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Nothing says love like a little social media trolling. 
On Tuesday afternoon, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian hopped on Instagram Live to chat with his followers. Those who tuned in took the opportunity to ask questions about parenting, running a business, Armenian culture, and more. 
His wife, tennis legend Serena Williams, on the other hand, saw it as a perfect opportunity to troll her husband for all the world to see. 
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in July of 2015, woke up today from hibernation mode in preparation for its next rendezvous with a space rock at the edge of the Solar System. The vehicle came out of its slumber 3.7 billion miles from Earth, as it’s speeding toward an icy body nicknamed Ultima Thule that orbits the Sun way beyond Neptune. Now that the spacecraft is awake, the mission team has a very full schedule through 2018: the flyby will take place on January

Hannah Lux Davis has directed music videos for artists including Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Nicki Minaj, Demi Lovato, and HalseyShe sat down with us to discuss her career journey, common misconceptions about her job, what it's like to be a woman in the music business, and how her work comes into fruition.  Read more...More about Entertainment, Music, Mashable Video, Director, and Music Video

Apparently Netflix takes requests. This is something users might already know if they’ve spent enough time digging around on the streaming site’s somewhat unpublicized Help Center, maybe looking for troubleshooting tips or just a place to complain. But most people apparently aren’t aware of the “request a title” form, at least according to comedian Chelsea Peretti. Recently, a fan in the Philippines tweeted the official Netflix Philippines account to object because

It's usually frowned upon to speak ill of the dead, but this savage obituary held nothing back. 
Kathleen Demhlow passed away on Thursday at 80-years-old. Instead of the typical "beloved mother and friend" you'd typically find in someone's memorial, her obituary in the Redwood Falls Gazette took a nastier turn. 
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The obituary starts out with Dehmlow's birth in a small city in Minnesota, her marriage to Dennis

Fresh from the tumult over disinviting Super Bowl champions the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House, here comes another: President Trump will be without a visit from the NBA champs for a second straight year. 
SEE ALSO: Eagles players drag Fox News for airing misleading photos of them kneeling in prayer
With the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors still knee-deep in the 2018 NBA Finals (the Warriors lead 2-0 as of this writing), the stars for each team made it clear while speak

Donald Trump, the president, either does not know or does not care about the lyrics to "God Bless America."
After rescinding his invitation to host the Philadelphia Eagles at the White House upon learning only a few team members planned to show up, Trump instead hosted an event to "celebrate the flag," as NBC News reported.
SEE ALSO: Is tonight the night we finally see Melania Trump?
At the event, musicians from the U.S. Marine Corps played "God Bless America," my favorite song with the phrase "

Lego's Bugatti Chiron car is one-eighth the size of the ultra-luxurious sports car, but it's 8,565 times cheaper.
The nearly $3 million baby blue speed machine got the Lego treatment with a replica version made up of 3,599 pieces. While the real thing has a top speed of 261 mph, the Lego replica doesn't exactly have that same 1,500-horsepower capability that set records last year. 
SEE ALSO: Harley-Davidson designed this obscene, $1.8 million motorcycle with a Swiss jeweler
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The gestures that have replaced the home button on iPhone X generally work great. But one of them is so impossibly, unnecessarily dumb it made my head explode every time I had to use it: closing apps. 
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To fully close an app on the iPhone X, you need to flick up from the bottom of the screen, then press and hold for a second or so, which will give you a flickable list of all your open apps, complete with the minus ("-") signs in the t

‘Amazon has just announced four new designs for PC manufacturers to work off of, which could make it easier to integrate Alexa in more PCs. The new Windows 10 PC designs have been pre-tested and are “final-product designs.” They include far-field microphone arrays so that Alexa can hear you from across the room, and they're powered by Intel processors.The four designs are made by Taiwan-based manufacturers Wistron, Compal, and Quanta. Wistron has an all-in-one PC with a 27-inc

The Miss America pageant this country has known for nearly a century is finally dead. Good riddance. 
On Tuesday, Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989 and chair of the Miss America Organization, appeared on Good Morning America to deliver the news: The annual televised event is no longer a pageant but a competition, and women won't be judged on their physical appearance. 
SEE ALSO: The Real Miss America: Celebrating role models who look more like you
So what began as a swimsuit pageant

Pilots are tricky. Showrunners have settings to explain, conflict to create, and a careful balance to strike between creating a self-contained story that feels satisfying — and leaving a narrative door open for an entire season of television. There are pilots that achieve this, but few do so while introducing an entire cast of characters that the audience genuinely cares about by the end of the episode. Ryan Murphy’s Pose, which premiered on June 3, is a master class in crafting a pi

Issa Rae's bold and brazen humor took centerstage at the 2018 CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday night.
The creator and star of HBO's Insecure hosted the event and, as always, kept things all the way real, taking a few verbal swings at Kanye West despite knowing that West's wife Kim Kardashian was in attendance.
SEE ALSO: 'GQ's comedy issue throws hysterical shade at 'Vanity Fair's photoshoot fail
During her opening monologue, Rae hilariously threw the rapper under the bus for his recent controversia

Amazon has spun up a secret lab within its Seattle headquarters called Grand Challenge that the company has set to work on ideas as bold as curing cancer, according to a new report from CNBC. Grand Challenge is run by former Google employee and Google Glass creator Babak Parviz, and it’s designed much like the original Google X moonshots lab, now a subsidiary of Alphabet and known simply as X.Parviz and his team were part of a larger organization at Google that worked on wearable computin

Steven Aquino ContributorShare on Twitter Steven Aquino is a freelance tech writer and iOS accessibility expert. More posts by this contributorFor Apple, this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day is all about education What Apple’s education announcements mean for accessibility
Apple has one hardware-specific feature planned that wasn’t announced at Monday’s WWDC keynote. In iOS 12, users will be able to use Live Listen, a special feature previously reserved for hea

For the past decade, telecommunications companies around the globe have been grappling with falling average revenues per user equaling stagnant growth rates.
While particularly mobile operators have enabled increasing prosperity in third-world countries, new ways of working and fueled entirely new markets, much of the wealth created has landed on the books of companies that we look upon with increasing discomfort: Google, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent and others. And as if this was not enough, the ve

The latest installment of the Jurassic Park series sounds like a palatable film for fans of the series but doesn't offer up a completely enrapturing experience the whole way through.
Reviewers have weighed in on the upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the sequel to Jurassic World, and it isn't getting the most thrilling praise so far. In this movie, a volcano at the Jurassic World theme park has erupted, sending the human protagonists and a handful of dinosaurs away from the island and into

Forget learning how to code or design and forgot blowing your money on cryptocurrencies. Your ticket to clinching a bigger paycheck is sitting right on your computer and you don't even know it. Because ladies and gentlemen, your claim to a higher pay grade and better promotion prospects could actually hinge on learning all the nooks and crannies of Microsoft Excel.
SEE ALSO: This $34 Excel training course could help you land that next promotion
You might think you know everything about the sprea

Facebookand Google were paid millions for political advertising purposes in Washington but failed for years to publish related information — such as the advertiser’s address — as required by state law, alleges a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general.
Washington law requires that “political campaign and lobbying contributions and expenditures be fully disclosed to the public and that secrecy is to be avoided.”
Specifically, “documents and books of accou

Here’s a heartfelt gift for all you procrastinating early-stage startup founders who haven’t gotten your act together to apply to compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt San Francisco 2018 on September 5-7. You’re strapped for time, we get it. So, we’re extending the application deadline by one week.
You now have until June 13 — that’s seven days to collect your team and take your shot at winning $100,000. Yup, we doubled the prize money this year because we

The Oculus Connect developer conference is back for its fifth year of chasing the VR dream.
FacebookVP or VR Hugo Barra announced that the company’s virtual reality-centric conference would be returning to San Jose on September 26 and 27. In past years, Oculus has used the conference to reveal its latest prototype hardware and to announce new software upgrades. This year, VR took center stage at Facebook’s F8 developer conference with the company using the event to launch the $199 Oc

As a reporter, there are some things I've been sent to cover that are so boring — so visibly meaningless — that I am stunned into silence.
So you have to have a little empathy for poor reporter Dave Scott, who was recently forced to cover the opening of an inflatables festival in San Diego.
SEE ALSO: Mom's viral rant about cheesecakes is too relatable
This is the most awkward three minutes of news journalism you'll ever watch. You may not even make it to the end of the clip, humbled

Beyond Watch compatibility, podcasting didn’t get a lot of love as Apple blew through announcements at a frenetic pace during its two-hour-plus keynote yesterday. This week, however, the company has announced a few new download milestones and offered a bit more insight into its recently introduced Podcast Analytics offering.Apple Podcasts currently hosts north of 550,000 active shows, a bump from the 525,000 the company reported back in April — that’s a considerable jump from t

It looks like Apple is finally finally finally fixing one of the worst problems with the iPhone X: unwanted screenshots.
The iOS 12 beta makes it harder to accidentally take screenshots when picking up the phone, according to people who've tested the update.
SEE ALSO: Everything you need to know about Apple's iOS 12According to Redditors who spotted the change in the iOS 12 developer beta released Monday at WWDC, the iPhone X will no longer take a screenshot if you press the volume and power but

If you’re a movie buff or enjoy nothing more than binge-watching box sets, chances are you've heard of Kodi. Kodi is a free, open-source software media player app formerly known as XBMB that acts as a hub for all your music, movies, and TV content, which can be shared across all your devices. 
SEE ALSO: The best VPNs according to Reddit
Benefits include being able to turn your gadgets into a part of a digital streaming hub, accessing all sorts of file formats and searching for content

Acorns, the financial management service for micro-investments, is adding a rewards debit card to its arsenal of tools aimed at getting Americans to create balanced stock portfolios for economic health.
The company has already racked up 10,000 pre-orders for its new (gorgeous) payment card that offers perks like investments into Acorns accounts when users purchase with the card at certain online and brick and mortar retailers.
The debit card comes with Acorns micro-investment and its retirement

Apple quietly updated its App Store guidelines on Monday, while the keynote address of WWDC was happening in San Jose, to allow for mobile apps like Valve’s Steam Link game streaming service, according to Reuters. Steam owner Valve said last week Apple had initially rejected Steam Link, which lets consumers access and stream their PC game library onto a mobile device, due to apparent “business” conflicts.The change does not void Apple’s long-standing policy that no iOS a

David Hogg's family home was swatted on Tuesday.
Someone called the Broward Sheriff's Office in Florida on the Parkland survivor's home, claiming that there was a hostage situation at the house. According to the local ABC affiliate, Coral Springs Fire Rescue arrived to find that the call was a prank. 
SEE ALSO: Inmate tweeting from jail calls himself an 'eGod' and threatens to swat again
"A SWAT team responded and cleared the home," Broward County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Gina Carter to

*extreme Katharine McPhee voice* Hi my gay boys (and gals and really every human regardless of how you identify).
Here are the facts: It's Pride Month, you deserve nice things, and Carly Rae Jepsen's songs are bops that make us happy. When you put all these immutable truths together, using the powers of very serious science and logic and deductive reasoning, the undeniable conclusion is: this Pride Month, you need more CRJ in your life.
So here's a 10-hour video by YouTube user Stephen Capps of

What do Lena Dunham, Logan Paul, and, most recently, Drake have in common? 
They've each at some point employed their iPhone Notes apps to pen statements and apologies for all the world to see. Those longwinded chunks of text are an inevitable part of most celebrity scandal life cycles.
SEE ALSO: These extreme Post-it notes will definitely get your point across
Now, in my humble opinion, the Notes app is strictly to be used for grocery lists, makeshift diary entries, and lists of shows your

DJI is partnering with Axon (the company formerly known as Taser) to sell DJI’s video-capable drones directly to police officers through a new Axon Air program.Through the program, Axon will serve as an easy place for police and law enforcement agencies to buy drones, providing access to Axon’s connected data network and Evidence.com services. To start, DJI and Axon will be selling the professional-level Matrice 210 model as well as the more consumer-friendly Phantom 4 Pro model.
Th

Google’s Project Fi is now letting users add children under the age of 13 to group plans through a Google account managed with Family Link. The additional functionality lets families with young children share a Project Fi plan and monitor their children’s data use.Now that Project Fi works with Family Link, users can set data alerts on usage for their accounts and their children’s accounts, and remotely lock their children’s phone when they’ve used too much screen

Kate Spade, 55-year-old fashion designer and entrepreneur, reportedly died by suicide on Tuesday.
According to the Associated Press, Spade's housekeeping staff found her dead in her New York apartment along with a note.pic.twitter.com/ylX5sA6MpQ
— kate spade new york (@katespadeny) June 5, 2018SEE ALSO: 'Dear Evan Hansen' shines Broadway's lights on mental health awareness
After news of the iconic designer's death broke, fans shared an outpouring of love on social media, explaining what Sp

Over 92 million account details from genealogy and DNA testing service MyHeritage were found on a private server, according to a release made by the company on Monday.
According to the release, the breach occurred on October 26th, 2017, and the data discovered includes users who signed up for the service on or before that date, totaling 92,283,889 people.MyHeritage is an Israel-based ancestry platform where users can create family trees and search through familial and historical records.MyHerit

Over 92 million account details from genealogy and DNA testing service MyHeritage were found on a private server, according to a release made by the company on Monday.
According to the release, the breach occurred on October 26th, 2017, and the data discovered includes users who signed up for the service on or before that date, totaling 92,283,889 people.MyHeritage is an Israel-based ancestry platform where users can create family trees and search through familial and historical records.MyHerit

Whether it's your partner's incessant snoring, your neighbor's reluctance to simmer down their nightly karaoke sesh, helicopters hovering above your neighborhood, or the mysterious racket your roommate keeps making that you're afraid to even ask about, there is no shortage of noises that can prevent you from falling asleep. While you can always wear earplugs to drown out unwanted sound, science says that white noise can actually help lull you off to dreamland.
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Proponents of sex robots want us to believe that they’re more than toys; they’re companions that help us with relationship problems and improve our quality of life. But there’s no good evidence that says having sex with robots has health or therapeutic benefits, according to a review of the research published this week. This doesn’t mean they’re bad. It just means that we need more studies before we fall for claims that sex dolls spell the end of loneliness.Despite

One of the many new features at TechCrunch Disrupt SF (September 5-7) is the addition of a second stage and programming track at the show, which we’re calling The Next Stage. The goal of The Next Stage is to deliver more insights and wisdom to Disrupt SF attendees, especially founders, to help them navigate the startup odyssey better and faster. The Next Stage is also where much of the programming for the 14 tracks of Disrupt will take place.
Learn what’s next for The Lean Startup
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A rugged, waterproof Bluetooth speaker is basically a summer requirement. Oh, your speaker can't be dunked in the pool and still work afterward? That is so 2017.
Okay, we'll admit that it's hard to find one that's not a total piece of junk and still affordable — but we tracked one down, and found it on sale for lower than its Black Friday price. Meet the Ultimate Ears Megaboom: Regularly $249.99 you can snag it for $119.99 todayWhat.
SEE ALSO: 12 of the best earbuds on Amazon, accordi

It’s official. Microsoft is acquiring GitHub for a hefty $7.5 billion price tag — and the millions of developers who use the site have some feelings about it.
Despite Microsoft’s recent turn to aggressively embrace everything open source, the tech giant has a long history of opposing open software. This less-than-stellar past is spelling out a lot of distrust among the GitHub devs. Some believe that Microsoft might co-opt their codes for future products or that they’ll b

Who gets new Gmail? You get new Gmail! And YOU get new Gmail! EVERYBODY GETS NEW GMAIIILLLL!
Ok, it may not be a free new car, but on Monday, Google announced that its massively updated new Gmail would launch to general availability (GA) in July. And by October 2018, new Gmail will be the law of the land, with no option to opt-out.
SEE ALSO: Google's big Gmail update makes your inbox smarter and more secure
New Gmail is currently available in an "Early Adopter Program" (EAP) with an option to tr

Game developer Bungie revealed new details today about its upcoming Forsaken expansion for Destiny 2, which will be the largest expansion since the game’s initial launch in September 2017. In a polished video put together by the studio and a live interview session after that, Twitch live stream viewers were given a broad overview of what the expansion would content. The theme seems clear: after months and months of turmoil and controversy, Bungie is trying to find common ground with its f