Go back 10 years, and who had even heard of Internet memes?
These books — and their covers — certainly hadn't. Though they were around way before memes really took off online, they uncannily remind us of some of the web fads we know and love today
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We're not saying that these book…

Google's newest project is Loon, a campaign to spread Internet connectivity via a fleet of balloons (or 'loons for short). Remote areas and difficult terrain will have Wi-Fi access thanks to the 30 balloons Google launched last week, as well as the 20 more still awaiting their sendoff
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This got us thinking: What other…

Choosing the right font for your Powerpoint presentation or design project is serious business — you want to be careful not to send the wrong message
Luckily, there are thousands of fonts online you can download for free. Take a look at our favorite resources below
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Do you have any favorite websites for…

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 stories. A report in the Washington Post indicates Google wants the U.S. government to lift gag orders on its highly secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, or FISA, requestsInstagram could…

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Since 2005, Mashable has been dedicated to providing the hottest digital, social and tech news to our readership of 20 million and counting. Top companies know you excel in the digital world, so they come to Mashable to find the best and brightest minds. New jobs —…

Super heroes are the very definition of cool. The secret identities, the triumphant rescues, the skin-tight Lyrca outfits that show off every defined muscle and curve
Yes, super heroism is a lifestyle we could all get used to
Luckily for you, the following eight super powers don't even require mutated genetics or a Kryptonian birth certificate, thanks to modern technology
1. Invisibility
Until recently,…

Detailed musical phrases, the number of pitches in the hook and men with high voices are the keys to writing a super-catchy pop song, according to musicologists at the University of London. Which song is the catchiest of all time (according to SCIENCE)? Watch and learn, people.
This week's episode of #5facts is all about cactus arms, lies about carrots and…

Google and Asus scored a huge win the the tech space last year with the launch of the Nexus 7. With its small and neat form factor, stock Android OS seven-inch screen, nice specs and - crucially - exceptionally low price, it was one of the first Android tablets to…

Amazing things are made out of Lego all the time - that's sort of the point. But this is something special: an absolutely, ridiculously huge diorama of The Wizard Of Oz - including a motorised tornado.

Created for the 2013 BrickWorld conference by the Lego fan group VirtuaLug, it won first…

PARIS — Ground controllers put Europe's Herschel Space Observatory to sleep Monday (June 17), turning off the infrared observatory after squeezing every bit of engineering value from the spacecraft since it ceased scientific work in April. Engineers sent the final commands to Herschel at 8:25 a.m. EDT (1225 GMT) in…

The town of Ipswich has been transformed into a giant Zelda map by a British artist.

Created to help attendees of the Switch Fringe Festival, a not-for-profit annual music and arts bash, it re-imagines the town as a simple grid of adorable huts, paths and towers.

The iconic 16-bit style look was…

There's something strange happening on Venus. Which would be worrying, but given that the surface of the second planet from our sun is a boiling hot mass of carbon dioxide, sulphuric acid clouds and vaporised oceans, there's always something strange happening on Venus.

On the other hand, this time around it's…

BERLIN -- President Barack Obama says lives have been saved by sweeping surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency.

Obama says at least 50 threats have been averted because of phone records and Internet information the agency was able to access. He says those threats were not just in the…

Sony has been forced to pull a PS3 system update after widespread reports that it was causing machines to crash.

The 4.45 system update was supposed to include improvements to system stability, as well as new trophy notification options.

But according to many posters on the official PS3 forum as well as…