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 Hyperloop One tells TechCrunch it has just settled an ongoing lawsuit brought against the company by its former co-founder Brogan BamBrogan and several former employees. BamBrogan, David Pendergast, William Mulholland and Knut Sauer filed the lawsuit against the company this summer, claiming the technology they built was being “strangled” by the venture capitalists who had… Read More

A top law enforcement official wants to turn back the clock on iPhone security.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said Thursday that he wants Apple's encryption to go back to how it was in early 2014. Back then, police could basically extract any information they wanted after getting a warrant. 
SEE ALSO: Facebook missed a big opportunity with end-to-end encryption in Messenger
"Doing nothing about this problem will perpetuate an untenable arms race between private industry and law en

Hyperloop One, the well-funded, slightly dysfunctional, futuristic transportation startup announced that it has settled a lawsuit brought by four former employees, including co-founder and chief technology officer Brogan BamBrogan, for an undisclosed sum of money.In an email sent to employees earlier Friday, Hyperloop One CEO Rob Lloyd said he was “pleased” to announce the settlement of the suit, which stunned many when it dropped weeks after the company’s first public test. &l

Large, undulating blankets of white foam enveloped the streets of Santa Clara, California, Friday and they sent everyone in the vicinity a little bit loopy.
The giant foamy blob, which reportedly billowed out from a hangar at Mineta San Jose International Airport after its fire prevention system malfunctioned, started taking over the streets around lunchtime.
SEE ALSO: Devotees in India take a dip in frothy, toxic river in the world's most polluted city
Within minutes, emergency crews were on th

Donald Trump's campaign was all about "making America great again" but when it came time for a college slideshow presentation they found someone across the world. 
Through Fiverr, an online market place for digital services, a teen in Singapore scored a gig making a Prezi slideshow video for a Trump campaign effort at college campuses. 
It took 15-year-old Hrithie Menon less than a day to made a quick digital presentation for the campaign as part of a side job she offers on the site Fi

At only a $58 million budget, superhero comedy Deadpool was considered cheap in the world of Hollywood blockbusters—although its $780 million earnings at the box office made up for that. But what if it was made even more cheaply? Like, on nearly zero dollars?
Our CineFix series, Homemade Movies, serves up DIY-style remakes of your favorite movies, trailers and shows. Every episode is an exact shot-for-shot re-creation using no special visual effects.
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God, have mercy on our eardrums. 
This little boy opens up a Devastator Transformers toy on his birthday - and apparently, it was everything he's ever wanted. He transformed a joyous present opening into a battle cry the alien robots would have rallied behind. 
Watch him absolutely lose his mind in the video above.
We hope someone nails our gift this hard this holiday season.Jimmy Fallon is not over his bad date with Nicole Kidman
Watch this Tesla escape a rear end collision thanks to

Facebook’s fake news problem is all the rage these days. After raising hell about Facebook’s role in the recent election — and a misleading response from CEO Mark Zuckerberg — we’re really back at square one. It’s a problem, we all know it’s a problem (save Zuckerberg), and at this point we’re still struggling for a solution — although we do have some suggestions. According to The Washington Post, four students — Anant Goel,

A new study suggests that 70 percent of European Android users want pre-installed apps. No, it is not opposite day. The Application Developers Alliance asked 4,000 Android users in France, Germany, Spain and Italy about their app install preferences. It’s worth noting that Google helped develop the study, and the company is currently locked in battle with the EU over whether its default Android apps are anti-competitive. The results seem to lie in Google’s favor. The vast majority o

A company called Rmour thinks all you need to do to protect your iPhone is cover its corners. No one likes a phone case. Even if yours is exceptionally cool, like mine, you’d probably still prefer to have a regular, naked phone. The Rmour phone case for the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus launched on Kickstarter earlier this month and instead of covering up the entirety of your phone, it comes in four separate parts, or one for each corner. It’s essentially a broken up bumper protector.Ho

Not since the infamous llama chase of 2015 has a live stream been as gleefully enthralling as the Santa Clara blob.
The Bay Area’s KTVU Fox 2 news station was quick to hop on the mysterious foam beat, and is currently streaming with a video title that suggests, “We don’t know what it is or even if it is possibly toxic / lethal if breathed in, but let’s watch as it grows!” That’s the magic of Facebook Live!Some chill guy rode his bike through the foam. His name

Get on Twitter and ask Neil deGrasse Tyson to list the mathematical constants of the universe, and he will say the speed of light, that pi is 3.14…, and that FIFA games always have insane glitches.
It’s an annual ritual for FIFA fans to compile montages of the strangest-looking bugs in Electronic Arts’ soccer game, and the 2016 version is no different. Except that maybe these aren’t glitches at all. The fellows that run the Ultimate Soccer Skills Channel on YouTube have

The class-action lawsuits brought against Donald Trump's "Trump University" have been settled for $25 million.
The deal, announced Friday by the New York Attorney General's Office, marks an end to an ongoing problem for the president-elect. But Trump still faces numerous other lawsuits, as noted by the Financial Times.
The lawsuit alleged that the business program committed fraud and used false advertising and unfair business practices. It also alleged the program had targeted seniors and theref

Trump supporters are making a stand against Starbucks by spending money on coffee in the chain's shops and demanding baristas write "Trump" on their cups.
The movement — which comes to you by the hashtag #TrumpCup — accelerated Friday following an incident in a Miami branch of the coffee chain.
A white supporter of the President-elect was filmed earlier this week shouting at employees, complaining of racial discrimination and telling everyone in the store he voted Trump. The incident

If you’re finding yourself with idle hands and a heavy heart today, Clara Beyer’s new website “HOLY FUCK THE ELECTION” may be of some help.You have two choices when you arrive at holyfucktheelection.com. The first is to say that you’re not okay and you “need a fucking minute.” This option will pull up a menu suggesting that you make some art, look at some dogs, or write your feelings down. Also, it will drop the F-bomb a bunch of times. All good ideas, p

A fascinating and disturbing interview with top Trump advisor and widely accused racist Steve Bannon dropped Friday courtesy of veteran media columnist Michael Wolff. 
Its most eyebrow-raising quote is already doing the rounds on social media: "Darkness is good," Bannon told Wolff. "Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power."
SEE ALSO: Quotes from Trump's new chief strategist that will terrify you
But that's a classic example of taking a statement out of context — and the on

The new Google Home smart speaker is $30 off at Best Buy next week as part of the retailer’s Black Friday deals. The Home normally retails for $130, and you can get it for $99 plus six months of free YouTube Red, the video site’s ad-free subscription service, if you manage to snag the deal between November 24th and November 26th. Best Buy’s ad indicates that the deal is not restricted to in-store purchase only, so the web store listing link for the Home should reflect the price

Italian Amazon users will soon be able to purchase their next car while shopping for toothpaste. Announced today, the deal teams Fiat Chrysler with e-commerce giant Amazon to offer three of Italy’s best-selling cars at discounted prices online — the ‘Panda,’ ‘500,’ and ‘500L.’ “The time has arrived to give consumers a new, more efficient and transparent way to choose a new vehicle,” Gianluca Italia, of Fiat Chrysler in I

For all its talk of a more connected world, Facebook has a tendency to silo us—its users—into feedback loops, those spheres of information where we're rarely subjected to views that differ from our own.
Never was this phenomenon more pronounced than in the months leading up to the 2016 election, when it sometimes seemed as if people were living in entirely different, ideology-driven realities. 
This interactive tool using analysis from the Wall Street Journal does a good job of

Welcome to New York, now home of the Taylor Swift Experience. 
The small museum, dedicated entirely to the pop star, opens today, Nov. 18, in Manhattan's Seaport District. And it welcomed Mashable in for an early sneak peek.
True Swifties will geek out at every corner of the two-story exhibit, which features the pop icon's childhood memorabilia, handwritten song lyrics, clothes, awards, musical instruments and more.
SEE ALSO: Welcome to New York, Taylor Swift exhibit. It's been waiting for

(Reuters) — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) said it has teamed up with U.S. internet giant Amazon to start selling cars online offering an additional discount.
Initially only Italian buyers will be able to purchase their cars with a simple click online and the offers on Amazon.it will be limited to three models – the 500, the Panda and the 500L.
FCA said the choice was deliberate because the Panda is Italy’s biggest selling car, while buyers of the 500 and its larger

GUEST: The transformative power of technology is stunning. Fifty years ago, if you told someone you needed to search for a piece of information, they would think that you were headed over to a wall of encyclopedias at the library. Fifteen years ago they would have thought that you were going to go sit down at a bulky desktop computer to type something into a Yahoo search bar. Five years ago the image would include a smartphone in your hand, fingers tapping away. Today the idea of a search is bec

Wake up, Hideo. It’s time to celebrate your career — and this time, no one can stop you.
Metal Gear creator and renowned industry auteur Hideo Kojima was supposed to win a lifetime-achievement prize at The Game Awards in 2015, but publisher Konami — his former employer — blocked him from accepting it (Metal Gear Solid V voice actor Kiefer Sutherland took to the stage on his behalf). But now Kojima is no longer at Konami, and the award show, run by longtime industry hype m

Apple is reportedly asking its manufacturing partners to investigate moving iPhone production to the United States, according to the Japanese newspaper The Nikkei. According to the report, sources claim that Apple has approached Foxconn and Pegatron, the two manufacturing companies that are largely responsible for assembling iPhones. Foxconn is apparently exploring the possibility, while Pegatron has elected to decline due to cost concerns.
According to The Nikkei, Apple made the request to expl

McDonald’s has gone fancy. After rolling out a new model called “Just For You” in a number of international locations, we’re now starting to see them in the US. California, Florida and New York all feature the upgraded take on fast food faire, each with their own touchscreen kiosks for customizing your McGreasy, table service and payments made with Android or Apple Pay. It’s still a McDonald’s, but classier. If you’re not lucky enough to experience

The folks over at Roborace have taken one of the biggest steps yet toward making their fantastic-looking self-driving racecars a reality. The company just published footage of the Roborace test car, known as DevBot, completing 12 laps on its own — with no human onboard — at last weekend’s Formula E race in Morocco. You can watch the video above.
The test car safely navigated the tight, twisting street circuit without any major incidents, according to Roborace. The video shows t

The Harlem Globetrotters are a roundabout group of playground basketball legends who rode on-court, circus-like tricks to international fame. On Thursday, they did what they do best: Break world records with absurd trick shots. 
Thursday marked Guinness World Records day, when people across the world made their bid at the history books. 
The Globetrotters, an exhibition team more rooted in entertainment than wins and losses, set seven world records in 2015. But this year, they too

The door is bright red, perched at the top of a mossy stone staircase in the middle of a floating island. When I approach, a mysterious tune begins emanating from it, as if playing from the other side. Right now, it’s just a simple prop, and there is no other side. But when I ask Linden Lab’s Bjorn Laurin, he tells me the door is supposed to lead to Narnia — and by next year, there’s no reason it shouldn’t.
The space we’re both inhabiting is part of Sansar (fo

The door is bright red, perched at the top of a mossy stone staircase in the middle of a floating island. When I approach, a mysterious tune begins emanating from it, as if playing from the other side. Right now, it’s just a simple prop, and there is no other side. But when I ask Linden Lab’s Bjorn Laurin, he tells me the door is supposed to lead to Narnia — and by next year, there’s no reason it shouldn’t.
The space we’re both inhabiting is part of Project Sa

Spoilers for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them below
NEW YORK — There was a time when you couldn't bring up Harry Potter without a hardcore fan picking up the frequency and jumping in to talk theories (me. It was me), and Fantastic Beasts has unleashed the madness once again. 
Below are all our burning questions and theories after our first viewing of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. 
SEE ALSO: 'Fantastic Beasts': Let's talk about that Grindelwald reveal
1. Was Aria

A kitchen cleaver tucked into the belt of a trench-coat-cloaked figure. A seductive woman with blood red lipstick, eyes concealed in shadow by a wide-brimmed hat. A gape-mouthed young girl staring at something just beyond the camera's line of sight, terror visible in her eyes.
All these images conjure an air of mystery, which is probably why the covers of paperback novels and DVD covers have donned such stylistic choices for years. 
For mystery buffs, it's fascinating to investigate how the

As is the case in so many other parts of America, thousands of California residents are protesting the 2016 election results. The difference? Their frustration has swelled into support for perhaps the ultimate solution to the Golden State's strong distaste for president-elect Donald Trump—secession.
SEE ALSO: Calexit: Californians want to secede now that Trump won
The idea of a #Calexit blew up on Twitter right after Trump's win. It started as a series of jokes—Tweets about the state

We all knew Apple was getting ahead of itself with its recent book with pictures of its own products. This new coffee-table book was a nice attempt at a pun, but it's certainly not Apple's most innovative endeavor.
Stephen Colbert takes on how Apple would convince us otherwise. Little boy loses his sh*t over a Transformers toy
Jimmy Fallon is not over his bad date with Nicole Kidman
Watch this Tesla escape a rear end collision thanks to its ridiculous acceleration
Seth Meyers takes 'A Clos