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  • 22 gifts under $25 for your kid's teacher

    Heads up: All products featured here are selected by Mashable’s commerce team and meet our rigorous standards for awesomeness. If you buy something, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. Ok, so you probably can’t bribe your kids’ teachers to give them better grades, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t show appreciation to the people responsible …

    December 21, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Kit Harington is emotional about the end of 'Game of Thrones,' just like you

    Game of Thrones is coming to an end and it sounds like Kit Harington may be having a harder time letting go than most fans. Harington, who of course plays broody Jon Snow in HBO’s Game of Thrones, reflected on years of working on the series in an interview with Deadline, where he expressed how …

    December 21, 2017 | by Raheel
  • 50 best tweets that helped us cope throughout 2017

    Let’s be honest here, 2017 has had nothing but disappointments and mediocrity.  This tumultuous year has taken such a toll on us that the only thing that made us smile, even a little bit, was our dear old friend and the best place for great memes: Twitter.  Sure it can be a terrible toilet at …

    December 21, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Talent trickles out of Snapchat as Timehop founder leaves

     Less than a year after joining Snapchat, social media nostalgia app Timehop’s founder Jonathan Wegener is departing the company. He tells TechCrunch he wants to build his own thing again, but the fact that the No. 1 teen social network isn’t exciting enough to stay at is telling. Read More Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | …

    December 21, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Civilization VI lands on iPad

     In case you wanted something engrossing to keep you distracted from family squabbles this holiday, a special gift just arrived: Civilization VI, which is now available as a $30 purchase for iPad via the App Store. The world building simulation game is possibly the most ambitious and expansive ever to hit the iPad, and it …

    December 21, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Walmart continues to gird itself for the battle against Amazon

    As Amazon’s plan for world domination has swallowed Whole Foods, competing supermegachain Walmart is rolling out more plans to fight back in an ongoing battle of David Goliath versus Goliath. SEE ALSO: Kindles and quinoa: Amazon to sell more gadgets in Whole Foods stores The latest examples of Walmart’s plan to keep up with Amazon? …

    December 21, 2017 | by Raheel
  • What Cardi B's mega success tells us about the power of social media in 2017

    The way we receive content has obviously changed over the last few years, and Cardi B has benefited from it. Previously, we’d watch TV and read magazines and newspapers to find out what is going on in the world. Today, we have the world in the palm of our hands. That’s the consumer’s end of …

    December 21, 2017 | by Raheel
  • 10 gift ideas for that friend who loves to travel

    Heads up: All products featured here are selected by Mashable’s commerce team and meet our rigorous standards for awesomeness. If you buy something, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. We all have that friend: Their Instagram feed is littered with gorgeous photos of faraway locales on the regular, they always seem to be jet-setting to …

    December 21, 2017 | by Raheel
  • 2017 was a good year for LGBTQ cinema – if you knew where to look

    2017’s great year of LGBTQ filmmaking doesn’t start and end with Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino’s dreamy, sun-dappled tale of summer romance. If laden glances between Oliver and Elio have whetted your appetite for queer stories on the big screen, the last 12 months have had a lot to offer.  You just needed …

    December 21, 2017 | by Raheel