Larkin gets another NHL test

PITTSBURGH – Dylan Larkin gets another NHL test tonight for the Red Wings who are in Pittsburgh to battle the Penguins in an exhibition game at Consol Energy Center. The 19-year-old prospect will center Detroit’s top line between Justin Ab...

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Kids movement

DETROIT -- It doesn't seem like that long ago when Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk were the young guys pushing the veterans. Now for Zetterberg, who turns 35 opening night, and Datsyuk, 37, the shoe is on the other foot. "The difference ...

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Kindl's chance

DETROIT -- All Jakub Kindl wanted was a chance and now he's got one. Kindl could never consistently find a place in the lineup when Mike Babcock was the coach but with a new regime, things could be different. New coach Jeff Blashill met with...

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It's early, but Tatar is already clicking

DETROIT – It’s only the preseason, but Tomas Tatar is already off to a fast start. Heading into tonight’s exhibition game in Boston – one of five contests on the NHL’s preseason docket on Monday – Tatar tops the league with four goals in t...

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Ouellet's first shot

DETROIT -- Xavier Ouellet finally gets a chance to show what he can do starting tonight in Boston. Ouellet, who had been limited by an upper-body injury, will make his preseason debut against the Bruins. "First preseason game for me, so gett...

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GRIFFINS BEGIN TRAINING CAMP MONDAY

The Griffins will kick off training camp on Monday at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids in advance of the franchise’s 20th anniversary season.

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Young Bertuzzi adjusts his game

DETROIT – There was a time when Tyler Bertuzzi felt pressure to live up to his family name on the ice. The 20-year-old nephew of a former power forward who never backed down from a challenge during 18 NHL seasons, the younger Bertuzzi used...

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Svelte Howard is quicker in Wings' net

DETROIT – Jimmy Howard is looking forward to putting in a full 60-minutes plus tonight when the Red Wings host the Pittsburgh Penguins in an exhibition game at Joe Louis Arena. Howard is excited to play the whole game as well as the league...

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Franzen ready

DETROIT -- The moment that Johan Franzen has been waiting for has finally arrived. Franzen will play in his first game since Jan. 6 at Edmonton when he skates against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Wings' third exhibition game tonight. "It's...

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Mr. Hockey returns to Joe Louis Arena

DETROIT – It’s not every day professional athletes are impressed by those with more fame. But like Red Wings forward Mitch Callahan said, Gordie Howe isn’t ordinarily famous. Mr. Hockey is the monarch of hockey royalty. Red...

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Notes: Green is anxious for fresh start

DETROIT – Mike Green was happy in Washington, and why wouldn’t he be? It was there in the nation’s capital, where the 29-year-old evolved into one of the top offensive defensemen in the league over the past decade. But apparently, even ...

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Larkin, Svechnikov to debut

DETROIT -- It's just a preseason game but the Red Wings will get a chance to see how their young kids perform. The Wings open the preseason in Chicago Tuesday night and aside from goaltender Jimmy Howard and forward Drew Miller, both 31, no pla...

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Helm, Verrier healing

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Neither Darren Helm nor Jerome Verrier saw the other one coming. It was the first drill of training camp and there was definitely a miscommunication. The result was Helm and Verrier colliding at full speed with Helm s...

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Wings prepare for 3-on-3 overtime

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – A wide smile suddenly emerged across Gustav Nyquist’s face when he was asked about the NHL’s new overtime format for the upcoming season. “It’s fun hockey,” the Red Wings’ winger said. “A lot of open space out there....

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Ferraro's confidence

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Not many guys have played in as many NHL playoff games as regular season games. Landon Ferraro, 24, earned that distinction last season as he joined the team for the final three games of the regular season and then playe...

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Shoulder likely sidelines Helm 2-4 weeks

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Friday’s violent on-ice collision involving Darren Helm and Jerome Verrier was worse than anybody first imagined. Original reports claimed Helm was day-to-day with a concussion and Verrier suffered a fractured right ...

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Wings' youth movement is on the rise

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- The Red Wings are in a position where they might be looking at a couple of the young forwards even more closely this training camp. Pavel Datsyuk is out after offseason ankle surgery, not expected to return until late Oc...

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Helm, Verrier injured in camp collision

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – It happened so fast that neither guy likely knew what hit them on the first day of the Red Wings’ training camp. “Unfortunately we weren’t able to give heads up to either guy soon enough,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashi...

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Tatar ready to elevate game

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Tomas Tatar has come a long way in a short period of time. Originally chosen in the second round of the 2009 draft, Tatar has gone from being the youngest player in the American Hockey League, playing for the Grand Rapid...

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GRIFFINS RELEASE 2015-16 PROMOTIONAL SCHEDULE

The Griffins on Thursday released their 2015-16 promotional schedule, featuring a series of special giveaways honoring the team’s 20th anniversary season and the return of many popular season-long promotions.

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Coast Guard welcomes Wings aboard

DETROIT – Four Red Wings had the unique chance to get a different view of Joe Louis Arena Wednesday morning. Defenseman Jakub Kindl, goalie Petr Mrazek, and forwards Justin Abdelkader and Tomas Tatar had the privilege to ride along with the Uni...

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TRAVERSE-BOUND

Forty-four players with Griffins playing experience will be among the 72 Detroit Red Wings stars, prospects and invitees who will take to the ice this Friday, Sept. 18 for the start of Red Wings training camp at Centre ICE Arena in Traverse City, Mich.

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Confident Mrazek is ready for new season

DETROIT – Approaching his first training camp this week as the 27th head coach in franchise history, Jeff Blashill is faced with a few roster decisions prior to the season opener against the Toronto Maple Leafs Oct. 9. One such verdict he’...

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Franzen clears first hurdle

DETROIT -- Now that Johan Franzen has cleared the first hurdle, it's time to see if he can clear the next. Franzen, who has been cleared by doctors to take part in all activities, is eager to get going. "I’m cleared to try, I guess," Franzen...

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Mantha looks to show drive, consistency

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- There was a time when Red Wings prospect Anthony Mantha was being considered as a potential fit alongside Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg. It all changed Sept. 15, 2014, when Mantha, a first-round pick (No. 20) in th...

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Wings, Jackets face off in Traverse City final

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- The host Red Wings and defending champion Columbus Blue Jackets will play in the Traverse City Prospects Tournament championship game for the right to raise the Matthew Wuest Memorial Cup on Tuesday at Centre Ice Arena (7 p...

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Abdelkader looking to build on last season

DETROIT -- If the Red Wings gave an award to most improved player, it probably would have gone to Justin Abdelkader last season. Abdelkader, 28, more than doubled his career best in goals with 23 (previous high 10, done twice) and added 21 assi...

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Probert remembered at HockeyFest

DETROIT -- It's hard to believe it's been more than five years since Bob Probert died. Probert would have turned 50 this past June but died of a heart attack while boating with his family on July 5. 2010. As the Red Wings held their annual H...

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World Cup of Hockey will feature a twist

DETROIT – For just the third time in the history of the sport, the NHL plans to bring back the World Cup of Hockey. But this time, the tournament comes with a twist. Next September, the World Cup will feature two non-traditionally ...

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Team Sweden will have Wings in World Cup

DETROIT -- Red Wings fans have gotten used to seeing some of their players wearing blue and gold in world tournaments. That won't change when the World Cup is held next Sept. 17-Oct. 1, 2016, in Toronto. NHL.com's projected roster for Team S...

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Jurco expecting better season

DETROIT -- Moving from the AHL to the NHL can be a difficult adjustment. For Tomas Jurco, that was certainly the case last season, his first full season with the Red Wings. In 63 games, Jurco scored three goals and 15 assists. The previou...

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Quincey's healthy and ready to get started

DETROIT – Fully recovered from off-season ankle surgery, Red Wings defenseman Kyle Quincey is looking forward to building on last season’s productivity. “It went well, it feels good,” Quincey said, referring to ankle surgery he underwent i...

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Richards eager to start with Wings

DETROIT -- For newcomer Brad Richards, it was an easy choice to sign with the Red Wings. "They've had lots of success in the past, bringing in veteran guys and integrating them into a role that fits," Richards said after his first informal skat...

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Larkin wants to be with Wings

DETROIT -- There are a lot of people who are expecting Dylan Larkin to make the Red Wings this season. Of course Larkin would love that but he isn't counting on it. "Wherever I play, I think I'm going to have fun and contribute to the team a...

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Wings will play in Lindsay's annual outing

DETROIT – Before training camp morphs into the rigors of the season, the Red Wings will hit the links in support of someone they collectively and, truly admire. On Monday, every player on the Red Wings current NHL roster will participate i...

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Howard is ready to reclaim starting job

DETROIT – Jimmy Howard is ready to reclaim what he lost. But to do so, the veteran goalie knows he must beat out Petr Mrazek, the up-and-coming young star, who took the Red Wings’ starting role in the playoff last spring. “It’s goi...

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Wings welcome Green to Detroit

DETROIT -- It's going to be a whole new world for Mike Green and the Red Wings. Green, 29, was drafted by the Washington Capitals in 2004 and had spent his entire career with them. "Obviously a long time in Washington but moving forward here...

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Alcatel finally delivers on the dream of a denim smartphone

Remember when the original OnePlus was set to offer a swappable denim back cover? Well that never happened, and for all its popularity, the OnePlus left us without a truly perfect match for blue jeans and denim jackets. But with its new Pop Star smartphone, Alcatel is answering the call to make your phone feel more like your pants. The 5-inch Android Lollipop handset isn't exactly a flagship, planting its flag instead in deep customization options.

You can choose from a wide array of designs from more traditional plastic backs to leather and the aforementioned denim. Aside from its looks, the Pop Star features a 720p display, quad-core processor, and 8-megapixel camera. Again, this isn't a top-end Android phone by any definition; it's...

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Tumblr reblogs just got a lot cleaner, and a little less charming

Tumblr rolled out a long-overdue change to its reblogging feature yesterday, fixing what it termed a "crazy-long, indecipherable reblog chain" problem. The blogging site will now order reblogs below a post chronologically, and show comments as a streamlined list, but only on your dashboard.

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Watch a Soyuz capsule dock with the International Space Station

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts will dock with the International Space Station this morning at 3:42AM ET. Live coverage of the event starts at 3AM ET. Afterward, the hatch between the Soyuz and the station will open at 6:15AM ET.

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Justin Bieber steals Spotify streaming record from One Direction

Fresh off his public crying session at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, self-realized man and pop star Justin Bieber has a reason to cheer up. The first single, "What Do You Mean?," off his upcoming album due out this November has just become the most streamed track on Spotify in its first week. With 21 million streams in only five days, Bieber's track beat out One Direction's "Drag Me Down," which notched around 20 million streams in its first week last month thanks in part to it being the first track the group released after the apocalyptic departure of former member Zayn Malik.

One Direction held the previous record with 20 million streams in a week

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The first public preview of Firefox for iOS is here

Hands-on with Huawei's new flagship smartphone, the Mate S

Huawei's design ideas might not be wholly original, but that doesn't mean the company's not building great smartphones. Its new flagship, the Mate S, is the case in point. Some models have a pressure-sensitive screen that just happens to have the same name as Apple's Force Touch technology and the rear and sides of the device might look like a HTC One M9, but this is still a device that's clean-looking, well built, and just a pleasure to hold in the hand.

Its rear-mounted fingerprint sensor is fast, activating with just a touch. Although the device has its fare share of gimmicks, they don't distract from what is overall a powerful smartphone. The 5.5-inch HD AMOLED screen is vivid, and the quad-core Kirin processor, while relatively...

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Watch a drone flyby of Apple's gigantic spaceship campus

Apple's new donut-shaped campus will house 13,000 employees scattered about a mind-boggling 2.8 million square feet, a nearly 230 percent bump over the company's current HQ at 1 Infinite Loop. And that doesn't include the 1,000-seat auditorium, nor the 300,000 square feet dedicated solely to R&D facilities. To help you conceptualize a facility of that magnitude, drone pilot and photographer Duncan Sinfield has released a video showing an aerial view of the site under construction.

176 acres and $5 billion later

Using narration from former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' remarks at a Cupertino City Council meeting about the construction project, Sinfield's drone fly-by does a neat job of showing you what has been accomplished in the past 31 days...

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Philips' new 4K TV transforms your living room into one huge screen

Philips made a splash at last year's IFA conference when it showed off a television set with embedded, handheld projectors that could take an image onscreen and extend it to the wall behind the set. The visual trick is intended to create a more immersive viewing experience as the picture pours off the screen. Now the technology, which Philips calls Ambilight, is making its way to a new 65-inch UHD 4K TV due out later this year.

The Dutch lighting and technology giant debuted the TV at the IFA conference in Germany today, though it did not specify a price tag. It will be available in the fourth quarter of this year in Russia, Germany, and other European countries. Powering the TV will be Google's Android TV software, meaning those eager...

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Google Chrome just made big changes to save your battery

Amid much vocal complaining about Chrome's woeful affect on laptop battery life this year, Google began cleaning up its act with a series of improvements that bolster the browser's performance. Today the company rolled out a new version of Chrome with further improvements oriented around performance, and they promise to make life easier for laptop warriors who regularly find themselves with dozens of open tabs (ahem).

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Nook's newest life-form is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2

Last year Samsung became Barnes & Noble's first official tablet partner for Nook, rolling out a Nook-branded tab that was, essentially, the Galaxy Tab 4, customized with some Nook e-reading software.

Surprise! There's a new Nook out today, and it is in the form of a Galaxy Tab S2 tablet that has access to the Nook bookstore.

That's not necessarily a bad thing: the new Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Nook is the thinnest tablet on the market, has a really nice display, runs on a fast processor and now has a 4:3 aspect ratio, which is optimal for reading. (Check out our full review of the new Tab S2 here.)

On the flipside, if you were just looking for a simple e-reader, the Tab S2 Nook wouldn't be your first choice due to price: The tablet costs...

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Spotify updates privacy policy with clearer language after backlash

Spotify is overhauling its privacy policy today with plainer language that should be readable to the average human — not just lawyers. The streaming service found itself amid a furor last month after its users complained about what they saw as Spotify overstepping its bounds and requesting more information on them than necessary. For the most part, Spotify wasn't really asking for that much, but it made the mistake of writing its privacy policy in legalese, leading to a lot of confusion; many other major services, like Instagram, have already learned that having incomprehensible service policies can lead exactly this kind of problem.

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Feds say they'll now get warrants before using cell-tower simulators

The fight against cell tower simulators, commonly known as Stingrays, just scored a major victory. Today the Justice Department issued a new policy for the simulators, which requires a search warrant before any such device can be deployed, effective immediately. The legal status of the cell-site simulators is still uncertain, and the new policy won't have the force of law, but it's still expected to radically change the way federal law enforcement deploys the devices. The new policy

There are still some exception to the warrant requirement, but they're expected to be tracked and monitored significantly more rigorously than in the past. The relevant section of the new policy reads:

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When did pop-up ads get so passive-aggressive?

If you don’t want to read a Cosmo listicle of the sexiest movies ever, fine, it’s your loss — all you have to do is admit that you like sleeping better than sex.

Why is Cosmo suddenly interested in shaming you for your lack of interest in sexy movies? Why does Women’s Health force you to declare, "No thanks, I already have a bikini body" if you dare resist its 21-day bikini body plan? It’s all part of a conversion strategy that web properties are using to increase clicks and all-important email sign-ups, and a slew of major publishers are in on it.

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Zetterberg excited about changes

DETROIT -- It's been an offseason of change for Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg. First there was the team's coaching change and then there was the change in Zetterberg's personal life. Zetterberg said he was not surprised by the departure of...

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All your favorite characters walk in the club like

I took a college class on avant-garde filmmaking —  let's not dwell on the economic value of my decisions as a young adult, okay, thank you — and each week the professor would roll a television into the class room, unsheathe a VHS tape from its musky packaging, press play, and blow our damn minds out the back of our heads, all over the person sitting behind us and onto the wall behind them. This was before YouTube, when the best way to see Un Chien Andalou was at a repertory screening or in a university library. I loved that class, and I love how now I come to work and see weird experimental films as part of my daily duties.

I'm still parsing HELL'S CLUB, published by Antonio Maria Da Silva on AMDSFILMS' YouTube page. The 10-minute...

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Hands-on with Marshall's rock'n'roll Android smartphone

Earlier this year, Marshall surprised the tech community by unveiling the London smartphone — a conventional Android device with quite unconventional styling. At the time, Marshall was lauded for doing something different in the rather staid smartphone world (or rather, the Swedish firm Zound Industries was praised for not messing up the brand they'd licensed), but how does the London stand up to closer scrutiny?

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Here's why farm kids have fewer allergies and less asthma

Kids who grow up on farms are far less likely to develop asthma or allergies compared with the average child — and now scientists think they know why.

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Wacky image creation tool Byte is now available on iOS

Earlier this year, we reported that Dom Hofmann, co-founder of Vine, was launching another creative tool called Byte. If Vine inspires creativity by adding a time limit, Byte does so by getting rid of any limits at all. Previously in private beta, Byte is officially live starting today.

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Google now helps you easily look up details for 900 illnesses

A new Google search feature is making it easier to find details on more than 900 different health conditions. These include everything from common conditions like pink eye to tropical diseases like dengue fever.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 review

Things are getting awkward in tablet land. On the consumer side, we’ve run out of ideas; maybe we use them to watch video, “babysit” our kids, or travel with them when it’s too annoying to carry a laptop. On the business front, computer makers have been desperate to make tablets work, to the point where they’re creating half-laptop, hingey hybrid things — some with styluses.

Which puts tablet makers in a tough spot when it comes to upgrade cycles, because people aren’t buying new tablets nearly as often as they buy new smartphones. And yet, people have come to expect some of the impressive features that come with new smartphones.

That’s exactly the case with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S2, which is an upgrade from last year’s Galaxy Tab S and...

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Google sued over Waze's alleged theft of map information

Google has more litigation on its hands. Waze, the GPS navigation app Google acquired in 2013, is being accused of stealing proprietary mapping information from a Washington, DC-based rival called PhantomAlert prior to its acquisition. The search giant's purchase of Israeli-based Waze for $1.3 billion was a blockbuster mapping scoop that let Google tap into troves of important Waze data, which crowdsources mapping errors and traffic accidents to improve its product. Now, this lawsuit calls into question the underlying motivations with which Google bought Waze in the first place.

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Watch Daniel Radcliffe defend Grand Theft Auto in The Gamechangers

With its Grand Theft Auto special The Gamechangers nearing its September 15th air date, BBC2 has released a teaser trailer just long enough to cover the one-off drama's premise. Daniel Radcliffe's Sam Houser — a co-founder of GTA developer Rockstar Games — is forced to defend the series from virulent attorney Jack Thompson (Bill Paxton), who rages against the game's violence and its impact on children. There's a weird nationalist bent to the teaser, one I didn't expect: Thompson is incensed about "what little regard these Brits have for the welfare of our children," making it sound like Grand Theft Auto was part of a covert British campaign to ruin a generation of American youth with video games.

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Apple reportedly announcing a 4K iMac in October

Apple's going to have a very, very busy fall. In addition to all of the new products we're expecting to hear about next Wednesday, 9to5Mac reports that Apple has some extra plans for October: it'll apparently be announcing a new 21.5-inch iMac with a 4K display.

This is something we've been expecting Apple to get around to eventually. It released a 5K iMac with a 27-inch display last October, but the 21.5-inch iMac has kept its 1080p resolution. Recently, some code inside of the next version of OS X revealed that Apple was planning for a computer with a 4096 x 2304 display, so it was clear that something like this has been in the works. 9to5Mac reports that while this iMac will likely be announced in October alongside the release of El...

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Cruising the carpool: Are Lyft Line and UberPool the new Tinder?

Mitchell, 26, uses the carpool versions of Uber and Lyft — called UberPool and Lyft Line — to meet women.

Here’s his routine: Check the app to see who he’s matched with (Lyft Line will show the person’s Facebook picture; UberPool, just the name). Then when the woman joins him in the car, he’ll ask where she’s headed.

“If they’re like, ‘Oh, I’m going to my boyfriend’s house,’ it’s not a good situation to step into,” said Mitchell, who is a venture investor. He’s been on four dates with women he’s met this way so far — two from each app.

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Samsung teases mysterious Galaxy View product for October

Samsung held an event in Berlin this afternoon to introduce the Gear S2 smartwatch, but it had one other thing to show, too... sort of. At the very end of the event, Samsung teased something called the Galaxy View, but it didn't really say what it is. The Galaxy View appears to be a brand new tablet from Samsung — likely a very big one designed for watching movies and TV shows. It even appears to have a built-in kickstand to prop it up for viewing. That said, Samsung kept the announcement mysterious enough that it's hard to say exactly what we're seeing. Galaxy View could be an accessory. Or it could be a new feature. Whatever it is, we're supposed to find out in October.

Then again, if Samsung continues to tease out the Galaxy View the...

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Apple launches gaming-focused Twitter feed ahead of games' expected arrival on Apple TV

Apple has launched a dedicated Twitter feed for gaming just days before the company is expected to reveal a new Apple TV that doubles as a gaming console. Apple confirmed the authenticity of the account to The Verge, which sent out its first tweet this morning. It included a GIF featuring some of the platform's most popular games, including Clash of Clans and Angry Birds.

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The Vergecast will be live today at 4:30PM ET!

It's been a crazy week, friends. MTV let Miley Cyrus blow up her career in the VMAs, the IFA trade show in Berlin brought us a lot of deeply weird gadgets, and we know quite a lot more about what's coming at next week's Apple event. This is the part of the Vergecast introductory text where I convince you that these things are interrelated in an important way (and they are!), but let's save the explanation of why that's the case for the podcast. A podcast that will feature Emily Yoshida, Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Nicola Fumo. Just the right mix of cool and nerd — assigning those labels to the hosts is of course up to you (Hint: Dieter is the nerd).

We'll be live at our regular time today — 4:30PM ET / 1:30PM PT / 8:30PM GMT. You can...

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Samsung's Gear S2 is its best-looking smartwatch yet

Samsung and smartwatches have had a tenuous relationship. It's not for lack of trying — Samsung released six different smartwatches before Apple even launched one — it's just that none of them have been particularly good. Chunky designs, slow performance, and limited software have all been things that have plagued Samsung's smartwatch efforts since they began in 2013. That all may be changing, however, as the recently announced Gear S2 is the most promising smartwatch I've seen from Samsung.

The Gear S2 is unlike the rest of Samsung's smartwatches because it actually looks like a watch that I'd want to wear every day. That's largely because it's round, but also because it's much slimmer and smaller than the cuff-sized gadgets Samsung...

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High school athletes are trading cigarettes for chewing tobacco, snuff, and dip

High school athletes don't smoke as many cigarettes as non-athletes — but they do use chewing tobacco, snuff, or dip a lot more. The findings suggests that teen athletes may think smokeless tobacco is less harmful than other tobacco products, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That's a dangerous misconception, the study authors write, as smokeless tobacco still contains ingredients that cause cancer and other adverse health effects.

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The Mad Max video game is, in its very design, anti-fun

Steam offers PC gamers the option to return video games. I used to be skeptical of the notion. Video games can be big. They can take time to reveal their best self. I am only a couple hours into Mad Max, and if I hadn’t received the copy for review, I would be demanding a refund.

Mad Max isn’t a mediocre video game, doomed by technical flaws or shoddy art design. Mad Max is beautiful, and, unlike so many better games released this year, runs spectacularly on PC, as if evidence its creators had plenty of time to polish. And unlike so many poor games released this year, Mad Max's developer took creative risks. Mad Max, you get the sense, was meant to be a big budget game with soul and something to say. Unfortunately, Mad Max , a game...

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Live from Samsung's Gear S2 event

It's happening. Your live blog crew for today: Tom Warren behind the camera, Vlad Savov behind the keyboard.

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Piece of plane wreckage came from MH370, French officials confirm

Investigators in France have confirmed "with certainty" that a piece of debris that washed ashore on Réunion Island is from Malaysia Airlines 370, the flight that disappeared from radar last year with 239 people aboard. One of three numbers on the piece of wreckage, known as a flaperon, corresponds to a serial number for MH370, the Paris prosecutor said in a statement.

The piece of wreckage washed ashore on July 29th in Réunion, a French-controlled island near Madagascar, and was later flown to a laboratory in France for further analysis. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that the debris came from MH370 last month, with Malaysian authorities saying that paint colors and maintenance records supported their conclusion. But...

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Apple, Google, and other tech giants will pay $415 million in poaching scandal settlement

After tentatively approving the settlement in March, US District Judge Lucy Koh ruled on Wednesday that some of tech's biggest companies will pay out $415 million to settle a long-running employee poaching lawsuit.

Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, and other major companies were hit with the class-action lawsuit for allegedly agreeing to not poach employees from one another, an action the plaintiffs in the case argued kept wages artificially low. Last year, Judge Koh rejected a $324.5 million settlement, saying the thousands of employees involved in the case deserved more, after it was shown there was "ample evidence of an overarching conspiracy." (Meanwhile, the attorney for the plaintiffs had requested about $81 million in fees, which the...

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Netflix has renewed Narcos for a second season

Less than a week since its premiere, Netflix has renewed drug war drama Narcos for a second season. The news broke over Twitter, thanks to a brief video reveal on the official Narcos account:

Coming soon. #Narcos https://t.co/elFgwjvsnj

— Narcos (@NarcosNetflix) September 3, 2015

This is great news for fans who binged the series over the weekend. The show, which follows the rise and fall of Medellín cartel boss Pablo Escobar, earned raves from critics last week in the days before its debut. (We also thought it was pretty great.) Netflix hasn't revealed a premiere date for the drama, but rest assured that an announcement will be made in the months ahead.

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Inside Facebook's plan to build a better school

Looking back, Mike Sego says, he was always meant to work in education. His dad taught fifth grade for 37 years, three of his older siblings were K-12 teachers, and he spent free time as a kid grading papers for fun. But like so many people who arrive in Silicon Valley after college, Sego first started working in tech. He worked on The Sims, and later got to know Mark Zuckerberg when his virtual pets game, (fluff)Friends, was one of the first hits on Facebook’s new games platform. Around that time, Zuckerberg had become interested in education as part of his philanthropy, donating $100 million to Newark schools in 2010. After a stint as CEO of Gaia Interactive, Sego decided to turn his attention to education. He called Zuckerberg and...

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Withings finally makes its entire product lineup compatible with Android

The connected scales, motion cameras, sleep systems, and baby monitors from the health-conscious company Withings have worked exclusively with iOS devices, until today. Withings has made its entire product lineup available to Android users, bringing the remainder of its devices in line with its Activité smartwatches, which gained Android compatibility back in May.

Withings is also updating the Aura, its total sleep system, adding Spotify integration that will give users access to the 30 million song catalog (Spotify Premium users only however). The Withings Aura — which already has Nest integration to adjust the temperature to your optimal sleep settings — will use your musical tastes and aggregated data from Aura users around the...

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T-Mobile launches native video calling starting with Samsung's latest phones

Starting today, T-Mobile customers with a Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 Edge+ can place video calls right from their phone's dialer. The Uncarrier is introducing T-Mobile Video Calling, a VoLTE-powered feature that is also coming to the Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge next week, and three more unspecified devices by the end of 2015. "There’s no need to search out, download, configure and register additional apps," Neville Ray, T-Mobile's CTO, wrote in a blog post today.

But for this to work, the person you're calling does have to own a device that works with T-Mobile Video Calling. "Small camera icons appear next to contacts with devices able to receive video calls," according to Ray. "If the person you’re calling can’t take video calls, the video...

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GM perfectly restored the millionth Corvette after it was destroyed by a sinkhole

You may remember the giant sinkhole that opened up beneath Kentucky's National Corvette Museum last year, in which eight priceless works of American craftsmanship fell directly into Earth's gaping maw. Some of the cars weren't worth bringing back from the grave, but others were — the millionth Corvette ever made, for instance, which was signed by everyone involved in its construction.

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Listen to synth mystic Oneohtrix Point Never's new single, 'I Bite Through It'

Daniel Lopatin is prepping the release of his eighth full-length as Oneohtrix Point Never, Garden of Delete, for November 13th. As part of an interview with Rolling Stone, Lopatin unveiled the record's first single, "I Bite Through It," which follows a series of three teasers called "drone," "gun," and "flame." "I want to make three-minute songs, self-contained," said Lopatin about the song, "kind of formally contrasting between what I regard as new electronic music that's interesting and my need to rage."

You can feel that contrast brought to life in "I Bite Through It," a song that veers back and forth between sections of serene glitch-folk and overbearing, distorted riffage like a manic-depressive motherboard. Its structure is...

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Skype for iOS and Android drops Windows Phone-like design

Skype’s user interface feels like it’s constantly being updated and tweaked, and a new mobile update brings even more changes today. Skype 6.0 is rolling out for Android and iOS, and with it comes a big new redesign. The last time Microsoft attempted to change its Skype mobile interface was back in June 2014 when the company brought a taste of Windows Phone to its iOS and Android apps. Microsoft is ditching that design today.

The replacement focuses on being “more natural and intuitive,” according to Microsoft. Instead of forcing the Windows Phone-like swiping between sections, Microsoft is adopting the iOS style of navigation. That means buttons at the bottom of the app to clearly mark out sections, and Microsoft has done the same on...

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Netflix will never have everything you want, and neither will anyone else

This past weekend Netflix announced that it was not renewing its streaming deal with cable channel Epix, and as a result, movies like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Transformers: Age of Extinction will be disappearing from the service by the end of September. Hulu signed up with Epix instead (Amazon Video already has a deal), and Netflix’s attempt to soften the blow — "Hey guys, we’ve got new Adam Sandler and Pee-wee Herman movies coming!" — was met with swift and merciless ridicule.

Behind all the sturm and drang is a basic truth: consumers want a single subscription service that can offer all the movies and TV shows they could possibly want, all in one place. Conditioned by years of streaming music...

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Airbnb debuts on smartwatches with Apple Watch app

Airbnb thinks it deserves a place on your wrist. Today, the home rental service launched its first smartwatch application, exclusively for the Apple Watch, with features for both guests and renters. The hope is that as Airbnb becomes a more prominent hotel alternative, its users feel that communicating on the app is as functional and available as texting or using chat apps like Facebook Messenger.

To that end, the Aribnb smartwatch app will let hosts receive new booking requests that display a name and a photo alongside a message from the prospective renter. The ability to accept or reject a booking can be done straight from your wrist, as can messaging between hosts and guests, which will be handled in similar ways to Airbnb's...

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You can now buy Star Wars' adorable BB-8 droid and let it patrol your home

As I write this, holed up in a small office, I can hear a quiet whirr going to and fro on the floor. Actually, it’s more of a quiet whirr followed by a less quiet thunk as plastic meets plaster wall, followed by a brief intermission where my aural focus shifts to the various emotive beeps emanating from my phone’s speaker.

This may be the oddest way to “enjoy” a toy — it’s certainly one of the most passive — but Sphero’s BB-8 isn’t a toy so much as it is a very simple robot performer with Pixar-esque aspirations. The $149.99 droid will go on sale starting this Friday at Apple’s retail stores, Best Buy, and Sphero’s own website (don’t worry, it’s Android compatible, too). That’s a pretty hefty price tag, but Sphero’s BB-8 is offering...

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Is this your 'Next' iPhone keyboard?

When iOS 8 was announced at WWDC ’14, one of its most exciting features was that it gave users the option to install third-party keyboards. Since then we’ve seen a lot of options emerge, including Swype, SwiftKey, Fleksy, and Minuum. Today, after a year in the making, Next Keyboard is joining the ranks.

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Two graphic designers are trying to preserve NASA’s famous 1970s 'Worm' logo

A logo should immediately convey a company’s identity. With the right visual style, it can communicate the goals and ambitions of an organization without the use of words. But as crucial as it is to pick the right logo, these graphics aren’t unbending. Companies change or update their graphics over the years, often at times when they are headed in new directions. Google demonstrated that this week, when it unveiled a new look for the company’s transition into Alphabet. A new logo often symbolizes a new era for an organization.

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Huawei is the new Samsung

Samsung's meteoric rise as a smartphone maker began with the Galaxy S, a 2010 Android handset with some high specs and more than a passing resemblance to the iPhone. That formula of pushing the limits of specs and the boundaries of Apple's intellectual property is now being reprised by Huawei. But the Chinese giant, better known for its telecom equipment, isn't limiting itself to Apple — it's taking inspiration and borrowing ideas from every device maker around, while still finding ways to distinguish itself with unique specs in an already oversaturated Android phone market.

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Samsung's paddle-shaped sleep sensor can control your home while you sleep

Sleep, says Samsung, is a "mysterious frontier that allows us to rejuvenate." With this in mind, the company has created a new probe to explore this hinterland — the contactless SleepSense. This ping-pong paddle-shaped device slips under your mattress to monitor you in the night, using piezo sensors to detect vibrations. It sounds imprecise, but Samsung promises that this method can measure a user's heart rate, respiration, and movement with 97 percent accuracy. The SleepSense then connects via low-energy Bluetooth to the user's smartphone and delivers daily sleep reports every morning. These include a "sleep score" out of 80 that Samsung says lets people quickly quantify how good their sleep was, and compare different days, weeks, and...

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Teens aren't interested in your big TV

On-demand viewing has soared in recent years, according to a new report from Ericsson, with consumers spending an average of six hours per week watching on-demand movies and TV shows. That figure has more than doubled since 2011, when viewers devoted 2.9 hours per week to on-demand content. More than 50 percent say they stream on-demand content at least once a day, up from 30 percent in 2010.

The findings are described in Ericsson's TV and Media 2015 report, released today. The report is based on analytics gathered from Android and iOS devices, as well as more than 20,000 online interviews with consumers in 20 markets.

According to the report, mobile platforms are preferred among millennial consumers (age 16-34), with smartphones,...

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First Click: What’s your favorite Skylake PC so far?

We’re now firmly into day two of IFA, Europe’s biggest tech show, and I suspect at least one of the newly announced PCs with Intel’s Skylake inside has caught your attention. And while upgrading your PC and CPU isn’t required for Windows 10, it sure is tempting isn’t it?

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Poll

What’s your favorite Skylake PC so far?

• Asus GX700 water-cooled laptop
• Asus Zen Aio S all-in-one desktop
• Acer Predator 15 or 17 gaming laptop
• Acer Revo modular desktop
• Lenovo Ideapad Miix 700 Surface clone
• Toshiba Satellite Radius 12 4K convertible

  647 votes | Results

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The US egg lobby is afraid of plants

The US egg industry worked closely with a government official and a major public relations firm to target Hampton Creek, The Guardian reports, on the belief that the food company's plant-based mayonnaise represented a threat to its business. Emails obtained under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that the American Egg Board (AEB), egg industry executives, and an official from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) discussed several strategies to bring down Hampton Creek and its Just Mayo mayonnaise alternative, which outgoing AEB president Joanne Ivy described as "a crisis and major threat to the future of the egg product business" in an August 2013 email.

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SmartThings’ new hub uses Samsung cameras to monitor your home

SmartThings, the open-platform smart home company that sold itself to Samsung a year ago, is rolling out its first new product line since it was acquired by the Korean electronics giant.

The new SmartThings "smart hub," a router-like device that supports various wireless protocols and powers a series of sensors around the house, has a new design and is equipped with a more powerful processor to support video monitoring.

That means that SmartThings users can connect a home monitoring camera, either a D-Link camera or a Samsung-made one (natch), to the the new hub and monitor the live video feed from the SmartThings mobile app. While the app will serve a continuous live-stream of video, video isn't sent through SmartThings's servers, the...

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Here's how Steam will soon work better with TVs and controllers

Valve is testing a new version of its Steam gaming platform for TVs, just a couple of months before the Steam Controller goes on sale. You can check it out for yourself by opting into the beta channel in Steam’s preferences, but here’s the main change in the tweaked Big Picture mode: a much-improved way to navigate your sprawling library of games that you will probably never get around to playing.

The new Library section, and much of the rest of the interface, seems to take influence from living room media center software such as Plex by using a left-aligned column to sort everything into simple categories. The first thing you see when choosing Library from the largely unchanged Start screen is a page called “Resume and Explore,” which...

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This is how the Boba Fett Star Wars spin-off movie should look

When Disney announced that it was planning to make a series of spin-off Star Wars "Anthology" movies, Boba Fett — the biggest and baddest bounty hunter in the galaxy — was reportedly set for a lead role in one of the first films off the production line. But then, just like it did above the gaping maw of the Sarlacc in Tatooine's Dune Sea, it all went wrong for Fett. Director Josh Trank left the project earlier this year, leaving Boba's biopic floating in space, waiting for someone to kickstart the engines and take the helm.

Eric Demeusy could be that person. The filmmaker has produced a Fett fan film, a 90-second trailer that shows how stylish the spin-off movie could be. In the clip, Fett has escaped from the horrible sphincter-mouth...

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