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A new teaser for John Wick: Chapter 2 just dropped ahead of today’s Super Bowl, parodying its box office competition for this weekend: Fifty Shades Darker. “Slip into something a shade darker,” the trailer says. Keanu Reeves has other plans, which includes a ton of guns, shooting, and additional random violence.The film stars Reeves and his Matrix costar Laurence Fishburne, as well as John Leguizamo, Common, Ruby Rose, Bridget Moynahan, and Ian McShane, with Chad Stahelski dire

I’ve been a fan of an artist named Steve Gildea’s for a couple of years now. He’s done some incredible paintings and illustrations of our solar system, whether its astronauts or the planets of the solar system. He’s just created a new, beautiful painting of Mars that I really want to frame on the wall of my office.The painting is a four-piece panel called Ma’adim Vallis, Mars. Painted with oil on canvas, Gildea noted that he “was inspired to do multi-panel pie

Marek Reichman is the architect of Aston Martin’s modern day form language, the basis for what is arguably the world’s most beautiful car brand. The 104-year old company has a legacy for vehicles that have sinuous bodies and enduring cool, and has long been a particular point of British pride. Look no further than the romance of James Bond’s original DB5 in the 1964 film Goldfinger. When Aston Martin celebrated its centenary in 2013, thousands gathered on the green lawns of Ken

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.
Hi Leah,I guess you get a lot of questions around New Year but I'll try my luck anyway. I'm 26, living in Europe, and my

Days after releasing a cringeworthy Super Bowl commercial starring Justin Bieber, T-Mobile has come out with two new spots ahead of today’s big game — and they’re not that bad! In a 30-second ad called “#BagOfUnlimited,” Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg use a string of weed-related puns to make the case for T-Mobile’s unlimited data plan. The puns, mercifully, are not too strained.The second spot stars Kristen Schaal in a 50 Shades of Grey-inspired takedown of T-

The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event in America, and whether you’re a football fan or not, chances are you’ll be joining the millions of people crowding around their TV screens to see the Atlanta Falcons take on the New England Patriots. Or maybe you’re just there to eat wings and see this year’s batch of commercials.In the good old days (i.e., a couple of years ago) watching the Super Bowl just meant figuring out which of the three networks — NBC, Fox, or C

We called Mad Max: Fury Road a cult classic when it hit theaters back in 2015, but what I find particularly special about the movie now is how well it holds up to scrutiny. Even though there are long stretches without any dialogue, director George Miller took such care with the film that, the audio and visuals tell about as much story as even the talkiest Aaron Sorkin screenplay. He was so good, his movie shows how other genre films are screwing up.
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Robots are coming! Especially robots that carry and deliver stuff, like the Starship delivery bot or these ridiculous motorized suitcases. A new bot is about to join those aspirational ranks, and it’s made by Piaggio — the same company that created the Vespa scooter.This bot is called Gita, and it’s a bright blue orb-shaped cargo robot with wheels that Piaggio says has the same “braking, balancing and vehicle dynamics that you would expect of a high-performance motorcycle

Nobody likes hearing someone crunching their food, but for some it’s more than just an annoyance — the sound triggers a full “fight or flight response.” These people has a rare condition called “misophonia” that makes them extraordinarily sensitive to everyday sounds, and new research confirms that their brains really are wired differently.
For a study published this week in the journal Current Biology scientists scanned the brains of 20 people with misophonia

Remember when you proudly watched the Super Bowl just for the commercials? The 1990s were an advertising heyday for Budweiser, Pepsi, and a handful of forgotten dot com companies, all of whom jockeyed to win the nation's approval with trippy short films featuring talky animals and unshakeable catch phrases. People would have them printed on t-shirts or inked into tattoos.
Things have changed. Over the last two decades, the Super Bowl ad lost its punch. The rise of late night pot-friendly televis

Saturday Night Live came back last night after a short break, with plenty of material to chew through during the first couple of weeks of President Donald Trump’s Administration. While the cold open focused on Trump’s phone calls this week to Australia and Mexico’s respective heads of state, it was Melissa McCarthy who stole the show with her portrayal of White House press secretary Sean Spicer.McCarthy channeled that first abrupt press conference the day after the inauguration

Last year, Nike gave us all the Back to the Future vibes with its self-lacing HyperAdapt sneakers. They’re super future looking, of course, but they also cost $720. That’s a lot of money. If you’re not in the income range to spend nearly $1,000 on shoes, but would also like to be an elite who doesn’t have to bend down for an unruly lace, you might have another option: LEGO.Industrial designer Vimal Patel created a concept shoe that has shoe laces fastened into LEGO connec