Monthly Archives: January 2017

Passing a celebritys house is obviously more exciting than seeing a real historic landmark, but now the two are actually the same thing. I mean, yeah the Colosseum is nice and all, but if were passing through Calabasas on a random Sunday, were obviously looking for every Kardashian in sight and wont rest until we […]

Twitter discontinues vine.Image: Yui Mok/PA Wire URN:29027579/PA Images/AP Vine, one of the internets most creative social platforms, shuts down today, leaving behind a legacy of comedy, magic, music, vulgarity and the inherent frailty of our social media obsessions. Similar to its parent company, Twitter, Vine couldnt grow beyond its roots. There were millions of users […]

Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and Oculus Touch controllers as the gives a demonstration during the Oculus Connect 3 event in San Jose on Oct. 6, 2016.Image:  David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Back in March 2014, Facebook announced it acquired Oculus, the “leader in immersive virtual reality technology, for a […]

Image: Getty Images / universal / mashable composite  LONDON It is a truth universally acknowledged that Donald Trump LOVES Twitter. In fact, his stream of consciousness tweets and personal musings could be considered a pithy Bridget Jones-esque diary about the ups and downs of life as PEOTUS. SEE ALSO: Calling Bridget Jones one of the […]

Image: Getty Images There are many of life’s little luxuries I could live without, but coffee is not one of them. That’s why I was dismayed to read yet another article shaming me for spending my money on skinny lattes and espressos. This morning, as I trawled through my Twitter feed with bleary, pre-caffeinated eyes, […]

“In the United States dog fighting is recognised as a Grade A felony by the FBI.” France applies a sentence of up to two years, and Germany and the Czech Republic apply a sentence of up to three years. Click to see content: dogfights_birmingham The RSPCA said the highest number of calls it had received […]

(CNN)Journalist Glenn Greenwald said he does not believe President Barack Obama’s decision to commute Chelsea Manning’s prison sentence would affect the fate of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who has been in Russia since 2013. The difference, according to Greenwald, is that Manning, a former Army soldier, has shown remorse for her actions, […]

(CNN)Oklahoma is one of the more unlikely places in the United States to experience earthquakes. But in the six years that Scott Pruitt has served as the state’s attorney general, Oklahoma has been rattled by hundreds of quakes with a magnitude of 3.0 and greater, with some areas facing the same level of risk as […]

Inspectors discovered that the creature was in fact made out of plastic. Stone tortoise A month later animal collection officer Alan Farr was asked by a homeowner to help find a trapped bird which was making a “peeping noise” in her loft. “After searching around and unable to find the mystery bird, I then went […]

Trumps win and Americas divisiveness have left some Americans feeling hopeless but this country has reckoned with this kind divisiveness before. Weve gone through Civil War, after all. And Reconstruction. And those decades of Jim Crow that gave way to what we know today as the Civil Rights Movement, an era that more and more […]