New Year's Eve is the Las Vegas of holidays: An overhyped, boozy moneypit beloved by thirsty amateurs and precision-engineered to facilitate paralyzing morning-after regrets that are only tolerable if you're 10000% booty-faced. There is no app that will make it *good* but some apps can make it less bad.
My favorite part of Return of the Jedi was the final Death Star battle, a perfect choreography of models filmed with computer-controlled cameras. It was truly amazing—except for the Ewok clowns interrupting the flow with their unrealistic fight.* So I always wanted to see this: The entire battle in high definition.
You've probably heard a lot of things about dogs, cats, and other typical pets, but some things are exaggerated or untrue. This video clears up 10 popular myths and old wives' tales so you can be the best pet owner you can be.
Reports that Islamic State militants in Mosul have contracted Ebola swirled though Iraqi media sources on Wednesday. World Health Organization officials said they haven't confirmed the cases, but the organization has reached out to offer assistance
Three outlets reported that Ebola showed up at a hospital in Mosul, a city 250 miles north of Baghdad that's been under ISIS control since June 2014. The reports, however, have perpetuated mostly in pro-government and Kurdish media.
"We have no official notification from [the Iraqi government] that it is Ebola," Christy Feig, WHO's director of communications told Mashable Read more...
LOS ANGELES — “It was a great year for movies” is one of those phrases that gets trotted out annually around this time, as bloggers whip up their top 10 lists and prestige films start preening for awards attention. On the whole, it can’t always be true.
It pains me to say it, but this is one of those years when it’s not. 2014 just wasn’t all that great for movies, and that means creatively, at the box office and for the overall health of the business — three factors that always seem to run in a pack.
SEE ALSO: Movies to look forward to in 2015
Here’s the good news: 2015 will bounce back so vigorously that “It was a great year for movies” will be a silly understatementThe Avengers are back. Spielberg and Tarantino are back. So are the Fast and Furious gang, Pixar (twice!), not to mention 50 shades of potentially profitable newcomers. There will be an awakening in the box-office Force, and it will be record-breaking. Read more...
LOS ANGELES — Edward Herrmann, the incredibly prolific actor whose collection of intellectual and high-society characters included Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls and FDR (three times) has died, TMZ reported Wednesday. He was 71.
Herrmann died in a New York hospital on Thursday morning after a battle with brain cancer, TMZ reported, citing family sources.
Edward Herrmann in 2011.
Herrmann's representatives were on a break for the holidays and could not be reached.
Herrmann appeared in some 130 movies and television shows going back to 1971, making his mark as a young Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1976 TV movie Elanor and Franklin, which was followed in '77 by Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. He would play FDR again in the 1982 film Annie, and voiced the former president in a Ken Burns documentary. Read more...
This article is part of DBA, a new series on Mashable about running a business that features insights from leaders in entrepreneurship, venture capital and management.
I graduated with my MBA when I was 32 years old. I had been out of school for eight years, working for a handful of companies in various software development, consulting and sales roles. I went back to school because I knew (almost) exactly what I wanted to do in the long run: Start my own company. I was confident going back to school was a step in the right direction.
Remember the collective Internet freakout over the massive iOS 8 download?
Well, now that freakout has taken the form of a lawsuit. Specifically, a class action suit filed in the United States District Court in San Francisco Tuesday, which claims Apple misled users about the size of the iOS 8 update. Two individuals are named in the suit, both from Miami
The suit focuses on users with 8 GB and 16 GB devices, who are most affected by the unwieldy iOS 8 download since they lose a significant portion of their storage capacity when they upgrade, according to the suit. Read more...
Sometimes what we say doesn't go over very well, regardless of our intent. There's a difference between what we mean when we say something and how it comes across to other people. Learning that difference is an important aspect of becoming emotionally intelligent.
Every year, Mark Zuckerberg gives himself a personal challenge, because being a 30-year-old founder of the largest social network in the world just isn't enough.
This year, he crowdsourced recommendations on, of course, Facebook
Many users took the opportunity to give Zuckerberg suggestions on how to improve the website instead of himself — adding the often-requested "dislike" button was well-represented in the suggestions. There were also plenty of proposals to make the world a better place, like visiting classrooms every week, feeding the homeless, and reaching out to Facebook users to offer encouragement Read more...
At this point, it's not even funny how much the Pentagon has screwed up the development of its new stealth fighter jet , the F-35. But the latest report that the jet's 25mm cannon won't be operational until 2019 at the earliest is just laughable. Even more laughable is that it probably doesn't even need the gun to begin with.
From the Ebola outbreak to Ferguson protests, 2014 was a year of news that rocked the world. But which one of those stories had the biggest impact on Americans?
Mashable posed that question to 1,502 people in the U.S. We surveyed a wide-ranging demographic: both male and female, ages 18 to 65, living in rural and urban communities. (You can see a breakdown at the bottom of this story.)
We asked only one question. The respondent could only select one out of six answers — presented in random order — or he or she could write in a response
