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 Elon Musk's rant on aliens and chemtrails is your April Fools' Day science treat
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk may not be the best comedian among tech moguls, but he's pretty good at making fun of himself. That's why it surprised no one on Saturday when he tweeted out a couple of April Fools' Day space travel rants that included one of his favorite topics: alien life! "Technology breakthrough: turns out chemtrails are actually a message from time-traveling aliens describing the secret of teleportation," writes Musk, taking on the crazed, head-in-outer-space billionaire persona some have accused him of adopting since his SpaceX successes. Read more... More about Tesla, Spacex, Twitter, Elon Musk, and Tech Read More »Things we wish our pets could say
Pets are magical, whimsical mysteries that come into our lives to make us less miserable. Without pets, we'd just live with humans and honestly, who really wants to do that? If you're like us, whenever you look at your cat or dog (or ferret, if that's your thing) and stare into those big eyes, you can't help but wonder what they're thinking. You feel like there are thoughts and words behind the facade, but alas, animals can't talk and we're left wondering what they would say if they could say anything. Communicating with and understanding your pets is frustrating and we just wish it were easier. If they could talk, here's what we'd want them to say. Read more... More about Speak, Cute Animals, Animals, Cute, and Talk Read More »Pornhub scares everyone to death with its terrifying April Fools' Day prank
Pornhub just took five years off a lot of people's lives. The porn site played a pretty mean and also hilarious April Fools' Day joke on its users. Anyone who clicked on a Pornhub video on Saturday got this message: Image: screenshot/pornhub How kind of them! "No need to manually share your video to your friends and family ever again." Of course, the "thanks for sharing" feature was a joke, which another message told users after they clicked "Thanks Pornhub!" or "WTF, reverse this now!" Image: screenshot/pornhub April Fools!! Read more... More about April Fools Day, April Fools Day, Pornhub, and Business Read More »New app will finally let you be your best emoji self
What came first, the face or the emoji? Okay, there's a clear answer here — but Facetune's new Memoji app by Lightrick lets you make photos and selfies look more like classic emojis. Forget the real tears and slap on a cartoon water droplet! Why make a kissy face at the camera when the app can do it for you? Also, there's a unicorn filter, and it's magical. Memoji, released on Friday, will give the emoji treatment to any photo on your phone, newly taken or uploaded from the camera roll. The current version allows these to be warped into the crying-laugh emoji, the kissy-face emoji, the devil emoji, happy and sad emojis, a nauseous emoji, heart-eyes, sunglasses, smoking nostrils, and that unicorn we mentioned. Read more... More about Memoji, Apps, Emoji, Tech, and Entertainment Read More »Tech hipster augmented reality monocles are coming, this prank proves it
If it looks silly and appears within 24 hours of April Fools' Day, it's a fair target. Therefore, our latest object of scorn is the hipster-ready mixed reality concept device called the MonoLens. SEE ALSO: Okay, fine fine, Google's April Fool's Day pranks are pretty great this year, here are all of them The device is exactly what it sounds like: A single lens that hangs off your face and delivers all the wonders of mixed reality, without the cumbersome load of real mixed reality devices like the HoloLens. Envisioned by London-based creative agency Rewind, the concept device comes with its own elaborate promotion video in the run-up to a supposed Kickstarter campaign promised next Monday (don't hold your breath). Read more... More about Hipsters, Mixed Reality, Concept Devices, and Tech Read More »People applied to work for Hub, a fake startup whose smart home device doesn't do anything
This April Fools' Day, one joke long in the making about Silicon Valley got kind of out of hand. An Indiegogo campaign for "Hub: the ultimate IOT smart device" got the attention of students at Yale University — so much so that some applied to work at the burgeoning campus startup. But the entire project was a joke, meant to mock smart home devices like Alexa and Google Home, along with the rest of the ever-proliferating internet of things. Hub, as presented in a highly-produced marketing video, doesn't really do anything. It's just a hunk of metal that promises to connect to the internet of things. The big tech words and fancy production, though, caused some viewers to miss that lack of purpose. Read more... More about April Fools Day, Internet Of Things, and Business Read More »New 'Pirates of the Caribbean' trailer finally shows us Orlando Bloom's return
The latest Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales trailer has been released, and along with it we see one of our favorite (albeit transformed) faces of the franchise: Orlando Bloom aka William Turner. We only get a brief glimpse Bloom, but now that we've seen him, along with bits of Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem and, of course, Johnny Depp, the stage is set for this to be one of the best installments in the entire Pirates series. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is set to hit theaters on May 26. Read more... More about Film, Movies, Trailers, Orlando Bloom, and Pirates Of The Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales Read More »4 April Fools' Day pranks that went horribly wrong and I am so sorry
April Fools' Day: the best day of the year. Everyone is pranking one another, having a good time, laughing, and nobody is ever annoyed or angry in the slightest. It's the perfect day! I love pranks and I am always down for a good one. But sometimes the pranks, unfortunately, do not go as planned. Here are four April Fools' Day pranks I pulled that went very wrong and I am very sorry for them. 1. The Old “Immovable Quarter” Prank.April 1, 2013: It was a warm afternoon. I was on my lunch break and eating outside on a picnic table in the park when I decided to have a little fun. I went back to my car and grabbed some glue and a quarter and glued it to the ground so I could laugh at all the passersby who tried to pick it up. Within minutes, a man bent down to grab the coin and could not lift it. I laughed and laughed but nobody else seemed to think it was funny. Instead, to my bewilderment, everybody tried to help him pick it up. Read more... More about Humor, Prankster, Pranks, April Fools Day, and Watercooler Read More »You can watch a new episode of 'Rick and Morty' like, right now
Here's an April Fools' joke you'll like: Fans of the series Rick and Morty have been waiting more than one year, but Adult Swim finally aired a new episode of the show Saturday. Available to viewers in the U.S. and other "select locations," the Season 3 premiere is set to play on loop until midnight ET and PT as part of the channel's April Fools' prank. Viewers are advised to get their adult sci-fi fix of mad scientist Rick and his grandson Morty while they can. The show's co-creator, Dan Harmon, teased the stunt Friday night before blasting it on Twitter the following day. Read more... More about April Fools, Dan Harmon, Rick And Morty, Entertainment, and Tv Read More »The New York Post's push alerts just got real dark
New York Post, is everything OK over there? On Saturday night, the newspaper's push alerts became a little ominous, with rhetorical flourishes that evoked both the Bible and Nazi Germany. "Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God," it wrote, according to screenshots posted on Twitter by bemused subscribers. It's an interesting take on the day's current affairs, but fair enough. It followed that up with a casual, "Heil President Donald Trump."
Get schooled online by celebrities like Steve Martin, Shonda Rhimes
If you learn from the best, you'll become the best. That's the theory, anyway. The online education site MasterClass is all about finding your inner genius by learning from experts in their fields, even if it is only online. Want to learn tennis via video? Then who could be better than Serena Williams. While it's not offering extensive coding lectures like Khan Academy, MasterClass has upped their online class offerings with 12 different celebrities in the past year. In March, they announced an acting class with Steve Martin and a few more star-powered courses are on their way. Read more... More about Celebrities, Online Education, Online Learning, Masterclass, and Business Read More »Facebook creeping is no longer totally anonymous
Facebook's new "Stories" update is here, and it ruins the best part about the entire social network: Mindlessly plumbing your friends' lives without fear of getting caught. When you watch a friend's Story — which exists for 24 hours and is comprised of one or more photos or short videos — that friend will know you're creeping. This is how Stories work on basically every platform that supports them (Snapchat, Instagram), but in the context of Facebook, it's kind of messed up. First, for reference, here's what that looks like: Here's a story I posted today. Image: Facebook A list of people who viewed one of my stories. Image: Facebook Read more... I made an exact replica of Donald Trump in 'The Sims 3' and a lot of wild things happened
Donald Trump is nothing if not unpredictable. Does he love Paul Ryan? Does he want the Speaker of the House to step down? Will the whole world be a barren wasteland by the time my future children are in 8th grade? The Sims 3, on the other hand, is a formula. There is a way things go in the game, predetermined by equations and probabilities and others things too boring to talk about. So I decided to create a Trump character in The Sims to see how he fared in a virtual environment. I had three big questions: if I made an exact replica of Trump in The Sims 3, how closely would he follow the real Trump's path, and would it even be possible? Can The Sims 3 tell me what is going to happen next? And perhaps most importantly: can I play The Sims 3 at work and not get in trouble? Read more... More about Entertainment, Donald Trump, Gaming, Watercooler, and Watercooler Read More »Aerial footage shows avalanche of mud in deadly Colombia floods
Floodwaters from three swollen rivers surged through a Colombian city this weekend, burying homes under an avalanche of mud and rocks. Aerial survey footage by the Colombian Air Force shows the scale of devastation in Mocoa, the capital of the southwestern Putamayo province. Nearly 200 people were killed and another 220 people are feared missing, President Juan Manuel Santos said on early Sunday. A handout picture provided by the Colombian Army shows an aerial view of Mocoa, Colombia, April 1, 2017. Image: HANDOUT/EPA/REX/Shutterstock Read more... A buried box of photos reveals a Jewish photographer's chronicle of life in the Lodz Ghetto
1940 A man walking in winter in the ruins of the synagogue on Wolborska street (destroyed by Germans in 1939). Image: Henryk Ross, Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, they created walled-off ghettos in the larger cities to concentrate and imprison the Jewish residents Henryk Ross worked as a news and sports photographer in the city of Lodz. Once in the city’s ghetto, he was employed by the Department of Statistics to shoot identification photos and propaganda images of the factories which used Jewish slave labor to produce supplies for the German Army. Read more... More about Poland, Jewish, World War Ii, Holocaust, and History Read More »This documentary inspires pilots to 'fly like a girl'
Katie McEntire Wiatt has a simple mission: Fill the skies with women. The teacher-turned-filmmaker is producing a documentary to inspire girls and young women to join aviation — a field that, like many science and technology careers, employs mostly men. Only about 6 percent of U.S. pilots are women, including commercial, private, student, and recreational pilots, Federal Aviation Administration data shows. "Many barriers still exist for young women who might pursue aviation/STEM fields," McEntire Wiatt said, pointing to socioeconomic inequality, lack of access to training and education, and broader cultural stereotypes about who gets to be a pilot. Read more... More about Film, Entertainment, Gender Equality, Airlines, and Pilots Read More »Couple announces pregnancy in a perfect Bob Ross-inspired way
Beyoncé might have given us the best pregnancy announcement of 2017, but this couple comes in pretty close with a tribute to everyone's favorite public television painter: Bob Ross. To announce the Oct. 2017 due date of a little one, a couple posed as a scene inspired by the Ross-hosted TV series The Joy of Painting. Thankfully, a friend shared it to Reddit, inviting us all to witness this ingenious announcement. With the pregnant belly serving as a canvas and a wig that mimics Ross' infamous permed afro, this couple scores bonus point for originality in their clever announcement. Read more... More about Conversations, Bob Ross, Pregnancy Announcement, Watercooler, and Watercooler Read More »All the things 'Parks and Recreation' got right and wrong about 2017
It's been more than two years since the last Parks and Recreation episode aired, but thanks to Netflix, the show is still as beloved as ever. If you believe hard enough, you can trick yourself into thinking the show is never over. And thanks to Netflix, we were recently were engaging in our 40th watch-through of this great show (it's kind of always just on loop) when we remembered something — the last season of the show was set in 2017. For the entirety of Parks and Rec prior to the last season, the show took place concurrently with the present reality. However, in a bold twist, the very last episode of Season 6 ended with a fast-forward three years into not only Leslie and crew's future, but our collective future as well. Read more... More about 2017, Predictions, Lists, Parks And Recreation, and Conversations Read More »11 times teens already tried to ruin 2017
2017: A fresh start for everyone but the teens. Apparently, some teenagers didn't get the memo that this year was going to be a better year for us all, and have already almost ruined it. Here are 11 instances teens took things way too far and threatened our happiness in 2017. When this kid got Ryan Reynolds' name tattooed on his butt because the actor 'liked' his tweet:
When they, as a group, tried to make breaking their thumbs trendyMore about Challenge, 2017, Lol, Wtf, and Teens Read More »'The Mummy' trailer is equal parts action and monster movie horror
In case it wasn't already clear from the first trailer and the reports out of Cinemacon: The Mummy is a horror movie. Universal's Tom Cruise-starring reboot ditches the playful antics of the Brendan Fraser-led Mummy movies in favor of a more serious treatment. This second trailer highlights plenty of action, but it also oozes with the creepy vibes you'd expect from a story about an ancient monster rampaging across the modern world. The Mummy hits theaters on June 9. Read more... More about Tom Cruise, Universal Pictures, The Mummy, Film, and Entertainment Read More »Guy Ritchie's sense of style is all over this final 'King Arthur' trailer
Guy Ritchie is no one-trick-pony director, but he brings a uniquely identifiable vibe to every movie he makes. Quick cuts, artful fast/slow-motion, pop-heavy soundtracks — these are just some of the markers of a Ritchie movie. The auteur filmmaker's sense of style is on full display in the latest and final trailer for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. The movie — which charts the titular king of legend's ascent to the throne — seems to mix the swords and sorcery tale with Ritchie's pop sensibilities. If that's not enough to sell you: this trailer also features a skyscraper-sized war elephant raging across a battlefield. NBD. Read more... More about King Arthur Legend Of The Sword, King Arthur, Guy Ritchie, Film, and Entertainment Read More »Justin Trudeau challenges Matthew Perry to a rematch of their elementary school fight
No matter how perfect the internet makes Justin Trudeau out to be, he's only human. So when news broke last week that Matthew Perry beat up Canada's current prime minister in elementary school, it was only natural that Trudeau would express the desire to exact a bit of revenge. Trudeau responded to Perry's story with a simple tweet. "I've been giving it some thought, and you know what, who hasn't wanted to punch Chandler?" Trudeau joked. "How about a rematch Matthew Perry?"
Striking images capture black life on Chicago's South Side in 1941
Image: Library of Congress In the early decades of the 20th century, millions of African-Americans began leaving the rural South for the urban North in a mass exodus known as the Great Migration. For many fleeing the disenfranchisement, segregation, and racist violence of the Jim Crow South, the industrial hub of Chicago, with growing opportunities in the meatpacking and railroad businesses, offered the best prospects for self-determination. New arrivals encountered territorial resistance from entrenched white ethnic groups, particularly Irish-Americans. That, combined with racist housing covenants, led to the de facto segregation of African-Americans into a narrow strip of run-down neighborhoods on the city’s South Side which came to be called the “Black Belt.” Read more... More about Black History, African American, Chicago, History, and Retronaut Read More »A personal thank you to the people who Snapchat their entire concert experience
Allow me to paint you a picture: It’s a brisk spring eve. The familiar scent of stale beer floods the air, while the floor beneath your shoes is faintly sticky from the same. Strangers from all walks of life surround you, beads of sweat forming on their brow. A generously illuminated stage lies ahead. Its inhabitants play a familiar tune. You know this tune. You all know it. It’s your favorite. Everybody is singing alongWhat a moment this is. You suddenly feel a desperate urge to document it. You pull out your phone, open Snapchat and hold the record button. You see the red progress bar fill to its capacity and watch as it becomes successfully added to your story. For 24 hours, close friends and people you went to high school with will be able to see that you were at this concert, and they will think you are extremely cool. Read more... More about Concert, Snapchat, Watercooler, Humor, and Watercooler Read More »'Beauty and the Beast' in a tight box office race with... 'Boss Baby'
In one corner, the live-action adaptation of a Disney animated classic. In the other, that movie where Alec Baldwin voices a CG infant. Beauty and the Beast has ceded its #1 box office berth — after just two weeks — to The Boss Baby, based on Sunday estimates. The two are close, but Baby is currently on pace for a domestic take of $49 million, compared to Beauty's $47.5 million. This could all change once the full weekend tallies — which aren't tabulated until Monday — are finalized. It's hardly curtains for Beauty, which should finish the weekend just short of a $400 million in total at the U.S. box office. The movie is already the top earner of 2017 domestically, with a commanding lead that very nearly doubles Logan's — at #2 — $211.9 year-to-date earnings. Read more... More about Box Office, Beauty And The Beast, Ghost In The Shell, The Boss Baby, and Film Read More »Tina Fey has a message for all the college-educated white women that voted
Tina Fey isn't one to mince words—and she had some very important things to say on Friday night. The comedian took part in the American Civil Liberties (ACLU) Facebook Live telethon, fundraising alongside Amy Poehler, Tom Hanks, and more for the organization. During the nearly four-hour-long broadcast, Fey took the opportunity to speak to Donald Trump supporters—and specifically, to the college-educated white women voters among them. “A lot of this election was turned by white, college-educated women who now would like to forget about this election and go back to watching HGTV,” the actress said during an interview with Donna Lieberman and Louise Melling of the ACLU. Read more... More about Conversations, Watercooler, Donald Trump, Tina Fey, and Watercooler Read More »Vin Diesel laser cut out of ham and cheese is a sandwich masterpiece
Vin Diesel, the action movie star known for his very smooth head and muscular build, has been immortalized forever in a bust made entirely of ham and a few slices of cheese. YouTube video maker William Osman, known for his high tech projects usually involving robots and lasers, went all in with a user suggestion to laser cut ham into the shape of the Fast and the Furious star. This eventually morphed into a ham and cheese sculpture between two slices of toasted bread, which the video team mocked up in a digital model before they got to slicing. Read more... More about Watercooler, Lasers, Laser, Video, and Youtube Read More »Dubai's sky turns black after another skyscraper bursts into flames
Black smoke smothered Dubai's sky on Sunday after a fire broke out near the world's tallest building. The desert metropolis looked almost apocalyptic as dark clouds rose from a high-rise tower complex being built alongside Dubai's biggest mall. No one was injured in the inferno, though three workers were rescued from inside the structure and taken to the hospital for examination, authorities said. Dramatic skyscraper blazes are a growing problem in Dubai and other rapidly developing parts of the United Arab Emirates. Most of Dubai's fires have been fueled by paneling on the sides of many buildings. The paneling, known as cladding, can be made with fire-resistant material. However, some Dubai buildings instead use quick-burning tiles, without any breaks to stop or slow a fire. Read more... More about Urban Planning, Urban Skyline, Videos, Inferno, and Fire Read More » | ||||
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