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Harley Quinn might be unstoppable. Even though she started off as a throwaway henchwoman in Batman: The Animated Series, she’s since exploded in popularity to become one of the most recognizable characters in all of comics. She’s certainly not on the same level Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman, but she’s getting there. In her world, she’s so much more than the Joker’s ex-girlfriend. Right now, she’s a core member of the Suicide Squad, and headlines two series

Amazon Studios hosted a panel for the upcoming season of The Man in the High Castle at New York Comic Con on Saturday, showing off a new trailer for the show’s second season, as well as a trio of clips. The assembled panel of cast and crew took a look into what would happen, and why the show is so relevant now.
The assembled panel included the show’s Executive Producer David W. Zucker, Alexa Davalos (Juliana Crain), Rufus Sewell (Obergruppenführer John Smith), D.J. Qualls (Ed Mc

Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack’s user researcher, but her views here do not represent her employer. You can write to her at [email protected] and read more How to be Human here.
Hello, Leah.
I'm O, 20 years old, and have some issues that I can't seem to control at all. I've been reading your column since it started, and I could relate to

When Amazon's The Man In the High Castle debuted last year, it quickly drew praise for painting a picture of a Nazi-led America that felt all too plausible. About to enter its second season, this first trailer reveals that the show seems ready to push its take on political resistance and alternate realities even further — especially since it can't rely on the source material anymore.
This first look is all about secrets and changing loyalties, all while the Nazis and Imperial Japanese in A

Earlier this week, I got to tell the world what I thought of PlayStation VR. I liked it, and I’m excited at the prospect of more people trying virtual reality. But more than any headset so far, it’s made me confront a difficult fact: it makes one of my favorite ways to play video games almost impossible.
A few months ago, I moved in with my husband for the first time in our relationship. (It’s New York; housing is complicated.) Gaming is a job and a hobby for both of us —

Lionsgate has released the first teaser trailer its upcoming Power Rangers movie today at New York City Comic Con, showing off an origin story for a group of teenagers about to receive amazing powers.
The first half of the trailer shows off the group of misfits in the town of Angel Grove that will become the film’s heroes: there’s the artistic loner, the bullied outcast, the unpopular girl, and so forth. When the group comes across a meteorite containing the special crystals that wil

When our streets become too congested, why not take to the open water to get around? SeaBubbles is a startup that aims to revolutionize waterborne transportation through fleets of sleek, hydrofoil-equipped shuttles designed to make city travel more convenient, leisurely, and sustainable.Think of them as futuristic water taxis. Alain Thebault and Anders Bringdal, a sailor and windsurfer respectively, started the company seven months ago and have already raised $500,000, with a goal of raising $1

Donald Trump’s pathetic rise to power may finally end because of something he said on the set of a soap opera. It started Friday night, when The Washington Post published a disgusting recording of Trump with the euphemistic headline “Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005.” The headline should have read “Trump recorded describing his techniques for sexual assault,” but it didn’t matter — his words could not be camouflaged.I

2002 was a strange time in America: Beyoncé and Jay Z just went public with their relationship, Michael Jordan was playing for the Washington Wizards, and Mark Zuckerberg was still a coder for hire.
But one of the year's most confounding moments happened during the music video of Nelly's Grammy-award winning track "Dilemma" featuring Kelly Rowland. The video depicts Rowland contemplating the "Dilemma" of leaving her current boyfriend for Nelly. Near the end of the video, Rowland chec

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All-electric racing series Formula E starts its third season this weekend in Hong Kong. It’s an exciting year for the young series, because big names like Jaguar and BMW have joined the already competitive field. The series is also heading to new locations like New York City and Montreal.Formula E has only run 21 races so far, so you might be wondering just what the hell it is. You’re not alone! The series has pulled in hundreds of thousands of viewers per race in both the US and the

 The workforce of the 21st century has been changing for years.  Government, only recently perceiving the movement from a traditional workforce to an independent contractor model, is stifling innovation and hurting workers in the process. From Boston to Seattle, we are seeing a myriad of impulsive efforts to regulate everything from how an individual may use their vehicle to whom they allow… Read More

(Reuters) — The technology behind the controversial bitcoin electronic currency could lead to sweeping improvements in how financial transactions are carried out worldwide, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said on Friday.
But only if it can be safeguarded from hackers and terrorists, and not grind to a halt in a crisis.
Those assurances may still be years away, Brainard said, though the Fed is closely tracking the evolution of so-called blockchain systems, and sees it as “the m

In the 1980s, venture capitalists relied heavily on intuition – and got away with it. The market permitted only a finite variety of tech businesses. VC’s could act on instinct because they were well informed oN the possibilities. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that every PC needed a disk drive, operating system, and a handful of chips. Today, the technology market is much more open-ended and the nature of product development has evolved. Eric Reis introduced t

(Reuters) — A Yahoo Inc media executive fired from the internet company last year has filed a lawsuit claiming a job review process implemented by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer was used to cut men from executive ranks and lay them off illegally, court papers showed.
Scott Ard, a former senior editorial director at Yahoo, filed the lawsuit in California’s Northern District Court in San Jose on Tuesday, saying the company violated federal civil rights and employment regulations.
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In a stunning late night Facebook Live video, Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee pleaded with Donald Trump to step aside and give up his nomination for President. The video, which Lee filmed from his home in Utah, is like many on Facebook Live — a single person, speaking to the camera, spreading a message. Trump used a similar tactic, though not as a live stream, when he apologized for comments he made about women that were published earlier on Friday.
But it is exceptional in that Lee,

Apple has banned a popular app for programmers from its app store, as well as deleted the app developer’s account, the developer says.
The app, called Dash, is for Macs and iOS. It’s been around for years. It lets developers easily find and insert snippets of code that they frequently use.
The situation has caused a lot of angst among the developer community because Apple at first didn’t tell the app’s developer, Bogdan Popescu, why the app was removed or why his account

(Reuters) — A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a $120 million jury award for Apple Inc against Samsung, marking the latest twist in the fierce patent war between the world’s top smartphone manufacturers.
The court said that there was substantial evidence for the jury verdict related to Samsung’s infringement of Apple patents on its slide-to-unlock and autocorrect features, as well as quick links, which automatically turn information like addresses and phone

Twilio has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise an additional $400 million from the public market. The company said that it will not receive any proceeds from this transaction and that the majority of the shares will be Class A common stock and come from existing shareholders.
Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Securities have been retained as the joint book-running managers for the offering — the same financial institutions that backed its initial public of

I’ve put a lot of time into PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift (and compared them to one another), and I’ve learned that I don’t want these headsets to try to re-create the kinds of experiences I play on a TV. Instead, I have the most fun when I play a VR game that emulates real-world social meeting spots.
PSVR will debut October 13 for $500 (my impressions), and its launch includes games like Batman: Arkham VR, Driveclub VR, and Rigs: Mechanized Combat League. That&rsqu

Tinder’s maligned CEO Sean Rad took the stage today at the New Yorker’s 2016 TechFest. While under the spotlight, Rad schooled users on what everyone really wants to know: ‘how do you build a better Tinder profile?’ Rad told the audience: We have sociologists on staff who look at this stuff all day long. What gets you the most swipes from a sociological perspective? What are people looking for? It’s true. We’ve detailed the work of these sociologist

Microsoft is building a Windows 10 version of its famous Paint tool. While the software maker has barely updated Paint in recent releases of Windows, the new Paint app will be completely overhauled. Twitter user WalkingCat has discovered video demonstrations of the new app, and it's clearly designed with Windows 10 in mind.
A launch video notes that the new "Paint Preview" app includes all the familiar features of the regular version of Paint, but Microsoft is adding in 3D object support &m

Google spend a healthy chunk of time at its Pixel smartphone event on Tuesday touting the new device’s camera, with product VP Brian Rakowski going so far as to call it "the best smartphone camera anyone has ever made," with a DxOMark score of 89. To back up that bold claim, camera lead Isaac Reynolds posted a number of photos taken with either the Pixel or the larger Pixel XL. According to comments on Reynolds’ post from official Google employees, some of the shots were taken by mem

A scientist has developed a menstrual pad that could be the beginning of a whole new world for women in India, and possibly everywhere.
The new pad material, made using nanotechnology, claims to be more absorptive and cheaper to make. But perhaps most notably, it's free of toxic chemicals that can cause the deadly condition known as Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS). That's according to the findings of a study published in the September issue of Applied Materials Today. 
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If Samsung doesn't officially cancel the Galaxy Note 7's release, US carriers might try and do it themselves. AT&T is considering ending all further sales of the plagued Note 7, according to a report from Bloomberg tonight. An official decision could come as soon as later this evening.
If true, AT&T will immediately cease sales of the "safe" replacement devices — one of which caught fire on a Southwest Airlines plane Wednesday — and the carrier may also stop ex

It was the hot mic heard around the world. 
Donald Trump has been caught on tape, obtained by the Washington Post, bragging about what is essentially sexual assault ("when you're a star, they let you do anything you want ... grab them by the pussy") with Access Hollywood host and dudebro extraordinaire Billy Bush. 
Trump, then three months a newlywed, also related a tale of an unnamed starlet he'd tried to get into the sack by taking her furniture shopping ("I moved on her like a bitch

In the Season 2 finale of Mr. Robot, Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallström) tells our troubled protagonist Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) about a William Carlos Williams poem called "The Red Wheelbarrow," but that's not the first time we've come across the phrase. 
Eagle-eyed viewers likely noticed that the words were scrawled across the front of Elliot's journal from his time in prison earlier in the season, before fellow inmate "Hot Carla" burned it. Now, thanks to series creator Sam Esmail