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The obscure members of the Channel 4 News Team have assembled in the first trailer for Anchorman 2, the sequel to 2004's popular comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Dubbed Anchorman: The Legend Continues, the flick hits theaters Dec. 20. Will Ferrell returns as anchorman Ron Burgundy alongside his misfit squad consisting of sportscaster Champ Kind (David Koechner), field reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and meteorologist Brick Tamland (Steve Carell) SEE ALSO: Watch the 6-Second 'S...

As Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, nears the end, it's time to take a look back at some of the biggest announcements the company made. The event kicked off with a 3.5-hour keynote which Mashable Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff noted solidified Google as "the world's most powerful and important company." While there was no major sky-diving presentation that marked the Google Glass demo at Google I/O 2012, there were plenty of announcements that made consumers and developers ali...

The original Sonic the Hedgehog is now available for Android through Google Play. Sega released the port, which has been modified for touch controls, to Android Thursday. Along with all the original Sonic the Hedgehog goodness, players will also be able to unlock Tails and Knuckles, characters that originally appeared in later Sonic the Hedgehog games. This Sonic port was previously released for iOS and already received the free update with Tails and Knuckles. SEE ALSO: 10 Great Android Multi...

Just think about how much smarter you'll be after watching this week's episode of Reddit Facts. In it, we'll learn about exploding pistachios, panda poop and Ryan Gosling's failure to become a Backstreet Boy. Don't forget to subscribe to Mashable's YouTube channel for more fun shows, reviews, interviews and cats. If you're at work and can't watch our show, you can find links to the facts below. RYAN GOSLING COULD HAVE BEEN A BACKSTREET BOY: [Reddit] [Source] 867-5309 SOLD FOR $190K: [Reddit] ...

Google engineers sometimes like to say the Star Trek computer is the ideal search engine. You can talk to it like it were a person, ask it anything, and it'll tell you the answer — verbally. During the keynote at Google I/O developer conference, the company demonstrated how it's bringing exactly that technology to the Chrome browser. Although the upgrade isn't available yet, Mashable got some hands-on time with it at the I/O. To be clear, Chrome already has voice search (that's what the littl...

At the 2013 European Arm Wrestling Championships, one competitor relied on more than just her biceps to intimidate an opponent A competitor from Lithuania used eardrum-shattering yells and horror movie-style faces in a fierce bout with an arm wrestler from the Ukraine. The woman's unusual technique couldn't help her get an upper hand — err, arm — in the tournament, but she might at least have a future on the Internet. Now you have the perfect reaction GIF for the next time you want to tell yo...

ESPN's "embrace debate" show First Take has gained a reputation for its commentators blowing hot air, but this takes things to a whole new level With host Cari Champion and pro bloviators Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith heading to commercial during Wednesday's episode, somebody — as you'll see in the video above — just lets one rip (or at least it certainly sounds that way). The video is now a mini sports Internet source of glee SEE ALSO: Rookie News Anchor Fired After Viral Gaffe Many Inte...

Google's first video promo for Google Play Music All Access, which launched Wednesday during Google I/O, walks us through the new subscription service's features with help from the world's most famous vampire, Dracula Craving for the perfect music to best suit his taste, Dracula picks a song, turns the song into a radio station of related tracks and uses the unlimited skip feature until he finds something he likes. He then creates a playlist titled "Night Beatz," moves his discovery into its ...

Rovio's latest update to its Angry Birds Seasons game involves a new element called Magic Portals, letting players teleport birds, pigs and other characters from one location in the game to another. To promote this new magical dimension in the Angry Birds franchise, what better spokesperson to appoint than Simon Pierro, world-famous iPad magician? The update, now available for iOS and Android, and soon to be available on the PC and OS X versions, adds 30 new levels revolving around a circus t...

An internal Microsoft video spoofing Google's Chrome ads has surfaced, warning consumers that the browser will track them across multiple devices. The ad is an exact parody of Google's "Chome: Now Everywhere" ad (below), right down to the background music. But while Google presented its ubiquity as a virtue, Microsoft implies that something sinister is at work. "Following you. Monetizing you. Now everywhere," it concludes. Though Microsoft hasn't been shy about calling out Google in its "Scro...

Social Media Day has become a full-fledged global movement since its launch in 2010. The event began with a few hundred Meetups and is now celebrated by thousands worldwide It has been officially recognized by more than 20 cities, including San Jose, Calif.; Tampa, Fl.; Dublin, Ireland; and Toronto, Canada. In 2012, Arizona became the first U.S. state to proclaim June 30 as Social Media Day, and Nevada followed suit quickly thereafter In order to have Social Media Day recognized officially in...

You and your phone are bunking together. You're up all night texting, checking Facebook or playing Candy Crush. Whatever the dalliance, that phone is keeping you up past your bedtime, stealing hours of precious sleep. Then in the morning it taunts you with a blaring alarm. It's time that little device helped you get a better night's sleep, instead of zombifying your mornings. The generous geniuses at Hack College have proven once again that they have your best interests at heart SEE ALSO: 10 ...

If your first reaction to Google Glass is, "That's amazing and also horrifying!", you're not alone. Wearable Internet is certainly the future, and probably the nail in the coffin of social grace. SEE ALSO: This Is What the World Looks Like Through Google Glass We've noticed that holding a conversation and even walking around in public can be tough while wearing Glass. That's why we're offering this warning about Glassholes: People whose DoucheFactor™ is off the charts thanks to the distracted...

It's official: Gran Turismo 6 will be arriving this holiday season, with the first demo becoming available this July At an event held to celebrate 15 years of the popular racing series, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi revealed that 70 million copies of GT have been sold so far "I'd like to announce today that we are developing GT 6 for the holiday season this year on the PlayStation 3" #GT6isComing #15YearsOfGT — PlayStation Europe (@PlayStationEU) May 15, 2013 The next installment in ...

Hands up if you've ever been in this situation: You start a conversation with a friend or family member at your desk on Instant Messenger. Away from your desk, you send them a text. Later on, you decide it makes more sense to speak face-to-face on Skype All of a sudden, you've got a balkanized conversation. And it's far, far worse if you're trying to involve multiple people. You quickly get to the point where you can't remember who said what to whom on what service on what device Wouldn't it ...

Like Google Glass, but concerned that your activities might be too extreme for it to handle? Take a look at the Recon Jet, a Glass-like device aimed at the sports crowd. Not only is it made to be more durable, but the information shown in the head-mounted display is sports-related. For example, when I donned the Jet at a hands-on (eyes-on?) at Google I/O 2013, the heads-up display — which is almost identical in size to the one on Glass — showed me statistics of my speed and altitude. Although...

Google unveiled a brand new look for Google Maps on Wednesday. Redesigned from the ground up, the new Maps can take you from space all the way inside a building, and everywhere in between. The new Google Maps will be available for the general public starting Thursday morning (you can sign up to request an invite to try it out, here). Along with other I/O attendees I got access to the updated version of Maps on Wednesday, and took the service on a test drive. A Whole New Look You can tell ther...

Not everyone is born with a parental sense of intuition. Being responsible for the needs of a living, breathing, pooping creature of any size isn't exactly a walk in the park — it's a flat-out chore If you've ever neglected to feed the dog, left the window open while bird-sitting your best friend's parakeet or — heaven forbid — been responsible for a cat funeral, take a look below at alternative pet options They vary in type — and maybe even "pet-ness" — but they all share one undoubtably imp...

Got an email this morning from a "Tobias Funke," the "analrapist" (that's analyst/therapist for the uninitiated) and dilettante extraordinaire of Arrested Development fame. Seems the good doctor, in anticipation of the show's Season 4 release on May 26, is really pushing his film career. SEE ALSO: 'Arrested Development' Season 4 Trailer Debuts Online The video above is a demo reel for Funke's "Insert Me Anywhere" campaign, in which he wants fans to add his smiling visage to videos all over th...

Google tacked another announcement onto a day full of them with an update to Google Wallet that lets you send money via Gmail. As the video above explains there will be a dollar-sign icon for Gmail attachments. Click it and you can transfer cash via Google Wallet. The recipient doesn't have to have a Gmail address and you can receive money as well. You can also pay using your credit and debit cards for a fee of 2.9% per transaction (minimum $0.30.) Google claims the transactions are encrypted...

Remember that amazing/weird/hilarious/musical local auto ad that set the web on fire a couple weeks ago? The guys who made that, YouTube duo Rhett & Link, are back with a follow-up ad for another local L.A. business This time it's the Ryan Lee Chiropractic Center that gets the duo's bizarre treatment. The super awkward spot, embedded above, features Dr. Lee earnestly addressing the camera while performing a series of wince-inducing adjustments on prone human models. At one point he even stick...

Northrup Grumman's X-47B drone has made aviation history as the first autonomous aircraft to take off from an aircraft carrier at sea. Carrier takeoffs are among aviation's most complicated and dangerous operations and, until now, required a human pilot The X-47B, however, shares a problem with the legendary Indiana Jones: It can't land — on carriers, at least. Tuesday's test flight began on the deck of the U.S.S George W. Bush and ended with a smooth arrival at a base in Maryland If taking o...

Google announced on Wednesday at its Google I/O conference in San Francisco updates to its Google+ social networking platform, including a new image-focused design that resembles Pinterest and Facebook's existing layout. The company made some improvements to Google+ as a part of an effort to make it smarter and more intuitive, with the help of bigger pictures and related hashtags. The update includes a multi-column layout. Depending on the screen size and orientation — and what kind of device...

Google's annual developer conference Google I/O kicks off Wednesday, and if it's keynote is anything like last year's spectacle, you won't want to miss any of its latest product launches. Be sure to follow along with the Mashable team who will be live blogging from I/O in San Francisco, and check out the live stream above The two-day event starts at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m. ET. Last year, we were treated to the Nexus 7 tablet, an Android update (Jelly Bean 4.1) and the failed Nexus Q media con...

An online campaign is attempting to "rebrand" Abercrombie & Fitch as a clothing retailer for the homeless after an author alleged that company CEO Mike Jeffries "doesn't want larger people shopping in his store." The comments, made by Robin Lewis, were included in a Business Insider article published earlier this month. The piece also referenced, and breathed new life into a 2006 Salon article in which Jeffries admits that A&F markets to "cool kids," while excluding those who are unattractive...

ABC released trailers for its upcoming 12 new shows Tuesday after announcing its 2013-2014 TV schedule during its annual upfront presentation to advertisers in New York City's Avery Fisher Hall Seven dramas and five comedies — eight of which will premiere in the fall — are on tap, plus a Toy Story special from Disney Pixar, as well as reality series The Quest from the producer of The Lord of the Rings movie franchise 1The Goldbergs "Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up a...

The Hunger Games has defined itself as one of this decade's major blockbusters, with intense special effects, a gigantic fan base and everyone's favorite Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence as the film's leading lady But CineFix is proving that it doesn't take Hollywood magic or money to create trailers for movies. They recreated the trailer for Catching Fire, the second installment of the trilogy, scene-for-scene with low-budget effects. Clearly, the odds were ever in their favor SEE ALSO: 'Hunge...

Here's the challenge: Get through this entire video without cringing It's a tough one, because — ew. Socially Awkward host Kevin Gisi and YouTube megastar iJustine take us through these 25 words that are, for some unknown reason, like nails on a verbal chalkboard SEE ALSO: YouTube Star iJustine Gets Socially Awkward What English linguist subjected us to having to utter words like "masticate" and "excrete?" They should forever be stricken from the dictionary. Surely, we could all still survive...

When Samsung and creative agency Possible approached professional photographer Chase Jarvis to make an image of one of his most vivid dreams, his response was, "Um. Hell yes." Samsung commissioned the project to highlight the color quality of its Premium Monitor Series 9. Jarvis — who started the free online workshop service creativeLIVE, which features classes taught by other professional photographers — approached the challenge without limitation. He pitched the idea to create a photo of hi...

Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Gates Foundation, delivered the commencement address to Duke University's 2013 graduating class. A 1986 Duke graduate, Gates centered Sunday's speech around the word "connected," and how technology has revolutionized the way we communicate. SEE ALSO: Melinda Gates: Tech's Responsibility to the Developing World Gates believes that with this communications revolution, we can make the world a "neighborhood" — quoting Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech — by us...

When advertising and entertainment collide, as it so often does, "advertainment" is born. Remember Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking space jump? That's advertainment from Red Bull. And the 18-minute Follow Phoenix documentary about rock band Phoenix? That's advertainment from Spotify for its (relatively new) Follow button. It's everywhere. Advertainment can be a simple paid product placement in a TV show, video game, music video or movie — think about the blatant red Coca-Cola cups on Ameri...

After 146 days in space, Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn landed safely in Dzhezkazgan, Russia, around 10:30 p.m. EDT Monday. The crew undocked from the International Space Station, where they lived for 144 days, and began the seven-hour trip home in their small Soyuz spacecraft. Once on the ground, Russian officials quickly extracted the astronauts from the capsule and helped them into reclining chairs — the first step in re-adapting to Earth's gravity NASA released this 11-...

Terry Crews is back in another Old Spice ad campaign, and he's got a little company. In the video spot above, called "Baby," Crews shouts that Old Spice's new shaving gel is "newer than a fresh pair of socks," only to get a little surprise when the socks speak up, followed by a talking jersey, waffle iron and solar panels. But the real shock comes when a very muscular child appears and says, "they're not as new as me." It's at that moment that Crews realizes he has a son. Old Spice launched "...

Google Glass is still in its infancy, and its current capabilities are quite limited, but most would probably agree that the possibilities it opens are endless What if Glass could show us a GPS route as we ride a bike? What if you could use it to scan any barcode and instantly get info about the product? Toronto-based creative agency Playground has envisioned these and many more possibilities for Glass and created a video showing what could be the future of Google Glass What's best about this...

James Bond has always been known for his suave ability to wield guns, fight bad guys on moving trains and woo the ladies, but is 007 just as deadly cool in LEGO form? Yes, definitely, we have proof. YouTuber coccosnowball intricately remade the opening scene from Casino Royale using only LEGO pieces. The result gives off the same air of adventure as the classic Bond films, but with some action-figure nostalgia SEE ALSO: If 'Breaking Bad' Was Made Into a LEGO Video Game The sequence uses stop ...

The sense of smell is a tough one to work into media — attempts at getting it into movies date back to the 1930s, and Disneyland and Walt Disney World include scents in some of their attractions. Technology companies have tried adding it to video games and television, so it was only a matter of time before someone tried to add it to a smartphone. SEE ALSO: TV Camera Watches You, Personalizes TV Viewing ChatPerf, a Japanese company, is rolling out a smartphone add-on about the size of a USB st...

A hyperactive sunspot on the surface of the sun has fired off two of the most powerful solar flares of the year in just 24 hours, and promises to unleash more solar storms over the next several days, space weather experts say. The active sunspot went into overdrive on Mother's Day when it erupted late Sunday night with an X-class solar flare, the strongest type of solar storm possible, NASA scientists said in an update. That first eruption registered as an X1.7-class event on the space weathe...

You know that shiny new iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S4 in your pocket? You probably call it a cellphone, right? Well, Newt Gingrich says you're wrong. Gingrich recently posted a three-minute video arguing modern cellphones shouldn't be called cellphones at all. "Think about it," petitions Gingrich, who's been attempting to shape himself as a Republican thought leader on high-tech issues from moon colonies to flying cars. "If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone "If it has a McDonald's ap...

Electronic music duo Daft Punk are teasing their upcoming fourth studio album in a new video set in what looks like a futuristic spaceship filled with buttons and switches for who knows what. Despite the digital bells and whistles onboard, however, the spaceship's occupants pull out a vinyl version of the new album Random Access Memories. When the vinyl hits the record player, the album's lead track, "Give Life Back to Music," plays for a few upbeat seconds. U.S. fans will have to wait until ...

For those who wish they could better remember names and faces, a new demo app for Google Glass gives you notes on how you know each person. Although the concept seems perfect for party or networking events, the app — called MedRef for Glass — was actually designed for hospital employees. By using facial recognition technology, staffers wearing Google's high-tech specs can pull up patient folders with photo, voice and text notes SEE ALSO: This Is What the World Looks Like Through Google Glass ...

Sony's new Android smartphone, the Sony Xperia ZR, has a trait not often seen in today's high-range smartphones: it can be submerged 5 feet deep under water Its level of water resistance — IP55 and IP58 — is a bit better than Sony's current Android flagship, Sony Xperia Z, which is IP55 and IP57 compliant, meaning it can be submerged into 3.3 feet of water Bear in mind that, for both devices, this specifically means "fresh water," meaning you probably shouldn't take it with you for that ocean...

After a seven-year hiatus, Arrested Development is back — and now, a trailer for the sitcom's fourth season has debuted online. Posted to YouTube on Sunday, it shows the quirky Bluth family — including Michael (played by Jason Bateman), Lindsay (Portia de Rossi), Gob (Will Arnett), George-Michael (Michael Cera) and other members — reuniting onscreen. Fox aired the first three seasons of Arrested Development from 2003 to 2006. Although the show gained a cult following, it was eventually cancel...

The first promo for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the ABC television show about the comic-book universe's espionage and law-enforcement agency, has surfaced online. The 30-second spot highlights Clark Gregg reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel's feature films, including Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor and The Avengers (in which he dies)According to the show's official site, Coulson assembles a small, highly trained team of agents to "tackle the cases that haven't been classified...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is scheduled to make his return trip to Earth late Monday after five months aboard the International Space Station, and he decided to commemorate his final hours in space with a spectacular music video. Hadfield covers David Bowie's classic (and incredibly appropriate) song "Space Oddity." In the video, he sings a "revised version" of the song and plays the guitar solo while floating through the hulls of the ship. Not only is Hadfield brilliant and fearless, ...

You must've had a seriously busy week last week if you missed all these goofy viral videos that came under our radar. Stop all that leaning forward and sit back while we catch you up on all the latest mirth and merriment with the one and only Viral Video Recap. While you adjust your volume, here's a sneak preview of what you'll see For instance, let's revisit that surfer heist movie, Point Break, except instead of being directed by the formidable Kathryn Bigelow, let's put the quirky Wes Ande...

There have been rumors in recent weeks that Apple is planning a complete redesign for iOS 7 that moves away from the "skeuomorphic" look it has relied on to date, which designs digital objects like real-world objects. Now, one digital agency has come out with a video imagining what this kind of redesign might actually look like. In the concept video above, Simply Zesty shows off a flatter user interface. Each of the app icons have less-rounded edges and cleaner designs. The calendar app ditch...