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Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s lineup was an extremely close race and Read It Later fans put up an admirable fight but with 52 percent of the vote, Twitter goes to the next round. Today, we have a contest between apps for people who like to do things a little differently. If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Check out the full bracket of contestants embedded below. And as…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJerry Seinfeld has revealed that casting Hugh Grant as cereal mascot Tony the Tiger was the “greatest part” of his upcoming movie Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story.Seinfeld, 69, is making his feature directorial debut with the comedy he co-wrote about the creation of Pop-Tarts.Set in Michigan in 1963, the film follows sworn cereal rivals Kellogg’s and Post as they race to create a pastry…

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Flappy Bird punched above its weight in yesterday’s contest but ultimately folded and with 54 percent of the vote, iMessage advances to the next round. Today, the Dick Pic app goes toe-to-toe with the short-form video platform that was too good for this world. If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. And as always, if you think we missed your personal favorite…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA moody piano. A bass chord that thuds insistently under a rolling motif that hesitates, lingers, then speeds to catch itself up. “I am ready, I am ready, I am…” sings a deep, slightly strained vocal. Hoards of elder millennials swoon. This is “Colorblind” by Counting Crows, a track eternally linked to a scene in the salacious 1999 teen movie Cruel Intentions, in which Ryan Phillippe…

Get ready for a joy ride through the coolest Photoshop Battles of 2023! Imagine a place where creative people join forces to turn regular photos into mind-blowing, funny, and super-creative masterpieces. Out of all the cool stuff people made, the r/photoshopbattles subreddit picked the top 15 images. It's like the Oscars of funny photo editing!As a big community boasting 19 million members, this subreddit warmly invites people to engage in entertaining battles. Here, you can unleash your creativity, playing with images…

20. No Doubt – Trapped in a Box (1992)Their debut single offered what you might call No Doubt version 1.0, Madness-loving exemplars of the US ska revival. Ignored at the height of grunge, Trapped in a Box is fun – there’s a hint of 30s jazz about its sound – although No Doubt themselves would swiftly move on.19. Gwen Stefani – Luxurious (2004)From Gwen Stefani’s debut solo album, Love Angel Music Baby, this is a Nellee Hooper-produced diversion into R&B slow jam territory: G-funk synths, a sample from the Isley…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLook over the list of Best Picture winners over the years and you realise that almost every film selected is still in circulation.William Wellman’s Wings, the very first winner in 1927, is readily available on DVD and Blu-Ray, as are such other early winners as Cimarron and Broadway Melody.Most of the other Best Picture winners are titles that any film lover will recognise instantly.…

In the forests of eastern Australia, a unique annual ritual is underway. A male superb lyrebird fans out its large tail and bobs up and down amongst the foliage. It's performing a song and dance routine in hopes of winning a potential mate. Unfortunately, this bird isn't drawing any attention. Female lyrebirds require more complex songs to win the ability to mate. During his mating display, the male lyre bird puts on a show in his performing ground, replicating the sounds he hears in the surrounding forest — with…

“I was just wondering what makes dames like you so dizzy.” So queries Peter (Clark Gable), a crafty if unemployed newspaper writer, in It Happened One Night. He’s speaking to Ellie (Claudette Colbert), the missing heiress and potential story serving as his traveling companion, and he doesn’t get a definitive answer.For that matter, Ellie isn’t particularly dizzy on the scale of screwball dames of the 1930s. She’s a little spoiled, sure, not especially wise to the ways of waiting in line with the common folk, and by her…

What is the reason behind Bitcoin’s meteoric rise above 50K after two years of slump? Is the biggest crypto bull run around the nook? And why are crypto whales all of a sudden interested in the upcoming GameFi coin Pikamoon (PIKA)? Surely, that can’t be a coincidence!  Let’s put our Sherlock hat on and try to find the answers! Key Findings Bitcoin halving in 2024: The countdown to the epic crypto bull run begins. BTC and ETH ETFs: Two Primary catalysts for the crypto market boom in 2024. GameFi Resurgence:…