Pictures from your baby’s first birthday. Old photos of grandparents long gone. Videos from your wedding day. If you have a lot of digital pictures and videos scattered around your various computers and hard drives, you’ll want to back them up.

And this Memorial Day weekend is your last chance to back them up with a reputable service, absolutely free.

Google Photos launched in May 2015. Over the past five years, more than 4 trillion photos have been uploaded to the platform. This whole time, users could upload their photos and videos to the cloud service as backup — albeit, at a slightly lower quality than the original media file — and have peace of mind, at no cost. Read more…

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May is National Masturbation Month, and we’re celebrating with Feeling Yourself, a series exploring the finer points of self-pleasure.

When it comes to getting off, we all know the quickest way to get the job done. 

Being intimately acquainted with the fastest route to giving yourself an orgasm can be a wonderful thing.  And if it ain’t broke don’t fix it — there’s certainly nothing bad about masturbating the same way over and over again. As Dr Britney Blair, licensed clinical psychologist and co-founder of Lover: the Sexual Wellness App, says: “there’s nothing wrong with having a go-to location, position, technique, and fantasy.”  Read more…

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Whether belting out “Let It Go,” punching air to “I’ll Make A Man Out Of You,” or performing “I Won’t Say (I’m In Love)” with a jaded cynicism that belies our years, most of us are familiar with the joys of a good cartoon singalong. 

Yet famous Disney princess movies aren’t the only animations with impressive singable soundtracks. Many other animated films and television shows feature equally fun and catchy songs which could easily fit in on a Spotify playlist, but just don’t get as much attention as their more well-known peers from the House Of Mouse. Fortunately, this means you’re probably less likely to get tired of them due to overexposure. Read more…

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The SolarWinds hackers are at it again.

And they’re weaponizing Donald Trump’s Big Lie to carry out their attacks.

Microsoft is warning of a new “sophisticated” email attack it has uncovered from the Russia-linked actors behind last year’s massive SolarWinds hack, Nobelium. The 2020 attack on the software vendor is considered to be one of the worst data breaches ever.

The new attack, according to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center, targets U.S. government agencies, military, IT service providers, think tanks, NGOs, telecommunications companies, and health technology and research organizations. Read more…

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Big changes are coming to Twitch. And the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform doesn’t have a choice.

According to Twitch, the company recently received a massive batch of DMCA takedown requests “with about 1,000 individual claims from music publishers.”

Twitch sent an “important update” via email to its users late Thursday night to warn them about the situation.

The company says that all of the DMCA takedown requests involved video-on-demand content, streams that are saved to the platform to be replayed after the live broadcast. Twitch says that most of the takedown requests target streamers who listen to copyrighted music in the background of their videos while they’re streaming. Read more…

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For many of the millions of people out there with a Roku device, it’s probably little more than a Netflix box. There’s nothing wrong with that, as Roku has always sold its products as a way to stream content from every major service above all else. But there’s so much more you can do.

Thanks to a series of software updates over the years, modern Roku devices can do a bunch of cool things that have very little to do with streaming The Office for the 27th time. Not all of these features are available on every single Roku box, so there’s a good chance you’ve been missing out on at least one of them. Read more…

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Horizon Zero Dawn was already known for being a beautiful game back in 2017. But the latest gameplay trailer for its sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, shows off what the game engine can do with the added horsepower of a PS5. Check out the 14 minutes of gameplay footage that Sony released during its State of Play on Thursday above. 

The post-apocalyptic robo-dinosaur game does not yet have a confirmed release date, but is slated to launch sometime this year. Read more…

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The existence of a new upcoming Nintendo Switch console model has been one of the worst-kept secrets in video games for months now.

While Nintendo has yet to publicly confirm anything about these new Switch rumors, the latest credible reports claim assembly could begin as early as this summer. The alleged release plan would be for either a September or October 2021 launch, according to the sources familiar with the matter that spoke to Bloomberg News but wished to remain anonymous.

A Nintendo spokesman did not respond in time for publication when Mashable reached out for a request for comment on this latest report, and nor has Nintendo provided any previous statements regarding the slow drip of rumors around a new Switch over the past year. Read more…

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New research from dating app Bumble shows the disturbing reality of fetishization in the United States: 45 percent of survey respondents don’t have a clear understanding of what the word means as it relates to identities, race, and body type.

The groups most likely to face fetishization were also the most likely to recognize it, according to the survey. One in four Black women and one in six Black men surveyed said they experienced unsolicited fetishization while online dating. A third of American Indian or Alaska Native men experienced such fetishization while dating online, while 21 percent of Asian women and 18 percent of Asian men have. Read more…

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Sega celebrated Sonic the Hedgehog’s 30th anniversary Thursday with a livestream that gifted fans with the announcement of not just one but two major upcoming video game releases. The Sonic Central livestream, a first of its kind and basically like Sega’s version of a Nintendo Direct Mini, was a fever dream of hedgehog-related announcements both big and small. 

One of the biggest reveals was a trailer (which you can watch above) announcing Sonic Colors: Ultimate, a remaster of the 2010 game originally released on Nintendo DS and Wii. The remaster is set to release Sep. 27 on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC (though presumably will also be available on the most recent console generation, the PS5 and Xbox Series X.) Read more…

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