LOS ANGELES — Not since Pulp Fiction's fictitious "Fox Force 5" has an all-female hero team-up sounded this kick-ass.
Marvel Comics, which is already light years ahead of the entertainment industry when it comes to awesome female characters, announced its first all-women Avengers team on Friday. And they are very much in charge.
The A-Force will consist of She-Hulk, Dazzler, Medusa, Nico Minoru and many others — including at least one new superhero, a "cosmically powered" heroine named Singularity.
As the Marvel Comics universe prepares to conclude its three-year Time arc and transition into Secret Wars, the new, all-female Avengers team will "take over and lead the way," according to the comic book publisher, which announced the news Friday morning. Read more...
Straightforward yet subtly sophisticated, the Civilware Striker Folding Knife is a fine addition to your EDC arsenal. It boasts a three-inch steel curved blade, a slightly larger textured handle, a...
It's not the same as bringing a Harry Potter wand to opening night of The Goblet of Fire.
Fifty Shades of Grey fans will not be permitted to bring, shall we say, tributes to certain theaters once the film opens on Friday, Feb. 13; this includes ropes, whips, ties and more
"While we welcome those guests who want to show their excitement for a film by dressing up in costume, we do not permit weapons (real or fake), or props/costumes that would make guests uncomfortable, or detract from the moviegoing experience," AMC Theaters spokesperson Ryan Noonan told Mashable.
YouTuber and train enthusiast containerman2, whose real name is Darren, recorded what he calls an "EPIC CATCH!!!" on Tuesday.
A winter storm left southern New Brunswick, Canada, with a significant amount snow — but luckily, Darren was armed with a camera to capture the first vehicle to sweep through the fresh blanket
Like other dating apps, users create profiles and swipe through potential matches nearby. But High There is optimized to match people based on their preferences for consuming marijuana
If a user prefers vaping over smoking, for example, the app is likely to match him with others nearby who also vape. Another key aspect is specifying your energy level when you're high; that way, low-energy couch potatoes won't be paired with energetic explorers Read more...
Babies at a second day care center have contracted measles following an outbreak linked to Disneyland in late December.
Five children too young to be vaccinated in a Chicago-area day care center have contracted the contagious virus, Illinois health officials said Thursday. The announcement comes after a baby at a Santa Monica, California nursery also became infected, prompting the center to temporarily close and 14 babies to be voluntarily quarantined.
Illinois and Cook County departments of public health released a statement confirming the cluster of infected babies at the KinderCare Learning Center in Palatine, a Chicago suburb. It follows the confirmed case at Samohi Infant Toddler Center in Santa Monica on Feb. 2 Read more...
If you love riding your bike but hate the sun, a solution may be on the horizon
San Francisco-based design firm Gensler proposes to take advantage of untapped resources and turn London's abandoned tube tunnels into usable underground streets
According to Gensler's website, the proposed "London Underline" aims to help clear up congestion for commuters in London and provide a safer space for cyclists
Eventually, the tunnels could even be destinations in themselves, hosting shops and art.
The plan is currently focused on specific parts of the Piccadilly and Jubilee lines that are currently out of use, but there are many more tunnels that could potentially be put to use. Ideally, the entire city would be connected underground Read more...
Carl Williams’ love for the galaxy far, far away started not so long ago, when he was five years old. His grandmother had taken him to see Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. By the time Episode II: Attack of the Clones came out in 2002, he had watched the original trilogy “to near death.”
Eight years later, he founded the Reformed Jedi Order (RJO) as a club at Midland High School in Midland, Mich. In 2011, the group started holding lightsaber fight events. Now, RJO holds events every Sunday. According to member Scott Comer, they aren’t concerned with what people think, they just want to have fun. Read more...
An Alaska man who attempted to walk 50 miles between two villages at 35 below zero was found in good shape 4 miles from his goal by searchers called by his family.
Lawrence James, 52, wore heavy winter gear and carried water and a .22-caliber rifle. He walked nonstop for 15 hours and told searchers he didn't get cold on the long stroll between Birch Creek and Fort Yukon, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.
You know when you haven't seen your best friend for a while and then he shows up, unannounced, at a hockey game to remind you of the good ole days when you were stranded together on an island?
Tom Hanks and his unequivocal BFF since shooting Castaway in 2000, Wilson, were reunited Wednesday at Madison Square Garden during a New York Rangers game. The jumbotron caught Hanks begrudgingly waving at the camera until someone tossed him the blood-stained volleyball of his youth
Hanks' face immediately lit up with the joy that only old friends can bring Read more...
The publication cites an advisor to Tony Fadell in saying that Google Glass would be completely reimagined and redesigned from scratch. The ideas that spawned from the early Glass Explorers’ program will serve as a solid foundation for the new product, but there’s no reason to suggest what we’ll eventually get will look anything like the Google Glass we know.
Also potentially being put to rest are questions about whether we’ll be able to help shape the development of the project like we were able to with Google Glass Explorers’. The answer seems to be no, though we aren’t all that surprised considering the history of Fadell and his preference to keep projects under wraps until they’re ready for public consumption.
There have been far too many people jumping to conclusions and looking to ring the gong to signify the death of Google Glass (especially after Google’s earnings call last week), but there’s been nothing to suggest the exciting new product category won’t be formally reintroduced in the future. The only thing we’re still wondering about is when it will happen, how it will happen, and — perhaps most importantly — how much it will cost.
We’ll admit. The iPhone 6 is one sexy smartphone. But who knew the iPhone 6’s unsightly camera bump (the one they tried to hide in all their promo images) was actually a desirable trait? If this latest leak is anything to go by, it seems the South Korean manufacturer could be looking to copy more than just the iPhone’s rounded edges.
According to a few leaked schematics for the Samsung Galaxy i6 S6, we could now be getting our first real hard look at what the phone will look like when it’s finally unveiled on March 1st. The blueprints don’t just show us what the phone will look like, but provide us with detailed measurements showing the phone coming in at 143mm x 70.8mm x 6.91mm thin — the very same thickness as the iPhone 6 (although we’d be willing to bet that camera hump is a little larger). By comparison, the Apple iPhone 6 comes in at 138.1mm x 67mm x 6.9mm.
The schematics match up fairly closely to new case renders provided by Verus who told PhoneArena reflect the actual dimensions of the device along with, you guessed it, a fairly large camera bump. Really, the case renders don’t tell us much if anything, but you can clearly make out an IR blaster making a return on top of the device (also shown in the leaked schematic).
Unless Samsung engineers have pulled off some sort of black magic, we can’t imagine the battery capacity being much more than the current Galaxy S5 (it could even be less). We’re still filing this one under “rumor” for now, so take it as you will. We know, naysayers have been making Samsung/iPhone comparisons for years now, but looking at this design (so far), it’s hard to deny the similarities: home button/fingerprint scanner, more rounded corners and edges than ever before (also anodized aluminum it seems), both the billet drilled speaker and headphone jack now moved to the bottom of the phone. What do you guys think? Are we completely off base here?
Development of the popular Timely alarm clock slowed to a crawl when Google acquired the company just over a year ago, but there have been a few small updates since then. Today is a big one, though. Timely v1.3 adds some new features, fixes some bugs, and even adopts a few Lollipop UI elements.
Here's the full changelog for the new version of Timely.
Select your own sounds
Upcoming alarm notification
Option to ask for the challenge to snooze
Google Now support for timers and reuses alarms
Android 5.0 adaptions:
Colored notifications
Colored status and action bar
Colored Overview headers
support for new alarm API to show the alarm icon
Numerous fixes for crashes and visual glitches
A few of the changes account for new implementations for alarms and timers in Android.
Amidst rumors of Google working a “Kid’s Mode” for Android — and their quiet acquisition of Launchpad Toys — it seems Google has really taken a liking to kid-friendly products and services as of late. Another clue? Google and Mattel are now teaming up too announce a new product that will be unveiled in an event in New York on February 13th (just a day ahead of the NYC Toy Fair).
Okay, so maybe not entirely new. The tag line reads, “view what’s possible,” and with an image of one of those View-Master film reels in the invite (I used to have an awesome Michael Jackson’s Thriller one). Something tells us that, with Google’s new emphasis in VR and Google Cardboard being announced back at IO, this could be Mattel’s version of 3D VR that connects to your Android device.
We wont really know until this Friday, but if I’m right, I’ll be first in line to pick one of these up.
The folks at Android’s marketing department are targeting the internet with an all new video that is sure to make you go, “Awwwww.” The video highlights a variety of cute, interspecies relationships (the good kind), emphasizing Android’s new motto: Be Together. Not the Same.
All we have to say is, just watch. And share, share, share.
Coming with the latest Google Maps update is Local Guides, a new program meant to increase the number of reviews original to Google and highlight the best of them. It is both a feature addition to Maps and something that exists independently of it. Guides are people who will be rewarded for their reviews, while you benefit by having them as a more credible source of information.
This looks similar to Yelp's Elite Reviewers, which is...well, similar.
We’ve seen a lot of the Samsung Galaxy S6 as of late, but through all the leaks and rumors we haven’t really gotten a good look at the supposed “Edge” variant said to be on the way. That changes today, though, thanks to the gift that keeps on giving — Verus and their careless render leaks.
The case manufacturer let slip another one of their promo images for Samsung’s latest phones, and on the far right side you’ll notice the curved display of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. It should serve a purpose identical to which a similar feature served on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. That is, you’ll be able to get notifications, information about weather, appointments and time, and mini apps that you can use if you’d rather free up the main display for more complicated tasks.
Like the Galaxy Note 4, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge won’t be produced at nearly the same scale as Samsung’s tried and true straight-edged model. There should be enough supply for everyone who wants one to get one, though, and we imagine most carriers will look to offer both options once they’re available.
CNet Korea also mentions that the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge will be “dual-edged” and symmetrical on both sides, though from what we can tell the leaked render doesn’t seem to depict such a design. Perhaps it’s just a bad angle, but either way we will know for sure on March 1st.
Down one with 40 seconds left, the Heat should've had two possessions to win the ballgame. Instead, Norris Cole accidentally inbounded the ball when he was really just trying to throw it to Hassan Whiteside so that he could inbound it. Cole ended up getting the ball exactly where he wanted, but for some reason didn't think it had been a legal inbounds, so he had Whiteside step out of bounds while tossing him the ball. Whoops.
A certain degree of dedication isn't unusual among comics fans, but one Venezuelan man's devotion to the Marvel supervillain Red Skull apparently exceeded his devotion to having a sense of smell.
Sports Illustrated has revealed the cover of its annual issue of Boobs: The Great Subsidy, and all the predictable heavy breathing that comes on a day like this has been joined by another kind of "buzz," as one might call it. Between now and the issue's publication date, you are probably going to see SI receiving a fair amount of praise for "featuring" a plus-size* model, Ashley Graham, in the swimsuit issue for the first time ever.
Gifted Neil Young impressionist Jimmy Fallon has performed many covers in the style of Neil Young over the years, including modern classics like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's theme song and Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair."
But how does his impression hold up next to the actual Neil Young?
Young finally joined Fallon on The Tonight Show Tuesday night to perform "Old Man" from his own catalog in matching outfits and confirm that the duo could totally be the new Olsen twins.
Ever watch a YouTube video, and wish you could see things differently?
Well, now you can. The popular online video service announced a new feature on Wednesday that lets users upload multiple camera angles for a YouTube video. Viewers can then switch camera angles on the fly as they watch.
There are a few caveats, though. Only desktop users in the U.S. can play around with the feature, right now. And the only video that currently uses it is one from Madilyn Bailey, an indie artist YouTube selected as a test partner. But Bailey has a wide reach: 1.9 million YouTube subscribers, with her most popular videos — a mix of mellow covers from artists, including Ed Sheeran and Sia — easily fetching 5 million views or more each Read more...
Atlanda barber Russell Fredrick, also known as Rusty Fred, is advertising that he will give an old-man haircut to misbehaving kids who come into his shop. "So u wana [sic] act grown...well now u [sic] look grown too," he wrote on Instagram.
He demonstrated the so-called "Benjamin Button Special" on his own precious but mischievous son and posted the photos on Instagram
According to The Washington Post, Fredrick is the owner is A-1 Kutz, and is offering the hilariously cruel cut completely free of charge to any parents who are at their wits end with their offspring Read more...
If you haven’t been keeping up, current rumors strongly point to Samsung ditching their tried-and-true plastic and going with a more metal design for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6. We know, we’ve heard that just about every year the Korean manufacturer prepares a new flagship release — but this time it could finally be different.
Those needing a little more proof than simply the word of “sources close to the matter,” the folks at Nowhereelse.fr have obtained a few alleged photos of the Galaxy S6’s metal frame, photographed from inside the confines of a Chinese bathroom (the worker likely smuggled the phone inside for a worry free pic).
The photos give us a very clear look at what could be the sides of the Samsung Galaxy S6, and we hate to admit it but… it looks a bit like the iPhone 6 (which also looks like the Sony Xperia Z3 or even the HTC One M8). Upon closer inspection, you’ll find cutouts for the camera and LED flash/heart rate sensor, along with a headphone port and speaker grill on the bottom, and what we’re assuming is an SD card slot along one side and SIM slot on the other.
Exactly what kind of materials will be sandwiched on the top and bottom of this phone is anyone’s guess, but according to rumors the phone will come equipped with a 5.1-inch 1440p display, Exynos 7420 processor, 3GB of RAM, 20MP camera, and 2,550mAh battery. Here’s the rest:
64-bit eight-core 14nm CPU which is 50% faster
5.1-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display with a 577ppi density, stunning outdoor visibility, super dim mode for late night.
20MP OIS camera sensor and a 5 megapixel f/1.8 front-facing camera with real-time HDR
32 / 64 / 128GB of storage
2550mAh battery
Built-in wireless charging
Four hours of usage on a 10 minute charge
Quick connect charging
Samsung Pay: works with 90% of existing magnetic stripe payment terminals, and NFC payment terminals
Metal and glass body
Gorilla Glass 4
Cat 6 LTE
Of course, we wont really know what Samsung has up their sleeves until their March 1st Unpacked event in Barcelona. Samsung has received a lot of flak for sticking to the same stale Galaxy design year after year, but it looks like the S6 could finally be different. Well, different for Samsung anyway.
The Denver Nuggets have lost 10 of their last 11 games; last night, they trailed the putrid 76ers by as many as 28 points before cobbling together enough dignity to make the final score look competitive. They're 19-30 at the moment, 11th in the stacked West, and 8.5 games out of the final playoff spot, and that might seem almost respectable on the surface, as though they're scuffling at the moment, but still hangin' in there. Nah. The Nuggets are a goddamn catastrophe.
The Patriots are parading through Boston today, and walking beer pong tournament Rob Gronkowski is enjoying the festivities by wearing a children's hat and inefficiently putting beer in his mouth.
Straightforward yet subtly sophisticated, the Civilware Striker Folding Knife is a fine addition to your EDC arsenal. It boasts a three-inch steel curved blade, a slightly larger textured handle, a...
Development of the popular Timely alarm clock slowed to a crawl when Google acquired the company just over a year ago, but there have been a few small updates since then. Today is a big one, though. Timely v1.3 adds some new features, fixes some bugs, and even adopts a few Lollipop UI elements.
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