This Quentin Tarantino supercut shows his films from a new angle

Quentin Tarantino's dialog is fast-paced, whip-smart, and endlessly quotable, but he doesn't just use words to flesh out his memorable characters. The Pulp Fiction director uses the camera to hint at motivations and feelings — a process documented by filmmaker Rishi Kaneria in his latest supercut. Kaneria combines an array of Tarantino's profile shots, using a quote from a DVXuser forum member to explain that by setting the camera side on to a character's face, you give the audience the least amount of information about their state of mind. The iconic characters in the cut — including Uma Thurman's Bride, and Samuel L. Jackson's Jules Winfield — look both determined and menacing when set against Kaneria's urgent soundtrack.

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Wings lose Miller to deep facial cuts

DETROIT – Already missing Pavel Datsyuk, Erik Cole and Riley Sheahan from Tuesday’s lineup, the Red Wings lost their current iron man on a very scary play. Barely a minute into the game Drew Miller left the ice after suffering a frightening fac...



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This is the CT6, Cadillac's huge bet on the future

Here's Cadillac's next huge car, both literally and figuratively: the CT6, which stands for Cadillac Touring 6.

GM's luxury brand has been teasing the CT6 for quite some time, and for good reason: it's a flagship sedan, a segment that the company has been absent from since it discontinued the forgettable DTS several years ago.

It's no coincidence that crosstown rival Lincoln debuted the giant Continental concept at this very same show — Cadillac and Lincoln are both learning that luxury marques look a little lost without a big flagship in the lineup, and the red-hot Chinese market is demanding large American sedans anyway. The time is right, if you believe GM and Ford.

The CT6 will be offered with an exclusive 3-liter twin-turbo V-6...

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Datsyuk, Sheahan out of lineup tonight

DETROIT – The Red Wings will be a bit thin up the middle tonight when they face-off against the Ottawa Senators in a crucial matchup in the Atlantic Division. Centers Pavel Datsyuk and Riley Sheahan will miss the game. It’s the sixth time i...



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US outlines how it will cut 28 percent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025

The United States began to outline today how it will achieve the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent by the end of 2025. In a submission to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United States says that it will use executive actions, largely under the Clean Air Act, to cut carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, improve fuel economy standards, and limit methane emissions from landfills and the oil and gas sectors. The submission comes ahead of a UN climate conference in Paris meant to coordinate a global response to climate change and prevent the Earth from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius, a widely accepted target for limiting the effects of warming.

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Notes: Can't exit March soon enough

DETROIT – March hasn’t exactly been kind to the Red Wings. Entering the month, Detroit was in a pretty good spot, considering January and February were supposed to be its toughest to navigate. On March 1, the Wings were in third place in th...



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HOME-AND-HOME AGAINST ROCKFORD AHEAD AS GRIFFINS PUSH FOR PLAYOFFS

Two crucial games against the Rockford IceHogs are on the slate for this week, as the Griffins continue to make their push to the 2015 Calder Cup Playoffs.



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Facebook's new 'Scrapbook' helps parents keep baby photos in one place

Facebook is in the process of rolling out a new "Scrapbook" feature that gives parents a simple way of putting photos of their newborns, toddlers, and kids under the age of 13 in one spot. Rather than a proper profile (users can't sign up for those until they're 13), Scrapbook serves as a handy tool for amassing all those baby photos and storing them in a dedicated, easy-to-access place on Facebook.

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NBC's next live musical will be The Wiz, produced by Cirque du Soleil

NBC has officially made its live musical event an annual tradition — and there's an interesting twist this year. After staying on solid ground for 2013's Sound of Music Live and flying gracefully for 2014's Peter Pan Live, this year's holiday event will be a version of The Wiz produced by acrobatic connoisseurs Cirque du Soleil. Which is to say, we're expecting the Tin Man to double backflip through a very high ring while trying to flee the funky monkeys.

As with the previous events, The Wiz will be executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who reportedly want to bring The Wiz back to Broadway in the 2016-2017 season. The 1975 stage production for The Wiz won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The 1978 film adaptation,...

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This router wants to be the center of your smart home

A router is a pretty boring appliance. It connects to a modem (an equally, if not more, boring appliance) and broadcasts Wi-Fi signals that you can connect to with your phone, computer, Xbox, or whatever. Without it, getting online in your home or office can be a hassle, but beyond that, there's not much to say. The Almond routers from Securifi have a different approach. They want to be the central hub for your future smartphone, providing internet and acting as the main hub for countless connected devices. Today, the Almond 2015 and Almond+ routers are getting an update that makes them even smarter.

The Almond+ and Almond 2015 are slick-looking routers with easy to use touchscreen interfaces. The Almond+ is the bigger brother, with...

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A closer look at Project Spartan, Microsoft's Internet Explorer killer

The Spartan army was the centrepiece of an ancient Greek city-state that grew into a powerful military land-power in roughly 650 BC. Today, Microsoft is putting Spartan, its new browser, at the center of Windows 10 to slay off the old, weak, and beleaguered Internet Explorer.

Microsoft might not be fully killing off Internet Explorer the app, but a new brand name will herald a new era for the company’s browser prospects and a signal to web developers that Internet Explorer will soon be part of ancient history.

Project Spartan is just a codename for now, but I’ve had a chance to experience Microsoft’s new browser in Windows 10, the successor to Internet Explorer.

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Camera test: Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 versus the iPhone 6 Plus

Samsung's new Galaxy S6 is the most impressive phone the company has ever made, and a large part of that is thanks to its new camera. It's fast, reliable, and takes great photos. It's easily the best camera on any Android phone ever. But how does it compare to the iPhone 6 Plus, the reigning champ of smartphone photography?

To find out, we put the S6 head to head with the iPhone 6 Plus to see how it fared in a variety of situations. As it turns out, the S6 can hang: it's very close to the iPhone in terms of image quality and detail. The S6 shots are a little warmer, but not offensively so, and the two phones handle low-light a bit differently.

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Amazon has invented tiny plastic buttons that allow for instant product ordering

It’s 2AM and you’re changing your baby when you realize you’ve just used up your last diaper. Or you go to reach under your sink to grab another roll of toilet paper only to discover you've forgotten to order more. And maybe you eat nothing but mac and cheese, and did not correctly calculate your stockpile, so that you’re stuck actually having to cook real food one night.

This is not the sad, black-and-white world of late-night infomercials, but real life, Amazon says. The company is rolling out new hardware today called the Dash button that promises to solve these scenarios. It’s a small physical button that you can stick wherever, and press when you want to order more of something. Need more diapers? Hit the diaper button. Need more...

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Living life on the S6 Edge

Samsung is back atop the Android throne with its new Galaxy S6. The hotly contested title for Android’s best was more open than ever last year, with credible contenders from Sony, Motorola, and HTC, but 2015 is starting out with Samsung clearly in the ascendancy. And the Korean company is doing it with not one, but two phones: the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. The two share a nigh-identical spec sheet, a new (for Samsung) metal frame construction, and an all-glass back and front. However, they are definitely not the same. The Edge’s screen wraps around its sides, giving it an instantly recognizable, futuristic look and the potential to do a few things that flat-screened phones just can’t match.

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Samsung Galaxy S6 review

It’s not ok to make a cheap-looking phone anymore.

Now that Apple is finally making big phones, and even the cheapest Android phones feel nice, we all expect more from Samsung — and rightly so. A flagship phone has to be great or it’s going to get laughed out of the room. If the Galaxy S6 was another plasticky, boring phone like last year’s Galaxy S5 or if it merely introduced a few hardware tricks, it would have gotten laughed out of the entire neighborhood.

There is a version of the phone with a hardware trick, the Galaxy S6 Edge with a curved display. But that’s a distraction; the real story is that Samsung needed to learn that hardware prowess and software features are tools you use to build something great, not ends in...

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Babcock's father dies after heart problems

UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Mike Babcock Sr., father of Canadian Olympic men's hockey coach Mike Babcock, died Saturday night in Saskatoon, his son said Sunday after the Detroit Red Wings' loss to the New York Islanders. Babcock said his father was sick ...



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Please don't share Tyrese Gibson's Facebook posts

Tyrese Gibson is lifting the internet's most viral videos for fame and fortune.

According to Brandon Silverman, CEO of social media analytics tool CrowdTangle, the singer-turned-actor is ranked fourteenth in terms of most followers gained by a celebrity in the past year. Gibson's 10 million new followers beats out big name celebs like One Direction, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, and Channing Tatum.

Facebook has been kind to celebrities like Gibson, who use its service as a publishing platform. International icon Shakira, who takes the number one spot for most followers gained this past year, has amassed popularity by sharing intimate moments from her life with fans, whose millions of followers shares those updates with...

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Why it won't be long until we ride in driverless cars

Our future will include driverless cars.

At this year's CES, car companies and graphics card manufacturers alike featured the technology that they believe will power the vehicles of tomorrow. I remember each morning of CES as I sipped coffee on the stoop of The Verge's trailer, watching Volkswagen demonstrate its new driverless parking functionality. The demonstration looked silly, but felt like looking at the not-so-distant future — sort of like how the ASIMO demonstration at Disneyland feels both gimmicky and like a prescient warning of our robot overlords.

How soon will we be driving hands-free? Is the country even ready for driverless vehicles? Those questions have stuck with me since the trade show. For this week, I invited The...

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Microsoft's Surface 3 is a $499 tablet that could be a full Windows laptop

Microsoft is back with a brand new Surface 3 tablet, but this time things are a little different. While the original Surface RT and Surface 2 tablets didn’t let you run traditional Windows applications, Microsoft is ditching ARM processors and Windows RT to bring a full version of Windows 8.1 to its new Surface 3 with an Intel Atom chip. If you use Chrome, iTunes, Steam, Photoshop, or the thousands of other desktop apps available in Windows then you’ll finally be able to use them on a non-Pro Surface tablet. Microsoft has recognized its confusing mistakes and it’s moving on. Windows RT is a distant memory, a bad nightmare Microsoft wants to forget. Surface 3 will start at just $499, and it's available to pre-order today with devices...

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EVE Online has a god named Bob

It started with a joke. Or more accurately, a bizarre jeer.

"Early on, [members of the EVE Online corporation Adhocracy] started taunting the lower classes saying Bob is going to smite you if you're not participating in our gameplay style. And it started to take," declares the man only introduced to me as Proc Diadochu. His manner is warm and effusive, his smile open even when discussing the virtual death of dozens.

It's Sunday on the last day of EVE Fanfest, an annual convention dedicated to CCP Games' sci-fi sandbox MMO EVE Online, and we're talking about god. Specifically, a god named Bob. According to Diadochu, Bob presides over the game's wormholes, unstable space anomalies connecting two disparate star systems. He's a vicious...

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Giant luxury: up close with the Lincoln Continental concept

There are perhaps a few dozen car models globally, at most, that have so much history behind them that they instantly evoke a clear mental image — the classic shape of the Porsche 911, the taillight treatment of a Corvette. Then there's the Continental: a giant box of steel and leather, a testament to big, American-style luxury. In the ’90s and aughts, the Continental sort of circled the drain, but there was a time when this Lincoln flagship was legitimately one of the most luxurious (and expensive) cars in the world.

That's the backdrop for Lincoln here in the days leading up to this week's New York International Auto Show, where the Ford brand is showing an all-new Continental concept that it promises tracks very closely to the...

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WhatsApp finally adds voice calls for all Android users, iOS coming soon

First Click: a Mac user installs Windows 10

Last night I decided it was time to give Windows 10 a try. The catalyst to install the tech preview was equal measures curiosity, opportunity, and boredom. I needed to see for myself what Tom Warren’s so excited about, and I just happened to have a rarely used Windows 8.1 tablet nearby that I needed for a legacy .EXE earlier in the day. So, during a country music segment on The Voice I Googled, “how do I install Windows 10.” An embarrassing number of missteps later and my old Hotmail address was registered with Windows Insider and I was up and downloading.

I haven’t used Windows regularly for years, having abandoned the platform professionally just prior to Vista. I’ve tried to keep up, but never managed more than a vague acquaintance...

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Gordie celebrates birthday with fishing trip

Over the years, Mark Howe has lost track of how many fishing trips he’s taken with his dad. Excursions along the Jersey Shore, in northern Michigan and charter adventures throughout the Western Hemisphere have resulted in numerous trophy catche...



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The robot from Ex Machina is now a personal assistant on LinkedIn

You can now view Google+ photos and videos in Drive

Starting today, Google is making it possible to view photos and videos backed up with the Google+ apps for iPhone and Android in Google Drive. Previously, the only way to view those photos and videos was within Google+ itself. The photos and images stored will be available in a new section of the Drive apps for iOS, Android, and the web.

This change is the first fruit of Google splitting Google+ up into various parts, which started earlier this month. Many have said that the best part of Google+ is its photo and video tools, which offer easy backups from mobile, powerful editing tools, and smart automatic enhancements. Making those photos and tools available in Google Drive, which is a much more broadly used app, will likely be...

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Watch Matt Murdock kick ass in this new Daredevil trailer

Marvel's upcoming Daredevil series is due to premiere on Netflix on April 10th, so naturally there's going to be no shortage of trailers in the lead-up to the debut. Here, however, we really get to see how dangerous Matt Murdock is when he's not in his lawyerly suit and tie. (Those batons are no joke.) We also get out first look at Stick, played by Scott Glenn, the blind man who trains Murdock in martial arts.

Can we now expect to see Elektra and the Hand at some point down the road?

Discover the Man behind the Hero

Discover the man behind the hero. #Daredevil

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Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil major new product line on April 30th

Tesla CEO is teasing a major new product announcement that's coming next month — and it's not a car. Musk just tweeted that his company will unveil a new product line at Tesla's Hawthorne Design Studio on April 30th, with the mysterious reveal scheduled for 8PM PT.

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Two federal agents have been charged with stealing money from the Silk Road

Two Federal agents are facing charges of stealing money from the Silk Road, an online drug marketplace that was taken down by federal warrant more than a year ago. Hailing from the Drug Enforcement Agency and Secret Service respectively, Carl Mark Force and Shaun Bridges were both involved in undercover operations that built evidence against the Silk Road in the months leading up to its seizure in October of 2013. According to an affidavit, Force redirected bitcoin to a personal account during the investigation, and did not report or turn over the bitcoin once the investigation was completed. As a result, he faces charges of money laundering, wire fraud, and theft of government property. Bridges faces only laundering and fraud charges.

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New backward-compatible audio file format can split songs into four tracks

Native Instruments — best known for its DJ and music production software — is rolling out a new royalty-free audio format that could be a big deal for professional and amateur remixers alike. The format, Stems, can store up to four individual tracks within a single mixed file, which means that different components of a song (the drums and vocals, for instance) could be made available as isolated audio. For DJs and remixers, that makes the task of reusing key components of a source track much, much easier.

That may not be Stems' most interesting trick, though: the format is completely backward compatible, so you can load a Stems song into any media player that supports MP4 and have it play like a normal song. Only when you load a Stems...

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StubHub sues Ticketmaster and Golden State Warriors over 'unfair' scalper market

Two ticketing companies that consumers don't particularly love are about to duke it out in court. StubHub today announced that it's suing both Ticketmaster and the NBA's Golden State Warriors over antitrust charges, accusing Ticketmaster and the Warriors of unfairly pressuring season ticket holders to resell their seats through Ticketmaster's own services instead of the eBay-owned StubHub or another secondary market exchange.

In many cases, StubHub says Ticketmaster — the exclusive ticketing partner for the Warriors — cancelled or threatened to revoke regular season and playoff game tickets if fans attempted to sell them through StubHub. In others, Ticketmaster pushed back shipping until just a few days before a game, severely limiting...

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Apple now lets you trade in old Android phones for credit toward an iPhone

Apple is making it a little bit easier to switch to an iPhone: with a change to its trade-in program today, customers will now be able to hand over old Android, BlackBerry, and Windows phones to receive a discount toward a new iPhone. Previously, Apple only accepted old iPhones. The program is starting at Apple Stores today in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, and Italy. As with other trade-in programs, a phone will still have to have some value to it in order to receive credit. There doesn't appear to be any hard and fast rules, but smartphones in good shape from the past couple of years are likely to qualify.

Apple began accepting trade-ins in 2013, though it's never completely operated the program on its own. The program is run...

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Siberian Huskies are even more majestic when photographed on a frozen lake

Axiom Verge feels like a brand new Metroid on PS4

It's been a long time since we've seen a proper Metroid game. The series debuted on the NES in 1986, and there hasn't been an original, 2D, side-scrolling game in the franchise since Metroid Fusion in 2002 (that same year the series made the leap to 3D with Metroid Prime). But indie developers have been helping to fill in that void. Games like Ori and the Blind Forest feature a similar structure, with big, sprawling worlds that slowly open up as you unlock new abilities.

But none have captured the feeling of the early Metroid games quite like Axiom Verge, a new title launching tomorrow on the PS4. It even adds in new twists, like a gun that lets you glitch the world around you, to keep it from feeling like just a rehash of Nintendo’s...

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The loneliest roast: Justin Bieber does public penance on Comedy Central

Pulling past the guard booth of Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles, I had the strange, recurring sensation that I first had nine days earlier: I felt sorry for Justin Bieber. The reason I was here on a sunny Saturday afternoon in March was the taping of the Comedy Central roast of the 21-year-old singer and multi-multi-millionaire, but I didn’t feel sorry for him because I was going to spend the next several hours watching him being brutally teased, mocked, and insulted. I felt sorry for him because I wasn’t sure he had any friends.

For years, the targets of the Comedy Central’s roasts have tended to be celebrities past their prime (Roseanne Barr, Pamela Anderson, William Shatner) or show biz adjacent oddities (Flavor Flav, Donald...

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Someone tried to ram the gate at NSA headquarters, according to reports

An unidentified car attempted to ram the entrance gate at the NSA's Fort Meade headquarters this morning, leading to a car crash and at least two injuries. Fox 7 is reporting that shots were fired in the aftermath of the collision, but that has yet to be confirmed. Local police verified that the incident occurred on the NSA side of Fort Meade, a large military installation, but the cause of the incident remains unclear.

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A new hack could let thieves bypass the iPhone's lockscreen

Researchers at the security firm MDSec have found a way to bypass the iPhone's lockscreen using just a few hundred dollars in equipment. The lockscreen typically bricks a phone after 10 bad guesses and has proven difficult to bypass on non-jailbroken phones, but MDSec has found a way to power off the phone before it registers an incorrect guess, allowing effectively unlimited guesses. Since the lockscreen is one of the iPhone's major anti-theft protections (combined with Find my iPhone and the remote shutdown feature), it's a hack that could have a real impact on users.

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The internet took the album away, and now it's giving it back

For decades, the album was the primary form in which music was delivered to the masses. But ever since Apple introduced iTunes back in 2001, the album has been on the decline. When online piracy ravaged the music industry, music revenues went from $14.7 billion in 1999 to $7.7 billion in 2009, according to the RIAA . While the $0.99 single kept some money flowing into the industry, it changed the way we experienced music. Singles are cheaper to buy and quicker to make than a full album, and that shifted the mindset of labels and artists toward focusing on making more radio-friendly songs instead of focusing on complete albums.

But now we’re in the middle of another shift — digital music sales declined 13 percent in 2014 while streaming...

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Amazon launches Home Services to sell everything from an oil change to piano lessons

Amazon started out as an online bookstore, but has since expanded into selling almost any physical goods you can think of. But the company believes a lot of the stuff people buy on Amazon are things they could actually use help assembling, installing, or learning to enjoy. "We have 85 million Amazon customers who have shopped for products this past year that often require a service afterwards," said Peter Faricy, Vice President for Amazon Marketplace. "Things like TVs, toilets, and sinks." Today, the company is launching a new section in the US, Home Services, where customers can shop for professional help. It's launching with 700 different services, from the ordinary to the esoteric, everything from installing a garbage disposal to...

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First Click: Tim Cook's Apple

Tim Cook’s editorial in Sunday’s Washington Post titled "Pro-discrimination 'religious freedom' laws are dangerous" is a bold underline on the new Apple. Where Steve Jobs famously wrote open letters on the evils of Flash and DRM, Tim Cook is using his bully pulpit to fight unjust and discriminatory practices in the US and abroad.

It’s not that Apple was socially unaware before Cook. Quite the contrary. Apple began offering benefits to same-sex partners in 1993 (while Jobs was in exile), resulting in a showdown with county commissioners near Austin, Texas who refused to grant a nearly $1 million tax break for Apple’s planned $80 million customer support center. “I cannot in good conscience extend that benefit to them (Apple) because of...

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Wild, wacky game does not go Wings' way

UNIONDALE, N.Y. – An early two-goal lead didn’t bring pleasurable results to the Red Wings Sunday night on Long Island. Tomas Tatar and Drew Miller provided Detroit with a 2-0 lead 106 seconds into the game, but it wasn’t nearly enough against...



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Halo 5 hits Xbox One on October 27th

Halo 5: Guardians will be released for Xbox One on October 27th. The date comes via a new live-action trailer that you can watch above; it won't tell you much about the game itself, but it appears that things aren't too rosy between Master Chief and new protagonist Jameson Locke.

For more on how Halo 5 is mixing up the series, you can read our impressions of the game's multiplayer here. And, if you need to catch up on your convoluted sci-fi lore in the seven months before Guardians drops, Halo: The Master Chief Collection is out now on Xbox One and includes the first four Halo games.

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Score for Your School VIP Party

DETROIT – For the Detroit Red Wings, the culmination of this season will take place in two weeks during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. For the students that participate in the Red Wings’ Score for your School Fundraising Program, the culmination of ...



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This Microsoft help page comes with a warning: 'this process requires patience'

I may have accidentally stumbled into the purgatory of Microsoft online services. It all happened innocently enough: if you're anything like me, you probably set up your Xbox Live account many years ago. Maybe you were even a child or a teenager. And when you were forced to tie your Gamertag to an email address, you probably didn't give it a second thought.

The Hotmail email address I chose that fateful day nearly a decade ago has since become a relic of another time, utterly swamped with spam emails and hindered by an embarrassing account name. It's with good reason, then, that I hoped to switch my Gamertag over to my primary Microsoft account, the email address that now ties together everything from my email and calendar to Microsoft...

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Wings to play for final time at Coliseum

UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Today, the Red Wings will play their 52nd and final regular-season game at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the second-oldest arena in the National Hockey League. Beginning next season, the New York Islanders – the primary ...



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SOARING PAST THE STARS

The Griffins completed a season sweep against the defending Calder Cup champions Saturday night, beating the Texas Stars for the second straight night 4-3 at Cedar Park Center. The win sets up home showdown with Rockford Wednesday night.



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Red Wings, Mrazek shutout Lightning

DETROIT – What does Petr Mrazek have in common with one the NHL’s all-time best goaltenders? The Red Wings’ rookie goalie became the first to shutout the Tampa Bay Lightning since the great Martin Brodeur did so more than 15 months ago. Mra...



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Wings defend besieged teammate

DETROIT – Danny DeKeyser grew up in this town. He knows the passion that fans have for the Red Wings, Tigers and Lions. The Wings’ defenseman also understands the constant scrutiny – fair or not – that comes with playing high-profile positi...



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The Weekender: Hangovers, The Terminator, and George R.R. Martin

Hello fellow weekend-goers, and welcome back to The Weekender. This week, we tried to cure our hangovers, we explored porn VR, and we found out George R.R. Martin doesn't care if the Game of Thrones show spoils his books. We'll also be setting you up for a stellar weekend back on this terrestrial plane. So sit back and take a journey with us.

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GRIFFINS WRANGLE STARS

The Griffins earned their AHL-best 20th road win this season with goals from Mark Zengerle and Landon Ferraro. Tom McCollum earned his first shutout of the season with his 34-save effort in a 2-0 win over Texas.



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Thousands of Uber accounts are allegedly being sold on the dark web

Thousands of Uber users account credentials could have been compromised, and are up for sale from unscrupulous sellers. At least two separate vendors on dark web marketplace AlphaBay are hawking active Uber accounts, Motherboard reports. Once purchased, these accounts let buyers order up rides using whatever payment information is on file. Those accounts can also show trip history, email addresses, phone numbers, and location information for people's home and work addresses.

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Amazon does an about-face on controversial warehouse worker non-compete contracts

Amazon is rolling back a controversial non-compete clause in its contracts for warehouse workers (including temporary ones) that could have kept them from working at competing companies for a year and a half. The Guardian reports that the company is removing that from its worker contracts immediately. A company spokesperson added that "that clause hasn’t been applied to hourly associates."

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Is this smashed MacBook Air a piece of art?

Edward Snowden can now add "artist" to his resume. Or, more accurately, "person tangentially responsible for the creation of art." The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is hosting an exhibition next month that features a smashed MacBook Air and Western Digital hard drive that once contained leaked NSA documents from Snowden.

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Jury finds Kleiner Perkins not liable in majority of claims in Ellen Pao's gender discrimination case

After less than 72 hours of deliberation, the jury in the gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins found the powerful Silicon Valley venture capital firm liable for three out of Pao's four claims, including retaliation and failure to prevent retaliation. There was a dramatic and last minute update at the very end of polling the juror because Judge Kahn realized there was a miscount. The jurors are back in deliberations. Pao, now the interim CEO of Reddit, was seeking $16 million in lost wages and potentially $144 million in punitive damages.

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Babcock promises to fix defensive lapses

DETROIT – There’s no question that goaltending carried the Red Wings through the first half of the season. The remarkable performances, particularly by Jimmy Howard, sparked debate about Detroit’s chances at winning the President’s Trophy as t...



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The White House announces a five-year plan to fight drug-resistant superbugs

The Obama administration unveiled a plan today to fight the spread of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs." The goal is to prevent the proliferation of aggressive bacteria responsible for 23,000 deaths and 2 million illnesses every year, the Associated Press reports.

The five-year plan is a response to the country's growing reliance on antibiotics for medicinal purposes and in the food industry. It outlines several goals, which include slowing the emergence of superbugs, strengthening surveillance and tracking efforts of such germs, accelerating scientific research, and improving international collaboration and communication.

Eliminate serious threats by 2020

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The celebrities and brands who lost the most in Facebook's latest like purge

Earlier this month, Facebook announced that it would be "making page likes more meaningful" by nixing inactive accounts. So if your page had 10 million likes, 1 million of which were from inactive accounts, you suddenly dropped down to 9 million. This is far from the first time that Facebook has made celebrities and teens cry by slashing their page likes — in December, Justin Bieber, rapper Tyga, and others lost more than 3 million Instagram followers each in a mass cleanup.

So who were the biggest losers this time around? Social media analytics platform CrowdTangle tracked more than 80,000 pages from March 11th, when the purge started, through this morning. We’ve rounded up the celebrities, brands, movies, and TV shows who lost the...

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Slack enables two-factor authentication following security breach

Slack has some good security news and some bad security news. First, the bad news: for four days in February, the company suffered a breach of its user database, exposing sensitive information to malicious hackers. No payment information was exposed, so the main concern is user passwords, which were in encrypted form. The encryption makes it hard for attackers to work back to the original passwords, but it's still an embarrassing breach, and it's difficult to say for sure that the passwords will never be unencrypted.

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Vine now supports high-definition videos

Vines are about to start looking a bit nicer. Over the "coming days," the Vine app will start to roll out support for higher quality videos — Vine's blog post suggests that it's bumping the resolution of each video up from 480p to 720p, which is a decent improvement. Of course, the videos still look somewhat compressed so that they can be quickly loaded on mobile, but it's an important jump nonetheless. On iOS, it sounds like new Vines will immediately start uploading in high def. As for Android, you guessed it: the feature is coming "soon."

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Here is Ryan Reynolds in the official Deadpool costume

Ryan Reynolds just took to Twitter to reveal the first full look at Deadpool's movie costume, and for that he wins all the chimichangas. It's just magnificent:

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Kahlil Joseph's m.A.A.d. gives new visual life to Kendrick Lamar's breakout album

Last Thursday, two new exhibitions opened at the main building of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, both part of what the museum is calling a "new era" in the wake of the tumultuous Jeffrey Deitch years. Most of MOCA’s downtown space is now dedicated to Sturtevant: Double Trouble, a retrospective of the replicationist Elaine Sturtevant, which features a muscle-bound dude in silver booty shorts dancing on a lit-up go-go platform for 45 minutes each day. And behind a wall and on the other side of a long black curtain is Kahlil Joseph: Double Conscience. From the title, casual visitors may assume it's a companion installation, but what is playing on a continuous loop in the darkened room is director Kahlil Joseph’s m.A.A.d.

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Parents who were physically abused as kids don’t go on to abuse their kids

Parents who were physically abused as kids aren’t more likely to be violent with their own kids, according to the first large-scale, long-term study of child abuse published in Science yesterday. The finding contradicts aspects of the "cycle of violence" theory, which suggests that children who endure physical violence as children go on to perpetrate those same behaviors on their own children. That said, parents who had experienced neglect or sexual abuse as kids were more likely to have kids who experienced the same problems, according to the study.

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We have to save this cute rabbit dog thing before it's too late

You see that cute critter? I hope you enjoy that photo. Savor it. That's the first image of a lli pika taken in 20 years. It's estimated only 2,900 Ili pika existed last time the species had its picture taken in the early 1990s. Today, that estimate is around 1,000 living lli pika. Now I'm no scientist, but I suspect if we do nothing for my new best friends, the lli pika, their next photo will be snapped in the extinct section of a Natural History Museum.

A rabbit that looks like a really cute dog

The lli pika, endemic to the Tian Shan mountains of northwest China, is also called the "Magic Rabbit," though I prefer to call it the "Rabbit that looks like a really cute dog that needs kisses and a nice home." Of course, the lli pika...

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YouTube's new 4k, 60fps videos are gorgeous — but probably won't run on your laptop

YouTube is now testing 4K videos at 60 frames per second. Last year, the video streaming company tested both 4K and 60fps videos separately, but this small batch of videos marks the first time both settings have been shown together.

Most viewers won't be able to enjoy these videos to their full potential. You'll need both a 4K monitor along with a computer and internet connection powerful enough to stream the footage. I just upgraded to last year's Macbook Pro Retina, and even with a 300mbps connection, the video is stammering about like it's drunk and can't find its house keys.

I thought today would be the day I watch K-pop in ultra-HD at a frame rate faster than the human eye can discern, but I guess not. Looks like today, just like...

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The Vergecast 146: Galaxy S6, HTC One M9, and Periscope

It's another tech-filled week, but this one is just a little more British than usual. International visitor Tom Warren joins Nilay, Dieter, and Sam to discuss the release of the Samsung Galaxy S6, HTC One M9, Facebook's chat ambitions, and the release of Periscope.

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First Click: the great Mac vs. PC touchscreen debate

The current divide between MacBooks and Windows-based laptops spans the length of an outstretched arm. Since the announcement of Windows 8, laptops from Dell, Lenovo, HP, Microsoft and others have all featured touchscreen displays. Apple, the company that brought multitouch displays to the masses with the iPhone and iPad, made its trackpad the showcase for touch, by layering a robust gesture language atop frictionless glass. For Cupertino, touchscreen displays had no business on a laptop.

On October 20th, 2010, Steve Jobs would pontificate on why “touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical” at the introduction of the redesigned MacBook Air with a large, multitouch glass trackpad. Just one day later, Steve Ballmer would call Windows 8...

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Another loss comes at bad time for Wings

DETROIT – Mike Babcock is in the winning business. So are the Red Wings, who’ve made a habit of it for more than two decades. But winning has eluded the Wings lately, which comes at the absolute worst possible time of the season. The Wings ...



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This is the greatest Yahoo! Answer on whether vampires can poop

I want to give you a brief window into my life in this little corner of journalistic endeavor. Ready? Here goes. Today, the Verge newsroom got into a heated debate about whether or not vampires can poop. I'm not kidding.

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Watch President Obama interview David Simon about The Wire

The White House's YouTube account just published a video interview between President Obama and reporter, author, and creator of HBO crime drama The Wire, David Simon. Simon is the interviewee, and speaks frankly about the nation's policing problems, from the drug war to over-incarceration. Who's to say why President Obama invited the lead writer from one of his television shows to chat in the White House, but the video feels like an opportunity for Obama to illuminate a number of controversial conversations about changes that need to be made about how our nation polices itself.

Also, Omar is President Obama's favorite character. President Obama has great taste.

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Talking to Heems about Eat Pray Thug, spiritual tourism, and skipping his SXSW panel

After a few years of working with and talking to music writers, you get a certain idea of what it’s like to interview Himanshu Suri, aka Heems, formerly of the novelty-turned-too-real-for-their-own-good rap group Das Racist. He’s checked out, or belligerent, or both. Or maybe he just falls asleep in the middle of the interview.

Still, I genuinely wanted to talk to him, if only because I feel like my listener / observer relationship goes back with him a sneaky long way; to be honest, I've been rooting for him. I remember years ago clicking on a YouTube link sent to me by my then-boyfriend (an acquaintance of Heems’) that led to something called “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” when it still had under 1,000 views, then meeting him...

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Ellen Pao vs. Ellen Pao: who will the jury believe?

The most excruciating moments in the last leg of the gender discrimination trial against Kleiner Perkins happened Tuesday afternoon when Lynne Hermle, Kleiner’s formidable attorney, walked away from the podium to deliver parts of her summation a few feet closer to Ellen Pao. Outside the courtroom, Pao seems light-hearted, impish even. In the elevator last week, a reporter loudly kvetched about sitting through the month-long trial, and Pao piped up: "It’ll be over soon!" From the plaintiff’s table, however, Pao can be inscrutable.

"Plays it close to the vest" was a critique in one of Pao's performance reviews, and Hermle has quoted it to the jury a number of times. (Like "aggressive," when applied to Pao, Kleiner Perkins meant it as a...

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Oculus Rift's chief scientist delivered a monologue from The Matrix at F8

Like many people, Michael Abrash is a fan of The Matrix. Unlike most people, he's trying to bring some of its core principles into reality: Abrash is the chief scientist at Oculus Rift, Facebook's virtual-reality arm. And he spends a lot of time thinking about The Matrix. Today at the F8 developer conference, Abrash delivered a monologue from the film to explain why virtual reality can feel so much like the real thing.

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Wings feel the heat as other teams chase

DETROIT – As the regular season begins to wind down, the Red Wings have been doing a lot of scoreboard watching as Ottawa and Boston continue to move up the Atlantic Division standings. Someone who gets a daily earful is Red Wings defenseman Br...



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I used a robot to go to work from 3,500 miles away

I have to start this review with a brief confession: I don’t really know any of my colleagues. I started working at The Verge in December last year, but as I live in London, I’ve only ever met the members of our UK team. All two of them. There’s been a few group Skype calls with the New York and San Francisco offices, but for the most part I either talk to people on Slack or over email. This isn’t unusual for a job in the media of course, but my bosses decided that it was time for me to get a little more involved. To have some of that good old-fashioned human interaction. Their solution? They gave me a robot, of course.

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The Olio smartwatch wants to save you from notification hell

Before I can even come back from grabbing him a glass of water, Steve Jacobs has basically turned our Verge West meeting room into a jewelry store. The ornate carrying case he brought with him is nearly overflowing with expensive-looking watches. The morning light beams down through a nearby window, illuminating every little detail, of which there are many. The bevy of clasps, links, and smoothed leather buckles all glint back up, all except for one made of suede. Jacobs excitedly tells me he’s only just cracked the code for that material in the past week thanks to a new production process. It’s a secret, he says, though he gives me a hint: there’s more than one way to skin a cow.

This is Olio, a new watch company that has eschewed...

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Exclusive: Amazon makes even temporary warehouse workers sign 18-month non-competes

Contract says it can limit jobs across the globe

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After a hit game, indie developers struggle to replicate success

When Mike Bithell started working on Thomas Was Alone, his first solo game, he imagined three possible tiers of success. At the low end of the spectrum, he hoped the game would earn enough money so he could buy an iPad, because he'd wanted one for a while. If the game sold better than that, he would take his girlfriend on a vacation to Disney World. "And then the far flung idea, kind of, 'oh my god it'll never happen, but if it does, it'll be an awesome dream,' was a year's salary," he says. "I might actually be able to quit my day job and spend a year making any game I want."

It took six months, but the moment came — Bithell remembers the day clearly. It was New Year's Eve, and he decided to stay home and avoid any parties, just so he...

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Shape-shifting 'punk rocker' frog goes from spiny to smooth in minutes

When researcher Katherine Krynak and her husband Tim spotted an unknown species of frog in a misty cloud forest in Ecuador, they did what any good scientists would do — they scooped it into a cup for further examination the next morning. The frog was tiny (no more than 23 millimeters in length) and covered in thorn-like spines that led the Krynaks to christen it the "punk rocker" frog.

had they got the wrong frog?

However, when they tipped the animal out onto a sheet of plastic the next morning to be photographed, they saw that its skin was entirely smooth. They were disappointed, and assumed they'd picked up the wrong frog by mistake.

"I then put the frog back in the cup and added some moss," says Katherine, a PhD student at Case...

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Galaxy S6 release date is April 10th, and US pre-orders start tomorrow

Samsung today announced that the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge will be available on US carriers starting April 10th, the same time as they are scheduled to be available for sale across the world. Additionally, customers in the US will be able to pre-order the phones starting tomorrow, March 27th, with certain AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, U.S. Cellular, and Best Buy locations having the phones on hand for in-person demos starting tomorrow.

The Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge coming to the US will largely be the same as the model available globally. They have 5.1-inch, qHD Super AMOLED displays, 32, 64, or 128GB of internal storage, Samsung's octacore Exynos processors, and 16-megapixel cameras with optical image stabilization. Unfortunately,...

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Here’s what happens when a hacker gets mistaken for a spy

Last July, Celil Unuver got an unexpected call from the Turkish police. They couldn't find him at his office, the policeman said, and they would like him to come to the cybercrime bureau as soon as possible. Unuver is a security researcher, focusing on vulnerabilities in industrial systems, but he soon realized someone thought he was up to something more sinister: selling valuable cyberweapons to the US and Israel. It was an accusation of high treason.

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First Click: why own a few things when you can borrow everything?

I look forward to the day I can pass down my record collection to my kids. By “records” I mean playlists, and by “pass down” I mean tell them my password.

I’ll be dead when that day comes, but it warms my heart to imagine them deciphering my meticulously prepared tagging system. “What’s ‘grunge,’” they’ll perplex, tears streaming down their middle-aged faces as they remember my fondness for unkempt plaids. I just hope they don’t lapse on the subscription payments else my life’s work will vanish into an ephemeral cloud from which all bits stream.

Music ownership is dead, already. iTunes, the great disrupter of physical CDs, has been disrupted by Spotify streams. Once the vanguard of digital consumption tastes, Apple is now the...

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Ikea's flat-pack refugee shelter is entering production

Ikea's line of flat-pack refugee shelters are going into production, the Swedish furniture maker announced this week, after being tested among refugee families in Ethiopia, Iraq, and Lebanon. The lightweight "Better Shelter" was developed under a partnership between the Ikea Foundation and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Each unit takes about four hours to assemble and is designed to last for three years — far longer than conventional refugee shelters, which last about six months.

That's important considering the prolonged refugee crisis that has unfolded across the Middle East. The ongoing war in Syria has spurred nearly 4 million people to leave their homes, according to UN figures, and as the conflict...

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In Facebook's family of apps, Messenger is the new golden child

Facebook is a family now, Mark Zuckerberg said onstage today at Facebook’s F8 Developer conference. And he wasn’t talking about Lean In-style camaraderie among his coworkers: he was talking about apps. While Facebook’s flagship app remains its most used, the company has acquired and built a handful of other major social platforms: Instagram, WhatsApp, and Groups among them. But like most families, Facebook has a golden child — and it’s Facebook Messenger.

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NASA is moving forward with a less ambitious asteroid mission

NASA has announced more details about its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which no longer includes an attempt to capture an entire asteroid. Instead, an uncrewed spacecraft will travel to one of three candidate asteroids in 2020. When the craft arrives in 2022, it will use robotic arms to pick and secure a small boulder from the asteroid, and will spend a number of years towing the boulder into a stable orbit between the Earth and the Moon.

Humans will visit the boulder in 2025

The space agency plans to send a team of astronauts to study the boulder in 2025 using the Orion capsule, the same spacecraft that should eventually bring the first humans to Mars. They will also be tasked with returning samples to Earth. Asteroids are rocky...

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The father of all humans lived 239,000 years ago

By sequencing the genomes of 2,636 Icelanders — the largest set ever obtained from a single population — researchers were able to identify that genetic mutations play a role in everything from Alzheimer’s disease to liver disease. The Icelandic data also suggest that humanity’s most recent common male ancestor, the "father" of us all, would have lived between 174,000 and 321,000 years ago.

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Facebook will support 360-degree videos for the web and Oculus Rift

This should make your Facebook newsfeed a bit more interesting: Facebook is going to roll out support for 360-degree videos inside of its native video player. These videos allow viewers to look around the world in all directions while the video is playing. While they're interesting to view on a computer, the real excitement lies in virtual reality. Watch a 360-degree video on the Oculus Rift, which Facebook owns, and you'd be able to naturally look around at the filmed world.

YouTube very recently started supporting 360-degree videos as well. Facebook's support could be viewed as a challenge, but it's arguably more of a necessity. If it wants the Oculus Rift to take off, it's going to have to give people a reason to want to buy one —...

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Scientists may have identified a gene that causes severe autism in women

Autism in women is rare: men are four times as likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, and so scientists haven’t spent as much time studying the disorder's genetic imprint in women. A newly identified gene could change that, according to a study published in Nature today. The gene has been found to play a role in severe autism in women — as well as some men. The finding could motivate more researchers to study the disorder in families in which multiple women are affected by autism.

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Chinese manufacturers are trying to kill the smartphone bezel

A slew of 'bezel-less' smartphones have been leaked or released this month

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Facebook turns Messenger into a platform at F8

During his F8, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the next phase in Facebook Messenger: Messenger Platform. According to Zuckerberg, the app can now be used to create and share content in line and independent of the News Feed.

Going forward, users will be able to install apps and make purchases inside Messenger. The app's composer bar is expanding to give users access to more than 40 new apps — ones for GIFs, video, audio, and more — in order to "enhance" their conversations. Apps can be installed immediately from the Messenger App Store, and content can be shared after the app is integrated from there.

Developing ...

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