Ashley Feinberg

Microsoft: Finally, a PC for All Your Lady Stuff (Weddings, Pinterest)

Tech companies don’t exactly have have the best track record when it comes to marketing to women—obviously. But after running damage control on horrible campaign after horrible campaign, you’d think they’d try to avoid making the same mistakes again—and you’d be wrong. Enter Microsoft’s new all-in-one lady commercial. In attempting to make its all-in-one tabets…

New Netflix Phishing Scam Tricks You Into Calling Fake “Tech Support”

If the screen below has ever popped up as you were supposedly logging into Netflix, we’ve got some bad news for you. No, it’s not your Netflix account—that’s perfectly safe (at least for now). But if you followed the instructions on the screen, you’ve been duped by a new phishing scheme that seems so painfully…

A Cheat Sheet to the Oscar Best Picture Nominees, Emoji Style

For the casual Oscar fan, the chances of you having seen each one of tonight’s Best Picture nominees are pretty slim. But don’t worry; Mashable has you covered—that is, assuming you’re fluent in Emoji. This is by no meansthe first time we’ve seen emojis used to tell a tale, but this is definitely the most…

Antiviral: Celebrity Culture and Cannibalism

Given that the entire internet has spent the past week buzzing over what may or may not be a sincere effort at selling lab-grown celebrity meat for consumption, it seems only appropriate that we end the week with Antiviral (currently on Netflix). The movie received some mixed reviews, but one thing’s for certain—this thing is…

You Can Now Buy the Official Pillow-Fighting Pillow of Japan

Are you one of the All Japan Pillow Fighting Association’s rapt and loyal followers? Are you tired of the more conventional sports fans sauntering around in their jerseys while you walk around swag-less? Looks like your day has finally come. As of yesterday,you can finally buyan Officially Recognized by the All Japan Pillow Fighting Association…

The Financial Times is reporting that, come next week, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo will all be announcing their official launches of iOS in the Car at the Geneva Motor Show. Let’s just hope what we’re looking at looks a little something like this. https://gizmodo.com/ios-in-your-car-could-look-pretty-great-1505984952

Nothing’s as Beautiful as Hitting 55 Consecutive Green Lights in NYC

Driving in New York can be a pretty agonizing experience—but then, so can walking and biking. Still, in such a congested city, you’re going to need to be either extremely lucky or extremely okay with breaking the speed limit if you want to hit even just two green lights in a row. But 55 green…

19th Century New York Was Covered in an Insane Web of Telephone Wires

Alexander Graham Bell may have invented the telephone in 1875, but the first phone installation didn’t come about for another three years. And that’s what makes these photos from 1887 so incredible; this tangled mass of telephone wires had already wound itself around New York City’s streets just seven years after that first installation. Then…

The 5 Best Answers From a Fascinating Q&A With an Ex-TSA Agent

Over on Slashdot yesterday, ex-TSA agent and controversial blogger extraordinaire Jason Harrington answered users’ questions about the life of a TSA agent. And as one of the TSA’s most outspoken critics, Harrington isn’t one for tiptoeing around sensitive issues—which, much to TSA’s dismay, makes for wonderfully fascinating Q&As. https://gizmodo.com/nude-bodies-free-booze-endless-radiation-an-ex-tsa-a-1513342093 Harrington was answering questions for over…

Over 120 Science Journal Papers Pulled for Being Total Gibberish

If you ever find yourself scratching your head over the complicated articles in science and math journals, don’t feel too bad about yourself. Because there’s a chance that whatever you’re attempting to read is actually 100 percent, Grade A, peer-reviewed bullshit. Earlier this week, Nature revealed that scientific journal publishers Springer and IEEE are both…

Why This Red Smudge Is the Most Valuable Stamp in the World

It may be hard to believe, but that faded bit of paper you see above is actually the most sought-after and revered stamp in the world. Or at least, it will be this June, which is when it’s poised to pull in a whopping $10-20 million at auction—the most money ever spent a dirty piece…

What Comcast Really Thinks About You (Hint: They Don’t Give a F-ck)

Have you been frantically petitioning for signatures against the Comcast-Time Warner merger? Do you tweet profanities at @TWCHelp and @ComcastCares in the hopes that someone will see your words and feel even the slightest pangs of regret? You’re wasting your life! Because Comcast doesn’t give a fuck. https://gizmodo.com/why-the-comcast-time-warner-cable-merger-is-even-worse-1522096469 Funny or Die’s newest video poking fun…

Even PayPal Tries to Get Away With Not Paying for Stock Photos

Thousands of people have probably glossed over the decorative little clock on PayPal’s Political Campaigns page without a second thought. But if you look closely, you’ll see the watermark that proves this e-commerce giant really isn’t so different from you and me—because apparently, PayPal hates paying for stock photos, too. From what we’ve been able…

Your Next Artisanal Salami Could Be Part Kanye

The line between celebrity worship and cannibalism thinned ever so slightly this week. Meet BiteLabs.org, a website purportedly dedicated to growing artisanal meat from celebrity tissue samples. Because we could all use a little more Vitamin Bieber. Set up more like an art project than a legitimate (and presumably delicious) commercial enterprise, the site seems…

World’s oldest cheese found on the chest of a 3,500-year-old mummy

There’s nothing quite like a nice, aged cheese, but even the most adventurous cheese connoisseurs would be put off by a recent discovery from an an ancient Chinese tomb. Archaeologists uncovered perfectly preserved mummies whose chests were sprinkled with extra aged, 3,5000-year-old cheese—the world’s oldest cheese by a long shot. Since dairy has a tendency…

A Brief History of Moviefone, From Mr. Moviefone Himself

Before smartphones and Fandango, one friendly, booming voice was shouting movie times into ears across America. Now, after 25 years, that voice and the cultural catchphrase it wrought—Hello, and welcome to Moviefone—are about to enter an eternity of radio silence. But as it turns out, the man behind the voice still has plenty left to…

Scientists: Beijing’s Air Pollution Is Like Being in Nuclear Winter

The alarmingly thick cloud of smog often found floating over China’s capital city is nothing new at this point. But as the situation continues to worsen, Chinese scientists are warning that the city’s toxic air pollution has become so dire that it now resembles a nuclear winter. https://gizmodo.com/beijing-is-choking-on-smog-5976356 This has been a particularly bad week…

What It’s Like to Watch Ghostbusters for the First Time

When Harold Ramis passed yesterday, we—like most of you—shared our favorite memories and moments from his works, our own way of memorializing a great man we’d never met. It didn’t take long to uncover the fact that while Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies, I had a shameful secret. I’ve never seen Ghostbusters.…

Watch the Metrodome Implode and Crumble to the Ground

After being voted the number one worst stadium in the United States by Time in 2012, Minnesota’s iconic Metrodome has received its just reward: complete and utter destruction. The dearly departed stadium is survived by Target Field, which has played home to the Minnesota Twins since 2010. As The Star Tribune describes, it was a…

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