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Blame social media giants and online scams for the rise of the 'conspiracy theory of everything,' says the first history of QAnon.

Memo to Elon Musk: You were paying attention to the wrong planet all along.

March Mindfulness is a Mashable series that explores the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in the time of coronavirus, March doesn't have to be madness. Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. A budding sports tournament needs a good storyline. And one character in a good sports story is an overdog — a dominant force that […]

March Mindfulness is Mashable's series that examines the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in the time of coronavirus, March doesn't have to be madness. Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Meditation, to paraphrase Thomas Edison's famous quote about genius, is one percent instruction to 99 percent perspiration. That is the joy and the pain of […]

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Previously, on "The Internet"... three billion people entered the global network for the first time, thanks in part to powerful new phones that made getting online easier than ever. Access to this vast store of human knowledge leveled all playing fields, making the triumph of truth and the onward march of democracy […]

It was the drive-thru flu shot that did it for me. In years past, getting the seasonal jab was kind of a hassle: Head to our local medical center, risk hitting traffic on the way, find parking, walk in, find the right floor, check in, wait around on plastic chairs near coughing patients for the shot that should help keep us healthy. Time indoors: half an hour minimum. This year, […]

It is rare for a critic to call for a show's most successful character to be axed. Rarer still when that same critic annointed the character in question "Being of the Decade." But The Mandalorian is a rare show in which the story demands it. The integrity and style of Star Wars as a whole demands it. Baby Yoda, aka The Child, aka Jedi Padawan Grogu Djarin Mudhorn, must never […]

There is, so far as we know, only one moment in Donald Trump's long and privileged life in which he was actually made to shut up: the mashed potato incident. When Trump was 7, his elder brother Fred dumped a warm bowl of mash on Donald's head at the dinner table "because he was being such a brat" towards their younger siblings and wouldn't listen to his mother, according to […]