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Until July 31 2018, audiobook lovers are able to get a 12-month Audible membership for £3.99 per month instead of £7.99 per month — a deal which sees you save nearly £48 over the course of the membership. 

With Audible it's easy to tune into audiobooks wherever you are. By streaming or downloading books onto the free Audible app, you will be able to enjoy the world's largest library of audiobooks on the go, in your car or even at the gymTry Audible membership at a discounted rate, which is reduced by to £3.99 per month, but only for the first twelve months. However, if you feel that it isn't worth paying the full £7.99 per month after the twelve months are over, users are able to opt-out at any time.  Read more...

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If you're wondering what Apple's upcoming iPhones will look like, we can probably give you a pretty good idea. 

Leaker of phone-related things, Ben Geskin, has shared dummy model photos of the 6.1-inch and 6.5-inch iPhones, which Apple is rumored to launch in the fall. 

The models don't show anything particularly surprising. The 6.1-inch iPhone (which is rumored to be the "budget" iPhone in Apple's 2018 lineup), is black, has a notched screen and a single rear camera. The top-of-the-line 6.5-inch variant is shown in white and has a dual rear camera.  Read more...

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Over the weekend, a photo of out-of-work web developer went viral, resulting in a flurry of job offers.

The photo, which was tweeted by @jaysc0 on Friday, showed David Casarez standing on the side of the road in Mountain View, California, holding a placard telling people that he was homeless. 

Despite his circumstances, Casarez didn't ask for money, instead asking people to take copies of his resume.

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You've undoubtedly seen those Facebook ads where the company is pleading, pleading that it's taking fake news seriously numerous times already. 

Well, Last Week Tonight's John Oliver only has one response: "Fuck you." 

Oliver tore into the social media giant on Sunday, digging up the use of a ravaged Puerto Rico as the backdrop for the company's virtual reality tools last year.

But the crème de la crème of the segment is Oliver's own version of that Facebook apology ad, which happens to be voiced by Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch. Just perfect. Read more...

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Politics in 2018 continues to reach strange new depths.

Over in Virginia, Democratic candidate Leslie Cockburn and her Republican opponent Denver Riggleman (yes, that's his real name) are vying for votes in the upcoming midterm elections.

Last month, Cockburn criticized Riggleman for campaigning alongside controversial Republican candidate, Corey Stewart, who has been accused of courting white nationalists over the past few years.

But Cockburn's latest barb against her opponent has nothing to do the far-right, but rather the far-fetched.  Read more...

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After releasing the second season of Master of None, co-creator and star, Aziz Ansari, was reluctant to reveal when a third season of the series would come.

That looked especially in doubt, when a few months later, sexual misconduct accusations were levelled at Ansari.

Now, six months after the account was published by Babe, Netflix's VP of Original Series Cindy Holland revealed at a Television Critics Association panel that they're open to a new season, Variety reported.

"We certainly have given some thought to it and would be happy to make another season of Master of None whenever Aziz is ready," she said. Read more...

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Forget Shark Week, it’s Bark Week on Mashable. Join us as we celebrate all the good dogs, which we humans do not deserve.

When it all becomes too much, it's important to have an outlet. 

Sure, yoga is good, and reading a good book is nice. But we're here to talk about the greatest activity of all: looking at fluffy dogs. Not just regular fluffy dogs, either. We're talking very fluffy dogs. Like, dogs whose Embark tests would probably come back "100 percent cotton ball."

You're in luck! Here are a bunch of them. Please enjoy. Read more...

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Imagine, for a second, that you had one of those stress balls that you could squish in your palm whenever Trump said something about the environment that really frustrated you.

Now imagine that a tree popped out whenever you used it.

Treespond, a campaign that allows users to sponsor the planting of a tree in response to Trump's misleading commentary about climate change, launched earlier this weekTreepex, the nonprofit behind Treespond, hopes to harness your political frustration and turn it into carbon sequestering forests.

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This post is part of Me, online, Mashable's ongoing series digging into online identities.

I was locked in my friends’ bathroom on the phone with my thesis adviser and staring at Reddit. It was snowing pretty hard and though there was a window with some theoretical light streaming in, I felt like I was under a blanket, the flashlight of my attention pointed at a screen that I refreshed and refreshed and refreshed. I was discussing the critical thesis component required for my graduate degree, an MFA in creative writing. It was titled Masculinity and the Making of the Modern Nerd. It was a mess. Read more...

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You know how they say people only use 10% of their brain? Yeah, it turns out, that’s total bullshit. 

We absolutely use most of our brain, almost all of the time. And there’s no magic key that unlocks an unused, possibly telekinetic reserve of mental power. There is, however, a set of techniques that can help you use your brain power faster and more effectively. It’s called the Become a SuperLearner: Speed Reading & Memory course, and while it won’t help you levitate objects with your mind, it can elevate the way you learn, work, and play.

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Comfort is a very personal thing, especially when it comes to climate. What feels like a freezing cold office to you may be completely tolerable to your coworkers. 

The sweltering heat that keeps you up at night might lull your spouse into a deep, snuggly sleep. In situations such as these, you can either be at the mercy of someone else’s preferences or create your own comfort with the evaSMART EV-3000—a personal air conditioner that you can control with your mobile device.

We’ve featured its predecessor, evaLIGHT, in a prior post, but this enhanced version brings more personalization, smart home integration, and a great price: just $192 after a 25% discount. Read more...

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Ying Zhou teaches a Geology 101 class to students at Virginia Tech, but after peering deeply into the subterranean world beneath the Yellowstone volcano, Zhou says she needs to modify her lesson plans — for Yellowstone, anyhow. 

Yellowstone is one of the most heavily-researched volcanoes in the world, and it's believed to be responsible for few mega-eruptions in the last two million years. Volcanologists understand its behavior quite well, and there's agreement that any sort of eruption would be likely be proceeded by months or even years of warning. 

But scientists still aren't sure exactly how the volcano came to be, though many suspect its hundreds of geysers and steaming springs are fueled by a great plume of hot rock emanating from the deep Earth, which rises up to a surface "hotspot." Read more...

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Arguably, Tom Cruise running his goddamn ass off is the glue that holds the Mission: Impossible franchise together. And now, we have math to prove it.

In celebration of the most recent addition to the franchise, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Rotten Tomatoes has crunched the numbers to find out exactly how much the man has sprinted throughout his nearly four-decade long career, and whether his running has a net positive effect for his films.

Spoiler alert: Tom Cruise's running sells more tickets than Forrest Gump could ever hope to.

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While surveying whales and dolphins off the Hawaiian Islands, scientists spotted a creature they've never seen before: a peculiar hybrid between a dolphin and a small whale. 

In 2017, before future naval officers trained on submarines in the waters around Kauai — a place called the Pacific Missile Range Facility — the U.S. Navy hired marine researchers from the Cascadia Research Collective to study the native animals in these seas. After encountering a large pod of melon-headed whales, the researchers tagged two of them, to see where they might go. 

It was then that the researchers noticed something curious about one of the creatures. It wasn't quite a melon-headed whale. Nor was it exactly a rough-toothed dolphin, which are common to the area.  Read more...

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There's been an exciting, new development in the action-packed world of geometric shapes.

Researchers from the the University of Seville and Seville Institute of Biomedicine have discovered a new shape that's been dubbed the "scutoid." And what a wonderful little discovery it is.

Scutoid is the shape adopted by epithelial cells — the cells that line the inside and outside of your body, helping to define its shape — to allow tissue to fold and curve.

"The epithelial cells are the 'construction blocks' with which an organism is formed," said University of Seville faculty member Luisma Escudero in a press release announcing the discovery. "They are like pieces of Tente or Lego from which animals are made." Read more...

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Help us, Carrie Fisher. You're our only hope.

The recent cast announcement for Star Wars Episode IX contained a wonderful surprise: Carrie Fisher will reprise her role as Princess-turned-General Leia Organa one last time, despite the fact that she died in 2016. Fans are weeping in both mourning and celebration at the prospect of once again seeing the legend who made "Princess" synonymous with "unstoppable badass."

Director J.J. Abrams made it clear that Fisher's reappearance, which is possible thanks to unused footage from The Force Awakens, comes with the explicit blessing of her daughter, Billie Lourd. Read more...

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Taylor Swift is trying to do her part to ease the grief of a Massachusetts town mourning a recently fallen police officer. 

The Patriot Ledger reported that the pop star donated hundreds of complimentary tickets to Weymouth, Mass. for her Foxborough concert on Thursday, which is part of her Reputation Tour.

Swift gave the tickets in response to the death of Weymouth's Sgt. Michael Chesna, who was killed earlier this month while responding to a car crash. The suspect is also believed to be responsible for killing bystander Vera Adams.

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