Saturday, 31 January 2015

For the past three years, Mashable has assembled a crack team of ad execs to live blog and critique the often sorry crop of Super Bowl ads that are foisted on the American public. This year is no exceptionIt's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. The 2015 crew is more than up to the task. The Expendables-style...
Nearly two months after it went offline following a police raid in Sweden, torrent-indexing site The Pirate Bay is back onlineThe comeback is hardly surprising. Following a period of complete unavailability, the site was resurrected in December, with an image of a phoenix replacing its standard pirate-ship...
The two men hoping to set a new world record for traveling in a helium-filled balloon safely executed a water landing on the Baja coast near La Poza Grande in Mexico on SaturdayAfter traveling roughly 7,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, the team, consisting of pilots Troy Bradley and Leonid Tiukhtyaev, have...
As views on sexuality slowly evolve in China, some have found expression in the reform with a whole lot of sequins.Chunai 98, a drag club in Guangxi Province presents a rare showcase of performances by a small group of cross-dressing men. Over time, the club has slowly gained some acceptance among localsSee...
Nobody likes a flake. That goes for flaky skin, too.If you're one of the many people affected by the moisture-sucking winter air, you're probably suffering with ashy skin, chapped lips and a dry throat.See also: 13 Plane Confessions From the People Running Your Flight What's a dry human to do? You could purchase...
With Valentine's Day coming around the bend, people across the globe are gearing up to snuggle in pairs. Or are they?Not according to professional cuddler Samantha Hess, who calls 2015 the year of taking back the cuddle. The affectionate act has gone commercial thanks to Hess, who has hosted hundreds of these...
DDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria, an African Union official said Saturday.The move came after the council urged heads of state to endorse the deployment of troops from five West African countries to fight the extremist...
Are unread books piling up on the nightstand? It might be time to rethink your approach to reading.It can be tough to get back to regular reading when the rest of one's day is stretched thin with responsibility. In early 2014, Pew Research Center reported that nearly a quarter of Americans hadn't cracked open...
In 2014, 1,215 rhinos were killed in South Africa for their horns, which end up in Asia as supposed cures for a variety of ailments. An estimated 30,000 African elephants were slaughtered last year for their tusks to be turned into trinkets. The world loses three rhinos a day and an elephant every 15 minutes....
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With three kids, never ending monthly expenses and the loom of college tuitions in our future, saving money is a top priority. As much as I make an effort though (and it does take effort), it’s easy to default to whatever is convenient, so I doubly appreciate any tech tools or apps that make saving money even...
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It will ruin your concentration, kill your productivity and drive you to absolute distraction. When you get a song stuck in your head it can really affect your mental state and ruin your moodWe take a look at the what, how and why of "earworms," and ask, "Is there a cure?"See also: The science behind brain...
Right now in Kent, England, Anthony is almost certainly checking actor Jamie Dornan's Twitter feed. The 22-year-old French teaching assistant has probably also got one eye on Dornan's Instagram stream, although the actor posts there less frequently, and Facebook pageAnthony relentlessly follows and checks...
A measles outbreak linked to Disneyland continues to spread and while California remains the hardest hit state, health officials in Arizona are on high alert ahead of the Super Bowl.Authorities have confirmed at least 109 cases, 91 of which are in California, according to a Friday update from the California...