At one point during the latest Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update co-host Michael Che stared into the dark heart of the Donald Trump presidency and emerged to voice an immutable truth: “I am so tired of telling Donald Trump jokes.”
It was the realest moment Saturday Night Live has ever known. Also, there were a bunch of wall jokes. Please enjoy. Read more…
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Colin Kaepernick and his former teammate, Eric Reid, have reached a settlement in their suit against the NFL.
The players sued the league in 2017, alleging it colluded to keep the players out of league in response to their protests — against police brutality and racial injustice — during the pre-game National Anthem, which drew the ire of President Donald Trump.
SEE ALSO: Colin Kaepernick’s Pet Tortoise Is the NFL’s Internet MVP
Details of the settlement were not disclosed. In fact, it seems like we’re destined to know very little about the terms of the deal, unless they leak out at some point. The NFL issued a brief, three sentence joint statement on the matter. Read more…
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Samsung is throwing in the towel on Blu-ray players, in the U.S. at least.
“Samsung will no longer introduce new Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray player models in the US market,” the company told CNET, in response to an earlier report in Forbes.
SEE ALSO: Welp, we now know almost everything about Samsung’s Galaxy S10 lineup
That doesn’t mean you can’t still get your hands on a Samsung Blu-ray player — retailers have plenty of older models in stock by the look of it — but if you were holding out for a new high-end player you’ll have to go with another brand. As Engadget points out, there were already good reasons to opt for one of Samsung’s competitors, anyway. Namely, that Samsung doesn’t support Dolby Vision (it uses a different HDR standard). Read more…
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been one of the most outspoken critics of Amazon’s now-abandoned HQ2 plan for New York City, and now the online mega-retailer is hitting back… nicely.
After the young congresswoman criticized Amazon over reports of the inhumane conditions faced by the company’s warehouse workers, an Amazon exec responded with a denial and an offer: come visit our facilities and see for yourself.
SEE ALSO: Amazon abandons HQ2 plan in New York City
“Is that culture of ‘strict performance why Amazon workers have to urinate in bottles & work while on food stamps to meet targets?'” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “‘Performance’ shouldn’t come at the cost of dehumanizing conditions. That’s why we got rid of sweatshops.” Read more…
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When Oscar voters cast their ballots ahead of the 91st Academy Awards on Feb. 24, Disney wants them to remember Incredibles 2.
“For your consideration” ads and social media posts are a common sight in the run-up to the big show every year. But the typically dominant showing from Disney-Pixar productions is facing major competition in the universally well-received Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse.
And that movie’s fans are internet-savvy, to say the least.
SEE ALSO: What exactly is the Spider-Verse?
So when Disney dropped into Twitter on Friday with a “for your consideration” shout-out to Incredibles 2, every Spider-verse fan’s Spidey sense started to tingle. Read more…
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Want a new basketball jersey? In the future, it may be as simple as pushing a button.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver showed off a concept for the “NBA jersey of the future” that does just that. Silver, who was speaking at the NBA’s All-Star Technology Summit demoed the futuristic tech, which would let you change the player name and number on your jersey in just a few seconds.
“So hopefully I just put Michael Rubin out of business,” Silver joked, referring to the CEO of online jersey retailer Fanatics.
It’s not clear exactly how this tech might work, or how far along it might be. Silver used a smartphone app to make the change onstage, according to NBA.com. Another angle of the demo, captured by Los Angeles Times columnist Arash Markazi, makes it look like the demo was more of a projection than actually-changing jersey. Read more…
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Uh-oh, this doesn’t look good.
You know how when you delete a Twitter DM and you’re expecting it to, like, be erased and non-retrievable ever again? Turns out Twitter’s still keeping archives of deleted DMs according to a security researcher who shared his discovery with TechCrunch.
SEE ALSO: Brand Twitter, please stay away from the 2020 election
Speaking with TechCrunch, security researcher Karan Saini discovered he was able to retrieve old Twitter DMs he had deleted years ago.
Saini says he found his old deleted Twitter messages from recipient archive folders belonging to Twitter accounts that were deleted. Twitter lets senders delete their DM messages, but the messages are only deleted from their end and not the recipient’s (and vice versa). Read more…
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5G phones — real ones you can actually buy soon — are coming.
OnePlus and Samsung have already pledged to release 5G smartphones sometime in 2019, but LG might beat everyone to launching one first if a newly leaked image of its alleged 5G-ready V50 ThinQ ends up being real.
SEE ALSO: Sprint files lawsuit against AT&T for misleading people with its fake 5G network
Phone leaker extraordinaire Evan Blass aka @evleaks published an image of what he claims is the LG V50 ThinQ.
The successor to the V40 ThinQ will reportedly be one of the first phones capable of connecting faster 5G wireless networks and is likely to be announced at Mobile World Congress on Feb. 24 during LG’s press conference. Read more…
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Oh Presidents’ Day, the one day of the year when you can score mattresses at rock-bottom prices. We’ve decided to shake things up for 2019 and swap sleepy time for brain fuel: online courses, bundles, and e-learning packages.
Take your pick from this selection of hot courses and learn something new before Memorial Day comes around.
Haven’t you heard? The world revolves around machine learning and big data now. If you want to get in on the fun, this bundle breaks down the most head-scratch-inducing concepts into digestible lectures, allowing you to gain a deeper understanding of things like TensorFlow, Neural Networks, Clustering In R, and a whole lot more. Lost already? Read more…
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Since AirPods launched in late 2016, people have begged Apple to release them in a color other than white.
After years, Apple might finally cave in to everyone’s wishes. The latest rumor suggests Apple launch the second generation of its AirPods, tentatively called “AirPods 2,” in black.
SEE ALSO: Genius woman turns her AirPods into earrings so they won’t get lost
According to the Economic Daily News (via AppleInsider), Apple’s supply chain has already started mass producing AirPods 2 in black as well as the AirPower wireless charging mat that has been delayed several times because of engineering challenges. Read more…
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