Eric Mack

‘It just all comes out’: The Republican convention gets ‘glogged’

Now playing: Watch this: ‘Gloggers’ paint unique picture of the RNC 1:17 Cartoonist and illustrator Tim Fielder and his twin brother, video artist Jim, made the trip from New York to Cleveland to “glog” the Republican National Convention. Related stories #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes takes over Twitter How to watch the Republican National Convention from anywhere From the …

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#FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes takes over Twitter

First Lady hopeful Melania Trump moved the crowd at the Republican National Convention with a heartfelt speech on Monday night. Now, she’s moving Twitter amid suggestions she may have borrowed from another first lady. Melania took over Twitter after a journalist spotted similarities between her speech in Cleveland, where her husband, Donald, will likely be named the GOP’s presidential nominee, …

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Pokemon goes right to the top of searches on porn sites

Despite its chaotic and almost limitless nature, the internet is a place of rules. For example, take Rule 34, which states pornography exists for any conceivable subject. Rule 34 is apparently alive and well in the case of Pokemon Go. The hit mobile game from Nintendo and Niantic has swept the world over the past week and prompted incredulous responses …

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Crave giveaway: Take our ‘Crowd Control’ quiz, enter to win a Parrot drone

Editor’s note: Some giveaways require leaving a comment to enter, but not this one. We’ve turned off comments on this post to prevent confusion. We’re nearing the end of our groundbreaking crowdsourced science fiction novel, “Crowd Control: Heaven Makes a Killing,” with 18 installments published as of Friday on CNET and just a handful more to go before we reach …

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Combine every US presidential portrait and get…Frank Underwood?

If you could somehow take a sample of the genetic material of every US president going back to George Washington and use it to create a hybrid of all 44 men, what would he look like? Seattle marketing outfit Rise Digital decided to do a little experiment to answer this burning question by feeding every presidential portrait into facial-morphing software …

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6 moderators we want to see helm a Trump vs. Sanders debate

What started as a bit on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump debating Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders one-on-one may actually come to be. Sanders and Trump are both saying in public that they welcome the idea of debating each other, though Trump says he’d like to see the network that hosts such a tussle pony up …

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Internet sheds tears of ‘purple rain’ for Prince

The Internet is spilling tears Thursday following the news that music icon Prince, patron saint of all things purple, is dead at age 57. Since the news broke, hundreds of thousands of fans have taken to social media to grieve and share their devotion. “This is what it sounds like when doves cry,” some have written, quoting one of the …

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Mariachi ‘Game of Thrones’ theme just makes sense

In an era of inclusiveness, HBO’s take on “Game of Thrones” can sometimes seem awfully, well…white. Not just white, but like so many fantasy worlds, it seems pulled straight out of the mind of an unabashed anglophile. This is a little odd when you consider that “A Song of Ice and Fire” author George R.R. Martin is a longtime resident …

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What’s the ‘SE’ in iPhone SE? Our top guesses

Update: 10:53 a.m. PT, March 22 — Apple’s Phil Schiller told Fortune “SE” stands for “Special Edition,” and that for him personally, it’s also an homage to the Macintosh SE, so I guess that means two of my guesses below were kind of right. Apple has a new iPhone. It’s smaller, it’s cheaper, it’s called the iPhone SE and CEO …

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Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge not quite waterproof, torture tests reveal

New test results reveal that Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are the best choice for snorkelers who can’t go without their phones for a single moment. But if your thing is parkour or something else that increases the risk of dropping your phone on a hard surface, the latest iPhone may still be the best choice. Now playing: Watch …

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