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By Jenny Luna7 minute Read Walking back to your desk from a meeting, you quickly send a text to a friend, and as the “typing” bubble appears, an alert from Venmo comes through. Ah, your brother has paid you back. You open the app to see that you still owe…

Another day, another scarily-intelligent animal in a four-legged mech with an uncomfortably deep AI voice translating its thoughts. That’s right, I’m obviously talking about Wrecking Ball Mekko, the final character revealed for Ninja Theory’s upcoming team-based brawler, Bleeding Edge. I know this game is constantly compared to Overwatch, but come…

Bleeding Edge's official release is just around the corner, but before that developer Ninja Theory decided to introduced a neat new character for us to look forward to at a preview event in San Francisco. Mekko is a dolphin from Japan who gets around in a mech suit equipped with…

I'm sure you've had this experience before. Your mom (or grandpa, or friend) has called you up because they can't figure out how to do a thing on their Galaxy phone. So you spend the next hour frustratingly trying to understand their problem and explaining how to fix it, but…

It’s been over four years since Phantogram last released a full-length album. The music duo comprised of multi-instrumentalists Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter have since been venturing around the world in a seemingly endless tour and experimenting on new songs. Now they return with Ceremony, a new 11-track effort following…

Photo: ShutterstockThe Grown-Up KitchenThe Grown-Up KitchenWelcome to The Grown-Up Kitchen, Skillet’s series designed to answer your most basic culinary questions and fill in any gaps that may be missing in your home chef education.Hacks are all about spending less time, using less equipment, and making one’s life easier in general.…

Each and every day new mobile games are hitting the App Store, and so each week we put together a big old list of all the best new releases of the past seven days. Back in the day the App Store would showcase the same games for a week, and…

Forever WeekForever WeekThis week we're exploring all things eternal, endless, and infinite.The Ouroboros—which symbolizes the cyclical nature of life and death and the divine essence that lives on forever—was first recorded in the Egyptian Book of the Netherworld. Alchemists then adopted the symbol into their mystical work of physical and…

Photo: Sean Rayford (Getty)In early January, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren released her disability rights and equality plan, shining a needed spotlight on the issues and livelihoods of the largest minority group in the country. Behind the plan were several activists, scholars, and community leaders who made this plan…

We’re eating at street-corner stalls and food trucks, in front of the TV and at the grocery—everywhere but restaurants. They might not be here when we get back. In a week, The New York Times would run a rave review of FieldTrip, a rice-centric little place in Harlem, New York…