He sprang at the suspect, grabbed the gun and hit the suspect in the face with a bag of drinks.
Marine Vet Foils Arizona Robbery by Grabbing Suspect’s Gun
The Shah’s Nuclear Bomb as a Western Asset: How America Supported Iran’s WMD Program
Since the mid 1980s the possibility of Iran developing a nuclear weapons capability has been a significant concern in the Western world, and one which has only grown with time as the country’s economy and defence sector have modernised and as it acquired a growing number of potentially nuclear capable […]
Facebook’s international misinformation problem is even bigger than it is in the U.S.
New information from internal Facebook documents reveals that the social media company’s misinformation reaches much further than the United States. The documents, dubbed The Facebook Papers and gathered by whistleblower Frances Haugen, demonstrate Facebook’s lack of resources and social awareness in countries like India, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka, leading to […]
An interview with Annie Rauwerda, the queen of the Wikipedia rabbit hole
Welcome to Small Talk, a series where we catch up with the internet’s favorite Extremely Online individuals offline. Annie Rauwerda is committed to the quest for useless knowledge. In April 2020, the 21-year-old University of Michigan student created the @depthsofwikipedia Instagram account. For those unfamiliar with the intriguing online space, […]
An Apple Watch Series 7 teardown from iFixit tries to explain the delayed release
The folks at iFixit took apart the Apple Watch Series 7 for their usual parts analysis – but this time, they also brought in Tobias Harrison-Noonan, former Apple engineer, to explain exactly why the release of the latest Apple Watch faced a delay. While the watch has now made its […]
Kenan Thompson’s perfect ‘SNL’ game show returns to waste Oscar Isaac’s time
No one wastes the time of famous people better than Kenan Thompson. The occasion of Jason Sudeikis hosting Saturday Night Live created an opportunity to bring back the classic sketch, “What’s Up With That?” The Kenan Thompson-hosted… game show? Celebrity interview show? Honestly, it’s not clear what the purpose is, […]
The Devil returns to ‘SNL’ as Jason Sudeikis takes credit for our hell world. But not QAnon.
Jason Sudeikis has a lot of beloved Saturday Night Live roles from his time as a cast member, but few are more memorable than his recurring Weekend Update guest, the Devil. Well, the Ted Lasso star hosted the latest SNL. Given that he hasn’t graced Studio 8H with his presence […]
How ‘Instagram therapy’ helps normalize Latinx mental healthcare
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. If you’ve spent time on Instagram in the past couple of years, you’ve likely encountered Instagram therapy — motivational quotations and educational content developed by therapists […]
Jason Sudeikis brought his ‘Ted Lasso’ earnestness to a heartfelt ‘SNL’ monologue
Saturday Night Live host Jason Sudeikis nailed the inexplicable success of his Apple TV+ hit Ted Lasso in a monologue joke: “It’s truly shocking to me because it’s built around two things Americans hate: soccer and kindness.” There wasn’t a whole lot of the former in this monologue, but an […]
‘Saturday Night Live’ staged a goofy meeting of Joe Bidens present, past, and slightly less past
When you get Jason Sudeikis hosting Saturday Night Live just a couple weeks after presidential impersonation whiz James Austin Johnson joins the show’s cast of featured players, there’s gonna be a meeting of the Bidens. Sudeikis, who is himself a former SNL cast member, famously played Biden in numerous memorable […]