John Oliver remembers snack companies' weird '90s video games
www.mashable.com Last Week Tonight may be on break right now, but John Oliver still found time to pre-record a segment about something apparently close to his heart: video games made by snack companies in the ’90s. “What happened, snack brands?” asked Oliver. “Around 25 years ago, you cracked the code
A dirt dam separates 21.7 million cubic yards of toxic waste from 'America's Amazon'
www.cnn.com A dirt dam separates 21.7 million cubic yards of toxic waste from 'America's Amazon'… Read More
What to do if your iPhone gets wet
www.mashable.com Uh oh. Your iPhone got wet? If you’re here, you’re probably panicking, so this is the part where we tell you not to worry and that it’s going to be OK! Here’s what to do if your iPhone gets wet. First and most importantly, power off your phone. Do
Vandals defaced tunnels near Idaho's Anne Frank memorial with anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas, police say
www.cnn.com As millions of Jewish people across the country celebrate Hanukkah, police say vandals painted anti-Semitic messages and symbols in tunnels near Idaho’s Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial on Friday.… Read More
Keke Palmer's Angela Bassett impression is a thing of incomprable beauty
www.mashable.com The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon has its celebrities-doing-celebrity-impressions formula down to a science. But on Friday, actor Keke Palmer advanced the field even further with a revelatory Angela Bassett impression you’ve just got to see. It’s an act Palmer started doing as a child on-set alongside Queen Latifah,
HR tech startup Sense valued at $500 million in SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led funding
www.techcrunch.com Sense, an HR tech startup that helps some of the world’s largest staffing and recruitment agencies timely find and hire talent, has grown its valuation to $500 million in a new financing round, a person familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. … Read More
Gwyneth Paltrow Continues To Be Blissfully Unaware About Everything Marvel
www.huffpost.com The Oscar winner had the best response when asked about the new Disney+ series “Hawkeye.”… Read More
All the things I can't do because my MacBook's spacebar is broken
www.mashable.com As a professional writer, the clickity clack of my MacBook’s keyboard — the famously loud and defective 2016 model — is a near ubiquitous sound in my home. Lately, however, that sound has been accompanied by exasperated sighs and a fair share of four-letter words. My spacebar is broken
Bob Dole, giant of the Senate and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, dies
www.cnn.com Bob Dole, a Republican Party stalwart and presidential hopeful who espoused a brand of plain-spoken conservativism as one of Washington’s most recognizable political figures throughout the latter half of the 20th century, died Sunday.… Read More
Jack Dorsey dials in on his dream job — bitcoin missionary
www.techcrunch.com Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! … Read More