10 Frightful Picks to Get You Started With That Free Shudder Trial

Shudder knows its audience. The horror streaming service has a well-curated interface divided into sub-categories (including a timely selection of tales of confinement) to help you get started, but there’s still a ton of spooky content for newcomers to wade through. Naturally, we have some suggestions.

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Why Is Jared Kushner Creating a ‘National Surveillance System’ of Coronavirus Patients?

In a letter to Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, federal lawmakers on Friday aired concerns about reported efforts to establish a “national surveillance system” to monitor coronavirus patients. The purpose of the program remains, for the most part, a mystery, but allegedly one goal is to…

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You Can Now Send Instagram DMs From a Browser, But the Desktop Experience Still Sucks

At 10 a.m. ET Friday, Instagram started rolling out the ability to see and respond to direct messages in a browser instead of having to open the app. And while this might be nice change for influencers and Instaholics, I can’t help but think this does nothing to address the otherwise atrocious experience you get when…

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Researchers found the oldest piece of string

A group of researchers found the world’s oldest piece of string ever strung by a humanoid. This very, very old piece of string was found in a cave in France and described in the journal Scientific Reports. The string was likely constructed and used by Neanderthals at least 41-thousand years ago. This is a very significant piece of old string. … Continue reading

Chernobyl wildfire continues as NASA shares must-see satellite images

On Saturday, April 4, a wildfire appeared within the 1,000-square mile exclusion zone near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. On Monday, NASA shared an initial satellite image showing the fire, which is still taking place as of Friday. Updated satellite images on the fire were captured on Thursday, April 9, showing more smoke spread across the landscape. According to NASA, … Continue reading

LG V60 5G ThinQ review: A compromised phone I like anyway

When LG first showed us its new V60 ThinQ, I was immediately over it. Its redesign was nothing radical. It lost the V-series’ hallmark telephoto camera. It featured software that, despite years of attention, still felt poorly thought out. And, perhap…

ASUS Zephyrus G14 review: Ultraportable gaming done right

The Zephyrus G14 is the ideal gaming laptop. It’s something that ASUS has been working towards for years with the impressively thin Zephyrus line. The G14 is incredibly fast; thin and light; and, surprisingly enough, it even packs in a decent amount…

Worldwide Deaths From The Coronavirus Hit 100,000

Deaths in the U.S. reached about 18,000, putting it on track to overtake Italy.

Jamie Dornan Says Kristin Wiig Apologized To Him For ‘Imagine’ Video After Backlash

The actor shared how he got “dragged into” the ill-received viral video created in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Your Mornings Won't Totally Suck With a $77 Mr. Coffee Espresso Shot Maker

Mr. Coffee Automatic Espresso Shot Maker | $77 | Amazon

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