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If you've noticed a moderated tone to Donald Trump's Twitter account in recent days, that's because his own campaign is apparently no longer allowing him use it on his own.   
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The revelation is included in a New York Times story, published on Sunday, that dives in to the chaotic final days of Trump's campaign: "Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully &md

Satellite data that helps fight cholera. Forecasts that help farmers flee monsoons. Models that predict how shifting rivers can affect drinking water.
Scientists worldwide are developing technologies like these to tackle the planet's biggest water challenges, such as the lack of clean water for 1.2 billion people and the rising threats of deadly downpours, droughts and flooding caused by climate change. 
SEE ALSO: Coca-Cola says it 'replenished' all the water it used to make its soft drinks

It's been a few days since the world got its heart broken by the tragic saga of Hunter Jobbins, a college student who had a Kit Kat rudely stolen right out of his car. But now there's a happy ending for Jobbins and it involves lots of good Kit-Kat karma.
SEE ALSO: Break us off a piece of Chance the Rapper singing the Kit Kat jingle
Jobbins shared his story of the theft and the strange note the Kit Kat bandit left in his car, apologizing for stealing the candy bar out of Jobbins' car but promisin

What if you reimagined "the future of American justice" using a lot of stuff you found in your recycling bin or corner hardware store? You'd wind up with this homemade remake of the original RoboCop trailer, and with all the action and catchphrases—"I'd buy that for a dollar!"—but none of the special effects. 
Our CineFix series, Homemade Movies, serves up creative remakes of your favorite movies, trailers, TV shows and more. Every episode is a shot-for-shot re-creation without

FBI director James Comey has pulled a "my bad," releasing a letter that confirms Hillary Clinton will not face charges related to the most recent investigation into her use of a private email server.
SEE ALSO: Clinton didn't know about her new email drama until the plane landed
In the letter, addressed to chairs of various committees and subcommittees, Comey says the FBI has "worked around the clock" to investigate every email to and from Clinton that was found on a device "obtained in connectio

Nate Silver is not some kind of election-predicting machine, people. He's a human being. And he's had it up to here with you questioning his methods. 
The Huffington Post ran a story called "Nate Silver Is Unskewing Polls — All Of Them — In Trump’s Direction" on Saturday, written by Ryan Grim, the publication's D.C. bureau chief.
SEE ALSO: Why it's completely legal to trade votes across state lines
Grim accuses Silver of "making a mockery of the very forecasting industry t

If you love yourself, you will spend $500,000 for you and nine of your closest friends to spend New Year's Eve with Justin Bieber. 
The deluxe package for his NYE show in Miami may be pricy, but it is certainly the correct choice. You'll be sorry if you pass this opportunity up. 
SEE ALSO: I want to Beliebe: The jagged redemption of Justin Bieber
Fontainebleau Miami Beach offers guests who go for the ultimate Bieber experience the amenities to ensure your Bieber quest is pure bliss.&nb

I’m a sucker for reality shows like How It’s Made or Dirty Jobs, the kind that take reveal the creation process behind everyday items. Man at Arms: Reforged is a show that hits a the same button, and just the other week, the show crossed over a milestone: the 100th episode mark.
If you haven’t seen Man at Arms: Reforged, you can check out the entire run on YouTube. The premise is incredibly simple: every other Monday, a team of blacksmiths at Baltimore Knife and Sword craft a s

Staples is joining the ever-increasing crowd of retailers infringing on Thanksgiving this year. For those willing to brave the store after a holiday meal, the retailer has some appealing deals on the Amazon Echo Dot and Google Chromecast, along with discounts on the usual slate of of mid-range Windows PCs and printers that the company is known for.
Unlike last year, the company is opening its physical retail locations to customers for Black Friday sales at 6pm on Thursday, November 24th, with de

Doctor Strange proves, yet again, that Marvel Studios can afford to get weird from time to time. More like this movie, Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy, please.
The latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a box office hit, with an estimated $85 million opening weekend in the United States. That's right in line with the $85.7 million opening for Thor: The Dark World in 2013, which was Marvel's only other fall release to date.
SEE ALSO: The 'Doctor Strange' reviews are in, and they

In early October, Samsung acquired Viv Labs, a startup formed by the creators of Siri, which impressed audiences with its digital assistant called Viv. Now, the company has confirmed that it will be including the service in its upcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone.
According to Reuters, Samsung is planning to incorporate Viv into its "Galaxy smartphones and expand voice-assistant services to home appliances and wearable technology devices."
The company didn’t specify what features the service wou

Should there be a Hillary Clinton presidential library one day, an entire wing devoted to Katy Perry's show-stopping looks from the campaign trail may be in order. 
The pop star, who has made it abundantly clear that she's #WithHer, headlined a concert supporting the Democratic presidential candidate in battleground state Pennsylvania on Saturday night.
"I admire so many things about Hilly C," Perry told the crowd who, in turn, roared. 
SEE ALSO: Watch Katy Perry valiantly attempt to v

SAN FRANCISCO — Emoji are having a moment.
The yellow smileys and prayer hands and grinning poop symbols may have worked their way into popular culture years ago, but the glyphs seem to have reached a new level of fandom and it was out in full force at Emojicon, a two-day conference dedicated entirely to all things emoji.
SEE ALSO: MoMA acquires latest masterpieces: The world's first emoji
The San Francisco event, organized by a group called Emojination, is the first of its kind. Part sill

The Indian government declared an "emergency situation" in New Delhi on Sunday as air pollution hit dangerous new highs — and residents have the selfies to prove it. 
Officials announced a slew of measures to combat toxic smog in the capital city, including halting construction projects, canceling school, closing a coal-fired power plant for 10 days and dousing the dusty roads with water.
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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. How to be Human runs every other Sunday. You can write to her at [email protected] and read more How to be Human here.
Hey Leah,I am married and have been for eight years. We also have two children, two and four years old. I am a stay-at-ho

Hearthstone's upcoming expansion Mean Streets of Gadgetzan sends players into the city of Gadgetzan, a rapidly expanding port town teeming with unsavory folk, crime syndicates and evildoers that make for some game-changing new cards. 
Mashable was able to check out a whole bunch of them at BlizzCon as well as sit down with Hearthstone production director Jason Chayes to talk about the fourth expansion.
SEE ALSO: 'Hearthstone: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan' expansion coming in December
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When both of your daughters scored #1 albums in the same year, it's a good idea to take a second to remind everyone who made it all possible.
Tina Lawson, who gave us Beyoncé and Solange, Instagrammed a couple photos of herself paying tribute to the impossibly stylish and talented women she brought to life after celebrating Solange's SNL debut. 
SEE ALSO: Solange Knowles' new album is a meditative exploration on being black in AmericaThis is my rendition of Solange❤️
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The iPhone's new "Bedtime" functionality within the alarm clock app is an innovative and interesting introduction. 
Working on the basis that being consistent with the amount of sleep you get (i.e., going to bed and waking up at the same time every day) is better for your health, this useful tool makes it easier to achieve this goal.
SEE ALSO: Here's how to use apps with Siri in iOS 10
But how do you get the most out of the new feature? Here's everything you need to know about the iPhone's

Thomas Middleditch, whose Zuckerbergian Richard Hendricks delights on HBO's Silicon Valley, had some choice words on Instagram for his BlizzCon haters.
Blizzard Entertainment booked Middleditch to host Saturday evening's talent and cosplay competition at the annual fan event. He was called out for wisecracks about basement-dwelling gamers (fair), mispronounced names and a perceived lack of familiarity with Blizzard's games.Pretty sure I can no longer watch #SiliconValley after watching Thomas Mi

Beyoncé can be a totally annoying big sister. 
Solange made her Saturday Night Live debut last night, performing "Cranes in the Sky" and "Don't Touch My Hair." Her mom, the fabulous Tina Lawson, and big sis, some girl named Beyoncé, would not let her forget that she's their baby. 
SEE ALSO: Solange Knowles' new album is a meditative exploration on being black in America
"I'm 30 years old!" she protests, but does her family care? Nope.She's still our baby ❤️W

With the news of a major update to Uber, and Microsoft taking on Slack, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps. 
Each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and updated apps. This week's list includes a new app from Epicurious to give you easier access to recipe videos, an app that helps you check your notes while you're writing, and an app that's a literal cat and mouse chase.
Check out the gallery below to see our top picks. If you're looking for more items to fill

This election has been an exhausting slog, winding down to the final days of anxiety and apocalyptic fears. If I had to judge the current mood of the electorate, I’d say it resembles the look on Harvey Firestein’s face in Independence Day right before he’s consumed by the giant fireball: “Oh crap.”Given that we’re dealing with two of the most unpopular presidential candidates in modern history (one more so than the other), it’s understandable if many vot

In the world of programming, it doesn’t get any more foundational than JavaScript — the language responsible for the dynamic, interactive elements you see on apps and websites. To get comfortable with this backbone of web development, dive into the Essential JavaScript Coding Bundle. For a limited time, you can grab this premium training for over 90 percent off on TNW Deals. Across 15 courses, you can go from complete web programming newbie to full-fledged practitioner of the online

In its last show before the 2016 Presidential election, Saturday Night Live checked in with Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton one final time before Tuesday, with both actors breaking character to urge voters to head to the polls.The cold open started by poking at the intense focus on Clinton’s e-mails. The interviewer dismisses questions come up about FBI, Vladimir Putin, and the KKK, even as Baldwin plants a kiss on each representative of each gro

This Siberian snowball fight requires some serious upper body strength, and a helmet.
Giant frozen orbs recently appeared along an 11-mile stretch of Siberian coastline. The largest of the naturally formed snowballs measured nearly 3 feet across, according to Russian news reports.
SEE ALSO: You're probably not going to like the forecast for this winter
This frosty phenomenon is connected to ongoing weather events that could bring heavier snowfall in parts of North America and Western Europe this

One of the most iconic moments in the WWII film Saving Private Ryan occurs near the end, when sniper Private Daniel Jackson strikes down soldier after soldier from a clocktower post. His scope settles on the turret of a German Tiger tank, which slowly glides upward until it meets his eye. In that moment, Jackson understands he is going to die, turns to warn his comrade, and disappears into a ball of fire.I experienced almost the same scenario while playing EA’s Battlefield 1. I was aiming

If you're looking for a thoughtful breakdown of the 2016 presidential election, you're not going to find it here. And if you're looking for over-the-top jokes about said election, you also might want to look elsewhere.
Dana Carvey revived his Church Lady persona on Saturday Night Live this week, stopping by "Weekend Update" to chat about the election. Or so it seems.
He actually spends most of the timing railing against homosexuals in Hollywood and professes his love for HBO's Westworld, but br

This Saturday Night Live sketch only starts with Benedict Cumberbatch showing up as one half of a surprise bachelorette party stripping duo. Then things get really weird.
Poor Aidy Bryant tries her best to play the part of a dead granny while Cumberbatch genitals gyrate inches from her face, but it's a lost cause. She breaks, again and again, as the guest host and his partner (Mikey Day) work their bodies.
And then the Chicago Cubs show up....Benedict Cumberbatch even looks cool taking a dump o

For travelers who are serious about their photos, smartphone snaps just don’t cut it—no matter how good the latest iPhone camera may be.
It’s almost always worth lugging around a proper camera if you’re heading out on a trip-of-a-lifetime, whether it’s on safari or to Machu Picchu. We recently reviewed the upcoming Hasselblad X1D; below, you’ll find five more new releases that’ll elevate your vacation photos, whether you’re a total novice or a prof

A resident constructs a homemade seismograph before the blast.Image: Moncrief Photograph Collection/Mississippi Department of Archives and HistoryAt 10 a.m. on Oct. 22, 1964, a five-kiloton nuclear device was detonated in Lamar County, Mississippi.The previous year, as a response to rising public anxiety over the potential fallout of bigger and bigger test explosions, the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union had signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited all nuclear testin

When the eternally smooth Benedict Cumberbatch is your Saturday Night Live guest host, there are scores of "cool guy making regular activities cool" jokes to be told. Fortunately for us all, SNL's writers went straight for the poop chute.
In what is clearly an intentional riff on Apple's famed "1984" ad, Cumberbatch demos a new toilet from Kohler that makes you look cool while taking a crap. And sure, it's not an ice cream-pooping unicorn, but he pulls it off.Dana Carvey's Church Lady returns t

If you're like many pundits who question whether Hillary Clinton has a devoted, passionate fan base, try checking behind closed doors. 
On Pantsuit Nation, a secret Facebook group for Clinton supporters, more than a million people (and counting) have gathered to share emotional reflections on why they're voting for the first female presidential candidate from a major political party. 
SEE ALSO: Bey is bringing it home for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland
The diverse testimonials have one t

ANAHEIM, Calif. — South Korea utterly destroyed the competition in the first Overwatch World Cup this weekend at BlizzCon, ending with a Saturday finals victory over Russia that was nothing short of hard to watch.
Like Ali vs Liston (II), . South Korea crushed Russia, shutting them down each match. In fact, the whole tournament not one team managed to get a point over South Korea.
SEE ALSO: Here are your 'Overwatch' World Cup 2016 competition brackets
The first ever Overwatch World Cup com

The Cubs are in the house.
Members of the Chicago baseball team, which won the World Series this week after a 108-year drought, stopped by Saturday Night Live this week to partake in some sketches.
The first sketch took place at a bachelorette party for an 83-year-old woman (played by Aidy Bryant). 
Anthony Rizzo, Dexter Fowler and David Ross joined guest host Benedict Cumberbatch in playing strippers at the party. 
SEE ALSO: 'Saturday Night Live' shows Donald Trump getting intimate wi

It seems like even Saturday Night Live is over this election.
At the end of the show's cold open on Saturday, Alec Baldwin broke character as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump character to apologize to Kate McKinnon, who was in character as Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
"I feel so gross all the time," Baldwin said. "Don't you feel gross about this?" he asked the audience.
"You know what I think will help us?" McKinnon responded. "Let's get out of here."
The two then

LOS ANGELES — A lot of new things are coming to Overwatch in the near future, including the hero Sombra, two nw maps and an arcade mode, all of which will be shaking up the game as we know it. 
With so much change to wrap our heads around, Mashable sat down with Overwatch assistant game director Aaron Keller (who works as a level designer) and principal game designer Geoff Goodman (who designs and balances heroes) to talk about the new maps and game mode and how they fit in the Overwa

Image: Library of CongressThe purpose of this book is to acquaint all with the elements of human nature and enable them to read these elements in all men, women and children in all countries.Preface, Vaught's Practical Character ReaderPhrenology — the pseudoscientific field of study premised on the theory that a person’s intellect, personality and character can be determined by the shape of his or her skull — was responsible for a host of ills during its heyday in the 19th cent

GUEST: Marketing in the 2000s was dominated by search engine marketing and optimization (SEM and SEO). The early 2010s saw the rise of Facebook and social media marketing. Most recently, we’ve seen mobile marketing rise and plateau as users have stopped downloading new apps. Now, we are entering the era of messaging.
What is a “chatbot,” you ask? Chatbots are computer programs that carry out conversations with people using a lightweight messaging app UI, language-based rules, o