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Having roommates can be tough, especially when it comes to the dishes. 
Even if you own a dishwasher, it seems like every time you find the bottom of the sink, there's a mountain of dirty dishes waiting to be washed moments later. There's no stopping it. It's just never-ending.
The best you can do is daydream of living alone, where you'll never have to hear the excuse that the dishes need to soak before washing ever again. 
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Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos might be working on his own plans for space travel, but it doesn’t look like he’s above getting a little help from Hollywood. According to Star Trek Beyond director Justin Lin, Bezos will have a small cameo role in the upcoming science fiction film.
Bezos joins other celebrities who have had roles in high-profile reboots, such as Daniel Craig, who portrayed a stormtrooper in The Force Awakens, Jimmy Buffett in Jurassic World, and Verm

GUEST: Assistants are all the rage right now. Everyone seems to be working on one. People imagine them becoming the new interface to computers — why bother with apps and searching the web when you can just ask your assistant to do it for you?
Yet, a major challenge stands between the dream assistant and the current reality. It’s called the multi-agent problem, and most companies are reluctant to talk about it. The solution will ultimately determine how much of an impact ass

Even though Google reportedly scrapped plans for an Oculus Rift competitor, Engadget reports that it's still working on a high-end standalone headset — one that mixes features of augmented reality and virtual reality.
According to sources who spoke with Engadget, the company is moving ahead with a dedicated headset that won’t require the use of a mobile phone or computer to function. Engadget says while the headset has a screen, its feature may lean more on augmented realit

Real-world game design for mobile has its roots in pervasive game design, augmented reality, mixed reality, ubiquitous gaming, and a dozen or so other classifications. None of these are perfect, but real world is the most accommodating and carries the best chance of entering mainstream parlance. While the pioneers of this niche are largely slaughtered under the banner of location-based gaming, Niantic’s Pokémon GO, built on substantial learning from Ingress, has finally delivered.
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Scott Baio, star of the 1980s sitcom Charles in Charge, is going to say a few words at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
The invite came from no less than the presumptive Republican nominee himself, Mr. Donald Trump. Baio gives Trump a bona fide celebrity speaker to join the list of cheerleaders who will sing his praises as he formally assumes the role of the Republican Party's 2016 presidential candidate.
SEE ALSO: Trump's VP tweet makes history
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c. 1590"Vertumnus - Rudolf II," depicts Rudolph II (1552-1612), Holy Roman Emperor from 1576, as Vertumnus, the ancient Roman god of seasons who presided over gardens and orchards.Image: Public DomainBorn to a Milanese artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo became a court portraitist in 1562, when he began delighting his Hapsburg patrons with lavish and bizarre portraits composed entirely of fruits, vegetables and other organic elementsHe first presented these composite portraits in 1569 in two sets of fou

You know the old saying: if you love something, ink it permanently on your skin. At the Star Wars Celebration convention in London this year, fans of the franchise lived up to these wise words, queueing for tattoos of droids, Jedi, and Sith Lords alike. Amongst the stands hawking T-shirts and toys, more than a dozen tattoo artists from around the world turned up to ink the crowds. Although most of them were fully booked up before the convention's doors even opened, cruising their makeshift tatto

GUEST: Big companies can too easily become victims of what I call “innovation tourism”: They partner with startups and VCs in an effort to innovate, but they wind up merely sampling new technologies and practices and failing to drive innovation and change throughout their organizations.
There are many reasons these partnerships fail to result in real, lasting change, but a lot of them have to do with how the partnerships are structured. There’s no single model that will work fo

It's cool. We'll just start wearing sandals from now on.
As the rainy season brings flooding to Southeast Asia, critters and snakes head for higher ground as their nests flood. Of course, this means that some homes will inevitably have unwelcome house guests.
As demonstrated by this man, it's always best to take a peek into your shoes during the rainy season, because there may be a terrifying (yet oddly adorable) snake seeking refuge inside. 
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Brazilian artist Brunco Alberto has animated a collection of classic scenes in a minimal animated gif in an art project called Low Poly Scenes. Thus far, he's adapted scenes from films such as Back to the Future, Free Willy, Indiana Jones and Star Wars: A New Hope, as well as television shows such as Game of Thrones. Bruno Alberto Bruno Alberto Bruno Alberto Bruno Alberto
The simplified animated style works really well capturing the excitement of the moment, whether it's Luke dodging TIE fi

When you run one of the biggest businesses on the planet, making a dream come true can be as easy as asking for it. 
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos appears listed in the credits for Paramount Pictures' July 22 sequel, Star Trek Beyond. That's because the longtime Trek fan landed himself a cameo in the series latest installment, as director Justin Lin confirmed on Friday. 
SEE ALSO: Simon Pegg defends decision to make Sulu gay in ‘Star Trek Beyond’
"He was awesome," Lin

GUEST: The growing popularity of messaging platforms, paired with rapid advances in A.I., is driving a new era of meaningful interaction with chabots. Just as browsers like Chrome and Firefox provide access to every web page, messaging platforms have begun to mirror that functionality to access branded conversational bots. A massive number of people — 1.4 billion monthly users — are now on messaging platforms and are spending an average of 23 minutes and 23 second

Pokémon Go isn't quite finished invading every corner of society as we know it. The hit mobile game got an unexpected shout-out during a Saturday evening mixed martial arts showdown.
After MMA fighter Michael Page finished off his opponent Evangelista Santos at Bellator 158, he donned a Pokémon cap and rolled a plush Poké Ball at his fallen foe. 
No lures required when you can pummel your prey into submission.
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Formula E wrapped up its second season just a few weeks ago, but teams are already knee-deep in testing for season three, which starts this October in Hong Kong. Today they were at the Autodromo Riccardo Paletti in Italy, and the official Snapchat account of the all-electric racing series showed off some brief glimpses of a pretty big aesthetic change apparently coming to the cars next season: a totally futuristic-looking front wing.
In the first two seasons, Formula E cars had rather typical-lo

Ghostbusters always has been and always will be a family affair.
Few recognize that better than Katie Dippold, co-writer of the freshly released reboot.
SEE ALSO: Guess what, misogynists? You're the reason 'Ghostbusters' is about gender
"I think it starts with Dan Aykroyd's enthusiasm," Dippold told Mashable. "His family was super into the paranormal and I think that kind of excitement breeds a really fun movie [in the original]."
It's a similar feeling of excitement that got Dippold into Ghost

It's true: Your dog is straight up ignoring you.
Using her very best high-pitched doggy voice, Nala's human Caitlyn attempted to gain her pup's attention. But you see, Nala has a disorder called selective hearing. She doesn't care what you have to say,  unless, of course, it's about food.
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82-year-old 'America's Got Talent' star rocks out with Drowning Pool
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Last December, I had tickets to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens the night after the premiere. While I was at work that day, I was filled with anxiety. What if I overheard someone talking about the movie? What if I accidentally saw something online that gave away a major plot point?
Many can relate to the experience of avoiding spoilers: staying off social media, slipping away from coworkers who are discussing a recent plot development, quickly closing articles with revealing headlines.
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Busting makes Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig and the rest of the cast and crew behind Ghostbusters feel good.
The newly released reboot picked up an estimated $46 million in domestic ticket sales during its opening weekend, good enough for second place at the box office. It's a good-not-great start for a movie said to be budgeted at more than $140 million, but that's just from Sony's perspective.
SEE ALSO: Fans shouldn't be afraid of no 'Ghostbusters'
For Feig and McCarthy, it's a momentous weeken

LONDON — It was the worst-kept secret in Hollywood: Alden Ehrenreich, an actor best known for playing an actor playing a cowboy, has been tapped to play young Han Solo.
Ehrenreich's role as Solo in an untitled Star Wars spinoff movie, which starts filming early next year, was confirmed Sunday at Star Wars Celebration in London's giant ExCel center. 
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Washington DC is considering utilizing drivers from Uber or similar services to help shift some of the lowest priority calls away from ambulances. According to NBC Washington 4, Washington, DC city emergency services are thinking outside the box when it comes to dealing with low-level emergency calls by utilizing third-party services such as Uber or local taxi companies to help ease the demand on the system.
Major metro areas in the United States have seen the call rates at 911 call centers

So you've been playing Pokémon Go and you've been walking a lot more than you usually do. Maybe your legs and feet are tired, maybe you have blisters, maybe you're sunburnt, maybe that really awesome Pikachu (CP ??, which means it's beefy as heck) slipped away. I can't fix the elusiveness of Pokémon, but I can probably give you some tips on how to cut down on some of the other things. Most days I walk for at least five miles, sometimes with a big pack on my back that contains all m

Last May reports surfaced that actor Alden Ehrenreich was in final negotiations to play the role of young Han Solo in a new standalone film, and today at Star Wars Celebration the casting was confirmed. During the "Future Filmmakers" panel in London, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller explained that they had auditioned 3,000 actors across the world for the coveted role, before finally landing on their choice. Ironically, Ehrenreich was not only the final choice — he was actual

Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and if this week’s picks are a little off it’s because every song I heard this week was distorted by the air conditioner whining right next to my desk. Summer finally rolled up and socked me on the chin after a few weeks of tolerable weather, and I’m sure it’s affecting my listening habits in ways I can’t quite understand. Please consider the selection of these j

Tonight, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is slated to take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying nearly 5,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station. And as usual, the company will attempt to land the vehicle back on Earth post-takeoff. But this time, the rocket’s target won’t be a drone ship at sea, as it has been for the last six SpaceX launches. This Falcon 9 will be returning to Landing Zone 1, SpaceX's ground-based landing site at the cape. Continue reading…

The Millennium Falcon may have an iconic shape, but it was never designed to fly. That is, until toy makers Propel got their hands on it, and turned it — along with three other classic Star Wars ships — into some of the most straightforwardly fun quadcopters I’ve ever played with. “It’s basically a Frisbee,” says Propel CEO Darren Scott of the Falcon’s design. “When it’s flying the air wants to push it down. But we managed to get it to stay u

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The Cherokee tribe of Native Americans had a well-known proverb stating that you “shouldn’t judge a person before you have walked a mile in their shoes”. It’s practical advice to view a situation from the perspective of another before rendering an opinion. One can see how this type of thinking can lead to greater compassion and understanding of those around us. But how can one really experience the perspective of another? It’s certainly easier said than done. Consi

Getting cash out of an ATM could be getting a bit easier. Finance technology company Fidelity Information Services and ATM provider Payment Alliance International have announced that they will be bringing Touch ID to 70,000 ATMs across the United States.
The partnership will allow customers to use the FIS Cardless Cash app on select PIA ATMs. The system currently allows customers to make a withdrawal from their phone through the app by making a withdrawal online, using a QR code to retrieve thei