Fans eager to see Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock in the new Venom film are gushing over the “sexy” look of the symbiote monster rather than lusting after the actor’s good looks. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Venom is here and of course people are horny for him

Leonardo DiCaprio is an Academy Award winning actor, environmental activist, and most recently, a beetle namesake. 

A water beetle species discovered in Malaysia was named Grouvellinus leonardodicaprioi in honor of DiCaprio’s environmental work. The tiny black beetle — Leotle, if you will — was  found on the side of a waterfall in Malaysian Borneo. The 3mm Leotle found by scientists was in rough shape — it was missing an antennae and front leg. 

The expedition, organized by Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines and Dutch organization Taxon Expeditions, is part of a program that trains every day people to capture, study, and identify new species. In a video by Taxon Expeditions, the group calls the new beetle’s discoverers “ecotourists trained by experts in rainforest biology.” Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Scientists just named a newly discovered water beetle after Leonardo DiCaprio

MarkDude. You’re a great Bruce Banner, but you’re terrible at this whole keeping secrets thing.

When Avengers: Infinity War stars Mark Ruffalo and Don Cheadle sat down for a chat with Good Morning America in July 2017, Ruffalo did a dumb thing. He spoiled the end of Infinity War.

What? I’m not going to do the thing and tell you what he said. You’ll have to watch the video to hear the spoilers for yourself. (Honestly, it’s also just funnier that way.)

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Source: Mashable | Mark Ruffalo spoiled 'Avengers: Infinity War' last year, but no one believed him

Few subjects give parents pause like talking about racism. 

For black families, the topic can be painful and often involves the upsetting task of explaining to children how they may be viewed differently by just about anyone — but specifically law enforcement. 

White parents, on the other hand, may avoid the subject altogether, fearful that they’ll say the wrong thing or worried that acknowledging racism could somehow encourage their children to become prejudiced. 

A new kids’ book authored by three child psychologists aims to give all parents, regardless of their racial or ethnic identity, tools for having these tough conversationsSomething Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice takes place in the wake of a police shooting that leaves a black man dead, and the reader watches how conversations about the tragedy unfold in different households.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | New kids' book teaches parents how to talk about racism, police shootings

It might be a beautiful day in Venice, CA, but things at the beach-headquartered Snap are not so sunny at the moment.

Snap reported disappointing revenue in its Q1 earnings report on Tuesday — and the market reacted like the volatile, fickle beast that it is. 

Snap missed investor expectations big time, reporting a quarterly revenue of $231 million. The expectation was $244.5 million, according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate.

And things aren’t likely to improve any time soon. CEO Evan Spiegel said that Snap’s growth is stalling.

“We are planning for our Q2 [revenue] growth rate to decelerate substantially from Q1 levels,” CFO Drew Vollero said. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Snap is tanking after disappointing earnings

Why break into a Taco Bell to eat Doritos taco shells when you can buy a bag of them literally anywhere else?

That’s a question for Jose Cruz who, per the Pasadena Star-News, broke into a local Taco Bell on Saturday, and ate a bunch of cheese dust-coated taco shells. Then he turned himself in to the local authorities. 

His defense?

“He said he was drunk and hungry and broke into the business to eat taco shells,” Lieutenant Pete Hettema told the Pasadena Star-News.

The paper reports Cruz was subsequently arrested, and spent the weekend in a Los Angeles jail awaiting his Tuesday arraignment. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Drunk dude breaks into Taco Bell for Doritos shells, despite fact that Doritos are sold basically everywhere

The iPhone X wasn’t a magic elixir to reinvigorate Apple’s iPhone sales, but it wasn’t the flop some people were saying it would be.

In Apple’s second quarter earnings report, the tech giant saw revenue continue to grow, but its key product, the iPhone, fell just short of sales expectations. 

Analysts were predicting 53 million in sales, but this quarter it was a meager 52.2 million. That’s a 32 percent drop from the previous quarter, which saw 77.3 million iPhone sales, though there’s always a drop-off from the holiday.

It wasn’t all bad news, though. Revenue from iPhones was up about $5 billion year-over-year, going from $33 billion to $38 billion, while the number of iPhones sold only increased from 51 million to 52 million — meaning Apple is generating significantly more money per iPhone than it was last year. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Apple is selling fewer iPhones, but it's making tons of money