Welcome to Oscar night! The 96th Annual Academy Awards has arrived to honor the very best of 2023 cinema, ranging from animated wonders like Nimona and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to live-action hits like Poor Things, The Holdovers, and Oppenheimer, the last of which boasts a whopping 13 nominations. But who will win big on…
Do you ever feel hopelessly stuck? Like no matter what you do, you keep ending up in the same shitty place? That’s the conundrum facing the heroine of Desert Road. After crashing her car in a remote desert, no matter what Clare Devoir (Kristine Froseth) does, she ends up back where she started. The pieces…
No surprise here, but one of the biggest animated movies of all time is getting a sequel. The only sort of interesting part is that the news was confirmed by Nintendo themselves. The company’s official account on X (formerly Twitter) posted a personal message purportedly from Super Mario Bros. creator Shigeru Miyamoto confirming that a…
When Instagram releases a new feature that is a direct copy of another app, its users fear the worst. In a 2022 essay for Digital Trends, writer Cristina Alexander lamented the “TikTok-ification of Instagram” because it “takes away the type of content people love most about the platform: photos from friends and family, as well…
The rumors are true: You can change your read receipts on Instagram. The feature rolled out recently and allows you to turn read receipts on or off for an individual chat or all chats, depending on your needs. For instance, you might want your read receipts off for your situationship who keeps sending you unsolicited…
The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times‘ revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe. With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who…
Back in the 1980s, my left-leaning dad used to joke at the dinner table that if a certain right-leaning President were re-elected, we would be moving to Sweden. In his mind, the country of his forebears was an egalitarian society of hale and hearty outdoor people who lived among nature and cared deeply about the…
The Pentagon firmly discredited several claims that the U.S. government has covered up evidence of space aliens and extraterrestrial material following a sweeping new investigation. A persistent theme in pop culture since the 1940s has been a belief that the government, or a secret program within it, has collected alien bodies and spacecraft and is…
TL;DR: As of March 10, get a Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows at just $44.99 (reg. $219.99). Though much divides students, working professionals, and business owners, they do share one thing in common: reliance on Microsoft Office tools. Whether it’s typing an essay in Word, organizing budgets in Excel, or organizing communication with Outlook,…
TL;DR: Through March 10, get PDF Reader Pro for 20% off when you use code ENJOY20, bringing the price to $31.99. PDFs are common, but low-cost apps to help you work with them may not be. If you’ve ever sighed when you saw a PDF attached to an email, it might be time to ditch…