Inside Fort Irwin, fake cities provide a training ground for real warfare


May 19, 2013 07:02 pm | http://www.theverge.com/
Twice a month in California's Mojave desert, anyone can spend half a day in a war zone. The Fort Irwin National Training Center is meant to give soldiers a crash course in realistic combat before they deploy. The thousand-square-mile base contains e
 

May 19, 2013 03:48 pm | http://www.theverge.com/
Earlier this year, Verizon announced some new 3G prepaid plans for $60 and $70 dollars that offered 500MB and 2GB of data, respectively. Now, it looks like the company has silently bumped those allotments up to 2GB and 4GB without touching the price
 

May 19, 2013 12:04 pm | http://www.theverge.com/
Google and other tech companies have come under fire for exploiting a common tax loophole to book revenues through their Irish subsidiaries, but today The Sunday Times is reporting that a former Google UK executive has evidence of further tax avoida
 

May 19, 2013 10:15 am | http://www.theverge.com/
Valve is pushing out another update to Team Fortress 2, its 356th since it first shipped the game as part of The Orange Box in 2007. But there’s something special this time around — the new content, titled Robotic Boogaloo, is the first
 

May 19, 2013 08:01 am | http://www.theverge.com/
With the PlayStation 4, Sony is trying to lower the friction in buying games from PSN by letting you start playing games while they're still downloading. Now it looks like the new feature will actually make it to the PlayStation 3 in time for the PS
 

May 19, 2013 06:17 am | http://www.theverge.com/
What's cooler than a laser light show? One that combines real-time control, motion tracking, and Daft Punk. For the past week, artist and hacker Memo Akten has been uploading videos showing off what he's learned using a laser projector and the Ether
 

May 19, 2013 03:54 am | http://www.theverge.com/
An update to the Google Music app broke compatibility with the ill-fated Nexus Q — but it appears Google may have a new media streamer waiting in the wings to replace it. A recent FCC filing provides some sparse details on a mysterious product
 

May 19, 2013 02:33 am | http://www.theverge.com/
After years of sluggish service, train operator Amtrak has begun a network-wide overhaul of its onboard Wi-Fi service. Piggybacking on a number of different mobile networks, the new service uses 4G connectivity to improve speeds. The upgrade is alre
 

May 19, 2013 01:01 am | http://www.theverge.com/
Three months ago, celebrated video game publisher Valve did something completely out of character: it fired up to 25 workers, in what one employee dubbed the "great cleansing." At the time, co-founder Gabe Newell quickly reassured gamers that the co
 

May 19, 2013 12:29 am | http://www.theverge.com/
Jorge Almeida has made his name designing the futuristic user interfaces of action and science fiction movies, most notably the extremely influential Minority Report. His work also appears in the recently released Star Trek Into Darkness, and he's s
 






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How Facebook Has Changed Since Going Public 1 Year Ago


May 19, 2013 04:50 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
"Facebook was not originally created to be a company," CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his SEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18, 2012. "It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make
 

May 19, 2013 04:37 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
Imagine you're a truck driver. You're coming up to a tunnel that might be too low for your truck to fit under, but you're not sure. Suddenly, a gigantic red stop sign appears to obstruct the road in front of the tunnel entrance, giving you no doubt.
 

May 19, 2013 04:27 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
It was a big week in tech, the week of Google I/O. But apart from the annual Google geekfest that its developers conference is, there was much more. We were in San Francisco to cover Google I/O, but we also kept an eye on the rest of the world of te
 

May 19, 2013 04:07 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
Ah, the benefit of hindsight. Those who rushed to buy Facebook stock at its initial public offering price of $38 per share on May 18, 2012, are likely a little disappointed with their investment one year later. Though the stock has recovered from it
 

May 19, 2013 03:51 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck — Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week Google launched its own streaming m
 

May 19, 2013 03:30 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
There are two sides to every story, even a viral video. In the top comments above, we've highlighted our readers' reactions to the contentious campaign against Abercrombie and Fitch. After the company's CEO Mike Jeffries publicly stated that he "doe
 

May 19, 2013 03:05 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
The obscure members of the Channel 4 News Team have assembled in the first trailer for Anchorman 2, the sequel to 2004's popular comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Dubbed Anchorman: The Legend Continues, the flick hits theaters Dec. 20.
 

May 19, 2013 02:42 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
Many animals are so in tune with the human species, that it might freak you out. Dogs can sense danger or sadnessMonkeys can use iPads. Honey badgers are all, "IDGAF," and eating pistachios. SEE ALSO: 20 Animals So Ugly They're Cute If you think tha
 

May 19, 2013 02:32 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
In the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the title hero sets out to find the Holy Grail with only a diary and a map without any labels — and he has to find the grail before anyone else does. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In th
 

May 19, 2013 02:04 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
Low-budget recreations of movie trailers are nothing new. We've seen plenty on YouTube, but one Star Trek Into Darkness fan this week leveraged Twitter's six-second video service, Vine, in a crafty way to imitate the new film's trailer Frank Danna o
 

May 19, 2013 01:40 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
It's easy to forget how sky-high expectations were for the Facebook IPO. The day before the company went public, some investors reasonably assumed that by the close of the market, Facebook would be worth $140 billion since the average first-day pop
 

May 19, 2013 01:39 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
NASA may have retired the space shuttle, but that doesn't mean amateur explorers need to stay grounded, right? The Kua Fu Initiative is a photo project raising funds through Kickstarter to send a payload capsule into the lower stratosphere to captu
 

May 19, 2013 01:03 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
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 s
 

May 19, 2013 12:48 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
Satellite TV provider DirecTV reportedly is considering buying streaming video service Hulu, which would strip away some or all ownership from Comcast Corporation, News Corporation and Walt Disney Company. A similar scenario took place two years ago
 

May 19, 2013 12:27 am | http://feeds.mashable.com/
Sit back for a couple of minutes and take an exhilarating journey through Peru and Bolivia in this beautiful stop-motion video by Polish artist Piotr Wancerz of Timelapse Media. It's an elaborate composite of 12,000 photos and video frames, shot ove
 

May 18, 2013 11:09 pm | http://feeds.mashable.com/
At the beginning of this year, Facebook overtook Google Maps as the most-used mobile app in the U.S. The social network giant also recently introduced a controversial new mobile interface, Facebook Home. Earlier this week, Home hit 1 million downloa
 

May 18, 2013 10:51 pm | http://feeds.mashable.com/
It's a common practice for job applicants to use social media to stand out to employers. We've seen the Vine resume, the Kickstarter one and enough infographics to make you cry. But how often do you see a company get creative when making an offer?
 

May 18, 2013 10:10 pm | http://feeds.mashable.com/
Rapper Kanye West is always eager to grab attention in the most elaborate way possible. Now he's debuting a new song in the form of videos simultaneously displayed on the exterior walls of more than five dozen buildings — just in time for his
 

May 18, 2013 09:59 pm | http://feeds.mashable.com/
College grads and career-changers, be warned. When you search around for a job at your favorite startup (perhaps even on Mashable’s job board?), you’ll start seeing the buzziest of job descriptions: “Growth Hacker.” The name
 

May 18, 2013 09:32 pm | http://feeds.mashable.com/
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
 

May 18, 2013 09:11 pm | http://feeds.mashable.com/
Your inability to land a job might be blamed on the economy, your chosen college major or just the fact that you're not a code-happy engineer For many, it's less about finding a job and more about finding a good job. Those are the underemployed in t
 






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Visteon's HABIT is a concept infotainment system that puts road trip copilots out of a job (video)


May 19, 2013 11:41 am | http://www.engadget.com/
A good acronym also hints at what it does, and Visteon's new intelligent in-car concept, HABIT, is a good example of that. The Human Bayesian Intelligence Technology system -- to give it its full name -- learns the behaviour of drivers so it can aut
 

May 19, 2013 09:45 am | http://www.engadget.com/
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Xan, who wants Cintiq functionality without paying Cintiq prices. If you're looking to a
 

May 19, 2013 08:45 am | http://www.engadget.com/
If you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought a new handset from Sony to the US and UK, updates to Nokia Creative Suite and three new (and very inexpen
 

May 19, 2013 06:32 am | http://www.engadget.com/
The quantified self movement's gaining steam, with companies creating all sorts of gadgets to track our activity levels, sleeping habits and even what's going on inside our heads. Melon's an EEG headband that taps into your brain's inner workings to
 

May 19, 2013 04:33 am | http://www.engadget.com/
When Valve's first hardware hire, Jeri Ellsworth, tweeted back in February that she was fired from the company, we were disappointed but also intrigued by what she meant by "time for new exciting projects." Well we finally saw what she's been up to
 

May 19, 2013 04:30 am | http://www.engadget.com/
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. If we're to find a common thread in this week's collection of stories, it'd be nature's guiding hand. How it inspires science, how we seek to imitate
 

May 19, 2013 02:31 am | http://www.engadget.com/
We know that "wherefore art thou?" was about Romeo, but if your question was for (Dell's) Ophelia, then it's likely more "when art thou." The answer? July. The Android pendrive / USB computer we saw back at CES may be one of many, but distinctive th
 

May 19, 2013 12:14 am | http://www.engadget.com/
Sprint was clearly hungry for capacity when it bought spectrum from US Cellular last fall, and it's at last getting its fill -- some of it, at least -- by closing the deal today. The carrier has officially taken possession of 20MHz in airwaves acros
 

May 18, 2013 10:27 pm | http://www.engadget.com/
Even though we don't yet know what the PlayStation 4 looks like or how much it will cost, one of the many details revealed at Sony's February event was that games will be playable even as they download. Now it turns out we won't have to wait for the
 

May 18, 2013 08:04 pm | http://www.engadget.com/
With much of its information obscured it's hard to say what Google has planned for this new device revealed by its FCC filing, but the model number at least indicates someone has a sense of humor. Called an "H840 device" and rocking the model number
 

May 18, 2013 05:11 pm | http://www.engadget.com/
There are plenty of wonderful things about train travel: the leg room, the scenery, the lack of security pat-downs. The WiFi, on the other hand, has long been the slowest thing about Amtrak. The company announced today that it's finally doing someth
 

May 18, 2013 02:06 pm | http://www.engadget.com/
Stitcher just announced a new car mode for the iPhone version of its radio and podcasting app, bringing a simplified interface that works in both portrait and landscape positions. Accessible by tapping the Stitcher logo at the top of the screen, car
 






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