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HP is backtracking on a firmware update that recently blocked some printers from using third-party ink cartridges. Some users reported that the update sometimes mistakenly marked legitimate ink as fake, so HP’s CEO Jon Flaxman wrote today that the company will issue a new update to turn off the DRM.
HP also clarified that third-party cartridges still work with the original update, so long as they’re built with HP security chips — aka HP is getting a cut of their business. The f

If Netflix’s Luke Cage is about anything, it’s about power — and no word is imbued with as much unique power in black life as “nigga.” Luke Cage himself makes that much clear. Early on in the new series, Luke (Mike Colter) is held up at gunpoint. “What’re you doing here, nigga?” asks the young, black gunman. “Young man,” Luke says, “I’ve had a long day. I’m tired. But I’m not tired enough to ever let nobody call

Apple is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Game of Thrones by launching enhanced editions of George R.R. Martin's best-selling novels, exclusively on iBooks. The Enhanced Edition will allow die-hard Game of Thrones fans to have an interactive experience, one that aims to make the notoriously complex stories a little easier to follow.
Clicking on a name in this souped-up digital version will allow readers to track that character's journey, or dig deeper into a character connections an

Garmin, which makes so many different activity trackers that you actually burn calories just by trying to distinguish between them all, is now selling an activity tracker to kids.
Called the Vivofit JR, the wristband tracks steps, sleep, and overall activity. It has a sunlight-readable display that shows a "Move" bar when kids have been inactive for too long, and is supposed to motivate its wearers to move for at least 60 minutes a day. Like the adult version of the Vivofit activity-tracking wri

Balloons can signify lifting up, letting go, unimaginable joy or simply a birthday wish. When seen by the thousands, they can inspire awe, maybe a little fear, or remind you of a certain classic Pixar.
For Apple, though, balloons are now just another way to add emotion to text messages. In iOS 10, there are a whole bunch of new ways to express yourself in messages (Apple calls it expressive messaging). In addition to drawing doodles, sending heartbeats and taps, each message (between iMessage us

Contractors working for the federal government will be among the first in the gig economy to gain some workplace protections. 
Federal contractors will be guaranteed up to seven paid sick days a year, the Department of Labor said Thursday. 
Contractors won't have to work directly for the federal government to qualify. Businesses doing work for the federal government will have to give paid sick leave to their contractors, too. 
"Millions of Americans still do not have access to eve

Not everyone has the advanced cloning technology needed to make dinosaurs in a lab. But anyone with a little creativity, spare time, and toy dinosaurs can re-create their favorite scene from Jurassic Park at home. Here's the proof.
Our CineFix series, Homemade Movies, serves up DIY remakes of your favorite movies, trailers and original songs. Every episode is an exact shot-for-shot re-creation minus any big-budget effects.
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Sometimes, you just have to let it out.
An aggravated father perfectly captured his true feelings for his son after his boy had a bit of a change of mind.
 The father, who currently resides in the UK, recently shipped his son, who is currently living in Australia, a guitar. Obviously, shipping a guitar across the world can be quite intense and expensive, so the dad alerted his son (and the rest of the world) of his frustrations by writing a nasty note on the side of the guitar. 
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A train that smashed into the station in Hoboken, New Jersey during rush hour on Thursday likely wasn't equipped with a technology called positive train control that could have prevented the derailment. 
Positive train control is a speed-limiting technology that is built to "automatically stop a train before certain types of accidents occur," according to the website of the Association of American Railroads. Those accidents include train collisions and derailments.
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Tim Burton's adaptation of the bestselling novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a peculiar thing indeed. 
Playing like a cross between X-Men and Groundhog Day, the often-frustrating film offers as many pros as cons, but can't make up for the glaring lack of charisma of its young protagonist Jake, played by a flat and surprisingly bland Asa Butterfield.
SEE ALSO: Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt deliver movie star goods in the best 'Magnificent Seven' yet
Following an ominou

Last night's episode of Law & Order: SVU featured a special cameo by everyone's favorite vice president – Joe Biden.
The veep appeared on the show as himself, and the episode opened with him addressing a crowd in the police station and discussing the importance of testing backlogged rape kits.
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The premise of the episode – "Making a Rapist" – is that a man wrongly accused of rape is release

Finally, a snack that will satisfy your munchies and keep spooky creatures at bay.
During the month of October, snackers in Japan will be enjoying a special flavor of black garlic pepper Doritos.
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— Peter Payne (@jlist) September 5, 2016The curiously strong flavor sounds incredibly de

For a brief moment on Wednesday night the residents of an Icelandic city usually bathed in artificial light were treated to spectacular views of the green curtains of the northern lights dancing overhead.
Usually, people need to travel far from Reykjavík's city lights to catch sight of the aurora borealis. But yesterday, city officials dimmed street lights in certain parts of the city to allow tourists and full-time residents a chance to see the cosmic light show in their own backyards.
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Merry nü-metal Christmas!
Korn has released a new song from their perfectly titled upcoming album, The Serenity of Suffering, and it features Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor screaming into the void alongside Jonathan Davis. 
"A Different World" is the descent into darkness we deserve in 2016.'Son of Zorn' tackles the art of self-defense in this sneak peek
Alec Baldwin to play Donald Trump on 'Saturday Night Live' this season
Tiny piglet walks using only front legs
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It's officially Sia season and the blessings are rolling in today.
On top of announcing a 23-date-tour with support from Miguel and AlunaGeorge, the singer revealed that her seventh album, This Is Acting, will be rereleased as a deluxe edition, and include some new tracks and remixes.
SEE ALSO: Sia endorses Hillary Clinton using a lyric from one of her most popular songsOnly getting better! The deluxe edition of #ThisIsActing is coming on 10/21 ft. 3 new songs, #TheGreatest & more https://t.

The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus just launched, but that's not stopping the rumor mill from moving on to rumors for next year's "iPhone 8," which is expected to come with a complete redesign to celebrate the device's 10th anniversary.
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, a highly reliable source for Apple rumors, has released a new report (via 9to5Mac) claiming the iPhone 8 could come with a glass and metal design reminiscent of the iPhone 4 and 4S.
SEE ALSO: Forget the iPhone 7, the iPhone 8 rumors have

Who doesn't love Jeff Goldblum impressions and scientific pickup lines? From Jurassic Park, that is.
Our CineFix series, Homemade Movies, serves up creative DIY versions of your favorite trailers and movie scenes. All videos are exact shot-for-shot remakes, created at home without any visual effects.
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Not everyone can be a gigantic, musclebound, animated warrior, which has become a recurring struggle for the hero known as Zorn, the Defender of Zephyria (voiced by Jason Sudeikis), in Fox's new comedy.
The upcoming installment of Son of Zorn will demonstrate that our hero's hapless heir Alan (Johnny Pemberton) hasn't inherited much of his father's fighting prowess when it comes to tackling a bully at school — but it's never too late to learn! 
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Andrea Arnold’s new film American Honey is a fascinating, immersive trip across the American heartland with a crew of hard-partying 20-somethings, but it’s also one of those projects where the behind-the-scenes story is as compelling as the one on-screen. Arnold, the British director of Fish Tank and Red Road, prepared for her first American movie with an extensive cross-country road trip. Along the way, she looked for the young people she wanted to cast in her film, finding them at

Melinda Gates is taking time from her philanthropic work to build out a personal team dedicated to helping increase the number of women in technology-related jobs. Gates, who co-chairs the world’s largest philanthropic foundation with her husband and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, says the issue is close to her heart. She graduated from Duke University in 1987 with a degree in computer science (as well as an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in economics) and joined Microsoft shortl

Our CineFix series, Homemade Movies, presents one of the most famous scenes in movie history: the "bigger boat" scene from Steven Spielberg's Jaws, complete with a life-sized shark in (apparently) a swimming pool. 
Homemade Movies serves up creative DIY versions of your favorite trailers and movie scenes. All videos are exact shot-for-shot remakes, created at home without any visual effects.
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After BlackBerry announced it was finished building its own smartphones yesterday, many people were concerned it signaled the end of the company's iconic QWERTY keyboards. But CEO John Chen put those worries to bed, clarifying in an interview with BNN that the company would release another smartphone with a physical keyboard in the near future.Although BlackBerry will continue to make smartphones with QWERTY keyboards, it's possible it won't be the exact same keyboard you're used

Apple debuted a TV ad today that shows off the new iMessage effects on iOS 10. The ad depicts balloons floating around a city and gathering in the bedroom of an iMessage user who reads a happy birthday text that was sent with the balloon iMessage effect. In case you don’t know what the new effects are, they fill a text thread with either balloons, confetti, lasers, a shooting star, or fireworks. The commercial’s very endearing. Apple
I wonder why Apple is advertising its iMessage eff

Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna are in the midst of a heap of drama, but in a new clip that surfaced online, the two ignore all the rumors of a breakup and sit down to dish about childhood crushes. 
Nothing weird at all, right? Wrong. The duo revealed that Rob had a childhood crush on his older sister, Kim. 
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The sock connoisseur of the Kardashians correctly guessed Chyna's crush—Ricky Martin, so of course, sh

President Obama voiced his opinion on Colin Kaepernick's National Anthem protest once again, but this time he played devil's advocate.
During a CNN Town Hall meeting on Wednesday night, Obama spoke to Jake Tapper and members of the U.S. Army station at Fort Lee, Virginia about the 49ers quarterback and his decision to kneel during the National Anthem in response of police brutality against the black community.
While Obama did acknowledge that he respects the expression, he urged Kaepernick and o

There are so many wonderful, mutant animals to follow on Instagram — and while all deserve our love, only a few should have our full attention.
Over the past few months, 12catslady has been blowing up Instagram with photos of her 12 chinchilla Persian cats. Each cat is scientifically adorable, but it's the cats' empty stares, blank eyes and robotic conformity that really create Instagram magic.
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Alive or merely stuffed, we can all ag

The best iPhone 7 feature may be its scariest: Apple's new device is water-resistant, meaning you can take that sucker in the shower with you and scrub away at the ever-thinning line between man and machine.
SEE ALSO: You can take your iPhone 7 surfing with you
I tried it and can confirm that the phone will withstand a continued stream of water. You can film footage, type a caption and upload something to Instagram while loofahing your back. I did this, felt immediately, deeply ashamed, and am n

Android Wear devices like the second-generation Moto 360, Fossil Q, and $1,500 Tag Heuer Connected smartwatch are currently incompatible with Apple’s new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The issue was discovered soon after both phones launched nearly two weeks ago.
Google added iOS support to Android Wear back in August 2015. For the last couple months, I’ve been using a Moto 360 alongside my iPhone because I like the way it looks and its nice-looking wrist notifications; I have no illusi

If you’ve heard of Yo-kai Watch before, it was likely being compared to Pokémon. The series — which began in Japan in 2013 before debuting in English last year — has much in common with Nintendo’s monster-battling phenomenon. Both series are about collecting and fighting adorable creatures; both are games accompanied by an animated show and lots of tie-in toys; and both try to take an intrinsically Japanese style of game and translate it for a global audience. The

As a certain Leo DiCaprio said in Inception, a simple idea can be powerful. And when you're making homemade versions of famous movies, you'll need lots of simple ideas. Also lots of cardboard.
Our CineFix series, Homemade Movies, travels to the deepest level of "homemade" as they re-create the Inception trailer with no visual effects or green screens. Just a camera, action figures and DIY sets.
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After battling the villainous Vandal Savage in last season's three-show CW crossover event, the heroes of Arrow, The Flash and DC's Legends of Tomorrow will face an even more formidable foe in this year's four-night event, with network newcomer Supergirl joining the fight. 
Mashable has learned that DC Comics' Dominators will invade the shared TV universe referred to as the "Arrowverse" for this year's crossover, with the story arc spanning four consecutive nights. A premiere date for the c

It's no secret that Elon Musk wants to save humanity.
For years the tech billionaire and founder of SpaceX has said that he wants to make sure the human race is safe from an extinction-level event (like an asteroid strike) on Earth by establishing a city on Mars. But until this week, details about just how he plans to that were scant. 
SEE ALSO: Send your desktop to Mars with SpaceX's dazzling wallpapers
On Tuesday, however, that changed when Musk presented his vision for a future society o

One by one, the boys of One Direction are going solo to let you know what makes you beautiful in their own ways. 
Niall Horan, like the sensitive Irish boy he is, released his debut single as a black and white video with just Horan on an acoustic guitar. Good news, Directioners — "This Town" sounds exactly like the Niall you know and love. 
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The winners of the Red Bull Illume Sports Photography Contest were announced this week, and they include some stunning perspectives of action and adventure sports.
Photographer Lorenz Holder won top prize for his colorful image of BMX Pro Rider Senad Grosic.  
"In my photos, I like to show the viewers the beauty of the environment where athletes perform. I think a great location is one of the key elements for a great action picture,” Holder said.
In the image (embedded below) Holder w

Google’s next-generation smartwatch platform, Android Wear 2.0, will not be seeing the light of day this year. The company announced today that it is delaying the launch of the update, which was originally scheduled for this fall, to sometime in early 2017.
Instead of launching the final version this fall, Google is extending the developer preview program for Android Wear 2.0, and today it’s releasing the third preview of the platform for developers. The company says that it is