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The official U.S. Instagram account for Kit Kat released what one Mashable editor called "the best piece of internet today." @chancetherapper + @kit_kat_break = Chance the WRAPPER 🍫🎹🔥 #PressPlay #KitKatBreak #HalloweenBreak
A video posted by Kit Kat (@kit_kat_break) on Oct 4, 2016 at 7:58am PDT
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It includes Chance the Rapper. In a fuzzy animal Halloween costume. Singing his own melodious

The Drug Enforcement Agency has reduced the amount of opioids that can be manufactured in the US next year. Production of all opioids, which are a class of pain medication, will be cut by at least 25 percent in 2017 due to less demand and growing concern around the abuse of these prescription painkillers.
The DEA regulates the total amount of a drug that can be produced each year. The 2017 change affects drugs including morphine, hydromorphone, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and fentanyl. Production of

Whatever thoughts or expectations you had for the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, we are sure you were nostalgic about at least one previous incarnation of the Ninja Turtles franchise.
Whether you were into the original comics, the '80s cartoon, the trading cards, or the live-action movies, we bet you don't know all seven of these obscure facts about Leonardo, Donatello, Rafael, Michelangelo and the entertainment empire they spawned. 
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Step aside Skeletor! We've got a real life He-Man in town!
Homemade Movies recreated the '80s intro to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. See a side-by-side comparison of the original animated intro and Homemade Movies' live action version.
Homemade Movies serves up creative remakes of your favorite movie trailers and scenes! Every episode is an exact shot-for-shot remake created at home without any visual effects.
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So, how was your Rosh Hashanah?
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a grand time spending the holiday with Internet foodie and host of Epic Meal Time, Harley Morenstein, and Morenstein's family in Ottawa.
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Morenstein posted a face swap of himself and the Prime Minister on his Instagram, and it's perfectly charming, as always when it comes to the PM.Had dinner with Justin Trudeau. Hype af.
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Iceland has already faced steep political turmoil in 2016. Later this month, things could get even more interesting, as the country's upstart Píratar Party (or Pirate Party) remains in the lead in polls leading up to the nation's general election at the end of October. 
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The Pirate Party has been neck-and-neck in country-wide polls with the Independence Party, one of Iceland's oldest parties that is currently part of the

Everybody copies everybody. It doesn't mean they're "out of ideas" or "in a technological cul-de-sac" — or at least it doesn't necessarily mean that — it does mean they want to make money and keep users. It's actually one of my favorite elements of the tech industry. It's self-regulating in a small way, because there's a certain shame to, say, copying GoPro or Meerkat or Snapchat or Dropbox, but sometimes a product category or feature is just irresistible.
At today's Pixel event, Goo

Not everyone liked the Google Glass — even the tech giant itself admitted regrets in how it executed on the hardware push. Last month, it closed Project Ara, its initiative to build a modular smartphone. 
The six-year-old Nexus program proved more fruitful, but as of this week, Google has no more plans for a new Nexus phone or tablet, The Verge reported.
But Alphabet Inc. isn't abandoning hardware. Rather, it's going all in on a new strategy: Offer everything under one brand name.&nbs

Now that it’s arguably the standard for digital comics online and on mobile devices, Comixology has announced that it will start producing original comics. Called comiXology Originals, the new program will showcase content from both creators and publishers, with debut titles coming from Boom! Studios, Valiant Entertainment, and late, great cartoonist and Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman.
Comixology is making the digital-only original titles available to both Comixology and Kindle customers. Amon

After months of anticipation for Google's virtual reality headset, we finally got a look at the company's most serious venture into VR hardware and it was...underwhelming. 
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Called Daydream View, the device looks almost exactly like the so-called reference designs the company showed off back in May at its I/O developer conference. Except there's one major difference: The entire device is wrapped in soft fabric. 
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Netflix's Stranger Things might have ruled summer 2016, but October is its month to shine. 
Kyle Lambert, the artist behind the show's '80s-inspired poster, shared this piece of Stranger Things Halloween inspiration, courtesy of Twitter user Brad Starr. Check out this pumpkin carving of the Stranger Things art by Brad Starr @braddrinks Incredible work! pic.twitter.com/3f5fB7s1oI
— Kyle Lambert (@kylelambert) October 3, 2016Starr's piece is a foam pumpkin carved with an thoroughly

The League of Legends World Championships roared into action this past weekend with lots of excitement and plenty of surprises. The competition thus far has been strong, and this year looks to be unique in how evenly matched many of the teams are across the regions. Each of the 16 teams have taken at least one loss, but some of them have no wins, meaning that just about any squad has the potential to pull a big upset when the second round robin matches begin on Thursday. 
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The Matt Damon Mars survival movie, The Martian, has been nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. And while adapting a book to film can be as complex as communication between Earth and Mars, The Martian is an unusually close adaptation.
Our CineFix series, What's the Difference, reads between the lines to find the differences between the book and the film.
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By the powers of glue guns, toddler toys, and Grayskull, we take you behind the crazy build of our homemade trailer!
Subscribe to CineFix for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/cinefixExtremely sportsmanlike dog lets Manx kittens play with his tail
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Yes, this is a cute animal video. But it's more than that — it's also an extraordinary act of martyrdom.
For at least two minutes, Louie the Dalmatian let these Manx kittens, who do not have tails of their own, play with his tail. In the video, he even swishes his tail around so the kittens can jump on it. Have you ever seen anything so brave?
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Arnold Palmer loomed — and still looms — so large in the American consciousness not just because he's a golf legend. He's also widely recognized as a genuine and kind man, an aspirational figure for those who seek to guide their lives by principles of decency and kindness. 
Palmer's memorial service was held Tuesday, and his grandson told a story that reinforces so many of the notions that made "The King" so revered by so many. 
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The new Pixel and Pixel XL phones from Google are devices that contain powerful, high-tech hardware. Inside they've got the latest, fastest processors that exist, nice OLED screens, and plentiful storage (128GB) and memory (4GB) options. And yes, as Google was very happy to point out (and include in its Pixel TV commercial), they've both got 3.5mm headphone jacks. But one feature that's become table stakes for premium smartphones in 2016 is missing completely from Google's Pixels: water resistan

Google’s had a busy day. It unveiled two smartphones, launched a connected speaker, introduced a VR headset, announced a fancy router, and debut a new Chromecast all in one fast-moving hour-and-a-half event.
But throughout all of those flashy hardware announcements were details about a software feature that Google seems to think will ultimately be more important: the Google Assistant.
The Google Assistant is, at its core, just a new way to make Google searches, but in a conversation with a

Google opened up orders for its new Pixel phones today and is giving early preorder buyers a code for a free VR headset. The promotion starts today and goes until "supplies last." A promo code will be sent to Pixel buyers approximately four weeks before their phone ships. The code can then be used in the Play Store to purchase a free headset. Google’s Daydream VR headset, Daydream View, will cost $79 when it’s released in November. It was specifically designed for the Pixel and

It’s finally here, the smart speaker that Google announced in May at its I/O conference. And the biggest thing to know is that it’s priced to beat its main competitor, at $129 to the Echo’s $179. I got a brief chance to mess around with the Home last week at Google’s campus in Mountain View, and my takeaway is that it has a decent shot at giving the Echo a run for its money.
Let’s start with how it looks: I think it’s basically kind of cute. It has a sloped, t

Google is deadly serious about its new Pixel smartphones being able to take on the iPhone in every respect possible. And in a move that also mirrors Apple’s own past efforts, the company is now providing instructions for anyone looking to switch from their current iPhone to a brand-new Pixel.
Google’s instructions involve connecting an iPhone or iPad running at least iOS 8 to the new Pixel using Google’s Quick Switch Adapter. The search company advises that you turn off iMessag

For years now, consumer virtual reality has been pitched as an exotic, futuristic creation; it's one of those products that seems created to fulfill the tech industry's sci-fi fantasies. But permanent novelty can only stay exciting for so long. So when Google announced its Daydream program earlier this year, it promised VR that felt normal. Daydream is an extension of your Android phone’s existing interface, coupled with headsets that are supposed to feel as comfortable as a pair of nice r

I have an Amazon Echo at home, and it's the one high-tech gadget my wife and I share. We often take turns asking it questions and giving it commands during a busy breakfast. There isn't anything particularly personal about the way we interact with Amazon that makes this a struggle, but the device can only be linked to a single account when connecting to something like Google Calendar or Spotify. This can be a pain point when, for example, my wife wants to ask for a Spotify playlist for her accou

Google's not just taking hardware inspiration from Amazon with its new Google Home voice-controlled speaker, it's going to challenge Amazon on third-party software developer integration as well. That might not sound thrilling, but seeing how Amazon recently announced it has over 3,000 "skills" for Alexa, there's a lot of ground to make up for any potential challengers to Echo's throne. Google will need a lot of buy-in from software developers, service providers, and publishers to make Google Hom

Google’s new Pixel phones are here. After years of overseeing reference Nexus devices running stock Android, Google is finally stepping into the smartphone fray to show what its vision of Android looks like. The Pixel and Pixel XL feature deep software integration to Google’s services, including Google Assistant, Daydream, and Google Photos. Unlike most current Android phones, it actually ships with the latest Android Nougat operating system and will continue to receive the latest OS

If Elon Musk’s Mars colony becomes a reality, he won’t be sending just humans to the Red Planet; he’ll be sending trillions of hitchhiking microbes as well. Such a biological invasion seemingly clashes with a concept known as planetary protection — avoiding the "harmful contamination" of other worlds. Given the likelihood of a human colony to spread microbes, does that put a stop to Musk’s Mars ambitions? Continue reading…

Yahoo built an unprecedented surveillance system in response to a government request last year, according to a bombshell report published today by Reuters’ Joseph Menn, which cites three persons familiar with the matter. The request asked for all arriving emails to be scanned for a specific string of characters, either in the body of an email or an attachment. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer chose to comply with the request. Crucially, the system was not restrained to a specific account or set of

Microsoft appears to be readying a number of new Surface-branded PC accessories. Windows Central reports that Microsoft will launch a new Surface-branded version of its Designer Bluetooth Desktop kit, alongside an ergonomic Surface keyboard and a Surface mouse. All three accessories are designed to be used with desktop PCs, and will reportedly be launched this month. Windows Central has provided a promo image of the redesigned Bluetooth Desktop kit, with an improved keyboard layout and a gr

When Google revealed its Cardboard virtual reality platform back in 2014, it launched an endless series of conversations in which I tried to explain why a $20 piece of cardboard wasn’t the same as an Oculus Rift. The two might both get called "VR," I protested, but their technology and design created two fundamentally different ways to interact with virtual worlds.
Two years later, Google has another VR platform. This one is called Daydream, and it’s launching on the Pixel and Pixel

What can you say about a Chromecast — specifically the new Chromecast Ultra? Like the one that came before it, it’s a circular disc with a tiny HDMI cable sticking out of it. Like all Chromecasts, it streams video directly from the internet, but you choose what video to stream using your phone (or maybe the new Google Home speaker, if you have one). It is, in short, just a Chromecast. I held one: it felt like a Chromecast.
The “Ultra” part of this Chromecast is that it su

Google just couldn’t stop releasing new hardware products today. It’s part of a new strategy: instead of letting other companies take its software and make stuff, Google is making the first version itself. Just so with the Google Wifi, a router that follows the latest trend: instead of having a single, powerful (and ugly), centrally located router, you distribute a bunch of smaller, nice-looking devices throughout your house in a mesh network.
Where Google had tapped ASUS and TP-Link

One of Saturday Night Live's most legendary openings featured the show's executive producer Lorne Michaels asking then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, "Can we be funny?" about three weeks after the September 11th, 2001 attacks. Giuliani responded "Why start now?" The audience laugh that followed underscored the gag's perfect execution. The message was clear: comedy is brave when it goes on in the face of tragedy. Saturday Night Live is an institution, and we should be able to count on it when things go wro

Today's Google event was dedicated to how its new hardware and software will blend together. Google started off with an official Pixel phone unveiling, after weeks of rumors and leaks. That kicked off a focus on software, especially the way Google's new Assistant software will power the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones and Google Home. Google also showcased its Daydream View, a cozy-looking VR headset covered in fabric. The new 4K Chromecast Ultra made an appearance, as did Google's modular Wi-Fi

Here they are, at long last, the Google Phones. Technically, they’re called Pixel and Pixel XL. I’ve spent slightly longer with both than we usually get at a typical tech event hands-on, and so I have a few impressions to share. But the most important one is this: these are perhaps the most refined Android phones I’ve ever laid hands on. Not every detail is going to amaze you, but very few of them are going to put you off. The Pixel is approachable; it doesn’t feel techy

Google has announced Android 7.1 Nougat, which adds a number of features to Android 7.0 that launched earlier this year. Android 7.1 brings new features to all devices, but it also includes a number of special things that are exclusive to Google's new lineup of Pixel phones.
The Pixel phones will have Google's new launcher, Google Assistant, a phone and chat tech support service, unlimited, original-quality backup for photo and video to Google Photos, and a new Smart Storage feature that automat

With the announcement of Google's new Pixel and Pixel XL today, there has been the question of what's happening to the long-running Nexus hardware program, which started in 2010 with the Nexus One and has been comprised of eight phones, four tablets, and two media players. According to Google, the company has "no plans" for a future Nexus product, marking the likely end of the Nexus run.
The Nexus program went through many iterations, but it largely existed for Google to provide an example of ho

Google Home, the company’s competitor to the Amazon Echo, is now available for preorder. It will cost $129, cheaper than Amazon’s device. You can preorder it today in the US and it will start shipping November 4th. In our brief testing, it was a little smarter than Siri and a lot sharper than Alexa, able to understand context in a question and suss out information from around the web when Google's knowledge graph didn't have the answer.
The top of Google Home is touch-sensitive and c