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The kid from ‘Room’ wore Star Wars to the Oscars
Make room for this talented young Jedi, you shall. Jacob Tremblay, the 9-year-old star of Room, literally wore fandom on his sleeve for the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday. He loves Star Wars so much he sported Millennium Falcon cufflinks and Darth … Continue reading
GE tries to lure tech workers by mocking startups in new Oscars commercial
General Electric really wants you to think of it as a tech company. The corporation is once again chasing tech talent and mocking faddish startups in a new series of commercials set to air during the Oscars. The three spots … Continue reading
Why Abraham Attah wore TOMS shoes to the Oscars
Move over, Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutin, TOMS is making its way to the red carpet. SEE ALSO: The 32 best dressed celebrities in Oscars red carpet history On Sunday at the 88th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Beasts … Continue reading
Alicia Vikander looks like a Disney dream at the Oscars
Alicia Vikander, what a beauty. (See what we did there?) The Best Supporting Actress nominee arrived on the red carpet for the 88th Academy Awards in a stunning “dusty yellow” (as she described it) custom Louis Vuitton gown that made … Continue reading
New ‘Peter Rabbit’ coin is the most adorable money ever minted
LONDON — Beatrix Potter’s beloved rabbit — complete with his little blue jacket — will be the first literary character to appear on the British 50p coin To mark the 150th anniversary of Potter’s birth, Peter Rabbit will be the … Continue reading
12 activists share what they want you to know about living with a rare disease
When you’re sick, you seek medical advice. Visiting a doctor, you expect answers — usually in the form of a solid diagnosis and medication to get you on the mend. But imagine your doctor had few answers, saying your illness … Continue reading
Thousands of seagulls swarming in China is like ‘The Birds’ IRL
If Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller The Birds scarred you, prepare to have your old phobias return. Tens of thousands of seagulls swarmed a landfill in northeast China’s Dalian city on Sunday. They were in search of food, because the sea — their main … Continue reading
Smart Brita pitcher tracks your water intake and orders its own filter replacements
Now that almost everything in our lives has a smart variant, from our watches to our refrigerators, why not add water pitchers to that list? Brita has teamed up with Amazon to create the very first smart pitcher, the Brita … Continue reading
The ‘real’ Mad Max died just before ‘Fury Road’ won six Oscars
The Australian man known as the “real” Mad Max died just before the film cleaned up at the Academy Awards. Max Aspin, Mel Gibson’s master stuntman in the 1981 film Mad Max II: The Road Warrior, died on Feb. 24. SEE … Continue reading
‘Naked Gun’ actor George Kennedy dead at 91
George Kennedy, whose film and TV roles ran the gamut from a pugilistic prisoner in Cool Hand Luke to a Dallas oil Tycoon and, of course, in the Airport and Naked Gun movies, has died, the Associated Press reported Monday. … Continue reading
