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“Cheer,” a new documentary series on Netflix,may be singlehandedly changing the way many people think about cheerleading.
The show follows the competitive cheerleading team at Navarro College in Texas as they prepare to compete once more in the national championships, and it quickly becomes clear that this is a physically demanding sport, requiring extraordinary strength and coordination — and resulting in serious injuries when things go wrong.
Those injuries have spurred a bro

The 2019-nCoV coronavirus is a global public health emergency of significant concern. It is also, simultaneously, a fount of misinformation, wild conspiracy theories, and both over- and under-reactions. Whose fault is this? So glad you asked. I happen to have a little list.
Purveyors of misinformation. As archly observed by The Atlantic, that misleadingly-self-described Harvard epidemiologist who tweeted “HOLY MOTHER OF GOD” followed by math errors was … well … wrong.
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It's not often we get actual, useful news in a Super Bowl ad, but Jeep managed to pull it off this year.
The off-road vehicle manufacturer released a Super Bowl ad over the weekend with a ton to chew on. It's a follow-up to 1993's Groundhog Day that actually managed to get Bill Murray to show up, which is an achievement in and of itself. While it's mostly an ad for the 2020 Jeep Gladiator, you get a little preview of the new Jeep e-Bike at about the 38-second mark.For now, details on Jeep's new

Wake up, make breakfast, get the kids to school, drive to work, break into the chief financial officer’s inbox and steal the entire company’s employee tax records. Maybe later you’ll grab a bagel from across the street.
For “red teams” — or offensive security researchers — it’s just another day at work.
These offensive security teams are made up of skilled hackers who are authorized to find vulnerabilities in a company’s systems, networks but

TL;DR: Enhance your iPhone's camera with FusionLens™ for iPhone, which was recently added to the Mashable Shop for $79.99. Most people upgrade to the latest and greatest iPhones purely for the camera. Whether you can relate or not, you've got to admit, it's easier (and probably cheaper) than investing in a fancy DSLR. Those things carry quite the price tag — not to mention a steep learning curve. The problem is, even the fanciest new iPhone 11s still lack the flexibility of inte

It may not be an edit button (nor will it ever be), but Twitter snuck in a nifty little feature for us to play with heading into the weekend of the Super Bowl.
If you've ever looked at Twitter while sports were happening, you've probably seen countless GIFs posted as reactions to big plays. Twitter made that slightly more accessible on Friday, adding the ability to add text descriptions to GIFs. It's an extension of the same feature that has existed for still images for a while.Get those GIFs re

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The days of drudging away in the kitchen for hours just to come out with overcooked steak, are long gone. Busy folks everywhere have made it their mission to spend less time at the stove (or less money on takeout) and still produce Top Chef-worthy spreads. And a couple magical appliances have made that mission possible. 
Enter: pressure cookers and sous vide devices. One speeds up the cooking process and one slows it down, but both work to eliminate extra work on your part and make sure you

TL;DR: Jump into the world of programming with the C++ Programming Bundle: Beginner to Expert for $14.99, a 97% savings. Pop quiz time: What do Call of Duty, Civilization, and World of Warcraft all have in common (besides being popular video games, obviously)? They all run on C++, the gaming industry coding language. 
So if you've ever wanted to take a stab at creating a game of your very own, it's a language worth learning. And it also doesn't hurt that programmers often get hefty six

Bill Murray and his BRFF (Best Rodent Friend Forever) Punxsutawney Phil are going to make the best of an endless Groundhog Day. Bike riding, trips to the arcade, chilling under fireworks — Bill and Phil make every day different and grand. 
The reunion of Bill and Phil comes thanks to Jeep, which reunited the iconic duo for its Super Bowl LIV commercial. According to Jeep, the appearance is Murray's first-ever national TV commercial and whatever they paid him was wildly worth it.
For a

When Uber and Lyft went public, it wasn’t the drivers who got rich — it was the executives, investors and some early employees. In an era when it has become clear that tech executives and investors are frequently the only ones who’ll reap rewards for a company’s success, cooperative startups are getting more attention.
Depending on how it’s set up, a cooperative model offers workers and users true ownership and control in a company; any profits that are generated ar

Following our look at why so many startups are building OKR-focused software and why venture capitalists are pouring capital into their efforts, today we’re asking a similar question about insurance marketplace startups.
This month, Insurifyraised a $23 million Series A that TechCrunch covered here. And even more recently, Gabi, a competitor, raised $27 million. The two rounds added up to $50 million for the insurance marketplace startup space in less than two weeks.
But there was more to

Photo by Eduardo Munoz/VIEWpress/Getty Images Super Bowl 2020 is happening on February 2nd.The San Francisco 49ers will take on the Kansas City Chiefs for the NFL championship, Demi Lovato will sing the anthem, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira will co-host the halftime show, and companies will air their best ads of the year.You can catch all the action for free — if you know where to look.Where is the Super Bowl being played?
Super Bowl 2020 will take place at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens

The week leading up to the Super Bowl has been more somber than usual after the tragic deaths of Kobe and Gianna Bryant. On Saturday night, the NFL carved out some time at its annual awards show to pay tribute to the late Los Angeles Lakers superstar.
Former Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning took to the stage at the NFL Honors show to talk about Bryant's legacy. In the two-minute clip, Manning covers everything from his first encounter with Bryant, to Bryant's love

Greg Epstein ContributorShare on Twitter Greg M. Epstein is the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT, and the author of The New York Times bestselling book "Good Without God." Described as a “godfather to the [humanist] movement” by The New York Times Magazine in recognition of his efforts to build inclusive, inspiring and ethical communities for the nonreligious and allies, Greg was also named “one of the top faith and moral leaders in the United States” by Faithful Inte

No matter how you write today's date, it's a palindrome.
Month, date, year: 02/02/2020
Date, month, year: 02/02/2020
Year, month, date: 2020/02/02
You get the idea. This abundance of twos and zeros makes Feb. 2, 2020 the first international palindrome day in 909 years (since 11/11/1111), and it won't happen again for another 101 years (12/12/2121) on the Gregorian calendar.
If that wasn't enough for you nerds, it's also the 33rd day of 2020 with 333 days to go. 
The internet hopped in their

Skookum Arts It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.
Logic puzzle games tend to fall into one of two groups. Sometimes they’re like sudoku, where once you learn the basics of how to solve the puzzle you can just repeat that ad infinitum. Or they can be like the Professor Layton games, where each puzzle is discrete

Samsung's holding a big event to show off its newest phones in less than two weeks, but why wait? Leakers are out in full force.
With just days to go before Samsung Unpacked, another potential leak for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip appeared online. Ben Geskin tweeted a short video that appears to show a hand folding and unfolding Samsung's newest oddity, a foldable phone with a clamshell design.
Geskin's video isn't long, but it's worth checking out to see how Z Flip owners will interact with it on

After 10 years of no Hummers, we've now got an electric Hummer and an inspirational speech by LeBron James to get you pumped about it. Yes, the discontinued gas-guzzler was officially revived this week. But now it's an all-electric, battery-powered vehicle. 
During the Super Bowl, GMC will tease the electrified SUV, even though the official Hummer unveiling won't happen until May 20 at the Detroit-area plant where the car will eventually be produced. 
So far GMC didn't share much about

Spend enough time online and you’ll grow comfortable with death. That is not to say you will reach an actual detente with the horrors of mortality, but rather you’ll become used to the subject of death creeping into your internet existence. 
Absurdly morbid jokes about dying, depression, and other darks things are the backbone of almost every social media platform — but nowhere is it more true than on Twitter. 
Which brings us to Mr. Peanut.
In case you missed this pa

"Sometimes you got to man up and clap them cheeks" are not the words you want to hear from your dad's mouth. But when it's time to have the sex talk, honesty does go a long way.
Saturday Night Live host (slash VERY jacked NFL player) J.J. Watt plays a horny dad who needs to have a heart-to-heart with his son after he walked in on him banging it out. 
Yes, your parents had sex too btw.  Read more...
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Many of the companies spending big bucks on today’s big game have already released their ads (or teasers for those ads) on YouTube. So if you’re curious about what how tech companies will be promoting themselves tonight, this is the roundup for you.
Some of these ads come from tech giants like Amazonand Facebook, who have hired big stars to promote their products. Meanwhile, Dashlane found a fun way to remind viewers of the nightmare of life without a password manager, while Squ

John Cusack in High Fidelity, appreciating some vinyl. | Photo: Courtesy of Touchstone Pictures The world of record players and vinyl can be intimidating to the uninitiated because the gear that playing records requires (preamps, amps, receivers) can make it seem like an expensive, overly complicated hobby. But that’s not true, according to the experts we spoke with — including DJs, record store owners, and general vinyl geeks — all of whom assured us that you don’t

You don't have to be a fan of pornography to know that pizza delivery guys are a thing. They show up and they've got the pizza but their co-stars have no money. What's a buff pizza delivery guy to do? Trade sex for pizza, naturally.
Saturday Night Live wants you to remember that it's all fun and sexy games until it's time to balance the books. When Pizza Delivery Guy (J.J. Watt) returns to Big Willie's Pizza after a delivery, Big Willie himself (Kenan Thompson) hits him with some hard questions

We've all seen the feel-good football movie of forever, Rudy. But for a cold, hard splash of reality, try "Robbie."
In this Saturday Night Live sketch Chris Redd plays the the all-spirit, no-talent Robbie who desperately wants to take to the field on the big day. Everyone's on board and willing to quit the team to make that happen... except J.J. Watt. The SNL guest host and IRL football player is flabbergasted, because Robbie is terrible and will probably die on the field.
Then the kindly, old j

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The Frozen 2 home video release is almost here and Saturday Night Live would have you believe that Disney gave the show a bundle of deleted scenes to help the hype along. 
The Frozen 2 we almost got would have played very differently. In the scenes, Anna outs Elsa to to the tune "Let It Go" (the remix is called "We All Know"), Kristoff (J.J. Watt) is a "humongous, sensitive oaf" who "won't kiss you while you're asleep," the character of Mattias (Kenan Thompson) brings some more diversity to

"That is too dumb even for this," Kenan Thompson says at one point during this cold open sketch. He's wrong, though. It's all too dumb. What the hell?
Saturday Night Live's latest cold open re-wrote the script for the Donald Trump impeachment trial. Things definitely happen! They're not especially funny or entertaining things, but they are weird as hell. 
If you're here for blockbuster guest appearances, keep moving. It's just Alec Baldwin doing his Trump schtick. If there's any highlight,

Ben Geskin / Twitter Samsung’s next folding phone is likely to be announced this month, and what appears to be the first hands-on video with the device has just appeared online. Leaker Ben Geskin has posted a short clip purportedly showing the phone, said to be called the Galaxy Z Flip, in action on Twitter.
The video doesn’t show a great deal more than what we’ve already seen in leaked photos and renders — we still can’t tell whether the phone is using a new form

Word of Netflix's Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak is spreading fast.
Interest in the six-part docuseries has been supercharged by a deadly outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan, China, that's been dominating headlines since the middle of last week. The show takes a look at the medical professionals and scientists preparing for what many have called an “inevitable” flu pandemic. It’s a thorough and engaging series, as compelling as any other documentary on the streaming service.

TL;DR: A two-year subscription to TunnelBear is on sale for £3.18 per month, saving you 58% on list price.On first inspection, the internet may seem like a free space that you can roam to your heart's content, but it's not. The internet is actually full of annoying restrictions and blockades that can only be overcome with a VPN.
There are loads of services to consider, each with a different set of features that will suit some users more than others. We recommend taking some time to properl

If WeWorkwanted to cement the impression that it no longer strives to be viewed as a tech company but rather as a real estate giant focused on leasing space, it would probably choose a veteran from the real estate world.
That’s just what it has done, too, according to a new story from the WSJ that says the company, which was famously forced to pull its initial public offering last fall, has settled on Sandeep Mathrani as its new top banana.
Mathrani, has spent the last 1.5 years as the CEO

Give back with cuddles!
On Tuesday, Cotton Branch Farm Sanctuary, a South Carolina-based volunteer organization dedicated to helping animals in need, put out an open call for volunteers. Specifically, the group is seeking participants eager to rub noses with pigs in need of socialization. 
Once properly cuddled, the pigs will be one step closer to finding their forever families through adoption. According to the sanctuary's website, pot belly/mini pigs are the most in need of placement.&nbs