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Nov 14, 2018
For just $19 today, you can grab Anker's SoundBuds Surge lightweight Bluetooth headphones, a close relative of the SoundBuds Slim, which won our affordable Bluetooth headphone Co-Op. With magnetic connectors on the earpieces and a water-resistant coating, these would be a great addition to your gym bag or suitcase,…
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Nov 14, 2018
As residents of Malibu fled their seaside city in droves to escape a raging wildfire on Thursday, volcanologist Jess Phoenix hitched her two-horse trailer to her Ford F-250, hopped on the 101-freeway, and headed straight for the inferno. There were animals that needed rescuing.
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Nov 14, 2018
Google has a new, experimental web app for you to try: Squoosh. It uses the latest in image compression technology to cram your pictures into smaller file sizes with a minimal loss of quality, but what really impresses about the app—coded in the WebAssembly programming language—is its speed, even under a relatively…
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Nov 14, 2018
Kevin Feige talks about Marvel's plans for The Eternals. There's wild rumors about who else could join Westworld's third season. Go behind the scenes on Aquaman's underwater filming. Plus, the first details from the last two episodes of Doctor Who season 11, and a new look at Elseworlds. Spoilers go!
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Nov 14, 2018
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Nov 14, 2018
The upcoming holidays are peak board game and puzzle season, and you can grab some new ones from today's Gold Box deal on Amazon.
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Nov 14, 2018
The trailer for the new Detective Pikachu movie caused a lot of controversy when it first hit the internet on Monday. Ryan Reynolds voices the yellow pocket monster and people are having feelings about that choice. But one Twitter user has now fixed the movie by adding exactly what this film needs: The voice of…
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Nov 14, 2018
Tyler Barriss, the California man authorities say was behind a wave of "swatting" incidents, has pleaded guilty to a total of 51 federal charges and will receive a minimum of 20 years in prison if his plea deal is approved by the judge in the case, the AP reported on Tuesday.
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Nov 13, 2018
Twitter is never, ever going to ban or otherwise take direct action against the president, who besides being the site's number one power user has in the past skirted uncomfortably close to using it as ground zero for nuclear war. The logic goes that as the president, Trump's tweets are inherently newsworthy—a sensible…
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Nov 13, 2018
The British Army is carrying out a major, four-week test of 70 new technologies, "including unmanned vehicles and surveillance drones," as part of its "Autonomous Warrior experiment," the MIT Technology Review reported this week.
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Nov 13, 2018
Two years removed from the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the story of Jyn Erso and her crew is cool again. Not that it ever wasn't cool, but the fact that Cassian Andor is getting his own prequel series has certainly put the film back in the spotlight. And now, wouldn't you know it? A new poster is coming…
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Nov 13, 2018
Jeffrey R. Clark Jr., a 30-year-old living in the D.C. area, was arrested last week after his relatives alerted the police about his alarming violent, white supremacist statements. Clark has since been arrested and charged with illegally possessing a firearm and a high-speed magazine, according to the Washington Post.
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Nov 13, 2018
Most people know George R.R. Martin for his A Song of Ice and Fire series, better known as Game of Thrones. But that's just one of the author's universes. Another that he curates and edits is about to get the same treatment from another major provider. And it stars superheroes.
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Nov 13, 2018
Look outside, New Yorkers. Squint hard enough to see the Manhattan skyline from your barely affordable studio apartment an hour into the outer boroughs, and you can just make out one last act of shameless groveling on the horizon:
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Nov 13, 2018
Stan Lee loved a good cameo. The legendary comics icon, who died yesterday at 95, got to sneak into so many movies based on heroes he'd helped bring to life over the past two decades—and even into some based on ones he didn't. But maybe the one that best encapsulates Stan Lee as a creative is one of his most recent.
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Nov 13, 2018
Halloween has passed, but Essential hath risen from near death to deliver unto us a $150 dongle. Audiophiles who also happen to own an Essential phone, now is the time to rejoice—if you're actually out there.
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Nov 13, 2018
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
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Nov 13, 2018
The vaping industry looks set to undergo a seismic shift in how it sells and markets its products, starting with its biggest U.S. player, Juul Labs.
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Nov 13, 2018
Three senators sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday, urging the agency to investigate advertising in children's apps. The senators believe that, according to a recent study that looked at the prevalence of these apps, the techniques are in violation of a section of the FTC Act that prohibits…
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Nov 13, 2018
Spain is wasting no time. The country plans to dramatically decarbonize its economy by 2050, and that includes banning a lot of cars, according to a draft law the Ministry for Ecological Transition published Tuesday.
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Nov 13, 2018
First he was in Game of Thrones, soon he'll be in the DC Universe, and now, he's going to a galaxy far, far away.
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Nov 13, 2018
Instant Pot makes a sous-vide circulator, and confusingly, it doesn't require an Instant Pot. Sure, it'll clip onto your Instant Pot inner pot, but it'll also work with a regular stock pot, just like any other sous-vide circulator.
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Nov 13, 2018
There comes a time in every gamer's life when their aging graphics card doesn't cut it anymore. While your older card is to be commended for its years of service—and you two probably had many fond memories together—it's time to let your friend live out its days elsewhere and upgrade to something newer, faster, and…
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Nov 13, 2018
Capital One's Venture card has always been a bit of a hybrid between cash back and travel rewards cards. While you could earn a lot of points through Hotels.com, and erase travel purchases from your credit card statement by redeeming them, you couldn't transfer them to any airline programs like you could points from …
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Nov 13, 2018
Pokémon Let's Go! Pikachu and Eevee are going to be divisive. The games seem meant to introduce a new generation of players to Pokémon, especially players who started with Pokémon Go. The changes made to gameplay may frustrate longtime fans, including me; I started playing in the late ‘90s and kept up with the…
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Apr 24, 2018
On Tuesday morning Spotify announced a relatively big change to its mobile app. At an event in New York City, the Swedish music giant announced that users who don't want to pay up for a premium plan will soon be able to get their hands on more features, including the ability to personally choose songs on select…
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Apr 24, 2018
Attention, everyone. The best Instant Pots you can buy are on sale, if you hurry. You should buy one.
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Apr 24, 2018
If you've got something you want to hide away, then you've got plenty of options on Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS—options that we'll run through here. Even if the kids or a stranger should get access to your devices somehow, these files will stay hidden from view and locked away.
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Apr 24, 2018
I think I'm going to let this one speak for itself:
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Apr 24, 2018
Last night, the press got to see Avengers: Infinity War, the culmination of a decades worth of Marvel movies that unites all your favorite heroes (and also Hawkeye) in one big mishmash of epic proportions. Although reviews aren't available yet, critics have taken to social media to laud the movie—especially all the…
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Apr 24, 2018
It seems that in Amazon's never-ending quest to get you to buy more stuff, there's nothing the company won't try to make taking delivery of said items a tiny bit easier.
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Apr 24, 2018
Before the Super Nintendo, and even before the original NES arrived in North America, I cut my gaming teeth on the Commodore 64. It was sold as one of the first personal computers, but to many kids of the ‘80s, it was instead their first gaming console. I have many fond memories of the C64, but thanks to the C64 Mini,…
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Apr 24, 2018
If you've got the space for it, this Gold's Gym Olympic Bench includes a six roll leg developer, a preacher pad, and a full rack. Basically, everything you need for a good workout, except the weights. Today's $139 price is within $10 for an all-time low, and comes with free shipping despite weighing more than 100…
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Apr 24, 2018
Kevin Feige dishes on the future of the Marvel movieverse, from Fox deals to Moon Knight to Black Panther 2. Joe Russo confirms a certain character from the comics is definitely not in Infinity War or Avengers 4. There's some wild rumors about Black Widow's solo movie. Plus, some things that aren't Marvel-related!…
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Apr 24, 2018
The awkwardly named Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared that burning wood is carbon neutral. In the eyes of the Trump regime, burning wood for energy is now just as environmentally friendly as wind and solar power, despite the fact that burning biomass releases greenhouse gases.
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Apr 24, 2018
There's always that one person in your life that has nothing on their walls. Add some awesome to someone's life, or upgrade your own bare walls with rad prints during this 30% off sitewide at Pop Chart Lab. Check out their newest prints, like Every Emjoi Ever and Marvel Origins: A Sequential Compendium. Enter the code…
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Apr 24, 2018
It's never too early to have your identity stolen, unfortunately.
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Apr 24, 2018
The first teaser from a few weeks back didn't give people what they really wanted: a symbiote-powered metahuman with a questionable sense of morality. But the trailer that just dropped does exactly that. "We" are pleased.
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Apr 24, 2018
Steven Spielberg is the director of very profitable movie and shameless gamer nostalgia cash-in Ready Player One, which is mostly set in virtual reality. While doing an international press tour for the movie, he also allegedly told Japanese news agency Kyodo that his favorite VR experience was playing Mario... on, uh,…
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Apr 23, 2018
The number of people in this administration who seem to think they're much smarter than all those nerds warning them about potential security vulnerabilities boggles the mind. So of course President Donald Trump is increasingly ditching government-approved communications methods to instead use his personal device, CNN…
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Apr 23, 2018
The Federal Communications Commission's revocation of Barack Obama-era net neutrality rules (misleadingly billed as Restoring Internet Freedom Order) starts going into effect today. But net neutrality isn't dead—yet.
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Apr 23, 2018
It's not just major publishers getting in on the superhero movie boom—Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3, Jamal Igle, and Khary Randolph's BLACK comics universe just got a shot in the arm with the announcement that The Breaks co-creator Seith Mann will direct what they hope is the first in a franchise of new films.
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Apr 23, 2018
Cutting-edge physics has driven military innovation for over a century, from Marie Curie's x-ray machines of World War I to the quest for the atomic bomb during World War II. But these days, government defense departments are funding even more esoteric pursuits. We learned recently that the US Department of Defense is…
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Apr 23, 2018
Two months ago, Autoline posted a video in which engineering and manufacturing expert Sandy Munro—CEO of Munro & Associates, a Detroit-area consulting firm that dismantles and analyzes how cars are made—compared the Tesla Model 3's build quality to a Kia from the 1990s. But in a new discussion, Munro has lots of…
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Apr 23, 2018
Dating site Match.com went live in 1995—it's ancient in terms of the world wide web. That's a whole lot of time for users to forget they ever had a profile or what embarrassing content might be on it. Thanks to a glitch, you might get an unexpected reminder because an unconfirmed number of "deleted" profiles are…
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Apr 23, 2018
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Apr 23, 2018
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
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Apr 23, 2018
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday that he is planning to introduce a statewide ban on plastic bags, saying, "The blight of plastic bags takes a devastating toll on our streets, our water, and our natural resources."
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Apr 23, 2018
Vacuuming is simultaneously the worst chore, and the chore most easily and cheaply pawned off to a robot.
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Feb 27, 2018
Perhaps there's a life-supporting, Earth-like planet orbiting close to a red dwarf star many light years away. Perhaps this planet orbits so close to the star that only one half of it ever faces the light. Maybe some sentient species evolved during that infinite day, on some massive supercontinent. And maybe one day,…
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Feb 27, 2018
The Apple-1 is the very first product from the minds of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and when one of the 50 or so boards known to still exist sells at auction it's a big deal. These fragile pieces of computing history regularly fetch upwards of $300,000.
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Feb 27, 2018
The Essential Phone was supposed to be the one. Envisioned by Andy Rubin, the father of Android itself, and expertly crafted from a luxurious combo of ceramic, titanium, and Gorilla Glass, the PH-1 had the kind of pedigree you rarely see from a startup, let alone one that was trying to put out its first phone. But…
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Feb 27, 2018
In 2o15 and 2016, a rush of class-action lawsuits were filed by people in Illinois against tech companies. The impetus was an unusual law in the Prairie State. In 2008, the state passed the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, making it, along with Texas, one of only two states at the time with laws on the…
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Feb 27, 2018
Amazon is on a mission to redefine the brick and mortar businesses that it disrupted out of existence. With its Amazon Go convenience store, Amazon is pioneering locations with no checkout lines. But innovators spawn imitators and an emerging startup thinks it can retrofit any store with its AI-powered item tracking…
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Feb 27, 2018
Even if you don't care for the actual song, the music video for Hardcore Anal Hydrogen's track Jean-Pierre is a visual feast, taking advantage of several recent breakthroughs in artificial-intelligent image processing that's quickly gone from creating nightmares, to revolutionizing how modern visual effects are…
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Feb 27, 2018
The Commodore PET 2001 was already one of the better-looking dinosaurs from the early desktop days, but this one-of-a-kind retro rebuild, handmade from American walnut, takes it to another level.
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Feb 27, 2018
Apple is reportedly launching a new healthcare venture this spring, but it will only aid its own employees—at least for now.
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Feb 27, 2018
For nearly two decades, RV owners have been trying to get a clear answer about a tire made by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. that they say has wrecked countless lives—at least nine deaths, dozens of injuries and serious crashes. In numerous legal battles, Goodyear has been accused of aggressively covering up a defect with…
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Feb 27, 2018
Less than six months after launching in France, a dockless bike-sharing service is calling it quits in the country, due to what it characterized as "mass destruction." The company, Gobee, told The Guardian that over a thousand bikes were stolen in France, with 3,200 damaged and 6,500 needing repairs.
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Feb 27, 2018
Some of the most exciting, mind-blowing physics happens when things get really, really cold—such as atoms clumping beneath the shell of a far-out electron. Imagine a bunch of people huddled under an awning, except the people are atoms, and the awning is... also an atom.
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Feb 27, 2018
Fox has already rapidly expanded its slate of Marvel movies when it comes to the X-Men Universe, with everything from Deadpool to New Mutants pushing beyond the main X-films. But now, it appears the studio is looking to flesh out the Marvel characters it has access to through the Fantastic Four, starting with the…
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Feb 27, 2018
Enceladus is one of the most fascinating objects in the Solar System. Parked in orbit around Saturn, the ice-covered moon features a warm subterranean ocean and the basic chemical ingredients for life. But could alien microbes actually survive there? A new experiment suggests the answer is yes.
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Feb 27, 2018
Despite the proliferation of affordable smart outlet switches over the past couple of years, we haven't seen many weatherproof options yet, and we've seen even fewer models with multiple outlets that can be controlled separately. This $25 option from iClever though has both of those features, and can be controlled…
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Feb 27, 2018
Today's best deals kick off with a crazy deal on an Apple TV 4K, Cuisinart stainless steel cookware, an Alexa device for your car, and more.
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Feb 27, 2018
Last year, the British Library launched a Harry Potter-themed exhibition of rare art and manuscripts not just from the beloved series, but artifacts from folklores and mystical beliefs from across the world. Thanks to the rabid desires of the Potter fanbase, tickets quickly sold out—but if you missed out, you can now…
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Feb 27, 2018
Ben Greenfield is a cult figure among fitness fanatics, a guru to the sort of nerds who devote themselves to meticulously monitoring their own biometric data for insight into their personal health. He has more than 50,000 Twitter followers, 60,000 Facebook fans, and 30,000 YouTube subscribes. Now he may become known…
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Feb 27, 2018
There's a lot of mythology around what a martial arts master is capable of, from leaping between buildings to turning invisible. But The Slow Mo Guys and their slow-mo camera spent some time with three Shaolin monks who demonstrated an amazing ability to throw a needle through a sheet of glass.
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Feb 27, 2018
It makes more sense than ever to put some Android apps on you laptop. As well as giving you access to apps that have no desktop or web equivalent (like Snapchat), it's great for playing games on the big screen—we got Alto's Adventure up and running on the Pixelbook with no problems, and plenty of other games would…
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Feb 27, 2018
Love Alexa, and wish you could take her with you on your commute? Anker's running the first deal ever today on their hands-free, Alexa-enabled car charger with promo code VIVACARA.
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Feb 27, 2018
Yamaha's YAS-207BL was the first sound bar on the market to simulate surround sound with Dolby DTS Virtual:X, which bounces audio off your walls and ceiling without the aid of satellite speakers. I tried it myself, and the result was surprisingly convincing.
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Feb 27, 2018
Wayward Pines is officially over. A Supergirl star joins the second season of The Punisher. A few more details about the Purge television series emerge. Rose McIver teases more for Liv's love life on this season of iZombie. Plus a new look at the next Legends of Tomorrow and the final episodes of Star Wars Rebels.…
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Feb 27, 2018
If you're still rocking the $10 pans you bought at Walmart during college, it's time to graduate to a real set of stainless steel cookware. This Cuisinart collection features fast and even-heating aluminum cores sandwiched inside the durable and heat retaining stainless steel bases.
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Feb 27, 2018
Google has now been complying with the European Union's controversial "right to be forgotten" laws, which the European Court of Justice first ruled applied to search engines in 2014, for three years. On Monday, the search giant released an updated version of its annual Transparency Report, which discloses how many and…
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Feb 26, 2018
Man, I feel so guilty for recycling my old books of construction paper. I could've been using them to make art. Just kidding, I'd have to actually be an artist to accomplish these feats of shadowed wonder.
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