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  • Make the season brighter than a lightsaber in Star Wars holiday sweaters

    Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Bells are jingling, spiked egg nog abounds — that’s right, The Last Jedi Christmas is here. Whether you’re curled up in front of the TV watching the Star Wars Holiday Special …

    December 19, 2017 | by Raheel
  • 'Pitch Perfect 3' is…fine, and you can't have expected more than that

    Why make a successful movie if you can’t eventually exhaust its resources? The third Pitch Perfect film releases on Friday, and the final song for the Barden Bellas is hardly as revolutionary as the 2012 original, but it’s fine and fun if you lower your expectations. For more on what critics thought of Pitch Perfect …

    December 19, 2017 | by Raheel
  • RIP: The country's most tragic Christmas tree has died

    Better luck next Christmas, Rhode Island. The Christmas tree in the rotunda at the Rhode Island statehouse has died, the Associated Press reported Friday. The pine’s demise comes after it lost a shocking number of needles over the last month, which by this week had blanketed the fake snow around its trunk.  SEE ALSO: What’s …

    December 19, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Best gifts for the hangover-prone friend in your life

    Every editorial product is independently selected by Mashable journalists. If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our journalism. We’ve all woke up hungover and regretted every drink consumed the night before.  There are some lucky people who are immune to the side effects of alcohol, and then there …

    December 19, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Apple will probably launch new AirPods in the second half of 2018

    Apple AirPods are sold out on its online store until next year — but the wireless earbuds may still get a major refresh in 2018.  A leading Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, released a memo on Tuesday predicting that Apple will offer a new version of AirPods in the second half of 2018. …

    December 19, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Used car marketplace Shift appoints a co-CEO alongside George Arison

     Toby Russell was one of the first people to get Shift founder George Arison into used cars — and now he’s going to be running his company alongside him as Shift said today it is appointing Russell co-CEO of the company. Arison said he was naming Russell co-CEO of the used car marketplace to help …

    December 19, 2017 | by Raheel
  • ZTE’s dual-screen phone is a fascinating mess

     While the world was focused on bigger names like Apple and Samsung, one of the industry’s great workhorses went ahead and released a dual-screen smartphone. But the Axon M’s dual-screen technology isn’t the result of industry breakthroughs. At its heart, the Axon M is an average phone with one (admittedly compelling) gimmick to justify its …

    December 19, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Loved 'Cat Person'? The author just landed a book deal

    It was The New Yorker‘s most read fiction of 2017.  Now, the author behind viral short story Cat Person has landed a book deal. Her very first one. SEE ALSO: MashReads Podcast: ‘Cat Person’ perfectly taps into the murky ambivalence of millennial dating After her relatable tale about grim dating experiences went viral, author Kristen …

    December 19, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Damn, don't mess with Jane Austen Twitter

    Literary Twitter is all in a tizzy, and we couldn’t be more delighted, because the burns are piping hot, and the subject of the controversy is novelist extraordinaire Jane Austen.  SEE ALSO: Here are the winners of the 2017 National Book Awards On Friday, the Washington Post ran an essay about the fact that Jane …

    December 19, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Disney's Trump robot is as creepy as you'd expect

    He’s here. Following protracted delays, a robotic version of Trump has been installed into Disney World’s Hall of Presidents. The hall was meant to reopen on Jun. 30, but will now be open from Tuesday after a year-long transformation.  SEE ALSO: Someone shaved Donald Trump into the back of their head and it’s frightening AF …

    December 19, 2017 | by Raheel