Monthly Archives: February 2017
Wearing socks to bed is fine, you monsters
There are certain things that humans — or enough loud people, anyway — respect as universal truths. Pizza is good. Nickelback? Bad. Wearing socks to bed is terrible and should be a crime. The first two are absolutely inarguable, but, friends … sometimes wearing socks to bed is nice. If you suffer from dry skin […]
Williams retain Di Resta as reserve driver
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Paul Di Resta will continue as reserve driver for Williams this season, the Formula One team announced on Monday.
'CEO' Tillerson faces internal skeptics, crisis-battling White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One of Rex Tillerson’s first directives as U.S. secretary of state was an order to senior staff that his briefing materials not exceed two pages.
Pence in Brussels, seeking 'deeper' ties with EU
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told senior European Union officials in Brussels on Monday that the Trump administration was looking at ways to “deepen our relationship” with the EU.
Horrific harassment story is giving the internet a new reason to #DeleteUber
It’s been less than a month since ride-share company Uber faced a heavy wave of backlash that led to the “#DeleteUber” hashtag and now, after the publication of an employee’s allegations of sexual harassment and HR bumbling, the hashtag is burbling back up. On Sunday, Susan J. Fowler posted about her experiences while at Uber […]
Sir David Attenborough is back and 2017 is finally starting to look up
If Planet Earth II was the best thing that happened to you in 2016 and you even purchased a 4K Ultra HD TV on Black Friday to fully appreciate the texture of a lion’s mane (true story, as the writer of this article can confirm), we have good news for you. SEE ALSO: Tom Hiddleston […]
Oppo promises to launch new smartphone camera tech next week
China’s Oppo has a teaser ahead of this year’s Mobile World Congress: The company plans to wow the world with a new smartphone camera technology called “5X.” There aren’t many details in the press release we’ve gotten, and an actual device isn’t even mentioned, but there’s a lot of vague superlatives that describe it. SEE […]
LG G6 will have dual 13-megapixel cameras on the back
LG is feeding us a steady diet of leaks and specs for its upcoming G6 flagship, scheduled to launch Feb. 26, a day ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company already told us about the phone’s elongated screen and UI, and now, in a blog post on the company’s Korean site, we’ve […]
We asked complete strangers to design their own unique emoji
😇🐥👄` 👻🌵 😂 💙🐟 👑 🐢 🐵✌️🐶 🐍🍑 🍒🎁🍋👯 💗 💔 😜 👀 💃🍔🍭🚨 ⛄️😷 💜😡 😱 🔥🍓👠🔮📕😶 🐼 When words fail us, emoji are always there to fill in the blanks But there are times when finding that perfect emoji for a situation or story is almost impossible. To scope out people’s emoji […]
Golf: Rumford wins first World Super 6 title in final shootout
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Brett Rumford beat Thai teenager Phachara Khongwatmai two and one in the six-hole matchplay final to win the inaugural World Super 6 title in Perth on Sunday.