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 'Pharma bro' Martin Shkreli pegged in the face by dog poop at protest
A scheduled joint appearance by nefarious pharma bro Martin Shkreli and Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos went sideways on Friday due to protests, during which Shkreli got pegged in the face by dog poop. The event, promoted using the hashtag "#SHKRELOPOULOS," was canceled on Friday evening by its organizers, the Davis College Republicans, after protesters blocked access to the venue on the UC Davis campus, according to a statement from the college.
Rare photos show Obama girls on their first visit to the White House
For nearly all American children, shimmying around the White House in your tights or roaming its historic, hidden rooms will always remain a fantasy. But a handful of kids really have made the presidential residence their playground. A series of rare 2008 photos, posted by NBC's TODAY show, capture the Obama daughters sliding down a wooden ramp, peering inside the Lincoln Bedroom and sprawling across big red chairs in the White House movie theater. Sasha and Malia Obama were then 7 and 10 years old, respectively, and toured the White House with the twin daughters of former President George W. Bush. Read more... More about Photography, Today Show, First Daughters, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama Read More »Miley Cyrus had a weed bar at Liam Hemsworth and Wayne Coyne's birthday party
Hey, did you know Miley Cyrus likes smoking pot? The singer celebrated more of her favorite things — Liam Hemsworth, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and her kid sister, Noah — by throwing them a "joint" birthday party in the USA. The bash featured a weed bar from Snoop Dogg's marijuana company, Merry Jane, naturally. Miley accessorized for the occasion with more green.
Uber wants to build a better map. Next stop? Australia.
Like Google and even Tesla, Uber wants to map the world down to the right-hand lane and Australia is the focus of its latest effort. Following mapping projects in the U.S., Canada and the UK, as well as Mexico and South Africa, the transport giant is launching locally on the Gold Coast Monday, with a wider rollout to follow. "Existing maps are a good starting point, but some information isn't that relevant to Uber, like ocean topography," Manik Gupta, head of product at Uber Maps, said in a statement emailed to Mashable. Read more... More about Google Maps, Maps, Uber, Australia, and Business Read More »Hauntingly beautiful images emerge from deadly ice storms
Winter storms left large swaths of the central U.S. encased in sheets of ice this weekend. Across the Midwest and southern Plains, roads, power lines, trees and windows glistened with an icy glaze. On Sunday, a third wave of sleet and drizzle continued to bear down on areas where temperatures hovered around freezing. Weather-related accidents reportedly killed three people in Missouri, two people in Kansas and a truck driver in Oklahoma. Thousands of people across the region were without electricity after ice encumbered power lines. Read more... More about Videos, Storyful, Social Media, Winter Weather, and Winter Storm Advisory Read More »Drone captures travel blogger's hectic brush with a great white shark
It's one thing to hope to catch a glimpse of shark while on vacation, but it's another to be stalked by one. Ask French blogger behind "Travelling with Isa," Isabelle Fabre. It seems like she found herself being shadowed by a great white shark while kitesurfing off Fitzgerald River National Park on the Western Australian coast. The footage captured on video by drone and posted on Facebook on Jan. 9. "As usual, I was first thinking that it was my kite shadow... but no. Then I thought it was a dolphin trick. You know, when they spring out just in front of you! But no," Fabre explained in French. Read more... More about Blogger, Isabella Fabre, Drone, Video, and Videos Read More »Donald Trump isn't happy about 'Saturday Night Live's' pee jokes
In what has become something of a weekly tradition, President-elect Donald Trump has once again responded to an unflattering portrayal of him on Saturday Night Live. This time, however, people had some golden reactions to his tweet. The skit, which featured Alec Baldwin again as Trump, made reference to that leaked, totally unverified dossier and the lurid allegations of, in the show's words, the "big Russian pee-pee party." On Sunday evening, Trump finally responded.
3 guys happen to catch SpaceX launch from an airplane
SpaceX successfully launched — and landed! — its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, it's first launch since another one of its rockets exploded last fall. Luckily for us, some adventurous guys caught the whole thing on camera from nearly two miles up in the air. As the rocket, carrying 10 communications satellites for the company Iridium, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a trio of flight enthusiasts were flying their own small airplane at around 8,500 feet, outside of the no-fly zone but still close enough for a terrific view of the launch, including the below video from Van Espahbodi of Starburst Accelerator. Read more... More about Falcon 9, Spacex, Spacex Launch, Tech, and Space Read More »Surfer survives 16 hours at sea after being dragged miles offshore
It sounds like the plot of a terrifying thriller, but in this case, there's a lucky escape and no fatalities. A Japanese surfer was swept six kilometres (3.7 miles) out to sea around Bulli, on Australia's east coast, spending a night floating on his surfboard in the open ocean. The 37-year-old unnamed man was eventually picked up by sailors on container ship MSC Damla Friday morning, after he was sighted by crew. The man told police he got caught in a strong current, and struggled to get back to shore because of the waves, according to ABC News. Read more... More about Rescue, Msc Damla, Surfer, Australia, and Watercooler Read More »Trump to use personal Twitter account instead of @POTUS, report says
With just days left until Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States, the president-elect has finally settled a burning question: where he'll tweet from once he's in the White House. SEE ALSO: Next time Trump tweets about a company, this app will let you know if it cost you some cash NBC News reporter Kelly O'Donnell reports that transition officials say that while the administration will take control of the @POTUS account, Trump himself will stick to tweeting from his personal account.
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone take 'musical quiz' and one of them fails miserably
Ryan Gosling may have nailed his performance in the multi-Golden Globe-winning musical La La Land, but damn, he knows almost nothing about the genre. While Emma Stone adorably offered mostly-correct answers to the "musical quiz" questions, leveled at her by Magic Radio, London, her co-star Gosling grimaced through the ordeal enough to provide footage for a whole new "Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal" edit. So how bad was he? Let's just say he thought "Rainbows on roses and whiskers on kittens" was a quote from Mary Poppins. To be fair to the actor, musicals are the worst. Winkd is a dating app where LGBTQ people are not an afterthought
While dating apps have exploded in popularity, they're most often built with straight, cisgender men and women in mind. Winkd is a soon-to-be launched dating app built for the LGBTQ community. Founded by Diana Kalkoul and Neda Robat-Meily, two 20-something Sydneysiders who both have backgrounds in technology, the app aims to be LGBTQ-friendly from the start. "We're two queer individuals ... that are kind of frustrated with the lack of inclusivity dating apps present people with," Kalkoul told Mashable. The pair looked at dating apps like OKCupid — traditional and a bit slow — and Tinder — the first to double-down on mobile — but found none were quite right. Read more... More about Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras, Australia, Dating Apps, Lgbtq, and Winkd Read More »Everything we think we know about the Samsung Galaxy S8
Samsung's next flagship phone, the Galaxy S8, will be arriving very soon. The pressure is on for the Korean electronics giant to deliver a flagship phone that not only improves on the specs of last year's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, but also kicks the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus' butt. Adding more features has always been Samsung's approach with new flagships, but as the company is no doubt aware after the Galaxy Note7 literally burned out, everyone will be watching closely to see what new safety measures it includes on the S8. What exactly can we expect from the S8? Here's what we're hearing from the rumor mill. Read more... More about Rumors, Smartphones, Android, Galaxy, and S8 Read More »Dude's viral complaint about a tanning mitt is relationship goals
As the dutiful partners of the world might know, sometimes your significant needs a helping hand when it comes to personal grooming. Like Australian man, Matt Edwards, who was in Sydney for his uncle's wedding and had to help apply fake tan on his fiancée's back in preparation — a messy job, made worse by the fact the mitts included in the tanning kit were too damn small. So Edwards took to Facebook to complain on the company's page. "My [fiancée], much like many other women out there enjoy your tanning products and she has no complaint whatsoever. But I do," he wrote to Bondi Sands. Read more... More about Bondi Sands, Complaints, Complaint, Fake Tan, and Tanning Read More »Asia is throwing out an increasingly large, dangerous amount of e-waste
All those old TV screens, smartphones and computer monitors have to go somewhere. In east and south east Asia, discarded electronics are piling up at an alarming rateA new report has found that 12.3 million tonnes of e-waste was created over five years in the region — more than two times the weight "of the Great Pyramid of Giza" and with the potential to cause severe health problems. Looking at 12 countries — Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Province of China, Thailand and Vietnam — the United Nations University study found the amount of e-waste being thrown out in the region between 2010 and 2015 increased by an average of 63 percent. Read more... More about Vietname, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore Read More »North Koreans eating American BBQ is a fascinating insight into the nation
It goes without saying that life in North Korea is different — including what food its citizens can buy. Now, four refugees of the hermit kingdom have given an account of the nation's eating habits, as they try American barbecue staples like pulled pork, brisket and burnt ends for the very first time. It's all part of a video made by YouTube channel Digitalsoju TV and its discussion of North Korean food is particularly fascinating. Meat is, of course, a scarce and expensive luxury in the country. One kilogram (2 lbs) of meat reportedly costs the equivalent of ten kilograms (22 lbs) of rice. Read more... More about Bbq, Watercooler, Asia, Video, and Sauce Read More »'Homeland' Season 6 introduces a female president-elect, but whose side is she on?
This recap contains spoilers for Homeland Season 6, episode 1, titled "Fair Game."Homeland is back for Season 6 with "Fair Game," an episode that finds the key players a bit scattered when the season begins — but it's only a matter of time before they converge. Carrie's fightAfter years of globetrotting in order to wage a war on terror, Carrie (Claire Danes) has settled down in Brooklyn and is trying to raise Franny while helming an organization that protects and defends Muslims from unjust prosecution. It's a noble cause, to be sure, as viewers are introduced in the premiere to Sekou Bah (J. Mallory McCree), a Muslim teen who seemingly wants only to share a counterpoint view to heinous U.S. military activities, but whose website is something the FBI has deemed "material support" for terrorism. FBI Special Agent Ray Conlin (Dominic Fumusa) — who should be a fun mustache-twirling a-hole for this season — claims that they worry Sekou's rhetoric will incite others to violence. So Sekou is arrested and Carrie and co. are brought in to represent him, and already we smell something else brewing with this storyline. Read more... More about Rupert Friend, Claire Danes, Homeland, Entertainment, and Tv Read More »Samsung to confirm next week what everyone knew about the Galaxy Note7 months ago
One of the biggest mysteries of 2016 might end without a climatic ending after all. Samsung may have reached the same conclusion for what caused its Galaxy Note7 to catch fire as everyone else did months ago. Samsung has found that faulty batteries set some Galaxy Note7 units on fire, according to Reuters, which expects the company to make the much-anticipated findings public on Jan. 23. Following reports of some Galaxy Note7 units catching fire, Samsung killed the smartphone and issued a recall last year. In September, the company also announced it was investigating what was causing some of the Galaxy Note7 to turn into flames. Read more... More about Safety, Smartphones, Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Samsung Galaxy Note7, and Samsung Read More »These guys are making some seriously catchy beats with household objects
With all the music tech on the market, it's rare to stumble upon electronic music that still feels raw and home-made. Bottlesmoker is a duo from Bandung, Indonesia, who make music from things lying around at home. They cut and autotune these sounds, splicing them with melodies from classroom instruments like melodicas and glockenspiels, or new agey equipment like theremins, for their tracks. On their Facebook page, the two say openly that their unusual tunes have been "rejected many times" by Indonesian record labels. Read more... More about Indie Music, Singapore, Laneway Festival, St Jerome S Laneway Festival, and Indonesia Read More »Chinese people will make 3 billion trips for the Lunar New Year this month
Billions of Chinese travellers will soon be packed across airports, trains and bus stations as they head home for one of the country's biggest celebrations, Chinese New Year. A mindboggling 2.98 billion trips will be made over a 40-day stretch this Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, up 2 percent from last year. The official Xinhua news agency reports that more than 8.6 million trips were made last Friday alone, the first day of the annual travel rush. For many, the seven-day Chinese New Year holiday is one of the few chances they get to travel home. Read more... More about Migration, Chinese New Year, Travel, China, and World Read More »China claimed its troops can reach New Delhi in 48 hours and everyone cracked the same joke
Over the weekend, Indian Twitter found amusement in the not-so-amusing. After China TV reported that Chinese troops would take only 48 hours to reach New Delhi in case of a war, Indians got chatty — and catty — about it. It all began when The International Spectator picked up the news.
And Indians spoke of the roadblocks, literally, en route to Delhi. Read more... More about Traffic Jam, Infrastructure, Delhi, Military, and Politics Read More »This company hopes you'd disinfect your home with cow urine
One of India's fastest-growing consumer goods companies, Patanjali Ayurved, advertised a product that has captured the attention of the masses. Gonyle — a floor disinfectant made from cow urine — showed up in full-page ads in leading Indian newspapers on Sunday. Though cow urine, popularly known as 'go mutra', is considered sacred in India, Patanjali's innovation has met with bewilderment and annoyance. The ad goes on to claim that the product is an attempt to "prohibit" the slaughter of cows that are regarded holy in some parts of India. Read more... More about Business, Hygiene, Consumer Goods, India, and Watercooler Read More »This education minister believes cows exhale oxygen
Cows, much like any other animal, inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. It’s Science 101, and you would think everyone knows this. An education minister in India, however, seems to have his own theories. Vasudev Devnani, the education minister of India's state of Rajasthan, believes cows breathe in and breathe out oxygen. According to Devnani, this makes cow an animal with "scientific significance", being the only of its kind to have this ability. "There is a need to understand the scientific significance of the cow and ensure that the message reaches all people,” he is quoted as saying. Read more... More about Science, Cows, Education, India, and Watercooler Read More »This rural school only has two students
You wouldn't typically picture a school being this empty, but this one in rural Youyang County, near Chongqing in inland China, is so empty it only has two students and one teacher. The teacher in charge, 53-year-old Yang Jinhua, has taught for nearly 35 years in the village elementary school since he was 18. Despite the tiny attendance, the school has remained opened in part because of Yang's dedication to it, according to the Chongqing Morning Post. Yang has refused jobs from principals in other counties, town centers and even corporations. SEE ALSO: Chinese high school devises 'marks bank' for failing students to borrow from to raise grades Read more... Pakistani singer halts concert to save girl from harassment, earns praise
Pakistani singer Atif Aslam is going viral for all the right reasons. The popular artiste who was performing in Karachi on Sunday stopped mid-song to prevent a girl from being harassed by a bunch of boys. SEE ALSO: Bangalore's 'Night of Shame': Mass molestation in India's Silicon Valley on New Year's Eve A video posted by one of the concert attendees is doing the rounds on social media. The singer is seen getting off stage and reprimanding the boys in the front row, after which he pulls the girl up on stage and requests the event organizers to give her a seat elsewhere. Aslam is also heard telling them to "act like a human being" as the crowds went berserk with shouts of Atif! Atif! Read more... More about Concert, Women S Issues, Womens Rights, Pakistan, and India Read More »China warns Trump again that he is 'playing with fire'
China will have "no choice but to take off the gloves", if U.S. president-elect Donald Trump continues to question Chinese policy, a state-owned newspaper has declared. The China Daily's editorial is the latest in a series of remarks on Trump, with another Chinese newspaper previously calling him "immature". The latest rebuke comes after Trump dismissed China's firm "One China" policy as "negotiable" in a Wall Street Journal interview. China does not recognise Taiwan as a nation, but a breakaway state and considers it part of "One China." Read more... More about One China, China, Taiwan, Trump, and World Read More »Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling describe their most spectacular dancing fail
Emma Stone may make the dance moves in La La Land look easy, but it hasn't always been that way. As she explained during Friday's episode of The Graham Norton Show, she actually has a deep-rooted fear of certain dance moves (especially ones that involve being high up in the air). During a previous appearance alongside Ryan Gosling in the film Crazy, Stupid, Love., the two had to film a Dirty Dancing, over-the-head style lift. Needless to say, it didn't end well. Ben Affleck, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling all have hilariously awkward mum stories
You might think bringing a parent along to an awards ceremony would be something of a gamble, but it really isn't. As Ben Affleck, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling and Sienna Miller prove in the video above, parents may occasionally be embarrassing companions — but their presence always makes for great chat show anecdotes. It's difficult to pick a favourite from the batch above, but if pressed we'd go for Ben Affleck's camera-happy mother. Just 8 men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the population, report says
Eight of the world's richest men own approximately the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the population, a new report from Oxfam claims. Four of these eight billionaires are from the tech industry: Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. Together, the world's 8 richest men own 426.2 billion dollars — roughly as much as the 3.6 billion poorest people on Earth. Oxfam, a global organization that aims to fight poverty, based the report — dubbed "An economy for the 99%" — on Forbes' billionaires list and the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Data book 2016. Read more... More about Poverty, Billionaires, Rich, Oxfam, and Us World Read More »The internet is fact-checking Trump's first UK interview
Donald Trump has given his first UK interview — with former Tory leadership contender Michael Gove — in which he praised Britain for the Brexit vote and said he wants a trade deal with the UK done quickly. SEE ALSO: Meryl Streep’s Globes speech was beautiful, heartfelt and played right into Donald Trump’s hands Published in The Sunday Times, the interview touched on many other subjects, from Trump's positive stance on Russia and Putin to calling Nato "obsolete."
Ben Affleck and Sienna Miller discuss the reality of shooting sex scenes
If you're going to be spending a day filming lengthy sex montages with your co-star, it helps not to take yourself too seriously. Luckily, as you can tell from their appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Ben Affleck and Sienna Miller clearly know how to have a laugh together. "Sometimes I like to just go over and over again without cutting and interrupting the flow..." says Affleck in the clip above, when asked about the copious love scenes he wrote into new film Live by Night. "Careful with your words, Ben," interrupts Miller. Read more... More about Funny, Uk, The Graham Norton Show, Graham Norton, and Live By Night Read More »British singer's open letter about racist encounter on a train
LONDON — A British singer has penned an open letter about her experience of "institutionalised racism" on a train. Jamelia claims that she and her 11-year-old daughter were seated in the first class carriage when they were challenged by a fellow passenger.
According to the post, Jamelia was approached by a woman in her early forties who asked her: "Do you have a first class ticket?" Reliance Jio is bringing Apple's HealthKit features to India with its new app
India’s Reliance Jio telecom operator is offering a bouquet of apps at no charge to its subscribers, hoping to lure them away from Netflix, Apple Music and a range of other services. The company has quietly released another app, this time going after Apple's HomeKit, and Google's Health services. A health and fitness centric app called Jio Health Hub is listed on the company’s Google Play listing. The app, which says "unreleased" in its description, is aimed at allowing people to have all their health related documents available at one place and provide them with the ability to readily share the reports with others. Read more... More about India, Health App, Fitness, Health, and Reliance Jio Read More »This cello cover of the 'Game of Thrones' theme might be the classiest we've heard
What's something the world has enough of? Game of Thrones theme covers, that's what. We've seen so many good ones over the years, it's hard to pick which one is the best. But 2CELLOS, a duo of extraordinarily talented cellists from Croatia, have taken it to the next level. In the first single from their new album, "Score," the duo — Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser — play a Game of Thrones medley with the London Symphony Orchestra. The cover is subtler than some others we've heard, but there's a lot of authorship in it as well, with the two cellists performing some string acrobatics in the second part of the song. Read more... More about Theme Song, Music, Cover, Croatia, and Dubrovnik Read More »Indians can now withdraw more money from ATMs every day
Indians can now heave a sigh of relief. They can now withdraw more of their own money, parked in their own bank accounts. The country's federal bank has raised the withdrawal limit from ATMs to Rs 10,000 ($147) per day per card from the existing Rs 4,500 ($66) with immediate effect. However, their withdrawals will have to remain within the weekly cap of Rs 24,000 ($352), the RBI added. Post the Indian government's ban on high-value currency notes, that sent the nation of 1.3 billion into collective misery, getting access to one's own money in cash had become next to impossible with banks and ATMs running dry and government imposing limits. Read more... More about Banking, Current Affairs, Money, Currency, and Economy Read More »Irish man phones White House, leaves brutal rap message for Donald Trump
The people manning the White House comments line have probably heard all manner of things from those that ring up to leave a comment for the president — but we're willing to bet they've never heard anything quite like this. In the video above, Irish comedian Ross Browne (a.k.a. Gangsta Paddy) raps a message for Donald Trump down the phone line. Here's a sample lyric: "A president of woeful proportions/ Needless to say, the rest isn't any more complimentary. Read more... More about Irish, Rap, Rapper, Donald Trump, and Ireland Read More »India wants more details from WhatsApp on its data sharing policy
WhatsApp won’t be able to get away with its privacy policy changes so easily in India. India’s Supreme Court today sent a notice to the central government, telecom regulator TRAI, as well as Facebook and WhatsApp to address a petition that raises issues with WhatsApp’s move to share some user data with its parent company Facebook. Today's ruling by Chief Justice JS Khehar reignites the plea two students brought to the Delhi High Court last year. At the time, the Delhi High Court had directed WhatsApp to make two alternations to its then forthcoming policy changes. Read more... More about Court, Privacy, Whatsapp, India, and Facebook Read More »BBC is investigating if Russians leaked Sherlock finale
The BBC is investigating how the fourth season finale of Sherlock was leaked online, after a Russian-language version of the episode was illegally uploaded ahead of transmission. A leaked version of His Final Problem featured a short continuity announcement that identified it as broadcast by Russian state-owned Channel One. It appeared online on Saturday. After the leaked episode started circulating online, the BBC tweeted:
Grooming their way to doggie Insta-glory
Dog Groomer Jess Rona preps dogs for their Instagram close up. How She Works is a new series from Mashable highlighting women in diverse occupations. Watch more episodes on our YouTube channel. This sponge-like material is the strongest and lightest ever known
Graphene, an ultra-thin sheet of carbon, was discovered in 2004, becoming the strongest material ever known. Now scientists have found a way to transform it from its natural two-dimensional shape into a stable three-dimensional form. This new form is 10 times stronger than steel. Read more... More about 3 D, Material, Real Time Video, Real Time, and Tech Read More »The man with the world's most confusing Twitter handle just had another terrible weekend
LONDON — Cases of mistaken identity aren't exactly uncommon on Twitter — it's why we have those little blue ticks. But little blue ticks only go so far. John Lewis, a computer science educator from Blacksburg, Virginia, may be the best example of this. Meet John Lewis, owner of the world's most confusing Twitter handle. Image: twitter/@johnlewis/mashable composite Basically, if you search for "John Lewis" on Twitter, you'll get something like this: Image: twitter The man at the top is the Congressman and civil rights hero who has been in the news recently after a Donald Trump Twitter storm. The handle in the middle is that of a large department store in the UK (you know, the one that makes those viral Christmas adverts every year). Read more... More about Uk, Twitter, Donald Trump, John Lewis, and Watercooler Read More »Tesla owner gets stranded in the desert after relying on phone to start the car
Even if you own a Tesla, you should still carry your car keys at all times. Tesla owner, Las Vegas investor and entrepreneur Ryan Negri learned that the hard way as he got stranded with his Tesla six miles from home near Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. Negri used the Tesla mobile app to start the car at home, and didn't bring his keys; but when he had to stop and restart the car to adjust a dog seat, there was no cell service, so the start-with-phone method was useless. "Need to restart the car now, but, with no cell service, my phone can't connect to the car to unlock it. Even with cell service, the car would also need cell service to receive the signal to unlock," Negri described the event on Instagram. Read more... More about Mobile App, Car Keys, Stranded, Tesla, and Tech Read More »This viral photo of lemons could save your life
LONDON — We might be familiar with the signs of breast cancer, but when it comes to identifying visual symptoms in our own breasts, it's not quite so easy. Designer Corrine Ellsworth Beaumont has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the visual signs and symptoms of breast cancer using the unlikeliest of devices — lemons. MLK's daughter tweets heart-felt tribute on his birthday
On Sunday, what would have been Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 88th birthday, his daughter, Bernice, tweeted a heart-felt tribute, honoring the civil rights icon and sharing an image of her standing with the monument to her father. The memorial, located in downtown Washington, D.C., was opened in 2011.
Born just five months before King's iconic "I Have A Dream" speech, Bernice was appointed as CEO of The King Center in 2012. Read more... More about Mlk Memorial, Bernice King, Martin Luther King Jr, Watercooler, and History Read More »'Sherlock' Season 4 finale weaves an exhausting, tangled web
It's telling that a show about a 47-year-old American pope with a fluctuating accent and troubling proclivity for Cherry Coke Zero was only the second weirdest episode to air on TV on Jan. 15. The Season 4 finale of BBC's Sherlock opened with an abandoned plane, the ghost of a child and clowns in an old Victorian mansion. The latter, at least, turns out to be a melodramatic staging, but by the end of "The Final Problem" you long for the simplicity of a false hallucination. Episode 2 ended with the reveal that Sherlock and Mycroft have a sister, Eurus (Sian Brooke), who Sherlock barely remembers to the point that Mycroft's manipulation has all but eliminated the memories. Eurus was a genius "beyond Newton," (possessed of more than just "the deduction thing," as John eloquently describes it). She "doesn't just talk to people, she reprograms them." It sounds dubious — because it is. Read more... More about Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Recap, Sherlock, and Television Read More »A vegan fried chicken shop opened because goodness exists in the world
LONDON — Ah, fried chicken. It's greasy, it's fried, it's finger lickin' good. But it hasn't exactly been vegan friendly — until now. A restaurant serving vegan fried "chicken" opened in London on Saturday, bringing joy and happiness to the lives of myriad city-dwelling vegans
This is why it's a bad idea to Facebook Live in the locker room
On Sunday night, while celebrating a big playoff win, Pittsburgh Steelers star Antonio Brown streamed the team's post-game celebration on Facebook Live but might have given their upcoming opponent, the New England Patriots, some bulletin board material. After the Steelers outlasted the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday night's AFC Divisional playoff, earning a trip to next weekend's AFC Championship game against the Patriots, Brown started streaming on Facebook Live. While captured plenty of good-natured shenanigans, he also caught head coach Mike Tomlin taking a swipe at the Patriots. Read more... More about Facebook Live, Antonio Brown, Mike Tomlin, New England Patriots, and Pittsburgh Steelers Read More »Maisie Williams makes Twitter request, gets more than she bargained for
LONDON — Arya and Sansa Stark may be total badasses these days, but it wasn't always that way. Long before they were battle-hardened by the endless, freezing misery of Westeros, everybody's favourite Game of Thrones sisters were... well, they were just sort of small and adorable. On Monday afternoon, Maisie Williams tweeted the following request for old photos of herself and BFF Sophie Turner.
Skrillex reunites with From First To Last because emo is forever
Alert your Top 8 immediately — From First to Last is back. "Make War," the band's first new song in a decade — and since frontman Sonny Moore transformed into EDM superstar Skrillex — is here. "Happy anniversary from the bottom of my credit card," wails Moore. Now try fighting the impulse to grab a Sharpie and scrawl that on your Converse. The band released the track to coincide with Moore's 29th birthday, which he spent hanging out with bandmate Matt Good, Blink-182 and Goldfinger's John Feldmann. More about Rock Music, Emo, Music, Skrillex, and Entertainment Read More »Airbus wants to have an autonomous aircraft prototype by the end of 2017
The flying car remains among those technologies that has always remained about ten years away. Or maybe just a year, if you believe the CEO of Airbus. "One hundred years ago, urban transport went underground, now we have the technological wherewithal to go above ground," said Tom Enders, the chief executive of aerospace company Airbus, best known for making jet airliners. Enders was speaking at the DLD tech conference in Munich on Monday, where he teased that his company foresees having a working prototype for an autonomous flying car by the end of 2017. "We are in an experimentation phase, we take this development very seriously," he said, according to a report from Reuters. Read more... More about Business, Autonomous Cars, Airbus, Uber, and Flying Cars Read More »10 of the most hilarious calls received by the RSPCA
The January gloom continues, but there are a few things that can put a smile on our face. Bizarre phone calls are just one of these things. As part of a campaign urging the public to double check before raising the alarm, the RSPCA has released extracts from 10 of the most bizarre calls they received from people concerned about animal welfare last year. In the string of calls, people seem to constantly mistake objects for living creatures. 1. An officer was asked to help find a bird that was stuck in a loft in West Yorkshire. “I went into the lady’s home and we could hear a regular ‘peeping’ noise,” said Animal Collection Officer Alan Farr. “She said she thought it was coming from her roof so we looked and looked. After searching around and unable to find the mystery bird I then went into her front room and found a smoke alarm beeping after the battery had gone flat.” Read more... More about Phone Call, Animals, Animal Welfare, Rspca, and Watercooler Read More »Kickstarter joins NYC effort to close wage gap by not asking about employee salary history
A new bill in New York City would make it illegal for employers to ask potential hires about their salary histories, and NYC-based companies are slowly getting on board. Kickstarter is the first tech company to publicly back the legislation, which was proposed by the New York City public advocate's office. The law, which would apply to the private, governmental and nonprofit sectors, is intended to reduce the gender wage gap in New York. When women — or other minority groups — are historically underpaid, sharing their salary histories with potential employers perpetuates that cycle of inequity. Read more... More about New York City, Gender Pay Gap, Pay Gap, Equal Pay, and Kickstarter Read More »Designer builds 'The Last of Us' out of 20,000 Lego bricks
Fans anxiously awaiting the sequel to The Last of Us can instead look to Lego builder Tim Schwalfenberg. Schwalfenberg built a Lego diorama of the 2013 Playstation game, spotted by Kotaku, that covers an entire city block of the game's dystopia. The 100-hour, 20,000-brick project shows The Last of Us's Ellie and Joel surrounded by junk and overgrown grass. Image: Tim Schwalfenberg/Flickr Image: Tim Schwalfenberg/flickr Image: Tim Schwalfenberg/flickr Playstation debuted a trailer for the game's long-awaited sequel last month. There's no release date yet, so let the Lego version tide you over. Read more... More about Lego, The Last Of Us, Video Games, Gaming, and Entertainment Read More »Green Day drops 'Troubled Times' video in case it wasn't clear how they feel about Trump
A head on fire topped with a "Make America Great Again" hat haunts Green Day's lyric video for their Revolution Radio track, "Troubled Times." Releasing the song on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is no accident — the video features footage of the Civil Rights hero and the March on Washington in 1963 as well as images from the suffrage movement. Green Day wants to make it clear they're not going to stay silent while Donald Trump reverses the progress made by these people. “Today we celebrate love and compassion more than ever,” said Billie Joe Armstrong in a press release. 10 companies that have successfully transformed something old to make it new again
Some of the most striking business success stories of the last few years aren't about a new product or idea so much as they are about revamping something well-loved (or at least, well-used) and making it feel exciting again. Pokemon Go might be the most obvious example, but there are many others worth noting. How do the best brands take nostalgia and familiarity and fuse them with modern technology to create a winning product or service? To find out, I asked 10 entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what one brand they think has successfully turned something old into something new again, and why it worked so well. Their best answers are below. Read more... More about Business and Brands Read More »Facebook fake news features will also be available in Germany
Germany has taken a tough stance in the battle against fake news and now it's about to become the first country outside of the U.S. to get Facebook's new tools help combat the problem. It comes after German officials threatened to fine the social media platform for every fake story that populated the newsfeed as it goes against the country's strict defamation laws. SEE ALSO: Can Facebook fix its fake news problem? The tools — including an option for users to flag fake news and third party fact-checking — are similar to the ones announced by Facebook in the U.S. in December. In a German-language statement, Facebook said German speaking users would have the option to flag potentially false stories by clicking on the top right corner of a post and label it as "fake news". Read more... More about Fake News, Germany, Facebook, and Social Media Read More »Will Ferrell has been photographed filming a 'Sherlock' parody
LONDON — Well, the bad news is that the final episode of Sherlock Season 4 has now been broadcast, and the adventures of everyone's favourite sardonic detective are wrapped for another year. But for every story that ends, a new one is just beginning. Over the last week, sightings of Will Ferrell around the University of Greenwich in London have been at an all-time high. According to the university, the actor is currently on set filming Sherlock parody Holmes and Watson — a comedy scheduled for 2018 that will also star Ralph Fiennes and Hugh Laurie. Read more... More about Uk, London, Twitter, Filming, and Holmes And Watson Read More »Glowing bike path in Dutch town is like a moving Van Gogh painting
Studio Roosegaarde installed this 3,000-foot bike path to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh's death. The aim is to bridge art and tech, inspire people and create sustainable energy neutral landscapes. Read more... More about Art, Arts Culture And Entertainment, Solar Power, Solar Energy, and Technology Read More »NBD, just a massive alligator out for a stroll
Nothing to see here, just a ginormous alligator casually sauntering across your path. Kim Joiner, a visitor to Circle B Bar Reserve near Lakeland, Florida, took the video over the weekend, according to Storyful. We're not sure of the exact size of the alligator, but it seems, well, pretty damn big. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, the state record for an alligator is 14 feet 3.5 inches. Video credit: Kim Joiner via Storyful Read more... BONUS: This 800-pound alligator wandered into shopping center | ||||
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