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 Ridiculous plan to remove a rat from a house actually works
Rats are sneaky rodents that can evade your house and live right under your nose for months, but they're rats so they gotta go. A group of girls devised an intricate plan to remove a pretty decent-sized rat from their upstairs bathroom Friday, and they pulled it off flawlessly. Oh, and they also captured the whole thing on video.
"We came up with this ridiculous plan to get this rat out of our house and IT ACTUALLY WORKED!!!! BYE BITCH," Jody Mackin wrote on Twitter along with the video. The tweet has racked up over 23,000 retweets in just a few hours. Read more... More about Viral Videos, Funny, Rat, Watercooler, and Watercooler Read More »Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel had a candlelit dinner and I am fine with that
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau visited Berlin this week to meet with German chancellor Angela Merkel. It seems like they had a good time — they hung out in the rain, exchanged gifts and even shared a softly lit candlelight dinner. Now, some people online seem jealous that these two got to spend so much quality time together. Wild, right?
SpaceX's historic rocket launch Saturday could end in another dramatic landing
On Saturday, SpaceX is expected to make history by launching its first Falcon 9 rocket from historic launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The pad was originally used during NASA's Apollo era in the 1960s but was revamped to serve the space shuttle in the 1970s. "Some of humanity's greatest adventures in orbit began at Launch Complex 39A," NASA said in a statement. "Astronauts lifted off from this pad six times between 1969 and 1972 to walk upon lunar soil." On Saturday, 39A will feel the flames of a rocket that represents a new generation of American spaceflight — one marked by private ambition and public partnerships — for the first time. Read more... More about Space Station, Iss, Rockets, Falcon 9, and Nasa Read More »Facebook wants to own the world, not save it
Mark Zuckerberg used nearly 6,000 words to describe the future of Facebook Thursday, but you could sum it up in two: global domination. Sure, Facebook's CEO appears more "woke" than ever. He meditates on substantive issues like inclusivity, the eradication of disease, responsible artificial intelligence and the future of media. And yet. In the simplest terms, his manifesto is about how the social network will continue to be a relevant online product as more of the world becomes connected. It explores how Facebook can become a key part of global "infrastructure," to borrow a word Zuckerberg uses literally 24 times, that will make it an indispensable part of daily life for people across the planet. Read more... More about News Feed, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Tech Read More »Chill raccoon hitches a ride on a garbage truck, steals some hearts, remains unfazed
The level of chill this raccoon has reached is previously uncharted territory, honestly. Politico reporter Helena Evich spotted the tiny trash hitchhiker Friday, clinging to the back of a garbage truck and apparently on its way to Rosslyn, Virginia.
Evich followed her original tweet up by saying that she called the truck company to "get the driver some help" and that they were "super responsive." Read more... More about Raccoon, Cute Animals, Watercooler, and Watercooler Read More »'I am an immigrant': Fashion icons release emotional video to fight Trump
Donald Trump doesn't seem to understand the tremendous contributions that immigrants make to the United States, so key members of the fashion industry are doing their best to inform him. In response to Trump's executive order preventing people from seven Muslim-majority countries — including legal residents and valid visa holders — from immigrating to America, 81 of the most recognizable faces in fashion came together during New York Fashion Week to let Trump know one thing: they're standing in solidarity with immigrants. SEE ALSO: Beautiful photo of Jewish and Muslim families bonding at protest will give you hope Read more... 'Silicon Valley' Season 4 will make you scream like a little girl, apparently
The boys are back, and they still have no idea what to do with Pied Piper. HBO has released the first teaser trailer for Silicon Valley Season 4, which sees Richard (Thomas Middleditch) deciding to quit his company of misfits and come up with a fresh tech idea — like a "new internet." What could go wrong? Our biggest takeaway from the trailer is that Jared (Zach Woods) seems to have a lot of pent up feelings that he needs to get out, apparently by screaming like a hyperactive child. You do you, Jared. The critically acclaimed comedy returns Sunday, April 23 on HBO. 'Logan' is the most important X-Men movie since 'X-Men'
Getting old sucks in ways no one foresees. There's fussing with reading glasses and pesky new meds, as if you need more things to remember when leaving the house. Walking morphs into hobbling. God forbid you ever get hurt; healing takes an eternity and is never quite complete. And of course, all this starts happening just as the children in your life need you most. So it goes for aging superheroes, too — just one of the many unique shades of Logan, the presumptive last chapter in Hugh Jackman's illustrious cinematic run as the Wolverine. And bloody hell — by which I mean a sort of hell, but more bloody — what a way to go down swinging. Read more... More about Marvel, Wolverine, Hugh Jackman, Movie Reviews, and Movies Read More »This manatee that loves to be scratched would make an excellent house pet
Fact: All animals love being scratched. Okay, not a hard fact, but bet you didn't know that even manatees like a good tickle every once in a while. In this video posted by Youtube user Eunjae Im, a manatee uses his new human friend as his own personal backscratcher to rid him of some of those pesky barnacles. The manatee basically becomes a sea puppy and this swimmer is at its beck and call. We think he would make a perfect pet (if our houses were in the ocean). Charge your phone wirelessly from anywhere with this handy gadget
The Motherbox is a wireless charging station that houses a strong, 3D antenna system to feed power to devices within range. Read more... More about Portable Chargers, Battery Life, Battery, Yank Technologies, and The Motherbox Read More »Hundreds of whales mysteriously die — and scientists have a few theories as to why
In New Zealand more than 650 whales were found beached, dying on a remote shore. While some were saved thanks to volunteers, most did not survive Donald Trump just called the media 'the enemy of the American people'
In what is a terrifying and logical step, President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon called the U.S. media the enemy of the American people. Trump hurled the accusation in a tweet that he then quickly deleted. The tweet was widely noticed before being taken down. Then he put it back up, but removed "SICK!" at the end and added ABC and CBS to the list. That's the tweet that was put back up. Here's the original.
Bruce Springsteen gives teen the guitar lesson of a lifetime on stage
Just getting up close to Bruce Springsteen would be enough for many fans, but this kid got to play alongside him and scored a few guitar tips too. The Boss is on tour in Australia, where he played in Brisbane on Thursday. In between songs, he invited a young guy by the name of Nathan Testa, who helped him play Springsteen's 1973 tune "Growing Up." SEE ALSO: Passion Pit frontman is launching a company for the musicians' needs labels don't talk about "You know it all on guitar? You do? Come on up," Springsteen said. Testa jumped on stage and was handed an acoustic guitar by one of the techs. Oh, and he had a pick handy, launching straight into the song as Springsteen sang and played along. Read more... More about Brisbane, Videos, Video, Bruce Springsteen, and Music Read More »How Donald Trump's own tweets could be his undoing
On Dec. 7, 2015, Donald Trump sent a tweet that now feels darkly foreboding. It was titled a "Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration" and attached was a link to a radical, nearly unimaginable approach to U.S. immigration policy: a clear call to totally exclude one specific religious group. "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," the first line of his statement read. Since then, he became president of the United States and signed an executive order attempting to prevent people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country. Read more... More about Muslim Ban, Immigration Ban, Donald Trump, Trump, and Tech Read More »Worried about your public Facebook data? You might want to try these tools
If you're a Facebook user, by now you probably know that every "like" and piece of information gets aggregated into a set of anonymized data, which eventually turns into advertising dollars for the social media giant. Facebook offers multiple layers of privacy settings so the world doesn't have to see every cringeworthy photo your mom uploaded and tagged you in. Still, changing those settings can be pretty time-consuming. Trust us, we get it. But as mass surveillance and digital privacy becomes more of a prevalent threat, you might want to know, at the very least, what information about you is public. Two tools that can help you do that — at least when it comes to your Facebook data — are Data Selfie and Stalkscan. Read more... More about Social Media, Tracking, Privacy, Data, and Facebook Read More »Patriots star slams the door on criticism of his White House boycott
Like many of his fellow Patriots, defensive end Chris Long won't be making a trip to Donald Trump's White House when the Super Bowl Champions visit this year. And as edgy political statements in sports often do, Long's decision evoked plenty of backlash online, with Twitter users criticizing everything from his tolerance to his supposed "hatred" of white people. Long had enough Thursday night, first responding to an individual Tweet.
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Why hello there, buddy. Bill Maher doesn't understand how Milo Yiannopoulos works
After a week like this — in which the country's National Security Advisor resigned because of ties to the Kremlin, someone nicknamed "the foreclosure king" was put in charge of the economy and the president did something so shameful to a black reporter it's actually too depressing to type it out — it's borderline quaint to argue about someone like Milo Yiannopoulos. But it's well worth it for what's coming on Friday. On Wednesday, Bill Maher announced that he had invited the right wing provocateur/sentient glowstick to appear on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. The move immediately incited social media outrage and prompted a prominent guest to cancel. Maher issued a frothy response, arguing that "nothing could serve the liberal cause better than having him exposed on Friday night.” Read more... More about Milo Yiannopoulos, Bill Maher, Watercooler, Watercooler, and Politics Read More »Someone uncovered an old email that predicted Donald Trump's presidency
You never know when your wild predictions will come true. Brothers Judd Markowitzz and Ryan Markowitz signed a contract for a $2,000 loan repayment in 2012. Five years later, the Gmail document was uncovered with a rather surprising prediction of a certain someone as President of the United States. In the signed document shared to Twitter, the brothers agree that while no interest will be accumulated while Judd paid off the loan, if any of their listed of circumstances were to happen, the payment would be waived. Read more... More about Twitter, Conversations, Donald Trump, Watercooler, and Conversations Read More »The newest Barbie is a smart doll you can't touch
Over her nearly 60-year life, Barbie has taken on many forms, but she’s never been a hologram. Now, though, she is having a truly out-of-body experience, showing up in her first holographic figure, Hello Barbie Hologram. Barbie parent company Mattel unveiled the semi-translucent and chatty AI figure, which lives inside a pink plastic box, on Friday at the New York Toy Fair. This is far from Barbie’s first brush with AI. Mattel introduced Hello Barbie artificial intelligence inside a physical Barbie doll in 2015. She was a particularly powerful digital assistant, engaging in conversations about interests, favorite foods and telling jokes. A year later, the AI showed up in Barbie’s first smart home, The Hello Barbie Dreamhouse, where, using voice commands, you could ask the house to give Barbie a ride on the elevator and customize the lights. Read more... More about Toy Fair, Toys, Holograms, Barbie, and Tech Read More »Warriors learn once again that being the best team means the memes are coming
The Golden State Warriors are good at many things — like winning lots of basketball games and selling jerseys. Photoshoots, however, is not one of them. It's the NBA's All-Star Weekend, which annually warrants a bizarre, pseudo-magazine spread to celebrate the NBA all-stars. Just as the internet chuckled at the Warriors' photos last April, the trusty ol' Twittersphere is picking on these guys once again. The NBA takes player portraits every year during All-Star Weekend, and — to be fair — the Warriors aren't the only ones with outrageous photos (see: DeAndre Jordan's incredible cloak situation). But the Warriors are the NBA's best team, making them a perennial target. And after last year's corny photoshoot led to plenty of trolling, folks apparently couldn't resist this time around. Read more... More about Basketball, Nba, Entertainment, and Sports Read More »Sorry, y'all. SpaceX isn't going to Mars in 2018
In April 2016, SpaceX made the bold proclamation that it will send a robotic mission to Mars by 2018. Today, the Elon Musk-founded company is singing a different tune. Instead of aiming for the 2018 deadline, SpaceX will now try to launch a robotic mission to Mars — known as its Red Dragon mission — two years later, in 2020, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said during a press conference Friday. This delay will allow the company to refocus on other more, earthly ambitions in the near term before setting its sights on Mars down the road. Read more... More about Spaceflight, Private Spaceflight, Space Exploration, Mars, and Mars Missions Read More »Donald Glover will be the new Simba, but Mufasa will be a familiar face
Can you feel the love tonight? Well, it's all up in Jon Favreau's Twitter feed. The director announced Friday night that Donald Glover will be playing Simba in the live-action remake of the beloved Disney classic The Lion King alongside the actor who voiced the original Mufasa. The Twitter announcement had Glover (Atlanta) fans swooning and tossing as many Lion King GIFs at Favreau as possible. James Earl Jones, who voiced Simba's ill-fated father Mufasa in the original cartoon, will be back in the same role. Read more... More about Cartoon, Film, Movies, Remake, and James Earl Jones Read More »Another Trump diss gets some beautiful merch
The sharp diss Donald Trump lobbed at a BBC editor on Thursday has been immortalized into a t-shirt, because why not, it's 2017. "Here's another beauty" was the sarcastic quip an angry Trump threw at BBC North America Editor Jon Sopel during a press conference. When Sopel tried asking Trump a question about his blocked travel ban, he cut him off and asked what news outlet he was with. And the rest is history. Sopel swiftly defended the BBC to no avail: "That's a good line," Sopel said, trying to hold back as he defended his organization, saying "Impartial, free and fair." More about Media, Politics, Uk, Here S Another Beauty, and Donald Trump Read More »Trendsetters teach us how to pose for show-stopping Tinder profile photos
There's only one thing standing between you and your next date: Your Tinder profile photo. Mashable asked some of the trendiest people at London Fashion Week how to pose for a Tinder profile photo. And, of course, they gave us some stellar advice on how to create a show-stopper. Here's how it's done: Be a bit mysteriousImage: Marco Kesseler "Be a bit mysterious. That's a bit difficult on Tinder. You don't want to seem overly friendly, don't want to give out the wrong impression." — Izzy Van Dyke and Christine Donahue, fashion students. Read more... More about Online Dating, Sex And Relationships, Relationships, Tinder, and Lifestyle Read More »14 times footballers were unintentionally hilarious on Twitter
LONDON — Footballers are an interesting bunch on Twitter. More often than not they'll tweet about sport, but every now and again they completely take us by surprise. SEE ALSO: Father sneakily names daughter after favourite football team, wife finds out 2 years later From unexpected celebrity encounters to blunt admissions of vehicular rabbit-slaughter, we've rounded up some of their most unexpectedly hilarious tweets. 1. The time Victor Wanyama shared his thoughts on Paranormal Activity 3.
The biodegradable paper airplane that could revolutionize humanitarian aid
Paper planes aren't just for passing secret notes across the classroom anymore. Now, they can even save lives. Otherlab, an engineering research and development lab based in San Francisco, has created the world's most advanced industrial paper airplanes. The paper gliders look almost like stealth fighters, capable of carrying more than two pounds of supplies like blood and vaccines to those in need. And they could totally transform humanitarian aid for people in remote regions. The project is part of Otherlab's Aerial Platform Supporting Autonomous Resupply Actions (APSARA) system, which uses computational design to create low-cost aerial supply vehicles. Read more... More about Humanitarian Aid, Gadgets, Tech, Drones, and Social Good Read More »The ridiculous baby monitor that makes parenting even scarier than it already is
Being a new parent is exhausting, but what if I told you there was a new device that could make it even more complicated and stressful... Wait, what? Meet the Raybaby, the first ever “non-contact sleep and breathing tracker.” Basically it’s a baby monitor that also measures a child’s vitals, breathing rates and sleeping habits and then feeds all that information into an app through which you can obsess about your precious offspring's every twitch. This is not the first monitor to track breathing, though it is the first to do it without needing to attach a battery-operated sensor to the baby. It relies on essentially the same technology that ultrasounds use to detect your child’s movements. They promise it tracks breathing with a 98 percent accuracy rate, but there are a zillion situations that could trip this thing up and wake you in a needless panic. Read more... More about Babies, Baby Monitors, Parenting Apps, Parenting With Technology, and Parenting Read More »1917: A young FDR gets into fighting shape with Woodrow Wilson's cabinet
Cabinet officials perform exercises led by Walter Camp. Image: Library of Congress Walter Camp is known today as the “Father of American Football” for his contributions to the rules of the game, including the development of the line of scrimmage and the system of downs. He was also an outspoken advocate of exercise and physical fitness With the entry of the United States into World War I in 1917, Camp was appointed director of the U.S. Navy Training Camps’ Physical Development Program. Disappointed by the sorry shape of most recruits, Camp devised a simple eight-minute exercise routine he called the “Daily Dozen,” a sequence of calisthenic motions including “hands, grind, crawl, wave, hips, grate, curl, weave, head, grasp, crouch and wing.” Read more... More about Fitness, Politics, Exercise, Fdr, and History Read More »MashTalk: Should Apple be required to provide instructions on how to fix your iPhone?
Welcome back to another week of MashTalk. On this week's podcast, the Mashable tech team discusses Apple's resistance of so-called "Right-to-Repair" laws, Facebook's new manifesto, and the return of "unlimited" data plans in the U.S. As always, MashTalk is hosted by our Tech Editor Pete Pachal along with Chief Correspondent Lance Ulanoff and Senior Tech Correspondent Raymond Wong. We also have special guest, Deputy Tech Editor Damon Beres joining us. First on the agenda is, of course, the topic of "Right-to-Repair" laws. What is it and should you care? (2:19) Read more... More about Podcasts, Mash Talk, Mashtalk, Facebook, and Right To Repair Read More »Stephen Colbert chastises Donald Trump for hiring all the embarrassing Steves
Bannon, Mnuchin, Miller, Feinberg: the Trump administration has sure hired a lot of controversial Steves. And Stephen Colbert is concerned they're giving all Steves a bad name. "I don't think I'm telling any secrets here when I say my name's Stephen," Colbert said on Friday's Late Show. "And with so many Stephens in the Trump administration, this is a rough time for the Stephen community." But take heart, Steves of the world. Whenever you're feeling down, just close your eyes and think of Stephen King. Tom Hiddleston voiced a 'Planet Earth II' trailer and it's just very important
We know he's great at reading poems, and now Tom Hiddleston has lent his voice acting talents to Planet Earth II, soothingly reminding us that we share a planet with awful humans, but also some pretty dope animals. What's that you say, Tommy? Something about love? Monkeys steal things? Does climate change concern you? I hear pain in that perfect elocution, and I want to heal it with cuddly sloths. Planet Earth II premieres on BBC America Feb. 18. SpaceX aborts rocket launch seconds before liftoff, but may still fly Sunday
Elon Musk's spaceflight company SpaceX just aborted its launch in perhaps the most dramatic way possible. A SpaceX Falcon 9 was set to launch an uncrewed Dragon capsule loaded with about 5,500 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station under a contract with NASA, but with just 13 seconds left in the countdown, the company decided to abort the launch. The decision was made on Saturday out of an "overabundance of caution" when engineers were concerned about a problem detected in the second stage of the vehicle.
Meet the dog who's basically a saint
This three-year-old puppy proves just how obedient it is while masterfully balancing a stack of treats on its head and nose The week in apps: Yahoo gets caller ID, Yelp does 411, and more
With a fresh wave of iPhone rumors suggesting Apple's next phone could ditch the home button, and news that Apple is moving its annual developer conference back to San Jose for the first time in years, you may have lost track of some of the best new apps. Luckily, we're keeping score for you for you. Each week, we round up the latest app news, along with a few of our favorite new and updated apps, to keep you in the loop with everything coming to your phone. Here's what we were following this week. Yelp gets Q&AIn what has to be one of Yelp's more useful recent updates, the service now has an official question and answer feature so users can ask and answer question about restaurants and other businesses. Read more... More about Weekly App Roundup, Apps And Software, Tech, Tech, and Apps Software Read More »Joyful 92-year-old woman serves as bridesmaid at her granddaughter's wedding
For every terrible story on the news, there is also a heartwarming one unfolding somewhere in the world. This is one of the heartwarming ones. Redditor rachelamandamay made the entire internet melt when she shared this photo from her wedding. "I say 92 years young because she swims one mile/week, line dances and still owns and maintains her own home," she stated in the comments of the post. This beautiful bride has a very close relationship with her grandmother. She also shared in a comment how she took her grandmother out on Valentine's Day to celebrate what would have been 67 years with her grandfather. Read more... More about Bridesmaid, Grandmother, Grandma, Wedding, and Conversations Read More »Jason Chaffetz and Mitch McConnell are the new 'Hardy Boys' except much worse
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has been doing a really great job not investigating some of the major controversies surrounding the Trump White House. Mitch McConnell, the Majority Leader of the Senate, has also impressively managed to avoid publicly denouncing or questioning even the most flagrantly unconstitutional executive orders signed by the POTUS. With their impressive the-opposite-of-mystery-solving skills on full display for the American public, we thought it'd be fitting to reimagine the two GOP leaders as the straight-laced Hardy Boys. Read more... More about Politics, Mitch Mcconnell, Jason Chaffetz, Humor, and Books Read More »Say goodbye to YouTube's long, unskippable ads starting next year
Starting next year, you'll no longer have to sit through a half-minute of advertising to watch a YouTube video. On Friday, the Google-owned video giant announced that it will no longer offer its 30-second pre-roll ad format without a "skip" button in 2018, Campaign first reported. It will, however, continue to show 15- and 20-second ads without the option to bypass them. "We’ve decided to ... focus instead on formats that work well for both users and advertisers," a Google spokesperson said in an emailed statement. The change is part of Google's mission to create a more user-friendly ad experience for the platform as it faces growing competition from Facebook and others. Read more... More about Advertising, Youtube, Business, and Advertising Read More »Stephen King and J.J. Abrams are teaming up for Hulu's 'Castle Rock'
What do Annie Wilkes, the Shawshank State Prison and Danny Torrance have in common? The same thing as Stephen King and J.J. Abrams: Hulu's upcoming Castle Rock. A thrillingly creepy teaser for the show flashes recognizable names from King's oeuvre, all tied together by Castle Rock, a fictitious town that appears in these works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Each season will follow a different set of characters and storylines while interjecting themes and specific characters from previous seasons." Read more... More about Bad Robot, J.J. Abrams, Stephen King, Hulu, and Castle Rock Read More »Hero mom sends her son a care package full of garbage
Connor Cox will never forget to take out the trash again. Late last month, the Westminster College student received a care package from his mother shortly after beginning his second semester of school. Exciting, right? But this wasn't just any care package. It was a care package stuffed to the brim with crumpled garbage.
Turns out, Connor had forgotten to take out the trash from his room before he headed back to school for his second semester. So, in a truly brutal own, his mom decided to mail it to him. Read more... More about Twitter, Watercooler, and Watercooler Read More »Exquisitely hand-colored portraits offer a glimpse of 1870s China
Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art Born to an aristocratic Austrian family in 1839, Baron Raimund von Stillfried spent his youth adventuring around the world before opening a photo studio in Yokohama, Japan. There, he specialized in producing hand-colored souvenir photos of traditional Japanese “types” for wealthy Western tourists to bring home. His costumed portraits became highly influential in crafting European perceptions of Japan. In the mid-1870s, he traveled to Shanghai and applied the same aesthetic conventions to traditional Chinese “types,” posing beggars, workers and high society people in carefully staged portraits. Read more... More about Costume, Portraits, China, History, and Retronaut Read More »Bill Gates: There should be a 'robot tax' on the machines that take your jobs
Automation is part of the future, and Bill Gates is already thinking about what that means for our government. The billionaire Microsoft founder philosophized about the future of automation in an interview with Quartz. Robots are coming for lots of jobs, he said, and wouldn't it be fair if they paid taxes, too? "Right now if a human worker does, you know, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed. If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you'd think that we'd tax the robot at a similar level," Gates said. SEE ALSO: You can now play Bill Gates' first PC game and run over donkeys on your iPhone, Apple Watch Read more... Lady Gaga's isolated vocals from the Super Bowl are a bizarrely lovely listen
Lady Gaga puts on quite the show, so it's easy to forget she's also a phenomenal singer. Here to remind you: her isolated mic feed from this year's Super Bowl halftime show. Yes, it's a little weird to hear "Poker Face" with no instrumentals, but Gaga's voice punctuated by long periods of silence is somehow ... comforting? At the very least, it's worth a full listen. NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving actually thinks the Earth is flat
In 2017, is anything even surprising anymore? Kyrie Irving, Cleveland Cavaliers guard and NBA All-Star, thinks the Earth is flat and that it's "not even a conspiracy theory." Irving shared his view of the world and its 2D shape during the podcast "Road Trippin' with RJ & Channing," ESPN reported. He was joined during the podcast by his teammates Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye ahead of NBA All-Star Weekend. "This is not even a conspiracy theory," Irving said. "The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat." "It's right in front of our faces. I'm telling you, it's right in front of our faces. They lie to us," Irving added. Read more... More about Earth, Science, Conspiracy Theories, All Star Weekend, and Nba Read More »Apple's latest ad campaign uses giant tweets to convince you to buy an iPad Pro
Is Apple trying to tell us something? The tech giant's latest iPad Pro ads heavily feature Twitter — but nope, Apple isn't buying the social network. The ads all feature giant print-outs of tweets. The tweets seem to be from regular Twitter users who are either skeptical about getting an iPad or frustrated with their old laptops and Wi-Fi. Rumors swirled back in October that Apple or Google would make a bid for Twitter, which was reportedly seeking a buyer. Since then, others have argued that it's unlikely Apple would want to take on Twitter, which loses money and comes with a lot of baggage (alt-right Nazi trolls, anyone?). Read more... More about Tech, Advertising, Ipad, Twitter, and Apple Read More »Oprah is starring in an HBO movie, and the trailer alone will make you cry
If we learned one thing from Hidden Figures (and we learned a whole lot), it's that Hollywood can and should tell the stories of history's hidden women. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, starring Oprah Winfrey, HBO shines a light on the eponymous heroine, whose cells were used in groundbreaking medical research and kept from her family. Winfrey plays Lacks' daughter Deborah, and the film follows her journey as she pieces together her mother's past. Immortal Life is based on the book of the same name by Rebecca Skloot (played in the film by Rose Byrne). Skloot's 2010 publication used archival photos, documents and Deborah Lacks' journals to piece together Henrietta's legacy. Read more... More about Rose Byrne, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah, The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks, and Hbo Read More »Watch as this cute device translate any language it hears
'ili' is a wearable translator that will make international travel a lot easier. Its smart processor and massive library can translate up to 50,000 words. Simply press a button to speak into the device and release to listen to the translation. Read more... More about Travel Tech, Real People, Real Time Video, Real Time Video, and Real Time Read More »MashReads Podcast: Why 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' should be on your reading list right now
Sometimes the best way to understand the present is to look at the past. Or at least that's true with Zora Neale Hurston's classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The book was written 80 years ago, but the commentary it makes on race and feminism feels as fresh and contemporary as anything published today. Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie Crawford, a southern woman living in Florida in the early 1900s. When Janie returns to home from an extended time away, she is followed by a wave of gossip about her past. Determined to set the record straight, she tells her life story to her friend Pheoby, recounting her adventures as they relate to her three marriages and how each marriage shaped her into a sharp and fiercely independent woman who must navigate the pressures placed on her as a black woman in the south. Read more... More about Black History Month, Literature, Podcast, Mashreads Podcast, and Mashreads Read More » | ||||
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