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 Cute animals, musical numbers and tearjerkers abound in 2016's top viral ads
Adorable critters, elaborate song-and-dance routines, tearjerking tales of inspiration — these are the staples of advertising virality, and each was in abundant supply among this year's most-shared commercials. Video tracking firm Unruly tallied up some of 2016's biggest hits from around the world in its annual ranking released this week. Topping out the list, unsurprisingly, is British department story John Lewis' mood-brightening story of a puppy seeing its Christmas wish come true. Some other notable ads that made the cut include an inspirational musical act performed by people with disability for the Paralympics and a fan-made Doritos Super Bowl spot. Read more... More about Business and Advertising Read More »In a first for Star Wars, 'Rogue One' clips and opening scenes revealed
For those viewers who labored to the end end of a Twitter livestream plagued with audio problems, Lucasfilm dropped a surprise Friday: an exclusive clip from Rogue One: A Star Wars story. It was the second clip in two days, the first appearing on the Tonight Show Wednesday night. Actual advance clips from the movie, rather than trailers, is a first for Lucasfilm under Disney ownership. This time last year, all content from Star Wars: The Force Awakens was sewn up tight, and the viewing public was only allowed to see trailers. However, those trailers were also immediately released on YouTube — whereas these two clips are still exclusive to their venue. (Skip forward to 3:10 in the following vid to see the first one.) Read more... More about Star Wars, Entertainment, and Film Read More »Passengers on this shark expedition got more than they bargained for
This dramatic footage was captured by student Haylee Weber on the Calypso Star Charter expedition in South Australia. Read more... More about Mashable Video, Australia, Australian Animals, Wildlife, and Shark Attacks Read More »This controversial website is targeting 'radical' left-wing academics
Freedom of speech and thought are, in theory, what drives academia — and a new website is drawing criticism for threatening those virtues. Professor Watchlist rounds up the names of scholars from around the U.S. it deems "radical" and places them on a so-called watch list with their photographs and identities listed alongside their names. Created by the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, it says its purpose is to "expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom." But those allegations are often thinly supported and over simplified, citing biased sources like political blogs run by conservative organizations and opinion pieces. Read more... More about Politics, Conservative, Watchlist, College Campus, and College Read More »The sun is your dad
The sun looks like a proud, happy dad with a huge smile in new photos beamed back to Earth by a sun-staring spacecraft. The new images — taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory — show various features of the sun coincidentally coming together to look just like a face with a crooked smile and male-patterned baldness. All in all, this makes the sun bear a striking resemblance to Frasier Crane or perhaps your father. The smiley sun photo was first pointed out on Twitter by solar scientist Karl Battams after the Solar Dynamics Observatory's website was updated with the new photos taken today. Read more... More about Solar Dynamics Observatory, Space Photos, Sun, Science, and Nasa Read More »Selena Gomez is the reigning queen of Instagram
The pop star has over 100 million followers, unseating Taylor Swift. Read more... More about Mashable Video, Social Media, Instagram, Selena Gomez, and Real Time Video Read More »Your weekend in esports: Watch 'Rocket League,' 'CS:GO' and 'Street Fighter V'
Esports tournaments are happening all the time, and it can be tough to keep track of everything going on in the world of professional competitive gaming. Each week, Mashable rounds up the best and biggest tournaments in esports to let you know when they're going down, and where to catch all the action. This weekend, you're looking at the biggest Street Fighter V tournament of the year, the start of a Dota 2 Major and the second-ever Rocket League championship. Check out what's going on this weekend and next week below. Read more... Street Fighter V: Capcom CupMore about Entertainment, Esports, Gaming, Dota 2, and Cs Go Read More »A confused Chris Pratt seems to think Jennifer Lawrence is in his photos
Passengers co-stars Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence have both proven themselves to be quite the goofs in the past. And now, they're doing some goofs together. Well, sort of. Pratt has been chronicling the film's press tour on social media, and fans apparently pointed out that he wasn't sharing any photos with J. Law. So, Pratt responded by posting some photos with her. The problem is, she's slightly out of frame in them all. "I cropped Twitter field day: Barack Obama digital media company edition
On December 2, 2016, the internet was gifted the ultimate Friday afternoon Twitter story: Barack Obama has reportedly considered starting a digital media company once he's no longer president. This is the Platonic idea of a story for media people to riff on. It is the Breaking-Bad-meth-purity-level of a media riff story. Is it going to actually happen? Apparently not, as the White House communications director said the president has "no plans to get into the media business after he leaves office." Read more... More about Business, Twitter, Digital Media, Barack Obama, and Media Read More »You're blocked! How to get The Donald to block you on Twitter
Common life goals include starting a business, living on a beach or atop a mountain, obtaining a college degree, and, if a recent Twitter search is to be believed, getting President-elect Donald Trump to block you on Twitter. A lot of people have taken it upon themselves to poke the orange-tinged bear until he decides he no longer wants to see you in his mentions. We're not here to comment on whether this is a worthy life goal, so we'll just leave you with a bit or evidence to show we're not making it up.
The list of musicians supporting #NoDAPL reads like a festival lineup
An array of more than 120 musicians are voicing their support for the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. British rock star Kate Nash is leading the effort to support the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, environmentalists and other protesters who have been at the center of a dispute over an area slated to be used in the Dakota Access Pipeline. She's recruited more than 100 big-name musicians, including members of Green Day, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Death Cab for Cutie, Guns & Roses and Icona Pop, to sign a letter reiterating requests to remove pipeline construction and review the environmental impact of the project. Read more... More about Protests, Standing Rock, Climate Change, Dapl, and Us World Read More »Trevor Noah has a lesson on how to talk to conservatives
Trevor Noah channeled his inner Jon Stewart as he tried to bridge the gap between left and right with conservative host Tomi Lahren. Lahren, whose risen to online fame with videos highly critical of Black Lives Matter, compared the movement to the Ku Klux Klan. Read more... More about Mashable Video, Black Lives Matter, Daily Show, Tomi Lahren, and Trevor Noah Read More »The 10 athletes who gained the most Instagram followers in 2016
As 2016 winds down, the folks at Instagram found a way to rank the world's top athletes on one, uniform statistic — social media popularity. This has been a year many people would like to forget. But if you're tired of reading about metaphors for it (which you can find here and here and everywhere, really), this list might help you take your mind of things. Here's a look at athletes who gained the most Instagram followers in 2016. 10. Stephen Curry (@stephencurry30)More about Futbol, Fifa, Nba, Basketball, and Soccer Read More »Did J. Cole just diss Kanye West?
Surprise—J. Cole is back. In October, the North Carolina rapper announced that he would be disappearing for a bit. Fans were disappointed, only to have their emotions flip after an unexpected album, called 4 Your Eyez Only, was uncovered on iTunes preorder for a release next week The first track to drop from the project is "False Prophets," after hearing the song, many listeners are convinced Cole talking about the one and only Kanye West. In the track, Cole speaks about West's career and calls him out for ghost writing and more. Read more... More about Conversations, Watercooler, New Music, Kanye West, and J Cole Read More »A dreaded carbon time bomb lurks beneath your feet
There are many uncertainties when it comes to global warming, from how quickly the planet's ice sheets will melt to how global leaders will enact rapid emissions cuts. One nagging scientific uncertainty concerns a rather unsexy topic: the soil. As in, the ground beneath your feet. There is growing concern that terrestrial soils, which are the Earth's largest reservoir of carbon outside of the oceans, will switch from being a net absorber of greenhouse gases to a net source. This can happen as microbes in the soil break down organic matter more quickly, thereby releasing carbon dioxide. As Arctic soils warm, these microbes will go to work there for the first time, emitting what had been carbon frozen in the ground into the atmosphere. Read more... More about Climate Change, Science, Global Warming, Carbon Bomb, and Climate Time Bomb Read More »Justin Bieber covers Taylor Swift again and could it spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E?
Justin Bieber has, yet again, used his angelic voice to sing the song of one Ms. Taylor Alison Swift. "Trouble," specifically. Now it is our duty to ask, what do mean, Justin? Bieber, who has been avoiding social media to keep away from Satan, is still cool with using other people's phones for selfies on occasion. In a recent video (judging from his current, unbleached hair and baby bangs) that just emerged, he asks, "Is this a video?" And then he swiftly launches into the song. Read more... More about Cover Song, Celebrities, Pop Star, Taylor Swift, and Justin Bieber Read More »'SNL' to close out the year with John Cena, Casey Affleck
Tis the season to be a Saturday Night Live newbie, as the show will welcome first-time hosts Casey Affleck and John Cena in the coming weeks before the holidays. Cena will host on Dec. 10 with Maren Morris, and Affleck will make his hosting debut alongside musical guest Chance the Rapper on the Dec. 17 midseason finale. Before that, Emma Stone will host for her fourth time on Dec. 3.
BONUS: Chance the Rapper Talks Co-Signs and 'Coloring Book' at the VMAsYes, there are legit ways to make money without leaving your house
Whether you’re a stay-at-home parent, college student, or just looking to pay down your debt, we could all use some extra cash. While we could find a part-time gig, like driving for Uber, or start earning a passive income through affiliate marketing, wouldn’t be it nice if you were able to make some fast cash from the friendly confines of your home? That may sound too good to be true, it is possible if you do so, like these 50 ways that you can make an easy $100 this month from home. 1. Have a yard sale. We all have junk taking up space in our homes. Take a couple of hours to go through your house and look for the items that you’re no longer using, such as DVDs, strollers, or kitchen tools and appliances. Then have a yard sale, weather depending of course. Read more... More about Work Life and Business Read More »One Direction sock puppet remake is a bittersweet reminder of the good old days
One Direction's 3D concert film, One Direction: This Is Us, hit theaters in 2013, but you may still be watching it to mourn the breakup of the British boy band. No judgement. But instead of 3D, wouldn't you rather see Harry Styles and One Direction as sock puppets? Thought so. That's why our CineFix series, Homemade Movies, remade the entire movie trailer, shot-for-shot, with sock puppets in place of the band members. Goodbye, 1D3D—and hello, 1DSP. Subscribe to CineFix for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/cinefix Read more... More about Mashable Video, Sock Puppets, This Is Us, Homemade Movies, and Documentary Read More »Tougher, Better, Faster, Stretchier: The technology behind clothing and fabric
The clothes on your back don’t just make you look good. They keep you warm and dry, make movement easier and make your life better. Fabric technology has a huge impact your day-to-day. From early advances with chemistry that gave us synthetic fabrics to treatments that are revolutionizing the idea of what clothing can do, textile tech is expanding to new and exciting places. Here we’ll explore the technology behind these advances, take a look at how far we’ve come and peek ahead to see where we’re going. Spandex Invented in 1958 by chemist Joseph Shivers, this stretchy synthetic fabric had a major impact on the clothing industry after it was introduced to the public in 1962. Read more... More about Supported, Sponsored, and Lifestyle Read More »Barack Obama would at least do better in digital media than Rory Gilmore
On Friday, Mic released an article called "Obama considering post-presidential media career, sources say." Even though the article contains a statement from White House communications director Jen Psaki in which she states, "While the president will remain actively engaged in inspiring young people and he is interested in the changing ways people consume information, he has no plans to get into the media business after he leaves office," we're all spending our Friday evening talking about these rumors. SEE ALSO: Rory Gilmore is not a good journalist So why would Barack Obama desire a career in new media after spending eight years rapidly aging due to the massive stress of being president of the USA? Could it be a love for content, a passion for meals consisting of free cereal and seltzer or a desire to download sick apps like Meerkat that will inevitably fade before ever catching on with the general public? Read more... More about Watercooler, Content, Gilmore Girls, The Media Business, and Rumors Read More »Amy Schumer might play IRL Barbie for a Sony movie
The Lego vs. Barbie debate is as old and divisive as Backstreet vs. N*Sync, and now both toys will have feature films to fight with: Sony is developing a live-action Barbie comedy, and is in talks with Amy Schumer to portray the toy heroine, Mashable has confirmed. Though no deals have been signed, Schumer and two other prominent female artists are in early talks with the studio for the film written by Hillary Winton. Schumer and her sister will likely be involved in the writing process as well. In the film, Barbie gets kicked out of Barbieland for not being perfect enough, and ends up on a live-action adventure in our world, similar to Disney's Enchanted in 2007. The project emerged from a deal between Sony and Mattel which began over two years ago. Read more... More about Amy Schumer, Sony Entertainment, Sony, Barbie, and Movies Read More »Fill out this job application form to be considered for Trump's cabinet
President-elect Trump is filling his cabinet with a who's who of rich crazy people. From Chief Strategist Steve Bannon to Jeff Sessions, his pick for attorney general, each one of Trump's selections seems to come with more than a handful of scandals and conflicts. Trump's pick for National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, for example, owns a lobbying organization that has received "tens of thousands" of dollars from foreign companies. His Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was a Goldman trader who's since become a hedge fund manager. SEE ALSO: Attention staff: The portal to hell in our office kitchen is merely a distraction from the real issues Read more... Comedian casually grills Eric Trump on flight to Scotland
It's always interesting to see who you'll be sitting next to on a plane, right? Well imagine how Mohammed Amer felt when fate (and his chosen airline) sat him right beside the Eric Trump. When the Arab-American standup comedian boarded his plane at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey Wednesday and saw that the president-elect's son was his seat mate, he knew exactly what he had to do — take a selfie and post it on Facebook. In his post, Amer announced he was heading to Glasgow, Scotland to embark on his UK Tour. "I am 'randomly' chosen to sit next to none other than Eric Trump," he wrote alongside a photograph of himself seated beside Eric in a blue Trump sweater (of course). Read more... More about Comedian, Facebook, Donald Trump, Eric Trump, and Plane Read More »Facebook is developing AI to bust 'offensive' Live video: report
Facebook has long been vigilant about keeping your News Feed free of "inappropriate" content. That's relatively simple when you're talking about material that can be reviewed in full after it's posted — but what happens if something goes wrong during a livestream? A new initiative is reportedly in the works to build up the social network's flagging system for offensive content in a particularly difficult area: Facebook Live. Facebook has previously relied in part on a system that depended on users to report offensive materials, which are then checked by Facebook employees against "community standards." Read more... More about Censorship, Livestream, Artificial Intelligence, Facebook Live, and Tech Read More »Apple addresses iPhone 6S battery problems — on its Chinese website
Good news iPhone 6S owners with battery woes: Apple has finally issued a statement to explain those unexpected battery shutdowns. Bad news (at least for non-Chinese 6S owners): It appears that the statement is only visible on its Chinese language website. Turns out, the malfunctioning iPhones have batteries that degrade faster than normal because they were "exposed to controlled ambient air longer than [they] should have been before being assembled into battery packs," Apple said in the statement, once again highlighting that this wasn't a safety concern. Read more... More about Iphone 6s, Apple, and Tech Read More »People want to elect Hillary so bad, they created the biggest Change.org petition ever
More than 4.6 million people are calling for the Electoral College to make Hillary Clinton the next president of the United States — in the biggest Change.org petition ever. The site has been around for nine years and has seen hundreds of thousands of petitions created in dozens of countries involving millions people. But the one for Clinton is now officially the most popular of all time. Donald Trump's election came as a shocking blow to many Americans. However, the petition on Change.org shows just how committed millions are to still making Clinton the next president. Read more... More about Elections, Democracy, Election 2016, Presidential Election, and Donald Trump Read More »Charles Barkley foolishly rips the Warriors for playing 'girl basketball'
Make of this one what you will, folks. Former NBA star and current TNT analyst Charles Barkley says he's no fan of the Golden State Warriors. Not because of their recent successes, though, and not because they added yet another superstar by signing Kevin Durant this summer. Barkley dislikes the Warriors because they play "girl basketball." Barkley delivered his latest criticism of Golden State, a team he's insisted on obtusely criticizing for a few years now, during TNT's Thursday night studio show. "Maybe I'm old school, but I'm never going to like that little girly basketball where you have to outscore people," Barkley said. "I'm biased against girl basketball." Read more... More about Nba, Sports, and Entertainment Read More »Man who allegedly admitted to killing football star Joe McKnight released without charges
The man who admits to killing Joe McKnight — a former high school and USC football star who was shot Thursday — was released without charges on Friday. Ronald Gasser, 54, admitted to shooting McKnight three times at an intersection in the New Orleans Area around 3 p.m. on Thursday, authorities said at a press conference Friday. McKnight's killing is being labeled a "road rage" incident. Because of the circumstances — a white man shooting a black man and going free, for now — many on social media responded with outrage. Read more... More about Shooting, Football, Usc, Nfl, and New Orleans Read More »High school football team uses mannequin challenge as secret weapon
This is far from the first mannequin challenge, but it might be the most practical. We've seen athletes dabble in the mannequin challenge during the trend's peak over the past couple months. But most of those attempts were just for show. The Del Oro High School football team busted out the mannequin challenge long enough to distract its opponents after a touchdown. So when they suddenly broke character and switched formations for a two-point conversion, the defense was fooled. Hats off to you, Del Oro. YouTubers mad at YouTube again, this time over vanishing subscribers
LOS ANGELES — PewDiePie is so mad at YouTube that he's calling it quits once he hits 50 million subscribers. Why? Felix Kjellberg is among a handful of frustrated creators who claim they have seen their video views decline and their subscribers suddenly disappear. Some YouTubers even say they have lost 30 to 40 percent of their usual views. The general theory is that YouTube has a new algorithm that has caused glitches. Although some in the internet community have come up with a conspiracy theory that YouTube boosts ads on the “trending” tab and videos with more likes and comments. "It is really upsetting how [YouTube] did this change. They won't explain what happened properly to anyone," PewDiePie, who has just over 49 million subscribers, said in a video uploaded Friday. "It's not just me, a lot of YouTubers are noting this." Read more... More about Boogie2988, Emma Blackery, Jacksepticeye, H3h3productions, and Pewdiepie Read More »This Chrome extension shows you how biased your social feed is
Ever wonder if your Facebook feed is only telling you one side of the story? Well, research has shown that it can do just that. Social media feeds can morph into echo chambers of your political beliefs, telling you only what like-minded friends and family think, and in doing so, ignoring the news and political material that would challenge them. A new Google Chrome extension, aptly named PolitEcho, is trying to sift through this biased feedback loop to give us a clear picture of just how 'red' or 'blue' our feeds really are. More about Politics, Liberal, Conservative, Political Bias, and Chrome Extension Read More »'Rogue One' cast gets mildly political, stands up for diversity
It says a lot about post-election politics — and the traditional caution of Hollywood — that when actors in a major movie make a non-controversial statement about the importance of diversity in society, it is cause for wild applause. But that's what happened Friday at the Rogue One Q&A at Lucasfilm, which was livestreamed on TwitterPeople's deputy editor and moderator JD Heyman pointedly asked the Star Wars movie's cast, and its director Gareth Edwards, whether the movie had any kind of message for the real world. Now it has seemed obvious for a while to many viewers that there's a political message in a movie about a band of diverse, downtrodden rebels coming together to strike a blow at an authoritarian leader who has transformed a Republic into an Empire. As Forest Whitaker says at the beginning of the first full Rogue One trailer: "The world is coming undone." Read more... More about Rogue One, Star Wars, Entertainment, and Film Read More »The NFL is way overthinking this GIF thing
The NFL is finally modifying its overbearing social media policy, but making things quite complicated in the process. In a memo reportedly sent out to all 32 teams on Friday, the NFL announced it would amend the social media policy it instituted two months ago, which prevented teams from posting GIFs and videos during games. Teams are allowed to do so now, but this is still the NFL, so of course the change is accompanied by some very specific rules. Previously, the league handed out $25,000 fines for posting unapproved video (including GIFs) during games. The new policy lets teams post video, but only of things like "fans, cheerleaders, mascots and touchdown dances," according to a memo obtained by Yahoo! Finance. Read more... More about Football, Social Media, Giphy, Nfl, and Entertainment Read More »30 gifts for the person in your life obsessed with ‘Fixer Upper’
We all know someone that caught the Fixer Upper fever. Randomly yelling "shiplap," calling all children "kiddos" and distressing perfectly good furniture are all telltale signs that someone has caught the remodeling fever. Not that you can blame them — the empire built by Chip and Joanna Gaines lifted up by their popular HGTV show is addictive and cozy as hell. So with season four of the show just getting underway, this is the perfect time to get your country-loving loved one something special for the holidays. Here are a couple of things to get you started, y'all. Read more... More about Holiday 2016, Gift Guide, Fixer Upper, Watercooler, and Conversations Read More »Hey Snapchat, just sell Spectacles normally already, will ya?
What started out as a fun, entertaining way to get people hyped about Spectacles is now just frustratingly annoying. That's right, I'm talking about how It's been three weeks already. Either sell me the damn camera glasses without me needing to stalk your website or I'm throwing my money on other more useful gadgets, like a pair of Beats Solo 3 wireless headphones for my headphone jack-less iPhone 7. SEE ALSO: Snapchat Spectacles: The teardown Look, I always give credit where credit is due. And Snapchat certainly deserves a great amount of credit for its guerrilla campaign for Spectacles. Read more... More about Snap, Spectacles, Snapchat, Cameras, and Wearables Read More »These incredible color postcards of 1890 Switzerland are anything but neutral
Vispach Bridge and the Matterhorn, Valais. Image: Library of Congress These pictures of the sublime landscapes and stately towns of Switzerland were created using the Photochrom process, a technique for applying color to monochrome images with nuance and precision. Invented in Switzerland by an employee of a printing company, Photochrom was a time-consuming and delicate process. First, a tablet of lithographic limestone would be coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, placed under a photo negative and exposed to sunlight for several hours. The emulsion would then harden in proportion to the tones of the negative. The softer portions would be removed with a solvent, leaving a fixed lithographic image on the stone. Read more... More about Postcard, Travel, Photochrom, Switzerland, and History Read More »Tumblr page shows Trump supporters who don't endlessly defend him
Throughout his campaign, supporters of Donald Trump loyally stood by his in-your-face bombast, from that very lewd Access Hollywood clip to the blunt insults he threw time and time again. In their eyes, The Donald could do no wrong. Now the "Trumpgrets" Tumblr is bringing to life those #MAGA voters who do have a critical thing or two to say about the President-elect. Some concerns regard equal pay, medicare funding, or the fact that Trump isn't trying to put Hillary Clinton in jail, and even went so far as to call the Clintons "good people." More about Social Media, Tumblr, Politics, America, and President Read More »Chrissy Teigen rescued John Legend from a 'Tonight Show' pants malfunction
Chrissy Teigen is many things: author, model, Twitter hero. And now, a rescuer of pants. Teigen saved the day on Friday's Tonight Show, where she and husband John Legend played a tense game of charades against Jimmy Fallon and Chelsea Handler. As Legend wiggled around like the Little Mermaid (shh — that was the answer), Teigen noticed something awry in the wardrobe department. "Your pants are unzipped, first of all," she said. And as the clock ran out, Teigen re-zipped her husband's (very stylish) pants. They didn't get the charades points, but that's okay — we guess some things are more important. Read more... More about Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Jimmy Fallon, Tonight Show, and Watercooler Read More »Never-before-seen photos capture the wild audience at a 1970 Bowie performance
Image: Tom Busby/The Roundhouse In March 1970, London music venue The Roundhouse (a one-time railroad structure celebrating its 50th anniversary this year) held what they billed as “Seven Nights of Celebration” in a “Living Theatre Environment.” The weeklong festival, “Atomic Sunrise,” was a collaboration between regular performers at the venue’s Sunday Implosion gigs and The Living Theatre, a radical experimental theatre company. While the Living Theatre performers moved among the dancing and reveling audience, a succession of bands played onstage, including Genesis and David Bowie with one of his early bands, The Hype. Read more... More about Rock Music, David Bowie, Music, History, and Retronaut Read More »Technology improvements aid Instagram's drone photographers
Drones are getting easier to use and are coming equipped with better cameras that allow more photographers to take advantage of them. Here are 12 of the best accounts pushing the limits of drone photography by showing you how different the world looks with a change of perspective. From epic landscapes to quirky self-portraits, take a look at how versatile aerial photography can be. 1Stian Klo2Gab ScanuMashReads Podcast: 'The Sun Is Also A Star' is a beautifully woven YA novel about love
Do you believe in love at first sight? That is the question posed by The Sun Is Also A Star, the latest novel by New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon. The Sun Is Also A Star follows two strangers, romantic poet Daniel and science whiz Natasha, who have very different opinions on love. When Natasha and Daniel run into each other on a fateful day in New York, Daniel believes he has found "the one" and embarks on a quest to convince Natasha to fall in love with him. The only problem: at the end of the day Natasha is being deported to Jamaica. Read more... More about Mashreads Podcast, Podcast, Mashablereads, Mashreads, and Books Read More »Watch Chris Pratt attempt a card trick that only 'works 50% of the time'
Is Chris Pratt actually good at magic tricks? We do not know. But this one turned out okay. On the Graham Norton Show this week, Pratt debuted a trick called "Burn 'em," which allegedly "works 50 percent of the time." Not great odds when you're performing for a TV audience. But after a lot of random shuffling from participant will.i.am, a magical fist bump and a flourish, Pratt was somehow able to pull it off. Even Pratt's Passengers costar Jennifer Lawrence, the most vocal skeptic of all, was impressed. Atlas humanoid robot can now tiptoe over rubble to track down wayward humans
In this latest episode of How We're Making Robots That Will Be Able to Hunt You Down Wherever You Go, our old friend the Atlas humanoid robot has learned a scary new trick: walking over pretty much any unexpected obstacle. We've seen the Atlas show off its walking and balancing skills before, but in this new demonstration it navigates its way over random, unknown objects of varying sizes. You know, kinda like building rubble a human might hide under after Skynet has already laid waste to the city. The important aspect of this demo is the fact that Atlas had no preexisting knowledge of the terrain, so it isn't simply walking a set course, it's actually figuring out how to handle new, foreign objects in its path and adjusting its weight and balance with each step much like a human would. Read more... More about Atlas Robot, Boston Dynamics, Atlas, Robot, and Robots Read More »Airbnb sells out hosts in NYC lawsuit settlement
After rallying hosts to fight a New York state law that fines them for posting technically illegal listings on Airbnb, the company has abandoned the cause. Airbnb settled a lawsuit against New York on Friday on the condition that fines for violating the states's apartment rental rules would only be leveled against hosts and not the company. The law was always written in a way that implied its fines of up to $7,500 would apply to hosts, but now Airbnb has that distinction in writing. "We very much see this as a material step forward for our hosts, with Airbnb and the city agreeing to 'work cooperatively on ways to address New York City's permanent housing shortage, including through host compliance with Airbnb's One Host, One Home policy,'" Airbnb said in a statement. "We look forward to using this as a basis to finding an approach that protects responsible New Yorkers while cracking down on illegal hotels that remove permanent housing off the market or create unsafe spaces." Read more... More about New York City, Airbnb, and Business Read More »'Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite' teaser reveals Captain Marvel, Iron Man
The rumored "Marvel vs. Capcom 4" is a real thing, and it's called Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. A teaser released during the PlayStation Experience 2016 keynote teased just a handful of characters: Mega Man and Street Fighter's Ryu on the Capcom side, and Iron Man and Captain Marvel on the Marvel side. It's not yet clear if the game will feature the rumored MCU-only roster of superhumans, but both of those Marvel characters do fit the bill. Expect to see the first actual gameplay footage on Saturday night, during the 2016 Capcom Cup. 'The Last of Us: Part II' sends Ellie on a quest for revenge
The 2016 PlayStation Experience keynote concluded with a brief, purely cinematic look at Naughty Dog's hoped for follow-up to The Last of Us. Titled The Last of Us: Part II, the teaser finds a grownup, guitar-strumming Ellie in a rundown forest cabin. From the look of things, she just finished scrapping with a group of bad dudes and paused for a singing break. Joel, Ellie's traveling companion from the first game, shows up at the tail end of the trailer. Will she really go through with this, he asks? "I'm gonna find and I'm gonna kill every last one of them," she replies. No release date, no nothing. Prepare for a wait on this one. Read more... More about Entertainment, Gaming, Naughty Dog, The Last Of Us Part Ii, and Playstation Read More »Spectacles Snapbot lands at Six Flags Magic Mountain, California
Behold: Another Spectacles-selling Snapbot has appeared, and this time, finds itself in a pitch-perfect place to rip them out of their packaging, and start using them immediately: Six Flags Magic Mountain in California. SEE ALSO: Snapchat Spectacles: The teardown In recent weeks, Snap's Bluetooth-connected camera glasses have been trickling out everywhere from Venice Beach, to New York to Florida, with each release drawing tons of interest, as evidenced by the lines of people that quickly form once a new Snapbot is revealed.
Treat-balancing dog exhibits a willpower the rest of us can only dream of
Imagine someone placing a delicious cookie on your nose. Who among us would not eat that cookie? Well, this dog has more willpower than the rest of us — and is great at balancing treats on its nose to boot. According to its owner, the practice is a daily routine to beef up the pet's communication skills. And, yes, the dog gets to eat the treats — eventually. Beloved 'Destiny' exotic Ice Breaker returns this winter
Ice Breaker, the beloved exotic sniper rifle from Year One of Destiny known for its ability to regenerate ammo, is coming back. It'll be a part of Destiny: Rise of Iron - The Dawning, the game's winter eventThe Dawning also brings back 2015's Sparrow racing event (with new tracks) as well as a new set of challenges for the game's cooperative Strikes. It's all joined by the usual helping of winter-themed hats and player customization. Expect more details soon. For now, enjoy this first look. | ||||
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