Monthly Archives: November 2020
I hate my PS5
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Ever since PlayStation 5 lead architect Mark Cerny held his “The Road to PS5” virtual developer talk in March, I’ve been waiting to tear open that bulky box on launch day, primally scream to my video game gods, and, well, game with the sort of half-drunk, everything-is-GREAT glee […]
Extremely Australian references are the secret ingredient in 'Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House Of Fun'
Welcome to Thanks, I Love It, our series highlighting something onscreen we’re obsessed with this week. Eagle Boys Pizza. Footy. Four N Twenty pies. Grant Denyer. “Silly sausage.” Dogging ya mates. These words may not mean anything to you — unless you’re Australian, or you’re reading this after watching Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House Of […]
What is Newsmax? Everything you need to know about the obscure pro-Trump TV network.
With its simple red, white, and blue lower third chyron and utterly innocuous name, Newsmax TV could be a minor news network like any other. Except it’s not. Newsmax TV is an ultra-conservative outlet that’s been operating on the fringe since 1998. But in recent weeks, it’s been catching on. The typically conservative Fox News […]
Elon Musk may have COVID-19, and of course, he has a theory
Elon Musk may have contracted COVID-19. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO shared the news on Twitter, saying he’s got “symptoms of a typical cold.” He also said he was tested four times in the same day, with two tests coming back negative, and two positive. “Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid […]
Phylicia Rashad and Anika Noni Rose test their holiday movie knowledge — Know Your Role
The two Jingle Jangle stars go head-to-head in our classic game, “Know Your Role,” as they try to guess classic holiday movies by their pictures. Read more… More about Netflix, Christmas, Mashable Video, Jingle, and Elf
Google warns Google Drive users: Use it, or lose your files
It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your files are? Google announced a new storage policy Wednesday governing user accounts, and while most of the resulting headlines focused of a new price tag for Google Photos, an important change went mostly overlooked. Notably, going forward, Google says that if you don’t check in on your […]
YouTube videos won't play right now, and maybe that's for the best
What in the world are Flat Earthers going to do? Everyone’s second-favorite radicalization engine came crashing to a halt late Wednesday afternoon as YouTube videos refused to play. The website itself loads just fine, but videos only display error messages when users attempt to play them. According to DownDetector, which is owned by Mashable parent […]
The scariest horror movies on Shudder
Horror movies come in all shapes and sizes. You’ve got your comedy horrors, your psychological horrors, your tense thriller-y horrors — and, of course, your genuinely scary horrors. I’m not just talking about your run-of-the-mill, yikes-that’s-a-bit-creepy kind of films, here, either. I’m talking about the truly terror-inducing — the type of movies you wake in […]
Apple SVP Craig Federighi is a mood and also a ‘daddy’
While most people are focusing on those new MacBooks with in-house chips that Apple announced on Tuesday, I have yet to move past that delightfully cringey moment brought to us by Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi during the livestream. In an effort to fully demonstrate how the new MacBooks now instantly wake from sleep mode […]
Facebook argues its own tool showing conservative dominance isn't 'fully representative'
Listen to Facebook, just not a Facebook-owned analytics tool designed to provide insight into Facebook. That appears to be the argument made late Tuesday by Facebook’s Alex Schultz in a frankly confounding blog post titled “What Do People Actually See on Facebook in the US?” Shultz serves as both Facebook’s vice president of analytics and […]