HMD and Heineken has teamed up to announce The Boring Phone, which repurposes the flip phone for a new generation. This team up between the Finnish manufacturer behind Nokia's latest phones and the Dutch lager maker (as well as streetwear brand Bodega) essentially markets the lack of social media access as a killer feature, so you can go out and drink more beer with your friends. It sounds like an April Fools' Day prank, but we're about a fortnight late on that one. The phone itself...
Actor and children’s author David Walliams joined Tubridy for the first episode.
Funny StoryDaphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s...
To Gaze Upon Wicked GodsDaughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen.Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies, Ruying shouldn’t have to fear these foreign invaders, but she does. Especially because she wants to keep herself and her family safe.When Ruying’s Gift is discovered by an enemy...
If you’re looking to pair your new phone with a hefty amount of data then look no further than this outrageous offer. SIM-supplier Smarty has just unleashed its latest inflation-busting deal, letting you get a massive 50GB of data for just £8 a month. This deal is made possible as a limited time expansion of Smarty’s 16GB SIM, effectively getting you an additional 34GB a month for the first 15-months of your contract. Unlike most data plans however, this Smarty SIM operates on a rolling...
This is the first installment of Fantasy Aisle, a monthly column from Jackie Jennings about everything related to horny dragon books. It feels like the debate over whether #BookTok is bad has been raging since the moment the term was first coined. Over the past four years, there's been a flurry of essays on the subject, and now, in my inaugural books column for Jezebel, I'd like to throw my own hat into the ring—turn these flurries into a snowstorm, if you will. Because I'm starting off with a...
An excerpt from ‘Superfoods, Super Life: 20 Indian Ingredients to Prevent Disease and Uplift Your Health’, by Madhur Kotharay.
In South Dakota GOP Gov. Kristi Noem's new book, she writes about killing
As we hurtle toward the end of another April, there’s still time to tuck in one more stack of new books and ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound. What here strikes you as a good read to
Kevin Edwards is using his psychology background to teach kids about positive character strengths.
Back in the day, Salman Rushdie used to joke that the argument over The Satanic Verses, his satirical novel caricaturing Prophet Muhammad, was a “quarrel between those with a sense of humour and those without one”.But, lately, his mood has darkened and he has become less forgiving of his critics, judging from his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, a cathartic account of the murderous attack on him at a literary event in upstate New York in the summer of 2022.It left him with...
A small number of new Tesla CyberTrucks are being recalled for a stuck accelerator situation