As 2018 comes to a close, it’s only a matter of time before New Year’s resolution posts start rolling into your timelines. 

But the barrage of empty promises and half-hearted resolutions on social media just make me want to scale back on my social media usage altogether. Forget hitting the gym more or learning new skills. From subtweeting less to toning down my finsta, here are 10 social media resolutions I will probably (not) follow through with in 2019. 

1. Stop checking Twitter right before bed 

For the good of my mental health — and my insomnia — I’m going to stop checking Twitter before bed. There’s something so unhealthy about falling asleep to Trump tweets and people arguing, you know? In 2019, I will put down my phone before going to sleep instead of stressing myself out at night. 

2. Also stop checking Twitter as soon as I wake up 

Sure, opening up Twitter as soon as your alarm goes off can catch you up on current events, but do you really need to stress about the state of world affairs before brushing your teeth? Starting on Jan. 1, I won’t check Twitter as soon as I wake up in the morning. Unless there’s juicy drama, of course. 

3. Chill with posting obnoxiously long stories

Does anything make you tap faster than accidentally entering an obnoxiously long story? I can guarantee you that nobody willingly watches all 15 pixelated ten-second videos of the concert you went to last night. For this new year, I’m going to make an effort to reign in the Boomerangs. Maybe. 

4. Try to post more photos of  my pet

For the good of humanity, please keep posting pictures of your pet — it makes the world a better place. 

5. Subtweet less 

I regret to inform you that Brand Twitter killed the joy of subtweeting. As a society we need to let it go — as much fun as it was, the whole IHOP/IHOb debacle made it so much less fun. Will I personally be able to stop subtweeting in 2019? In all honesty, it depends on whether people can stop microwaving fish in the office.

6. Stop using my finsta as my personal diary 

Finstas are an intimate look at someone’s personal life, but is it healthy to keep oversharing every detail of my existence to my friends? Probably not. I’ll do my best to scale back on my finsta posts for this new year — until I want impulse bangs again.

7. Stop obsessively checking who viewed my Stories

Stop being a Gatsby! Daisy will love you in the moment but she won’t commit! In 2019, I’ll stop looking for that green light and instead, post my selfie and move on. If I post a quality meme, though, I won’t hesitate to check who viewed my story — that is something that I actually care about.

8. Turn on read receipts 

Hear me out: Read receipts don’t deserve their bad reputation. Sure, keeping them on is kind of a power move, but at least you’re being honest. I would rather know that I’m being left on read and move on with my life, so for the new year, I’m going to do the world a favor and turn my read receipts back on.

9. Stop wasting time watching Vine compilations

This is a lie. I will never stop mourning the death of Vine, and will never be able to stop watching glorious compilations. It’s an art form that the world just wasn’t ready for. If anything, I’m probably going to waste more time watching them in 2019.

10. I won’t define my personal relationships by Co-Star

Co-Star is both a blessing and a curse; the  horoscope app will drag you to hell and back with a disturbingly accurate read of your life, but it’ll also get you hooked on figuring out the birth chart of everyone you interact with. This upcoming new year, I’m making a promise to stop asking people to check our astrological compatibility before I actually get to know them. Unless, of course, they’re a Gemini. 

Will I actually be able to follow through with any of these New Year’s resolutions? Unlikely. If I don’t, you’ll probably catch me tweeting about it. 

Like porn, Internet Boyfriends are hard to define — but also like porn, you know them when you see them. And 2018 was downright lousy with them.

Some were fresh faces we’d never encountered before. (Well, most of us. We see you, Lady Who’s Been Crushing On Winston Duke Since Person of Interest.) Others were guys we’d known about for years, but started seeing in a whole new light. And still more were dudes we already loved, but somehow came to love even more within the past 12 months.

What unites them is the way they brought so many of us together in 2018. These guys weren’t just our crushes, they were everyone’s crushes, and we collectively got personally invested in a way we don’t for just any pretty, famous face. 

We retweeted their photoshoots, pored over their photos, traded idle fantasies about what it’d be like to date them. Since it was a collective project, we couldn’t escape them even if we wanted to, and we didn’t want to. (Not coincidentally, Internet Boyfriend-ness tends to peak when they’re promoting a project.) 

If the internet had lockers, these fellas would’ve been taped up in every single one of them. If the internet had desks, their initials would be carved into them. The internet has neither of those things, but what we do have are year-end listicles. So here they are: our Internet Boyfriends of 2018. 

Adam Rippon

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We saw him in: The Olympics, Dancing With the Stars. 

We applauded when: He called out Mike Pence. 

Figure skater Adam Rippon was one of the biggest stories of one of 2018’s biggest events, and deservedly so. As the first openly gay man ever to compete for Team USA at the Olympics, he was an inspiration to many. 

But what really won us over was his, well, Adam-ness: his dazzling style on the ice, his irrepresible presence off of it. There’s something so appealing about a guy who’s unapologetically himself, and and no one seems more comfortable in his own skin than Rippon.

Where we’ll see him next: Unclear, but he definitely wants to stay famous.

Winston Duke

We saw him in: Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War. 

The moment we fell in love: “We are vegetarians.” 

Imagine how hot and charming you’d have to be to stand out in an ensemble that also includes Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, and Daniel Kaluuya. Winston Duke is that hot and charming. We walked into Black Panther never having heard of the guy, and walked out knowing we’d never forget his name.

It’s not just that he’s super tall and built like [gestures wildly at all of that]. It’s that this dude’s got layers. As M’Baku, he’s fierce and funny and fearless; as Duke, he radiates intelligence and sensitivity. In other words, he’s the walking, talking embodiment of “get you a man who can do both.” And you know what? We think we will.

Where we’ll see him next: Jordan Peele’s Us with Black Panther co-star Lupita Nyong’o, then Avengers: Endgame with all the other Marvelites. 

Bill Hader

We saw him in: Barry, and we heard him in Ralph Breaks the Internet. 

His big transformative scene: Gene Costineau wasn’t the only one impressed by that monologue in the Barry premiere.

We knew and loved Bill Hader from Saturday Night Live, of course. But it wasn’t until Barry that he started inspiring headlines like “Bill Hader Is Totally Kind of Hot” and “Bill Hader Is a Babe and It’s Time We Recognized This” and “I’m Watching Barry for Bill Hader’s Hot Face Muscle.” 

Yep, turns out when he’s not distorting his face for laughs, Hader is pretty dang handsome. Beyond that, though, Barry was the ideal showcase for his many gifts: He does comedy and drama, he writes and directs as well as acts. We can’t wait to see what new sides he’ll show us next. 

Where we’ll see him next: More Barry, plus It: Chapter 2 as the older version of Stranger Things‘ Finn Wolfhard.

John Krasinski

Image: Photo Credit: Jonny Cournoyer

We saw him in: A Quiet Place, Amazon’s Jack Ryan, the Mary Poppins Returns press tour for his wife.

His most winning quality: His enduring love of Emily Blunt, a woman who is not us.

The Office‘s Jim Halpert was practically an Internet Boyfriend before Internet Boyfriends were even a thing, but 2018 was the year John Krasinski evolved into a different kind of Internet Boyfriend. Specifically, the Hot Dad kind. There he was in his dystopian knitwear and his fugitive beard, protecting his family against literal monsters at the end of the world. We die.

And hey, the fact that he spent all of the Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns press tours gushing about his beautiful wife didn’t hurt matters, either. Actually, forget Internet Boyfriend — 2018 Krasinski was total Internet Husband material.  

Where you’ll see him next: You can see more of him right now in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. 

Chris Evans

Image: Chuck Zlotnick / Marvel Studios

We saw him in: Avengers: Infinity War, plus Broadway’s Lobby Hero if you were lucky enough to get tickets.

The best thing he did in 2018: That glorious face-mane.

We went back and forth with this one, because Chris Evans has been too big for too long to be a proper Internet Boyfriend. But he is on the list this year for one reason and one reason only: his Infinity War beard. 

It turned squeaky-clean Captain America into something else entirely, and made us all the more horrified at the prospect of losing him in the not-too-distant future. Honestly, of all the things Thanos took in Infinity War, we might miss Beard the most. 

Where we’ll see him next: Avengers: Endgame (), Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. 

Donald Glover

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We saw him in: Solo: A Star Wars Story, Atlanta: Robbin’ Season, a bunch of Childish Gambino stuff. Dude’s been busy!

But the real highlight was: The music video for “This Is America.”

Donald Glover has always been adorable and brilliant. In 2018, though, he was sexy. 

He spent the entire Solo: A Star Wars Story press tour basically being Lando Calrissian, which is to say suave enough to pull off lines like “Buckle up, baby.” He danced around shirtless in “This Is America,” and we’d be lying if we said we didn’t notice how good he looked while he tackled serious issues with serious art. He blew our minds again and again in Atlanta: Robbin’ Season, and became the talk of the Emmys thanks to Teddy Perkins. 

In short, this guy knew not only how to grab our attention, but what to do with it once he had it. If only more non-internet boyfriends were half this interesting.

Where we’ll see him next: Whatever Guava Island turns out to be. Also, he’s Simba in The Lion King. 

Pete Davidson

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Pete Davidson 

We saw him in: Set It Up and Saturday Night Live, but mostly Ariana Grande-related pap shots and social media posts.

His defining moment: BDE.

Until 2018, Pete Davidson was just that cute young guy on SNL. But a certain whirlwind romance raised his profile, which consequently made a whole lot of people look up, lean in, and wonder just what it was about this dude.

The answer? It’s his Big Dick Energy. Which is not really about having a big dick at all (though his then-fiancée had some nice things to say on that front), but about projecting a low-key kind of confidence. Davidson’s 2018 wasn’t all smooth sailing, for sure — but it did make him the face of BDE, and there are worse ways to spend a year.

Where we’ll see him next: More SNL; the gender-swapped What Women Want reboot What Men Want; the Sundance comedy Big Time Adolescence.

Glen Powell

We saw him in: Set It Up, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. 

He’s a keeper because: He knows how to lose gracefully. 

Before Peter Kavinsky, there was Charlie. Set It Up (and later Guernsey) turned Glen Powell, previously known as John Glenn in Hidden Figures and the “average-sized dick” guy in Everybody Wants Some!!, into a romantic lead, and he took to it like a duck to water. 

He’s got a grin to make anyone grin back, a warmth that sparks chemistry with basically anyone, and to top it all off, he just… seems like a really nice guy. The kind of guy you can take out with your friends, bring home to your parents, and introduce to your boss. 

Where we’ll see him next: Top Gun: Maverick. 

Henry Golding

We saw him in: Crazy Rich Asians, A Simple Favor. 

Which one was he hotter in? The one where he wasn’t a maybe-murderer. 

Crazy Rich Asians called for a male lead dashing enough to be a modern Prince Charming, but cuddly enough to seem like actual boyfriend material. They found that in Henry Golding, a model and TV host who’d never acted in a movie before — not that you’d know it from his work this year.

He looked great in suits, and even better out of them. He made us sigh with adoration in Crazy Rich Asians, and bite our lips with lust in A Simple Favor. He made out with Constance Wu, Blake Lively, and Anna Kendrick over the course of several months, and we weren’t sure if we wanted to be with him or just be him. Actually, we’re still not sure. We just know we’ll follow this guy anywhere he goes.

Where we’ll see him next: Paul Feig’s Last Christmas, with his Crazy Rich Asians co-star Michelle Yeoh; Guy Ritchie’s Toff Guys. 

Noah Centineo

We saw him in: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser. 

He cinched his Internet Boyfriend-dom when: He improvised that popcorn save.

Peter Kavinsky is the guy you hope every single crush you’ve ever had will turn out to be, but never actually does. Noah Centineo is the actor who is smart enough to know why you like his character so much, and savvy enough to lean into it. 

Most Internet Boyfriends get shy about embracing their roles, and we can’t say we blame them — it does seem terribly awkward to realize millions of strangers are drawing hearts around your name. Centineo, though, leaned right into it, unspooling a series of cheeseball social media posts just as we were all swooning after To All the Boys. Thank you, Centineo, for indulging us.

What we’ll see him in next: Charlie’s Angels (yes, they’re making another one). 

What a year it’s been for the royal family! 

While 2018 has been a mean old year for us mere mortals, those whose blood runs blue have had a festive year with not one but two weddings and some pretty major announcements. 

Now that the year is coming to an end, it’s time to look back at the most memorable royal family moments from 2018. 

1. *The* wedding 

Two different royals may have tied the knot in 2018, but the first wedding of the year was also the most spectacular. 

The whole world (or at least 29 million people, per Nielsen figures) watched Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle tie the knot in St George’s Chapel on May 19th. Not only was the ceremony quite the showstopper, the guest list was out. of. this. world. In attendance was the Queen of England *AND* the Queen of the Universe, Oprah. 

Come on, just look at the two of them. 

The entire ceremony was just one moving scene after another. 

Like when Prince Charles walked Meghan Markle down the aisle, as her own father could not attend. 

Serena Williams was also there. NBD. 

2. The baby announcement

Five mere months after their wedding, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (now the Duke and Duchess of Sussex) rocked our world once more.  

On Oct. 15 Kensington Palace made the announcement that the Duchess is expecting a baby in the spring of next year. 

3. Prince Charles turned 70 and revealed his favourite dish

On November 14th Prince Charles celebrated his 70th birthday and we all learned a new word; “groussaka”. In a birthday interview with Country Life, His Royal Highness revealed that he prefers the classic Greek dish moussaka with grouse, not lamb, giving us the groussaka. Thanks for sharing, your highness.

Clarence House also released some lovely family photos in celebration of the Prince’s big day. 

4. Prince Louis was born

Prince William and Kate Middleton (the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) welcomed their third child, Louis Arthur Charles in April. 

The name Louis was perceived to be a nod to Lord Louis Mountbatten, a well-loved relative of the royal family who was killed in an IRA attack in 1979. 

A lot of people people thought Kate Middleton paid tribute to Princess Diana when she introduced Louis to the world. The Duchess wore a red dress with a white collar, much like the red and white outfit worn by Diana when she left the hospital after giving birth to her second son, Harry. 

5. Meghan Markle released a cookbook

One of Meghan Markle’s first solo projects as a Duchess was the charity cookbook Together: Our Community Cookbook. The Duchess came up with the idea of the cookbook after a visit to the Hubb Community Kitchen, a community kitchen that helped feed survivors in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017. 

The proceeds from the cookbook, the foreword of which is penned by the Duchess herself, all go to the Hubb Community Kitchen, to help keep it open. 

6. Princess Eugenie got married

Prince Harry was not the only young royal who got married this year. 

His cousin, Princess Eugenie, tied the knot with wine merchant Jack Brooksbank in October. Their wedding, also in St. George’s Chapel, was quite the star-studded affair with Kate Moss, Liv Tyler, Demi Moore, and Naomi Campbell in attendance, to name a few. 

When Cara Delevingne showed up to the ceremony in a suit and top hat, she pretty much stole the show.

7. Princess Charlotte started school

Three-year-old Princess Charlotte started school and we’re mostly including this because of how unbelievably darling she is in this photo.

8. Meghan Markle bonded with the Queen

Everyone knows that hanging out one-on-one with your in-laws can be a tad strenuous, but Meghan Markle sure makes it look easy. 

The Duchess had her first solo outing with Queen Elizabeth in June, when the two attended the opening of the Mersey Gateway bridge in Cheshire. 

Even though looking at a bridge all day might not sound all that interesting to a lot of people, these two managed to make it look like a hoot. 

9. The first same-sex wedding in the Royal Family’s history

Lord Ivar Mountbatten, the Queen’s third cousin, made history when he married his partner, James Coyle, in September. Mountbatten is the first member of the royal family to be openly gay and marry a same-sex partner. 

The wedding was held privately, but Mountbatten shared a photo of the two on Instagram. 

10. The Queen met President Trump

Brits weren’t too fussed when U.S. President Donald Trump visited the UK in July. Neither was the Queen when the president reportedly showed up 15 minutes late to their meeting. 

Donald Trump denied being late, and actually claimed that the pair got along brilliantly. 

11. Harry and Meghan’s first royal tour

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s first royal tour overseas was a trip to Australia, Fiji, Tonga, and New Zealand (in fact, they made their aforementioned pregnancy announcement right as they landed in Sydney.)

During their trip they experienced a lot of local culture and also served up so. much. cuteness. 

12. Prince William spoke his mind about social media

Let’s face it; it’s the tech bros’ world and we’re all just living in it. Well, Prince William will not accept that. 

The Duke of Cambridge spoke candidly at an event at the BBC about how Big Tech and social media companies have failed to live up to the responsibilities that come with their immense power. 

“Their self-image is so grounded in their positive power for good that they seem unable to engage in constructive discussion about the social problems they are creating,” the Prince said as he urged social media companies to “reject the false choice of profits over values.”

13. Kate Middleton received the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II

One of Kate Middleton’s most-talked about looks this year was at a Buckingham Palace state dinner, where the Duchess of Cambridge wore a tiara formerly worn by Princess Diana along with  what is probably the most beautiful 19th century pearl and diamond necklace you’ll ever see.  

But, noticeably, the Duchess also wore a brand new order; the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II, given to members of the Royal Family for their service (that’s the yellow ribbon with the Queen’s face, in case there was any doubt.) 

14. Prince Harry and Megan Markle released a never-before-seen photo from their wedding 

As the year drew to an end, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex got one more moment in the spotlight as they released an unseen photo from their wedding reception. 

The photo, which is featured on the couple’s official 2018 Christmas card, is a black and white shot of the couple watching fireworks while holding hands.

What’s more romantic than that?

Thanks for all the memories, your royal highnesses. May 2019 be as full of glitz, glamour and royal grandeur.

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Britain may have been a wildly chaotic place in 2018 (you know, that whole Brexit thing) but that hasn’t stopped us tweeting.

Quite the opposite. British Twitter is generally a glorious place filled with puns, sarcasm, and the kind of amusing day-to-day observations capable of bringing surprising levels of joy — and 2018 was no exception.

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H/T Twitter Moments.

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Britain may have been a wildly chaotic place in 2018 (you know, that whole Brexit thing) but that hasn’t stopped us tweeting.

Quite the opposite. British Twitter is generally a glorious place filled with puns, sarcasm, and the kind of amusing day-to-day observations capable of bringing surprising levels of joy — and 2018 was no exception.

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Image: Netflix / Black Mirror

With its myriad of decisions and endings, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch certainly looked like a hell of a film (or game?) to put together.

So much so that in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, producer Annabel Jones confirmed that Season 5 of the Netflix series would be delayed, with an arrival set for sometime in 2019.

It’s due in part to the “enormous” creative time that the film took, and Jones herself had “forgotten” how many endings there are in Bandersnatch, although the widely distributed number is five. 

The show’s creator Charlie Brooker said there are definitely more endings though, where the unwieldy, wild nature of the choose-your-own-adventure story apparently has parts that are very difficult to reach, and may never be accessed.

Jones and Brooker used a storytelling tool developed by Netflix called Branch Manager, which allowed them to bring together the interactive film. 

What you won’t see in the forthcoming season, however, is interactivity. The episodes will be linear, and there will likely be a change in tone to the usual gut-wrenchingly sad stories we’re used to from Black Mirror by now.

“We’re doing more optimistic episodes and stories, rather than just dystopian and negative ones,” Brooker said in another interview with the New York Times. “We want to keep the show interesting for us.”

Predictions of the future are rarely accurate, but Microsoft’s vision of what its technology would look it 2019 would be like is pretty off the mark.

The promotional video originally launched in 2009 was unearthed on reddit recently, where translucent, ultra-thin screens and interactive newspapers, slick (albeit dated looking) graphics are part of everyday life.

There are handful of things in the video that have become reality, not necessarily all by Microsoft though, like the foldable phone, augmented reality, gesture controls, but these technologies aren’t as slick as the tech giant envisaged them to be by now.

Oh well. Here’s to 2029 then?

Imagine waking up fresh after this medium-level bin fire of a year, with no knowledge whatsoever of everything that went down.

That’s the privilege of this offensively cute baby penguin, a newborn addition to the Cincinnati Zoo.

First reported by NBC affiliate WLWT, the zoo posted a delightful photo to Facebook of the adorable one-day-old chick, and we’re pretty jealous of its fresh perspective on things.

“1 day old little penguin. Welcome to the world little one,” read the caption on Saturday.

The zoo has not yet announced what type of penguin the chick is, its gender or name. By Sunday, it was making infuriatingly cute chirps, at two days old. 

Cincinnati Zoo is home to equally delightful and oblivious celebrities like Fiona the Hippo. And this little baby penguin isn’t the only newborn in the zoo in December, with the arrival of a baby tamandua (a type of anteater) on Dec. 24.

Oh, to be a tiny, blissfully unaware baby animal.

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There are few things in life more annoying than having a song stuck in your head that you don’t know the lyrics to. It’s even worse when you don’t even know the title of the song or who the hell the artist is behind this banger. How are you supposed to stop singing gibberish to the tune of this track when you don’t know a single thing about it?

Thankfully, there are now quite a number of apps that help solve this conundrum. Using these tools, you’ll be able to identify the next song you come across and never awkwardly belt out nonsensical wrong lyrics ever again. 

1. Shazam

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The song identifying app you’re probably most familiar with is . All users have to do is hold up their phone to the source of the music while the song is playing and tap a single button within the Shazam app. Shazam will listen in on the song and provide you with all the relevant info you’d need to know like the artist, title, and album. It’s extraordinarily accurate.

Shazam will also provide you with links to YouTube to where you can listen to or purchase the track. The app also keeps a nifty history of all the songs you’ve identified using Shazam.

Shazam is available on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and practically every other platform. You could also probably soon expect even more integration with Apple services like Apple Music as the company acquired Shazam, though its future on Android is now uncertain.

2. SoundHound

does pretty much everything Shazam does and even more. Just like Shazam, SoundHound can tell you what song is playing at the tap of a button.

But let’s say that song you just heard ended before you could whip out your phone and open Shazam. Not a problem. That’s where SoundHound comes in.

If that song stuck in your head isn’t currently playing, you can hum it or sing its tune into SoundHound and it can identify the song. Of course, this depends on how closely your vocal interpretation of the song is to the actual song you’re trying to figure out. But, if it’s not wildly off, SoundHound can get the job done.

In addition, just call out to your phone “OK Hound, what song is this?” and the app’s voice controls will take over. Shazam doesn’t have a hands-free option, giving SoundHound the upper hand while you’re driving the car.

SoundHound was originally known as a musical search engine called Midomi. In fact, the desktop version of SoundHound is still called . And, just like SoundHound which is available on iOS and Android devices, you can sing or hum that tune you just can’t figure out into your desktop computer or laptop’s mic and Midomi will figure it out with the same accuracy as the SoundHound app.

3. Google Sound Search

If you have a Pixel phone, you might be familiar with Google Play’s Now Playing feature. Like Shazam and SoundHound, Now Playing would listen in to the music surrounding you, match it with a database and let you know the artist and title. But, the thing that set Google’s feature apart was that it was always-on. You could pull out your Pixel phone at any time and Google would already display what song was playing because it was already listening.

Google has now brought that feature to its even more powerful cloud service which has a far greater dataset and performance capability. Ask any of your Android phone, Google Home, or any of your Google Assistant enabled devices “what song is playing?” and Google will serve you up with the answer.

4. Ask Siri or Alexa

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Just like with a number of the aforementioned devices running Google Assistant, hardware with Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa can provide you with the results you need as well. Just call out to either and Siri or Alexa will listen in and let you know what they’re hearing.

As previously mentioned, with Apple’s acquisition of Shazam, look for the company to start integrating the app with Siri.

5. Genius or Google Search

This is my own personal tried-and-true method. While I’ve used all the above apps and tools at some point or another, this has been the most accurate way to find out what song you’re listening to, in my experience.

When you hear a song, simply home in on a simple line from the lyrics. Then open either the song lyrics website Genius or just go to Google search. Type in those lyrics and the majority of the time you’ll get the track details you were looking for. When using Google, it’s especially helpful to put the lyrics in quotations so Google only looks for that exact string that’s sung in the song.

It may seem a little bit less intuitive, but for times when Shazam or the other services just couldn’t make out the track in a noisy setting or the song was by a lesser known artist, this trick got the job done.

Additional reporting by Barb Dybwad. Original story published in 2010 and updated in 2018.

Sadly, Game of Thrones isn’t returning until April 2019, but if you’re in the mood for some show- related news to hold you over, we’ve got you covered.

Brett Ratcliffe, a University of Nebraska entomologist and professor, decided to name three of his eight newly discovered beetle species after Game of Thrones characters. How fun!

According to The Omaha World-Herald, Ratcliffe named the three species of beetles — each from the Gymnetis genus — after Daenerys Targaryen’s three dragons: Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion.

The official species names are drogoni, rhaegali and viserioni, the Latin versions of characters’ names.

“When you create names like these, you do it to gain a little bit of notoriety and bring public attention to it,” Ratcliffe, who’s reportedly named more than 200 species of scarab beetles, told the World-Herald.

Ratcliffe is apparently a fan of the HBO show based on the George R.R. Martin book series A Song of Ice and Fire, and said one of the reasons he chose the names is because he appreciates the way the dragons were portrayed in the series. Also, the beetles each sport orange features that are reminiscent of a dragon’s fire.

“I’ve often thought that scientists take themselves too seriously, and this is a way to circumvent that,” Ratcliffe said.

But of course, Ratcliffe ultimately hopes the well-known pop culture-themed names will help people become more aware of and reflect on the world’s unknown species and biodiversity.

The drogoni and viserioni species can be found in Colombia and Ecuador, according to the World-Herald, and the rhaegali can only be found only in French Guiana. 

The Mother of Beetles — errr, Dragons — will be proud.