LONDON — Anyone who follows Tiger Woods on Twitter will already be well aware of the "Mac Daddy Santa" outfit he shared on Thursday — and the reaction said outfit received.

Here it is again, just so it's nice and fresh in your mind.

In the 13 hours since that picture has been tweeted, it's already been shared over 20,000 times. 

And although there were many, many responses, no-one put it more bluntly than Rory McIlroy: Read more...

It's time to switch up that overused dog lens for something more festive this weekend.

Snapchat's given Mashable a preview of some of its holiday lenses — its facial-recognition overlays — that are set to roll out from now until Christmas.

These include lenses to turn you into a reindeer, an angel, and a festive version of its usual flower crown filter.

The company is also working with stores to roll out branded versions this holiday.

The Hollister one will turn you into Rudolph, Nordstrom has a snow globe, and Bloomingdale's will send Santa and his sleigh running around your head. Read more...

LONDON — It's always enjoyable when two random celebrities have an amusing Twitter exchange — particularly when the celebrities in question are Ricky Gervais and Seth Rogen.

On Thursday, Gervais shared a photo of the "Recently Added Movies" menu from one of his streaming services.

The arrangement of films was... well, eye-catching. 

It was already a strong tweet, but the whole thing got even better when the sausage himself (a.k.a. Seth Rogen) decided to get involved. Read more...

Tesla's upgraded Autopilot, which will give the company's newer Model S and Model X cars a number of self-driving features, might arrive next week. 

In a tweet Friday, Musk said that the company "might be ready to rollout most of Autopilot functionality for HW2 towards the end of next week."

In late November, Musk announced a mid-December launch date for the new features, though he did say they would get rolled out "incrementally."  Read more...

India, the second most populous nation in the world, is full of quirks and eccentricities. Here are some of its uniquely odd achievements that made it to the Guinness World Records this year

1. Largest individual 'laddoo'

It weighs 29,465 kg (64,959.21 lb) and was achieved by PVVS Mallikharjuna Rao in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. A popular Indian sweet, the laddoo was prepared with refined ghee (clarified butter), oil, cashew nuts, sugar, almonds, cardamom and water.

2. Most lit candles in the mouth

This man from Mumbai could fit 17 burning candles in his mouth. Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya is known to have a fetish for putting weird objects in his mouth. Last year, his candle record stood at 15, which he went on to better this year. Read more...

An Indian startup thinks it has figured out the key to make it easier for more people to have email accounts, but it may have solved only part of the big puzzle. 

Two months ago, Jaipur-based startup Data XGen Technologies announced DataMail, an email service which offers email addresses in several Indian languages. The service, paid at the time, is aimed at the vast majority of Indians who cannot write or speak in English. 

It has now partnered with state-run BSNL to provide email addresses in Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and Marathi for free.  Read more...

The saga around internet celebrities Adam Saleh and his friend Slim Albaher being kicked off a Delta plane due to speaking Arabic appears to be neverending. 

That is, people aren't sure whether if it's a prank or not.

Now some passengers on the plane have challenged the claim the YouTubers were not ejected for the language they spoke, but rather their disruptive behaviour on the plane. That's in tandem with Delta's statement that said the pair "sought to disrupt the cabin with provocative behaviour."

American candy giant Mondelez has decided to set up a Centre of Excellence for Gum and Candy in Singapore.

The S$10 million ($6.9 million) facility will focus on researching taste, ingredients and recipes, and packaging options for gum. 

Mondelez, which already has its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, will open the R&D centre in late-2017 in the island state, CNBC reports.

It's hard to miss the irony in this, given that Singapore famously banned the sale of gum in 1992.

You can chew gum here, by the way — the restriction is on distributing it. In 2004, the rules got relaxed somewhat to allow "therapeutic" gum with dental benefits, or for smokers, to be sold. But that can only be carried by dentists or pharmacies, which have to register the buyer's details. Read more...

Consumer Reports, a trusted non-profit organization which thoroughly tests a variety of products, has always given its "recommended" mark to Apple's MacBook computers — until now. 

While the 2016 MacBook Pros did "very well" in terms of display quality and performance, their battery life was too inconsistent for CR to recommend them to consumers. 

CR tested all three new models: The 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar (also dubbed "escape edition") as well as the 13-inch and the 15-inch MacBook Pro machines with the Touch Bar. In all three cases, battery life was "highly inconsistent," dropping as low as 3.75 hours in one test and jumping to 16 hours in another.  Read more...

Sometimes, you just wanna snuggle with your significant other in Santa hats and feed each other from a bucket of KFC. 

But when Edward Snowden posted a photo of himself doing just that on Thursday, the internet suspected him of selling out. 

Whether or not you're into the Star Wars universe, the newest installment is one that has everyone talking. This is your SPOILER-FILLED debate on Gareth Edwards' 'Rogue One.'

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Drake sang about them, Hitchcock made a film about them and they form the inspo glue that binds Pinterest together.

What are they? Views of course!

Like love, views are a universal language. A good view could feed a weary soul for days.

We've tracked down the dopest houses with the best views in Australia, especially to feed your insatiable desire for pretty things. You may never be able to own your own home Down Under, but we'll be damned if you can't look at other people's online.

Without further ado, scroll on and dream the rest of this year away. Read more...

On the heels of several embarrassing metric error disclosures from Facebook, Twitter is taking its own shot at the advertiser apology routine.

The social network admitted to a bug in the most recent update to its Android app that caused it to overcharge advertisers throughout much of the past month.

Twitter apparently divulged the issue to advertisers earlier this week but only fessed up publicly after Business Insider broke the story late Thursday.

According to Business Insider's source, the mistake inflated video campaign metrics by as much as 35 percent, and Twitter has already offered refunds. Read more...

For awhile there, it seemed like there was a dearth of apps for New Zealand's Māori to express themselves digitally. 

But now there's Emotiki, which calls itself the world's first Māori emoji app. And it looks pretty awesome.

Available on iOS and Android, the sticker app includes 200 different Māori icons, from emotions to food, to sports and animals associated with the cultures of Aotearoa. 

It's not true Emoji as you would find in your smartphone's keyboard — the folks at Unicode call the shots on that. They're more like images you can share via your messaging app. Read more...

Avril Lavigne is sick and tired of all the Nickelback jokes.

The singer, who is separated from Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, took to Twitter Thursday to call out Mark Zuckerberg for making a joke about the band.

"Either way, you're allowed your musical opinion however, your jab at Nickelback is in poor taste," Lavigne wrote.

She was apparently referring to a video the Facebook CEO posted earlier in the week demonstrating "Jarvis," the artificial intelligence system Zuckerberg created to control his home. 

In the video Zuckerberg asks the AI, voiced by Morgan Freeman, to "play us some good Nickelback songs." To which it responds, "I'm sorry Mark, I'm afraid I can't do that." Read more...

The new Star Wars movie has divided  the Mashable team. This is the SPOILER-FILLED Rogue One debate you've been waiting for.

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2016 was an emotional year of dizzying highs and Mariana Trench-level lows. 

It seems only fitting then, that somewhere amongst the political garbage fires and the passing of a few music legends, that a new breed of hero emerge. 

Or species of hero, if we're being specific. Videos of disgruntled and often-asleep koalas of Australia, were the internet's light of Eärendil in the Shelob's lair that has been the past year. 

They've proven themselves to be serious on-screen talent. Here are some of the greatest koala moments of 2016. Read more...

Note to all Samsung Galaxy Note7 users (because yes, apparently there are still some of you out there): Nobody wants your explosion-prone phones on the plane. 

On Tuesday, that stance was again made clear by a dramatic Virgin Airlines flight drama that almost turned into a full-blown 3 a.m. diversion.

The story was told by the tweets of passenger Lucas Wojciechowski, a software engineer according to his Twitter bio.

He was flying on Virgin America Flight 358 from San Francisco to Boston, when a Wi-Fi network called "Samsung Galaxy Note7_1097" was first spotted, according to BBC News.   Read more...

The Seattle Seahawks have been very nice this year, at least according to quarterback Russell Wilson, who handed out some big ticket gifts to his teammates.

Having already clinched a spot in the playoffs, Seattle heads into Christmas weekend with an opportunity to seal up the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye. 

Clearly, the holiday spirit is alive and well in the Seahawks' locker room, where Wilson left flatscreen Samsung TVs for his offensive line and dished out prepaid Alaska Airline tickets to the rest of the team. 

Wilson has battled injuries all year, leading to a career-high 11 interceptions and a decline in both touchdowns and passing yards. His offensive line hasn't been completely healthy either, forcing players to shift positions and leaving Wilson without a consistent five-man line.  Read more...

Here are Tiger Woods' nipples coming at you live and direct in real-time thanks to the magic of the global town square. 

Without further ado, the tweet in question: 

That's, um, wow — there's a lot to unpack here. Let's start with the replies to Woods' "Mac Daddy Santa" post. As you'd expect, they were highly entertaining in their own right. 

The village of Tourouvre-au-Perche in Normandy, France, is taking solar panelling from the roof to the street. The town says it's just unveiled the world's first solar panel road. 

The 1 kilometre (0.6 mile) route, covered by 2,800 square metres of electricity-generating panels, was declared open on Thursday by the country's ecology minister, Ségolène Royal. 

The panels have been covered with a protective resin that consists of fine sheets of silicon to help withstand the 2,000 motorists which use the road, while ensuring there is good grip between tyres and the roadway. 

Since Nick Thune's last special debuted on Netflix, a lot has changed. Most notably: The comedian had a kid.

"It changes your life obviously because you don't sleep as much and you have some maniac that lives in your house," he told Mashable. "It made life more important to me, and changed my perspective on the world."

The new life mentality helped shape and inspire his new special Nick Thune: Good Guy, which debuted on NBC's Seeso platform on Thursday.

"I think a lot of people go through this when they find out they are going to have a kid," Thune said. "They decide, ‘Man I can’t make the same shitty choices all the time how do I minimize all those experiences I have been having?’ I think this came through in this special. That’s what it’s about really."   Read more...

2016 was rough for everyone, even Team Internet.

Here's a look at the most dramatic moments in the digital entertainment world this year.

1. Very public break-ups

When YouTube stars fall in love, their relationships become archived in the pages of internet history, and fans can't get enough of the 'shipping. 

But because YouTube relationships are so deeply documented, they become inherently more fragile. 

A break-up becomes the business of not just the couple, but all their collective fans. There are lots of recorded tears and lots of clicks (whether that's on purpose or not).

This year, it seemed 2016 was not kind to many on-screen couples.  Read more...

We don't know what's in the water in Australia, but gee whiz, their TV seem like it's from another planet.

A lot of the aren't that great. Their often sanitised dramas about dreary WASPs.

But the country's penchant for being a tad uncouth and uncultivated often shines through in more unscripted moments.

From drunk people stumbling through a live news cross, to unintentionally hilarious interviews with everyday heros — it just seems TV is just weirder Down Under. 

Here's a quick recap of some the strangest moments from 2016.  Read more...

Whether it was historic flooding, powerful earthquakes or unstoppable wildfires, natural disasters in 2016 set the stage for many impactful and memorable photos. 

Before striking the U.S. with heavy flooding, Hurricane Matthew left a path of destruction in the Caribbean. Scorching temperatures, high winds and the ongoing drought led to destructive wildfires in California. Powerful earthquakes shook parts of Italy and another caused major landslides in Japan. Typhoons wreaked havoc in the Philippines

We take a look at some of the most devastating natural disasters around the world in 2016. 

Rescue teams continue their operations in the rubble of the largely destroyed Lazio mountain village of Amatrice, Italy, on Sept. 1, 2016. A devastating 6.0 magnitude earthquake early morning of 24 August left a total of 293 dead, according to official sources Read more...

For people who don't celebrate Christmas, the day itself can fill you with dread.

There's no waking up to presents, no massive feast for lunch, dinner or eating leftovers on the ensuing days. 

It's just another day, except most stores and activities are closed, while everyone else is having a ball. So what do you do?

If you're anything like this writer, Christmas was just never a thing in your house. Maybe you don't celebrate it for religious reasons. Maybe you just can't stand the carols. 

You might even find it difficult to tell people that you don't do anything to mark Christmas, because it's so widely assumed that everyone did at least *something.*  Read more...

There are three constants in modern life: death, taxes and iPhone leaks. 

The rumor mill surrounding Apple's flagship device is constantly churning — speculations hit the blogosphere well in advance of any official announcements, with some prognosticators skipping ahead full model cycles to focus on the next next iteration, if their sources are so inclined. 

Every version of the iPhone receives a significant amount of attention and speculation — but the upcoming 2017 model is a special case. 

The iPhone turns 10 next year, an anniversary that won't go by unnoticed. In an email to Mashable Chief Correspondent Lance Ulanoff, Apple's Creative Strategies President Tim Bajarin said as much: "The tenth anniversary of the iPhone will be a big thrust going into September of 2017."  Read more...

This video for the upcoming DreamHack Masters Las Vegas tournament is the most epic esports trailer in the world! 

OK ... that might have been a slight exaggeration, but the trailer is definitely more reminiscent of a blockbuster movie than an esports event.

The $450,000 Counter Strike: Global Offensive tournament was announced in October and in 2017 DreamHack Masters is challenging players to face their true enemy, "the enemy within." 

You can watch the 16 CS:GO teams duke it out February 15-19 at MGM Grand Hotel, or on Twitch.

Ten blind people in the UK are set to be given "bionic eyes" for free by the National Health Service (NHS) as part of a pioneering treatment program.

The Argus II Bionic Eye, made by the company Second Sight, could mean a whole new world of vision for people previously blind through an inherited degenerative disease called retinitis pigmentosa — and potentially pave the way for the technology to enter the mainstream.

The eyes are essentially retinal implants which translate images from a tiny video camera within a pair of eyeglasses worn by the patient into electrical pulses and eventually signals that reach the brain. Electrodes attached to the retina stimulate its remaining cells, which send information on to the brain. Read more...

John Legend has made it to YouTube's 1 billion club.

The award-winning songwriter and singer's 2013 music video for "All Of Me" crossed 1 billion views on Thursday.

Legend joins Calvin Harris ("This is What You Came For" ft. Rihanna), Drake ("Hotline Bling"), Adele ("Rolling in the Deep"), Fifth Harmony ("Work from Home" ft. Ty Dolla $ign) and a handful of other artists in reaching the music video milestone.

In all, 24 videos hit 1 billion views in 2016, YouTube said.

To celebrate, Legend answered questions on YouTube's Twitter account. Read more...