As Twitter tries out bigger things to spur growth activity — like changing the order and length of Tweets — it is turning away from others. Twitter has quietly retired Magic Recs, a strikingly effective bot account that used to send you DMs recommending viral accounts or Tweets to follow, run by algorithm that measured how many others you knew were following an account… Read More
We all get cravings for specific foods every now and then, and those cravings can be so strong, they almost feel involuntary, like your body is missing some nutrient it can get from a Cinnabon. This isn’t typically how cravings work, though.
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Anyone who do not realize moms are built to be social media queens are in denial. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter — these are tools for sharing pictures and distributing unsolicited advice.
So Mashable asked Pretty Little Liars actress and all-around social media superstar Shay Mitchell to help us teach moms how to be the fiercest smartphone-carrying, oversharing warriors they can be.
SEE ALSO: Who runs Instagram? Girls.
Your mom might not have 11 million Instagram followers yet — or ever. But she probably only cares about your faves, anyway.
You can currently catch Mitchell in Mother’s Day alongside Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson and Jennifer Aniston. Maybe your mom shared the trailer on your Facebook wall. …
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The European Space Agency launched its latest satellite at the start of the week, and it’s already beaming back beautiful images like this one.
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Get ready for some painful news.
Despite what the maker of Nurofen would like you to believe, you can’t cure specific types of pain with its range of pain-relief tablets.
There is no science as yet that lets a tablet know to target period pain over back pain, or that you are suffering from a tension headache instead of a migraine. Shame.
SEE ALSO: The simple cactus may have the answer the clean tech industry needs
The Australian Federal Court was so convinced about this that it fined Reckitt Benckiser, the British company that manufactures Nurofen, A$1.7 million for breaching consumer laws in a penalty hearing on Friday. …
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If you’re the nostalgic type, you might be sad to hear that AT&T will be closing its 2G network by the end of the year. CFO John Stevens says that closing the network will strand a small number of subscribers who are stubborn and don’t want to migrate off of the 2G pipeline. The company is willing to take the small hit on revenue.
While AT&T has already repurposed some of the 2G network, Stevens says that “There still is a lot of cost that is left just to operate even a piece of the 2G network. So we are anxious to capture that savings and use it to continue a strong EBITDA story … – Source
The first step (always the hardest, right?) in solving a problem is recognizing you have one. We’re all familiar with the feeling of grappling with a head-scratcher for longer than we’d like. It can take a while to connect the time we’ve lost staring at the screen with the fact that we’re stuck on something and it’s time to try a new approach.
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LOS ANGELES — One of the great surprises from this year’s Sundance Film Festival was that Southside With You is actually good.
Quite good. Really.
SEE ALSO: Sundance review: ‘Southside With You’ transcends ‘Obamas first-date movie’
Because honestly, if you’re anything like us, you took one look at writer/director Richard Tanne and thought, this is the guy to tell the Barack and Michelle’s first-date story?
“Southside With You” writer/director Richard Tanne at the Sundance Film Festival.
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But the film is lovely: sweet, artful, funny and rich with layers. Let that be a bro-judgment lesson to us both. …
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