The company behind pop culture’s most collectible vinyl figurines has joined the cereal game in the most brand-appropriate way.

Funko is known for its Pops, which turns everything from Star Wars to Edward Scissorhands into adorable collectible action figures. Nothing beats the cute of its latest invention though, a line of cereal that will come packaged with mini-Pop figures of icons like Wonder Woman and Freddy Krueger.

Funko Founder Michael Becker gave the Coronado Eagle & Journal an exclusive look at the new venture, which will launch in collectible outlet stores like FYE this June for $7.99 a box.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Funko launches adorable cereal with iconic pop culture figures in every box

Is the long-awaited third installment of Bill and Ted finally happening? If this Entertainment Weekly story is to be believed, maybe. But fans have been waiting so long for Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to get the Wyld Stallyns back together that even seeing them in the same photo is an untold joy. 

This is particularly true on Twitter, where the other hot images of the week are of the “Trump says goodbye to Hope Hicks” genre. Under these dire circumstances, Bill and Ted hanging out (in a phone booth!) seems like a miracle.

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Source: Mashable | People are thrilled to see Bill and Ted back together

It didn’t take long for Instagram Stories to take off.

Instagram’s hottest new feature has become exponentially popular since its inception in August 2016, much to the detriment of competitors like Snapchat. In August, the company said that Stories have driven users younger than 25 to use the app upwards of 32 minutes a day on average. In September, the app as a whole announced it had 800 million monthly active users, 500 million of those who return each day. In comparison, Snapchat boasted 173 million daily active users as of August.

Not only that, but ever since Instagram launched the feature, it’s been continuously building on top of it, adding incredibly popular features like Boomerang and Superzoom.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | 9 Instagram Stories tips and tricks to dazzle your followers

The call went out on Facebook — which, despite its increasing levels of creepiness, is still where we turn to make something inherently ridiculous happen with a large number of co-conspirators. 

“Who wants to take part in the first ever high-tech competitive meditation tournament?” I wrote. Naturally, it took mere seconds for a friend to say what I would hear a hundred times over the rest of the month: “Isn’t that an oxymoron?” 

“Exactly why I love it!” I shot back. 

By turns performance art, subtle comedy, nail-biting sport, cutting-edge tech demo, and something with the genuine potential to help a large number of people live better lives: competitive meditation, I thought, had it all. The first friend to declare it an oxymoron also gave my tournament the perfect title: March Mindfulness. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | March Mindfulness: How I created the world's first meditation bracket contest

Huawei has finally done it. With the MateBook X Pro company has created a laptop that’s a shameless copy of Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro, but that’s easy to forgive because it’s just so damn good. It’s better than the original in numerous ways, and lags behind only when it comes to certain details.  

I’ve spent roughly 10 days with the MateBook X Pro, mostly using it as my main work machine, and this is the first time in ages that I seriously considered permanently moving back into the realm of Windows laptops. 

I’m not taking the easy route when comparing Huawei’s new laptop with the 13-inch MacBook Pro (which happens to be my primary work laptop). Besides the similarities in the name and the fact that Huawei itself constantly compared the two during the device’s launch in Barcelona, it’s just very obvious that Huawei had one goal in mind: Build a device that’s exactly like Apple’s pro-grade laptop, only better.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Huawei MateBook X Pro is a MacBook Pro copy that's better than the original

I held out for as long as I could. 

I transferred music files to flash drives, deleted massive photo files, and purged outdated email newsletters clogging my storage. Every email from Groupon went into the trash and was permanently deleted. No more chances to go back and “soak up savings.” I was on top of it. The trash button became my friend; archiving the enemy. This is what using Google’s free email service in 2018 looked like for me.

But I couldn’t win — a red banner above my Gmail inbox threatened to cut off my inbound emails and I was tired of constantly deleting everything. The whole point of my personal email was to have a record of everything. I might have a newsletter addiction, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be able to use my email archive. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | I finally caved and bought more storage on Google Drive, iCloud