Teen makes a terrible, terrible mistake in letting friend choose her first tattoo
Friends don't let friends make tattoo decisions.
Elle Mills, a YouTuber and student, wanted to make a series of "first time" videos for her channel. Her friend, Tavian Palacios, had recently gotten a tattoo and suggested Mills get one for the first video of the series.
"[I] felt like it wouldn't be an exciting YouTube video if I just got a tattoo and that was it, so I decided it would be a whole lot more entertaining if Tavian chose it and surprised me," Mills said in an interview.
And, boy, did her friend deliver on that surprise. Without her knowledge, Palacios chose a simple tattoo design of a heart with a banner in the middle displaying his Twitter handle. Read more...
You can re-write the Red Wedding in this 'Game of Thrones' board game
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. Or you just reset the game board and play again.
A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game adapts George R.R. Martin's enormously popular series of novels into a game you can play at home. Using the books as a springboard, players participate in their own bloody struggles for control of the Seven Kingdoms.
The initial game — which heads to Kickstarter later this year, with a retail release set for 2018 — specifically focuses on the tension between the Stark and Lannister families. Expansions are common with miniatures games like these, so expect the game to introduce the other houses of Westeros over time. Read more...
Guess which other 'Star Wars' movie had wild alternate endings? 'Star Wars'
Had enough of alternate endings to Rogue One? Then you may want to check out the far superior alternate endings for its sequel — a little movie now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
This man's epic quest for a rainbow bagel makes a crucial point about accessibility
If you're in New York City, you could get your hands on a coveted rainbow bagel pretty easily. Only a MetroCard fare and a few subway stops are between you and the copious amounts of dyed dough.
But if you have a mobility-related disability, public transportation — and navigating a city overall — isn't exactly bagel quest-friendly.
To mark Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month this March, the popular YouTuber, who lives with cerebral palsy, collaborated with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation to release a hilarious and illuminating video on the lack of accessibility in cities. Read more...
Donovan shared his story on Reddit's r/aww and included a photo of his temporary delivery companion. For 20 minutes, Papa John's had an unofficial new employee out on delivery duty.
And though Donovan acknowledged that his boss might punish him for going off route to deliver Mr. Snickers to address labeled on his collar, he knew he had to help the lost dog get home. Read more...
Deloitte's CEO gave her 15-year-old son some great advice on job-stealing robots
You don't need to have a full-time job yet to be worried about robots taking it.
The 15-year-old son of Cathy Engelbert, CEO of consulting firm Deloitte, is already thinking about automation. He asked his mom if robots were going to take his job someday, Engelbert wrote in a blog post on LinkedIn.
"I told him: 'Don’t worry—I’ve never met a machine with courage and empathy,'" Engelbert wrote. "We’ll still need those in the new economy."
Engelbert had some good advice for her son, and anyone worried about the autonomous future. Basically, jobs will go away but other jobs will be created.
Kids are not to be trusted. And now, thanks to Uber for teens, they don't have to be.
The scandal-plagued ride-hail company announced Thursday a new program allowing parents to add teenagers to a "family profile," thus allowing plucky youngsters aged 13 to 17 the ability to hail a car all by their grownup selves. No adults required.
"We all wish we could be in multiple places at once," the saccharine ad copy — no doubt channeling Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's desire to simultaneously extinguish all ofhis company'spress fires — tells us. "But until then, Uber can help families with the logistics." Read more...
Trump's latest poll: Do you like Trump? Yes or yes?
Hey friends, it's time for another riveting poll from President Trump's campaign. Woo hoo!
On Thursday, Trump Headquarters sent out another one of its middle school-esque email polls, but rather than solely throwing shade at the media, this poll simply inquired whether the recipients stand with President Trump.
Sounds like a simple choice, right? Well, wait until you have a look at the response options.
Basically, in order to prove that the American people are behind Trump's movement, an email with the subject, "Vindicated," was deemed necessary. Read more...
Well, what do you know: 'Power Rangers' is surprisingly OK
We're all a little tapped out on '90s nostalgia for a moment, so much so that Lionsgate's Power Rangers reboot sneak attacked us with its spring release. The movie looks like guiltless Transformers visuals meets formative teen movie (you'll hear one particular example referenced a lot), but how is it?
From unbridled enjoyment to pure loathing, reviewers have a lot of responses to this movie, and they are all over the map.
This nature-inspired wind turbine is shaped like a tree
NewWind has designed a generator with 63 micro wind turbines that look like leaves on a tree. The company wants to encourage sustainable living in urban environments with its quiet, aesthetically pleasing product. Read more...
The Galaxy Note7 was an explosive failure. Here's how Samsung could follow it.
Samsung is poised to finally reveal the long-awaited Galaxy S8 next week
But we’re more excited to see how Samsung will follow up the spectacular failure of last year's Galaxy Note7 — you know, the phone that kept exploding. The only thing we've heard so far is that there's new Note in development and its working codename is—get this—literally "Great."
A new sketch of a potential Note8 design, along with some specs, was posted to Slashleaks, which might just give us a first look at that much-hyped "great" phone. The leak first surfaced on Chinese tech blog CNbeta, so English speakers are depending on a translation for the info. Read more...
'Fixer Upper' is giving fans exactly what they wanted: A new spinoff
All this talk about Beauty and the Beast has taken away from the true fairytale of our time: Chip and Joanna Gaines.
HGTV's redesign darlings have become relationship goals, family goals and house goals over and over again across four seasons of their hit show Fixer Upper.
Still, people wanted more. One can only watch so many Saturday marathons before they start clamoring for more Gaines. Gaines-fever, if you will. It's a problem that now, fortunately, has a solution: Fixer Upper: Behind the Design. A big, bright, beautiful spinoff. Read more...
'Business and politics are inseparable' says our favorite Silicon Valley tweeter
Box CEO Aaron Levie isn't one to keep his mouth shut, providing often witty commentary on Twitter, at conferences and on television about Silicon Valley and the state of the industry.
In the last two years, it's been a lot of talk on Trump and politics. On Thursday, the enterprise startup CEO (@levie) spoke on CNBC's Closing Bell and discussed how politics has affected his business and the tech industry at large.
"There's no question that there's a lot of noise right now, and it's reaching kind of fever pitch. There are so many issues today where policy intersects with business and intersects with our ability to be competitive," Levie said. Read more...
WikiLeaks dump shows how CIA compromised iPhones and Macs
WikiLeaks' latest document dump allegedly shows the CIA has devoted a lot of time to going after Apple products.
The leaking organization released another dose of documents on Thursday that detail "several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac firmware ... developed by the CIA's Embedded Development Branch," according to the press release announcing the publication.
The CIA allegedly used a type of firmware malware to infect Macs and iPhones so the infection will continue even if the device's owner reinstalls the operating system. Read more...
Turns out, that viral website where kittens attack Trump may have tolled us all
The internet may have been duped once again, us included.
Earlier this week, a supposed 17-year-old named Lucy made headlines across multiple news sites (including Mashable) when she claimed that President Trump's lawyers were pressuring her to shut down her website Kittenfeed.com (formerly TrumpScratch), where you can 'scratch' Trump's face with digital kitten paws.
The story went viral, of course, because the idea that the President of the United States was taking time out of his day to concern himself with a nonsense little website like this was mind-boggling. Read more...
Everyone on Twitch can't stop watching this new survival shooter
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is tearing up the charts on Twitch today, placing at no. 1 with over 145,000 viewers across just 20 different streamers. This may be the first time you're hearing about Battlegrounds.
The game just released on Steam Early Access and was created by the same modder who made Arma 3's "Battle Royale" and consulted on the super-popular H1Z1: King of the Kill. That modder, Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Green, is finally working on his own standalone game alongside developer Bluehole — Battlegrounds.
Battlegrounds, just like PlayerUnkown's other projects, is a battle royale-style game where players enter an environment, gather weapons, armor and other items and fight to the death — think of it like a competitive survival shooter gameH1Z1: King of the Kill is the most popular game in this genre — it even has a professional scene where players compete in tournaments for hundreds of thousands of dollars — but Battlegrounds may already be on its way to usurping H1Z1's throne. Read more...
People can't get over this photo of Republican dudes who want to cut maternity care
Republicans like to insist the war on women is nothing more than hysterical liberal outrage.
Sure, the left uses the phrase to occasionally score political points, but sometimes Republicans make it so easy. Like when they appear to be casting aside women's needs without a second thought or even purposely targeting rights and policies that many women consider fundamental to their well-being and freedom.
Case in point: When Vice President Mike Pence tweeted a photo on Thursday from a meeting with a group of very conservative Congressional Republicans who want to eliminate maternity care from a set of required health insurance benefits, people couldn't help but notice a glaring omission: women. Read more...
Porsche's cash bonanza for every employee will make you wish you worked there
In the United States, working full-time does not always mean earning even just a living wage. But in Germany, things are pretty different.
And there, Porsche is providing a whole new level of comfortably paid employment — every single one of the company's 21,000 employees is set to receive a massive €9,111 bonus, as The Drive reports. That's around $9,825.
Why? The luxury carmaker reached record sales last year — $24 billion in revenue, marking a 4 percent increase, according to a statement. So rather than piling all that extra money at that top of the corporate totem pole, Porsche decided to reward its thousands of workers. Read more...
A bunch of 5-star reviews of WhatsApp's Snapchat update sure look fake
Just like everything else owned by Facebook, WhatsApp is becoming more like Snapchat.
Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on your own preferences and loyalty to the actual Snapchat. But it looked like a lot of people were thrilled by the update — until the influx of positive reviews got suspicious.
Bad ratings for WhatsApp in Google Play were boosted by hundreds of five-star reviews, a Telegra.ph post claimedSpotted byThe Next Web, the post called out tons of five-star reviews that suspiciously all mention games and graphics.
WhatsApp is not a game, though you can play some games within it. Still, just look at these: Read more...
Yep, John Mayer is still writing songs about his breakup with Katy Perry
A new New York Times profile on John Mayer details how the singer is still struggling to recover from the worst thing that has ever happened to him — his life was too great so he decided tell Playboyhis penis is racist to shake things up.
Yes, poor, rich John Mayer.
Another terrible, no good thing for Mayer was, apparently, breaking up with Katy Perry. The on again, off again couple called it quits for good (perhaps?) in 2015, but he hasn't quite moved on. In a coy way, Mayer admits that "Still Feel Like Your Man" off his latest EP is about Perry.
Trump driving a truck becomes the internet's new favorite metaphor for America
Today, House Republicans postponed the vote on their health care bill.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, welcomed truck drivers and executives to the White House in the Trump-iest way possible: by pretending to drive an 18-wheeler semi truck for a truly wild photo op.
Scorching heat from this 'artificial sun' could help fight climate change
German scientists have just switched on the world's largest "artificial sun," an instrument they say could be a game-changing technology in the fight against climate change.
With 149 high-powered lamps, the Synlight system produces light about 10,000 times the intensity of natural sunlight on the Earth's surface. When concentrated on a single spot, the lamps can generate scorching temperatures of around 5,400 degrees Fahrenheit.
The scientists say they eventually hope to harness that heat to produce hydrogen fuels, a carbon-free alternative for vehicles and airplanes.
One of the big hacks was supposedly named "Sonic Screwdriver," which is a reference to the Doctor's trusty tool on the long-running BBC series Doctor Who. The sonic screwdriver is basically a sci-fi version of a magic wand that can do everything from picking locks to hacking into computers.
Subtle.
The CIA's Sonic Screwdriver is described in the WikiLeaks documents as a way to implant code through an adapter while a Mac is booting up. Then, other tools can be installed onto the computer even if it has a firmware password. Read more...
How to block 'Game of Thrones' spoilers, curse words and eggplant emoji on Twitter
Finally, some peace and quiet on social media.
Twitter rolled out some new muting options today, which will allow Android and web users to hide selected words, phrases, hashtags and even emoji from their timelines and notifications for preset amounts of time. (iOS users, for now, will have to settle for blocking things from their notifications.)
Twitter has allowed its users to mute individual profiles and notifications for a while now — but the new individual word blockage can keep everything from annoying TV spoilers to offensive or triggering language off your timeline. We're not as sure why you'd ever want to hide a emoji — wait, that's fair if you never want to see 🍆🍆🍆 ever again. Read more...
Drones are revolutionising dinosaur research by mapping giant footprints by air
Along the northwest Australian coast lies a dinosaur highway.
With the Indian Ocean eating away at the rock, the red cliffs of the Kimberley have revealed hundreds of prehistoric footprints. Two-legged theropods and big-bodied sauropods, among other groups, walked this patch of Earth around 130 million years ago.
Armed with drones and hand-held laser scanners, scientists are mapping the heavy tracks they left behind.
Anthony Romilio works in the Vertebrate Palaeontology and Biomechanics Lab at the University of Queensland. He and his team have created 3D models of track sites using a combination of high-resolution aerial photography and lidar — a way of measuring depth with laser light — gathered by hand, drone and light aircraft. Read more...
Google Home goes on a defensive rant if you ask it about the CIA
Paranoid? Who's being paranoid?
Following the Wikileaks March 7 Vault 7 data dump, which allegedly detailing a host of CIA hacking tools, people have started looking at their internet-connected devices with just a tad bit more skepticism. After all, if the government can rig a Samsung Smart TV as a listening bug, then why not other in-home devices as well?
Other devices like, for example, the Amazon Echo or the Google Home.
With that in mind, people have taken to asking their digital assistants about the CIA. The results, well, are a bit baffling.
Google partners with Howard University to launch program for black engineers
Bonita Stewart, Google's vice president of global partnerships, says the tech industry barely talked about diversity when she joined the company around 10 years ago. On Thursday, she announced a deal that takes a step toward permanently changing that culture.
The company just unveiled a new partnership with Howard University that will see black software engineers from "historically black colleges and universities," better known as HBCUs, invited to study at a brand new program on the Google campus. They're calling it "Howard West."
Mum accidentally sends her kid to school with vodka for lunch
Well it does have a colourful, fruity-looking package, just like kid's products.
An unnamed woman from Queensland, Australia told Facebook that she accidentally sent her five-year-old daughter to school with a pouch of raspberry sorbet-flavoured vodka, because it kind of looked like her daughter's "frozen juice pouch."
"EPIC lunchbox fail when you tell your five-year-old Preppie to put a frozen juice pouch in her lunchbox and you forget the other pouches in your freezer," the post reads.
No surprises that the mother in question got a phone call from her daughter's school, but according to Kidspot, the school were pretty chill. Read more...
Zayn and PartyNextDoor want you to chill out to their new song, 'Still Got Time'
Zayn and PARTYNEXTDOOR don't want you to waste time doing anything that gives you anxiety, like, say, being in One Direction, on their new collaboration "Still Got Time."
The breezy single, which dropped Thursday in this lyric video, is the polar opposite mood from Zayn's most recent collaboration with Taylor Swift, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever."
So we've still got time, but who wants to live forever, anyway? Two polar opposite ideas in distinctly different songs. It's the new Zen of Zayn. Read more...
Of course Starbucks figured out a way to ruin avocado toast
Basics, rejoice.
Starbucks has—years into the game—finally jumped onboard the avocado toast wagon, and is offering packages of organic avocado spread for all your snacking needs.
Twitter turns a discriminatory hashtag (on a blank page) into LOLs
Don't hold a blank piece of paper to your computer screen, unless you really want to be made fun of.
In the wake of the Westminster attacks in London, some far-right politicians have predictably used the event to try and support their bid for a trump-style ban on immigration from Muslim majority naions.
Among them was Australia's very own conservative politician Pauline Hanson, who hit up social media in a bid to try to convince people to get behind a Muslim ban. Um, no thanks.
Two guys trespassing an NBA player's yard is now a judgmental meme
*New meme alert*
A screenshot of a video created by viral stars Nick Joseph and Dan Rue has become the newest meme to send to your friends when you're judging them hard, but also very concerned about their choices:
The picture and the phrase come from this video on Joseph's Twitter of the comedians pretending to trespass into New Orleans Pelicans player Anthony Davis' yard: Read more...
Here's what Apple had to say about those WikiLeaks files on hacked Macs and iPhones
Apple has responded to the latest crop of WikiLeaks documents that allege the CIA had a number of projects meant to compromise Apple products.
"Based on our initial analysis, the alleged iPhone vulnerability affected iPhone 3G only and was fixed in 2009 when iPhone 3GS was released. Additionally, our preliminary assessment shows the alleged Mac vulnerabilities were previously fixed in all Macs launched after 2013," Apple said Thursday in a statement provided to Mashable.
Google 'can't guarantee' ads won't appear by offensive content, Eric Schmidt says
Google can't say for certain that ads placed with its various massive platforms won't end up near an offensive video or website.
At least that's the opinion of Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and the most prominent public face of the search giant.
Schmidt conceded the point during an interview on Fox Business Network Thursday in response to a growing advertiser boycott against the company. More than 250 brands have pulled ads after reports that they were appearing near YouTube videos from terrorists, Nazis and other hate-mongers.
"It's a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace," she wrote in her original post on Tuesday. "All things you call 'proof' are actually well fabricated lies and documents made by the leading governments of the world.
"Your Australian friends? They're all actors and computer generated personas, part of the plot to trick the world." It's so obviously a joke, but it was definitely detailed enough to make a bunch of particularly patriotic Australians think that someone actually believes this. Read more...
Adele dedicates song to her 'soul mate' London in an emotional tribute
A day after the terror attack in London, Adele performed a stadium show in New Zealand's capital city, Auckland, and took the opportunity to send an emotional message to the city.
The attacks which left four people dead and around 40 injured, occurred in the singer's "hometown" as she told the nearly 50,000 fans gathered, according to The Sun.
"Today there was a terror attack in my home town of London. I''m literally on the other side of the world and I want them to see our lights and to hear us," Adele told the crowd. Read more...
The 20-year-old is the newest covergirl for Issue #4 of Inprint Magazine, an Australian publication whose covers are usually graced by high fashion royalty like Julia Nobis, Gemma Ward, Charles Fraser and Fernanda Ly. But with an Instagram following of 9.6 million, Baldwin is in a league of her own when it comes to observant fans with zero chill. Read more...
Twitter floats the idea of a service like Tweetdeck, but you pay for it
Why give something away for free if you can charge for it?
The Twitterverse was set aflame this afternoon with news that the company is considering creating a premium service for its power users. Fortunately, this wouldn't be some sort of Tinder Select-esque club for only the rich, beautiful and famous account holders.
Rather, the idea is to give paying users access to a host of new data and analytics tools. Think of it as a souped-up version of TweetDeck, which is a Twitter dashboard that lets you manage multiple accounts, monitor engagement and do other exciting things.
And just what will this as-of-yet unnamed premium service provide? Well, we're not exactly sure. Twitter hasn't built it yet, you see. Read more...
Can the CIA hack your iPhone? What you need to know about the WikiLeaks dump.
The CIA has put quite a bit effort into figuring out ways to hack Apple devices.That's the takeaway from the latest batch of documents dumped by WikiLeaks.
The so-called "Dark Matter"documents, published Thursday, detail methods allegedly used by the CIA to infect MacBooks and some older iPhones with malware that allowed the agency to remotely spy on device owners.
As usual, WikiLeaks released a fairly alarming-sounding statement accompanying the documents. But before you freak out about the security of your own Apple products, it's important to understand exactly what they say. Read more...
Drop everything: Kendrick Lamar just dropped a surprise new track
Well, then. We didn't really have to wait that long.
After teasing us on Thursday morning with a cryptic post on Instagram, Kendrick Lamar has officially delivered to the delight of everyone already tired of listening to Drake's More Life on repeat.
The Compton rapper released a brand new single "The Heart Part 4" on Thursday night and it's now available to listen to right here.
Australians are very bad at driving if this dash cam compilation's anything to go by
We're a sucker for drama.
And you'll see plenty of it, in Dash Cam Owners Australia's "March 2017 On The Road" compilation, which is part of an ongoing collection of the Facebook page's most dangerous — but also highly entertaining — cases of woeful driving or near-misses with risk-taking pedestrians.
Just a warning, there's plenty of grunting and swearing from unhappy Australians in the video, but we think you'll find that's part of the hilarity of it all. Read more...
Drone versus a flying boomerang in accidental mid-air collision
If you've ever seen Indigenous Australia's most-famed hunting weapon, the boomerang, you'll know it's a solid piece of wood that can really pack a punch if it manages to hit you. They're meant to be for knocking down mammals, after all.
Drones are surprisingly resistant to a boomerang hits though, at least the one in this YouTube video by Dronegear. The DJI Phantom 4 Pro manages to take the whack of the weapon, which actually breaks.
The drone is disturbed from its original position by the whack, but finds its wings again pretty quickly. Still — good luck going up against those eagles. Read more...
This small tweak could solve the biggest problem you have when pouring wine
You twist the bottle, or try to yank it up quickly after pouring a glass — we all struggle to drop wine bottles from dribbling down the side of the neck.
But turns out, all it took was some clever engineering to fix the perennial problem.
Daniel Perlman, an inventor and biophysicist at Brandeis University has showed off a bottle with a groove cut into its lip. The groove is what stops the liquid from running down the bottle.
There are already products designed to prevent wine dripping, but Perlman says he wanted to solve the problem without an additional accessary. Read more...
Apple all set to begin manufacturing iPhone 6, 6s, and SE in India
Even as the Indian government refuses to entertain most of Apple’s demands, the Cupertino-based company will soon take a major step that could bolster its business in the nation.
Twitter hails 'braveheart' mother who jumped on a leopard to save her son
A woman in Mumbai is being hailed a hero on Twitter after reportedly jumping on a leopard to rescue her little son from its claws. The incident is believed to have taken place in northern Mumbai in an area bordering a forest-park.
The animal leaped out of a dense thicket at around 9pm local time. “I started yelling for help, and ran towards my child to grab him. On seeing me approach, the leopard made a dash for the bushes,” the mother recalled.
Residents have blamed local authorities for not installing streetlights in the area. The mother, however, managed to avert any serious injuries to her three-year-old. He was given three stitches at a local hospital. Read more...
Emma Thompson says Donald Trump once asked her out but she turned him down
"Hi, it's Donald Trump here."
That's what Emma Thompson heard as soon as she picked up the phone.
What followed next is a pretty incredible story.
It was the late 1990s, and Thompson was doing a film called Primary Colors with John Travolta, the British actress said during an interview for Swedish news outlet SVT.
Thompson, who at the time was freshly divorced from Kenneth Branagh, received the call from The Donald while on her trailer on the Universal Studios lot.
After the initial shock, Trump reportedly said: "Yeah, I just you know, I wondered if I could offer you some accommodation in one of my Trump Towers. They’re really comfortable." Read more...
Future of farming: smart autonomous drones with eyes on the field
Farmers have another tool to help them in the field.
With smartphones in hand, tech-savvy farmers are able to fly heavy duty drones out to do everything from crop dusting to surveying the health of the plants.
And with smarter software, drones can do more autonomously, making the process more efficient and at far lower cost than hiring a specialised pilot to man an aircraft over the fields.
While makers have offered agriculture drones to the market for two decades now, adoption is tiny, according to Xaircraft, a Chinese maker that's starting to expand into the U.S. Read more...
The Baoying Car and Transport Company from Yangzhou, China, decided to pay employees their wages of up to hundreds of dollars each, in 1 yuan coins — the lowest denomination, worth about 15 cents USD.
Rolls of coins paid out.
Image: weibo
Local papers reported that staff were paid in bundles of 100 coins.
"Well, coins may also be money, but people get their pay transferred into the bank," an anonymous employee told Jiangsu China. "It wasn't very convenient." Read more...
India's biggest online retailer is acquiring eBay's India business, report says
India's largest online retailer Flipkart is in talks to acquire eBay's domestic business, according to a report from Factor Daily. The deal is said to be structured as part of Flipkart's ongoing $2 billion fundraising.
The Bangalore-based company is seen to be strengthening its arsenal to wage a war with Amazon that might soon define India's $15 billion e-commerce sector.
Uber rival Lyft acquires Indian startup to build large-scale infrastructure
After its "anti-Uber alliance" with India's homegrown cab-hailing service Ola, along with two others, Lyft is now tapping into the country's technology talent.
The U.S. firm has reportedly acquired Pune-based startup FinitePaths, creator of Trail Answers, a Quora-like app that offered answers to user questions using social, local and contextual signals.
FinitePaths has stopped signing up new users and will shut down the app over the next two weeks. Its founders, Vinay Kakade and Balaji Raghavan, will join the Lyft team to help build its "large scale infrastructure and services". Read more...
Speaking to young people at London charity event WE Day UK, Winslet talked about her journey from being fat-shamed at school to landing a role as Rose in Titanic.
"They called me 'Blubber.' Teased me for wanting to act. Locked me in the cupboard. Laughed at me," said Winslet.
"I felt that I wasn't good enough. I didn't look right, and all because I didn't fit into someone else's idea of perfect. I didn't have the perfect body. And I would rarely hear anything positive," Winslet continued. Read more...
From backyard to billions: This startup is leading the game in fantasy sports
There’s a Scottish startup that’s been making waves in the US fantasy sports space, and its eye is now firmly set on changing the fantasy football game in the UK.
On a journey that may seem alien to most, Edinburgh startup FanDuel began their venture in North America, and only recently brought their platform to their UK home. The company got its start back at 2009’s South by SouthWest interactive festival in Texas, where its five co-founders came up with the idea of daily fantasy football during a backyard brainstorm. Making a departure from season-long online gaming tournaments, the team hit on the idea of creating shorter gameplay, with more opportunity for players to opt in on a daily basis. Its website pegs FanDuel as “a new way to play fantasy — fan vs. Read more...
This city has no monuments to women so an artist did a colourful shake-up
There is not a single monument dedicated to a female historical figures in Bulgaria's capital Sofia.
Like most cities, Sofia is dotted with rusty monuments of warriors, political, religious and literary figures. They've become so ornamental, they are rarely noticed. Every single one of them is male. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
An impromptu artistic intervention is trying to address that.
Seven brightly coloured busts with female faces have been erected on temporary pedestals around the city in an attempt to break that stigma and start a conversation with a pop of colour. Read more...
In the middle of her Auckland concert, a beetle crawled onto the the singer's leg. After frantically getting rid of the insect, Adele curled into the fetal position in a fit of laughter.
She made light of the hilarious freak out with a joke about the Beatles, saying, "I wanted to say to you the Beatles were gone, and then I thought maybe they got swept up in my dress."
"It's coming back to haunt me. It's my number one fan," joked Adele as the beetle continued to crawl on the stage. Read more...
Watch Migos and The Roots play 'Bad and Boujee' with office supplies
On Thursday's Tonight Show, Migos debuted an alternate version of their monster single "Bad and Boujee" — played entirely with supplies you'd find in an office.
The trio teamed up with The Roots to reimagine their single, bringing in three-gallon water jugs, tissue boxes and coffee pots to build a delightfully unexpected tune. Read more...
Mayim Bialik has something to say about people calling grown women 'girls'
Mayim Bialik has had enough of people calling grown women "girls". In a powerful video — viewed by more than 1 million people — the Big Bang Theory star urged people to think about the language they use when describing women.
"When we use words to describe adult women that are typically used to describe children, it changes the way we view women — even unconsciously — so that we don't equate them with adult men," says Bialik
To over come the issue, Bialik suggests that we politely correct people. "Maybe if we start using language that elevates women and doesn't equate them with sweet, small, cuddly, tender things, we'll start treating them as more than that as well," she said. Read more...
You can order the (RED) iPhone and $329 iPad today at 11:01 a.m. eastern time
Apple's online store is currently down, but we don't expect any surprises when it comes back at exactly 11:01 a.m. ET (8:01 a.m PT). Instead, the company's new PRODUCT(RED) iPhone, as well as the new $329 iPad tablet, will become available for order.
On Tuesday, Apple announced that the PRODUCT(RED) iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will become available for order today in more than 40 countries, including the U.S. The shipping time is end of March.
Image: Apple
Besides being red with an aluminum back finish, the new iPhone 7 is otherwise exactly the same as the regular model. However, by buying it you support a good cause: Apple donates a portion of the proceeds from all PRODUCT(RED) devices to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS. Read more...
But another cryptocurrency has been quietly growing in volume while everyone was focused on Bitcoin. Ethereum, which is kind of like Bitcoin but slightly nerdier and more complicated, edged up against Bitcoin in its daily volume earlier this month. In plain english, Bitcoin is much bigger in terms of monetary value, but Ethereum is being used so much that it's facilitating nearly as much business.
Seth Meyers tries very hard to understand the GOP's health care chaos
Despite the very real challenges of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump remained publicly confident at a Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser held Tuesday, saying "I think we're going to have some great surprises."
On Thursday night, Late Night host Seth Meyers laid into Trump and the GOP's health care scramble, joking: "Because that's what you want when it comes to health care: Surprises."
He also took on changes added to the bill Wednesday night would eliminate the Essential Benefits Package included in Obamacare, which includes maternity care and hospitalization. Read more...
The epic 'Game of Thrones' concert tour is your ticket to Westeros
Most of us will never get the chance to venture to Westeros (and few of us would survive a day if we did), but for the fortunate fans who managed to snag tickets to one of the 24 performances of the Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience currently traversing the country, you'll swear you stepped right through the screen and into HBO's blockbuster series.
The 24-city tour stopped off at the Forum in Los Angeles on March 23, where Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi (along with a full orchestra and choir) took the packed house on an epic musical journey across the realm and beyond, from the highest peaks of the Eyrie to the sweeping plains of the Great Grass Sea. Read more...
The usually private singer shocked photographers as she walked through LAX Thursday, without wearing her usual, face-covering wig. While she made her way to catch a flight to Dubai, the paparazzi were quick to take pictures of her seldom-seen punim.
The "Elastic Heart" singer previously explained her desire to hide her face when she appeared in James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke." As a recovering alcohol and drug addict, Sia found herself getting increasingly famous due to her talent and she found it "destabilizing." Read more...
Cry of the Week: 'Love Actually' Red Nose Day teaser reminds us love is all around
Welcome to our weekly series "Cry of the Week," in which we highlight whatevermomentmade us ugly cry on ourcouchesthe most in the past seven days.
All we want for Christmas is to see the Love Actually reunion.
Fortunately, if you're in the U.K., that Christmas gift — the Love Actually Red Nose Day short — is coming March 24. But for those of us stateside, we won't get to see the special until May 25.
Red Nose Day, a charitable event in the U.S. and U.K. that raises money for global nonprofits like Oxfam and Save the Children, know a trailer is all it takes to bring us to tears.
Here's a breakdown of all our feels while watching the one-minute trailer, which debuted Wednesday. Read more...
'Sunless Sea' is a wild 350,000-word literary RPG, out for iPad
Great news, iPad owners: Failbetter Games' wonderfully words-heavy roguelike Sunless Sea is now something you can buy in the App Store.
The game sends players off to explore an underground ocean where pirate-operated steamships, deadly "Zee" monsters, and worse horrors await. Death comes swiftly and frequently, but them's the breaks when you settle in with a roguelike.
Sunless Sea is an easy game to look at thanks to Failbetter's wonderful art, but the words matter more. The writing is both quirky and engrossing, effectively painting a more vivid picture of the Victorian-era underworld than any screenshot ever could. Read more...
A man in Hong Kong has built the world's first instant twin lens camera that's made with Lego.
The camera uses the Lego bricks to encapsulate the lenses, the preview screen and the instant film, allowing it to create some pretty snazzy photos. Read more...
Uber might be stalling on adding more cars in its second-largest market
Uber may be looking at sweetening its relationship with drivers in India, its second largest market, weeks after the company made it clear the days of lucrative incentives are behind it.
The ride-hailing company is rethinking its car leasing strategy through which it tried to lock in drivers and also make additional revenue.
Last year, Uber had planned to introduce 15,000 new cars through its leasing program, but the company suspended the scheme for a while in December, the report adds.
Mashable understands the number of cars Uber has offered through leasing program is higher than 15,000. Read more...
The World Cup of Biscuits 2017 is here and it's so British it hurts
Ask any English person about their favorite biscuit and you'll get a passionate, definitive response. The argument over biscuit superiority can be a point of contention.
TV host Richard Osman is about to officially answer this age old question with the World Cup of Biscuits tournament. Osman is responsible for other entertainingly divisive tournaments like the World Cup of Crisps 2016 and the World Cup of Christmas Films 2016.
1.3 million votes already in the World Cup Of Biscuits! Quarter-finals live on @rednoseday this evening. Last-16 votes are still open....
'Rogue' national park Twitter account wasn't so rogue after all, emails show
Ever since the National Park Service's main Twitter account appeared to "go rogue" on President Donald Trump's inauguration day, people have been using the department and its various park-specific social media accounts as a rallying point in the anti-Trump resistance.
However, according to emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, that's not the full story.
The emails show that staff at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area were actually coloring inside the lines of their guidance from the Trump administration when the park's official Twitter account tweeted climate change facts on Jan. 23, three days after the inauguration. Read more...
Let 'Harry Potter' actor Jim Tavaré reuniting with his dog give you so may feelings
Earlier this month, actor Jim Tavaré was in a terrible car accident that left him with collapsed lungs, multiple broken bones and a broken neck. He spent two weeks in intensive care battling his severe injuries.
On Monday, Tavaré was able to get into a wheelchair and go outside for one very good reason: to see his beloved dog Mr. Kippy. According to a post on Tavaré's Facebook page, Mr. Kippy was with the actor at the time of the accident, but doesn't seem to have suffered the same bad injuries as Tavaré.
The bond between an owner and his dog is something special, and in the video it's clear that Tavaré and Mr. Kippy are very glad to be back together again. We're not crying, you're crying. Read more...
Jay Z will bring Trayvon Martin's story to the big and small screen
Jay Z is bringing Trayvon Martin's story to both the big screen and the small screen.
He and The Weinstein Company have just scooped up the rights to two books about Martin, with the intention of creating both a narrative feature film and a TV docuseries.
Martin, a black Florida teenager, was unarmed when he was killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in 2012. His death – and Zimmerman's eventual acquittal – sparked nationwide outcry and helped give rise to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the two books picked up by Jay Z and the The Weinstein Co. focus on different aspects of Martin's life and deathRest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, written by Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, offers an intimate look at the slain teen and his family's experiences of his death and its aftermath. Read more...
Watch the moment an Amazon drone delivers sunscreen for the first time
Amazon has taken another small autonomous step toward drone delivery.
The company completed its first public United States delivery using one of its Prime Air delivery drones at a robotics conference in California on Monday.
The drone lands in a field, drops off a box of sunscreen bottles, and buzzes back up into the sky.
Amazon's first drone delivery took place late last year in the United Kingdom, where regulations are a bit more drone-friendly. The drone delivered an Amazon Fire TV and a bag of popcorn.
But Amazon did reportedly conduct its U.S. delivery with FAA "assistance," which demonstrates coordination and communication on at least some level. Read more...
Cory Booker and Mindy Kaling are becoming the pure love story this world deserves
New Jersey is quickly becoming the romantic hotspot.
The Mindy Project has never been shy about throwing a few shaded jokes at people and placesMindy Kaling, the star of the show, is known to be quite a sassy person so it makes sense her show has follow the same pattern.
A senator from New Jersey seemed to take a playful offense at one particular joke Kaling said involving the city of Newark. SenCory Booker tweeted at the actress to defend the city where he once served as governor.
Actor Chris Pratt is currently shooting Jurassic World 2, and has been documenting the journey via a series of Instagram videos where he discusses what he has been eating using #WHATSMYSNACK.
The videos are meant to be humorous, which just means it's Pratt being Pratt. But some are calling the actor "skeletal" and accusing him of being too thin.
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Pratt is evidently aware of what people are saying about him, and addressed it in a Thursday Instagram post. In true Pratt form, his response came by way of a joke. Read more...
University immortalizes nice cloud dog with equally nice 10-foot statue
Earlier this month, the University of East Anglia's student union wanted to motivate students to vote in the school's annual elections. So they tapped into humankind's greatest motivator: good and nice dogs.
Last October, the campus was devastated when Cloud Dog, a beloved pup often taken for walks around the grounds, passed away from arthritis complications.
Students quickly became eager to honor the dog, who had brought a particular kind of fluffy joy to stressed-out academics.
Merriam-Webster's Twitter just threw so much shade, you won't ever need sunscreen again
Merriam-Webster's Twitter account is the hero we all need during this trying time in our country.
The dictionary's official account has pulled no punches in roasting the Trump administration on various occasions. It clapped back at Kellyanne Conway after she uttered the infamous phrase "alternative facts." It's called Trump out for the language he uses many a time.
And now, on the day when the House is voting on whether to replace Obamacare with the American Health Care Act, which the Congressional Budget Office claims will leave 24 million Americans without health care, Merriam-Webster has made the perfect choice for the word of the day. Read more...
Cracker Barrel got trolled hard by Facebook users seeking justice for a woman's firing
It's not all chicken n' dumplins for Cracker Barrel these days.
The southern country-themed restaurant is getting hilariously and mercilessly trolled after an employee of 11 years was fired by the company for an unknown reason - on her husband's birthday no less!
The woman's husband, Brad, valiantly asked on the restaurant's Facebook page for a reason why his wife was let go, but to no avail. Comedian Amiri King then brought the issue to the public's attention and posted this screenshot of Brad's comment:
Now, thousands of comfort food vigilantes are making it their mission to seek justice for Brad's wife and are truly taking advantage of every opportunity to do so. And we mean every opportunity. Read more...
People don't care who wrote a news story, but they do care who shared it on Facebook
People never remember, or care, who wrote a news story they read. But they really care who shared it on Facebook.
Americans will trust that the story they read isn't fake news if it's shared by someone they trust, according to a new report from the Media Insight Project.
"People who see an article from a trusted sharer, but one written by an unknown media source, have much more trust in the information than people who see the same article that appears to come from a reputable media source shared by a person they do not trust," the report said.
'The Handmaid's Tale' trailer is getting a lot of people talking about Donald Trump
In case you hadn't heard, dystopian literature from previous decades is currently all the rage and The Handmaid's Tale is the latest novel to re-emerge today.
The trailer for the Hulu television show based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 book was released Thursday to a variety of responses. Many supporters of the Trump administration commented on the trailer, calling the show "anti-Trump" and "leftist propaganda."
In response, a lot of folks were quick to point out that the original novel was published about 30 years ago, let alone picked up by Hulu before Trump even became the Republican Party nominee. Read more...
Life lessons learned from the 2017 Adobe Summit in Las Vegas
Man oh man, what a wild week it’s been in Las Vegas. From Penn & Teller taking the stage to show an eager audience how magic is done to learning about the ways brands reverse engineer data to speak to their consumers, the 2017 Adobe Summit was a whirlwind event from start to finish that dove head first into the world of marketing.
Now that things are wrapping up, it’s time to look inwards and ask ourselves what we learned during our week in Sin City. Are we better at what we’re doing? Do we understand our audience more? How are things going to change in the future? Because introspection is key, here are some of the best life lessons we plan to take with us – until the next Adobe Summit. Read more...
A Haribo factory is coming to the U.S. because gummy bear dreams do come true
Get pumped, kids (and grown-ups) — the world is about to get a little sweeter.
The iconic German candy maker Haribo — famous for all sorts of delicious treats, but mainly those classically adorable, fruity gummy bears we all love to love — is opening a factory in the United States.
On Thursday, the company, which was founded in the 1920s, announced plans to build its first production facility in "America's Dairyland," the great state of Wisconsin.
Haribo spans more than 25 countries worldwide, and though it opened its first U.S. sales office in Baltimore, Maryland back in 1982, this is the first U.S. factory. The only catch? We'll have to wait a few more years before the confections are officially "Made in the U.S." Read more...
8-year-old sends letter to Betsy DeVos to protect her public school
Maybe, for a second, we should just listen to the children.
Concerned about the fate of the public school she attends, second grade student Willa Kohn wrote a heartbreaking message to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to tell her just how much she loves her school.
Willa, daughter of CNN commentator Sally Kohn, got a postcard from a store in Brooklyn celebrating art from the Women's March, and wanted to send it to "the woman in charge of education."
"Model Y is coming too in a few years," Musk tweeted. "Kinda have to." And that's all we know about the Model Y. Will it be a sedan like the Model S or Model 3, or will it be an evolution of the gull-winged Model X? Or maybe it'll be something entirely differentWHO KNOWS?!Read more...
There's more controversy about Netflix's 'Death Note'
Here's another whitewashing controversy to add to the apparently endless pile of Hollywood missteps.
On Wednesday, Netflix shared the first teaser trailer for Death Note, an Americanized adaptation of a Japanese manga. The story revolves around a character played by Nat Wolff, who stumbles upon a notebook that allows him to magically murder anyone in the world.
If you've been following the racial controversies over Ghost in the Shell and Iron Fist, it shouldn't be difficult to pinpoint the problem with that scenario. Fans on Twitter immediately made their displeasure known. Read more...
Trump had fun in an 18-wheeler but we're having more fun in this Photoshop battle
The compromising positions Trump puts himself in may be the only light-hearted thread we can pull from his presidency.
On Thursday, Trump invited the American Trucking Association to the White House to discuss the trucking industry and garner support for the Republican health care plan. Part of the event involved Trump climbing into a 18-wheeler for a photo op, and he seized the opportunity to thoroughly enjoy himself.
He probably isn't as pleased with the photos that resulted from his time in the truck's rig, as they immediately became fodder for the internet's amusement. And now, it's become a glorious Photoshop battle on Reddit. Read more...
Interview: Maxine Waters thinks millennials can change politics for everyone (yes, everyone)
Congresswoman Maxine Waters is not one to mince words.
"Get ready for impeachment," she recently tweeted, to the tune of 104,000 likes. Waters' tweet came after FBI Director James Comey's testimony in front of Congress this week about the Trump campaign being investigated for their ties with Russian government officials.
"[Trump] has no self-control . . . I don't think he can even do the cover up," Waters (D-CA) later told me in an interview.
It's the kind of combative language that's landed Waters in trouble in the past, And yet: They're also the reason the long-serving California congresswoman has become, at the age of 78, a rising political star among her growing millennial fanbase. Read more...
Ghosting is everywhere, and dating apps are desperate to put an end to this disappearing act. But ghosting doesn't need a solution — it is the solution.
If you didn’t already know before plunging into the deep, dark depths that is online dating, you certainly learned quickly thereafter: dating is a numbers game. And when you’re messaging with what turns out to be your third lamest match of the day, ghosting becomes a necessary tool to manage the exhaustion that is mining through the hundreds of (probably boring) people at your fingertips.
For the record: This isn’t the nicest way of looking at people. But neither is the meat-market display of the swiping mechanism employed by the most popular apps. It is, as they say, what it is. If you’re going to partake, this objectification is an inherent and unavoidable aspect of dating app culture. Read more...
People are weirdly into that Facebook 'On This Day' feature but FB won't give them access
A year ago today I wrote an article about Foursquare relaunching their app Swarm.
I don't have these launch dates memorized nor do I keep a tab of all the stories I write. I know this because of Facebook. The site reminded me this morning within "On This Day," a feature that surfaces my own Facebook posts from that day but in years prior.
A chat with Kurt Russell, aka Ego the Living Planet in 'Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2'
The ruse was truly elaborate. Right there, on the back of Kurt Russell's director's chair, was the ostensible name of his character — "J-Son."
And that seemed to answer the biggest question for reporters visiting the set of Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 in Atlanta last spring, which was: Who would Russell be playing, exactly?
Between the chair and the concept art we'd seen earlier in the day, we had 'em dead to rights. Russell would indeed be playing J-Son, the duplicitous intergalactic monarch and father of half-Earthling Peter Quill, now leader of the newly minted Guardians. No more hiding it. Case closed. Read more...
"Can you do me a favor?," the emergency responder on the call asks Roman. "Can you go and get mummy?"
"We can't," Roman says. "She's dead."
Roman told the responder his mom was "not breathing." He gives his address to the woman on the other end of the phone, then shakes his mom, as requested.
Nintendo's newest gaming console is back in stock on Amazon for lucky Prime members, but you'd better move fast because it's in HIGH demand.
And hey, if you're still debating on whether or not to splurge and treat yourself to a Switch, check out Mashable's unboxing or hear John Cena's professional thoughts.
The breathtaking visuals accompany “With Him,” “Best to You” and “Better Numb," and feature montages that include Empress Of singing and Amandla Stenberg accompanying Hynes on piano and violin. And of course, there is plenty of dancing—though not quite as much as previous Blood Orange videos.Read more...
What 'Power Rangers' gets right that other superhero movies don't
Forget flying, super-strength and morphing. In the new reboot, it turns out the Power Rangers' real superpower is friendship.
Okay, that might be overstating the case a bit. But while Power Rangers may be no one's idea of an A-list property, it manages to stand out from the pack by getting right what so few other films like these do. Namely, it actually establishes its superhero team as a team.
To back up a bit, the new Power Rangers movie functions as an origin story. Jason, Kim, Billy, Trini and Zach (the future Red, Pink, Blue, Yellow and Black Rangers, respectively) are five teenagers who attend the same small-town high school but barely know each other. That all changes when they happen to be in the same abandoned quarry at the same time, at the exact moment that they uncover five mystical glowing coins that grant them superpowers. Read more...
Concept design puts stunning U-shaped skyscraper over New York
Are U kidding me with this skyscraper? (get it?)
A mind-blowing concept for the world's longest building has been revealed in the form of an incredibly cool, U-shaped skyscraper, and excuse us because we need a minute to take this all in. 😳
"The Big Bend" – an architectural structure designed by Oiio studio – is essentially an arched skyscraper that features a special elevator system able to travel horizontally, in curves and in loops.
According to Oiio's website, the design plans to brilliantly work around the New York City zoning laws that create several obstacles for developers, limiting their ability to maximize property height, by focusing on length rather than height. Read more...
Kid who can't handle being grounded for a day overreacts like only a 9 year old can
Ahh the pains of being 9 years old. All the angst of a teenager and no idea what to do with it.
Sometimes the only solution is to, like, pack your bags and run away to wherever pre-teen runaways go to? At least that's what this 9-year-old girl planned to do:
think my little sister is overacting a bit all because she got grounded for a day 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/Bq08CAbQ5j
When @nicole_kennedyy texted her younger sister to check up on her, she was met with a slew of drama.
"The only thing that I like in my life is my friends, iPhone and my new house," is an incredible statement. It's something that only a young girl overreacting to being grounded or a drunk girl after a rough night out could say. Read more...
Cheaters will be allowed back in to some 'Counter-Strike' tournaments — Pros and fans are not happy
When Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players are caught using cheats or hacks, they can kiss their professional dreams goodbye. At least that's how it used to work. Now, one of the biggest tournament organizers is only honoring Valve's ban on cheaters for two years.
Tournament organizer ESL changed its tournament rulebook to state that Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) bans against players are now being waived after two years. This effects all of ESL's CS:GO events: Intel Extreme Masters events, ESL One tournaments and ESL Pro League seasons starting with the upcoming sixth season. The one exception would be if ESL hosts a CS:GO Major like they did with ESL One Cologne in 2016, because Valve sponsors those events, in which case the cheat bans will still stand. Read more...
Facebook reaction GIFs could soon finally be a thing
It's about freaking time. GIFs could finally be coming to more places on Facebook.
The social network plans to start testing a new GIF button in comments, Facebook confirmed Friday, meaning proper reaction GIFs could finally be a thing.
It's not clear if the test, which will apparently resemble the GIF button in Facebook Messenger, will become an official feature. In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson emphasized the feature is just an experiment for now.
“Everyone loves a good GIF and we know that people want to be able to use them in comments. So we're about to start testing the ability to add GIFs to comments and we'll share more when we can, but for now we repeat that this is just a test.” Read more...
That time Charles Barkley got a contact high from Nirvana
As far as random celebrity stories go, here's a pretty great one: Charles Barkley, in the prime of his NBA stardom, getting a contact high from the band Nirvana.
Buckle up, folks, for a trip back in time to a little place called 1993.
Barkley recently appeared on The Dan Patrick Show, where he shared some funny marijuana stories. Here's the Nirvana one, which best we can tell comes from Sept. 25, 1993. On that evening, Barkley hosted Saturday Night Live and Nirvana was the musical guest.
Barkley was coming off an NBA MVP season, while Nirvana was at the height of its rock stardom. (Frontman Kurt Cobain would die of an apparent suicide just over six months later.) Meanwhile, SNL's cast at the time included Chris Farley, Al Franken, Norm McDonald, Tim Meadows, Jay Mohr, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Sarah Silverman and David Spade. (Sheesh!) Read more...
MashTalk: Will the new electronics ban affect your travel plans?
Welcome back to another week of MashTalk. On this week's podcast, the Mashable tech team breaks down the new electronics restrictions that'll affect passengers flying to the U.S. and UK from select Middle Eastern and North African countries.
This week's MashTalk is hosted by Senior Tech Correspondent Raymond Wong, with commentary from Chief Correspondent Lance Ulanoff and Tech Reporter Brett Williams.
Real Time News Reporter Colin Daileda joins to give us the full skinny on the new electronics restrictions (2:07). In a nutshell, electronics that are larger than a smartphone (i.e. tablets, laptops and game devices) can't be carried on board flights from listed airlines and must be placed in checked baggage. It's a huge hassle for everyone involved, and most warranties (like Apple Care) probably won't cover any accidental damage to your devices if you're forced to check them (9:51). Read more...
Victoria Beckham's Starbucks order proves she'll forever be Posh Spice
Fashion icon Victoria Beckham ditched her Spice Girls nickname over 20 years ago, but that doesn't mean her pop star persona Posh Spice can't reappear every now and again.
The Spice Girls performing at the 2012 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony
Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
In a photo posted on Instagram by her son, Burberry model Romeo Beckham, it looks like a Starbucks barista was a big fan of the British girl group and paid homage to the chic singer on her order in a very Starbucks way.
'Game of Thrones' wine will have to hold us over until Season 7's premiere
We're inching closer and closer to Game of Thrones' Season 7 premiere, but the impending winter of July 16 still seems decades away (is there more wildfire, what is happening?!).
Fortunately for us, Vintage Wine Estates is throwing Thrones fans a bone by finally releasing their much-anticipatedGame of Thrones special edition wines.
Partnered with HBO, Wine Enthusiast's 2011 Winemaker of the Year Bob Cabral created the line of three Game of Thrones-inspiredwines meant to symbolize "the strength of the characters and the terrain of their kingdoms."
So it turns out Shaq doesn't actually believe the Earth is flat
Thank God: Our national nightmare is over as Americans coast to coast collectively exhale.
No, Donald Trump has not resigned from the presidency. What we're talking about here is of much more importance: Shaquille O'Neal, it turns out, does not actually believe the world is flat.
You may recall last week when the retired NBA star and all-around celebrity said on his podcast that the spherical Earth is actually flat. Hoo-boy, let me tell you, did this bit of ground-breaking information from a scientific expert spawn some internet clicks. (Although our own Miriam Kramer did write a nuanced and thoughtful look at what's really up with flat-Earthers — you should check it out.) Read more...
The latest example comes via a tweet from Kamilah Taylor, a senior software engineer and coauthor of Women In Tech, who was recently approached by Uber hiring's team with a job offer.
So per Uber HR, they do "understand" the concern of "Uber's questionable business practices and sexism," as Taylor brilliantly phrased it. Read more...
The 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' poster leans into Spidey's Avengers connection
Spider-Man: Homecoming brings us our third Spider-Man in 15 years, but this webslinger's got something his predecessors didn't: a hookup to the Avengers.
The new poster makes that crystal-clear, positioning the Avengers tower smack-dab in the middle of the Manhattan skyline.
In addition to his signature blue-and-red suit, Spider-Man's rocking a bright yellow blazer emblazoned with his school's insignia. And while the caption – "Homework can wait. The city can't" – suggests he's got a lot on his plate right now, he seems to be taking a break to soak in some sun. Read more...
Sweet dad celebrates his two sons with a 'Calvin and Hobbes'-style tattoo
If you've ever talked to your friends about getting a tattoo, the one thing they'll probably tell you is to make sure the tattoo is something meaningful.
For Douglas Pratt, father of two, that something meaningful comes in the form of his sons. That's why for his first tattoo, Pratt got an image of him and his two sons sharing a happy moment in the style of Calvin and Hobbes.
How your car might be protected from hackers in the future
Two senators are trying to defend your future cars from hacks.
Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal (of Massachusetts and Connecticut, respectively) recently reintroduced the SPY Car Act, which aims to protect the control of your vehicle as well as any data a hacker might find there.
The bill's authors hope to separate "critical software systems" from noncritical ones, so an infection of the noncritical parts wouldn't necessarily lead to an infection of the systems that control the vehicle.
Were it to become law, the Federal Trade Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would be tasked with making sure vehicles could detect any kind of hack and follow that detection by stopping it before the car is being controlled remotely. Read more...
Here's a super nerdy analysis of the music in 'Zelda: Breath of the Wild'
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild soundtrack is beautiful on the surface, but YouTuber Mark Brown digs a little deeper to see exactly what makes the sound design of the latest Zelda games such a success.
In the video above, Brown explains how underneath Breath of the Wild's visceral piano plinks and violin plucks is a very nuanced orchestration that echoes Zelda games of the past without completely lifting classic theme songs or tunes. The soundtrack helps explore the themes and tones of Breath of the Wild while staying true to the series with understated references and surprising callbacks. Read more...
'Game of Thrones' art director teases 'amazing scenes' in Season 7
Amid its tangled web of plot twists and murder, Game of Thrones has always been a visual spectacle the likes of which have rarely been seen on television. Christina Moore, the show's art director, promises the show's Season 7 filming in Spain will deliver.
"All I can say is this was the longest time we’ve been filming in Spain this year, and we’ve done some really amazing, amazing scenes," Moore said at a lecture at the University of the Basque Country. "So it’s going to be really exciting."
Moore has been with the show since Season 3, overseeing visual elements from scene design to costumes and lighting. She coordinates teams filming simultaneously in Spain, Croatia, Northern Ireland and more. Read more...
iCloud wasn't hacked for ransom, but you should make sure to keep your account safe, anyway
Earlier this week, a sketchy group of hackers announced a bold claim: they had access to hundreds of millions of Apple emails, and then, threatened to wipe user data from 200 million iCloud accounts if their ransom demands aren't met by April 7.
The group, which calls itself the Turkish Crime Family (TCF), made those threats through its Twitter handle and an aggressive campaign to convince journalists to cover the story. The threats were first reported by Motherboard.
Apple reps issued a statement to Fortune clarifying the reports as the story developed. "The alleged list of email addresses and passwords appears to have been obtained from previously compromised third-party services," the spokesperson said. Read more...
How MealPal plans to outlive the subscription service hype
Before she co-founded ClassPass, Mary Biggins sold subscriptions for leather-bound books.
"I love the subscription space," Biggins said in an interview on Mashable's Biz Please podcast. "From really early in my career, I've been thinking about subscription unit economics and how you acquire customers. The thing that's really cool about subscriptions is there are so many different levers to think about."
Biggins joined Mashable social media producer Tracey Edouard and me in our New York headquarters to talk about her history in the subscription space and her new venture, MealPal.
MealPal, which lets customers pay a set monthly fee to pick up weekday lunches from participating restaurants, is growing. The startup just went international with a launch in London and raised another $15 million in venture funding. And even as the subscription space gets more crowded, and startups struggle to make as much of a mark as the boutique fitness subscription service ClassPass once did, Biggins says MealPal is built to last. Read more...
Stephen Hawking gave a speech via hologram. Again.
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking spoke in Hong Kong on Friday — only he wasn't actually present for the speech.
The world-renowned physicist actually gave his speech live via hologram for the 90-minute lecture about his life and work. He was beamed in for his lecture from the UK.
"Hawking spoke about the human mind, societal trends and issues such as education and science and technology research and funding, as well as what the future holds in light of current affairs," according to a press release about the event.
If you can believe it, this isn't the first time the famous scientist has given a speech via hologram. Read more...
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