A disembodied robot mouth and 14 other stories that made us laugh in 2020
Forget the challenges of the last 12 months and instead have some fun reading our pick of the quirkiest tech stories from the past year.
2020 was the year to join TikTok
TikTok dominated internet culture this year. TikTok was the most downloaded app of 2020, according to mobile analytics firm App Annie’s annual report surpassing Facebook, WhatsApp, and Zoom combined App…
How Big Tech failed to stop misinformation in 2020
The hottest memes of 2020! The most viral videos of the year! The hottest hashtags! The year–in–review lists from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter were missing the biggest story of the…
Chestnuts roasting on a dumpster fire: 16 extremely 2020 Yule Log videos
If you haven’t had enough of the world being figuratively and literally on fire all year, and your dopamine receptors are still functioning after months of doomscrolling, you might still…
10 gadgets that kept us from losing our minds in 2020
Apart from the virus that shall not be named, I’ll forever remember 2020 as the year when new product releases never stopped coming. In these past 12 months, we’ve seen…
9 apps that made staring at screens less of a nightmare in 2020
2020 was arguably the greatest year of all time for staring at screens and one of the worst for every other thing imaginable. With the majority of the world at…
The 16 very specific things we most loved onscreen this year
This year at Mashable, we decided to show a little extra love to our favorite onscreen moments with a new weekly series, Thanks I Love It. We searched through our…
From fires to vaccines, this genius audio montage recaps 2020 in 13 intense minutes
We all know 2020 has been an unfathomably horrific year. Even so, it isn’t until you hear it condensed into a 13 minute audio file that it really hits how…
If this woman repeatedly falling on ice isn’t the biggest 2020 mood…
How did the woman cross the street? No, this isn’t a joke. It’s 2020. We don’t joke anymore! This is a genuine question sparked by footage making the rounds online…
GoFundMe, now 10, had a historic year of charitable giving
2020 has been quite the tumultuous year, from the COVID-19 pandemic to an unprecedented wildfire and hurricane season and the reckoning for racial justice. But people from around the world…