Anderson Cooper announced the birth of his son on air, and it’s the sweet moment we all desperately need
CNN’s Anderson Cooper just became a dad and decided to share his joyful news with viewers in a touching on-air segment. To close out Thursday’s CNN Town Hall, Cooper announced…
We’re all over video calls. This artist did something about it.
Video calls suck, and have always sucked. We’ve long known this truth, though as our opportunities for real human interaction evaporated like the national supply of hand sanitizer we somehow…
I canceled my Amazon Prime membership. You can, too.
You can quit Amazon Prime. I did it last week, in response to Amazon firing user experience designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa. They were protesting the company’s firing of…
Meet my pet yeast and all its offspring – Internet of Yum
Internet of Yum digs into all the things that make us drool while we’re checking our feeds. Mashable producer, Mark Stetson, set out to find out how to make a…
Mindy Kaling’s new teen sitcom Never Have I Ever is an empathetic exploration of grief
If you told everyone exactly how high school would play out, odds are many would opt the hell out. High school in America is a bizarre and unkind time, a…
EVO 2020 will be an online-only event due to the pandemic
The annual Evolution Championship Series (EVO) fighting game tournament will be held as an online event this summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event’s organizers announced today. EVO had…
Congress is investigating cruise ship company Carnival over COVID-19 outbreaks
Congress has opened a probe into Carnival Corporation, the operator of the Princess Cruises line of cruise ships, over its handling of COVID-19 outbreaks, according to a report from Bloomberg.…
Was Elon’s Tesla Twitter meltdown illegal? An investigation
Elon Musk welcomes you to Meltdown May. He is its mascot. Today, Musk tweeted he’d sell “almost all” his physical possessions. Well, all right. Then, he tweeted that Tesla’s share…
Microsoft’s Surface Earbuds show up at FCC, hinting at release soon
Microsoft’s Surface Earbuds, announced way back in October, just showed up in an FCC listing, suggesting the AirPods competitor could arrive any time now. The appearance of an FCC filing…
Is AI already conscious?
The ultimate goal of most high-level AI research is the development of a general artificial intelligence (GAI). In essence, what we want is a synthetic mind that could function the…