InsideHook

By Lindsay Rogers AirDropping to strangers is not a new thing. A few months back, while waiting in an absurdly line for a ride at Universal Studios with my sister and partner, someone unfamiliar to me AirDropped me a photo of a clownfish overlaid with …

By Bonnie Stiernberg The first truly great moment on the Rolling Stones’ 1972 masterpiece Exile on Main St. comes about halfway through its opening track, after “Rocks Off” takes a brief distorted, psychedelic left turn as Mick Jagger perhaps pulls a l…

By Lauren Loria With the movie Free Solo premiering in 2018 and the sport’s worldwide debut at the Tokyo Olympics last year, it’s no wonder that rock climbing has drawn an increasing amount of attention in recent years. Professional climbers the likes …

By Logan Mahan Speaking at SXSW this past March, Mark Zuckerberg announced non-fungible tokens (NFTs) would be coming to Instagram in the “near term.” Well, the near term is now-ish. This week, the social media platform that was once a simple photo-sha…

By Bonnie Stiernberg Noah Syndergaard is no stranger to social media drama, and it looks like he’s currently trying to stir some up with his former team. The pitcher appeared to take a jab at the Mets’ recent combined no-hitter after his current Angels…

By Trish Rooney Dolly Parton, universally beloved country singer, EGOT nominee, literacy promoter, vaccine creator (via donation), and founder of Dollywood, is adding another notch to her belt; she’s been tapped to star in…a musical about the Mexican P…

By Kirk Miller Over two dozen human rights groups have banded together to protest Zoom’s interest in emotion recognition technology, which the groups claim is “discriminatory, manipulative, potentially dangerous and based on assumptions that all people…

By Kirk Miller Sony puts out some of our favorite headphones and earbuds — the WH-1000XM4 (and its follow-up XM5, reportedly out next week) and WF-1000XM4, respectively — but their newest audio creation is both unique and forward-thinking…and a bit of …

By Evan Bleier Fired shortly after the publication of a piece in The Tampa Bay Times detailing allegations of workplace violence made by former Jaguars kicker Josh Lambo, ex-Jacksonville coach Urban Meyer is once again causing issues for his old employ…

By Lindsay Rogers Some people, as a sort of birthright, are eligible for more than one passport, which in turn grants them various (and sometimes, a more abundant array of) freedoms while traveling. For example, the least powerful passport per the Henl…