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One of the biggest expectations we have for the upcoming iPhone 8 is an edge-to-edge OLED screen—but if a new supply chain rumor is true, that's just the first step in Apple's master plan.
A recent report claims every iPhone model will adopt OLED screens by 2019, according an article in The Bell spotted by MacRumors. OLED technology requires less power than LCD displays and produces brighter colors. 
If Apple does make a full-on move to OLED, LCD producers, some of which have been exp

You've never seen a snake quite like this one.
Justin Kobylka spent eight years breeding pythons until he was finally able to create this mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind white ball python with three orange-faced smiley emoji on its skin. The emoji patterns are caused by recessive mutations.
Kobylka says the snake's worth at least $4,500, but he has no plans to sell it. To put that in perspective, you could head to PetSmart and buy a normal ball python for $40.
If nothing else, Kobylka's emoji snake

The Nintendo Switch is off to a big start, with sales for Nintendo’s new console beating out first two-day sales in the Americas for any system in Nintendo’s history, according to New York Times reporter Nick Wingfield, who had spoken with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Wingfield noted that the Switch’s success is particularly impressive given that the console launched in March, rather than the more traditional holiday season.It’s an early win for the Swi

Members of Silicon Valley and the greater tech industry are already voicing their opposition to President Donald Trump’s most recent executive order, which this morning reconstituted his controversial and potentially unconstitutional immigration ban. Uber, Airbnb, and Lyft were fast to issue statements condemning the order.“Barring people from entering our country because of where they're from was wrong the first time around - still wrong...,” wrote Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on T

Before every episode of The Vergecast I sit down, read through a bunch of news, and take a bunch of notes. It’s one of the most enjoyable parts of my week, and I started thinking it might be fun to do every day on the site. So, every day this week I’m sitting down and writing some notes on the news as though I’ll be talking about it later. Are you into this? Am I into this? I don’t know. But it’s fun to do! Give me some feedback and we’ll keep mutating this in

Today, like most days, Samuel L. Jackson is the voice of reason.
While making his debut as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development on Monday afternoon, Ben Carson said that America's "can-do" value system was best exemplified by slaves — who he audaciously referred to as "immigrants."
SEE ALSO: Sean Spicer mistakenly announced Donald Trump as the new HUD secretaryBen Carson just referred to *slaves* as "immigrants""There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships..

Emma Watson is a feminist. Based on her work and her words, there is no disputing that the Beauty and the Beast actress is unequivocally for the equal rights of all genders across the globe. 
So when some people concluded otherwise because of a photoshoot that showed a little underboob, Watson was quick to shut critics down. However, many pointed out her statement is just kind of hypocritical based on comments she's made in the past about Beyoncé. 
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Chance the Rapper may have just won three Grammys, but that doesn't mean it's time to kick back and relax. There's work to be done, but for the Chicago native, the next project has nothing to do with releasing another mixtape.
In a press conference Monday afternoon, Chance explained that his nonprofit organization, Social Works, would be spearheading an effort to raise $215 million for Chicago Public Schools while the city wrestles with education budget reform. And with an initial $1 million don

GTA Online just keeps bringing more and more games and activities for fans of the mayhem-fueled multiplayer mode of Grand Theft Auto V, and a couple incoming features sound like they'll be a ton of fun.
Rockstar Games teased new game modes, races and cars coming to its popular GTA Online, including two new Adversary Modes called Resurrection — "a gallows humor take on dodgeball" — and an homage to top-down 2D GTA games appropriately called Top Down. 
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 It looks like Amazon’s AWS has made another acquisition to add more productivity tools for its customers beyond basic cloud-computing services. It has picked up Thinkbox Software, which develops and sells solutions for media design and content creation aimed at people in the video and wider visual media industries. Examples of services that Thinkbox already offers include systems… Read More

You don't have to push a button to send a signal. Services like Twitter keep tabs on your behavior even if you aren't prodding your touchscreen to "like" or "retweet" things, and they use all that precious data to serve you #content that's tailor-made to attract your eyeballs.
As Slate's Will Oremus explains in a new feature about Twitter's algorithms, the company pays attention to a variety of cues from its users to deliver information using its "best tweets" and "in case you missed it" functio

A group of scientists have devised a plan to make Mars a little more hospitable to human life.
A computer modeling experiment suggests that we can use a spacecraft to create a magnetic field around Mars, shielding it from the solar wind that's stripping its thin atmosphere away, oxygen ion by oxygen ion.
SEE ALSO: The United Arab Emirates wants to build a city on Mars
If the plan works — and that's a big "if," it could melt the red planet's polar ice caps to bring back some liquid water to

If you're a true-blue Destiny fan like I am, you probably watched this "Age of Triumph" teaser and thought only one thing: OMG VAULT OF GLASS IS COMING BACK!!
Destiny's very first raid remains the best of the bunch in many a fan's mind, and Bungie's teasing look at the game's final live event seems to confirm its imminent return. Details will be revealed on March 8 at 1 p.m. ET in a Twitch stream.
There's not much else to say about this teaser. Age of Triumph will introduce a new "Record Book,"

Let's try to do this in a single sentence, shall we? Stay with me. 
To President Donald Trump, former President Barack Obama is: 
The Kenyan Muslim founder of ISIS who will go down as 
The worst foreign policy president ever and also 
Did a really great job leading the military despite sacrificing his duty to country for his love of golf and basketball, 
Showing that Obama "doesn't believe in work" unless it's work that involves orchestrating a massive operation to prote

In St. Petersburg, Florida, city planners are busy mapping out how the low-lying coastal area will cope with sea level rise. In Salt Lake City, officials are working to get 100 percent of the city's electricity from renewable sources. Out in Los Angeles, electric cars are steadily replacing conventional cars in the city-owned fleet. 
These local initiatives and thousands of others were already underway when President Donald Trump took office in January. Today, local leaders say they feel ev

The Switch has only been out for a couple of days, but the left Joy-Con controller on the new console is already infamous for random connectivity issues. And while Nintendo has recommended a fix that users try and avoid having obstacles between the controller and the console, others have opted to just crack open the Joy-Con and break out some soldering gear to find a more permanent fix.
The Spawn Wave YouTube channel is among those that have tried. By comparing the innards of the two controllers

This is Sedric, Volkswagen’s newest concept for the future of autonomous driving. Sedric (as in self-driving car, get it?) is fully autonomous, meaning it has no steering wheel or pedals, and it can be summoned at the push of a button for ride-hailing trips, a la Uber and Lyft.VW claims that Sedric is the first vehicle to be designed for fully autonomous driving “from scratch.” Of course, it’s important to note that Sedric is just a concept, meaning it does not exist anyw

Several individuals say they have not been paid for participating in and working at a Dota 2 tournament in November 2016, including event organizers, on-air talent and at least three teams.
Pro Dota 2 teams CompLexity Gaming, Alliance and Team NP as well as event talent and organizers from BEAT Gaming have all reportedly not been paid by Northern Arena for November's Northern Arena BEAT Invitational, according to TheScore Esports. The three teams are the only ones that have confirmed to TheScore

If you consider yourself a true superfan, then you already know what’s up. You’ve been to the Mashable House many times before, and can navigate the craziness that is downtown Austin during SXSW.
SEE ALSO: There’s more than meets the eye at the 2017 SXSW Mashable House
This year, Mashable invites all the superfans to join us in the celebration of obsession. We celebrate the dedication it takes to wait in line for hours to see your favorite show’s panel (we’re lookin

If there's one Facebook rumor that absolutely refuses to die, it's that a dislike button might someday appear on the site.
No matter how many times Mark Zuckerberg says he will never, ever make one, at least once a year, it seems, a fresh rumor picks up steam. This time, rumors were stoked when it was discovered that the social network is doing a small test of a thumbs down reaction inside of Messenger.
At last, right? Not quite.
SEE ALSO: You might want to rethink what you're 'liking' on Facebo

Take it from the president of the United States: Human beings are creatures of comfort. We're not particularly inclined to seek out contradictory information and would rather believe things that reinforce our worldview. 
Sometimes we post those things at 6 a.m. to make a point to our foes, even if our claims are fact-free. 
SEE ALSO: Facebook's new 'Trending Topics' update is here — now with less fake news
Most of the time, we pay a price for that willful ignorance, but researche

"Media Organizations Make Pilgrimage To Facebook Headquarters To Lay Content At Foot Of Mark Zuckerberg," reads the headline of perhaps my favorite article from The Onion. 
It's a satire, of course, but the act of media companies traveling to Facebook's headquarters and speaking about how each party can better serve each other is, in fact, a reality. Two weeks ago, 15 of the top stakeholders in local media traveled to the New York office to do exactly that, among a day of other publisher-fo

Overlooking the beautiful Puerto de Barcelona with its exotic yachts from countries near and far, we gathered on February 27th after a day exploring at Mobile World Congress in celebration of British home-grown innovation. Overseen by L’Aquarium’s resident stingrays, penguins and other gigantic amphibians, the event placed some of the UK’s best and brightest innovative talent in the spotlight, nurturing the conversation on the ways in which British talent is disrupting the worl

We don't know the exact premiere date for Game of Thrones Season 7 yet — and we won't, until HBO is ready to make an official announcement — but one of the actors might have inadvertently given us a clue during a recent interview. 
"I've been disappointing various people around the world because it was meant to come out in April. It's July now, I think," said Liam Cunningham during an interview with the Irish Independent newspaper.
SEE ALSO: Everything we know about 'Game of Thr

With a pending sale of its internet business to Verizon, Yahoo is undergoing one of the more tumultuous periods in its history. Yet somehow it still managed to put out one of the most useful piece of software it’s created in years. Called Captain, the product is an SMS-based digital assistant. It’s designed to use some lightweight artificial intelligence to help family members manage each other’s busy schedules.AI without needing to download an app
Captain essentially acts as a

Hugh Jackman hung up his claws for the final time in 'Logan,' so we decided to celebrate the end of an era with some obscure facts about Wolverine from the comics and films. Think you know everything there is to know about our favorite member of the X-Men?
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Everyone who's ever worked in a modern office has experienced the pain. You sip your coffee, read your emails, finally settle in and start being productive when that coworker rolls up to your desk. You know, the one who either can't tell or doesn't care that you're in the middle of something (and if you don't know who that person is, well, then it's probably you). 
Thanks to the miracle of modern technology, a new Chrome browser extension has your back.
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Powerful Tropical Cyclone Enawo, which has been intensifying off the northeastern edge of Madagascar, is moving toward a dangerous landfall on the island nation on Tuesday. 
The formidable storm is likely to strike as the equivalent to a Category 3 or even a Category 4 hurricane, packing estimated winds as high as 140 miles per hour as of Monday afternoon eastern time. 
SEE ALSO: No, U.S. climate scientists didn't trick the world into adopting the Paris deal
The cyclone is the same typ

Apparently, no one learned a damn thing from the infamous Democratic National Committee (DNC) email hacks that marred Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign because several liberal groups are now reportedly being blackmailed by Russian hackers who accessed their emails. 
SEE ALSO: How computer hacking is becoming Russia’s weapon of choice
According to a report by Bloomberg, the hackers are targeting progressive groups and sifting through emails for embarrassing details that woul

Waiting sucks! But it looks like you'll have no choice but to suck it up and wait a little longer for Samsung's highly anticipated Galaxy S8.
Noted phone leaker Evan Blass says his trusted sources have told him Samsung's moving the Galaxy S8's global release date from April 21 to April 28.
SEE ALSO: The first-look at Samsung's Galaxy S8 was probably just leaked in these videos
Sure, it's only a week back, but for fans (especially ex-Note7 owners), every day without a sexy, curvaceous new phone i

If you're like us and your life has begrudgingly been consumed by a livestream of a giraffe named April waiting to give birth at New York's Animal Adventure Park for the past 11 days, you may not be ready for this news.
Erin Dietrich, a pregnant mother from South Carolina, was entranced by April's livestream. After days of obsessive anticipation, the witty mom was inspired to start her own pregnancy livestream - giraffe mask and all.
SEE ALSO: People are trolling the giraffe birth livestream by

You join the Han Solo movie, you'd best not miss. 
Michael Kenneth Williams, known to millions of HBO viewers as beguiling bad guy Omar on The Wire and gangster Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire, has officially joined the cast of the 2018 Star Wars movie, Lucasfilm confirmed Monday. 
SEE ALSO: New Han Solo movie details and this awesome first photo are enough to make your heart stop
"Williams is going from his hometown of Brooklyn to a galaxy far, far away," read the official announceme

Sean Lennon has shared a devastating song he wrote with Carrie Fisher about listening to birds sing late at night. 
Lennon decided to record "Bird Song" after her death and recruited "prodigal angel" Willow Smith to provide harmonies reminiscent of the Beatles' "Because (The World Is Round)." 
"It's all so wrong to greet the dawn," they sing, "The birds sing that awful song, singing 'You don't belong here.'"
SEE ALSO: Why you need to binge-watch Carrie Fisher's final TV show immediatel

Dirty air and water aren't just unpleasant, they have deadly consequences for the world's youngest inhabitants.
More than 1 in 4 global deaths of children under 5 years old are due to polluted environments, including smoggy air, sullied water and poor sanitation, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
SEE ALSO: 2 billion children are breathing toxic air, UNICEF reports
Unhealthy living conditions can result in fatal cases of pneumonia, malaria and diarrhea, which together kill some

The Switch isn't like other Nintendo hardware. The bulk of the console is effectively a tablet, which is a more fragile breed of hardware than the company has generally released in the past. I noted in our review that it feels like a toy in your hands, but a question remains: is it durable?
YouTuber JerryRigEverything attempted to answer that question, putting the hurt on a Switch so you don't have to. And as it turns out: it's a hardy device!
While the all-plastic body — and the touch sc