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Another tech giant is taking a pass on Barcelona.
Amazon joins a growing list of companies no longer  attending the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which runs in Barcelona from Feb. 24-27. The departing companies, Amazon included, cite concerns over the coronavirus, according to Reuters. 
This is only the latest pull-out in recent days, with a list that includes telecommunications company Ericsson, tech mammoth LG, and computer graphics hardware designer Nvidia. They've all dropped out of

When Ubisoft first approached “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” stars Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day about creating a new show set in the video game industry, McElhenney said they weren’t interested — at least, not initially.
“Anything that we had ever seen in the past, from a movie or television show perspective, the industry was always presented in such a negative light,” he told me. “It was the butt of the joke. The characters themselves were

Millennia from now, future humans might be snacking on heirloom crops provided by the Cherokee Nation.
The Cherokee Nation is the first indigenous American tribe in the U.S. to be invited to contribute its heirloom seeds to the "doomsday" Svalbard Global Seed Vault, nestled deep inside a mountain on a remote island situated between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The vault opened in 2008 and is designed to withstand natural and man-made disasters. It's above sea level so it's protected from

A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns around the coronavirus. After a number of high profile back outs, including ZTE, LG, NVIDIA and Ericsson, the company issued a new list, including a ban of visitors originating from the Hubei province, whose capital Wuhan is believed to be the origin of the epidemic.
Per GSMA CEO John Hoffman,
All travelers from the Hubei province will not be permitted access to the

Birds of Prey is the top movie at the box office in its opening weekend, with $33.3 million in U.S. ticket sales.
That's not a huge opening, let's be clearBirds of Prey didn't do Marvel numbers. Hell, it didn't even do DC numbers. For those keeping track at home, $33.7 million is the lowest opening weekend out of any DC Extended Universe release so far.
It's not all bad news, though. I've seen plenty of headlines and social media chatter declaring Birds of Prey a "failure" and a "box office bust

At Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards, host Aubrey Plaza paid tribute to LGBTQ representation and then brought out the Gay Men's Choir of Los Angeles to "shine a spotlight on some of the gayest  moments in other films that you may not have realized were gay."
The song that unfolds is hilarious and full of terrific reframings of moments from 2019 films, particularly at the expense of the kid from Marriage Story. 
But the entire performance rockets into another dimension of amazing ent

U.K. startup Dayeis rethinking female intimate care from a woman’s perspective, starting with a tampon infused with cannabidiol that tackles period pain.
It’s also quietly demolishing the retrograde approach to product design that women are still subjected to in the mass market “femcare” space — an anti-philosophy that not only peddles stale and sexist stereotypes, but also can harm women’s bodies.
Those perfumed sanitary pads stinking out the supermarket shel

Snowflake, the cloud-based data warehouse company, doesn’t tend to do small rounds. On Friday night word leaked out about its latest mega round. This one was for $479 million on a $12.4 billion valuation. That’s triple the company’s previous $3.9 billion valuation from October 2018, and CEO Frank Slootman suggested that the company’s next finance event is likely an IPO.
Dragoneer Investment Group led the round along with new investor Salesforce Ventures. Existing Snowflak

In the midst of dueling videos purporting to show how many folds Motorola's new foldable Razr phone can take, another video (above) is here to show us how durable the new phone is beyond just the hinge. 
After all, durability is a big issue when you're dropping $1,500 on a phone. Based on JerryRigEverything's video, the new Razr actually can take a bit of the abuse you're sure to put yours through. But there's plenty of reasons to be careful, just as Motorola has asked. 
The metal fram

A still from Parasite The 92nd Academy Awards (also known as the Oscars) will broadcast tonight, February 9th. It’s a celebration of the industry and a showdown between the year’s biggest movies, filmmakers, and all of the people who make them special, including actors, screenwriters, and more.We’ll dig into when and how you can watch the stream below, but first, let’s set the stage for the event.
Who’s hosting the Oscars?
Last year’s awards show was the Acad

Oh lordy, here we go again.
The Nevada State Democratic Party is planning to use a new app for the state's caucus on Saturday, Feb. 22, just days after it abandoned the app that threw the Iowa caucus into chaos. 
Adding to the fun: Nevada Dems are refusing to call it an app. 
Per the Nevada Independent, the "new caucus tool that will be preloaded onto iPads" was introduced to volunteers at a training session on Saturday. 
According to a video used in the training session that the

There are two – that’s right two – launches happening this Sunday, and both are set to broadcast live on NASA’sofficial stream above. The first is a NASA International Space Station resupply mission, with a Norhtrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft launching aboard an Antares rocket from Wallops Island in Virginia at 5:39 PM EST (2:39 PM PST). The second is the launch of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint scientific mission by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) th

The phrase "Independent Spirt Award winner Adam Sandler" might seem confusing if you've never seen his more serious work, but here we are. The Uncut Gems star made the most of his win at Saturday night's ceremony with a rollicking speech.
Adopting the gravelly voice fans of Sandler's Saturday Night Live run will recognize, the actor referred to starring alongside Aubrey Plaza (the show's host) in the 2009 Judd Apatow film Funny People as "the last time critics pretended not to hate me for five f

Donald Trump adherents would argue it's been a good week for their favorite president, between his impeachment acquittal and State of the Union address. But Saturday Night Live Weekend Update sure did a good job of highlighting the plethora of moments that Trump made an ass of himself.
OK fine, that's not a hard job. The president makes an ass of himself as easily as most people breathe. But in the week of his completely unearned victory lap, when Trump was at his Trumpiest, yeah, the days and h

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designs, builds, and operates billion-dollar spacecraft. That makes it a target. What the infosec world calls Advanced Persistent Threats — meaning, generally, nation-state adversaries — hover outside its online borders, constantly seeking access to its “ground data systems,” its networks on Earth, which in turn connect to the ground relay stations through which those spacecraft are operated.
Their presumptive goal is to exfiltrate s

It's been a busy season of Saturday Night Live for Chad (Pete Davidson). First, he danced the night away with J. Lo. Now, he's caught the eye of host RuPaul, who knows after just a single glance that Chad has a bright future in drag.
Witness the transformation as Ru takes the unshaped clay that is Chad and molds him into... well... you'll have to watch the sketch to find out. Read more...
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Photo: Courtesy of the retailer While most races provide aid stations with water or Gatorade along the course, it isn’t always as easy to quench your thirst when you’re running on your own. Fortunately, there are lots of options for carrying water with you — handheld bottles, of course, but also more technical waist packs and even vests. Andy Waterman, a marathoner and head of content at the running apparel brand Tracksmith, explains one reason why you might consider wearing a

Here's some advice from RuPaul that sums up the pure delight of this Saturday Night Live sketch: "Reading is throwing shade: A brutal insult wrapped inside a glorious wordplay." And that's it, that's the sketch.
There's a bigger joke here if you're a fan of RuPaul's Drag Race. And if not, why aren't you watching RuPaul's Drag Race? Just know that when RuPaul declares "The library is open!" it's time to settle in and bask in the shade. Read more...
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And just to be clear, it's ironically.
The latest Saturday Night Live served up a relatively toothless cold open set against the backdrop of yet another debate between Democratic contenders who hope to take on Donald Trump in the 2020 election. They're all starting to blend together at this point, right? (I mean both the SNL debate cold opens and the debates themselves.)
The sketch did do one thing, though. As each candidate delivered their closing argument, Colin Jost's Pete Buttigieg beseeched

Quibi's content lineup includes a long list of familiar faces, and this first trailer for Survive highlights two of them: Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner and The Walking Dead's Corey Hawkins (the latter also played Dr. Dre in Straight Outta Compton).
Survive follows the pair after a plane crash leaves them stranded at the top of a snowy mountain. Their dangerous journey through the wilderness, which Quibi will deliver in a series of 10-minute episodes, is based on the novel of the same name b

Season 1 of Showtime’s Jim Carrey–led dark comedy Kidding was one of the best and most underrated television shows of 2018. The story of a children’s TV host (not Mr. Rogers, but Rogers-adjacent) whose inability to express negative emotion after a lifetime of repression is as relevant as ever in 2020, when the question of what to do with bad feelings generates unyielding discourse on mental health, trauma, and masculinity. 
Season 2 picks up after Jeff's bottled rage explo

In our Love App-tually series, Mashable shines a light into the foggy world of online dating (and, in this case, dissects how dating shapes our online selves). It is cuffing season after all.I love my boyfriend’s dog. 
Of course, my boyfriend is great, but Happy holds a special place in my world. A 6-year-old, 45-pound pitbull with a heart of gold and a head of rocks, Happy makes every corner of my life brighter. Her toys litter my living room, her fur coats my car, her needs circumve

Without focus and productivity in the workplace, you can kiss success goodbye — no matter what sort of work you do. But our pesky smartphones are constantly sabotaging our output by overloading us with limitless information, nonstop notifications, and endless opportunity for communication. How can we possibly be our most productive selves when our group chats are pinging us every 30 seconds?
If you're looking for a way to still stay connected, but also keep your mind on your work, try down

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While you don't have to make it a full-time pursuit, just imagine the things you can do with a little extra cash. Your reclaimed wood furniture could fund a trip to the other side of the world or beef up your savings account.
If you do decide to monetize your creativity, Etsy is the site for the job and this Launch Your Etsy Store training can help you get started for just $19.99.
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One billion people use Instagram every monthONE BILLION. And two hundred million of those users visit at least one business profile daily. That's quite the audience for your brand. So, maybe you should start putting more time and thought into your Instagram strategy?
There's a huge difference between posting pictures leisurely and strategically planning out every post, caption, and idea. By learning the tricks of the trade, you can transform your brand's profile into a money-making machine, and

Massage guns are having a moment. Professional trainers, physical therapists, and even NBA players are using them to send their muscles on the fast-track to recovery. These buzzworthy tools aren't just trendy, though; they could actually be the difference between you reaching your fitness goals and ending up with a serious injury. 
SEE ALSO: The best massage guns for percussive therapy
The big name in the massage therapy gun world is Theragun, but most models carry a whopping $600 price tag

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