"Maybe that's something I need to talk to my psychiatrist about." By and Belen Edwards Belen Edwards Entertainment Reporter Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. Read Full Bio  on May 16, 2025 Share on Facebook

You can't really go wrong with either, but your choice will come down to just one or two key details. By Dylan Haas Dylan Haas Lead Shopping Reporter Dylan Haas is a Lead Shopping Reporter for Mashable, where he covers all things gaming, pets, fitness, sleep, and shopping events like Black Friday and Prime Day.

A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. Don’t trust anything on the internet — until Mashable tries it first. Welcome to the Hype Test, where we review viral trends and tell you what's really worth millions of likes. Table of Contents I've had a

This Shark cordless vacuum has been great for pet hair in my apartment. By Leah Stodart Leah Stodart Senior Shopping Reporter Leah Stodart is a Philadelphia-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable where she covers and tests essential home tech like vacuums and TVs, plus eco-friendly hacks. Her ever-evolving experience in these categories comes in clutch

Dame's prices are "pretty much back to normal," its CEO said. By Anna Iovine Anna Iovine Associate Editor, Features Anna Iovine is the associate editor of features at Mashable. Previously, as the sex and relationships reporter, she covered topics ranging from dating apps to pelvic pain. Before Mashable, Anna was a social editor at VICE

A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. Table of Contents On May 15, Sony launched its latest flagship product, the noise-cancelling WH-1000XM6 headphones. It's been three long years since the previous-generation XM5 headphones were released, and there is one major design change: The

Table of Contents Air quality is something I didn't pay any attention to for most of my life. While most of the U.S. thinks my hometown of Seattle has grey, rainy weather year-round, we actually have incredible summers. But lately we’ve run into a new and very unwelcome event — smoke season. Sometime between July

Table of Contents The Acer Predator Helios 16 comes equipped with internals that’ll keep you sailing smoothly through heavy gaming pressure and everyday tasks. Add its plethora of ports, stellar thermals, and beautiful, matte display with a high refresh rate into the mix, and this laptop proves it’s worthy of its price. That said, this

If Bumble is your favorite dating app, you may want to try Premium. By Anna Iovine Anna Iovine Associate Editor, Features Anna Iovine is the associate editor of features at Mashable. Previously, as the sex and relationships reporter, she covered topics ranging from dating apps to pelvic pain. Before Mashable, Anna was a social editor

Overview Best VPN for most people (and the best free VPN) Proton VPN Jump to Details Table of Contents Don't let it go to your head, but everybody wants you — more specifically, your browsing data. Personal information about the links you click on and the sites you visit is highly valuable to third parties, including

Overview Table of Contents E-readers are the perfect sliver of the tablet and book Venn diagram. They're thin and portable like a tablet, but without the distraction of the internet and hundreds of apps. However, e-readers stuff thousands of books — a full library — into their tiny frame. So instead of struggling to fit

Overview Table of Contents It's been a whirlwind year for the iPad lineup, with every model getting a refresh within the last year. In 2024, Apple introduced the M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air , and less than a year later, the iPad Air got a M3 chip upgrade. Plus, we finally got a

Overview Table of Contents When it comes to shopping for the best budget laptops, you can do a lot for less than $1,000. (Heck, even $500 cuts some mustard nowadays.) But you'll probably have to make some compromises along the way to stay below that price point. That doesn't mean you have to settle for

OpenAI announced on Friday it’s launching a research preview of Codex, the company’s most capable AI coding agent yet. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of the company’s o3 AI reasoning model optimized for software engineering tasks. OpenAI says codex-1 produces “cleaner” code than o3, adheres more precisely to instructions, and will iteratively run

In Brief Posted: 1:05 PM PDT · May 15, 2025 Image Credits:Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg / Getty Images Coders were hit hardest among Microsoft’s 2,000-person layoff in its home state of Washington, Bloomberg reports. Over 40% of the people laid off were in software engineering, making it by far the largest category, Bloomberg found based on state

Crypto giant Coinbase has confirmed its systems have been breached and customer data, including government-issued identity documents, were stolen. In a legally required filing with U.S. regulators, Coinbase said a hacker this week told the company that they had obtained information about customer accounts and demanded money from the company in exchange for not publishing