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He might be a super spy, but James Bond is no more immune to the musical stylings of Billie Eilish than the rest of us. 

Eilish was announced in January as the singer of the latest Bond theme for No Time to Die, and now she has shared the song, also titled “No Time to Die,” with the world.

Her signature moodiness seems an appropriate accompaniment for the dark and tortured Bond of the Daniel Craig era — and the fact that she’s basically the biggest thing in pop music right now gives the decades-old franchise the dash of modernity it needs.

The rest of No Time to Die arrives April 10. Read more…

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Watch out, Gotham City — there’s a new Batman in town.

Director Matt Reeves has shared a first look at Robert Pattinson in costume for The Batman, and so far he’s looking pretty good.

The clip offers a close look at Batman’s costume from the chest up. Turns out Pattinson’s cheekbones look great in that mask. And that, red light notwithstanding, Batman still only works in black and sometimes very very dark gray.

As Reeves confirmed in a followup tweet, the test above was shot by cinematographer Grieg Fraser with music by composer MIchael Giacchino. Read more…

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NASA astronaut Christina Koch got a truly out-of-this-world welcome after returning home from space. The one who was there to greet her? None other than her dog.

Koch had been in space for 328 days before coming back to Earth, and the reunion between her and her dog is the most wholesome thing we’ve seen today.

There’s a lotta tail wagging, overjoyed jumping, hugs, and — OK we would like some tissues now, please and thank you.

Koch’s 11 months in space was “the longest single space voyage by a female astronaut or cosmonaut,” according to CBS, and she was also a part of the first all-female space walk. Read more…

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Mike Bloomberg’s got boatloads of cash and he’s parting with it like the ships are sinking. 

The latest folks to cash-in from the presidential candidate’s efforts to take the White House? Meme accounts on Instagram.

Reporter Taylor Lorenz broke down Bloomberg’s novel Instagram efforts at the New York Times, revealing the campaign was working with a group called Meme 2020. Mick Purzycki, chief executive of Jerry Media — of Fuck Jerry and Fyre Fest fame — is the lead strategist for the group, according to the Times, which has crafted Instagram posts designed to make Bloomberg look self-aware and funny.  Read more…

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This year Mashable is celebrating the season of love with Horny on Main, an exploration of the many ways that thirsting for sex affects our lives.

Five days into 2020 I received an unexpected email from Fairfield University, the Connecticut college I graduated from in 2015. It informed me that my five-year reunion is coming up in June.

After a few minutes spent panicking over the fact that I’ve been out of school for nearly half a decade, I had a thought that turned all my worry to excitement: I can’t wait to see my crushes.

I couldn’t go to my five-year high school reunion, so I don’t have any firsthand attendee experience, but from what friends had told me, reunions sound horny as hell. Read more…

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In our Love App-tually series, Mashable shines a light into the foggy world of online dating. It is cuffing season after all.

Brian and Michelle met in 1999 on Match.com. Though neither of them had a profile photo, they still matched and quickly hit it off. The two then decided to spend the rest of their lives together. Read more…

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28,000 people reportedly voted for photographer Sam Rowley’s photo in the Wildlife Photography Awards.  Read more…

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Donald Trump does not like Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, and that dislike may have just cost Microsoft — yes, Microsoft — $10 billion. At least for now, anyway. 

According to CNBC, Microsoft’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract with the Pentagon was just put on hold in response to a legal challenge filed by Amazon. Why? Well, that would be because Amazon thinks Trump has it out for them and inappropriately influenced the awarding of the contract. 

Amazon placing the blame for the loss of the hotly contested contract on Trump’s feet isn’t itself new. The company has long claimed that the president is after Amazon. Read more…

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If you’re going to fake something for Instagram, IKEA is pretty much the perfect place to do it. 

YouTuber Natalia Taylor tricked her followers into believing she took a luxurious tropical vacation in Bali, but she really just went to Ikea. Dressed in a bright pink dress she bought for a much more local trip to Vegas, she and a photographer had a guerrilla photoshoot in Ikea’s model rooms. 

Despite the Easter eggs she left in the photos — in one, she posed in front of a tag that literally said Ikea — Natalia successfully tricked her fans. 

“I mean that’s not a lie, it’s just not the life you think I’m living,” she said when one follower congratulated her on living her best life.  Read more…

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Since its founding in 2013, the free mental health support service Crisis Text Line has focused on using data and technology to better aid those who reach out for help. 

Unlike helplines that offer assistance based on the order in which users dialed, texted, or messaged, Crisis Text Line has an algorithm that determines who is in most urgent need of counseling. The nonprofit is particularly interested in learning which emoji and words texters use when their suicide risk is high, so as to quickly connect them with a counselor. Crisis Text Line just released new insights about those patterns. 

Based on its analysis of 129 million messages processed between 2013 and the end of 2019, the nonprofit found that the pill emoji, or 💊, was 4.4 times more likely to end in a life-threatening situation than the word suicide.  Read more…

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