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 This week in apps: McDonald's, Duolingo's flashcards, and Meet by Google
With the clearest images of Samsung's Galaxy S8 yet, WhatsApp reportedly testing new features for businesses, and Korean messaging giant Line introducing its own assistant, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps. Luckily, we're keeping score for you for you. Each week, we round up the latest app news, along with a few of our favorite new and updated apps, to keep you in the loop with everything coming to your phone. Here's what we were following this week. And if you're looking for more, be sure to check out last week's look at top apps. Read more... More about Weekly App Roundup, Apps And Software, Tech, Tech, and Apps Software Read More »Looks like Hillary Clinton and the internet are on the same page about this Mike Pence email thing
By now, you've seen the photo. Snapped by Clinton communications manager Caitlin Quigley, it shows Hillary Clinton on a flight to LaGuardia Airport, her gaze fixed on a USA Today headline: "Pence used personal email in office." The former presidential candidate has a certain look in her eyes— a look that, by now, much of the country can probably relate to. A look that says, "Are you f*cking kidding me?"
Sad military drone that just wanted to fly around for a bit crashes into tree :(
Here is a fun thing that happened: On Jan. 31, the military sent a 450-pound mostly autonomous machine into the sky, and— according to a Stars and Stripes report on Thursday—lost it. The army sent a drone above the Arizona desert as part of a training mission, but lost touch with it soon after it left the earth. The drone normally has a range of 77 miles, so maybe the army thought: 'couldn't get very far. Nope. They looked around for a bit, and then figured the drone much have smashed itself to pieces somewhere around the barren parts of southern Arizona. Read more... More about Crash, Tree, Arizona, Colorado, and Military Read More »It's no dislike button, but we might get dislike reactions on Facebook Messenger
Besides stopping the spread of fake news, a dislike button is probably the feature Facebook users ask for more than anything. And despite years of rumors, we've never gotten one. But now, we might finally get a dislike feature. Caveat: It's only on Facebook Messenger. According to TechCrunch, Facebook is testing a feature that would let users post reactions to private messages—similar to the way users can hover over the like button to choose a reaction on any public Facebook post. Facebook Reactions include the "love," "haha," "wow," "sad" and "angry" options. The version TechCrunch spotted in Messenger includes those, and a thumbs up and thumbs down, or dislike. Read more... More about Tech, Dislike, Facebook Reactions, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook Read More »Why won't Trump talk about technology?
Vice President Mike Pence’s embarrassing use of an AOL email account is just another painful reminder of something that should be crystal clear to everyone: this administration doesn’t understand or care a lick about technology. It’s an especially painful reality as we come off the high of an administration’s 8-year-love affair with technology and social media. They held Maker Fairs on the White House Lawn, for heaven’s sake. Former President Barack Obama personally fired a marshmallow canon during the White House science fair. Obama was so enthralled by technology and innovation that he made it a centerpiece of his 2013 State of the Union Address. Read more... More about White House, Innovation, President Donald Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Read More »'The Americans' lucks out with its ads in the New York Times
After Russia re-entered the news, The Americans knew its fifth season would be relevant. But nobody could've known just how relevant it would actually be. Days before the show—which follows two Soviet spies living deep undercover near Washington, D.C. in the 1980s—returns for its new season on FX, the series got some prime ad placement on the New York Times website.
FX took out major advertising for the show just as news broke that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with a Russian ambassador, lied about it during his confirmation hearings, and would recuse himself from any inquiry into Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election. Twitter users noticed the fortuitous timing. Read more... More about Russia, Entertainment, New York Times, Fx, and The Americans Read More »Mike Pence wants an apology after the AP publishes second lady's email address
Vice President Mike Pence's email controversy is growing. Pence is demanding the Associated Press take down the private email address of his wife, Karen, after the AP published it, in a report detailing how the Pences used private email addresses to carry out official business for years when Mike Pence was the governor of Indiana. Mike Pence believes the AP owes his wife an apology.
Pizza dipped in milk is the most disrespectful pizza crime yet
As head of the Department of Pizza Crime (just go with it), I hereby denounce pizza dipped in milk as the most heinous pizza offense yet. The ghastly combo hit the internet earlier this week, when a 20-year-old college student posted a photo of it to Twitter. She's since made her account private, but people have reposted it anyway—accompanied, of course, by their opinions.
Okay. Here are some reasons why this is the worst: Read more... More about Twitter, Pizza, Food, Watercooler, and Watercooler Read More »Obsessed with the Trump-Russia drama? You're doing it right.
Maybe your spouse is worried about you. Perhaps it's your employer. They've noticed marked declines in your attention in recent weeks. Just stop refreshing the New York Times and Washington Post, they say. Turn off CNN. Or if you're into the harder stuff: Stop. Checking. Twitter. Maybe you too have started to wonder whether you're getting too obsessed with the Trump-Russia storyline right now. The news is coming so thick and fast, it can be hard not to stare slack-jawed at each new development. But do you absolutely have to read every new drop of information about Jeff Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak? Did you really have to watch that whole mad-ass Carter Page interview, instead of just the edited bit, where the Trump associate admitted meeting that same gentleman from Moscow at the GOP convention? Read more... More about Russian Hack, Russia, Trump, Us World, and Politics Read More »What happens when Sydney's LGBTQ community celebrates? A 24-hour party and great photos.
Image: Getty Images The streets of Sydney ran rainbow with plenty of sequins and leather on show Saturday night as the city hosted the 2017 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. The parade, which celebrates LGBTQ culture and activism, began as a march and protest in 1978. Met with police violence at the time, the annual event now draws crowds from around the world. Getty Images has covered the event since 2000, and this year, photographer Brendon Thorne chose his top 10 images of the night for Mashable. "Sydney's Mardi Gras is one of the most thrilling and enjoyable events to photograph," he said. "Everyone is ecstatic to be involved in the celebration, and the atmosphere is truly alive and buzzing. A highlight of the night is definitely seeing everyone express themselves, whether it be through the breathtaking wardrobe choices or an unforgettable drag queen look." Read more... More about Sydney, Mardi Gras, Lgtbq, Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras, and Watercooler Read More »Forget Facebook and Google: The ad world thinks this tech giant is 'terrifying'
The mad men and women of the ad industry have plenty of reasons to toss and turn at night. Money is increasingly trickling from television commercials to digital media — a market that Facebook and Google currently have in a duopolistic chokehold. Inter-agency competition is at a fever pitchUnconventional upstarts are eating their lunch. If Don Draper were around today, there's a good chance he'd work at Facebook. But it's not internet advertising giants that keep the industry's top chief up at night. Nor is it his three-month-old daughter. It's...Amazon? More about Google, Facebook, Wpp, Amazon, and Business Read More »Kate McKinnon plays Jeff Sessions as Forrest Gump in 'SNL' cold open
In the immortal words of Mr. Gump: "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." So if you're Octavia Spencer, you just might serve a very special kind of pie to Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions on Saturday Night Live. Spencer made an unusual host cameo in tonight's cold open. She showed up as her Oscar-winning character from The Help, Minny, all to deliver a hot slice of "chocolate" pie to Kate McKinnon's Sessions in a hilarious Forrest Gump send-up. For those who haven't been following recent events, the attorney general is in a spot of bother right now over meetings he had with the Russian ambassador. Meetings Sessions apparently failed to disclose during his Senate confirmation hearing. Read more... More about Russia, Forrest Gump, Octavia Spencer, Jeff Sessions, and Kate Mckinnon Read More »Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway will sit and text just about anywhere on 'SNL'
If a meeting with representatives from historically black colleges wasn't important enough for Kellyanne Conway to get off her damn phone and take her feet off the couch, an hour and a half of live television ain't gonna do it either. Conway has been a fixture on Saturday Night Live this season, with Kate McKinnon playing the president's advisor in increasingly erratic fashion as the weeks go by. But tonight, instead of a whole sketch dedicated to the photo that broke Twitter (this week, anyway), McKinnon has been popping up in character throughout the episode, sitting in the now iconic pose. Read more... More about Saturday Night Live, Kellyanne Conway, Kate Mckinnon, Entertainment, and Tv Read More »A collection of rare photos features men of the late 1800s in surprisingly intimate embraces
c. 1880s Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art In 2008, Columbia University librarian Herbert Mitchell passed away, bequeathing a trove of curios to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mitchell was an obsessive collector of historical ephemera, from quotidian trade catalogs of wallpapers and plumbing supplies to tintype occupational portraits and other rarities. Among the daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotypes he bequeathed to the Met are a number of pictures of men posing in surprisingly intimate embraces. Men affectionately hold hands, drape their legs over one another and sit in each other’s laps, enjoying intimate physical contact without any evident trace of the self-consciousness one might expect from the stiff portraiture of the late 19th century. Read more... More about Men, Portraits, Bromance, History, and Retronaut Read More »'SNL' movie trailer skewers spineless Republicans over Trump
"Republican Movie" continues the grand Saturday Night Live tradition of sketches like "The Day Beyoncé Turned Black," which package humorous commentary into faux movie trailers. Republican members of Congress are the targets this time. Which ones? All of them. The G.O.P.'s majority control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives means real, transformative opposition to the Trump administration will require Republican support. The question is: Who will grow a spine first and finally put country before party? The "Republican Movie" trailer doesn't dare to guess — beyond asserting that it won't be Paul Ryan. Read more... More about Saturday Night Live, Snl, Tv, Entertainment, and Entertainment Read More »This artist paints landscapes with her fingers and the results are epic
Artist Zaria Forman uses her fingers to paint landscapes and raise awareness for climate change. Read more... More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Arctic, and Landscape Read More »No one can keep a straight face in this 'SNL' sketch about chocolate
It's always a beautiful gift when even one of the professional laugh-makers on Saturday Night Live loses their composure during a particularly funny sketch. But the hallmark of real success on SNL? When the whole room loses it. That's the feat cast member Beck Bennett pulled off in his turn as a disgruntled ex-employee who turns to a life of chocolate peddling. Kenan Thompson doubles over at one point as the rest of the room shudders, visibly trying to hold back the laughs. Read more... More about Beck Bennett, Snl, Saturday Night Live, Tv, and Entertainment Read More »Emma Watson schools critics on what feminism actually means
Emma Watson has taken umbrage with critics who say her posing braless for Vanity Fair makes her a bad feminist. "Feminism is about giving women choice," she said in a BBC News interview to promote her upcoming film, Beauty and the Beast"It's about equality," she stressed. "It's not ... I really don't know what my tits have to do with it. It's very confusing." In her Vanity Fair cover story, Watson discusses her "metamorphosis" from playing Hermione Grainger — the true hero of the Harry Potter series — to championing gender equality as the U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador. Read more... More about Vanity Fair, Gender Stereotypes, Gender Equality, Feminist, and Feminism Read More »Father John Misty reminds you to take a shower with his song about VR sex with Taylor Swift
Somewhere at one of her multiple multi-million dollar residences, Taylor Swift probably sneered and whispered into her cat's ear, "I made that bitch famous," watching Father John Misty's Saturday Night Live debut. "Bedding Taylor Swift every night inside the Oculus Rift," he sang in the opening lines off his new song, "Total Entertainment Forever." We will assume a courtesy phone call did not take place. And now, our actual reality is contaminated by virtual reality sex lyrics. With this dude, it was really only a matter of time. SEE ALSO: Here's why the theory that Taylor Swift is a satanist clone absolutely checks out Read more... 'SNL' goes after Trump's wiretap accusations in Weekend Update
This much is true of the Donald Trump White House: it's given purveyors of news-based comedy endless amounts of material to work with. In their latest segment, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost took on everything from Vice President Mike Pence's email woes to Trump's tweeted allegation (without evidence, of course) that President Barack Obama ordered illegal wiretaps during the campaign. Come for the light looks at the headlines of the day, stay for the cutting one-liners. Read more... More about Donald Trump, Saturday Night Live, Snl, Tv, and Entertainment Read More »Dazzling color postcards of the cities and countryside of the 1890s Netherlands
Girls on Marken Island. Image: Library of Congress These postcards of the windmills, canals and cities of the late 1890s Netherlands were created using the Photochrom process, a technique for applying lifelike color to black-and-white images. Invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid, an employee of a Swiss printing company, the process begins with applying a light-sensitive emulsion to a lithographic limestone tablet and exposing it to sunlight under a photo negative for several hours. The emulsion hardens in proportion to the tones of the negative. The less-hardened portions are then removed with a solvent, leaving a fixed lithographic image on the tablet. Read more... More about Postcards, Photochrom, Netherlands, History, and Retronaut Read More »A reminder from 'SNL': For the love of god, do not use feminism to pick up chicks
The year is 2017. Hillary lost the election, and dudes are walking around wearing tees reading "The Future Is Female" hoping it will help them get laid. Saturday Day Night Live got very real about the performative wokeness plauge with Cecily Strong as a woman fending off a series of self-proclaimed feminist suitors who lose their chill when they're rejected. "Can I ask you a question because we both love Hillary? Do you wanna look at my balls?" is not a great pick up line, and you don't need to read bell hooks to know that. Read more... More about Tv, Comedy, Saturday Night Live, Feminism, and Entertainment Read More »MashReads Podcast: 'History Is All You Left Me' is a heartbreaking novel about teenage grief
It's an uncomfortable feeling to read a novel about death and grief, especially when the one who has passed away and the ones who are grieving are young. But for Adam Silvera, author of History Is All You Left Me, that's the point. "I didn't want to force quippy remarks just to make the reader feel more comfortable. It's death — you should feel uncomfortable," says Silvera. History Is All You Left Me follows Griffin, a 17-year-old boy who is grieving the death of the love of his life, Theo, after he tragically drowns. Though they were separated at the time of Theo's death, Griffin always imagined himself reuniting with Theo and living happily ever after. Read more... More about Grief, Podcast, Mashreads Podcast, Mashreads, and Books Read More »Huge 'Logan' opening might not beat 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'
Logan is right now looking at an estimated $85.3 million opening box office in the United States. It's a great start, but the actual box office total — to be revealed on Monday — wouldn't have to drop much to put Logan's opening behind X-Men Origins: Wolverine. That "gem" — which has a higher-than-you'd-expect 38 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes — opened at $85.1 million in 2009. Of course, Logan's opening weekend also has a real shot of beating X2: X-Men United — a critical darling — if that estimate skews slightly higher. The second X-Men movie delivered an impressive $85.6 million start in 2003. Read more... More about Get Out, Logan, Box Office, Film, and Entertainment Read More »J.K. Rowling slams Trump adviser who called a woman an 'ugly b*tch' on Twitter
J.K. Rowling doesn't suffer fools. This weekend, Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone said some pretty disgusting things on Twitter. Some he deleted, some he left up — like this attack on Republican strategist and CNN contributor Ana Navarro.
But he really became unhinged after someone questioned his assertion that Obama should be "charged, convicted and jailed" over the (totally unsupported) claims that the former president ordered an illegal wiretap on Trump during the campaign. Read more... More about Twitter, Roger Stone, J.K. Rowling, Jk Rowling, and Social Media Read More »Nintendo Switch vs. Wii U: Which 'Zelda' plays better?
There are two versions of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild available to buy. Only one of them requires a new console purchase, which has lots of Nintendo fans wondering which is better. Is it more stable on established hardware like the Wii U or the newer Switch? The results, according to the experts at Digital Foundry, are inconclusive. The Switch version outputs to TV at a higher resolution than Wii U — 900p versus 720p — but the resolution boost comes with an occasional cost: lowered frame rates. It's an issue that manifests in both versions of the game, for different reasons. While DF notes a marginal Switch advantage — in tablet mode, the frame rate issues disappear — the video also admits that more testing is needed. Read more... More about Nintendo Switch, Wii Uu, The Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The Wild, Nintendo, and Gaming Read More »Kellyanne Conway makes mistakes, just like the Oscars, says Kellyanne Conway
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway got the spotlight treatment from CBS Sunday Morning and it was not a disappointment. The 13-minute clip touches on a lot of things, like Kellyanne's family life, the threats she's received as being one of President Trump's most visible aides, and that inauguration jacket. But perhaps the most notable moment came early on, addressing her most infamous public statements (so far). At around 4:00 minutes in, Norah O'Donnell brings up Conway's "Bowling Green massacre" moment and the "alternative facts" statement, in which Conway attempted to defend Sean Spicer's claims about Trump's inauguration attendance. Read more... More about Alternative Facts, Oscars 2017, Kellyanne Conway, Entertainment, and Politics Read More » | ||||
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