Facebook reached its 500 million member milestone yesterday and celebrated the event with the launch of Facebook Stories . The monumental moment also played a role in the ABC World News report featuring a candid interview between Diane Sawyer and CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Last week, Google enabled an interesting feature: custom backgrounds for its search page.
The CEO of Apple is certainly no stranger to the stage, being known for giving keynotes that typically have the effect of rendering tech geeks into little piles of goo after the announcement of a new product. But now Mr. Jobs — or at least, the story of his career — will be gracing a new stage: an Off Broadway theatre
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin [iTunes link] has his own iPhone app, and it’s packed full of information, news, images and videos related to space exploration. It’s currently the one of the most popular apps in the Apple App Store’s Education category. “Buzz Aldrin Portal to Science and Space Exploration” is divided into five sections: Space Buzz, News, Interactive, Buzz Life, and More.
Not too long ago it was predominantly the blue collar sector worried about being replaced by robotics, but it appears even astronauts have some competition from our future metallic overlords. NASA will be sending humanoid robot Robonaut2 to the International Space Station to work alongside its human comrades on the next (and theoretically final) space shuttle Discovery mission this September.
After capturing the Olympic crowd in his athletic thrall, gold medal-winning snowboarder Shaun White has snagged the attention of Internet lurkers as well, as coverage of his award-winning run as well as signature epic trick has gone viral. After snagging the gold (and defending his 2006 title) in the Men’s Half Pipe competition yesterday, White busted out the Double McTwist 1260 — a trick that’s beyond the expertise of many a boarder — during a victory run. Videos of the trick are already hot in search, making White a legend a mere day after grabbing the gold.
It’s official, Avatar has passed Titanic in terms of worldwide ticket box office sales, surpassing $1.8 billion. If you’ve been keeping up, that means that in just a little more than two weeks, the film took in another $500 million dollars
Last February, actor Christian Bale’s outburst on the set of Terminator Salvation made headlines and wound up being one of our favorite memes of the year . If you didn’t get the chance to see Terminator Salvation in theaters, you’re in luck. The folks at DivX and CinemaNow have teamed up to let Mashable readers enjoy a digital copy of the film on their Macs, PCs or DivX- compatible media devices (which includes Blu-ray, DVD players and even portable devices) for free
Nokia and Apple are in the middle of an intense patent war. Apple’s latest counter-strike is a complaint filed with the International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking to block US imports of Nokia mobile devices. This comes on the heels of Nokia’s own complaint seeking to ban imports of iPhones, iPods, and MacBooks
Update: It’s now confirmed that more than $1 million has been raised through text message donations.
