When Marc Okrand graduated from Berkeley University with a degree in linguistics decades ago, he never guessed he’d become the mastermind behind a language with one of the biggest cult followings in the world. Klingon — the official language spoken by the fictional warrior race in the Star Trek franchise — has taken on a [...]
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It has been another busy week as summer approaches, and everyone gets restless for the warm weather. If you’ve been too preoccupied soaking up some rays to check out the news, don’t worry — we’ve got you covered. We at Mashable have rounded up the most important updates in tech and social media to keep [...]
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This isn’t exactly your textbook bit of damage control PR UFC fighter Nate Diaz (above) was suspended by the mixed martial arts body on Thursday night for earlier in the week using a gay slur against another fighter. That’s typically where a manager or someone else would step in and get the athlete to apologize [...]
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Today, Google announced that its Android operating system has reached 900M activations. This is a 500M increase from last year’s announcement. At one point, Google said that it was experiencing 1M Android activations a day. These activations have brought in 48M app installs for developers who have launched on Google Play, which is why the [...]
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If you were among the select few that signed up for NVIDIA’s Shield newsletter then you’ve been able to pre-order the company’s curious handset for a few days now. The remainder of the gaming masses originally had to wait until Monday for their own turn, but that’s no longer the case — NVIDIA’s retail partners [...]
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Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing. Not surprisingly, the big growth is coming with in-app purchases, though Google’s recently launched subscription model is also making headway. [...]
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Google’s major developer conference, Google I/O, went down this week. Was it a bit of a letdown? Probably. Did cool stuff still come out of the event? Eh? Maybe? We discuss these topics and more this week on the TC Gadgets podcast. In fact, we even had Frederic Lardinois join as a guest, along with [...]
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MetroPCS dropped its lawsuit challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules Friday, leaving Verizon the FCC’s sole legal opponent in the case. T-Mobile purchased MetroPCS last month; T-Mobile is not involved with the net neutrality lawsuit. The FCC’s rules bar landline-based broadband providers from discriminating between different kinds of Internet traffic. For example: If [...]
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As Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, nears the end, it’s time to take a look back at some of the biggest announcements the company made. The event kicked off with a 3.5-hour keynote which Mashable Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff noted solidified Google as “the world’s most powerful and important company.” While there was no major [...]
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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting storiesGoogle is rolling out some fresh apps for Glass. The company announced Thursday at I/O, Glass will soon get a handful of [...]
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