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These limited-edition Desert Gold Bose headphones are super sexy (and at their lowest price ever)
SAVE 11%: As of April 24, you can get the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Bluetooth headphones (2nd gen) for $399, down from $449, at Amazon. That’s an 11% discount, or $50 in savings.
Over-ear headphones are basically a fashion accessory at this point. And let me just say, the limited-edition Desert Gold colorway on the second-generation Bose QuietComfort Ultra is super sexy. Right now, you can grab a pair at Amazon for $399. That’s an 11% discount or a $50 price cut. (It’s also the lowest price we’ve seen them go for!)
Mashable’s Lead Shopping Reporter Bethany Allard reviewed the second-generation QC Ultras and crowned them “the most comfortable headphones on the market.” She says that “there was simply not a scenario where the fit didn’t feel excellent,” whether she was working all day or going for a walk.
And, of course, she mentioned the impossible-to-ignore aesthetic details: “On a pure aesthetic note, the shiny metal accent is a strong design choice (in my humble opinion) that helps these headphones stand out even more from their cheaper counterparts in Bose’s lineup.”
Aside from being gorgeous, you’ll get up to 30 hours of battery life, adjustable active noise cancellation, and a Cinema Mode for movie-like immersion. Plus, Bose finally added USB-C playback, so you can charge your headphones and listen to music at the exact same time.
The best TV deals this weekend — Hisense, Samsung, and LG on sale
Hisense 75-inch QD7 Mini LED QLED 4K TV
(save $300)
Samsung 55-inch QN70F Neo QLED 4K TV
(save $300)
LG 65-inch 85A QNED 4K TV
(save $600)
Now that most 2026 TV releases have hit the shelves, models from 2025 are getting the deal treatment. This happens every year in the spring, making April one of the best times to buy a new TV. We’re not mad about it. You can get a huge Mini LED TV for under $500 or snag an OLED model for under $1,000 if you waited until now to upgrade.
Not to mention, it’s a great time to enhance your viewing experience in general now that the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs and NBA playoffs are underway. And we can’t forget the slew of new movies and series hitting streaming this season.
Whether you’re ready to pull the trigger or want to weigh your options, we’ve rounded up the best TV deals to shop this weekend from top brands Hisense, Samsung, and LG.
Best Hisense TV deal
Why we like it
Mashable’s sister site CNET (also owned by Ziff Davis) dubbed the Hisense QD7 the “best budget TV of 2026,” thanks to its deep contrast, superior brightness levels, solid 144Hz refresh rate for gaming and sports, and full array local dimming (which is typicalyl only found in more expensive models). The picture quality can go head to head with TVs with much larger price tags, making this deal even more impressive. Both Amazon and Best Buy have dropped the cost of the 75-inch model down to only $499.99 for a savings of $300. That’s its cheapest price ever.
Best Samsung TV deal
Why we like it
If you’re married to the Samsung brand, but don’t want to spend a ton of money on its higher-end models, the QN70F Neo QLED is a great value. As a “Neo QLED” TV, it pairs QLED with a Mini LED panel, which basically just translates to a deeply detailed display that looks stunning and can hold its own in all sorts of lighting situations. Its AI processor can upscale content and enhance the quality of just about anything if you prefer it, while the 144Hz variable refresh rate ensures transitions are smooth and less laggy than your old TV. As of April 24, the 55-inch QN70F is down to only $597.99 at Amazon, marking its biggest discount to date.
Best LG TV deal
Why we like it
We find that 65 inches is the sweet spot for most people and the LG 65-inch 85A QNED 4K TV is a solid mid-range Mini LED option. Now down to only $599.99, it’s not only cheaper than the 55-inch version, but also its best price on record. And don’t let Amazon’s listing fool you; the original cost of this TV is over $1,000, so you’ll save 50%. The 85A uses an AI processor to enhance both picture and audio in real time, while the AI Magic Remote also gives you options for content recommendations, picture and audio customizations, and generative AI gallery images to transform your TV into artwork. It also features a 120Hz native refresh rate, 144Hz variable refresh rate, AMD FreeSync Premium, and LG Game Optimizer for smooth gaming experiences.
More TV deals worth grabbing
Hisense
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Hisense 75-inch U6 Mini LED QLED 4K TV — $499.99
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Hisense 55-inch S7N Canvas QLED 4K TV — $697.99
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Hisense 65-inch U8 Mini LED ULED 4K TV — $999.99
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Hisense 75-inch U8 Mini LED ULED 4K TV — $1,249.99
$2,499.99(save $1,250)
LG
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LG 55-inch B5 OLED 4K TV — $799.99
$1,499.99(save $700)
Samsung
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Samsung 43-inch Q8F QLED 4K TV — $397.99
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Samsung 65-inch Q7F QLED 4K TV — $427.99
$629.99(save $202) -
Samsung 55-Inch S85F OLED 4K TV — $897.99
$1,499.99(save $602)
Claude can now connect with Spotify, Uber, and a lot more apps
Anthropic just made Claude a lot more useful for a bunch of users.
The company’s flagship AI chatbot just got upgraded to be compatible with several major apps, meaning it can now handle things like ordering food, hiring people for odd-jobs, and other random tasks that you might otherwise have to manually open an app to perform. Combine these new integrations with Claude’s increasingly agentic capabilities, and you can offload a lot of work to Anthropic’s chatbot.
Claude already had an extensive list of possible app connections, but there are some real heavy-hitters in the list of new additions:
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AllTrails
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Audible
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Booking.com
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Instacart
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Intuit Credit Karma
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Intuit TurboTax
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Resy
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Spotify
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StubHub
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TaskRabbit
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Thumbtack
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TripAdvisor
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Uber
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UberEats
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Viator
Anthropic’s press release also noted that more are on the way. With these new connections, you can book a trip, order food, arrange a ride-share, or hire someone to mount your TV, all from one chatbot window. On top of these apps becoming compatible with Claude, Anthropic has also adjusted the chatbot so it will automatically suggest certain apps for certain actions, based on the context of your conversation with it.
Anthropic also clarified that there won’t be sponsored answers or suggestions in the chat, maintaining that Claude is and will be ad-free going forward. Connected apps are also not used to train Claude, and they can’t see other conversations you’ve had with the chatbot.
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The worlds first 480Hz OLED gaming monitor just got a $100 price cut
SAVE 13%: As of April 24, you can get the 27-inch Asus ROG Swift OLED gaming monitor for $699, down from $799, at Amazon. That’s a 13% discount or $100 savings.
I’m a big believer that your gaming setup is only as good as your monitor. You can have the most expensive, tricked-out PC in the world, but if your screen is lagging or blurring every time you move your mouse, it’s basically useless. (Plus, playing on a slow display is super annoying.)
Right now, you can upgrade your battlestation for less at Amazon. As of April 24, the Asus ROG Swift OLED 27-inch gaming monitor is down to $699, from $799. That’s a 13% discount or $100 savings.
According to Asus, this is the world’s first 1440p 480Hz OLED gaming monitor. (Translation: it’s, like, really fast.) You’ll get a 480Hz refresh rate paired with a 0.03ms response time. It also features a built-in AI assistant (because, of course, it does), a matte screen, and anti-flicker tech to save your eyes during marathon gaming sessions.
What happened to Omegle? The rise and fall of the internets favorite stranger danger
It’s 2010 and it’s 1 a.m. early Sunday morning. You’re having a sleepover with your closest friends. You just finished a movie you ordered on Pay-Per-View without asking, hoping your parents won’t ask questions in a month when they get the cable bill. The clock says it’s time for bed, but you and your buddies aren’t tired. You break out the laptop. YouTube videos. ‘Shoes’ by Kelly for the hundredth time. Facebook ‘like for a rate’ posts. You give your crush an 8 because you don’t want to come off too eager. There’s just one last thing to do.
Talk to strangers on the internet.
In 2009, Omegle launched with a simple premise: connect strangers from around the world one-on-one via text or video chat. The pairing was random, and anyone with internet access could join for free, no account required. Anonymity was baked into the website, meaning a 13-year-old in Oklahoma could just as easily be paired with a 47-year-old from Turkmenistan. For many users, it led to genuine lasting connections. But not everyone came to Omegle with good intentions. After it shut down for good in 2023, longtime users were left wondering: what happened to Omegle? We’re here to tell you.
What was Omegle?
Omegle was created in March 2009 by an 18-year-old in Vermont named Leif K-Brooks as a simple, anonymous text chat site that connected strangers one-on-one from around the world. It amassed over 150,000 page views every day after its first month and quickly became a go-to for bored internet users across the globe. A year later in March 2010, Omegle began offering one-on-one video chat with strangers. That means if you had a webcam, you could now use Omegle to chat face-to-face with people from just about anywhere.
Omegle was marketed as a site for users ages 13 and up. If you were under 18, Omegle stated in its policy that you needed parental approval before accessing. Because there was no account needed, there weren’t any limitations at all. No parents were needed to sign this made-up permission slip. Anyone had the ability to access Omegle.
In 2022, things changed. Well, that’s a lie. Just words did. Omegle’s new policy stated that users had to be 18+ without exception. Still, no account was needed to join, providing access to anyone who could type the word ‘Omegle’ into their internet search bar.
How did people use Omegle?
The premise was simple: connect with another person, judge them for a half-second based on their appearance, and decide whether or not you wanted to have a conversation. Conversations would typically begin with ‘ASL?’, standing for age/sex/location. You could chat by mic or keep it to text, awkwardly staring at each other until someone said something funny. When the conversation was over, you could choose to click the “Next” button at the bottom left corner and be connected with somebody else.
As mentioned, not everyone used Omegle for wholesome chatter. Some users were only there for one thing. To get off. This was a huge issue for children using the app. It was almost impossible to skip one person without the next being a man stroking his penis.
To combat this, Omegle eventually added ‘moderators’ — mainly just an automation system that banned people who exposed themselves from the jump. Due to ‘moderation’ in Omegle’s later years, you’d see way less dicks unless you were actively looking for them. You could start a conversation innocently enough and end up masturbating with a stranger if things went that way. Technically, this didn’t seem to break any rules Omegle was implementing, as long as you didn’t lead with it.
Whether the conversation was platonic or sexual, all Omegle users came for the same reason: connection.
When was Omegle most popular?
Omegle was at its peak in its early years, but became a lifeline for human connection during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021. There was a resurgence in popularity with streamers, TikTokers, and YouTubers who were stuck inside with nothing to film. This brought a new generation to the site, connecting people across the globe during a time when people needed connection most. Between the months of February and May of 2020, Omegle reportedly had a monthly increase of 10 million. That’s pretty serious. We surely can’t count that high.
What made Omegle unique?
While Omegle was active, its only real competitor was Chatroulette, though it couldn’t match Omegle feature for feature. Chatroulette was strictly video-to-video, while Omegle offered both text and video chat. Omegle also let you tailor your experience through ‘tags’. Tags were keywords you typed in before starting a chat. Omegle would then match you with someone who typed the same thing, so you’d have something to talk about from the start. Tags could be anything — art, sports, dogs, beach, whatever came to mind.
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Omegle also had ‘Spy Mode’, though it seemingly never quite caught on the way one-on-one chat did. Spy Mode worked one of two ways: you either submitted a question and watched two strangers debate it without being able to intervene, or you were one of the two strangers being watched. Like tags, you could ask any question you wanted.
Was Omegle safe?
The short answer? No. Omegle was not safe. While there were many ways to try and stop inappropriate interactions, there was nothing moderation could do to make it work.
Users with sexually-inclined tags — horny, sex, jo (jerking off), boobs — were typically matched with each other, separate from those just looking to talk. And since anyone could type anything into the tags bar, moderation was essentially nonexistent. Users could write anything, including racist and homophobic slurs, references to inappropriate and illegal content, and more. This means a 13-year-old could type the same tags and be matched directly with predators using them.
Omegle had an ‘unmonitored’ section, a designated space where users could be explicitly sexual without risk of being banned. The problem? Anyone could choose to use this section with the click of a button. The majority of people there were masturbating openly, meaning anyone who wandered in had access to explicit content with zero restriction. If a ‘moderator’ flagged you for inappropriate behavior, you could be dumped into the unmonitored section without warning (sometimes for days or weeks) with no way back into regular chat.
A full ban meant you couldn’t access Omegle at all via your IP address, though it was never permanent. Days, weeks, maybe months later, you’d be back.
Spy Mode questions were also an issue, ranging from ‘what’s your favorite Pokémon?’ to improv scenarios with your stranger, to what age you lost your virginity, to someone dropping an Instagram handle and telling both strangers to go message that person and tell them to kill themselves.
Essentially, there were no rules. Because of that, for many people, especially those under the age of 18, Omegle really could not be considered ‘safe’.
So, why did Omegle shut down?
After 14 years, Omegle shut down in November 2023, taking with it a strange little corner of the internet that millions of people had once called their own. When trying to access the site, users were greeted with the Omegle logo with the years 2009-2023 on a gravestone. A long message from founder K-Brooks followed, expressing why he came to the decision to shut the site down.
The goodbye letter was… weird. Defensive. Very ‘woe-is-me’.
In this message, K-Brooks mentions that financially and psychologically, he’d become unable to manage Omegle, explicitly saying he didn’t want to “have a heart attack in my 30s.” He pushes back on critics who accused him of letting crimes happen and turning his head, suggesting the moderation standards people expected of him were simply impossible to meet. He explains the shutdown of Omegle as “destroying the universe because it contains evil”, essentially telling people that this decision is an attack against a free internet.
Toward the end of Omegle’s life, something was going on behind the scenes. In 2019, a person identified only as ‘A.M.’ from Oregon filed a $22 million lawsuit against Omegle, alleging she was a victim of child sex exploitation on the site. The lawsuit argued that Omegle knew exactly what was happening, with the site even displaying a message that read “Predators have been known to use Omegle, so please be careful,” right before accessing the rest of the site. Omegle tried to get the case thrown away, citing that the Communications Decency Act protected them from being held responsible for what users did on their platform, but the judge didn’t take the bait. Omegle’s design actively and knowingly paired minors with adults. It made Omegle culpable.
The $22 million lawsuit was settled just a few days before K-Brooks pulled the plug on Omegle entirely. His farewell letter even acknowledges A.M. by name, saying “I thank A.M. for opening my eyes to the human cost of Omegle.”
And just like that, Omegle was in the trash bin.
Could Omegle ever come back?
Omegle was built with pure intentions by some kid in Vermont who just wanted to see what human connection could look like on the internet. For a lot of people, it delivered on that promise in ways no other site could. It made the world feel a little smaller, and a little less lonely.
But bad actors will act. And if you can’t keep up with that, or take accountability for handing those people a platform in the first place, things will crumble.
In 2026, Omegle alternatives like Uhmegle, Thundr, and OmeTV fill the void, letting users chat with strangers across the globe the same way Omegle did. Most come with actual accountability measures Omegle never had. There are also fully NSFW Omegle alternatives now, designed specifically for one-on-one sexual content, giving that crowd a dedicated place to land.
So, could Omegle ever come back? Sure, but it probably won’t. Given the lawsuit and K-Brooks’ farewell letter, Omegle seems destined to exist only in memory. And honestly, that’s probably for the best.
FCC expands WiFi router ban. What it means for you.
About a month ago, the FCC decided to ban the import or sale of all new, foreign-made WiFi routers. Now, the list has expanded a bit.
Our friends at PCMag spotted an update to the FCC’s router ban FAQ this week, indicating that portable WiFi hotspots are now included in the ban. In case you’ve never used one, these are little boxes that you can use to activate a WiFi network on the go. They use a SIM card to connect to a cellular network, converting it to WiFi for your other devices, rather than connecting to a modem via Ethernet.
The ban now also extends to fixed 5G wireless access points, which use a 5G cell network to blanket a home with WiFi.
Before you start panicking, it doesn’t seem like this is going to affect very many people in the short term. For starters, using a smartphone to create a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot is still totally above board under these regulations.
Beyond that, T-Mobile told PCMag that the FCC’s regulations do not prohibit the sale of networking equipment that you can already buy in the U.S. That means if the router was approved for sale prior to the ban, you can still buy and use it.
“The FCC’s updated list of ‘covered devices’ does not affect any existing routers that were previously approved, so current customers have nothing to worry about and no action to take and their service will continue to operate normally with no equipment change necessary,” T-Mobile told PCMag.
Given that ISPs tend to supply users with older or more basic routers, and that most people don’t bother to voluntarily switch those out for newer and more advanced equipment, many WiFi users in the U.S. might not notice the effects of the FCC router ban at all.
However, it will become a nuisance for power users who want better performance or more features out of their routers. It will be interesting to see how long the U.S. government sticks to its position that routers pose a national security risk.
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Snag DJIs controller-free 4K mini drone for its lowest price ever
SAVE 25%: As of April 24, you can get the DJI Neo mini drone for $149 at Amazon, down from $199. That’s a 25% discount or $50 savings.
If you’re interested in getting into droning (not sure if that’s even an official word, but let’s make it one), you’re most likely going to want something that’s small (i.e., doesn’t require FAA registration), easy to fly, and has some sort of fail-safe just in case you run it into a tree or fly too close to an open body of water.
Right now, you can get all of those beginner-friendly features and more at Amazon for just $149. As of April 24, the DJI Neo mini drone is marked down by 25% (a $50 price cut from its standard $199 price tag, and its lowest price to date, according to CamelCamelCamel).
The DJI Neo is super accessible. You don’t even need a controller to fly it; it takes off and lands directly from the palm of your hand with just the push of a button. (You can also use voice control, the mobile DJI Fly app, or a standard RC). It weighs just 135g, features smart subject tracking to follow you around, and comes with full-coverage propeller guards so you can safely fly it indoors or navigate through tree branches without panicking.
The Samsung 55-Inch Class Neo QLED TV hits all-time low price at Amazon — how to claim free Xbox GamePass with deal
SAVE $300: The Samsung 55-Inch Class Neo QLED TV is on sale for $597.99 at Amazon. That’s the best-ever price and includes Xbox GamePass for free.
We were thrilled to spot the Samsung 55-Inch Class Neo QLED TV on sale at Amazon. We were even more pleased to see that is was down to its best-ever price, and we almost combusted when we noticed that one month of Xbox GamePass comes free with purchases.
We see a lot of deals, so almost erupting into flames is not regular occurrence. But then, this isn’t a regular deal. The Samsung 55-Inch Class Neo QLED TV is on sale for $597.99 at Amazon. That’s $300 off the list price for a limited time, before you even consider the Xbox GamePass freebie.
To claim Xbox GamePass for free with your purchase, you need to follow these simple steps:
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Add the Samsung 55-Inch Class Neo QLED TV to your online cart.
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When you’re done shopping, select Go to Cart.
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The offer will automatically be applied at checkout, if eligible.
It’s that easy.
A number of TVs qualify for this promotion, but this Samsung 55-Inch Class Neo QLED TV might offer the best value for money. The picture offers the sharp and accurate contrast of Neo QLED enabled by precision-controlled Mini LEDs. Users also get AI enhanced picture quality and optimized sound for superb performance in everything you watch.
Score the best-ever price on the Samsung 55-Inch Class Neo QLED TV at Amazon.
Heated Rivalry is a hit, but author Rachel Reid is trying to maintain her normalcy amidst the phenomenon
On April 12, I attended the PWHL game at TD Garden in Boston between the Boston Fleet and the Montreal Victoire. The Heated Rivalry effect was inescapable. It was an opportunity for hockey fans to turn out their favorite merch — someone in my row excitedly ran toward the crowd cameras to show off her ‘I’m coming to the cottage’ T-shirt. Heated Rivalry actor Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova was in the crowd, and the cheers that ensued when she appeared on the screen made you think one of the teams had scored a goal. And when the Heated Rivalry look-a-like contest winners shared a kiss on the jumbotron while t.A.T.u’s “All the Things She Said” played, it caused the 17,000-person crowd to collectively lose their minds.
Since HBO Max’s Heated Rivalry premiered in November 2025, actors Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, as well as their characters Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, have become household names. But so has Rachel Reid. The author of Heated Rivalry and the Game Changer series, of which it’s a part, has always had a loyal fan base, but now that the show is a global hit, it reaches far beyond the scope of the show and books.
BookCon 2026 marked the first big event for Reid since the Heated Rivalry adaptation, and fans came ready to celebrate and meet their favorite author. I sat down with Reid to chat about fandom and maintaining a sense of normalcy amidst the phenomenon.
Credit: Samantha Mangino / Mashable
Samantha Mangino: What’s it like meeting fans at BookCon?
Rachel Reid: It’s been great. For the last few years, more and more people have been wanting to meet me at these kinds of events. Even before the show [HBO Max’s Heated Rivalry], it was already pretty surreal and overwhelming, but in a really good way. Now with the show, it’s really exploded. I mean, I’m doing a photo line. That kind of thing makes you feel like you’re in a Marvel movie.
SM: You said during your panel yesterday that authors aren’t supposed to be seen like this, so I imagine it feels unbelievable to have all the eyes on you.
RR: Getting recognized all over New York, too, is a pretty wild feeling as an author. I’ve been getting like drive-by, “I love you, Rachels,” and people on the street recognizing me. As an author, that’s very odd. I think even the biggest authors on earth don’t get recognized that often. We’re just not seen that often.
SM: I think it really speaks to the show’s popularity.
RR: Yeah, with all the promo the show has gotten, and everybody who made the show has been fantastic about including me in that, and that’s been the difference maker.
SM: How do you feel life has changed since the show came out?
RR: I have to be a little more aware that things I say might become headlines. I can’t just make flippant jokes. Things I share tend to get shared, so maybe I don’t post as often. I’m also aware that people could be photographing or video recording me at any time. So I’m a little more careful there, although not as careful as I should be. I’m still getting used to that.
Obviously, my career has leveled up many, many levels very quickly. I feel like I’ve skipped steps somewhere. I had a list of goals that I checked off all at once. So now it’s about thinking ahead and rethinking my goals.
SM: Have you been online, kind of watching the fandom explode?
RR: Not that much. I try to stay out of fan spaces generally, and I did that before the show, too, but certainly since the show, and my new book was announced. I’ve stayed away from like Reddit. I’m not on Threads, I haven’t been on Twitter in years. I haven’t been on Goodreads in years. I just use Instagram. I think it creates a nice barrier. I do have friends, so if I see hints of things happening on Threads, I’ll be like, “Can you explain this to me?” I’m not gonna look myself.
SM: Are there any other boundaries you’ve created online?
RR: Definitely, I don’t want anybody giving me ideas for the book. That’s a big one. Obviously, I don’t read fan fiction because that would not be a good idea.
I try to make myself a little less accessible than I used to be, and sometimes I feel bad about it, but it’s just necessary. I do have kids, and I’m trying to maintain our privacy as much as possible. It helps that I live in Nova Scotia, Canada, which is not a big or fancy place. So when I’m home, my life doesn’t feel that different. When I travel for things like this [BookCon], I get to face it.
SM: What’s it been like gaining so many new fans since the show aired?
RR: It’s been wild to see how Ilya and Shane have become household names. My characters went from having a small but loyal fan base, which was lovely too, but now everybody I’ve ever known knows these characters and has opinions about them. It feels like I found a genie and wished for the world to be obsessed with everything I wrote.
Everyone is so into these characters, and I think it speaks to how amazing a job Jacob [Tierney] and everyone involved did making the show.
It’s a beautiful show, and I’m not surprised that people like it as much as they do, but I certainly didn’t think it would find such a wide audience. There’s something about the timing of it, and I think what people are craving too, that just made it all click.
People have told me it has changed their relationships with coworkers, neighbors, and even some relatives, because they didn’t think they could be open about who they are with these people. Still, then, because they’re such big fans of the show, they thought maybe it would be OK if I told them a little more about myself. Places feel a little safer than they did before.
Widows Bay review: Your new favorite TV town awaits in this tremendous horror comedy
Cross the local bureaucratic comedy of Parks and Recreation with the small-town strangeness of Twin Peaks, and you’ll get a sense of the singular tone of Apple TV‘s new genre gem Widow’s Bay.
Created by Katie Dippold, herself a writer for Parks and Recreation, the series artfully blends horror and comedy to create an enthralling portrait of a town you’ll want to get lost in… even if some of its locals would advise you to run the hell away.
What’s Widow’s Bay about?
Credit: Apple TV
A charming island 40 miles off the coast of New England, Widow’s Bay has a lot going for it. It boasts picturesque coastal views, invigorating ocean breezes, and atmospheric fog banks that have absolutely nothing hiding in them, do you hear me?
At least, that’s what Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) has to say. He’s trying to turn Widow’s Bay into the next Martha’s Vineyard, a quest that locals like former fisherman Wyck (Stephen Root) threaten to derail with their claims that Widow’s Bay is cursed.
Tom initially brushes Wyck and his allies off in favor of bringing in tourists. It’s a page straight from the playbook of Mayor Vaughn from Jaws, which Widow’s Bay pays loving homage to throughout. However, when haunts start knocking at his door, Tom has to face the truth: There’s something truly sinister at work on the island, and it’s only getting worse.
Widow’s Bay is a wonderfully frightening watch.
Credit: Apple TV
To pull off its many scares, Widow’s Bay draws inspiration from a wide range of horror iconography. Stephen King‘s influence hangs over the series like the town’s unshakeable mist, present in everything from the New England setting to the show’s title font, a clear nod to the style of his earlier covers.
The aforementioned Jaws plays a huge role, too, and not just because of Tom’s role as a skeptical, tourism-hungry mayor. (To Tom’s credit, he’s far less willing to put people in danger for the sake of money than Mayor Vaughn.) Root’s salty veteran sailor Wyck bears shades of Jaws‘ Quint, and an episode devoted to a cursed ocean outing recalls Jaws’ third act. But the biggest lesson Widow’s Bay takes from Stephen Spielberg’s horror classic is the fear of the unknown. Just as Jaws generates suspense by holding off on showing us its biggest threat until later in the runtime, so too does Widow’s Bay keep its viewers in the dark about its many frights.
And what darkness it is! Visually, Widow’s Bay thrives in rich, inky black tones where you can crucially still make out every little detail, a rarity in TV nowadays and a testament to the show’s production team and crew. Series directors Hiro Murai (Atlanta), Sam Donovan (Severance), Andrew DeYoung (Friendship), and Ti West (the X trilogy) weaponize this darkness — along with fog and ocean depths — to its fullest obscuring extent. That expert build-up of tension made the subsequent reveals hit all the harder, to the point that I couldn’t get through an episode without screaming or cackling. (Or, most often, some mix of both.)
Widow’s Bay nails the balance between scares and laughs.
Credit: Apple TV
Widow’s Bay‘s scares pull from sailor superstitions, classic slashers, and more, but they never feel cheap. That’s because the series roots them firmly in its characters’ anxieties, like Tom’s worries about tourism, or town hall staffer Patricia’s (Kate O’Flynn) desperate need to be liked. (She’s so desperate, in fact, that she may have falsely claimed to be the sole survivor of a serial killer who murdered some of her high school classmates.)
The latter produces a series highlight, an episode where a frantic Patricia attempts to host the perfect party. The social isolation she faces from her disdainful former classmates is just as wince-worthy as the uncanny events surrounding the event, resulting in a one-two punch of cringe comedy and horror.
Widow’s Bay often operates in that sweet spot between horror and comedy, which tends more toward the dry and bizarre than Dippold’s previous work on sitcoms like Parks and Recreation or comedy films like Ghostbusters (2016). Instead of cracking jokes at a mile per minute, Widow’s Bay finds the funny in the eerie. Think historical wax figures, a cursed party game called “Teeth,” and sight gags about cannibalism.
Widow’s Bay‘s central trio of Rhys, Root, and O’Flynn play these occurrences as straight as they can, adding further to the show’s brand of offbeat strangeness. Rhys and Root are tremendous foils as a skeptic and believer forced to work together. And O’Flynn proves an absolute scene stealer as Patricia, marrying her hilarious scorn for others with the genuine pain of being scorned right back.
The rest of Widow’s Bay‘s ensemble, which includes Somebody Somewhere‘s Emmy-winning Jeff Hiller, Dale Dickey, and several surprising guest stars, further builds out the town of Widow’s Bay. Their efforts, as well as the weatherbeaten production design by Steve Arnold (Midnight Mass, another superb cursed island series), turn Widow’s Bay into a real town. You can almost taste the salt air (or hear the screams of cursed souls in the distance) just by watching.
In the end, the town of Widow’s Bay is as deliciously odd as the show itself. What begins with a bit of a haunt-of-the-week structure soon evolves into a deeper unraveling of Widow’s Bay’s darkest secrets, as well as the choices that kept them in place. While I’d love for the show to return to its haunt-of-the-week mode occasionally, I also adore what it became. That it can pull off this transformation is proof of its sheer uniqueness. Forget being the next Martha’s Vineyard: Widow’s Bay sets a new, wonderfully weird course all by itself.
The first two episodes of Widow’s Bay premiere April 29, with new episodes every Wednesday.
Elon Musk says Teslas Cybercab has started production
Tesla’s Cybercab has started production, according to CEO Elon Musk.
In a post on X on Friday, the company co-owner shared a very Cyberpunk 2077 video of the autonomous vehicles rolling through the production line, seemingly at Tesla’s Giga Texas factory in Austin, Texas.
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On the same day, Tesla’s official Robotaxi account also posted a video of Cybercabs “in formation” on a highway.
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Tesla’s first Cybercab rolled off the production line on Feb. 18, with the company posting a celebratory photo. In its Q4 2025 earnings call, Tesla had moved the production of Cybercab up to 2026, and in its Q1 2026 earnings call, the company said it “expect[s] volume production of both Cybercab and the Tesla Semi this year,” the latter referring to the awaited electric truck.
At launch in 2024, Musk said Tesla would produce 2 million units a year of Cybercab in full production capacity, which would be approximately 38,000 vehicles per week. In these early stages, it’s likely to be more like hundreds per week. The company has a history of production delays, and before any of those Cybercabs hits the road, they’ve got to be approved by regulators.
60 Cybercab units were then spotted at Tesla’s Giga Texas in Austin in early April, where the vehicles will all be produced. Drone operator Joe Tegtmeyer reported the autonomous vehicles indeed had steering wheels — the cars in Musk’s video do not, they have large screens like most Tesla vehicles — so could be early models.
Credit: Jay Janner / The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images
Credit: Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images
What is the difference between Tesla Cybercab and Robotaxi?
But wait, doesn’t Tesla already have Cybercabs cruising around on the streets of Texas? Not exactly, but the confusion is real.
Unveiled in 2024 at Tesla’s “We, Robot” event, the Cybercab is a fully autonomous electric vehicle that hasn’t yet hit the streets. As Mashable’s Stan Schroeder reported then, “both names [Cybercab and Robotaxi] were used throughout the event.” It’s gold, has butterfly wing doors, and will have no steering wheel or pedals.
Tesla’s self-driving rideshare vehicles currently in operation are called Robotaxis, which are autonomous Model Y cars. Launched in Austin in 2025, these are the company’s competition with Waymo and Uber, and they’re black, have steering wheels and pedals, and though they’re driverless, they travel with human safety monitors nearby. Tesla tried to trademark the term “Robotaxi” at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but the request was denied.
Essentially, Robotaxis are on the road now; Cybercabs will eventually replace them.
In Tesla’s Q1 2026 earnings call, the company said, “In Q1, paid Robotaxi miles nearly doubled sequentially. Once in production, we expect that Cybercab will begin to replace the existing Model Y fleet and will be the largest volume vehicle in the fleet over time.”
Essentially, Robotaxis are on the road now; Cybercabs will eventually replace them.
A Tesla Cybercab that was displayed during SXSW in Austin in March had the word Robotaxi on it (and had a screen, not a steering wheel). But in Musk’s video, the word Cybercab is emblazoned on the screen.
Credit: Jay Janner / The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)
Credit: Jay Janner / The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images
Time to get to work then, Tesla.
The Bang & Olufsen Beoplay Eleven earbuds have hit their best-ever price at Amazon — save $150
SAVE OVER $100: As of April 24, the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay Eleven earbuds have hit their lowest-ever price of $449 at Amazon. This is $150 off their list price of $599.
Earbuds are always helpful to have on-hand, whether you’re going to the gym, on a long commute to work, or enduring a long flight. If you’ve been thinking about splashing out on a premium pair this year, the high-end Bang & Olufsen Beoplay Eleven earbuds are certainly worth a look. Amazon even has them heavily discounted right now.
As of April 24, every available color of the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay Eleven earbuds are on sale for $449 at Amazon. This is not just a $150 discount off their list price of $599, but it even marks a new low price at the retailer. No better time to scoop them up.
While they boast a sleek design and stylish case, the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay Eleven earbuds also deliver high-quality sound components thanks to a 9.2mm driver in each earbud. And as you’d expect from a premium audiophile brand like Bang & Olufsen, they also have noise-canceling features, so you won’t have to deal with any distractions when listening to an album or getting lost in an audiobook.
In addition, the Beoplay Eleven’s battery life can handle a long journey. With ANC on, you’ll get to enjoy up to six hours of playtime with these earbuds. This can be boosted up to 20 hours with the help of the charging case, making them an excellent choice for any long journeys you have coming up.
They’re currently marked as a’limited time deal, so don’t wait too long to pick up these Bang & Olufsen Beoplay Eleven earbuds on sale at Amazon.
Stephen Colbert reacts to Trumps plan to target the press at White House Correspondents Dinner
It’s almost time for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which will be attended by Donald Trump himself for the first time in a decade. And apparently the president has a plan.
In the Late Show clip above, Stephen Colbert reacts to a Daily Beast report that says Trump intends to go after the press in his speech before leaving the event early.
“All you reporters are enemies of the people,” says Colbert, in trademark Trump impression mode. “I hate you all. And if you call me, I will pick up every time.”
Colbert goes on to comment on Trump’s reported plan to leave before the awards themselves are handed out, dodging any awkwardness.
“I can understand why he’s gonna dip, because one of these awards — and this is true — is going to The Wall Street Journal for its scoop about a certain birthday pube doodle for Jeffrey Epstein,” says Colbert. “As well as another award for the photo-journalist who took this picture of that time a man had a medical emergency right there in the Oval Office and Trump just stood there like he was waiting for a bus. It’s just so crazy that he didn’t help, especially now that we know he is a doctor.“
Elsewhere, Jimmy Kimmel decided to host an alternative, roast-filled version of the event.
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Stephen Colbert has a plan after The Late Show. Its Uncle Cops.
Stephen Colbert‘s The Late Show days are almost at an end, and everyone wants to know what the host will do next (aside from writing a new Lord of the Rings movie).
“As we get close to the end, a lot of people are asking me, ‘What’s next for Stephen T. Colbert?'” asked the host during Thursday’s show. “Well, internet rumours continue to run wild. I’ve heard a lot of theories, everything from I’m moving to CNN, to I’m announcing a massive wildlife rescue program, to I’m running for President of the United States. I can reveal right now that all of those are partially true. I will be president of an animal sanctuary dedicated to caring for the rare Blitzer Wolf.”
Wanting to put all these rumours to rest, Colbert officially announced his next big TV project: “an hour-long procedural torn straight from today’s headlines.”
Behold, Uncle Cops, starring Colbert and Hollywood star John C. Reilly as Detectives Mitch and Bob. “It’s the gripping tale of two detectives who are also uncles. How can they be both? It ain’t easy, folks.”
Yes, they made a trailer and it’s truly glorious. I would watch 30+ seasons of this.
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The Fitbit Versa 4 has dropped below $150 at Amazon — run to save $50
SAVE $50: As of April 24, the Fitbit Versa 4 is on sale for $149.95 at Amazon. This is $50 off its list price of $199.95.
For those who love to have a steady workout routine, it’s helpful to have a reliable fitness tracker or smartwatch to keep you on the right path. If a new model has been on your mind this year, the Fitbit Versa 4 is worth a look. That’s especially true right now, as it’s currently marked down by $50 at Amazon.
This has dropped the price of the Fitbit Versa 4 from $199.95 to $149.95, and there’s multiple colors on sale at this price. Choose between pink sand/copper rose, waterfall blue/platinum, and black/graphite, but keep in mind the former two are marked as limited time deals right now, so they may not be discounted for long. Act fast to pick them up at this low price.
The Fitbit Versa 4 is a solid pick for day-to-day tracking, whether you like being able to keep an eye on your health stats or enjoy having the tracking for your fitness goals. It even boasts lifestyle features, such as the ability to take calls, read texts, and get phone notifications right on your wrist. Writer Lois Mackenzie said that the “Versa 4 is the only Fitbit I’d recommend” in her Mashable review.
For starters, Mackenzie says it “Looks and feels good on the wrist. It’s lightweight and slim, which is super important for a watch you’re wearing on a daily basis.” There’s also plenty of fitness tracking features to enjoy, as she notes: “The Versa 4 covers all the basics and then some. You get heart rate tracking, step counting, sleep tracking, SpO2 monitoring, stress tracking, and built-in GPS.”
If you’re interested in grabbing the Fitbit Versa 4 for your daily tracking, don’t miss out on this great opportunity to save at Amazon.
The Fitbit Inspire 3 is under $80 at Amazon — save $20 this weekend
SAVE $20: As of April 24, the Fitbit Inspire 3 is on sale for $79.95 at Amazon. That’s a 20% discount on the list price.
Fitness trackers don’t need to cost hundreds of dollars, especially when you just want something reliable to track your workouts. That’s why I love the Fitbit Inspire 3. It’s a budget-friendly option from a reliable brand that gives you the core health and fitness stats you need. And as of April 24, you can get it for under $80.
With this smartwatch you’ll get all-day activity tracking, 24/7 heart rate monitoring, and over 20 exercise modes. It also has smart features like automatic workout detection and reminders to keep you moving.
For health and wellness, you can monitor stats related to stress tracking (it even gives you a daily score), mindfulness and breathing exercises, and health insights such as SpO2, resting heart rate, and irregular heart rhythm notifications. Sleep tracking is advanced too. You’ll get a detailed sleep score as well as personalized tips to help improve your sleep.
And even though it comes in a small, nifty design, it’s powerful enough to last up to 10 days of use. It’s also capable of being in the water at a depth of up to 50 meters.
The Fitbit Inspire 3 is currently priced at $79.95 at Amazon, with three colors to choose from.
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Jimmy Kimmel brutally roasts Trump during alternative White House Correspondents Dinner
Jimmy Kimmel’s direct appeal to Donald Trump to let him host the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Dinner sadly went unanswered — the event, which the president is planning to attend for the first time in a decade, is being hosted by mentalist Oz Pearlman.
In the video above, Kimmel decides to take a leaf out of Kid Rock’s book and put on an alternative version of the event, donning a tux and doing the kind of roast he’d have done if he’d been there himself.
“Look at you, all dressed up in formalwear, dresses, tuxedos — I haven’t seen this much black since every page of the Trump-Epstein files,” Kimmel says.
“By the way, in the unfortunate event that our president has a medical emergency tonight, do we have a doctor— I’m sorry, do we have a Jesus in the house? I always confuse them too. I get why you think you’re Jesus. This guy, every time he walks into a room people say ‘Christ, he’s back.’
Kimmel doesn’t just focus on Trump, either, also spending a little time on other key White House staff.
“Oh, look at who we have here, Stephen Miller! Which one of you said his name three times?” Kimmel asks.
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Seth Meyers calls out Eric Trumps $24m Pentagon deal for his robot startup
Eric Trump’s robotics company reportedly landed a $24 million deal with the Pentagon, with Foundation Future Industries contracted to deliver its Phantom MK1 humanoid robots for use by the U.S military.
If the president’s son receiving millions for his tech startup from the government sounds like a conflict of interest, Seth Meyers agrees with you.
During his “A Closer Look” segment on Late Night, the host examined the deal made with Trump, the company’s chief strategy advisor.
“Now, for anyone surprised that Eric Trump’s title is ‘chief strategy advisor,’ I can explain it was too hard to fit ‘dipshit who just happens to be the president’s son’ on the business card,” said Meyers.
“So, the president’s family is dining at the taxpayer trough,” Meyers added. “Meanwhile, the rest of us are getting hit with price hikes and supply shortages as a result of Trump’s war with Iran.”
He’s not wrong.
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Regularly over $2,000, the Eufy Robot Lawn Mower E15 is $949.99 in a limited-time deal
SAVE $1,350: As of April 24, the Eufy Robot Lawn Mower E15 is on sale for $949.99 at Amazon. That’s a 59% discount on list price.
The warmer, brighter days are fast approaching and with it comes the task of keeping the lawn neat and tidy. But thankfully, long gone are the days where you need to pull out the decades-old lawn mower to tackle the overgrown grass. Like most things in life, you can now let the robot do the work.
Robot lawn mowers have grown in popularity in recent years, and with that popularity comes advancements. Models like the eufy Robot Lawn Mower E15 can self navigate across your lawn while avoiding obstacles and leave it uniformly cut in parallel lines. And as of April 24, it’s on sale an all-time low price.
Like most robot devices, this model requires minimal effort from you. It uses stereo cameras and AI-based navigation to move around your garden on its own, with everything controlled through the app. You can manage different zones and set virtual boundaries to control it. You can even view your lawn layout directly from your phone.
The mower also includes 3D obstacle detection to avoid objects like toys or trees. It cuts in neat, parallel lines and can automatically detect and re-mow missed areas. This model is normally priced well over $2,000, but right now it’s down to $949.99. You’ll be saving a grand total of $1,350 with this deal.
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Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds are $50 off at Amazon — buy now for $249
SAVE $50: As of April 24, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) have been marked down to $249 at Amazon. This is $50 off their list price of $299.
If you’re looking to treat yourself to some new earbuds this spring, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) are a pair we think are worth your time and money. They’re currently sitting on our list of the best earbuds as the most comfortable pick, and as of April 24, they’re on sale at Amazon for $249.
This is a $50 price drop from the Bose QuietComfort Ultra’s list price of $299, and it applies to every available color at Amazon. Don’t fancy the black pair? You can also choose from deep plum, desert gold, midnight violet, and white smoke at this price. Not to mention, Amazon also has a notice on the store page that says these will arrive before Mother’s Day (if you’re hoping to give them as a gift).
If you’re looking to splash out on earbuds that offer premium sound quality and noise-canceling features, the 2nd Gen Bose QuietComfort Ultras deliver. Our review from Mashable’s Bethany Allard said: “If you want the best noise-cancelling and comfort that money can buy, Bose delivers once again with their second-generation QuietComfort Ultra earbuds.”
Alongside strong sound and noise-cancelation, they also have a pretty good battery life that lasts up to six hours in Quiet or Aware Mode, or up to four hours if you’re listening with Immersive Audio. The case holds up to three charges as well, so you’ll have plenty of juice to get you through a long journey.
Amazon has them marked as a limited time deal, so you’ll want to act fast to save on the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen).
To get Margos Got Money Troubles right, Rufi Thorpe had to earn the trust of OnlyFans creators
The content and format of Rufi Thorpe’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles seem antithetical to each other — a novel about the internet. Yet, Thorpe’s book manages to perfectly encapsulate navigating life as a creator and sex worker online. The experience of motherhood and OnlyFans Thorpe captured in her 2024 novel is now an Apple TV series of the same name, starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Nick Offerman.
But before the show got to the small screen and the book hit shelves, Thorpe had to immerse herself in the world of OnlyFans and content creators: “I think I’m spoiled as a fiction writer. Normally, I can just call up people, and no one’s interested in anyone else’s job, so people will often talk to you in depth about their jobs.” But that wasn’t the case with researching Margo. As she broached the topic of content creators, especially those on OnlyFans, she noted that their job is to protect themselves and their privacy.
But to write the successful novel that she did, Thorpe needed to do the research. So how did she do it and earn her sources’ trust in the process? At BookCon 2026, I chatted with Thorpe about her OnlyFans research and the Margo’s Got Money Trouble adaptation.
Samantha Mangino: Margo’s Got Money Troubles has such an accurate depiction and understanding of the internet and content creation. How did you do your research?
Rufi Thorpe: I started an OnlyFans account, and I would send a $50 tip to creators and say, “Hey, I’m a novelist. I’ve written these books. I’m writing a book about it, and it has a character who has an OnlyFans account. I want to explore sex work as work. The book has no moral agenda, and I can’t do a good job unless I do research. Would you please talk? I will pay you per question that I ask.”
A lot of girls have automated bot responses, and they’re not even reading their own messages. So you have to find an account that’s small enough that someone — a human — will answer you. In order to be a sex worker, you have to have really, really good boundaries. So they are very clear that their internal life is not for sale, whether it’s me, a creepy middle-aged woman novelist, or a John. So some questions were very easy for them to talk about, like the business side of things, marketing and promotion, and even the back end of how their system looked and how money worked. But any questions that I considered relatively open-ended, like, “How do you feel differently about this work now than when you first started?” A lot of times, they’d be like, “I don’t feel comfortable talking about that.” In a weird way, their reticence was an education in itself.
SM: Have you gotten any feedback from creators on the book and how they received it?
RT: I’ve heard from maybe five different OnlyFans models, and it’s been really positive. One challenge of the research and book is that it’s kind of historical fiction. The show is set in contemporary times, but the book is really set in 2018. When TikTok and OnlyFans were these baby fledglings, which is part of how Margo can go viral as easily as she does.
But finding people who were on the platform at that time was really challenging, because when I was writing this in 2020 and 2021, this boom happened. I’m sure all sorts of inaccuracies would really bother someone who was on the platform in 2018, but overwhelmingly, there’s a kindness and good intention behind the portrayal that I think people found.
SM: As a reader of the book, I wholeheartedly agree with that. You approach all the characters with a really spectacular humanity that another writer might not do. Was there any lesson you learned from your research that was really important to include in the book?
RT: One of the things that I found most inspiring, as someone who grew up in the ’90s in a kind of MTV and Playboy-centered universe where what is sexy in the culture, as like one thing — blonde, skinny, big, fake boobs — is that what men actually are attracted to is so much weirder and more varied. And also, when you let content creators have creative control, deciding who they’re going to work with, what kind of content they’re going to make, it is much more varied. And there are lots of creators making fun, weird, funny, silly content. I think that seemed really joyful and exciting to me, and that’s kind of what I wanted to put across in the book. When you have this democratization of media, people are just cooler and stranger than you could ever predict.
SM: The turnaround from a 2024 publication to a 2026 adaptation release seems so quick. Can you tell me about that process?
RT: It was optioned before the book was published, which enabled it to achieve that rapid turnaround. It’s been just such a wildly positive experience. The whole team, from the very beginning, you know, all of the producers and David E. Kelly [creator of the Margo’s Got Money Troubles TV show], and they were so open and generous with me, allowing me to be as involved as I wanted. I had a meeting early on in the writers’ room where they asked me, “What are you afraid we’ll do?” and really thoughtful questions about what I wanted and what I thought was important. The whole thing has really been a dream from an author’s perspective.
SM: I think adaptations can stand on their own, but the Margo TV show truly captures the essence of the book. What do you think contributed to making that happen?
RT: From the beginning, I was like, “You guys should change anything you want and need to, to make it work as a show.” There are certain elements, like the meta-narration element, that I was like, I don’t really see how you’re gonna transfer this over. But what I never said to them was, “You need to capture this essence.” And yet, I feel like they got the heart of the book, that is, the almost ineffable, unsayable thing. Like, how do you even communicate that? And yet they got it, and they somehow translated it. I remember going on set and getting to see [Margo’s] apartment. And I was like, “Oh my God, these are the closet doors that were on my house when I was a little kid.” Like, the architecture of California was just so right.
SM: With the show being out, have you heard from the books’ fanbase? And new fans of it who are coming from the show?
RT: So far, it’s been just a lot of squealing and joy because the acting and the cast are so incredible. It’s exciting for me because only the first three episodes are out, and I feel like the show gets even stronger as it goes along, so I’m just incredibly excited for people to get to see all of it and to see more of the wrestling. Rico Nasty is in it, too. I’m such a huge fan of her.
So when I was writing the book, I would have a playlist of songs that I would listen to when I was stuck on a scene. I’d go take a walk and listen to music while I figured out the problem. Of the 20 songs on the playlist, four were by Rico Nasty. I’m an old-school Rico fan, and I didn’t even know they were considering casting her. It felt like this really serendipitous, full-circle thing: she was part of the book’s writing without knowing it, and then she gets to be in the show.
SM: You were talking about how the people who made the show clearly understand the book, so I think just being on that same wavelength led to Rico’s casting in a way that was never said aloud.
RT: When David E. Kelly first expressed interest in it, I was like, in a weird way, this makes sense, because I grew up watching David E. Kelly’s storytelling. It’s almost like he wrote me.
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3 common hookup app profile mistakes: Keep this off your AdultFriendFinder profile
Hooking up is hard enough without getting in your own way. Online dating is perilous enough when the main anxiety is vibing with another person, not protecting your digital privacy. And yet, people repeatedly sabotage their chances of success — often before they’ve even made a match.
If you’re a loyal AdultFriendFinder user and want to use the site safely and effectively, here are three things you need to keep off your profile.
Public-facing NSFW content
AdultFriendFinder is very permissive when it comes to NSFW content, and many of its members take advantage of this freedom, but we advise against it, especially if you also plan on sharing pictures or videos of your face.
There are plenty of more private ways to bare all, but reserve your profile photos for non-nude content. Once you post naked content online, you lose all control over where it ends up or what it gets used for.
And just as important as the safety considerations is the hookup consideration: while some people will be turned on by nudity from the jump, others will be put off by it. If you want to maximize your chances at making a connection, you’re better off leaving something to the imagination and finding other ways to be sexually suggestive.
Unnecessary personal information
Another major security concern people often overlook: oversharing. No, your potential hookups don’t need to know what you do for a living, at least not from your profile, and they certainly don’t need to know specifics about your employer or your marital situation.
Think very hard about what you choose to share and how that information might lead back to you, not because the person you end up talking to is likely to be a bad actor but because it’s the internet and there are bad actors everywhere. Online safety 101: share the bare minimum, and if you do choose to open up to a specific person, make sure you’ve vetted them and that they are who they say they are.
Sexual boasting
Hookup sites in general, and AdultFriendFinder in particular, seems to be littered with (mostly male) profiles bragging about their sexual prowess, often in very crude terms. We understand the impulse to boast, especially when you’re trying to connect with another human being on a sexual level, but bragging is always off-putting and never sexy, at least not in this context.
Save your sexual boasting for one-on-one conversations, once some rapport has been established and you have a sense of the other person’s turn-ons.
How to unblock porn sites and stream porn anonymously
Online privacy isn’t easy to come by, but’s it’s more important than ever. Your data and personal deets are super valuable. We recommend that you do everything you can to protect them while navigating the online world. And if you watch porn, you should be especially vigilant.
We’re going to take a wild guess that you’d prefer to be protected from the prying eyes of advertisers, your internet service provider (ISP), and your roommates when you’re engaged in the intimate business of visiting porn sites. If that’s correct, consider investing in a VPN. These cybersecurity services provide everything you need to unblock porn sites — a solution many viewers are looking for — and stream anonymously.
What is a VPN?
VPNs provide powerful protection for your data and identity when you’re online. VPNs offer this online privacy and anonymity by creating a private network that hides your real IP address (digital location), ensuring that all of your online activity is untraceable and secure.
This concept can be difficult to grasp, so it can be helpful to think of VPNs as encrypted tunnels that all of your online traffic passes through. Nobody can see into the tunnel, and everything inside the tunnel is protected against online threats such as viruses, hackers, malware, and other nasties.
Do you need a VPN for porn?
There are two key reasons to get yourself a VPN for porn: Anonymity and access.
The first reason is perhaps the most important. If you’re concerned about your ISP, housemates, landlord, or someone totally random accessing your data, you could probably benefit from using a VPN. Any sort of activity on an unsecured WiFi network leaves your private information and browsing habits exposed to the rest of the world. The porn site itself can track your activity if you’re unprotected, too. Pornhub tracks IP addresses for example, which means it can collect information about your site usage. But with a VPN, your IP address will always stay hidden.
Remaining private and anonymous is the main reason for needing a VPN for porn, but access to your favourite sites is another issue. If you’re in a location that has a firewall up to block access to porn sites, a VPN will help you bypass these restrictions by connecting you to a server in another location, meaning you can get around firewalls and stream on your favourite porn sites from anywhere in the world.
What features should you consider when selecting a VPN?
There are a number of things to consider before selecting a VPN for porn. We have highlighted a selection of the most important VPN features to help you make a decision:
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Connection speed — VPNs generally produce a drop in your connection speed, but you shouldn’t accept anything significant. Make sure you opt for a VPN that doesn’t negatively impact your connection speed to the point that you can’t stream porn without disruption.
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Encryption — There are different levels of encryption, and while it’s important to take note of the grade provided by your VPN, the best services will all offer powerful protection for your data. This is obviously vital when navigating porn sites because you need to know that your data is secure.
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Number of connections — Leading VPNs let you connect an unlimited number of devices with the same account, while others limit you to just a single device. Prioritize services that offer multiple simultaneous connections so you can stay secure on all your devices at the same time. You might stream pornography on a number of devices, so it’s best to secure everything with the same account.
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Privacy policy — This is something that some users might take for granted, but you need to pay special attention to the data-handling, storage, and usage practices of a VPN. These practices should be clearly laid out in a privacy policy, and if they aren’t, you should not subscribe. Most VPNs require access to your IP address, online transactions, and browsing history, plus your personal details when you sign up. Your favorite VPN should not store these details under any circumstances, as that would negate the whole anonymity thing.
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Server network — The top VPNs provide access to literally thousands of geographically diverse servers. This is useful because you should always be able to find a stable and speedy connection for streaming porn.
You also need to consider things like price and subscription plans, but these features are a good place to start with your selection process. Once you’ve picked your preferred VPN, you can consider the wide range of subscription plans.
Should you use free VPNs?
As with most things in life, you get what you pay for with these cybersecurity services. There are plenty of free versions of popular VPNs, and free trials of VPNs with full access to everything you get with a premium plan. The catch is that free versions usually come with limited data usage, meaning you can’t really do any streaming or downloading. Free trials come with everything you get in a paid plan, but they obviously don’t last very long. Trials are great for testing out a service before committing, but this isn’t a long-term solution. Ultimately, coughing up some cash for a VPN subscription is your best option.
What is the best VPN for porn?
There are lots of services offering similar packages, which makes it difficult to find the best VPN for you. We’ve tried to make things a little easier by tracking down all the best offers and lining up the below selection of VPNs for porn. We have found something for everyone and every budget, with popular services such as ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and CyberGhost VPN in this list.
These are the best VPNs for porn in 2026.
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Mother Mary review: Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel are rapturous
Filmmakers often express frustrations about the genre labels put on their work by studio marketing, the media, and even their fans. Perhaps this is why David Lowery’s tagline for his latest film, Mother Mary, focuses on what it’s not. “This is not a ghost story. This is not a love story.” Maybe he doesn’t want his rapturous work described in such simple terms.
But here’s the thing. It is a ghost story. It is a love story. It’s also more.
Written and directed by Lowery (The Green Knight, A Ghost Story), Mother Mary plunges its audience into the unreal world of the eponymous pop icon, played by Anne Hathaway. Wearing a ferociously cinched body suit with gothic flair and religious iconography like her signature halos, Mother Mary is giving Lady Gaga. But it’s not just the iconography. A stunning long take meant to show how Mother Mary must parade from one show to the next to the next without respite recalls the Gaga meme of “No sleep, bus, club, another club, ‘nother club, plane, next place, no sleep.”
However, Mother Mary’s songs are written by Charli xcx, Jack Antonoff, and FKA twigs, who also has a small but pivotal role in the film. The music they bring is otherworldly, evoking not just Mother Mary’s power over her audience, but also the paranormal darkness that plagues her wherever she goes.
Could it be that reconnecting with her former best friend/costume designer, Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel), will bring an end to her agony? Can collaboration on a dress heal years of estrangement and resentment?
The premise might sound like the stuff of tearjerker melodrama. But in Lowery’s hands, Mother Mary is a gothic horror story — surreal, evocative, and breathtakingly gorgeous.
Anne Hathaway is a vision in Mother Mary.
Credit: A24
Across a smattering of arena tour performances, Hathaway must swiftly convince us that Mother Mary is an incomparably popular, intensely compelling talent. In her long, long wigs and cinched and bedazzled costumes, she projects an enchanting confidence and cool. She is instantly mesmerizing, strutting, dancing, and singing with the stage presence many performers would maim for.
It’s fascinating to see this film hit so close to Hathaway’s reprisal of the gawky fashion-averse heroine Andy Sachs with The Devil Wears Prada 2. Back-to-back, Hathaway reminds us how she can easily play an average girl and a literal icon with aplomb. In Mother Mary, however, she must pull off a double act. Not only is she embodying this perfectly fierce and feminine facade, but also a beleaguered woman on the brink of collapse, creatively and psychologically.
When she comes into Sam’s rural sanctuary, a chicly decaying estate where models, designers, and hangers-on flutter about with ballerina-like precision to execute Sam’s vision, Mother Mary is disheveled, sheepish, and fragile. In sweatpants and a hoodie, she practically cowers as she humbly requests her former confidante to create a new gown for her, custom, and with only three days turnaround time for her public relaunch. It’s outrageous. It’s impossible. And yet, Sam cannot resist.
Michaela Coel is transcendent in Mother Mary.
Credit: A24
While Mother Mary will flow into flashbacks to show us its titular figure’s career highs and personal lows, much of the film takes place in a humble barn, which Sam uses as a design studio. There, Sam will poetically muse about creation, friendship, hatred, ghosts, and letting go. Hathaway’s role demands that she transform physically and thrust herself into a complicated contemporary dance number — without music — that feels like a brutal exercise in penance through humiliation. By contrast, Coel’s portrayal is more grounded in her face and voice.
Where Mary must move to enchant us, Sam can stand still, resolute and just talk. Coel makes it seem so easily, so effortless to be this beguiling. Through her, pages and pages of Lowery’s melodic monologue flow like a river, glittering, deep, and rapid. The actress, who broke through mugging and slapsticking it up in Chewing Gum, is intense yet restrained here. Her screen presence is unparalleled.
Cinematographers Andrew Droz Palermo and Rina Yang meticulously light this dark barn with care to be sure that Coel’s eyes and cheekbones shine. She is truly radiant, even when withering.
Wrapped in cool blues and probing reds, these two hurt women engage in a metaphorical dance that is collaboration and confrontation. Lowery’s direction trusts in these actresses to find a rhythm without theatrics. Hushed tones lure us in, as if we are a fly on the wall or a ghost in the hallway. Theirs is a story of love, but one that fully recognizes the role hate and even indifference play in such a story.
Theirs is a ghost story, but not in the traditional sense. Sure, there was a haunting and a seance — conducted by a possessed FKA twigs. But nothing else about this supernatural tale will play to the lore you might predict.
Instead, Lowery embraces darkness and bold color, flowing fabric, and structured gowns to create a visual world that illustrates his heroines’ fears and hopes, emotions so raw and reckless they can’t be said out loud.
This is a story of connection, told through beauty, torment, fabric, and flesh.
Credit: A24
Hathaway and Coel are electrifying together. A small female supporting cast, boasting Hunter Schafer and Sian Clifford along with FKA twigs, provides a swift and solid structure, suggesting a world beyond the barn without much fuss or distraction. The cinematography celebrates pop idols and couture fashion with the same adoration it offers Lowery’s silky black abyss. The music throbs like a mind racing or a mouth catching a ragged breath.
All of this comes together into a vision grotesque and gorgeous. Mother Mary is not only slippery, riveting, unnerving, and haunting, but also one of the most enthralling films 2026 is likely to reveal.
Mother Mary is now playing in select theaters, opens nationwide on April 24.
Safeguarding what makes us human in the age of AI
Privacy, as a thing of value in the human experience, is perhaps as old as clothes, or doors, or whispers. As a legal concept, though, it’s younger than the Kodak camera.
And that’s not a coincidence.
The concept of a right to privacy was first sketched out in 1890 by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis in direct response to the emerging threats posed by “instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise.” These new technologies, they wrote, had “invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life” — requiring a fresh evaluation of personal rights.
This fact is worth reflecting on: It wasn’t until cameras began invading our privacy that we recognized a need to protect it — and even then, it took decades to enshrine a right to privacy in law.
You could call this period, in which innovation sprints forward, yanking culture with it, while the law limps along behind, the messy middle of any technological revolution. In the messy middle, things you can’t anticipate, and maybe never even considered, suddenly become essential to address.
You can see this phenomena in the development of the printing press, the steam engine, the automobile, the mobile phone, and more — and it’s a defining characteristic of the burgeoning Age of AI we’re now living through.
This moment, in which world-changing AI technology collides with a world unprepared for change, is calling us to action. We must imagine new rights, laws, and cultural norms to protect our basic humanity.
The AI technologies rapidly diffusing through society are extracting, refining, commoditizing, and monetizing our deepest psychological and social resources. Just as the new technologies of the industrial revolution harvested physical resources on a global scale, AI products today are mining our humanity at its most intimate — replacing our relationships, defiling our inner worlds, and calling into question our very purpose.
I know this is true because it’s my job to track AI’s increasing capabilities, research its effects, catalog its harms, and develop policies to keep it safe and humane.
But I also know it’s true — and I suspect you do, too — because I can feel it. I’m often reminded of Adam Raine, who began using ChatGPT as a homework helper — until its engagement-at-any-cost product design allegedly isolated him from his family, validated his darkest impulses and coached him to suicide.
Adam’s experience is far from unique — and such psychosocial dangers are just one of many AI-driven harms metastasizing through society. AI’s intrusion on our humanity is now a lived experience spanning workplaces, classrooms, home life, online encounters, and even our most private moments.
At the Center for Humane Technology, we’ve identified five pillars of the human experience under direct threat and rapid transformation from AI. Each is worth exploring in its own right.
Our human relationships: There’s nothing more fundamental to human existence than our relationships. They make us happy, successful, and safe. They provide the essential friction necessary for empathy, resolution, and growth. They give life meaning.
But as Adam’s story shows, AI products are increasingly designed to supplant these connections. AI “friends” and “therapists,” marketed as superior substitutes to real-life humans, encourage isolation and exploit our desire for acceptance with sycophantic validation. As we retreat from the challenges of human connection, our interpersonal skills atrophy and social trust frays.
Our cognitive capacities: AI developers promise machines that do our thinking for us. What we’re getting are products that fry our brains and make us dumber. While past technologies assisted human thought, AI marks a shift toward offloading cognitive processes entirely, bypassing the “slow work” that builds insight and creativity.
When essential skills like reasoning and problem-solving are allowed to deteriorate, individuals and society become ill-equipped for complex challenges.
Our inner worlds: Think of the AI interface you use every day: an open-ended question, an empty text box, and a blinking cursor. It’s a deliberately unassuming invitation, a seemingly guileless lure to share anything and everything with the most powerful data-analysis system ever built.
AI products are engineered to infiltrate our most private thoughts, uncertainties, desires, and beliefs — and then commoditize them. This exploitation renders us vulnerable to psychological and financial manipulation, ultimately threatening our sense of self and moral decision-making.
Our identities: Our identity — comprising our likeness, voice, and reputation — is our most valuable possession. It anchors us as individuals and ensures social accountability.
AI coopts that value, turning every facet of our identity into mere data, enabling the replication of our personal traits and weaponizing fundamental aspects of who we are. This exploitation happens in any number of ways — from nonconsensual deepfakes to grandma scams to political manipulation. In every instance, the result is a loss of agency and dignity.
Our work: Contributing to our communities through work and creativity is a primary source of human dignity, purpose, and belonging. To AI companies, though, the fruits of our labor — whether language, writing, art, or ideas — amount to nothing more than raw inputs for automating knowledge.
AI developers are actively accumulating human intelligence in order to replace human labor. While the economic risks are immense, the deeper loss is the erosion of the “toil” that provides structure, meaning, and the joy of creation.
Safeguarding our humanity
As early as we are into the AI revolution, we’re already deep in the messy middle. Existing rights and protections are inadequate to these threats, leaving our humanity at risk. But dehumanization, disconnection, and alienation are not inevitable.
We must imagine and enact new shields — in culture, law, and governance — to protect against AI’s immediate threats and those to come. We must address these challenges as quickly as possible, before they change us beyond recognition.
We’ve done it before. The printing press sparked a right to free expression. The Industrial Revolution demanded new workers’ rights. The Kodak camera instigated a right to privacy. The messy middle of these revolutions lasted for decades before we found durable solutions — but we found them. Society has successfully fortified humanity against technology before, and we must again.
At the Center for Humane Technology, we’re working to preserve what makes us human in the age of AI. We’ve developed an AI Roadmap with actionable policy solutions, and we’re crafting a new bill of rights to defend our essential humanity.
Like Warren and Brandeis staring into the lens of the Kodak camera, we must confront AI’s disruption. We must fight through the messy middle and exercise a new imagination for protecting the qualities that make us deeply, unequivocally human.
Camille Carlton is the senior director of strategy and impact at the Center for Humane Technology.
This article reflects the opinion of the writer.
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How to watch NHL live streams online for free
TL;DR: Live stream the NHL for free on 9Now or Prime Video. Access these free live streams from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.
There is no other sport that combines skill, grace, elegance, and people punching each other quite like ice hockey.
We love the merging of elements, and so do millions of fans from all around the world. The issue for these legions of dedicated hockey fanatics is that it’s not easy to follow the sport for free. But nothing is impossible in this golden age of streaming.
If you want to watch the NHL for free from anywhere in the world, we’ve got all the information you need.
What is the NHL?
The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice hockey league in North America made up of 32 teams (25 in the United States and seven in Canada).
When is the NHL?
The NHL season is typically held from October to April, with each team playing 82 games. After the regular season, 16 teams advance to the Stanley Cup playoffs, a four-round tournament that runs into June to determine the league champion.
How to watch the NHL for free
Select fixtures from the NHL are available to live stream for free on these platforms:
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Australia — 9Now (21 regular-season games)
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Canada — Prime Video (Monday Night Hockey with 30-day trial)
These free streams are geo-restricted, but anyone can bypass these restrictions with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to secure servers in Australia and Canada, meaning you can access these streaming services from anywhere in the world.
Live stream the NHL for free by following these simple steps:
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Subscribe to a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)
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Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)
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Open up the app and connect to a server in Australia or Canada
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Visit 9Now or Prime Video
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Live stream the NHL for free from anywhere in the world
The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but most do offer free-trials or money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch the NHL without actually spending anything. This clearly isn’t a long-term solution, but it does give you enough time to stream select NHL fixtures before recovering your investment.
If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you’ll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best service for streaming sport is on sale for a limited time.
What is the best VPN for 9Now?
ExpressVPN is the best service for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:
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Servers in 105 countries including Australia and Canada
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Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more
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Strict no-logging policy so your data is always secure
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Fast connection speeds
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Up to 10 simultaneous connections
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30-day money-back guarantee
A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $99.95 and includes an extra three months for free — 49% off for a limited time. This plan also includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).
Live stream the NHL for free with ExpressVPN.
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