Matthew McConaughey's 'SNL' monologue was 'okay okay okay'

There’s very little Matthew McConaughey needs to do to be entertaining and charming, so for his Saturday Night Live monologue he did just that: very little

Instead of a skit, McConaughey opened the show by telling the story of how he landed a role in Dazed and Confused and the origin of his now-iconic catchphrase “alright, alright, alright.”

Unfortunately, the story is relatively well known at this point, so we would’ve rather seen him parody his True Detective character. …

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Can you think yourself into a different person?

We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough. But is that true? Will Storr wades through the facts and fiction for Mosaic science.

Dido, always scoring some dark things… (credit: Flickr user: Dennis Brekke)

For years she had tried to be the perfect wife and mother but now, divorced, with two sons, having gone through another break-up and in despair about her future, she felt as if she’d failed at it all, and she was tired of it. On June 6, 2007 Debbie Hampton, of Greensboro, North Carolina, took an overdose of more than 90 pills—a combination of ten different prescription drugs, some of which she’d stolen from a neighbour’s bedside cabinet. That afternoon, she’d written a note on her computer: “I’ve screwed up this life so bad that there is no place here for me and nothing I can contribute.” Then, in tears, she went upstairs, sat on her bed, swallowed her pills with some cheap Shiraz and put on a Dido CD to listen to as she died. As she lay down, she felt triumphant.

But then she woke up again. She’d been found, rushed to hospital, and saved. “I was mad,” she says. “I’d messed it up. And, on top of that, I’d brain-damaged myself.” After Debbie emerged from her one-week coma, her doctors gave her their diagnosis: encephalopathy. “That’s just a general term which means the brain’s not operating right,” she says. She couldn’t swallow or control her bladder, and her hands constantly shook. Much of the time, she couldn’t understand what she was seeing. She could barely even speak. “All I could do was make sounds,” she says. “It was like my mouth was full of marbles. It was shocking, because what I heard from my mouth didn’t match what I heard in my head.” After a stay in a rehabilitation centre, she began recovering slowly. But, a year in, she plateaued. “My speech was very slow and slurred. My memory and thinking was unreliable. I didn’t have the energy to live a normal life. A good day for me was emptying the dishwasher.”

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Flash Sales Site SportPursuit Scores £9.5M Series C

SportPursuit, the flash sales site for ‘premium’ outdoor and sports gear, has raised £9.5 million in Series C funding. Investors this time around are Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), Grafton Capital, and existing backer Draper Esprit, bringing total funding for the London-based company to just shy of £16 million since launching in 2012. SportPursuit, which currently ships to over… Read More

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Flash Sales Site SportPursuit Scores £9.5M Series C

Top 10 trending phones of week 47

The winning streak of the Samsung Galaxy J7 goes on for another week and the largest phone from the affordable J-series has now been on top for a total of, well, 7 weeks. And you may have guessed the runner-up too – the Galaxy J5 has accompanied its big bro on more than one occasion.

The Sony Xperia Z5 joins them on the podium, kicking the OnePlus down to 5th. It’s another Samsung Galaxy J-series member, the J2, that squeezes in between those two in fourth spot.

Further down the ranks we can find the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime in 6th – hardly a week has passed without it in the chart. The Galaxy Note5 places seventh, gaining two spots over last week’s position. The Galaxy S6 is again one behind its phablet sibling. Motorola’s Moto G (3rd gen) has climbed one spot into ninth, while the iPhone 6s returns to the chart in 10th.

As always, feel free to follow the links below to find out just why these 10 smartphones were the most popular ones in the past week.

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RANK: 1WAS: 1

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Samsung Galaxy J5

RANK: 2WAS: 2

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Sony Xperia Z5

RANK: 3WAS: 5

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Samsung Galaxy J2

RANK: 4WAS: 6

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OnePlus X

RANK: 5WAS: 3

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Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime

RANK: 6WAS: 7

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Samsung Galaxy Note5

RANK: 7WAS: 9

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Samsung Galaxy S6

RANK: 8WAS: 8

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Weekly poll: Apple iPad Pro - Hot or Not

You can now get your hands on an iPad Pro, we did. Apple’s XL-sized tablet marks a new chapter in Cupertino’s tablet efforts, one where the iPad goes from a content consumption gadget to a content creation one.

The first-party keyboard and stylus are key for that. There have been third-party solutions almost for as long as there has been an iPad, but they never had iOS-level support nor Apple’s design touch. Editing 4K videos is also a key selling point – the tablet can stream three 4K videos simultaneously and edit one.

Whatever your work orientation, the huge 12.9″ 2,048 x 2,732px screen makes even flagship laptops jealous and is much more conductive to working rather than just browsing. It’s 78% bigger than an iPad Air screen and due to its 4:3 aspect ratio looks much bigger than even the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2.

The Apple Pencil, that’s the stylus, is tracked 240 times per second so you can draw with no lag and its pressure sensitive too. Galaxy Note users aren’t that impressed though, S Pens have done that for years and without battery too.

The keyboard seems like it threatens the MacBook Air, but Apple says it will never make a converged laptop (with Apple “never” is just another word for “not yet”). The Microsoft Surface has several generations of keyboard cases and the new Surface Book feels even more like a laptop – you can adjust the angle of the screen, which you can’t with Apple’s tablet.

We’ll understand if you’re tempted to get an iPad Pro just for gaming. The latest Apple A9X chipset is a beast and it’s paired with 4GB of RAM (the most any iOS device has ever seen). The quad speaker setup is pretty sweet too, but packing up the Pro for a weekend getaway is not easy – the tablet is about as portable as a MacBook Air.

So, that’s it then – a novel tablet in Apple’s lineup, even if it’s not very innovative considering the rest of the market. It will attract professionals, maybe some hardcore Apple users and people who pay premium for oversized gaming laptops.

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Sony Xperia Z5 Premium screen test: A (really) close look

We just got our hands on a retail unit of the Xperia Z5 Premium, but before we started our review routine, we spent some time marveling its 4K screen. Marveling quickly turned into examining and before you know it, we set out on a mission to find out whether we would readily spot the difference to other 5.5-inch smartphones with lower resolution.

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Facebook at Work gets its own mobile app

Facebook at Work has gotten its first mobile app. Called Work Chat, the app lets Facebook at Work users to communicate with each other over one-on-one chats, group messaging, and voice calls. It’s basically Facebook Messenger, but for Facebook at Work.

For those not aware, Facebook at Work is Facebook’s corporate service for companies. In order to use it, your company needs to sign up with Facebook, after which you can have your own little social network with your office employees within Facebook. Now with the new mobile app, it just got a little easier to keep in touch with your colleagues.

Work Chat is only available on Android for now, with the iOS version still in development. You need a Facebook at Work account to use it.

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Two variants of the Vivo X6 Plus are certified by TENAA

Both the Vivo X6 and the Vivo X6 Plus are expected to be unveiled on November 30th. The Vivo X6 was already certified by Chinese regulatory agency TENAA last week. Now, the Vivo X6 Plus L and the Vivo X6 Plus D have both been certified by TENAA. Unfortunately, the agency did not release any specs or photographs of these two variants of the X6 Plus.

The Vivo X6 Plus is expected to come with a 5.7-inch screen, carrying a 1440 x 2560 resolution. Ironically, that would be smaller than the 6-inch screen expected on the Vivo X6. We could see the MediaTek MT6797 SoC under the hood. This is a Helio … – Source

Two variants of the Vivo X6 Plus are certified by TENAA

Turkish Airlines flight makes emergency landing after reported bomb threat

A Turkish Airlines flight from New York to Istanbul diverted and made an emergency landing in Nova Scotia, Canada on early Sunday morning local time after a threat was reportedly made against the aircraft.

Flight TK2, which took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport Saturday headed for Ataturk Airport in Istanbul landed at Halifax Stanfield International at 12:53 a.m. AST, according to a tweet from Halifax Airport. 256 people were said to be on board.

See also: Brussels raises terror alert, shuts metro, after ‘precise information’ on threat

Turkish Airlines Flight #2 NYC to Ankara diverted to Hfx Stanfield. Landed safely at 12:53am. All safe. 256 on board. RCMP attending.

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4 Britons, 2 Australians die in New Zealand glacier helicopter crash

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Four tourists from Britain and two from Australia are among seven people who died when a helicopter crashed on a scenic New Zealand glacier, police said.

Rescuers on Sunday were working to recover the bodies from Fox Glacier, where the wreckage remained wedged in a crevasse. Police said in a statement the rugged terrain was making the operation “extremely challenging.”

See also: Australian tourist captures video of Greek beach turning into dust

Police named the victims as Britons Nigel Charlton, 66, and Cynthia Charlton, 70, of Hampshire, and Katharine Walker, 51, and Andrew Virco, 50, of Cambridge. Australians Leang Sovannmony, 27, and Josephine Gibson, 29, of South Australia, also died. The New Zealand pilot was identified as Mitchell Gameren, 28, of Queenstown. …

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Eagles of Death Metal speak for the first time since the Paris attacks

Still reeling from the Paris attacks, Eagles of Death Metal have spoken out in their first interview since the tragedy. The American band were playing onstage at the Bataclan theatre as gunmen began to open fire on Friday, Nov. 13

Although the band survived, a member of their crew, merchandise manager Nick Alexander, was killed, along with many others who had been in the venue simply for a night of fun and rock and roll. They have since released a statement paying tribute to the victims and putting all future shows on hold.

In a Vice teaser of the interview, the lead singer Jesse Hughes, and band member Joshua Homme, who was not in Paris during the incident, appeared deeply shaken. …

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Leggings with a smartphone pocket are just what your workout needs

Gone are the days of chunky armbands and awkwardly stuffing your phone in the waistband of your pants during your workout routine

Lume Lifestlye — a small apparel company that aims to combine fashion with technology — created leggings with a “smart pocket” to hold your phone while you exercise.

The Kickstarter campaign launched Friday with a goal of $10,000 in 34 days.

See also: All-male panel on Fox News shames women wearing leggings

The mesh smart pocket keeps your phone safe while you exercise.

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[Deal Alert] Popular App 'Unified Remote' On Sale For $0.99 (Down From $3.99) This Weekend Only

Most of the electronic doodads in your house come with remote controls, but your computer probably doesn’t. Unified Remote turns your phone or tablet into the PC remote you always wanted, and it’s on sale for a few days. This app is usually $3.99, but this weekend it’s a mere $0.99.

Unified Remote allows you to control the keyboard and mouse on your computer, of course, but there are also more than 90 included remotes for programs like VLC, Spotify, Chrome, Powerpoint, and more.

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Microsoft's AppComparison shows you which Windows Phone apps match the ones on your Android phone

Microsoft’s new Android app, AppComparison, will show you which Windows Phone apps will match the ones that you have installed on your Android handset. With the Microsoft Lumia 950 released, Microsoft believes that you might be more apt to switch platforms if you knew that all of your favorite apps were available.

In some cases where there is no direct match, the AppComparison will direct you to the Windows Phone variants of some popular apps. The timing of the app’s appearance in the Google Play Store is not a coincidence. There has been much interest in the Lumia 950, which is now … – Source

Microsoft's AppComparison shows you which Windows Phone apps match the ones on your Android phone

PasswordBox Will Shut Down In 2016, Customers Offered A Discount On Intel's True Key

When big companies buy small companies, there’s always a chance that the smaller company will more or less disappear, along with its products. Some good examples in the mobile space would be HP’s acquisition of Palm or Microsoft’s similar purchase of Nokia. Not all tech companies do this – Amazon and Facebook seem to be pretty hands-off with their acquisitions – but Intel certainly does. Less than a year after Intel acquired the company that makes popular password manager PasswordBox, the company announced via its blog that the product will be abandoned sometime in 2016.

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In Defense Of Theranos

Innovation that involves sensitive medical technologies is challenging and provokes strong emotional reactions, but the reality is that the strongest criticisms of Theranos have more to do with business structure than their blood tests. Read More

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