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Google knows your eyes need a break.  The notoriously data-hungry behemoth announced Friday an upcoming redesign of its mobile search page that will, among other changes, include larger and bolder text. The shocking premise is that the change, in addition to several others laid out in a Google press release, will make Google's mobile search easier to use. "One way the team [made text easier to read] was by using larger, bolder text, so the human eye can scan and understand Search results faster," explains Google's announcement. Big text for a big whale. Image: google Brilliant. According to Google designer Aileen Chen, who led the redesign, this change won't be limited to just the results section.  Read more

When we spend so much of our time online, we’re bound to learn something while clicking and scrolling. Discover something new with Mashable’s series I learned it on the internet. Like any skill, mastering the guitar takes practice. It’s easy to tell someone to take lessons to get better at something, but it’s not always easy to find those lessons, especially in person.

Happy Hitman III to all who celebrate.  The recent release of the latest installment in IO Interactive’s legendary assassination games should keep most fans of series protagonist Agent 47 busy for a while. But in between dressing the big guy up as a ramen chef and dropping moose statues on unsuspecting bankers — wouldn’t it be fun to extrapolate the joy of playing Hitman and fancast a TV series that doesn’t exist?

Lyft just keeps on innovating.  Not content to rewrite labor law in its favor, in September of 2020 the ride-hail company unveiled a new pay structure for its drivers that — surprise! — means they're paid less per ride. Dubbed Priority Mode, drivers exchange a 10 percent pay reduction in the hopes of getting more rides funneled their way.  In theory, this might translate to enough additional rides to make up for 10 percent cut and perhaps even more so.

Microsoft had quite a Friday. The fun started when the Xbox maker shared the news that Xbox Live Gold, a paid subscription service that primarily exists to let Xbox users play their games online, would soon cost more. By roughly double. The particulars varied by subscription length, but the formerly $60 annual subscription was poised to jump to $120 for new subscribers (existing subscribers would get to keep the original pricing).

Hello Game of Thrones fans, it's discourse time.  With rumors that there is another Thrones prequel series in the works at HBO, this time based on George R. R. Martin's tales of Dunk and Egg, many may have questions like "really?" "should we get our hopes up?" and "Dunk and what?" Only some of those questions have answers, but we at Mashable will try to answer what we can.  It is important to remember that there have been several Game of Thrones prequels “in development” at HBO and we only know details about two, now three of them.