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 'The Mashable Show' is going out with a bang for its final Twitter Live at SXSW
The Mashable Show is back for its third and final day of SXSW coverage, and we're going out with a bang. In case you haven't heard, Mashable and Twitter have teamed up to create The Mashable Show, live streaming the best of SXSW 2017 straight to your personal timeline. The exclusive 90-minute stream of all things Interactive, Film and Music at South By will complete it's three-day run on March 12 at 1 p.m. EST—and we saved some of our best for last. Sunday's exciting lineup promises celebrity interviews, crazy games, and of course, the hottest arrivals in tech. You can look forward to these Day Three highlights: Read more... More about Mamrie Hart, Hannah Hart, Adrian Grenier, Todrick Hall, and Kerri Doherty Read More »Word of the Day: Cory Booker explains 'freedom' to Bert
Two of your favorite SXSW attendees, Senator Cory Booker and Sesame Street's Bert, just shared a touching moment live on Twitter. After his eventful panel, Booker stopped by Day Two of "The Mashable Show" – an exclusive 90-minute Twitter live stream of all things SXSW – to chat with Co-host Bert about the Word of the Day: freedom. To honor Sesame Street's 'Word of the Day' segment, Mashable's Jessica Cohen asked Booker to explain what the word "freedom" means to him. After fulfilling one of Booker's life-long dreams, taking a selfie with a Sesame Street character, the senator dropped some serious knowledge at The Mash House. Read more... More about Entertainment, Twitter, Sesame Street, Bert, and Sxsw Read More »Cory Booker and Bert take the selfie of your childhood dreams
Cory Booker and Bert became BFFs on The Mashable Show at SXSW — and made it official with a glorious selfie. The Sesame Street muppet and the uber popular U.S. senator hung out in Austin, Texas on Saturday and captured the blooming relationship in the only worthy way. It followed a deep discussion about sidekicks, head shaving and the meaning of freedom. Booker didn't shy away from expressing his love for Bert, his idol since he was three years old. "Bert, what an honor, you have been in my life for a long time and I am grateful," he said, causing our old favorite muppet to blush. Read more... More about Mashable House, Sxsw 2017, Bert, Cory Booker, and Watercooler Read More »Printable gender-inclusive bathroom signs you can put up anywhere that needs it
All across the country, schools and states want to dictate where people can go to the bathroom. That doesn't mean folks have to listen. For the trans and gender non-conforming community, the right to use the bathroom of their choice is increasingly under attack. North Carolina requires people use the bathroom assigned on their birth certificates, and Texas is preparing a bill just like it. And while we can't change those laws overnight, we can print out non-cheesy gender-inclusive bathroom signs and tape them to bathroom doors in our businesses and schools. More about Bathrooms, Illustration, Bathroom Bill, Transgender Rights, and Watercooler Read More »Republican bill would let employers demand workers’ genetic test results
A little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that genetic and other health information. Giving employers such power is now prohibited by legislation including the 2008 genetic privacy and nondiscrimination law known as GINA. The new bill gets around that landmark law by stating explicitly that GINA and other protections do not apply when genetic tests are part of a “workplace wellness” program. The bill, HR 1313, was approved by a House committee on Wednesday, with all 22 Republicans supporting it and all 17 Democrats opposed. It has been overshadowed by the debate over the House GOP proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but the genetic testing bill is expected to be folded into a second ACA-related measure containing a grab-bag of provisions that do not affect federal spending, as the main bill does. Read more... More about Insurance, Medicine, House Of Representatives, and Us World Read More »The SEC just dashed the Winkelvoss twins' bitcoin dreams
The Winklevoss twins lost out on Facebook, and now they've lost out on bitcoin. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday denied an application from brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss — depicted by Armie Hammer in The Social Network — to create an exchange-traded fund for bitcoin. An ETF would track the price of bitcoin and make investing in the cryptocurrency more attractive to Wall Street. For weeks ahead of the SEC decision, the price of bitcoin soared on the expectation that major Wall Street interest could be ahead. At one point, one bitcoin was worth more than an ounce of gold. Read more... More about Digital Currency, Sec, Bitcoin, and Business Read More »Native Americans bring the fight for Indigenous rights to the White House gates
"We exist. We resist. We rise." This powerful statement was boldly brought to the White House, through protest signs and spirit, on March 10 as part of the Native Nations Rise protests. Thousands of Native Americans from tribes across North America marched to the White House to rally for Indigenous rights and environmental protection. The protest was in response to President Donald Trump's recent actions targeting Indigenous populations. Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
This is probably the only way you'll ever get to visit the Space Station, but it's pretty damn good
We never tire of seeing amazing new footage from the International Space Station (ISS), but it would be even better if most of us could get a VIP ticket to visit. Well, now we can, thanks to virtual reality on the Oculus Rift. Mission: ISS is a completely immersive VR experience that puts you on board the ISS as it orbits the Earth, with all the realistic effects you'd actually experience in space, including weightlessness. Produced by Los Angeles-based studio Magnopus, the experience was developed in collaboration with NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Read more... More about Oculus Rift, Nasa, Oculus, Iss, and International Space Station Read More »These IRL 'Handmaids' are creeping people out
Keep South By weird. On Friday and Saturday — the first two days of the Austin tech and entertainment festival — attendees spotted women dressed as Handmaids and almost entirely naked men and women walking around in the rain. The Handmaids were there to promote Hulu's upcoming dystopian show The Handmaid's Tale and the naked models were there promoting cable network Bravo's upcoming show Stripped.
Marketing at its finest. SEE ALSO: 'The Mashable Show' is going out with a bang for its final Twitter Live at SXSW Read more... So it looks like Winter's preparing one last 'F*ck you' for the East Coast
After basking in 70-degree temperatures in February, residents of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are in for one heck of a rude awakening early this coming week, as a powerful storm takes shape off the East Coast. While there is still considerable uncertainty in the details a little over two days in advance, it's clear that areas from Philadelphia to Boston stand a decent chance of getting walloped with heavy snow, strong winds, coastal flooding and possibly, for a time anyway, heavy rain. Whether or not the nation's capital, which has had a measly couple of inches of snow so far this season, sees much from this event is unclear, as is exactly how long the storm lasts. Read more... More about Science, Blizzard Of 2017, Winter Storm, Winter, and Storm Read More »The augmented reality headset wars have begun
Floating just inches from my face was a semi-translucent brain. It was, this being Austin, missing a few pieces. To my left floated the frontal lobe. I reached out with my virtual left hand, tapped it and the lobe floated into place. The brain and my first taste of Meta 2 augmented reality were complete. The experience was not wholly unfamiliar. I've tried out Microsoft's HoloLens — the best-known augmented reality headset — fending off invaders crawling through hotel walls and walking around a virtual solar system. It's impressive. Meta 2, which Meta is showing off here at SXSW in Austin, Texas, where there are dozens of panels and sessions devoted to AR and virtual reality (VR), is impressive on its own. Read more... More about Wearables, Ar, Augmented Reality, Tech, and Gadgets Read More »No. 1 best-selling book on Amazon is some very light reading
Michael J. Knowles' newest book has reached the top of the charts. The actor and conservative news site The Daily Wire correspondent's 266-page political overview of the Democratic party is, well, quite the page-turner. And a surprisingly quick read, given the subject matter. Here's a quick flip through the book, Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide:
Yup, it's filled with empty pages. And has earned Knowles the No. 1 spot on Amazon's best-sellers book page. He said on Fox News earlier this week that he "took a very long time to research this book." Funny. Read more... More about Politics, Jokes, Books, and Watercooler Read More »It's Saturday night and 75,000 people are watching the giraffe livestream
Let's get this out of the way first. No, April the giraffe hasn't given birth to her calf yet. However, more than 75,000 people have nothing better to do at 7:00pm on Saturday than wait around and watch, just in case. Image: animal adventure park/youtube We're not sure whether this moves us to hope or despair for the state of the world. Either way, it'd really be great if April's bundle of joy got this party started. Read more... More about Giraffe and Watercooler Read More »Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump tries to save America from aliens in ‘SNL’ cold open
Alec Baldwin pretty much told us to expect a President Trump impression on Saturday Night Live tonight. But that didn’t make his appearance any less...out of this world. Baldwin starred tonight as a post-apocalyptic commander-in-chief, leading troops of the future against an alien invasion that’s all but destroyed America. A devastating scenario, indeed.
“What a beautiful day!” Baldwin, as Trump, said to open his remarks. “Who here loves Trump? I know this guy here, he loves Trump,” he continued, pointing out a charred carcass. Read more... More about Alec Baldwin, Donald Trump, Saturday Night Live, Snl, and Entertainment Read More »Watch Scarlett Johansson skewer Ivanka Trump in 'SNL' perfume ad
Sexy Amber. Bombshell. Mademoiselle. With perfumes like these, you can smell like anything you want. And if you're Ivanka Trump, you can smell "Complicit." Statuesque blonde host Scarlett Johansson was a dead ringer for statuesque blonde first daughter Trump in Saturday Night Live's spoof perfume ad, which featured Johansson walking through a gilded room with a gaggle of women admiring her — at first. "A woman like her deserves a fragrance all her own," the seductive voiceover says. "Because she's beautiful. She's powerful. She's...'Complicit.'" Read more... More about Spoof, Ivanka Trump, Scarlett Johansson, Saturday Night Live, and Snl Read More »1960s instructional photos teach fast-food workers how (and how not) to dress for success
An example of how not to dress on the job. Image: Chattanooga History Center/Continental Film Collections/Picnooga An example of good workplace presentation. Image: Chattanooga History Center/Continental Film Collections/Picnooga These images from the Chattanooga History Center were produced as training materials for new hires at Krystal restaurants, a fast-food franchise founded in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1932. With a menu centering around the bite-sized Krystal burger, the restaurant aimed to provide fast and courteous service to customers in a hurry. Along with an orientational training film, these photos were shot as examples for employees of how and how not to present themselves behind the counter. Read more... More about Restaurants, Fast Food, 1960s, History, and Retronaut Read More »Trump is an amusing, terrifying punchline on 'SNL' Weekend Update
Another week in Trumpmerica, another bout of nervously chuckling through Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. This week, hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost take on Trumpcare (but don't call it that), Trump's "Muslim ban 2.0," and the leaked CIA documents. The funniest moment, however, is footage of Trump himself. Last Tuesday, the president literally jumped out from behind a wall to the astonishment/seeming abject terror of a White House tour group. Nothing Che and Jost can say about the moment is funnier than the image of Trump acting like an amusement park attraction in front of a smiling Hillary Clinton portrait. Read more... More about Saturday Night Live, Snl, Tv, Entertainment, and Entertainment Read More »Two 'SNL' guys mansplain feminism in honor of the Women's Strike
Saturday Night Live cast members Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney are good eggs. While all their female counterparts in the cast and crew participated in the Women's Strike on March 8, the two dudely allies crafted a sketch in honor of the movement. Only they missed the point. Like, completely flew past it. That is the point, of course. Maybe men shouldn't be the only voices addressing gender inequality. Sometimes, SNL sketches work because they subtly riff on the issues of the day. Other times, they find humor in landing so heavily on the nose you can practically hear it breaking. Guess where this sketch falls. Read more... More about Saturday Night Live, Snl, Tv, Entertainment, and Entertainment Read More »Trump-loving dog hilariously rips into liberal snowflakes on 'SNL'
Every dog owner on the planet has imagined this scenario: if my dog could talk, what would it say? "I like Trump. He's my man," apparently. In an adorable guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, Max the dog put on a sci-fi helmet and spoke like people. He's more intelligent and well-spoken than most Trump supporters have been portrayed, and he actually articulates some of the fair criticisms the right has leveled at the left. He also breaks character at one point when he squirms out of the helmet. That's because he's really just a pupper, and not the moon-eyed, Trump-loving monster SNL's sketch envisions. Read more... More about Snl, Saturday Night Live, Tv, Entertainment, and Entertainment Read More »Top 9 emojis if you're, like, really into graphs
Greetings, fellow graphians! If you're like me, nothing grabs your attention quite like a diagrammatical illustration of a set of data. Frankly put: Graphs. Kick. Ass. When you think of emojis, you may think of the popular ones first. For instance, there's the smiley faces, the hearts, the flame, and the ultra popular closed umbrella (🌂). But what if you wanted to use emojis to just talk graphs with a fellow graph fan? Well you're in luck, because Apple had the foresight to include an array of graphs in their emoji selection; they're just a little hard to find! Read more... More about Graphs, Emojis, Apple, Humor, and Watercooler Read More »35 life lessons we learned from classic Disney princesses
When life gets tough, keep calm and watch Disney princess movies. In addition to the universal lessons taught by all classic Disney princess films, such as animals (or talking teapots, tea cups and other furniture) are legit the greatest friends on earth and perhaps life is better if you break out into random song 🤔 — the leading female characters have provided us with a trove of invaluable romance, fashion and general life advice. No matter how old you get, something can always be learned from these eight simplistically animated, beautifully bad-ass women that shaped us as children. Read more... More about The Little Mermaid, Mulan, Cinderella, Beauty And The Beast, and Lists Read More »This smart jacket from Google and Levi's will cost you $350
The wait for Google's connected Levi's jacket is almost over. Nearly two years after first teasing Project Jacquard, the company's experiment to weave technology into clothing, the first garment to actually use the tech is ready to launch. The Levi's Commuter Trucker jacket, in both men's and women's sizes, will go on sale this fall for about $350, Google announced during SXSW 2017. As we saw at Google I/O last year, the jacket's left sleeve is a capacitive touchpad you control by tapping or swiping across it. An accompanying smartphone app allows you to set "abilities" — so a double tap could start your music, for example, while a swipe up could tell you the time. Read more... More about Atap, Levi S, Google, Dev And Design, and Tech Read More »'SNL' sketch about a 'zoo pornographer' escalates real quickly
We've all been there before: you step up for a chat with your local news station, an on-screen graphic misidentifies you as a "zoo pornographer," and suddenly every single thing you say is double-speak. Of course, it doesn't help when your name is Danny Bangs and your web address is dannybangsanimals.com. Phrasing, Danny. Phrasing. Read more... More about Saturday Night Live, Snl, Tv, Entertainment, and Entertainment Read More »Watch these kids recreate that wild 'BBC dad' interview
Friday's BBC interview flub — featuring a dad trying to hold it together while his children cause chaos behind him — has officially entered the history books as one of the best memes of 2017. And like all good memes, it's inspired backlash, backlash to the backlash. and, of course, parodies. This one from YouTuber KevOnStage features serious discussion of the future of Santa's workshop, dabbing and lots of giggling. Read more... More about Bbc, Viral Videos, Memes, Watercooler, and Watercooler Read More »1915: Relaxing in a sleepy fishing neighborhood on the outskirts of Queens
Image: Library of Congress With the consolidation of New York City in 1898, Broad Channel Island in Jamaica Bay officially became part of the borough of Queens. The low, marshy island was populated only by a small community of fishermen, clamdiggers and oyster pickers until 1915, when the city leased it to the Broad Channel Corporation. The corporation then leased plots of the island for wealthy New Yorkers to build bungalows and stilt-legged summer homes along the island’s shallow canals. These photos were produced to show off the rustic comforts that a visitor to Broad Channel could expect — a sleepy seaside idyll just a short train ride from the stifling towers of Manhattan. Read more... More about Nyc, New York, New York City, History, and Retronaut Read More »Racy Olive Garden commercial gets downright orgasmic on 'SNL'
Saturday Night Live's Beck Bennett sums up the joke of this Olive Garden sketch perfectly: "You guys have seen Olive Garden ads. The people act like they've never seen a restaurant, or eaten food before." Come for the vague racism and physical humor, stay for the awkward orgasm performances from Scarlett Johansson, Mikey Day, Leslie Jones, and Kenan Thompson. And in case you're curious, here's an actual Olive Garden ad from 1999. More about Olive Garden, Scarlett Johansson, Snl, Saturday Night Live, and Tv Read More »This self-driving electric car might as well be your living room on wheels
Hot doesn't even begin to describe the NIO EVE, a self-driving electric concept car straight out of a sci-fi movie that's packed from top to bottom with every buzzy new technology imaginable. Chinese electric car company NextEV brought the EVE to SXSW and we got to ogle at its gorgeous futuristic exterior and interior until our eyeballs almost fell out. The EVE is the company's vision of what a self-driving car could look like in 2020, the year when self-driving cars are expected to truly free us from the chore of turning a steering wheel and stepping on a pedal. Read more... More about Sxsw 2017, Sxsw, Electric Cars, Self Driving Cars, and Autonomous Cars Read More »You'll never guess which 'Game of Thrones' cast members are gearing up for 'Carpool Karaoke'
Two Game of Thrones cast members are gearing up for winter by getting their karaoke on. Real-life BFFs Maisie Williams (who plays Arya Stark) and Sophie Turner (who plays Sansa Stark) on Sunday teased they're filming for Apple's upcoming Carpool Karaoke spin-off.
The duo are at South by South West for the Game of Thrones panel on Sunday. More about Sxsw 2017, Sxsw, Tv, Sophie Turner, and Maisie Williams Read More »'Kong: Skull Island' claims a monstrous $61 million opening
Kong is king of Hollywood. The giant ape monster movie opened with a downright decent $61 million estimate at the domestic box office. It wasn't enough to beat Logan's $88.4 million start last week — the highest to date in 2017 — but it did allow Kong: Skull Island to nab a first place finish over the weekend. The Warner Bros. action flick is in good shape so far. While its domestic start isn't enough to account for even half the reported $185 million budget, current estimates outside the U.S. point to an $81.6 million weekend for Kong. Read more... More about Get Out, Logan, Kong Skull Island, Box Office, and Film Read More »The 'Alien: Covenant' ship carries 2,000 potential Xenomorph victims. There will be blood.
How much Xenomorph-on-human carnage can you handle? That seems to be the challenge looming for anyone who plans to see Alien: Covenant. Because now we know for sure: the good ship Covenant is carrying something like 2,000 souls — an awful lot of Xenomorph fodder — and if the bloodbath is going to be anything like the cast and crew are hinting at, they are vulnerable. In the two Alien: Covenant trailers we've seen so far, we've only spied the crew (just over a dozen people) and heard one say that Covenant is "the first-ever large-scale colonization mission." Just how large-scale are we talking here? Read more... More about Sxsw 2017, Sxsw, Katherine Waterston, Danny Mcbride, and Ridley Scott Read More »Huawei P10 is simultaneously good and really boring
I've said this many times: Huawei makes great phones. They're built to last and their software won't cause you many headaches after you get used to it. All the Huawei phones I've tested in the last couple of years worked very well, even after I've been using them a while (which can't be said for many Android phones). But while the company's latest flagship, the Huawei P10, follows in that path, it has one pretty big flaw: it's boring. It doesn't bring any truly exciting features, and it's not even keeping pace with competitors. There's no huge screen. No waterproof design. No significant design changes compared to the last year's model, the Huawei P9. Read more... More about Smartphone, Android, Huawei, Review, and Huawei P10 Read More »McDonald's had to be trolling with this Shamrock Shake tweet
What do tartans, bagpipes and Stonehenge have in common? None are Irish. And yet, McDonald's stirred up a lot of anger earlier this week when it shared a tweet promoting its Shamrock Shake featuring all three of those decidedly un-Irish things. In the now-deleted tweet, McDonald's included a borderline creepy video of a man dressed in tartan slurping a Shamrock Shake as images of Stonehenge played behind himThe Independent managed to snag a full video before it was taken down. Needless to say, the video left people wondering how McDonald's could get everything — from the costume to the music to the backdrop — so wrong. Read more... More about Mcdonalds, Food, Watercooler, Watercooler, and Video Read More »GM will push the future of cars, with or without Trump's help
The battle to bring car ride-sharing, electric vehicle support and autonomy to the world will be fought a city at a time. Cities have the local knowledge, they’re “the landlords for the environment,” said Peter Kosak, GM’s executive director of urban mobility programs. Kosak is at South by Southwest in Austin, TX, to convince almost two-dozen U.S. mayors to adopt GM’s 1-year-old Maven ride-sharing service. The mayors of 18 cities, a delegation from the U.S. Conference of Mayors, come to SXSW to participate in the government track and learn about emerging technologies that might impact their cities. Read more... More about Autonomous Cars, Electric Vehicles, Automobiles, Cars, and General Motors Read More » | ||||
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