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Google has just introduced a little time-saving trick for those who use G Suite apps. You can now instantly create things like a Google Doc or Sheet by using a keyword plus domain .new right in your browser address bar.
Before, you had to navigate to the app you want to use and click on “new” to begin a fresh project. This new method lets you skip a couple steps, and works with any sort of document that is under the G Suite umbrella.Docs can be created with domains doc.new, docs.new

Is anyone missing their tooth collection?
Construction workers in Valdosta, Georgia, were surprised to discover around 1,000 teeth inside a building wall on Tuesday. That's right — a bunch of teeth. Human teeth! Indeed, it is the Halloween season.
SEE ALSO: Student says she gave cookies containing grandfather's ashes to classmates
According to a researcher quoted in the Valdosta Daily Times, the building's first tenant was a dentist named Dr. Clarence Whittington, which explains — ki

Get ready to scoot out the vote.
Or at least, that's what Lime is hoping the voting public will do this upcoming Election Day. The bike- and scooter-share company is offering a promo code for users to snag a free bike, e-bike, or e-scooter ride to and from the polls. 
SEE ALSO: Snapchat's voter registration initiative might actually reach new voters
The code LIME2VOTE18 will go live on Nov. 6. Those who redeem it on the Lime mobile app will get 30 minutes free to ride on the vehicle of thei

Jump scare fanatic Ellen DeGeneres sent her executive producer Andy Lassner and Chrissy Teigen into a haunted house — and their screams are truly something to behold.
The pair were met with horrifying masked and bloodied figures at every turn, and while Lassner was clearly pretty frightened, his screams were no match for Teigen's.
It's the perfect taste of a haunted house experience without having to actually enter one yourself. Read more...
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Today, Amazon reported earnings for the third quarter of 2018, showing that its North American business remains solid, boosted by Echo device sales and cloud services. At the same time, it’s still minimizing its losses in international markets.
In North America, Amazon pulled in $34.3 billion, which is a 35 percent improvement from last year. Amazon Web Services continued to bolster numbers, rising 46 percent in sales. International sales trail behind and Amazon is still losing money in t

Snapchat is losing Android users rapidly, as the company continues to delay a full rollout of its long-coming updated app. In its earnings report today, the company announced that its daily active user numbers dropped from last quarter by 2 million, which CEO Evan Spiegel mainly attributes to lost Android users. It’s down to 186 million from 188 million users last quarter, but it’s still up from this time last year, at which point it was at 178 million. The company has always priori

As expected, Alphabet’s core ad business continues to grow at a remarkable pace, with the company’s third quarter earnings announcement coming in well over Wall Street analysts’ expectations on profit, although slightly under sales estimates for the quarter. The company posted revenue of $33.7 billion for the quarter, up 21 percent year over year, with a profit of $9.2 billion, or earnings per share of $13.02.Much of this growth comes from its Google subsidiary’s ad busi

Linksys is adding wall plug-in nodes to its Velop home mesh Wi-Fi system, following in the footsteps of router companies like Netgear and Eero, which was the first to introduce the concept.
Mesh Wi-Fi systems are useful when multiple nodes are placed around large homes to provide stronger wireless signal coverage, and the plug-in nodes are a good alternative to having to place routers on shelves. They’ll first be sold bundled with the AC4800 Whole Home WiFi Intelligent Mesh System, which

We know very little about Avengers 4 – other than that most of our faves are dead – but now we have a teeny, tiny nugget of intrigue.
Actor Frank Grillo, who played Brock Rumlow/Crossbones in Captain America: Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War, revealed that he returned to the MCU for an Avengers 4 flashback.
SEE ALSO: There may be some hidden 'Avengers 4' clues in this Russo brothers set photo
“[Crossbones] makes an appearance in the next Avengers movie, but it&rsqu

In an email to all Google employees following today’s New York Times exposé on Andy Rubin, CEO Sundar Pichai and Eileen Naughton — the company’s VP of people operations — said the story was “difficult to read.” “We are dead serious about making sure we provide a safe and inclusive workplace,” the pair wrote in a co-signed note. The email does not attempt to refute or discredit anything in The New York Times story, which said that in additio

In a big victory for hacker, tinkerers, and the right to repair movement, the US Copyright Office has ruled some major changes to the legal exemption to the DMCA, making it far easier for owners to build software tools to hack, modify, and repair their own devices, as explained by iFixit founder Kyle Wiens.Under section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it is “unlawful to circumvent technological measures used to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted works.”

Twitter's efforts to clean up its platform may be working, but it's also resulted in the loss of millions of users.
The service lost 9 million monthly active users during the third quarter of 2018, Twitter revealed during its third-quarter earnings call. The drop is the largest ever decline for the company, which also lost 1 million users last quarter. 
SEE ALSO: Twitter's Jack Dorsey doesn't use a computer or a tablet, apparently
That may sound like bad news for Twitter, which has long fac

Google Photos’ Live Albums feature has a limit of 10,000 photos, users discovered on Google forums, as spotted by Android Police.Live Albums was introduced earlier this month as a way for users to automatically add photos of a chosen pet or person to a custom album. This lets you have one album to gaze upon your cute dog or partner without needing to scroll through endless other miscellaneous photos.10,000 photos seems like a lot, but you can easily reach it with enough outtakes
If you ho

When the Taylor Energy oil drilling platform toppled over in September 2004, its 500-foot-tall metal legs twisted and bent as the looming structure sank to the seafloor. Hurricane Ivan's pummeling waves had unsettled the muddy ground, which spelled doom for the 20-year-old rig. It lay in a mangled, chaotic heap.
And then, it started leaking oil.
Over 14 years later, oil continues seeping to the surface in the Gulf of Mexico. And as geoscientist Oscar Pineda-Garcia, an expert in satellite-based s

Elon Musk, billionaire CEO, and 47-year-old grown man, put out a call for "dank memes." 
Musk, who has been expressing his love for anime and weed, appears to be in some sort of Benjamin Button situation, maturing in reverse. With the confidence of a ninth grader who just discovered Reddit, Musk tweeted on Tuesday: "Fresh puro from my meme dealer." 
SEE ALSO: Elon Musk was once tech's angel. Now he's an overplayed meme.
The deep fried .jpeg he posted isn't even dank. In the scenario, a

Google is discontinuing Nearby Notifications later this year it said, after it noticed Android users were receiving too much spam from the feature. Since Nearby’s launch in 2015, the feature has become a target for marketers and less of a user-friendly information guide.
Your Android device could typically get pinged when you venture near a location with beacons. Unfortunately, instead of providing relevant content, these beacons often sent out spam and unhelpful notifications to users&rs

Arlo announced today that it’s adding more AI-detection features to its Arlo Smart subscription service for its home security cameras. The company will be rolling out features later this year that will let its Arlo cameras recognize pets, vehicles, and packages.
Arlo Smart uses computer vision technology to alert users of what triggered their camera’s motion sensors to begin recording. It’s a subscription service that starts at $2.99 per month and offers person detection and c

Merriam-Webster shared its website's new "Time Traveler" feature on Thursday, and it's honestly super fun.
The Time Traveler section of the site allows users to see which words first appeared in print the year they were born. 
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All you need to do is simply plug in the year you were born and voila! You'll have access to a size-able number of words introduced that year. Ever wonder which words first appeared in pri

Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, is a very wealthy man. 
According to a blockbuster report from the New York Times, that's thanks in no small part to a $90 million payment from Google as company executives ushered him out the door while simultaneously sweeping credible sexual misconduct allegations under the rug. 
The story details a string of alleged misconduct by Rubin, noting multiple affairs with Google employees and one claim of "coerced" oral sex from an Android employee in 20

A report from The New York Times today has revealed new, alarming details on the circumstances that surrounded Andy Rubin’s departure from Google in 2014. The man often referred to as “the father of Android,” who is currently the chief executive officer of Essential, was asked to resign from Google by Larry Page, according to the Times.The company had investigated sexual misconduct claims against Rubin, which revolved around an incident in which he allegedly coerced another Go

Imagine being able to look at your favorite pieces of art under a microscope. What would you see? Brushstrokes ... the fingerprint of your favorite artist? The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is making this a reality, one super, super high-resolution image at a time. Not only that, but the museum is also changing the way people access its art, and use it for whatever they want.  Read more...More about Photography, Art, Mashable Video, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, and Innovation

It's Troll Week on Mashable. Join us as we explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of internet trolling.It may seem counterintuitive, but it's possible for trolling to reach an art form — think subtle and even sublime — especially when it happens via Wikipedia, the internet's open-source encyclopedia.
In fact, Wikipedia vandalism has become so prevalent that the site's many editors are on constant notice for it, ready to erase these moments of altered history as quickly as they

The baby Jesus in Italian sculptor Luca della Robbia’s "Madonna and Child with Scroll" is surprisingly…sassy. Wrapped in his placid mother’s arms, he even seems to be serving a “girl, please” side-eye. His whole figure is full of personality and detail; his baby hands and ears, though porcelain, look chubby enough to bite. Up close — very up close — he even has baby teeth.
On October 4, Joe Coscia, Jr., the Metropolitan Museum of Art's quiet but devoted

In iOS 12, Apple introduced a new, helpful way of making your life easier by stringing together the things you do most often on your iPhone with an app called Shortcuts. Beyond automating daily tasks, Shortcuts even enables some new possibilities — tasks that you previously couldn’t get your phone to accomplish on its own. Some of these features could be programmed through third-party apps like IFTTT, but now they’re baked into iOS 12.
Shortcuts replaces Apple’s old Work

Nearly 550 light-years away lies the Ghost Nebula, which haunts the constellation Cassiopeia like a shadow. 
Named after a vain queen in Greek Mythology, the constellation Cassiopeia forms a highly-recognizable 'W' in the sky, with gigantic star Gamma Cassiopeiae marking the central point.
Radiation from the nearby Gamma Cassiopeiae is causing the nebula to dissipate, NASA said in a statement.The Hubble Telescope captured new photos of the Ghost Nebula.Image:esa/nasa Hubble telescopeIn a ne

Back in June, CBS Television Studios announced it had signed a five-year deal with Star Trek: Discovery co-creator and executive producer Alex Kurtzman, who would develop a number of future entries in the utopian TV franchise. At the time, it was reported that those shows would include a soapier Starfleet Academy show from the creators of Gossip Girl and Marvel’s Runaways; two limited series, including one based on The Wrath of Khan; and an animated series. Today, the studio announced mor

The Office has been off the air since 2013, but to this day fans are still uncovering hilarious easter eggs hidden in the show.
The latest discovery, recently shared to r/DunderMifflin, was found in "Garage Sale," Episode 19 of Season 7 of the series.
In the episode, the office and warehouse crew gather together to host a public garage sale. But as Reddit user u/kiiirsten points out with a screenshot, one of the items Michael attempted to sell was a glorious nod to a fan-favorite episode: "Dinne

Christie’s has sold its first piece of AI art, a canvas named the Portrait of Edmond Belamy, for $432,500. The sale is unusual not only as a first for the 252-year-old auction house, but because the expected price for the print was between $7,000 and $10,000.
The artwork was created by a collective named Obvious. The three members of Obvious, a trio of 25-year-old French students, used a type of machine learning algorithm known as a GAN (generative adversarial network) to create the pictu

The dev team that’s now engineering the Fleksy keyboard app has raised more than $800,000 via an equity crowdfunding route.
As we reported a year ago, the development of Fleksy’s keyboard has been taken over by the Barcelona-based startup behind an earlier keyboard app called ThingThing.
The team says their new funding raise — described as a pre-Series A round — will be put towards continued product development of the Fleksy keyboard, including the core AI engine use

"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" If this has become the constant soundtrack to your car rides lately, keep reading.
Amazon has their Fire HD 10 Kids Edition tablets on sale for $159.99, which is $40 off the original $199.99 price.
The obvious benefit is the protective case included on the tablet. The rubber/plastic body will easily handle most of the physical risks your kids might pose.
It also features more streamlined parental controls, making it easier to manage the con

Step aside, boring 14TB hard drives. There’s a new storage champion in town: Western Digital has announced a new 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 HDD that takes the crown as the biggest hard drive yet, via SlashGear.The new drive beats out Western Digital’s 14TB model that it announced last year and Seagate’s recently announced 14TB lineup. Seagate did announce last year that it was planning to release a 16TB drive in 2018, which would have topped the old 14TB drives as well as the new

Spoilers for American Horror Story: Apocalypse lie ahead.My poor, sweet angel boy. What did they do to you? 
American Horror Story: Apocalypse Episode 7 had a lot going on. We finally discovered what happened to our beloved Nan, Cordelia burned the bridge with Papa Legba, the coven held a fabulously fashionable triple execution, and Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt was shockingly useful.
And yet, none of these ridiculous developments compare to the big reveal that came via promo for Episode 8.&n

Panic unfolded yesterday after a series of pipe bombs were mailed to CNN and prominent critics of Trump. As of Thursday morning, at least 10 bombs have been discovered, including packages sent to George Soros, Robert De Niro, and Joe Biden.While the CNN delivery made its way to parent company Time Warner in New York, triggering a massive law enforcement response, packages meant for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were never delivered. Moreover, the packages have been obtained intact, giving in

Last September, the FN SCAR made its virtual debut in Fortnite’s popular battle royale mode as the legendary variant of the common assault rifle. Next summer, the SCAR will make its Nerf debut as the “AR-L Blaster,” the first Nerf gun to come out of the partnership between Epic Games and Hasbro. (Look out for a whole line of them in 2019.)
The toy version of the gas-operated self-loading rifle will appear on shelves on June 1st, 2019, and it will cost $49.99, IGN reports. The

Earlier this year, Fox News announced plans to launch a subscription-based streaming service called Fox Nation, an opinion platform featuring the network’s personalities and original content. That service will launch on November 27th, and it will cost $5.99 a month, or $64.99 per year.
Fox News will begin selling subscriptions on October 28th, and it will air a special preview for the platform that same night at 8PM ET. Fox noted in September that it plans to launch the platform prior to

Soon you’ll be able to get a lot more out of Pokémon Go without taking your phone out. Developer Niantic is adding a new feature called “adventure sync,” which records your steps in the background. It’s rolling out to all users “soon.” Previously, one of the biggest annoyances with Pokémon Go was that your walking data — which is especially important for hatching eggs — was only tracked when your phone was awake. Today’s update

As much as the cooler weather totally makes us want to just cozy up and order endless amounts of takeout, let's take a second to be responsible adults and remember: health is important. Just because #summerbod season is long behind you doesn't mean you have to completely abandon all of your health goals. That's why you need to get a Nutribullet Pro 900, since it's now $50 off at Walmart. 
The Nutribullet Pro 900 is a powerhouse of a blender, so when it comes to making smoothies and shakes t

Apple News has reached 90 million regular readers, three years after the app launched on iPhones and iPads. The stat comes out of a story this morning in The New York Times, which got to go behind the scenes with the Apple News team to see how it works. The Times also furthers reports that Apple is close to launching a subscription service inside the app.
There are already rumors that Apple plans to turn its News app into a bigger venture, and the Times backs those up. Its story says that Apple

Google Maps for Android is getting a new feature today: the option to follow locations and businesses like you would an account on a social network, letting you stay in the loop on any news, events, or upcoming offers that are featured there.
Those updates will show up in the recently added “For You” tab that Google already uses as a personalized feed of local recommendations and restaurants. Allowing users to personalize that section a bit more by adding their favorite stores seems

At first glance, Ralph Breaks the Internet doesn't really register as a princess movie. 
But in fact, Vanellope von Schweetz is herself a Disney princess – and in a crucial scene already making the rounds, she gets a chance to meet all the other Disney princesses and befriend them.
SEE ALSO: This Disney princess cameo in 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' is already a meme
It's a lighthearted moment, and a pleasantly shocking one. Not only do the Disney princesses lounge around in their comf

Solar panels might be the energy source of the future, but they also create a problem without an easy solution: what do we do with millions of panels when they stop working?In November 2016, the Environment Ministry of Japan warned that the country will produce 800,000 tons of solar waste by 2040, and it can’t yet handle those volumes. That same year, the International Renewable Energy Agency estimated that there were already 250,000 metric tons of solar panel waste worldwide and that thi