This year, Google trends made putting together a perfect spooky movie marathon easy by revealing the top five most searched movies in the week leading up to Halloween. The tastes of the masses this year ranged from classic horror movies to Disney Channel originals, so there’s bound to be something […]

When there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Card readers, calculators, toothbrushes, a clothes iron, and a bunch of other fun junk turned into an orchestra to play the Ghostbusters theme. The Device Orchestra YouTube channel is filled with impressive setups that transform household items into instruments […]

If you had your sights set on buying Apple’s so-called “polishing cloth” as a Christmas gift for the Apple fan who has everything, go back to the drawing board. The much-mocked — and popular given early sales — piece of fabric is backordered until mid-January, according to Apple’s website. The […]

There’s a nameless kind of capitalism in our culture, and it’s been creeping up on us for years. The executives and engineering whiz-kids at the top of Amazon, Apple, Google, SpaceX, Tesla, and Virgin Galactic are its exemplars. Its brand is extraterrestrial (it cares about getting at least some of […]

The internet’s favorite season is upon us. It’s that time of year when Meg Ryan, patron saint of turtlenecks, sprinkles pumpkin spice all over the Western Hemisphere and it officially becomes fall. The fall season brings blessings as abundant as a good harvest: sweaters, darkness, Fat Bears, the list goes […]

If you follow Mashable Shopping’s coverage, you know that we live to bring you the best product recommendations we can find based on countless hours of online research. But what about the stuff that we buy for ourselves? The stuff that made it into our shopping carts? Well, we’re here […]

Paging Dr. Internet, we need a diagnosis. In this series, Mashable examines the online world’s influence on our health and prescribes new ways forward. On Instagram, I scroll past a blonde toddler’s second birthday, a senior dog that’s up for adoption, a pair of daytime pajamas, and then, a post […]