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One reason to go to any sort of convention is to take in the craftsmanship of the costumers who flock to the event, portraying their favorite characters. Some work for months to assemble their meticulous costumes, while others throw together what they have. The passion and excitement that each one brings to the convention floor is infectious.We spent hours walking the convention floor to stop and ask costumers what appealed to them the most about the characters they were portraying, and how they

Another replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has caught fire, this one in Houston, Texas. Daniel Franks was at lunch with his daughter and wife when their replacement caught fire while sitting on the table, he told The Verge in an interview. It had been replaced at a Best Buy store in late September.
Franks said that his eight-year old daughter regularly plays Minecraft on the phone and wondered what could have happened if she was holding it or it was in his pocket or sitting on a nightstand.
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FX just gave fans their first extended look at its upcoming X-Men series Legion on Sunday at New York Comic Con, and it already promises to be one of the more fascinating shows due to come out in 2017. After con-goers watched the first half hour of the pilot, the show's cast and crew came onstage to answer questions about what’s to come. What we got was a glimpse at how ambitious this series will be, why it’s being made now, and even a little bit about where it exists in Marvel canon

The next time you ponder your poop before you flush, one thing to keep in mind is that your feces passed through a lot of important organs on their way out. (And if you don’t take a peek, well, congratulations on your moral superiority, I guess?). So it might be possible that your stool can tell you when there’s something wrong with the squishy internal Rube Goldberg machine that converts food into feces.
Ponder your poop before you flush
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AT&T is discontinuing all sales and exchanges of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones following a number of fires caused by supposedly "safe" phones that had been replaced under recall.
"Based on recent reports, we’re no longer exchanging new Note 7s at this time, pending further investigation of these reported incidents," said an AT&T spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. "We still encourage customers with a recalled Note 7 to visit an AT&T location to exchange that device fo

A replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 caught fire this morning in Virginia, the fourth known case in the United States in less than a week. Shawn Minter got in touch with The Verge after his Note 7 caught fire on his nightstand at 5:45AM. That phone was a replacement he received after returning his recalled Note 7 at a Sprint store in Richmond, Virginia, on September 23rd.
"My Galaxy Note 7 replacement phone just burst into flames while on the night stand," Minter said in an email to The Verge. "I

The National Football League has released new social media guidelines for teams that prohibit the use of live streaming and distributing GIFs, according to ESPN. The rules are apparently designed to ensure viewers go through official NFL channels for video content. This means that teams that post reaction GIFs during games could face steep fines.
ESPN and Mashable obtained a pair of memos which outlined the new rules. Teams are not permitted to post video from within the stadium to social media,

Thanks to the Indian Space Research Organization and a little help from the Planetary Society, we just got a new batch of spectacular photos of the Red Planet. The images come from the Mars Orbiter, a spacecraft launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in 2013. The Mars Orbiter successfully inserted itself into Mars orbit on September 24th, 2014, making ISRO the fourth space agency ever to put a spacecraft into orbit around the Red Planet. Since then, the spacecraft has been gat

Tesla is planning a pair of product events in October, according to a tweet from CEO Elon Musk. The first is a "Tesla product unveiling" on Monday October 17th that Musk says was "unexpected by most." It could be the "big" follow-up event for the Model 3 that Musk promised earlier this year or something else entirely.
Tesla product unveiling on the 17th (unexpected by most), followed by Tesla/SolarCity on the 28th
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 9, 2016We were already aware of the other ev

I was born at the very end of the '80s and never really cared to watch the decade's classic teen comedies and dramas when I was growing up. For the most part, that hasn't been a problem — it's just meant people being exasperated with me when I say I haven't seen such-and-such John Hughes movie or The Goonies or whatever.But over the past year I've been catching up on a handful: I watched Dirty Dancing, which was okay, and I watched The Breakfast Club, which I guess was fine. And just

Another replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has caught fire, bringing the total to three this week alone. This one was owned by Michael Klering of Nicholasville, Kentucky. He told WKYT that he woke up at 4AM to find his bedroom filled with smoke and his phone on fire. Later in the day, he went to the hospital with acute bronchitis caused by smoke inhalation.
"The phone is supposed to be the replacement, so you would have thought it would be safe," Klering told WKYT, saying that he had owned t

Another replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has reportedly caught fire in Minnesota. The news comes just days after a replacement Note 7 caught fire on a Southwest flight in Kentucky (seen in the picture above), and all four major US cell carriers told customers they could exchange all Note 7 phones, replacement or not.
The Minnesota case involves 13-year old Abby Zuis, who said she felt a "weird, burning sensation" while holding her Note 7 on Friday according to a report from KSTP. After the inci

Marvel's Iron Fist hits Netflix in just a few months, but fans still haven't seen much of Danny Rand in action. That changed at New York Comic Con today, where we got our first real look at the power of the Iron Fist. Here, we see Danny return to New York, and learn that he's been trained to become a living weapon. And since he has no trouble punching through walls with his bare hands, that much is clear.
Iron Fist is the fourth Marvel series to hit the streaming network, and the final solo outi

Marvel’s head of TV Jeph Loeb just announced that Sigourney Weaver will be the main villain in Netflix’s The Defenders. The surprise reveal was made here at New York Comic Con, where fans got to see Weaver come onstage next to the Defenders themselves, Charlie Cox, Finn Jones, Krysten Ritter, and Mike Colter.
We don’t know what villain Weaver will play, but the casting is obviously big news. As essentially the first lady of sci-fi, Weaver is iconic for her roles in Ghostbusters