Source: Engadget | Apple Music has also unplugged R. Kelly from its playlists
When you set aside the corporate gimmicks and ad campaigns, Mother’s Day is simply an opportunity to honor the mom — or mom-like figure — in your life for her sacrifices, wisdom, and love.
But it’s also a chance to think about motherhood in general and how we can support moms everywhere, regardless of whether they’re a blood relation. You can begin by learning more about the various challenges mothers face in the United States and abroad, and then follow-up with action by lending your voice or dollars to an important cause working to reduce or eliminate those disparities.
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Source: Mashable | 6 meaningful ways you can support all mamas on Mother's Day
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Hoping to invest in the next Bitcoin? Keep an eye on Facebook. No, but really. According to a Cheddar report, the company is hard at work on its own cryptocurrency.
Cheddar, citing sources familiar with the matter, claims that Facebook users could use the new “digital token” to buy and sell through the platform. The social network is also “exploring other ways” that it could use such a currency.
Mark Zuckerberg announced in January that Facebook planned to “go deeper and study the positive and negative aspects of” new technologies such as cryptocurrency. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Facebook is working on its own cryptocurrency
John Kelly doesn't want unskilled immigrants. He should check his own family tree.
May 11, 2018A new day, a new glaring hypocrisy from the Trump administration.
Today’s scandal comes from White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly. In a new interview with NPR, Kelly complained that immigrants crossing the border weren’t good fits because they “don’t have skills” and “don’t speak English.”
Thanks to the good humans of Twitter, we now know that’s apparently true of Kelly’s own ancestors, some of whom were unable to read or write English and would be classified as “unskilled.”
Monica Pattangall, who goes by the Twitter handle @Yokumbrook, first made the discovery on Ancestry.com. She shared it with Jennifer Mendelsohn, who included it in her project Resistance Genealogy. (Mendelsohn also recently tracked fellow Tomi Lahren’s ancestry, whose been known to make similar nativist statements.) Read more…
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Source: Mashable | John Kelly doesn't want unskilled immigrants. He should check his own family tree.
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NASA announced that it’s sending a helicopter to Mars in a little over two years.
If successful, this aerial Mars explorer, with a body about the size of a football, would be the first helicopter to fly on another planet.
NASA hopes to launch the prototype to Mars with the agency’s 2020 rover, which is designed to hunt for signs of past life on the red planet.
“After the Wright Brothers proved 117 years ago that powered, sustained, and controlled flight was possible here on Earth, another group of American pioneers may prove the same can be done on another world,” Thomas Zurbuchen, the Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | NASA will send a tiny helicopter to Mars in 2020
Whether you’re a queer person aching for representation or a straight human looking for a good time, we are all searching for the same thing in life: quality lesbian sex scenes.
Historically, they’ve been excruciatingly hard to find. That’s why it’s delightful to see newly-released indie drama Disobedience get it mostly right. Neither a heteronormative pornographic fantasy nor a dry, anthropological account, Disobedience manages to depict queer sex without exploiting the actors performing it.
Bonus: It’s super hot.
SEE ALSO: Instagram’s Queer Appalachia brings love — and services — to those who need it most Read more…
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Source: Mashable | 'Disobedience' has some of the most realistic lesbian sex scenes, uh, ever