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If you like cosplay at all, DragonCon is the place that you want to go. While costumers can be found at just about every convention you go to, this is where cosplayers go to show off every Labor Day weekend.
It’s like a living parade of internet memes
While San Diego Comic Con is what everyone thinks about when you say the word 'convention', but it's DragonCon where cosplayers bring out their best work. Held in Atlanta, Georgia, the convention celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, and

A closed-circuit camera captured Saturday night's explosion in New York City that injured 29 people. 
SEE ALSO: Pressure cooker device removed from NYC street after robot inspects it
The footage was captured by a camera at Orangetheory Fitness, at 124 W. 23rd St. in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, just a few doors down from where the explosive device detonated at 131 W. 23rd St. 
The video shows multiple views of the explosion taking place and the chaos that ensues, including people

Several players on the Miami Dolphins knelt during the national anthem on Sunday, despite threats from a local police union that security details could stop because of the protests. 
Before the game in Foxborough, Massachusetts, against the New England Patriots, Kenny Stills, Michael Thomas and Arian Foster took a knee during the national anthem for the second week in a row. Jelani Jenkins, who knelt last week, decided to stand this time. Thomas, Stills and Foster kneeling during anthe

Ever since I put on a VR headset, I’ve wanted to use one to watch live sporting events. Well, that tech is here now, and it’s a miserable experience.
During week three of the NCAA college football season, Fox Sports aired the matchup between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Ohio State Buckeyes on its Fox Sports VR App. This smartphone program from developer LiveLike is available now for free on the iOS, Android, and Gear VR markets. For the OSU-OU game, it had five different 180-deg

GUEST: Creating and presenting revenue forecasts to investors is always tricky for startup founders. Forecast too high, and they won’t believe you, forecast too conservatively, and they may lose interest.
To get a sense of how the average startup is assessing its growth potential, my company, Equidam, has collected financial projections for more than 15,000 early-stage ventures across 78 countries. We looked at the latest year of financials plus the next three years of forecasted revenues.

Over the past couple of days, multiple reports of the iPhone 7 making “hissing” noises have cropped up. Gizmodo has a nice roundup here, but the gist that 512 Pixels’ Stephen Hackett noticed it and several others have followed up to say they’re hearing the same thing. It’s one of those issues that could rise to the level of a [insert word here]-gate. It also could not be a big deal at all, which is iMore’s analysis. But in a quiet room, with the phone under he

A suspicious device found in New York City may be an improvised explosive device made from a household pressure cooker, according to early reports from local law enforcement. 
Police retrieved the device on Saturday night on West 27th Street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Nearby, on West 23rd Street, an explosion injured 29 people, all of whom have since left the hospital, NYPD confirmed Sunday.
SEE ALSO: Pressure cooker device removed from NYC street after robot inspects it
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GUEST: Two years ago, Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham wrote on his blog that 95% of great programmers are not from the United States. Luckily, today’s interconnected world grants us access to resources and talent from the most remote corners of the earth. It’s become easier than ever to source, build, and manage a team of developers in practically any part of the world.
However, many people still view international development teams as less optimal than US-based teams. After all,

When the harrowing photo of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi's lifeless body went viral in 2015, it galvanized the world to start paying attention and talk about the refugee crisis with earnest.
One year later, public discourse on refugees is arguably more frequent and nuanced — but the crisis is far from over. There are still at least 65.3 million people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes around the world, 21.3 million of whom are refugees. Half of those refugees are ch

GUEST: Virtual reality may be generating most of the buzz today, but another major tech shift looms much closer on the horizon: machine learning.
The technology has already made inroads with the public through platforms such as Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Deep Dream Generator. But its influence will extend beyond voice-controlled speakers and AI-enhanced art, effecting a sea of change for businesses of all sizes. It will be a few years before we witness machine learning&rsqu

Early on at Mashable's seventh-annual Social Good Summit in New York City, the audience was treated to an informative and funny conversation with Chelsea Handler.  
The comedian discussed the global impact of her Netflix series Chelsea, the presidential election and the importance of using her media platform to make a difference.
While Chelsea Lately, Handler's former late-night talk show on E!, focused on celebrity gossip, her new Netflix show Chelsea addresses a slew of other issues. When

Friday night was special for Novi High School in Michigan.
After four years of serving the athletics department, Robby Heil, a senior with Down syndrome, finally got his chance to score a touchdown in a game.
"This is something that we thought we could do to bring some joy, hopefully some outstanding memories," Novi head coach Jeff Burnside told WXYZ.
SEE ALSO: An appreciation of the McDonald's employee with Down Syndrome who just retired after 32 years
Robby was put into play during the s

GUEST: How is it that the big, bad Valley – 48 miles worth of growling, industry-eviscerating talent, ambition, and money – has become a compliant lap dog for the anti-competitive overlords of the most astonishingly broken consumer market in American society today: politics?
In announcing his $20 million donation to Democratic party organizations last week, Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz said he and his wife Cari Tuna “have dedicated our lives to figuring out how to do&nbs

Apple has released a series of new ads for its iPhone 7 and Apple Watch 2, highlighting some of their new features, such as water resistance and low-light photography.
The first ad, titled Midnight, follows a teenager out on a late-night excursion with his phone, taking pictures along the way of moths, a deer and the city late at night, highlighting the phone’s improved camera.
The next ad, Morning Ride, is all about the phone’s new water resistance as a biker suits up for a bik

I’m an indiscriminate eavesdropper. If there’s a conversation near me, I listen — on the train, in restaurants, on the sidewalk, and especially at work. But in our open-plan office, there are a lot of conversations to overhear. And I’m supposed to be working.
"People are aging their ears much faster."
Since I definitely don’t have the self control to just ignore my colleagues, I’ve been trying to drown them out — and every option seems like it has a down

The world witnessed the birth of a brand new meme on Sunday. 
It all started when Redditor cox-in-fox posted a photo of his wife happily running away from their baby propped up on a hay bale. He explains that the mother was trying to get out of the way of a photo, because every parent can understand how difficult it can be to get that perfect picture with a young kid. 
SEE ALSO: Upset IT guy ends up in a hilarious Photoshop battleImage:cox-in-fox/RedditBut the photo was too good for th

Kanye West can now add budding photographer to his long list of diverse skills.
Late Saturday evening, Kanye West officially joined Instagram. At the time of writing, West amassed a cool 329,000 followers overnight with a single post, yet he hasn't followed a single person, not even his wife, Kim Kardashian-West. 
SEE ALSO: Kanye West says phones disrupt his creative processImage:Screenshot,InstagramWhile West is known for his sometimes ridiculous and possibly artistic tweets, this is his f

Following that black and white iPhone 7 teaser video from last week, Apple has launched a new series of commercials promoting the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2 and each one is, in true Apple tradition, a tiny work of art. 
The first is titled "Midnight," and it takes us on a trip with a skateboarder who has an eye for night photography. Designed to show off the iPhone 7's low-light powers, the one-minute mini movie is oddly intimate, even while touting the most talked about technolo

Sully will close its second week in release with a return trip to the top spot in the box office, but that's not necessarily bad news for newcomer Blair Witch.
The 17-years-later sequel — let's just forget Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows ever existed — copies the 1999 original's found-footage format and low-budget production. It follows a group of unsuspecting victims as they search for answers in the same creepy forest setting as the first movie. 
SEE ALSO: 'Blair Witch' is a mi

Lots of my family members have allergies. But we’re feeling a little better now that we’ve got an air purifier that attempts to clean the air in a big part of oure home.
Coway’s Airmega is a Wi-Fi-connected filtration system that you can control via a mobile app. It is one of the latest gadgets in the Internet of Things, or everyday objects that are becoming smart, connected, and sensorized. I tried it out, and while it didn’t completely erase our allergies, it certainly

People couldn’t wait to get their hands on the iPhone 7 just to scratch it, drop it, and attempt to bend it. Sounds like the perfect thing to do with a new phone! On the channel JerryRigEverything, the team tested the new iPhone for scratch and bend resistance. The back of the phone, the screen, the home button, and camera lens resisted scratches from both coins and keys. Great!
But the phone did scratch from a razor blade, even though Apple says its home button and camera are coated with

The age-old practice of playing catch with dad takes on a different meaning when you're John Brady, the son of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
SEE ALSO: Lifelike Tom Brady mask is straight out of Roger Goodell's fever dreams
The senior Brady is currently suspended from professional football and not allowed to visit team facilities. But that didn't stop father and son from visiting the University of Michigan — Tom's alma mater — to toss the pigskin around on a real footbal

Tonight, television will broadcast a celebration of all things television. The 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, organized by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, will honor the biggest and best shows in TV in the past year (with a little help and campaigning from their respective networks, of course). Red carpet coverage starts at 7PM ET on ABC, with the awards themselves starting at 8PM ET. You'll be able to stream everything live via ABC's website or via its Android / iOS app &mdas

After a deep playthrough, I’ve become very interested in the narrative story of the Mafia III video game coming from publisher 2K Games (a Take-Two Interactive division) on October 7.
It’s a simple mob revenge plot on one level, but the writers and designers from Hangar 13 have figured out how to build an immersive world around it, set in the turmoil of a fictional New Orleans in 1968, during the height of the Vietnam War. In that story, Vietnam veteran Lincoln Clay returns

Earlier this week The Verge published a full review of the new Apple Watch Series 2 smartwatch, which has been positioned largely as a health and fitness tracker. I wrote about its improved water resistance, the addition of a built-in GPS antenna, and some of the fitness-focused changes in the software.
Since then, though, a lot of readers have sent follow up questions about the new Watch, specifically around its health and fitness tracking. Lucky for you, I am still working out with the darn th

LONDON — Bye bye, beloved flower crowns. You were the sartorial version of a cherry on a cake, but the time has come to bid you adieu. 
SEE ALSO: The flower crown just got an upgrade: Mermaid crowns are making a splash
Everybody, say hello to face flowers. 
What are they? Well, as the name might suggest, face flowers involve placing real pressed flowers around the hairline on your faceIndeed, models at the Preen by Thornton Bregazzi Spring Summer 2017 show in London rocked presse

Let's all take a moment to thank YouTuber WhyBeAre for figuring out how to control Overwatch's musical support hero Lúcio with the faux-turntables from Activision's DJ Hero series.
In the video above, WhyBeAre demonstrates his ingenious feat of keybinding. One turntable handles Lúcio's forward/backward movement and the other controls his turning. 
It's very old-school Doom-style gaming, with no jump or vertical aim... but this is Lúcio. Shooting well doesn't really mat

Humpback whales are actually just master pranksters.
Trevor Ryan was fishing off the coast of Langara Island, in British Columbia, Canada, on Sept. 3 with his father and a tour guide when a humpback whale suddenly breached the surface just a few feet from their boat. 
"Holy Christ," one man says after the whale jumps out of the water.
Thankfully, the whale was far enough away so that the boat did not capsize, and after showing off its tail, the animal swam under the boat and back into the

Like everything else in the summer, wine drinking is easy. And the answer to every question, at least the wine-related ones, might as well be rosé. But now that fall is here, it’s time to get to more serious drinking. It turns out that cooler weather does indeed translate into bigger wine sales.
“People dig deeper and buy more serious [read: expensive] wines in the fall and early winter,” noted Robert Bohr, co-owner of Charlie Bird in New York.
He’s one of seven of

Sony touted the 4K graphics capabilities of its PlayStation Pro video game console at its event in New York City a couple of weeks ago.
VentureBeat’s Harrison Web attended the event and was able to check out games running on 4K TVs. You could say that Sony really wants gamers to believe that the benefits of almost-4K games and high-dynamic range (HDR) for games such as the upcoming Horizon Zero Dawn, a big sci-fi PS4 exclusive coming early next year..
Developer Guerrilla Games confirmed in

In the last 15 years, the Emmys have used the term "miniseries" to describe (and honor) a two-part network dramatization of the Anne Frank story, five incarnations of a 13-part horror bonanza, a six-hour movie version of America's most famous play, and a disaster of an eight-part Kennedys history which aired on the reality TV network Reelz. For a long time, it was basically a meaningless word in a mess of a category.
But as TV viewing habits and network practices have evolved, that's c

For two nights in November, homegrown Australian rock band Crowded House will reunite to perform at the Sydney Opera House.
The shows, on Nov. 25 and 26, are happening just after the 20th anniversary of the band's Nov. 24, 1996 farewell concert on the steps of the Australian city's world-renowned performance venue. Some estimates put attendance as high as 250,000 for the 1996 Sydney Opera House show.
SEE ALSO: Underpaid, under-protected: Australian football's women players deserve better
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Lyft President and co-founder John Zimmer released a 14-page document today in which he predicts that by 2021, "a majority" of rides on its network will be in autonomous vehicles. Also by 2025, Zimmer says personal car ownership in US cities will be a thing of the past.
The end of car ownership will change cities in "huge ways," he said, echoing those experts and academics that predict streets and parking lots will be transformed into housing and open spaces with the mass adoption of autonomous

What was once nothing more than a pipe dream for science fiction enthusiasts is now a commercially released product, as virtual reality devices are readily available on the shelves of your local Best Buy. But it’s facing a new set of challenges as it strives for greater success in this highly competitive marketplace.
A new survey, created through a joint effort by Upload and Perkins Coie, sought to find out how the fledgeling VR scene felt about its own chances of achie

Reports have surfaced that the iPhone 7 Plus makes an audible hissing noise whenever under intense strain. The first person to point out the defect was Stephen Hackett, of the blog 512 Pixels. He first noticed the defect while restoring his phone from iCloud. Hackett eventually realized that the noise wasn’t coming from the speaker, but rather from the logic board itself. You can hear what it sounds like in the video below. Other people have identified the same defect as Hackett’s o

1937Image: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty ImagesFollowing Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party’s seizure of power in Germany in 1933, they began staging massive and intimidating annual rallies in Nuremberg.The Nuremberg Rallies were held each September at specially designed assembly grounds which spanned 11 square kilometersThe rallies, which were documented in Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda films, including Triumph of the Will, were meant as displays of unity, strength and German c

LONDON — When you have your period at work, the struggle could not be more real, or more painful. Given half a chance, many of us would prefer to stay holed up in bed with a hot water bottle. 
SEE ALSO: This new ad for sanitary pads is pretty groundbreaking in its realism
Whether you're to-ing and fro-ing to the bathroom with a bag in tow, or trying with all your might to conceal the agony you're experiencing; having your period at work is a complicated, energy-sapping experience.
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Deprived of design inspiration and looking for something to brighten up your apartment slash wardrobe? Never fear, we've done the hard work of clicking and scrolling for you.
Cure the sameness of your stuff with hidden gems from Australia's most adorable, quirky and practical designers peddling their wares in the online heaven that is Etsy.
SEE ALSO: These maps are cool, if you like viewing details of every dirt road ever
From hand-designed graphic prints and precious jewellery, to functional ho

LONDON — Fabulously kooky, unabashedly awkward and funny AF; British films and TV shows hold a place in all of our hearts. 
What's more: these movies and shows happen to boast some pretty dapper — not to mention ratchet — costumes. 
SEE ALSO: We asked total strangers to pick one outfit for the rest of their lives
But, can you identify these beloved, iconic movies and shows from the outfits alone? Mashable hit the streets during London Fashion Week to put street style

UPDATE: Sunday, Sept. 18, 12:45 p.m. ET: NYPD confirms device found on West 27th Street has elements of an improvised explosive device. Explosion on West 23rd Street has been called a "bombing."
A robot belonging to NYPD was sent in to inspect a "suspicious package" on the sidewalk in Chelsea, Manhattan early Sunday morning — just blocks away from the site of an earlier explosion which injured 29 people.
Law enforcement sources described the package on West 27th Street as a pressure cooker

People who smoke marijuana daily may be slimmer than those who don't use the drug, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that people in the study who used marijuana daily had about a 3 percent lower BMI (body mass index), on average, than those who did not use marijuana at all.
"There is a popular belief that people who consume marijuana have the munchies, and so [they] are going to eat a lot and gain weight, and we found that it is not necessarily the case," said lead study author Isabelle C.

A couple were watching TV at home Saturday night, when a single engine plane crashed into their house in Glibert, Arizona. Amazingly, the pair have escaped unharmed.
Local police say the small aircraft was part of a demonstration for the annual Constitutional Fair, and crashed around 7:30 p.m. MDT Saturday night after catching fire mid-air. 
It was a crazy stroke of luck for the skydivers on board too, who were left equally unharmed after ejecting from the plane before it crashed. 
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