Apps and Software

For this week's Vine challenge, turn your favorite childhood books into scary stories.

Transform Dr. Seuss into Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Curious George into Monkey Shines. Or, make The Very Hungry Caterpillar a very vicious monster and Junie B. Jones face bigger fears than school bullies

You can animate directly on the pages of your book, or act out the horror in a mini skit

The theme is in line with upcoming movie The Babadook, which will be screened for our first ever MashFlix on Nov. 20. We ...

The numbers don't lie, Taylor Swift's paycheck from Spotify is a lot less than the $6 million it's promising.

Spotify, the world's biggest subscription music streaming service, paid Swift less than $500,000 in the last 12 months for listening by its U.S. users, Scott Borchetta, CEO of Swift's record label Big Machine, told Time magazine. Counting all listening worldwide, that number jumps to $2 million, Jonathan Prince, a Spotify spokesman, told Mashable.

That's still a far cry from the $6 million a year that Spotify is on track to pay Swift and other big recording artists, CEO Daniel Ek said in a ...

His name is Android Jones and he just posted one of the most amazing demonstrations of timelapse art you'll ever see on YouTube

"Electric Love Hyper Lapse," as seen in the video above, is a four-minute ride through Jones' imagination, powered by software and an amazingly surrealistic vision of what the first cyborg kiss might look like

To create the incredibly complex work, Jones used Corel's Painter, Adobe Photoshop CC and Zbrush, a digital painting and sculpting tool used widely by 3D artists