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How did you spend you Friday night? Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk spent his answering questions about paying back the government and musing about the next kind of electric vehicle he might like to make.
After posting a number of tweets about his thoughts on proper taxation and how he did (PayPal and Zip2) and didn’t make his fortune, Musk appeared to drop in something of a non sequitur:
Would love to do a pickup truck. Something w ultra low cg for sports car handling, dynamic air…
The Syrian Electronic Army claimed credit for hacking one of British television network ITV’s Twitter accounts Friday. One of the SEA’s hijacked tweets linked to a story about Twitter’s recently introduced two-step verification, aimed at preventing such hijackings.
“Just kidding. The Syrian Electronic Army was here. #SEA via @Official_SEA12,” read one of the false tweets from @itvlondon. The SEA’s tweets have since been deleted and the account restored.
An ITV spokesperson told Reuters the…
Ron Paul doesn’t own RonPaul.com. Ron Paul wants RonPaul.com. Ron Paul isn’t getting RonPaul.com
Paul has lost his World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) petition to get RonPaul.com from Paul supporters who run a fan site at the domain
Paul filed the petition earlier this year, arguing it confuses Paul supporters who think it’s an official website. RonPaul.com’s owners previously offered to sell Paul the domain for $250,000 or to give him RonPaul.org for free. Paul didn’t accept…
It’s been a big week for 3D-printed weaponry. On Monday, a Wisconsin man announced that he had built a largely plastic gun for just $25. Now, a Tennessee man has designed and printed bullets using the same technology.
In a video posted to YouTube on Sunday, Jeff Heeszel — he goes by taofledermaus on the site and his clips have more than 43 million views — announces that a friend of his sent him several 3D-printed bullets. A shooter then loads one into a Mossberg 590 shotgun and fires at a…
A glitch Thursday night prompted rumors that Instagram was randomly deleting accounts. However, the company says although some people lost access to their accounts for a short time, there was no mass purge.
Nevertheless, during the height of the rumors Thursday night, the hashtag #Dontdeletemyaccount made the rounds on Instagram (where more than 500,000 photos used the tag) and on Twitter. As many noted, using such a hashtag would be unlikely to change anyone’s mind
OMG youth of the world…
Google wastes little time updating its maps: The four-lane bridge in Washington state that partially collapsed on Thursday has been removed from Google Maps 12 hours after falling into the Skagit River. An empty placeholder now fills the bridge’s location:
Image courtesy Google
The bridge gave way with little warning, sending two cars and their occupants into the freezing water below. Authorities rescued three people, and two were hospitalized for hypothermia, according to the Chicago…
Sally Ride, the United States’ first woman in space, will be posthumously honored with the country’s highest civilian commendation and the renaming of a high-flying camera.
President Barack Obama announced on Monday that Ride will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House later this year. NASA further paid tribute to the late astronaut by creating a new internship program in her name and renaming a science instrument on board the International Space Station.
Ride, who…
If you had to market a final season premiere of a TV cult classic that wouldn’t appear on television, how would you do it? With billboards, print ads, and primetime slots on TV? Probably not.
Around the world, the seasons are changing. In some parts of the world it’s getting colder, while for many of us, summer has officially arrived. With the change of the seasons comes a host of other changes: a move to a new place, a vacation away from home or perhaps a landmark life event like a graduation
To celebrate the changes that accompany this time of the year, this week the theme of the Mashable Photo Challenge is change. The pictures selected by our guest curator, McKenna Ewen, each…
Call of Duty: Ghosts represents a significant graphical upgrade from the previous titles in the series, according to publisher Activision.
To prove this, it showed a video during Tuesday’s Xbox One unveiling that shows footage from the upcoming Ghosts compared to footage from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
The video’s narration, said developer Infinity Ward, is able to do in-depth scans of subjects, including a Navy Seal-trained dog, and then translate them into the game world. You can see…
