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Hanna-Barbera's iconic show has shaped our view of the future for half a century now.

Yes, Apple Maps redirect to Google Maps on desktop, Android and any non-iOS 6 phones when you share your location. Womp. Obviously this is happening because there's no hub for Apple Maps on web, but still, the absurdity ...

American Airlines has been making the move to digital by giving their pilots iPads instead of paper heavy manuals, and the upgrading doesn't stop there. American Airlines wants their flight attendants outfitted with tech...

Crab Attacking a Man’s Face via Raymond Walsh Click here to view this gallery. Sometimes you need to look at things a litter bit closer than usual to see the humor -- or the harsh realities -- that they really hol...

From the minds who brought you the concrete sketch pencil comes the implement you've been needing to flesh out your concrete collection: a concrete ballpoint pen. More »

In 1999, half of the world had either never used a phone or had to travel more than two hours to reach the nearest one. Years later, mobile devices are being used in extremely innovative ways to connect and empower peopl...

Itching to get the most out of that new iPhone 5’s screen? While you can certainly run any iPhone app that’s currently available in the App Store on your iPhone 5, a few app developers have already updated ...

I talked to quite a few independent artists who told me about how hard it has been to pay out-of-pocket for health insurance. One artist I love told me his wife's Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) counted as a pre-existing c...

Official says government agencies and offices have already been connected to its "national information network," just as state news says Google is being blocked, Reuters reports. [Read more]

Editor's note: Michael Weinberg is a staff attorney at Public Knowledge, an organization that preserves the openness of the Internet and the public’s access to knowledge; promotes creativity through balanced...

Public transit can be both a blessing and a curse. It gets you where you need to go, but only pulsating herd of other coughing, sneezing humans. But maybe that wouldn't seem so bad if you didn't have to pay for it. There...

With all the new smartphones announced over the past few months -- including the iPhone 5 -- it should come as no surprise that many people are looking to buy a new smartphone. AYTM Research, working with Mashable, condu...

How do you responsibly conduct foreign policy with a haiku? That's what Susan Rice felt was the challenge when first introduced to Twitter. The United States Ambassador to the United Nations was a self-proclaimed "skepti...

It seems that the Iranian government is working to take even tighter control of the country's already heavily-censored version of the Internet. The government said that it's going to launch its own domestic Internet, and...

Apple is pursuing people with experience working on Google Maps to develop its own product, according to a source with connections on both teams. Using recruiters, Apple is pursuing a strategy of luring away Google Maps ...

Really it was only a matter of time, but this was still surprisingly fast. What you see above is the iOS 5.1 version of Google Maps running—albeit a little jankily—in iOS 6. The porting was done by one Ryan P...

In 2011, Tim Pool didn't hear about the Occupy Wall Street movement from the news -- he discovered it through social networks like YouTube and Facebook. He ended up seeing a video of a police officer dragging a protester...

Let's face it: There are tons of videos on YouTube -- way too many for you to ever make it through them all. That's why we here at Mashable have created the Viral Video Recap, to ensure that you can keep up to speed with...

Know your DHCP from your PPPoE? You will now...

Editor's Note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual propert...

There are many issues one can reasonably have with the iPhone 5. That overpriced dock connector. An inexcusably bad Maps app. Even the fact that it's a little, well, boring. But there's no way Apple could've anticipated ...

What do you get when you combine basketball dribbling with Guitar Hero?