| ||||
 'Call of Duty' developer takes us on a tour of the new Zombies map
"Rave in the Redwoods," the new Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Zombies map, is pretty damn cool. I got a tour of the map on Feb. 7 from none other than Lee Ross, associate project director on Infinite Warfare's Zombies maps. For 20 rounds, we smashed the undead and talked at length about Call of Duty, broadcasting every moment of it on Facebook Live. You can watch the rerun right here on Mashable's shiny, new Gaming portal on Facebook: The new addition — which arrived as part of the "Sabotage" DLC — sends up to four players off to help Kevin Smith (no, really) and TRIP THEIR FACES OFF in the woods of northern California. It would be a fun party, if not for all the zombies. Read more... More about Call Of Duty Infinite Warfare, Call Of Duty, Gaming, and Entertainment Read More »Kylie Jenner might be scamming lip kit customers by repackaging old shades
Kylie Jenner is the beauty guru version of Pinnochio, except if she lies, her lips might get plumper and her wallet gets fatter. Now Kylie Costmetics is embroiled in another kontroversy after fans started accusing the celebriteen of repackaging old lip kit shades as "limited edition" hues. The Holiday Lip Kit Set included a shade called Blitzen, billed as a "warmer version" of the existing shade, Spice. But customers were disappointed to find out that if there is a difference between Spice and Blitzen, it's barely distinguishable. More about Scam, Lip Kit, Kylie Jenner, Watercooler, and Fashion Read More »Intel meeting with Trump turned into a really awkward infomercial
Chip tech giant Intel held a press conference with Donald Trump Wednesday, but instead of just the usual photo op and quick announcement about jobs and innovation, this meeting awkwardly veered into infomercial territory. SEE ALSO: These are the tech giants who didn't sign Silicon Valley's letter against Trump's travel ban It started typically enough with the company's CEO Brian Krzanich announcing a major push for U.S.-based jobs with a $7 billion investment in an Arizona factory. But then Trump pressured him into showing off and talking up the company's newest technology. With the news of some 3,000 high tech jobs and thousands of other support jobs out of the way, things could then shift into full-on infomercial. Pushed by Trump, who thickly doled out the praise for Intel, Krzanich ended up on camera holding up his shiny gold wafer, or silicon chip. Read more... More about Jobs, Technology, Donald Trump, Intel, and Tech Read More »Oculus Rift gets voice-controlled search in VR
One the most frequent requests from Oculus Rift users is the ability to search for apps on Oculus Home, a basic but missing tool in the Oculus virtual reality environment — until now. A new update, only available to some users right now, offers a search feature called Oculus Voice. Currently, for most users, when you put on the Rift headset and open Oculus Home, you're forced to scroll through dozens of apps, page by page, a time-consuming process that doesn't encourage exploration of the Oculus store. But a demonstration of the new Oculus Voice feature, from a user who first surfaced the feature on Reddit, shows the ability to handle a number of Oculus Home functions beyond search. Read more... More about Oculus Rift, Oculus, Virtual Reality, Vr, and Tech Read More »Watch rich people gaze wistfully in the trailer for Sofia Coppola's 'The Beguiled'
The Beguiled, the latest film from Sofia Coppola, is a thriller about a Union soldier who finds himself at a Confederate boarding school full of "vengeful bitches." There are a lot of excellent dresses and no one's happy. The film stars Coppola favorites Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning as well as newcomers to her meticulously curated world, Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman, the latter of whom is up for an Oscar this year. The Beguiled will be released in select cities on June 23 and will expand to wide release on June 30. Mandy Moore's parents offer unsolicited advice to her 'This Is Us' character
Your parents are never going to turn down an opportunity to tell you what you did wrong, even if you're just following a script. Mandy Moore's mom and dad are also very emotionally invested in the Pearson family's ups and downs on This Is Us, but unlike you, they have her phone number. So they text her to figure out what's going on with Rebecca.
Her parents aren't cool with how Moore is conducting her fictional marriage to Milo Ventimiglia, and seem to really want him as an IRL son-in-law. Read more... More about Celebrities, Parents, Tv, This Is Us, and Mandy Moore Read More »Gamers donated over $70,000 to get 'Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3' to Evo 2017
The fundraising war is over and the ninth game at the biggest fighting game tournament in the world is decided: Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. Multi-title fighting game event Evo 2017 is hosting nine different fighting game tournaments in July — eight chosen by the Evo tournament organizers and one chosen by the community. Instead of holding a simple multiple choice vote, though, Evo asked players and fans to vote with their dollars, with all proceeds going to the Make-A-Wish International charityUltimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 (UMVC3) came out on top, generating $71,690 in donations from 1,487 people over 15 days. Read more... More about Make A Wish, Esports, Gaming, Fighting Games, and Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Read More »'The OA' will return for a trippy Season 2
Netflix has renewed its latest bingeable thriller, The OA, for Season 2 — and it has the cryptic teaser trailer to prove it. Created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, The OA stars Marling as Prairie Johnson, a blind girl who went missing for seven years and returned to her hometown with her sight restored. Prairie refuses to talk about her time away with anyone except four teenage boys whom she tells her story to in order to recruit them for a mission. No release date has been announced for Season 2 yet but it's a safe bet that the new installments will feature plenty more mind-bending mysteries to unravel. Read more... More about Netflix, The Oa, Entertainment, and Tv Read More »San Jose Sharks trolled the Atlanta Falcons after they dropped a lead and lost in overtime
Oh, the agony of watching a big lead slip right through your fingers on the biggest stage. The Golden State Warriors have felt it. The Cleveland Indians have felt it. And, most recently, the Atlanta Falcons have felt it. The San Jose Sharks poked some fun at the Falcons, who on Sunday led Super Bowl LI 28-3 but fell victim to the Patriots historic comeback, eventually losing in overtime. San Jose experienced a similar pain on Wednesday night, though their 5-4 overtime loss to Buffalo was largely inconsequential, considering it came midseason. Read more... More about Hockey, Nhl, Football, Nfl, and Super Bowl 51 Read More »10-year-old girl moves birthday party to nursing home to celebrate with her grandma
When 10-year-old Ellie realized that her grandmother Rita wouldn't be able to attend her birthday party due to health concerns, she considered canceling it all together. But her mother Kimber (who asked Mashable to omit her last name) came up with a better solution: bring the party to granny's nursing home. In December, Kimber and Ellie brought their family and friends to the Tennessee nursing home to surprise Rita with an invite to the little girl's Alice in Wonderland-themed party, ABC News reports. Image: COURTESY OF THE FAMILY Read more... Hungry squirrel and mean crow engage in a battle over coveted pizza slice
Even this squirrel knows that you should always fight for the last slice. In this video posted on Youtube by The Weather Network, one lucky squirrel hits the jackpot after finding a stray slice of pizza on a street in Nova Scotia. It's in the clear to enjoy the slice until a hostile crow swoops in and tries to swipe his snack. The squirrel engages in this cat and mouse game the crow kicks off, then, too smart for the aggressive bird, darts behind the wheels of a car to protect his treasure. Unfortunately, the video ends on a massive cliffhanger after the squirrel dashes behind a building with the crow following suit. Read more... More about Squirrel, Crow, Battle, Pizza, and Animals Read More »Silicon Valley is struggling to work together against Trump's havoc
On a daily basis, Stewart Butterfield roasts Donald Trump on Twitter. The Slack CEO is among the most outspoken leaders in the tech community when it comes to the new president, which made it all the more surprising to see his company missing from the list of 97 tech giants that signed onto an amicus brief opposing the recent Muslim travel ban—arguably the most unified, aggressive action ever taken by the industry on a political issue. Turns out, Slack wasn't a holdout. They just got left off an email. "Slack heard about this when it appeared in the media and of course we support it," a Slack spokesperson explained over email Monday morning. "It’s our understanding that a supplemental one is being filed and Slack will be on that list." Read more... More about Politics, Tech, Business, Silicon Valley, and Immigration Ban Read More »'Arrow' star David Ramsey says Diggle is a changed man post-prison
Prison can really change a person. Going to prison twice for a crime you didn't commit? Now that's grounds for a complete personality change. Thankfully, Diggle (David Ramsey) was released from his incarceration before any permanent damage could be done to his psyche on Arrow, but he didn't escape completely unscathed. Team Arrow's favorite bodyguard-turned-crime-fighting-partner can put all his legal woes behind him now that, with the help of Felicity's (Emily Bett Rickards) new hacker fan/friend, he's been cleared of all charges from his corrupt CO in the army. More about Emily Bett Rickards, Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, The Cw, and Arrow Read More »Everything we know about Disney's secretive Star Wars Land
Disney theme park guests on both coasts will get to visit a galaxy far, far away — but only after they've waited in line for two more Star Wars movies. That was the word from Disney CEO Bob Iger, who announced in an earnings call Tuesday that two "Star Wars Lands" will open some time in 2019 — one in Anaheim, one in Orlando. In other words, after The Last Jedi (2017) and the as-yet-untitled Han Solo movie (2018) have come and gone from theaters. The lack of any further detail from Iger is right in line with what we've come to expect from Disney regarding Star Wars Land: a level of secrecy that would make the Emperor proud. Here are the few details we know. Read more... More about Disney World, Disneyland, Disney, Star Wars, and Entertainment Read More »Bathrobe Trump gets comfortable in some strange places with this Photoshop battle
Trump loves a good bathrobe as much as Reddit loves a Photoshop battle. It all started when a New York Times story reported on President Donald Trump's television habits, saying he channel surfs cable news in a bathrobe. It then escalated when White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer insisted that the president does not do that and does not own a bathrobe. Now people have become mildly obsessed with Donald Trump and his bathrobe, old evidence of which was easily found despite Spicer's comments. Inevitably, Donald Trump's bathrobe has now made its way to Reddit where it has become the center of a heated Photoshop battle. Read more... More about Photoshop, Photoshop Battles, Conversations, Donald Trump, and Watercooler Read More »High school hoop star LaMelo Ball's 92-point game ignites backlash online and IRL
LaMelo Ball, a lanky high school sophomore from Southern California, scored 92 points in a high school basketball game. That is an absolutely astounding, astonishing, incredible and damn-near inconceivable amount of points for anyone to score in a basketball game — much less coming from a high school sophomore. But if only this story were quite that simple. Ball is a 6-foot-2, 160-pound point guard for Chino Hills High School who's ranked 16th nationally in class by ESPN.com. He took 61 shots in Tuesday's 32-minute game against Los Osos High and made 37 of them. He shot a scintillating 30-39 from two-point range and a not-that-good 7-22 from three-point range, according to a box score posted online after the game. Read more... More about Sports and Entertainment Read More »Signal, Snowden's favorite private messenger, is testing a video call feature
Signal, better known as Edward Snowden's favorite private messaging app, is testing a feature that lets users make video calls. A beta version of the secure messaging platform is now available on Google Play, which includes an additional toggle for "video calling beta" when you go into settings. Users can make encrypted video calls to other Signal users who have also opted into the beta version by tapping the video icon at the top of their screens. Signal saw a rise in downloads after the 2016 election due to concerns about increased government surveillance. Despite being built by a small team, the app has been praised by many security experts as one of the best for privacy protection. Read more... More about Video Calling, Update, Beta Testers, Privacy, and Encryption Read More »Nicki Minaj writes her 5th grade teacher’s son a message of support
Nicki Minaj has an empire to run, hit records to create and a fake pregnancy to laugh about, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have time to say a little something against elementary school bullying. When her fifth grade teacher, Liz Smith-Breslin, posted a heartbreaking Instagram video with her son about the harassment he had experienced in school, Nicki shared an uplifting message for the young boy. "Dear Quinn, from the moment I met you (yes, the day you ran away from me because my pink lipstick scared you), I just knew you were on the road to greatness!," she wrote before jokingly comparing him to Albert Einstein and Meryl Streep. Read more... More about Bullying, Conversations, Watercooler, and Nicki Minaj Read More »This blind skater proves that humans are amazing
Dan Mancina is showing off his skating skills to challenge presumptions people may have about blind people. The 29-year-old hopes to win a grant to fund a global tour as an ambassador for blind ambition from the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired institute. Read more... More about Standalone Featured, Real Time Video, Real Time, Viral Videos, and Inspiring Read More »Daring cat tries to steal food from a bird feeder and it's intense
Sometimes you have to risk it all to get your paws on some delicious snacks. After impressively scaling a tiny tree branch in Russia, this agile feline managed to steal a chunk of bacon from a makeshift bird feeder by precariously dangling by its hind legs. Sorry, birds. Facebook will block certain ads if they're targeted by race
Facebook is taking more steps to address accusations that it enables advertisers to illegally discriminate by race. The social network announced Tuesday that it would begin using its artificial intelligence tools to identify ads for housing, credit and jobs, then shut them down if they are targeted by "ethnic affinity" — essentially Facebook's proxy for race. When Facebook recognizes that an advertiser is attempting to buy an ad in any of those categories, a window will now appear asking the buyer to confirm that they are following the company's discrimination rules. Read more... More about Facebook, Business, and Advertising Read More »Chrissy Teigen pokes fun at media coverage of her car accident
Fans of Chrissy Teigen were concerned Tuesday night after it was reported that she'd been involved in a hit-and-run car accident. Thankfully, she emerged uninjured — and because it's Chrissy Teigen, somehow gave us some good tweets about it. First, she linked to a particularly dramatic article about the crash from UK tabloid The Daily Star. "Sad news," the headline reads, "Chrissy Teigen has been involved in a hit and run car accident." "Lmao," Teigen quipped, "it's like being alive but reading about your death." Read more... More about Twitter, Chrissy Teigen, and Watercooler Read More »Wikipedia pretty much bans 'Daily Mail' as 'unreliable' source
Prepare yourself for less celebrity gossip on Wikipedia. Editors for the site (who are all volunteers) voted Wednesday to almost entirely ban the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail as a source, calling the publication "generally unreliable." The Daily Mail's reliability has been a point of contention on the user-edited encyclopedia site since 2015 if not earlier. But discussion about its efficacy as a source was revived in early January when one user led the campaign against the Daily Mail. Editor Hillbillyholiday argued during a discussion that the outlet is untrustworthy for science-related stories, inappropriately posts photos of children and has limited credibility even with direct quotes and interviews. Read more... More about Daily Mail, Wikipedia, Media, and Business Read More »Steph Curry burns Trump after president gets praise from Under Armour CEO
Add Golden State Warriors star and back-to-back NBA MVP Steph Curry to the list of sports figures who've recently criticized Donald Trump. But this is on another level. And the most interesting part? It likely wouldn't have happened at all if one of Curry's primary employers hadn't sung the president's praises. Curry has a lucrative sneaker deal with Under Armour. Kevin Plank, Under Armour's CEO, on Tuesday called Trump "a real asset for the country." So, what's Curry's take? “I agree with that description,” Curry told the Bay Area News Group on Wednesday. “If you remove the et.” Read more... More about Nba, Sports, and Entertainment Read More »Something is very, very wrong with the Arctic climate
This Arctic winter has startled even the most even-keeled scientists, with records set for low sea ice extent, high temperatures and other indicators of a climate gone awry. Sea ice has plummeted to record lows and stayed there as pulses of unusually warm air have swept across the region, with the latest one set to reach the North Pole on Thursday. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), sea ice extent hit record lows for the months of November, December and January. This comes on the heels of a year in which sea ice extent hit its second-lowest level on record at the end of the summer melt season in September. Read more... More about Science, Extreme Weather, Global Sea Ice, Global Warming, and Arctic Read More »Oakland Raiders roast each other on Twitter with savage celebrity look-alikes
The Oakland Raiders' storybook season ended in devastating fashion last month, but based on their recent Twitter activity, the players appear to have put their Wild Card playoff loss in the past. A handful of players essentially had a doppelgänger battle on Twitter Tuesday night, throwing celebrity look-alikes back and forth. Offensive guard Kelechi Osemele got things started when he posted this photo of quarterback Derek Carr alongside Sid from Toy Story. Extra points for the black-and-silver wardrobe choice.
Apple dominates the smartwatch market — but competition looms
With the release of its record-breaking earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2016, Apple silenced its haters (at least for a moment) and gave us fewer reasons to doubt its decision making process. Still, the company won't reveal any specifics about the Apple Watch, but using new smartwatch market projections from analysts, we can take a stab at just how well the Apple Watch sold last year. If projections from market research firm Canalys are accurate, the Apple Watch absolutely dominated the wearable market in the last quarter and in 2016 as a whole, setting records and taking up nearly three times the market share of its nearest competitor. That type of dominance is exactly what Apple needs going forward, since the smartwatch field is about to get much more crowded with entries from big name challengers. Read more... More about Quarterly Earnings, Fitbit, Android Wear 2.0, Smartwatches, and Wearables Read More »How #DeleteUber should serve as a stark warning for all startups
The ferocity of the #DeleteUber movement is a warning for technology companies: If you're going to benefit from the industry's capitalist-hippy playbook in good weather, customers will expect you to back those values when things get stormy. Only a handful of companies have Uber's visibility and reputation, but its missteps during the backlash to Donald Trump's "Muslim travel ban" — especially being perceived to "strike break" a taxi protest at New York's John F. Kennedy airport — indicate what may be at risk when conservative governments clash with a young, activist consumer base. More about Donald Trump, Deleteuber, Uber, Travis Kalanick, and Australia Read More »Apple rumored to remove even more buttons from the iPhone
If a new bombshell report from Fast Company is to be believed, the iPhone 8 sounds like it's going to have an even more radical design than we thought. The most insane nugget is that Apple might remove all physical buttons (volume, power and mute switch) and replace them with "touch-sensitive inlays in the metal." With no physical buttons to distract from the design, the iPhone 8, would inch closer towards becoming a single monolithic slab of glass — a pure, minimalist design that Apple's chief design officer Jony Ive would no doubt love. Read more... More about Buttons, Rumors, Iphone, Iphone 8, and Apple Read More »Someone's giving away copies of '1984' and urging people to 'fight back'
Even if our president doesn't read, that doesn't mean that we can't settle down with a disturbingly accurate depiction of what our country will likely become. At a San Francisco bookstore a mysterious benefactor has made it that much easier to curl up with some dystopian classics by giving away free copies of certain books over the past few days. The unnamed person donated over 50 copies of George Orwell's 1984 to the Booksmith store in Haight-Ashbury, along with Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts. Read more... More about Bookstores, 1984, Resist, Resistance, and Books Read More »Forget Europe: It's all about America's first, Australia second now
Various countries in Europe are clamouring to be America's number two, albeit with their tongue firmly in their cheek. But we all know second place is a spot reserved for the United States most ever-loyal and long-suffering BFF, Australia. Remember the good old days (pre-disastrous presidential phone call) when Americans laughed at Aussies' weird accents and knife-wielding abilities? Look, Australia knows the Netherlands did a mighty fine job of convincing America it should be second. And maybe the Danish too. Just don't forget your old buddy. Your old pal Australia. Please watch this video from Australian show The Weekly to prove that they should definitely be number two. Read more... More about The Weekly, Watercooler, Video, Donald Trump, and Trump Read More »Hulu VR app lets you watch shows in a virtual living room with your virtual friends
While some traditional media players rush out virtual reality apps in slapdash fashion, hoping to ride the trend with me-too, lackluster efforts, Hulu's attempts are actually promising. On Wednesday, the company released an update to its mobile VR app for the Gear VR and its desktop app for the Oculus Rift, both of which make watching Hulu content in VR even more immersive. Now you can use your Oculus Avatars on both the Gear VR and the Rift to join friends in Oculus Rooms to watch Hulu content. Although Oculus Avatars on the Oculus Rift are well rendered and highly customizable, at this point, there's not a lot you can do with them. Read more... More about Hulu Vr, Hulu, Oculus Rooms, Oculus Avatars, and Samsung Gear Vr Read More »Got puggle? World blessed with a brand new magical echidna baby
Truly, we live in a blessed universe. Sure, our planet is stricken by greed and disaster — but we also have puggles. Otherwise known as baby echidnas, puggles are the cutest creatures to ever come shuffling into existence. And now the world has got just a little bit warmer and fuzzier, thanks to a brand new puggle being born in Perth Zoo, Australia. The adorable little thang was brought into the world back in September, and at the tender age of four months, it now weighs 1.6 kilograms and has an impressive set of lil' spikes. Read more... More about Echidna, Long Nosed Echidna, Short Nosed Echidna, Puggle, and Perth Zoo Read More »Verizon is making its own LTE-enabled watch for Android Wear 2.0
This year could be shaping up to be a good one for Android Wear. We just got an initial look at at the first pair of Android Wear 2.0-ready watches from LG, and now Verizon has announced it's also making its own watch for the platform. The company showed off a new LTE-enabled watch called Wear24, which will run Android Wear 2.0 when it goes on sale in March. The watch, which was manufactured in partnership with Taiwan-based ODM Quanta, looks to be a tad less bulky than the LG Watch Sport, which will also be sold by Verizon. Read more... More about Android Wear, Verizon, Google, Android Wear 2.0, and Gadgets Read More »Hey, Kylie Jenner, here's a bunch of things you can trademark besides your name
'Kylie' may not be available but you still have options! Kylie Jenner, cosmetic connoisseur and dog mom, recently lost a trademark battle for her first name against Kylie Minogue, the Australian singer. The Kylies had been fighting over the trademark 'Kylie' in the U.S. but, in the end, Minogue won and blocked Jenner from owning the name. But, the situation does have a bit of a silver lining; Jenner has a new hobby. She can now shop around and find other things to trademark and get some badly-needed lessons on the legal system in the process. Read more... More about Trademark, Kylie Jenner, and Watercooler Read More »Pushing a tennis ball out of a snake is a tricky, and gross, operation
While some people might not harbour much sympathy for snakes, even they'd feel bad for this python who swallowed a tennis ball. Luckily, the snake was found in the backyard of a Queensland home in Australia, where it was able to get the ball removed. How? It was pushed back up it's body. And oh boy, it's as gross as it sounds. Trish Prendergast, a snake handler, explained to ABC News that the would've starved if the ball hadn't been removed. "[The tennis ball] may have broken down over ... 12 to 18 months," she told the news outlet. "But in the meantime, the snake would not have been able to eat..." Read more... More about Animals, Tennis Ball, Snakes, Snake, and Video Read More »Uluru looks just as stunning viewed from the International Space Station
If there's one thing that puts everything else into perspective, it's images of Earth from space. So get ready, cause this new photo of central Australia's stunning Uluru, as seen from above is about to make you feel small and insignificant. In a good way. The photograph was shared by French astronaut and current International Space Station member, Thomas Pesquet on Facebook, and Lord almighty, it's a doozy. So peaceful. The Uluru Kata Tjuta site is located in the country's Northern Territory, and is a site of deep spiritual significance for the Indigenous Anangu people. Read more... More about Australia, Northern Territory, Thomas Pesquet, International Space Station, and Uluru Read More »Baby turtle found near lumps of coal sparks fears for Great Barrier Reef
Scientists and environmental advocates are up in arms after lumps of coal were found washed up on beaches around Australia's Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Showing what's at stake for vulnerable marine life, a local found a turtle hatchling next to a lump of coal on East Point Beach in Mackay, Queensland and shared the pictures. Lance Payne spotted the hatchling while wandering the beach early this week. Though he's not part of any environmental group, he felt compelled to share what he saw with authorities. He says the beach is covered in bits of coal and what he believes to be fine black coal dust. Read more... More about Sea Turtle, Coral Bleaching, Turtles, Science, and Great Barrier Reef Read More »Han Solo, meet Fleabag? Millennial Falcon may gain a CGI character
Move over, Chewie. There may be another kind of fleabag aboard the Millennial Falcon next year. Actress Pheobe Waller-Bridge, star of the BBC and Amazon-produced comedy show Fleabag, is in talks to join the forthcoming Han Solo movie, Mashable has confirmed via a source familiar with the talks. With the Han Solo script locked up tighter than the Death Star on Sunday, we don't know who or what Waller-Bridge would be playing. But Variety, which first revealed the talks, says she's the voice for a "CGI-driven" character — much in the same way Alan Tudyk gave his voice and mannerisms to K-2SO in Rogue One. Read more... More about Fleabag, Phoebe Waller Bridges, Han Solo, Lucasfilm, and Star Wars Read More »'Legion' episode 1 recap: We all go a little mad sometimes
If you’ve suffered through enough mediocre X-Men movies to feel a general fatigue for any live action incarnations of Professor X and his lovable gang — comics fan or not — Legion is capable of changing your mind. Legion has all the ingredients for greatness: A promising cast, a wealth of well-regarded source source material from the X-Men comics, Fargo TV series creator Noah Hawley pulling the strings as showrunner, and a home on FX, which struck creative gold with Fargo and is looking to repeat that success with a similar formula here. The premiere episode, “Chapter 1,” signals that Fargo’s special sauce goes well on other dishes. An hour in and Legion already feels like its own little universe, one in which you might find true love on the worst day of your life and suitcases are lime green as a matter of course. Read more... More about Legion Recap, X Men, Noah Hawley, Dan Stevens, and Fx Read More »Trump starring in weird ads for socks and pizza? Feels like a long time ago.
Remember when Donald Trump was just a rich dude who was the host of The Apprentice, and got paid lots of money to appear on TV commercials in Australia? Feels like a lifetime ago, but it happened. Take this 2004 ad for socks, which journalist Amy Remeikis brought back to light on Twitter recently. It features Trump, in his own private jet, complaining about his stocks "always going down" and wanting recommendations on other companies to invest in. An offsider with an Australian accent remarks about his Holeproof-branded computer socks — an oddly fascinating name for hosiery — never going down. Trump mistakes what he said as "computer stocks." Read more... More about Trump, Donald Trump, Commercials, Advertisements, and Advertisement Read More »Star Trek fans will finally get a 'Deep Space 9' sequel, but there's a catch
It’s finally time to go deep on Deep Space Nine. In the Star Trek universe, Deep Space Nine is not necessarily one of its brightest stars. Not because the show wasn’t as good, interesting or long-lived as the others (it ran seven seasons from 1993-1999), but because it was unlike any Star Trek property that’s come before or since. Darker, moodier and, perhaps, more static than the rest, DS9 placed its crew in a space station that never moved. It has enjoyed less acclaim and nostalgia than the original series or Star Trek: Next Generation and sits somewhere above the short-lived Enterprise series and just below Voyager on the Star Trek interest scale. Read more... More about Sci Fi, Deep Space Nine, Star Trek, Entertainment, and Tv Read More »Facebook snaps up ex-MTV executive in latest hint it's chasing original TV
Time to be worried TV execs: Facebook seems to be getting serious about original programming. On Facebook (where else?), Mina Lefevre announced Wednesday she would be joining the company as its new head of development. Formerly executive vice president and head of scripted at MTV, Lefevre said she was excited to embark on the "new adventure." "I have always been drawn to the idea of building something and the idea of being part of the team that helps build Facebook's original content ecosystem...well, that just seems like a dream!" she wrote. More about Mina Lefevre, Original Programming, Mtv, Facebook, and Social Media Read More »Nobody can agree on exactly how Samsung's battery factory fire started
Samsung definitely doesn't need this right now. Accounts of what started yesterday's fire at a Samsung SDI factory have been conflicting, with Samsung and Tianjin's fire department giving differing accounts of exactly how the fire was started. While fire personnel said batteries on the production line were behind the incident, Samsung says it was caused by already-discarded faulty batteries. The factory, which produced for the Note7, is set to supply batteries for the Korean conglomerate's upcoming flagship, the Galaxy S8. More about Galaxy S8, Fire, Factory, Note7, and Samsung Read More »Google Station is coming to an Indian city before anywhere else in the world
Moving beyond railway stations in India, Google will soon begin working on its Station project to bring fast Wi-Fi at other public places. About 150km south-east of Mumbai, the city of Pune will soon become the first place in the world to see Google deploy fast-internet hotspots at public places as part of its Station project, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move comes as IT giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T), in association with Google, state-run internet service provider RailTel, and IBM form a consortium to bag a Rs 1,500 million ($22.2 million) with local authority Pune Smart City Development Corporation to turn Pune into a smart city. Read more... More about Railtel, Ibm, Google Free Wifi, Google Station, and Google Read More »Get your house fully connected with a smart light switch
Out of all the home appliances you'd expect could be smart-ified as part of the connected home, the classic light switch might be last on the list. It's basic, with no apparent need for bells and whistles in smart homes where lights are controlled by smartphone — but when you add some connectivity and a color display (who doesn't love touch screens?) it can become a smart light switch system that controls the whole house. Brilliant Control looks to replace plain old-fashioned light switches with mini smart hubs, complete with 5-inch LCD touch displays, Wi-Fi, motion and Amazon Alexa voice control built-in. Instead of just turning on and off the lights, the system can act as a control panel for an entire connected home, bringing security, music, lighting and climate tech all under one domain. Read more... More about Connected Home, Alexa, Nest, Sonos, and Hub Read More »Fancy a Facebook Live at 17,000 ft? It might soon be possible at the Everest base camp
Soon you will have internet access in the Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Visitors will be able to tweet, chat, email and share from the Lukla-Everest Base Camp and the Annapurna Base Camp with the help of free Wi-Fi offered by Nepal. Its state-run regulator, Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), announced on Wednesday that it plans to set up free W-Fi zones along the Everest base camp, a hugely popular destination for trekkers and mountaineers. The service will operate on the “Okumura Model," which uses low-cost optical fiber cables for high-speed internet. Special cold-and-ice-resistant optical fibers will be used, and if they don't work in the high altitudes, other technologies such as micro-wave will be used. Read more... More about Telecommunications, Wifi, Internet, Internet Access, and Everest Basecamp Read More »Lucky woman wins lottery days after quitting her job
We hear stories all the time about people quitting their jobs after winning the lottery. Less common are people who quit their jobs before winning the lottery. However, this is exactly what ended up happening to Colorado resident Yahnique S. She quit her certified nursing assistant job in mid-January. A couple weeks later, she was clutching a giant check for $3.3 million.
Google is bringing a rainforest right to your smartphone
Most of us have never stepped anywhere near a rainforest, much less had a chance to explore it — something Google hopes to change with its new augmented reality experience. The "Into the Wild" exhibit sees some 1,000 square meters turned into a virtual rainforest, home to orangutans, Malayan tapirs and tiny mouse deer. In order to view the sights, visitors pick up a Lenovo smartphone enabled with Tango, an augmented reality platform developed by Google. The exhibition, the first of its kind to launch in Asia, is held at Singapore's ArtScience Museum. Read more... More about Rainforest, Singapore, Indonesia, Google, and Augmented Reality Read More »Around the world in 3,305 Google Maps screenshots
Forget that around-the-world ticket, instead sit back and see the world in hyperlapse in just over two minutes. Graphic designer and video maker Matteo Archondis used only Google Maps and Earth screenshots — 3,305 of them to be exact — to smoothly take the viewer on a long-distance trip. The journey starts from his country of Italy to Big Ben in London to Christ the Redeemer in Brazil to the fog-enshrined Golden Gate Bridge and other American landmarks, like Mount Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, the Grand Canyon and more. Read more... More about Video, Hyperlapse, Google Maps, and Watercooler Read More »There's a chocolate manhole cover in Japan and we don't know why
It's a weird shape to mold chocolate into. @38beem, a Japanese Twitter user — in an effort to make a chocolatey gift for Valentine's Day — created what seems to be a manhole cover set into a sidewalk out of chocolate. He documented the process on Twitter:
First, he produced a silicone mold for the manhole cover, then filled it with chocolate.
Madonna confirms adoption of twins with heartwarming Instagram post
Madonna's happy brood of four will soon be a brood of six. The pop star recently announced that she's adopted twin sisters from Malawi named Estere and Stelle. Madonna posted a photograph of her and her daughters to Instagram with this message: Madonna has previously adopted children from Malawi — her son David Banda in 2006 and her daughter Mercy James in 2009. She also has two biological children, Lourdes Leon and Rocco Ritchie. She artist posted a second photograph to Instagram, thanking the orphanage Home of Hope and the organization Raising Malawi for caring for her daughters for the last five years. Read more... More about Africa, Twins, Malawi, Announcement, and Instagram Read More »'Fake news' has officially hit Britain and people can't cope
LONDON — The term "fake news" feels already like a bad hangover from 2016, when bogus websites published false or hyper-partisan news — such as the conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring inside a Washington D.C. restaurant. President Donald Trump and his staff have twisted the term's original meaning, by repeatedly using "fake news" to discredit reporting from the "mainstream media," notably CNN and the New York Times. But we, in the UK, truly believed we were safe from such a craze exploding across the pond. Read more... More about Bbc, Fake News, Jeremy Corbyn, and World Read More »Even when wrong, Einstein is still teaching us
Albert Einstein’s theories have been influencing physics for over 100 years. Until recently we haven’t had the technology to test these theories. A team of scientists at MIT’s LIGO labs have been proving Einstein’s theories both right and wrong for 20 years. 'Beauty and the Best' mashed up with 'Harry Potter' makes a bizarre love story
Belle (or is it Hermione Granger?) and Lord Voldemort aren't an obvious pairing, but this trailer definitely makes a case for the couple. The YouTube channel PistolShrimps is known for parodies and movie mashups. They re-created a trailer called Beauty and Lord Voldemort by replacing the Beast with Lord Voldemort and adding scenes from the Harry Potter films. The results are both hilarious and heart-warming. If only all Lord Voldemort needed to put an end to his evil ways was true love. Daisy Ridley won't even tell freakin' Judi Dench what 'The Last Jedi' means
To be fair to him, this time Josh Gad really tried his best to extrapolate from Daisy Ridley a few answers to the lingering questions about the next Star Wars instalment, The Last Jedi. His first attempt, at the end of January, resulted in an epic failure. This time Gad, who is best known for his voice acting as Olaf from Frozen and is starring with Ridley in the upcoming film Murder on the Orient Express, enlisted living legend Judi Dench for his deed.
YouTube Go is finally here, kind of
It seems Google is all prepared to release its anticipated data-conscious YouTube Go app to the public. An early version of YouTube Go hit the Google Play Store Wednesday. The app, as promised by Google last year, is light (less than 10MB in size) and features an option to share files using Wi-Fi Direct protocol. Google announced YouTube Go at an event in India last September. The company is positioning the service as a "faster, and lighter" version of its giant video hosting and streaming service. It's also an extension to the download feature YouTube introduced to its primary app for offline viewing in 2014. Read more... More about Android, India, Youtube Go, Youtube, and Tech Read More »This is what Mr. Darcy would have actually looked like — and it's not pretty
It's fair to say that Colin Firth's rendition of Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice captured the hearts of countless Jane Austen fans. The research — led by Professor John Sutherland from University College London and Professor Amanda Vickery from Queen Mary University of London — involved a month-long study to gain a historically accurate idea of what Darcy would have looked like Everyone got all hyped up about this fried chicken pizza and apparently, it sucks
If it sounds too good to be true — it probably is. The rest of the world got majorly jealous when KFC first announced that the "Chizza" was coming to Singapore. The Fried Chicken Crust pizza, which is made with all chicken and no crust, has on it 100% mozzarella cheese sauce, pineapple, ham and chicken. But it turns out that some things appear better online than IRL. Who would've known?
Trump's antics didn't help Twitter bring in more revenue
Twitter isn't having a good moment. The microblogging site turned live video app brought in $717 million this past quarter, quite overwhelmingly missing analysts' expectations of $740.1 million. That's not good news for Twitter, which has had a contentious relationship with Wall Street due to stagnant user growth and an inability to turn a profit. Meanwhile, its similarly aged foe Facebook pulled in $8.8 billion in revenue over the same quarter. At least Twitter added new users. A year ago, Twitter reported it had actually lost more users than it gained. Over the last three months, Twitter added 2.6 million monthly active users, bringing its total up to 319 million. Read more... More about Apps And Software, Tech, Business, Social Media, and Periscope Read More »'Vogue' steps up its diversity game with Ashley Graham and first Chinese cover model
Vogue's new cover is looking a little different than the ones we've seen in the past - and we've got to say, it looks so 👏 much 👏 better👏. The American magazine's March issue aims to celebrate beauty of "all types," featuring models of various ethnicities (!) and body types (!!) surrounding fashion 'it' girls Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner. Liu Wen, Ashley Graham, Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Imaan Hammam, Adwoa Aboah, Vittoria Ceretti. Image: © Inez and Vinoodh/VOGUE Liu Wen is the first Chinese model to ever appear on the glossy's cover, and "the first Asian model...on the front cover of the publication (excluding foldouts) since the 1930s," according to her management's press release. Read more... More about Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Ashley Graham, Inclusion, and Chinese Ethnicity Read More »Beauty vlogger wants you to apply your makeup with a condom
Beauty blenders are having a moment right now. But some sponges can prove far too absorbent when you're putting on your foundation. Beauty vlogger Laila Tahri thinks she's found the perfect solution for that and it comes in the form of a condom. Yep, a condom. In her tutorial, Tahri tears open the wrapper before washing the condom, which she says is important because it has "a lot of this stuff on it". Then Tahri puts her beauty blender inside it and places some foundation on the condom. Then, she begins dabbing dots of foundation on her face with the condom and using it to blend her makeup. "It blended out my foundation so beautifully!" says Tahri. Ebay founder backs tests to give people free money
The idea of a universal basic income has found growing support in Silicon Valley as robots threaten to radically change the nature of work. Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar is the latest tech bigwig to get behind the concept. His philanthropic investment firm, the Omidyar Network, announced Wednesday that it will give nearly half a billion dollars to a group testing the policy in Kenya. Universal basic income is the notion that a government should guarantee every citizen a yearly sum of money, no strings attached. The thinking is that such a program would relieve economic stress as automation technology severely reduces the demand for labor. Read more... More about Business, Pierre Omidyar, and Universal Basic Income Read More »How virtual reality is changing storytelling
How do you tell a story in virtual reality? Experts in the field weigh in on how VR is redefining the rules around narrative structure, character development and storytelling. Read more... More about Virtual Reality, Vr, Tech, and Within Read More »London hotel shames Air India's crew for sneaking buffet food in lunch boxes
Traveling the world as the crew of an airline was once supposed to be a glamorous affair. Not any more, at least for this airline. The international crew of India's national carrier, Air India, has been shamed by a UK hotel for filling their lunch boxes with buffet food, the Times of India reported. Hotel Renaissance London located close to Heathrow Airport alleged that "some AI crew members regularly come down for breakfast with empty boxes into which they fill food items from the buffet, presumably to eat later". Read more... More about Food, Hotels, Flight Staff, Flight Attendants, and Flight Read More »Read John Darnielle's 'Universal Harvester' for a haunting look at grief
Grief can make people do very strange things. And those very strange things can bring people together in very scary ways. John Darnielle, known for over two decades of leading the alt-folk music group The Mountain Goats, has returned to the literary scene with his second novel Universal Harvester, released Feb. 7. Set in the open wilds of Iowa in the late '90s, the new book from the author of Wolf in White Van (nominated for the 2014 National Book Award) follows Jeremy, who works in a small video rental store until his life gets vastly thrown out of whack when mysterious footage begins appearing on random VHS tapes. Read more... More about Universal Harvester, John Darnielle, Mashreads, Entertainment, and Watercooler Read More »Need to fix your laptop or buy Coachella tickets? Float wants to offer you some tiny loans
If you asked a bank for a loan to buy Coachella tickets, they'd probably laugh and maybe take away your credit card. But Float, a credit app, is launching a new service just for needs like that. "We want to get you to your next paycheck," said CEO Max Klein. The iOS app lets users apply for personalized lines of credit from $50 to $1,000. Applicants can connect Float to their accounts to be protected from overdraft fees, or use the line of credit to pay for unexpected purchases. Applying for credit through Float won't hurt your credit score, because it doesn't base its credit decision on the traditional FICO credit score. Instead, the app's algorithm uses machine learning to analyze bank transaction data and public records to predict credit risk. In practice, Float looks at how you make money, how you spend money and if you've borrowed money in the past. Read more... More about Money, Apps, Credit, Credit Card, and Business Read More »Facebook now has a built-in weather app
Want to know if it'll rain tomorrow? You no longer have to leave Facebook to find out. Facebook started offering weather "greetings" to some users in April last year, but now it's rolling out a fully-fledged weather app on both desktop and mobile. The app is still not available to everyone. For example, I can access it on Android — it's located in the hamburger More menu (upper right corner) in the app, and listed under "Apps." On desktop, however, it's nowhere to be found. Some iOS users have also discovered it hidden in their Facebook app's hamburger menu. Read more... More about App, Weather, Facebook, Tech, and Apps Software Read More »Well, looks like Karlie Kloss thinks 'Waterfalls' is a Destiny's Child song
Like most of us, Karlie Kloss loves Beyoncé, which means she also loves Destiny's Child. But in all the Fruitopia-fueled haze of the '90s, she failed to recognize one thing about the iconic girl group: they are not responsible for the TLC song "Waterfalls." Kloss accidentally revealed her misconception in a Q&A for U.K. magazine Love. After asserting that she'd been a Bey fan since Destiny's Child in 2003 and that she was inspired by her "swag ... confidence, smile and kindness" (all admirable traits), Kloss wrote, "She is the soundtrack to my LIFE! C'mon, Waterfalls?" SEE ALSO: Beyoncé's pregnancy photo destroyed an Instagram record because of course it did Read more... Docs remove live cockroach from woman's skull after she complained about 'crawling sensation'
In one of the most bizarre surgeries ever, doctors in India removed a live cockroach from a woman's nasal cavity reaching the brain. 42-year-old Selvi had complained of an "crawling sensation" for several hours, before being operated upon, The New Indian Express reported. "It was a full grown cockroach... It was alive. And it didn't seem to want to come out," Dr M.N. Shankar, head of the ENT department at Stanley Medical College and Hospital in southern Indian city of Chennai said. Doctors were relieved that the cockroach was taken out alive because had it died it would have infected the woman's brain. Read more... More about Surgery, India, Insects, Hospital, and Medical Examination Read More »How we tell stories in virtual reality keeps evolving
How do you tell a story in virtual reality? Experts in the field weigh in on how VR is redefining the rules around narrative structure, character development and storytelling on the whole. These artists are painting with ink made from air pollution.
'Air-Ink' is made using carbon pigments found in air pollutants. The carbon is extracted directly out of exhaust pipes, separated from carcinogens and heavy metals, and processed into ink and paint. The company behind the technology, Graviky Labs, says it was inspired to use art and creativity to make a statement about our carbon footprint. Read more... More about Graviky Labs, Real Time Video, Artist, Art, and Paint Read More »People are terrible at remembering where they read news online
People are reading news online, but they don't always remember where the news came from — unless it was on Facebook. Digital news readers between 18 and 29 years old remembered what news organization the stories they read came from 47 percent of the time. Thirty- to 49-year-olds remembered where their news came from more often — 57 percent of the time. Both groups — and other age demographics — read news online at about the same rate. That's not even compared to how much print news consumers remember about the stories they read or their sources. A 2014 study from the University of Houston found that print readers retained a lot more of what they read. Print readers could recall 4.24 stories compared to the 3.35 stories digital readers remembered after 20 minutes of catching up on the news. Read more... More about Facebook, News, Journalism, Pew Research, and Pew Research Center Read More »Hilarious woman corrects reporter on live TV after she gets her age wrong
Details are important, so rounding off to a higher number isn't always the best idea for reporters, especially when it comes to someone's age. Kellie Brown for WDSU in New Orleans was interviewing local woman Constance Landry after multiple tornados ripped through the area earlier this week. At the top of the interview, Brown rounds off Landry's age, saying, "She's lived her entire life, almost 80 years, and she's been through just about everything ..." Landry quickly cut Brown off to correct her. "I ain't no 80-years-old," Landry fires back. Brown apologizes and tries to correct herself, but again, she gets her age wrong when she states Landry is 76-years-old. Read more... More about Bloopers, Funny, Viral Videos, Watercooler, and Videos Read More »Namibia has joined Europe in mocking Trump and it's glorious
Various countries in Europe have done itAustralia has done itMorocco has done it. Now Namibia is among the countries that are introducing themselves to President Donald Trump in a very peculiar way. This time though, Namibia is claiming from Trump the first, not the second place. With a strong emoji game (kudos to Coolbox Cinema and EES TV for producing it) and stunning scenarios, Namibia says it's "the best culture in the world, it's true." "We have so many tribes and we mix them all to have the best flavour," the usual voiceover mimicking Trump's cadence says. Read more... More about Trolling, Trump, Videos, Africa, and Namibia Read More »A bunch of people bought shares in a company that they thought was Snapchat
Oh, Snap (Interactive). In what is almost surely a case of mistaken identity, investors sent shares in a little known startup called SNAP Interactive Inc., ticker STVI, surging 164 percent in the four days since Snap Inc. filed for a $3 billion initial public offering. The $69 million SNAP Interactive makes mobile dating apps, while the IPO aspirant is the parent of the popular Snapchat photo-sharing app. Image: Bloomberg Volume in New York-based SNAP Interactive starting rising in late January amid reports that Snap’s IPO filing was imminent. The microcap’s shares took off when Venice, California-based Snap made it official on Feb. 2, and they’ve rallied four of the five trading sessions since. More than 10,000 shares of the company traded on Wednesday, almost 10 times the average daily volume in January. Read more... More about Business, Stocks, and Snapchat Read More »Stephen Colbert takes on Trump's desire to profit off the presidency
"You can't use the power of the office of the president to protect a family business," said Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night's Late Show. He was speaking in reference to President Donald Trump's Wednesday morning tweet that claimed Nordstrom has treated his daughter Ivanka "unfairly" for its decision to remove her clothing line from its stores. "That would be like Jimmy Carter making all of us drink Billy Beer, or that would be like George Bush invading a country that had oil, you can't do it," Colbert joked. He even laid into Congressman Jason Chaffetz, the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform who failed to talk oversight with Trump following the president's Nordstrom tweet. Read more... More about Tv, Entertainment, Watercooler, and Videos Read More »Someone made a delightful song out of pleasant Facebook comments
In today's times, it's hard to find an internet comment exchange that doesn't immediately resort to politics, negativity or just downright nastiness. Pleasant comments are extremely rare, but Youtube user Hot Dad (!!) has found a needle in the haystack. Since we need to believe that people on the internet aren't all bad, he created this song entirely out of a Facebook comment conversation between the very complimentary Thomas Bagels and the always kind Randolph Cotter about a fantastic picture of a happy hedgehog. So pure, so innocent. We need more of this in the world. Justin Bieber returns to Instagram and blesses us with 'SOO MUCH CONTENT'
Justin Bieber has fully embraced Satan. Not long after after declaring "Instagram is for the devil," Biebs sold his soul to promote his T-Mobile Super Bowl ad by reactivating his Instagram account after several cold, cold months. Last evening, he sealed the deal with a rapid fire series of shirtless selfies, poses modeling his constantly expanding collection of glasses and snaps with his bros. "SOO MUCH CONTENT," declares Bieber, accurately assessing the situation in a caption. Keep it coming. He kicked it off by promoting his upcoming stadium tour. Read more... More about Instagram, Celebrities, Justin Bieber, Watercooler, and Pics Read More »The six terrible ways your life will change when Net Neutrality dies
We’ve been debating Net Neutrality for more than 20 years. In that time, the internet's gone through substantial changes, and maybe those old concerns about an open and equal Internet might no longer be a concern? Not even close. If anything, the concerns of 1996 are of greater importance and urgency today, as media-conglomerates like Comcast and Verizon take control of both the pipelines for internet access and content with alarming regularity. Then there's the last champion of Net Neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission, with their new chairman: Ajit Pa, who's made it crystal clear that he's got no love for the FCC Net Neutrality Rules enacted in 2015. Read more... More about Net Neutrality, Tech, and Us Read More »Elizabeth Warren explained why #ShePersisted on 'The Daily Show'
"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted." - Mitch McConnell's thankful contribution to the feminist movement. On Wednesday night's The Daily Show, host Trevor Noah had Sen. Elizabeth Warren on to talk about her formal silencing on the Senate floor while reading a letter from Coretta Scott King regarding Sen. Jeff Sessions. "In the time that this has blown up everywhere, four of your male colleagues have been able to read the letter in full. Is there something to that?" the host asked the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts. Read more... More about Trevor Noah, The Daily Show, Politics, Mitch Mcconnell, and Elizabeth Warren Read More »Scottish comedian pens hilarious yet brutal piece about Trump
Frankie Boyle has penned an opinion piece on Donald Trump and it's both hilarious and snarky as hell. The Scottish comedian is notorious for his obnoxious, controversial brand of humor and this article for The Guardian is no exception.
Boyle didn't skip a beat as he roasted Trump, called out the hypocrisies of the Republican administration, and urged UK citizens to engage in civil disobedience. "You look into Trump’s eyes and you see the fear and confusion of a man who has just been told he’s got stage-four cervical cancer," said Boyle. "You kind of wish he’d get therapy, but at this stage it’s like hiring a window cleaner for a burning building." Read more... More about Comedy, Frankie Boyle, United States Of America, Melania Trump, and Donald Trump Read More »Samsung offers free 256GB microSD card with Galaxy S7
If you're looking for a new phone to keep all your gigabytes of pictures, videos and music on demand at all times, Samsung has a new deal that will set your heart aflutter just in time for Valentine's Day. Samsung is offering any buyer of a new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge a free 256GB EVO+ microSD cards, giving storage-hungry smartphone shoppers tons of space (288GB worth, including the phone's 32GB of built-in storage) to fill up right off the bat. The Samsung-branded microSDs typically sell for $250 if you buy directly from Samsung, although Amazon sells the card for just $135. Either way, though, it's significant savings. The deal is available to U.S. buyers at checkout when you buy the phone from Samsung's website, although buyers who got their phones through their carrier or in stores can register for the free SD cards — as long as they buy the phone in the promotional period, which runs from now through Feb. 14. Read more... More about February, Offer, Sales, Card, and Microsd Read More »Ferocious blizzard smacks New York, but it'll be over sooner than you think
New Yorkers woke up to near-blizzard conditions as wind-driven snow reduced visibility, made streets nearly impassible and morning commutes a challenge at best. By the evening commute, however, it's likely that the storm will be winding down, if not completely over, from the city to points west and north of town. Even in the Boston area, where the storm is starting later, snowfall is likely to come to an end before midnight tonight. It's rare for a snowstorm to hit so intensely, dumping up to a foot or more of snow, yet only last about 6 to 8 hours, and is a testament to the impressive atmospheric dynamics involved with this particular weather system. New York's Central Park picked up 6 inches of snow in just three hours on Thursday morning, with 9 inches falling in the same period of time at nearby La Guardia Airport. Read more... More about Snow, Science, Boston, Blizzard, and Storm Read More »Jimmy Kimmel takes a hard stance on the $100,000 Harambe Cheeto
It's important to take a stand on issues you care about. And Jimmy Kimmel thinks the person who paid $100,000 for a Cheeto shaped like Harambe made a mistake. So he filmed a clip in which he "visits" the man who purchased that Cheeto — and punches him in the face. Not to spoil the ending, but he also eats the Cheeto. RIP, reasonable facsimile of Cheeto Harambe. In weird ad, Kellyanne Conway tells people to buy Ivanka's line of clothes
A day after President Donald Trump pulled some shady business shenanigans regarding his daughter's fashion brand, White House spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway threw her support behind Ivanka Trump. During an interview with Fox & Friends on Thursday morning, Conway hawked Ivanka's line multiple times. The bizarre plug happened during a discussion that revolved around President Trump's recent tweet attack on clothing store chain Nordstrom, which announced on Feb. 2 it would drop Ivanka's line from its stores. At one point, Conway transformed from spokesperson for the highest elected office in the United States to commercial pitch-woman, cheerily declaring, "I'm going to give it a free commercial here, go buy it today." Read more... More about Nordtrom, Donald Trump, Ethics, Kellyanne Conway, and Ivanka Trump Read More »Barack Obama goes hard in the paint in 'NBA 2K17'
After working for eight years straight in the highest office of the United States government, you'd think former president Barack Obama would want to put his feet up for a little bit — maybe even go on a vacation — not play professional basketball. YouTuber NykeFaller showed the world exactly what it would be like if Obama hung up his tie and laced up some Jordans after his stint as leader of the free world. NykeFaller created a custom character in NBA 2K17's MyCareer Mode that's so close to the real deal it looks official. His Obama's even got some great voice over work to make it even better. Read more... More about Esports, Gaming, Nba 2k17, Basketball, and Barack Obama Read More »'Stranger Things' reveals Season 2 plot details, where the characters are now
What happens when your show is too popular? That's a perfect question for the team behind Netflix's Stranger Things. In this week's Entertainment Weekly cover story, executive producer Shawn Levy says Season 2 focuses on “quieting the cultural noise that surrounds our show.” Levy and the show's creators teased Season 2 for EW — and yes, Barb is still dead. "We saw a like slug coming out of her throat," Levy reminded CBS. "There’s no coming back from that but I will say her memory and the search for justice for her is a part of season two.” More about Barb, Millie Bobby Brown, Entertainment Weekly, Stranger Things, and Netflix Read More »Little girl's bizarre bucket list can help everyone live their best life
As 10-year-old Jesse knows, no day is complete without sitting in a completely empty room for at least one hour. And her truly wonderful bucket list is inspiring thousands — over 10,000, as a matter of fact — after her brother Josh spotted it on the counter at their house, then tweeted it out on Sunday. Behold.
The list, featuring gems like "eat a hammerhead shark, snake and bear," is impressive for several reasons. First, there's the sheer variety — imagine the wonder of a life in which you adopt a pet blobfish, then sleep for a full 24 hours. Read more... More about Twitter, Bucket List, Kids, and Watercooler Read More »Lin-Manuel Miranda blows our minds with this human Venn diagram
What happens when Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Anthony and "Weird Al" Yankovic walk into a room? Minds explode, that's what. The three were photographed together and on Wednesday, Miranda blessed Twitter timelines with the picture paired with perfect realization: the three make up a human Venn diagram.
The looks come from salsa artist Anthony, the long glorious locks clearly are from the parody king Weird Al, the scruff is all Miranda—but the cozy sweater game looks like a universal theme. Read more... More about Watercooler, Twitter, Conversations, Weird Al, and Lin Manuel Miranda Read More »'Stranger Things' is clearly the inspiration for this horror game
I like how this trailer for Stories Untold, a four-part horror game anthology releasing on Feb. 27, doesn't even try to hide its nod to Stranger Things. The music, the retro technology, the red lettered logo — if you've seen the Netflix series, there's no escaping the similarity. Cool! The anthology appears to be an extension of The House Abandon. The earlier game — which was created by Stories Untold developer No Code — is a text adventure that plays out on an in-game CRT monitor in a creepy, old house (it, too, evoked Stranger Things in a trailer). The anthology features a remastered version of The House Abandon plus three additional horror experiences. Check it out on Steam or GOG (no console release for this one, sadly). Read more... More about Stories Untold, Devolver Digital, Gaming, and Entertainment Read More »Bryan Cranston almost smacked Tony Parker's butt to get $100 from M. Night Shyamalan
Betting on sports is a fun way to make a game a little more interesting. Except...people usually just bet on the outcome of the game. Bryan Cranston, whom we all loved to hate as Breaking Bad's Walter White, was sitting court side at last night's matchup between the San Antonio Spurs and Philadelphia 76ers and came very close to smacking Tony Parker on the behind in order to win a $100 bet with Split director M. Night Shyamalan.
Future iPhones and iPads could have stretchy screens
What will iPhones five or 10 years from now look like? While the iPhone is inching closer toward becoming just a single pane of glass, the future could look very different. A patent filed last year and made public this week, unearthed by AppleInsider, suggests Apple is potentially interested in making electronic devices with flexible displays that could stretch. The patent describes solutions for a "flexible input-output device" that may be "formed from an elastomeric substrate layer" (stretchy material). Moreover, sensors such as "touch sensors, force sensors, temperature sensors, accelerometers, and other sensors, and vibrators or other devices for providing haptic feedback" could be integrated into the stretchable screen, removing the need for top bezels of any kind to house them. Read more... More about Iphone, Displays, Flexible, Future Tech, and Patents Read More »NBA becomes first sports league to create a gaming league
The NBA is creating a brand new esports league called NBA 2K eLeague in partnership with Take-Two, the developers of the NBA 2K video games. The professional, competitive gaming league will debut in 2018 and marks the first time a traditional sports league will operate an esports league.
NBA 2K eLeague which will mirror a typical NBA schedule with a regular season, bracketed playoffs and a championship. On ESPN's Sports Center, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said that the teams-of-five in the NBA 2K eLeague will be run by existing NBA teams and eventually every team will be represented. Read more... More about Sports, Basketball, Gaming, Nba 2k Eleague, and Nba 2k17 Read More »MashReads Podcast: John Darnielle tells us not to trust 'Universal Harvester.' That's the point.
About midway through his new book Universal Harvester, John Darnielle, lead singer of indie band The Mountain Goats and author of the critically acclaimed novel Wolf In White Van, drops a little nugget of wisdom: "Everybody leaves a little something behind." This may seem simple and mundane, but it is this core truth that animates Darnielle's haunting and unforgettable new novel. Universal Harvester follows Jeremy, a video store clerk in Nevada, Iowa, who notices that curious, shocking and sometimes violent scenes are being recorded on top of the store's tapes. When Jeremy and a few other employees at the store begin to investigate the tapes, they realize that the scenes were recorded just outside of their town, leading them down a dark and disturbing mystery that was hiding right in front of them all along. Read more... More about Mystery, Podcasts, Mashreads Podcast, Mashreads, and Books Read More »This wearable airbag could save your life
We tested out this wearable airbag to see what 50 liters of air in 30 milliseconds feels like. Created by 'In&Motion,' this vest is designed to protect a motorcyclists in a fall. Read more... More about Standalone Featured, Real Time Video, Real Time, Smart Moto, and 180fps Read More »Verizon's big advantage of T-Mobile is just about gone
The days of Verizon as the unequivocal top mobile network are over. The wireless carrier once known its superior wireless network can't really claim that advantage anymore. According to the 2017 State of Mobile Networks report from OpenSignal, which tracks the speed and availability of the United States' mobile carriers, T-Mobile is now just as good as Verizon. "In no report has the clash between the two operators been so heated. Either Verizon or T-Mobile won or shared every single national award in our report," the report said. More about Wireless Carrier, Mobile Phones, Sprint, At T, and T Mobile Read More »Face it, Super Liking on Tinder is for losers
Swiping right on Tinder might be the fastest way to get yourself a date in this day and age. But if you dare to swipe up for a Super Like, you could be fast-tracking yourself to eternal singledom. You can "Super Like" people you are ~SUPER~ into to encourage them to swipe right on you. While the idea sounds flattering in theory, the reality of being Super Liked can be deeply off-putting for some users. When the Super Like function first launched in September 2015, I thought it sounded kinda cool. Who knows, maybe I'd be Super Liked by someone that I also happened to like, and it'd be a lovely ego boost? Read more... More about Lifestyle, Sex And Relationships, Dating And Relationships, Dating App, and Dating Apps Read More »Watch black holes collide
Watch Black Holes CollideTake a VR journey through space and time in the latest episode of The PossibleWatch now on the Within app The Possible, a Within Original Series, a double-feature with GE's Unimpossible Missions, in partnership with Mashable Watch Black Holes CollideTake a VR journey through space and time in the latest episode of The PossibleWatch now on the Within app The Possible, a Within Original Series, a double-feature with GE's Unimpossible Missions, in partnership with Mashable The Possible: "Listening to the Universe" | ||||
| | ||||
| ||||
četvrtak, 9. veljače 2017.
FeedaMail: Mashable
Pretplati se na:
Objavi komentare (Atom)
Nema komentara:
Objavi komentar