Your hero Rihanna fell off a swan float to save her glass of wine

Vacations are a great opportunity to take a look at your life and remember what’s important, like wine. And so when Rihanna, in the middle of soaking up the sun on her swan float — a required activity for all celebrities — realized that she was losing her balance, her priorities were clear. RiRi gloriously […]

Brand New may have announced plans to break up in 2018 with T-shirts

Brand New fans have come to expect two things: music that speaks to their eternal suffering and cryptic messages. Now the band’s back at it with some new merchandise, including T-shirts featuring a floral upside-down cross (for spring!) and another portraying a resurrection. They both read “Brand New: 2000-2018.” SEE ALSO: Jesse Lacey of Brand […]

Gawker CEO Nick Denton goes after thin-skinned Silicon Valley billionaires

 Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton joined Kara Swisher on stage at Vox Media’s Code Conference next to an empty chair — reserved for Peter Thiel, who is involved in a lawsuit against Gawker, who did not attend the conference. The conversation centered around Gawker’s decision to publish a story that noted that Thiel was gay […]

eBay does not want to be a lesser version of Amazon

Remember eBay? It’s no longer just the auction site or a destination for other people’s used stuff. It’s a commerce destination with more than 100 million users that, according to eBay CEO Devin Wenig, moves $90B of products per year. It’s also not necessarily the Amazon competitor people make it out to be. “Used goods […]

As floodwaters rise, Paris closes the Louvre to protect valuable artwork

The Louvre museum in Paris will close its doors on Friday as officials work to move artwork away from rising floodwaters Museum staff will move some work upstairs to protect against the nearby Seine River, which has overflowed its banks after several days of torrential downpours. The flooding affecting Paris is also taking a toll […]

Hey, girl: Ryan Gosling thinks ‘women are better than men’

Ryan Gosling has spoken: girls rule, boys drool.  The actor — perhaps in fear his heartthrob title was in jeopardy — admitted to Evening Standard Magazine that he thinks females are the superior sex.  SEE ALSO: Justin Bieber’s face tattoo may be a loving Ryan Gosling tribute “I think women are better than men,” Gosling said. […]

Edtech startup Udemy raises $60 million from Naspers for international expansion

 The venture arm of Naspers Ltd. has invested $60 million in Udemy, an online marketplace for education. For the unfamiliar, Naspers is a Johannesburg-listed tech and media firm that operates robust online classifieds businesses in emerging markets, with a strong presence in India. Udemy CEO Dennis Yang said that after closing a $65 million Series […]

Prima donna engineers

 In a world where engineers truly are the new rock stars and markets continue to be moderately funded, it is not uncommon to witness or experience the engineering “prima donna effect.” I’ve gently suggested this term in the past and it struck a nerve. Read More from TechCrunch http://tcrn.ch/1VzIG31Filed under: U Tagged: TechCrunch

Silly string gets smashed silly by hydraulic press

There exists no more metal way to party than this. Crushing fiends Presstube put childhood favorite silly string under their hydraulic press to show us the right way to party hard. Some cleanup required. BB-8 warbles and wobbles through a new ‘Lego Star Wars’ trailer ‘Surgeon Simulator’ now lets you rip Donald Trump’s heart out News anchors […]

BB-8 warbles and wobbles through a new ‘Lego Star Wars’ trailer

There’s pretty much one major reason we’re hyped for Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Can you guess what it is? BB-8 is one of the most surprising new additions to the Star Wars universe, sliding in comfortably right alongside faves C-3PO and R2-D2. He’s cute, he’s rolly-polly and he does this cool thumbs-up thing with […]

‘Harry Potter’ spells seem way less magical when you examine their Latin origins

Put down your wands and open a dictionary. While we’re all still waiting for our Hogwarts letters to arrive, most Harry Potter fans already know several basic spells to help them through the wizarding world. SEE ALSO: Young wizard in training simply wants to get to the Ministry of Magic However, part of a spell’s […]

A huge, bright meteor streaking through the sky freaked a bunch of people out

A big and bright fireball streaked across the skies above the southwest United States in the wee hours of Thursday morning, providing a surprising view for people on the ground lucky enough to see it.  Many reports of the meteor sighting appear to cluster around Arizona with some in California, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada and […]

Riiiight: France star Karim Benzema blames racism for Euro 2016 snub

Star Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema says he knows why France manager Didier Deschamps left him off the host nation’s roster for the Euro 2016 international soccer tournament.  “He has bowed to the pressure of a racist part of France,” Benzema told a Spanish newspaper this week.  SEE ALSO: Run it back: 5 burning questions that […]

Lin-Manuel Miranda reportedly sets date for final ‘Hamilton’ performance

Lin-Manuel Miranda is ready to step out of Alexander Hamilton’s shoes.  The creator of the award-winning Broadway smash Hamilton is reportedly going to perform one last time on July 9, according to the Hollywood Reporter.  That’s right — you only have about a month to catch the original star as the ten dollar founding father. And […]

Gender-specific options are now a thing of the past in ‘The Sims’

There’s no such thing as “men’s clothes” or a “women’s hairstyle” anymore — at least, not in the world of The Sims. The Sims 4 is dropping all gender associations with character traits in the game, meaning players can build a Sim that looks, dresses and acts in whichever ways they choose, regardless of the […]

VSCO is rolling out redesigned iOS and Android apps

 VSCO, the popular image editing app, is getting a complete redesign on both the Android and iOS platforms, which will be rolling out in the coming weeks. Most of the new key features are improvements, like a new camera interface, gesture-based navigation, a redesigned personal space for images and journal posts within the VSCO network and better […]

Stanford’s ‘Jackrabbot’ robot will attempt to learn the arcane and unspoken rules of pedestrians

 It’s hard enough for a grown human to figure out how to navigate a crowd sometimes — so what chance does a clumsy and naive robot have? To prevent future collisions and awkward “do I go left or right” situations, Stanford researchers are hoping their “Jackrabbot” robot can learn the rules of the road. Read […]

We need to talk about this ‘Game of Thrones’ scene between Arya and Melisandre

Warning: Spoilers ahead if you’re not caught up on Game of Thrones. LONDON — Now that Arya’s story finally looks like it might actually be going somewhere, it’s high time we revisited a key moment from Season 3, episode 6. Specifically, the scene in which Arya meets everyone’s favourite bastard-reviving red priestess, Melisandre. SEE ALSO: […]

How to be a healthy & productive employee all year long

Mashable’s latest #BizChats Twitter chat, sponsored by Sleep Number, discussed what it takes to stay on top of your productivity at work, even when the weather is gorgeous outside and all you can think about is the beach Over the course of an hour, @MashBusiness covered an array of questions, ranging from the signs, symptoms […]

Medium acquires Superfeedr, a real-time API that supercharges your feeds

 Medium has acquired a small startup called Superfeedr, an API to turbocharge the way you handle RSS, Atom and JSON feeds. For a company like Medium, Superfeedr can generate feeds with a ton of items and push them in real time to PubSubHubbub-compliant services. According to Superfeedr’s <a href="https://super Read More from TechCrunch http://tcrn.ch/1Y4Rle9Filed under: […]