Instagram is now completely blocked in Russia. Roskomnadzor, the country’s media regulator, officially banned the app on Friday but gave Russians a 48-hour in-between period before it would be instituted. The ban, implemented at midnight on Monday, was confirmed by GlobalCheck (via Bloomberg), a service examining internet restrictions in Russia. Last week, Russian prosecutors requested […]
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As weeks on TikTok go, this one felt abnormally quiet. But thanks to Julia Fox and an emerging class of TikTok poets (including Guy Fieri?!), a few trends cut through the mundane. Sadly, we also lost a TikTok icon this week, Pot Roast the cat — and it has sent everyone, including the Mashable newsroom, […]
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Musicians have taken to Twitter today to complain about a website that is ostensibly selling their music as NFTs without permission. HitPiece claims to sell one-of-one NFTs, meaning each one is singular and unique (as opposed to the endless iterations of ugly monkeys we are now subjected to). “Each HitPiece NFT is a One of […]
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2021 brought us a lot of incredible TV series, outstanding episodes, and tidbits to love. But it also brought us some painful farewells. Several of our favorite shows came to end. Some concluded on their own terms, offering series’ finale episodes that were beautiful but bittersweet. Others were cruelly canceled, robbing their creators of a […]
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SAVE $69.01: Amazon and Walmart have both revived the latter’s (all-time low) pre-Black Friday price on the Apple AirPods 2. Head to either retailer to grab a pair for just $89.99. That’s a 43% savings. If you’re OK with writing an IOU to your Secret Santa, you can gift a pair of Apple’s AirPods for […]
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SAVE $120: If you’ve always wanted a pair of Apple’s AirPods Max but couldn’t justify their $549 price tag, today’s your lucky day. As of Nov. 8, Amazon had all five colors on sale for $429.98 — that’s their best price to date. Never mind the new AirPods 3. (They’re not that great, anyway.) Last […]
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TikTok users are taking fan culture to the next level by practicing a sort of meditation in an effort to “shift realities” to inhabit the fictional universe of their choosing. It’s sort of like a more real form of daydreaming. The most popular of those desired realities are Harry Potter and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. […]
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In a move that will surely shake up both the celebrity memoir industry and the British royal family, Random House announced that they will publish a memoir penned by Prince Harry for a 2022 release. The book announcement was accompanied by a statement on Twitter, noting that “Prince Harry will share, for the very first […]
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SAVE $5.95: The new Beats Studio Buds just got their first-ever discount at Walmart — as of July 19, you can get a pair in White or Beats Red for just $144 (normally $149.95). Still hanging onto some regular (non-noise-canceling) AirPods? It may be time to start saying your goodbyes: There’s now a better pair […]
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The post Three Key Things Successful Bloggers Do to Build Their Blogs Into Businesses appeared first on ProBlogger. This post is based on episode 192 of the ProBlogger podcast. A couple of years ago we published a fantastic guest post from John Stevens on the nine conversion habits of the world’s most successful bloggers. To build […]
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