Were you offline over the weekend? Here’s what you missed.

If you’ve been offline over the weekend, you missed a lot. Here’s a chance to catch up on news and features from The Next Web and beyond:

The news

This weekend, we took an in-depth look at Microsoft’s Windows AppFest in India, which broke the Guinness World Record for the globe’s largest ever app development marathon.

Also:

• Mozilla announces Firefox Health Report, will phone home with data to improve the browser.
• Fab finally upgrades its European social e-commerce site to catch up with the US.
• UK universities secure £880,000 to map brainwaves for remix concerts and more.
• This hacker is porting the original Google Maps app to iOS 6, shows it can be done [Video]

Good reads

Make sure you catch these features, published over the weekend. Perfect to read over your lunch or on that dull bus ride home.

• Can Kia’s gamification change the way we drive our cars?
• Resistant to the inevitable: How technology is changing the restaurant industry
• When toasters fly: what will it take for “smart” appliances to take off?
• The Silicon Valley company cafeteria shootout: Who has the best food?
• Better living through data and the future of urban environments at DLD Cities, London
• The politics and power struggles of the Chinese Internet superpowers
• How technology gave us cheap food in huge quantities – and why it has to stop
• Eat, browse and prosper: How the Internet is bringing obscure food communities to life
• Meet 6 companies battling to be the first from Asia to crack the US

And from elsewhere…

The 💜 of EU tech

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Here are some pieces that you definitely shouldn’t miss from around the Web:

• Apple Maps: Damned If You Do, Googled If You Don’t [Monday Note]
• Twitter CEO says curation tools for newsrooms are coming [Poynter]
• TomTom: Don’t Blame Apple Maps Problems On Us! [Business Insider]
• Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage over Apple Maps [Exploring Local]
• The Indomitable Mary Meeker [Wired]
• EU Officials Propose Internet Cops On Patrol, No Anonymity & No Obscure Languages (Because Terrorism!) [TechDirt]

Oh, and many a LOL was had at the Guardian article which suggested a £2 per month levy on UK broadband subscriptions to save newspapers.