You might love it. You might hate it (or its massive price tag). But one thing is certain: You've almost definitely seen it taking over the beauty internet. The Dyson Airwrap may have debuted in 2018, but in the past year, it's found new life as one of TikTok's most viral beauty tech gadgets. On the app, #dysonairwrap has 2.2 billion views. And variations of this tag have all pulled in millions more, where videos show off the distinct device in the hands of everyone from hair pros to regular beauty fans. The unique and surprisingly lightweight device comes with eight attachments that prom...moreises to take your hair from sopping wet to dry and styled, all without damaging extreme heat.
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That's what sets this pricey hair appliance apart from its competitors — the promise of preserved hair health while still creating the bouncy curl or sleek style of your dreams. It's all thanks to something called the Coanda effect, which refers to a concept applied in jet engines that leverages the curvature of air streams. Sounds complicated already, right? Now, how did we go from jet engines to hair devices? And doesn't Dyson make vacuums?! This episode of Beauty, Hacked answers these questions and more. We talked to the engineering folks at Dyson to explain exactly what makes the Airwrap tick, and even got a sneak peek at the next generation Airwrap styler set to launch later this summer.
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Then, Mashable's tech reporter Jennimai Nguyen uses every single Airwrap attachment and does a side-by-side comparison against similar devices — including the Revlon One-Step, a classic hair dryer, and her trusty, crusty curling wand that's been chugging along since seventh grade. So is the Airwrap worth all the hype? And more importantly, is it worth that $599 price tag? Tune in here to find out, and make sure to stick around for more Beauty, Hacked....
Smash Bros. by way of a Warner Bros. multiverse? Yes, please.Based on early appearances, you should expect the unexpected when characters from Game of Thrones, Looney Tunes, and other popular Warner Bros. franchises team up and scrap together in WB Interactive Entertainment's upcoming MultiVersus. The "platform fighter" from the developers at Player First Games is built like a gaming sandbox where magical moments of play emerge from happy accidents and inventive players.Take Bugs Bunny. The wascally wabbit can toss a projectile-blocking safe on the ground, but it's also a physics-based object ...morethat can be moved — which means a punch can knock it into other players. Arya Stark, meanwhile, steps into the battlefield armed with a throwing knife that she can teleport herself over to, even if a teammate — or, say, a cartoon safe — is touching it."Bugs Bunny will knock the safe up in the air and [Arya] will throw the dagger and teleport to the safe...and then re-direct it." That's Tony Huynh, game director and Player First co-founder, who spoke to Mashable ahead of a closed public alpha test for MultiVersus. "Everybody understands that, it's very simple."Arya strategically redirecting Bugs' safe while it's sailing through the air is like spiking a volleyball. Except here, the ball is a heavy metal box that the opposing team is best off avoiding, lest they be knocked out of the fighting arena and the match.
"MultiVersus" offers a familiar sort of playful chaos if you're a fan of games like "Smash Bros." or "Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl."
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It's not a combo the Player First team conceived, tested, and built into MultiVersus with purpose. Arya Stark spiking Bugs Bunny's safe is an example of "emergent gameplay," which describes the accidentally awesome outcomes that occur when open-ended game systems, such as the physics governing the safe's physical properties or Arya's knife-powered dash, mash together in unintended ways.It's also an example of how the still-tiny audience of MultiVersus fans has already surprised the team at Player First. The Arya-Bugs synergy is something players found on their own in the two super-limited tests so far, which amounts to around 20 days of live early access in total. That's great news in the studio's eyes — it’s just MultiVersus working as intended."The teamwork moments that have come up have been [wild] in our own testing," Huynh said. "Players have been finding them in our tests and it's been really heartening to see a lot of the stuff that we've been talking about for all these years actually being realized, and being used effectively by players."There's more weight behind Huynh's reference to "all these years" than most probably realize. Player First Games was founded on the idea expressed right there in the name: "The dream has always been to create player-first games [for as long as] I've been in the industry," he explained.
"The teamwork moments that have come up have been wild in our own testing."
Huynh's profile on the studio website boasts about his 15 years of experience contributing to and leading teams as a "combat and systems designer" on games like God of War 3, God of War: Ascension, and League of Legends. But his first gaming love is more like the stuff that directly inspired MultiVersus."I've played a lot of fighting games. The fighting game community is really important to me. It's the reason why I'm a combat designer," he said. "Because I'm inti...
Undercover video shows the alleged senior executive blasting the Tesla CEO while boasting about limiting free speech
A senior Twitter executive has apparently been caught on tape mocking Tesla CEO Elon Musk for having Asperger’s syndrome, while criticizing free speech.
In an undercover video posted by Project Veritas on Tuesday, Alex Martinez, who is claimed to be Twitter’s lead client partner, and who sometimes speaks on behalf of the company at events, alleged that Musk is “literally special needs” and that he can...more’t take anything he says seriously, adding that “he’s a loony tune.”
“Elon Musk as a person, he is whatever. I don’t... like he’s a loony tune, he has Asperger’s,” Martinez said, adding that Musk being “special” is “fine” and that no one is “gonna say some f**king crazy s**t because he’s special,” but did mock Musk’s calls for peace.
“Don’t you also see his piece about ‘why can’t we just all love each other? Haven’t you seen his other tweets where he’s like… I’m like, you’re special needs. You’re literally special needs. Literally, though, you really are. So I can’t even take what you’re saying seriously. Cause you’re special.”
The 50-year-old billionaire caught wind of the executive’s statements and took to Twitter, writing: “Twitter exec trashing free speech & mocking people with Asperger’s.” Musk also separately tweeted a frown emoji in response to the video.
Twitter exec trashing free speech & mocking people with Asperger’s …— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2022
Martinez also went into a long rant about free speech, arguing that the employees of Twitter “believe in something that’s good for the planet and not just to give people free speech.”
He claimed that this ideology was behind Twitter’s policies that were “put in place for misinformation or mislabeling media,” which the employees were not going to give up without a fight, insisting that there would be a revolt against Musk’s proposed changes.
In the video clip posted, the executive also commented on the issue of censorship on Twitter, stating that “people don’t know how to make a rational decision if you don’t put out correct things that are supposed to be out in the public.”
Martinez also said the reason Twitter doesn’t make money is because its employees are in it for the ideas rather than profit. “If we’re implementing all these rules… and Elon wants to dismantle them, then technically our ideology has led us to not making money because we’re not making money, and Elon wants to turn it the other way so that we can make money.”
He also expressed concern that Twitter’s leaders, such as current CEO Parag Agrawal and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey, who co-founded the platform and currently sits on the board of directors, are motivated by greed.
“At the end of the day, I think the real truth – that they can’t ever say – is that it’s all about money. That it’s all about money, and making all this money. Parag, Jack, the board members, everyone gets paid,” Martinez said.
“Elon gets like tax benefits. Doesn’t have to pay taxes forever. Everything...
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