Hayao Miyazaki is Stepping Out of Retirement for One Final Film
You can't keep Hayao Miyazaki away from what he loves. The celebrated anime director announced during a television special that he wants to come out of retirement to turn his 20-year pet project into a full-length animated feature.
Tonight is your chance to see the closest "supermoon" that anyone on Earth has experienced in almost 69 years. That means amateurs and pros alike should be pulling out their photography equipment to get that once in a lifetime shot.
Someone Hacked AdultFriendFinder, That Site You Signed Up for When You Were Drunk
While it's not the first time AdultFriendFinder has been hacked, woo boy, this a big one. The "world's largest sex & swinger community" experienced a breach in October that exposed the information from 412 million accounts across its corporate holdings.
10 Headlines From the White House's New Chief Strategist on Science and Tech
Sunday, the Trump transition team announced that conservative media king and alleged anti-SemiteStephen K. Bannon will serve as chief strategist and senior counsel to the President-elect. They also announced that former RNC chair and terrible name haver Reince Priebus will be the chief of staff.
'I'm Part of the Problem': Partner at Peter Thiel Investment Firm Says He's Scared of Trump
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On Sunday, a partner at Silicon Valley investment firm Founders Fund spoke out against Donald Trump, blaming social media and by extension venture capitalists like himself for the "digital echo chamber" that led to the President-elect's surprise victory on Tuesday.
A Ton of People Are Looking Up the Definition of 'Fascism' For Some Reason
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Merriam-Webster reported Sunday evening that "fascism" is currently the top look-up on its site. According to the dictionary, searches for "misogyny," "bigot," "xenophobe," "racism" and "xenophobia" also spiked after Tuesday's election. I wonder why.
'Aspiring Weatherman' Allegedly Starts Forest Fire for Facebook Views
Screencap: Facebook/Johnny Mullins
An aspiring internet weatherman in eastern Kentucky was recently arrested on second-degree arson charges after authorities say he intentionally started a wildfire, the Associated Press reports. According to police, 21-year-old Johnny Mullins admitted to setting the fire to bring wider attention to his videos on Facebook.
As we all know, in the 21st century, the real currency isn't money, but cold hard follows. But how valuable is your #brand? According to a first grader named Claire (and questionable "content rating" organization Common Sense Media), not very.
The MacBook Pro's Touch Bar Is a Gimmick That's Not Worth the Money (Yet)
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Logging into your computer with your fingerprint isn't new, but it still makes me a little giddy when the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar, glowing brighter than the backlit keyboard appear, encouraging me to use my Touch ID to log in. I follow the Touch Bar's direction, and then I'm into my laptop. It's instantaneous. The fingerprint reader is one of the smallest improvements to Apple's all new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, but it might just be my favorite. There, hidden beneath the MacBook Pro's flashiest gimmick, is something incredibly functional and natural to use.
The New Beauty and the Beast Trailer Is Filled With Magical Splendor
Our first good look at Disney's Beauty and the Beast remake is here, and the tale as old as time has never looked more grand. Seriously, this new teaser is jam-packed with everything you'd want to see out of this movie, and then some.
This Guy's Hot Wheels Collection Is Worth Over $1 Million
Ready to feel anger and resentment towards your younger self for not taking better care of your Hot Wheels toys? Bruce Pascal has been collecting them since he was seven years old, and now that he's all grown up his collection, with over 3,000 tiny cars in it, is worth well north of a million dollars.
More Surprising Details About Those Two Big New Game of Thrones Locations
The next X-Men film may tackle a familiar comic book storyline. RYou'll have to wait a while for Marvel's Cloak and Dagger show. New Flash set pictures tease a troublesome encounter with the show's new big bad. Plus, a new clip from Moana, and teasers for Skull Island. Spoilers!
This Is the Worst Reply Allpocalypse We've Ever Seen
Hitting "reply all" on a mass email is generally a bad idea, but a meltdown at the UK's National Health Service (NHS) is the worst reply allpocalypse we've ever seen. According to The Guardian, more than 186 million useless emails were sent out, after a technician sent a "test" message to all 1.2 million employees of the NHS.
In the wake of Donald Trump's victory last week, we need a voice of reason like John Oliver's more than ever right now, and John Oliver wasted no time in describing precisely how fucked we are in Trump's America—a version of this country in which everything is made up and facts don't matter.
Man Accused Of Stealing Millions From EA Heads To Trial Today
The FBI believes that a group of hackers made millions off a scam to defraud the publisher Electronic Arts, and today the government is going to court to try to take them down.
Your favorite USB car charger just happens to be the smallest one you can buy, and you can grab it on Amazon for $8 today with code AUKCARCS. We've seen it go as low as $6 on a few occasions, but this is a match for the best deal we've seen this year, if it's been on your wish list.
Earlier this month, IFTTT (If This Then That) changed its automation platform into a more sophisticated tool. Rather than using one-dimensional "recipes" that trigger actions when certain conditions are met, the company launched something entirely new called "applets." The new applets allow users to create multiple actions from a single condition and filter conditions. In short, it makes it easier to create complicated conditional statements.
In a welcome reminder that not everything is terrible always, global carbon emissions barely grew at all in 2016. It marks the third year in a row that humanity's carbon footprint has been stable. They're still much higher than they should be, but at least they are stable.
A Japanese company called On-Art Corporation wants to build a Jurassic Park-like attraction called "Dino-A-Park." But instead of spending billions of dollars trying to bring extinct creatures back to life, the company has instead created some of the most life-like and realistic dinosaur costumes you've ever seen.
Google Joins Facebook in Promoting Bad, Fake Election News
Following Donald J. Trump's unfathomable electoral victory last week, Facebook found itself spastically and fruitlessly defending itself from claims it helped produce the outcome with its feed full of fake news. But it's not the only one—Google is guilty, too.
Last Night's Westworld Confirmed Something We've All Suspected
Let's just immediately move the discussion of last night's hugely important Westworld below the spoiler bar, shall we? Well. One major Westworld theory just got confirmed.
Is New Zealand On the Brink of Another Major Quake?
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Seismologists are warning that the latest earthquake to strike New Zealand could trigger other large earthquakes in the coming days and weeks, but sensationalistic claims of a devastating "mega-quake" are likely overblown.
Negan Beats the Humanity Back Into Rick on The Walking Dead
Whether you loved "Service," or hated it, or more likely felt somewhere in between, I believe there's one thing we can all agree on, and that's that this was yet another Walking Dead episode that absolutely, 100 percent did not need to be 90 minutes long.
Instead of sticking his camera's lens in the eyepiece of a powerful telescope peering into the heavens, filmmaker Thomas Vanz captured this stunning footage of a giant star going all supernova by actually pointing his camera at a glass aquarium filled with colorful inks and water.
We see deals on WeMo switches and TP-Link Smart Plugs on a pretty regular basis, but this similar product from Koogeek is Apple HomeKit certified, and only $26 today.
Nike's 'Cheaper' Self-Lacing Sneakers Will Still Be Incredibly Expensive
Last we heard, the incredibly rare Nike Mags self-lacing sneakers, which first appeared in Back to the Future II, were selling for over $200,000. So we were hopeful that the Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 shoes, which feature the same self-lacing technology, would be an affordable alternative. But unfortunately that's not the case.
The Nazis Kept a List of Powerful American Friends in Los Angeles, Including the Co-Founder of UCLA
Nazi rally of German-Americans held at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939, including a sign that reads "Stop Jewish Domination of Christian Americans"
In 1945, the FBI raided a warehouse in Los Angeles that was used for storage by the German Consulate. Among the files, they found a collection of 3x5-inch cards kept by the Nazi regime containing contact information for important people in LA. The cards included the names, addresses, and phone numbers of people in the entertainment industry, academia, and industry. And it serves as a terrifying reminder that the normalization of the Nazis in the 1930s provided cover for some very powerful people in the US to be friendly with genocidal maniacs.
Why Do Some Countries Have Land That's Totally Detached from the Rest of the Country?
Most countries scribble their borders around a map and call it a day. Everything inside those lines is forever known as that country; everything outside is not. Simple enough, right? Not when you mix in colonialism, wars, history, natural resources, the terrible whims of despots, and more.
Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Woman to Communicate With Her Mind
Image: Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht
Researchers in the Netherlands have successfully tested a brain implant that allows a patient with late-stage Lou Gehrig's disease to spell messages at the rate of two letters per minute.
MacBook Pro's Great Guts Save It From Microsoft's Surface Book
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Late last month, Microsoft fired a shot across Apple's bow. With the Surface Studio and Dial and an updated Surface Book, Microsoft mace clear its plans to woo Apple's old core audience of creative professionals—a group Apple has seemingly forgotten in favor of a more mainstream target. Apple fired back with the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro, but unfortunately, the OLED touchscreen that replaces the function keys feels more like a gimmick than a game changer. Has Apple lost its old base? A peek under the hood of both Apple and Microsoft's $2400 laptops tells the real story: When it comes to a mobile workhorse, at least, Apple still reigns supreme.
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