exhibits on digital art and storytelling. [UPDATE: Lucas announced the museum's new name Tuesday: the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.]\n\nSee also: George Lucas 'Constantly Talking' to J.J. 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It was Suarez's third -- we repeat, third -- biting incident in FIFA play, and will most likely lead to a suspension.\n\nOf course, the unusual play drew a lot of attention on social media, particularly Twitter. As of 2:30 p.m. ET, roughly an hour after the bite, it had been mentioned 339,269 times, according to social-media analytics company Sysomos. Twitter users in the UK seemed to be the most interested in the transgression, accounting for 32% of all the mentions. (U.S. was second at 26%.)\n\nDespite what appears to be a mad rush of Suarez tweets, the bite wasn't as popular as you might think. American Clint Dempsey's goal against Portugal on Sunday sparked more than 300,000 tweets per minute, and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo was mentioned 1.5 million times in total on Twitter during the game, despite failing to score (although he did have a late-game assist that broke American hearts).\r\n.@clint_dempsey mentioned 465k times during #USA v #POR. Explore this @TwitterReverb LINK: http://t.co/wNr5TOUq5O pic.twitter.com/oGiybXyJbm\n\n\u2014 Twitter Reverb (@TwitterReverb) June 23, 2014\r\n\u00a0\r\n.@clint_dempsey goal has 2nd highest peak of entire #WorldCup: these are the top #USA v #POR moments - UPDATED pic.twitter.com/D6QZB63ecX\n\n\u2014 Twitter Data (@TwitterData) June 23, 2014\r\n\u00a0\n\nTwitter traffic isn't just heavy for matches featuring Team USA. Monday's matchup between Cameroon and Mexico generated 6.1 million tweets, according to Twitter.\n\nAs it turns out, fans appreciate good f\u00fatbol more than good meme material -- although we certainly don't mind a little of both.\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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Uruguay went on to win the match, but Suarez quickly became the brunt of many jokes on social media.\n\nSee also: World Cup Fans Go Rabid for Luis Suarez Bite Memes\n\nShortly after the incident, the official Twitter account for McDonald's in Uruguay tweeted at Suarez to \"take a bite\" of a Big Mac if he's hungry.\r\nHola @luis16suarez, si te quedaste con hambre ven\u00ed a darle un mordisco a una BigMac ;)\n\n\u2014 McDonald's Uruguay (@McDonalds_Uy) June 24, 2014\r\n\u00a0\n\nSeveral other brands quickly chimed in as well:\r\nChew Trident. Not soccer players. #ITAvsURU\n\n\u2014 Trident Gum (@tridentgum) June 24, 2014\r\n\u00a0\r\nIf only Suarez had Whataburger before the game he wouldn't be so hungry.\n\n\u2014 Whataburger\u00ae (@Whataburger) June 24, 2014\r\n\u00a0\r\nThis can be your dinner... ITALIAN FLANK STEAK PINWHEELS: http://t.co/pyZoJUMm9c #WFMdish\n\n\u2014 Whole Foods Market (@WholeFoods) June 24, 2014\r\n\u00a0\r\nThere's no c\u0336r\u0336y\u0336i\u0336n\u0336g\u0336 #biting in baseball. pic.twitter.com/d4JGQhQVy1\n\n\u2014 MLB (@MLB) June 24, 2014\r\n\u00a0\r\nI think it\u2019s safe to say Uruguay was hungry for the win.\n\n\u2014 TGI Fridays (@TGIFridays) June 24, 2014\r\n\u00a0\r\nBiting is only okay when you're made of cinnamon and sugar. #BanSuarez #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/SPsWYih153\n\n\u2014 CinnamonToastCrunch (@CTCSquares) June 24, 2014\r\n\u00a0\r\nFangs for the memories, Uruguay. #URU http://t.co/Uhx0XqyAem pic.twitter.com/S2fzMsLhPQ\n\n\u2014 JCPenney (@jcpenney) June 24, 2014\r\n\u00a0\r\nHey @luis16suarez. Next time you're hungry just grab a Snickers. #worldcup #luissuarez #EatASNICKERS pic.twitter.com/3RAO537HjW\n\n\u2014 SNICKERS\u00ae (@SNICKERS) June 24, 2014\r\n\u00a0\n\nWe recommend a good swish after grabbing a bite of Italian. #WorldCup #PowerToYourMouth\u2014 Listerine Global (@ListerineGlobal) June 24, 2014\n\nSuarez has bit players on two others occasions and could face repercussions from FIFA if it's determined that he did it a third time."},"shares":{"facebook":3986,"linked_in":275,"twitter":1719,"google_plus":19,"pinterest":1,"total":6000},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2Q3L1N1YXJlel8yMS5lMzVkNC5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk5NTB4NTM0IwplCWpwZw/07c50512/6ba/Suarez_21.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2Q3L1N1YXJlel8yMS5lMzVkNC5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk2Mzh4MzY4IwplCWpwZw/bd9e4bc1/6ba/Suarez_21.jpg","query":true,"size":"638x368#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2Q3L1N1YXJlel8yMS5lMzVkNC5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxMjc2eDczNiMKZQlqcGc/d20c387b/6ba/Suarez_21.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"1276x736#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2Q3L1N1YXJlel8yMS5lMzVkNC5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkzNTZ4MjA1IwplCWpwZw/60a4de1a/6ba/Suarez_21.jpg","query":"(max-width: 1160px)","size":"356x205#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2Q3L1N1YXJlel8yMS5lMzVkNC5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk3MTJ4NDEwIwplCWpwZw/279a3fba/6ba/Suarez_21.jpg","query":"(max-width: 1160px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"712x410#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2Q3L1N1YXJlel8yMS5lMzVkNC5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkyODB4MTU3IwplCWpwZw/a0c06b8a/6ba/Suarez_21.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"280x157#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2Q3L1N1YXJlel8yMS5lMzVkNC5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk1NjB4MzE0IwplCWpwZw/0e8a0b4f/6ba/Suarez_21.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"560x314#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1jLCluu","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/luis-suarez-bite-memes/"}]},"excerpt":"Brands showed once again that they're hungry for any real-time marketing opportunity.","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"53a9b35fb05f9d14d1000128","id":"2014/06/24/syrian-fighter-we-are-the-western-front-against-isil","title":"Syrian Fighter: We Are the Western Front Against ISIL","title_tag":null,"author":"Louise Roug","post_date":"2014-06-24T13:20:21-04:00","post_date_rfc":"Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:20:21 -0400","sort_key":"1wZwSQ","link":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/syrian-fighter-we-are-the-western-front-against-isil/","content":{"plain":"ALEPPO, Syria -- Abdullah is undisputedly an authority on the murderous jihadis who, in recent weeks, have cut a savage path through northern Iraq: he has fought both with them and against them.\n\nAbdullah, a 36-year-old officer with a moderate rebel group fighting the Syrian regime, experienced the radical militants close up when they occupied his hometown of Idlib.\n\nSee also: 9 Essential Questions About Iraq, Answered\n\n\u201cExecutions became normal; daily life became a scary film,\u201d said Abdullah, an officer with the Tawhid Brigade of the Islamic Front, who preferred to go by his first name only for security reasons. \u201cThey created rules with no purpose. They just wanted to see how much we would obey to feed their power.\u201d\n\nA self-identified conservative, he said his unit originally made common cause with the jihadis known as The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) until they turned on his group. When another group took on ISIL, he sided with the fight against the radicals. \n\nWhen I joined him recently on a trip back home to Aleppo from the Syrian front lines, Abdullah seemed exasperated by the notion that ISIL is a recent arrival in the Middle East.\n\n\u201cYour news makes it seem like [ISIL] appeared out of nowhere,\u201d he said, slamming his hand on the dashboard. \u201cYou want to talk about [ISIL]? Ask a Syrian!\u201d\n\nInitially, Syrians fighting the brutal regime of President Bashar al-Assad welcomed the group when it first reared its head in early 2013. They admired the fighters' piety, discipline and fighting prowess and, joining the ISIL ranks, some saw the radical group as an alternative to the corruption that had begun to beset the moderate Free Syrian Army forces.\n\nYet, as people began to realize the depth of ISIL's radical views, popular support began to wane. By early 2014, other opposition forces united under the banners of the Syrian Revolutionary Front (SRF) to battle ISIL. A report by McClatchy estimated that, by mid-February, the SRF campaign had managed to dislodge ISIL from about half its bases in Syria.\n\n\u201cWe beat [ISIL] -- and we can do it again, if we have the right weapons,\u201d Abdullah said, scratching his head with the barrel of his rusty Kalashnikov. \n\nAbove us, I heard the roar of al-Assad\u2019s fighter jets. In the three years of fighting, at least 160,000 people have been killed in Syria, casualties of a civil war that no longer gets any attention.\n\nThroughout the conflict, Syrian opposition groups have pleaded for much-needed weaponry but Western governments have largely refused, fearing the weapons might fall into the hands of more radical groups -- such as the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra and now ISIL. \n\nYet, since the other groups united against ISIL (and even defeated them in some places), there have been reports that Western officials may be rethinking that position. And more moderate Syrian fighters, including Abdullah, see ISIL's brutal advance in Iraq as an opportunity to make the point that they are the right group to back in this fight.\n\n\u201cWe can help you with [ISIL], and you can finally help us with Bashar\u201d al-Assad, Abdullah said. \u201cWe are the Western Front.\u201d\n\nAnna Therese Day is a freelance journalist covering the Middle East.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."},"shares":{"facebook":61,"twitter":737,"linked_in":19,"google_plus":1,"total":818},"comments_count":0,"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2YwL0FsZXBwb2ZpZ2h0LjRkM2U2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/3b629ff6/3cf/Aleppo-fighter1.jpg","responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2YwL0FsZXBwb2ZpZ2h0LjRkM2U2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTYzOHgzNjgjCmUJanBn/1ef39837/3cf/Aleppo-fighter1.jpg","query":true,"size":"638x368#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2YwL0FsZXBwb2ZpZ2h0LjRkM2U2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyNzZ4NzM2IwplCWpwZw/e356c040/3cf/Aleppo-fighter1.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"1276x736#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2YwL0FsZXBwb2ZpZ2h0LjRkM2U2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTM1NngyMDUjCmUJanBn/a6e3b0ad/3cf/Aleppo-fighter1.jpg","query":"(max-width: 1160px)","size":"356x205#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2YwL0FsZXBwb2ZpZ2h0LjRkM2U2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTcxMng0MTAjCmUJanBn/ea6cab60/3cf/Aleppo-fighter1.jpg","query":"(max-width: 1160px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"712x410#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2YwL0FsZXBwb2ZpZ2h0LjRkM2U2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTI4MHgxNTcjCmUJanBn/06034891/3cf/Aleppo-fighter1.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px)","size":"280x157#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzI0L2YwL0FsZXBwb2ZpZ2h0LjRkM2U2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU2MHgzMTQjCmUJanBn/edfa0e56/3cf/Aleppo-fighter1.jpg","query":"(max-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"560x314#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/Va4LJx","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/iraq-what-is-happening/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Abdullah, a 36-year-old rebel officer, is an authority on the jihadis who have cut a savage path through northern Iraq: he has fought both with them and against them.","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"}],"channel":null} |
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