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Children will do whatever the heck they want, whenever the heck they want. That's the lesson these parents learned when they took a look at some home security footage and saw their twin toddler boys sneak out of their cribs and play in the middle of the night.Andrew and Ryan Balkin are twin 2-year-old boys, and they have plenty of fun when their parents turn off the lights. They even do a little cleaning up after themselves afterwards. 
But there's no getting around Mom and Dad, who bust th

I've seen a lot of buzzer-beaters over the years, but this is might be the best ever. 
I mean, look at this shot from Destiny Slocum.She shoots from 70 feet out with seconds left in the half ... with two hands over her head like a damn soccer throw-in. I didn't even know that was a thing. Let's see Steph Curry try to match that. 
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Destiny's Maryland Terrapins went on to beat the West Virginia Mountaineers

France’s MultiX, which makes x-ray imaging solutions for airports, has raised $3.76 million (€3.5 million) from Omnes Capital and H3C.
The company was founded by two employees of Thales Group with support from the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Along with airports, MultiX’s technology is used in the non-destructive testing sector such a food processing to detect unwanted objects.
The new funds will aid the company’s international expansion. It already has a presenc

Several popular LGBTQ+ YouTube vloggers have claimed that YouTube is using the site's "restricted mode" to hide some of their videos.
SEE ALSO: How you can help protect trans kids right now
The restricted mode for YouTube, according to Google, enables users to filter out "potentially objectionable content," leading some LGBTQ+ vloggers to accuse YouTube of implicitly categorizing their material as not "family-friendly."
That's the complaint British vlogger Rowan Ellis made to Gizmodo, saying, &l

Different day, but the same tough times at Uber. Uber President Jeff Jones has quit, Recode reported Sunday. The decision to leave directly relates to Uber's last two months of PR hell, anonymous sources told Recode.
SEE ALSO: This Uber executive sure sounds defensive about not taking the fall for Uber's harassment crisis
Uber PR provided this statement: “We want to thank Jeff for his six months at the company and wish him all the best.”
But the communications representative declined

Short stories are hard to pull off well. Creators, whether they’re authors or directors, have to strip their story down to its most essential elements, all while making sure their characters can still grab the attention of their audiences. A short film called Standby is a brilliant example of how a storyteller can do just that.Written and directed by Charlotte Regan, Standby is about two British police officers on the job. I don’t want to say any more than that before you watch it, s

Italy's Mount Etna is still fired up. The Sicilian volcano has been spewing lava and belching ash on and off for nearly three months now.
After the latest eruption on March 16, fiery-hot lava began flowing down the volcano's slopes. The video shown above captures the flow only two days later.
SEE ALSO: Watch this Mexican volcano blow some serious smoke
But as Mount Etna reminded visitors, lava is best viewed from afar. The brilliant red lava recently caused an explosion when it hit snow on the

Amazon’s 2017 Pilot Season is upon us, and the site has released the pilot for a television show called Oasis, featuring Game of Thrones star Richard Madden.Oasis, based on Michel Faber’s 2014 novel The Book of Strange New Things, follows a priest named Peter Leigh. Humanity has established a colonial world on the edge of the galaxy, which Peter and his ailing wife protested. But one of the colony’s founders, David Morgan, specifically asks for him to visit the world as a missi

Zelda fan Allen Pan has taken home automation to the next level. 
Pan set up his home so that different automations are triggered when he plays tunes from the Nintendo 64 hit Zelda: Ocarina of Time on his own ocarina. It's amazing not just for the fan dedication, but for the amount of work that went into the project.
SEE ALSO: Nintendo just reinvented 'Zelda' in the best damn way
The video walks viewers through how Pan set the whole thing up, using note recognition, his own coding, and lot

GUEST: Physicians across America feel that we were either left off the guest list or have been invited late to the party, too late to change things. We’d like to receive an invitation from you — the developers of digital healthcare tools — early in the development process. We want to help you help us help people. With the rise of chronic disease and the need for continuous connected care, time is of the essence. We’d like to be a part of the innovation process that will t

A recent Hollywood Reporter interview about the cheapie horror movie The Belko Experiment reveals two nuggets of information that seem pretty relevant to how the film came out: reportedly, Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn got the plot hook from a dream, then banged out the script in a week. That explains a lot about how The Belko Experiment plays out, as a nightmarish but half-assed scenario where the emotions and the gore have impact, but the larger story behind them doesn’t. I

As the saying goes: Another month, another disconcerting report from top U.S. climate agencies.
Last month was Earth's second-hottest February on record since at least 1880, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently reported. 
At the same time, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctica hit record monthly lows.
SEE ALSO: Here’s why it's so frickin’ hot right now
In February 2017, the average global temperature was 1.76 degrees Fahrenhei

The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is coming in 23 days to the New York auto show. What’s fueling interest in this two-door muscle car variant is the guessing game: How powerful is it? The Demon is the latest strike in the white-hot contested horsepower wars. The battle to go fast is fueled by an online enthusiast community drooling at the thought of delirious numbers that translate to incredible launch speeds once reserved for the drag racing strip. Photo: FCAThe Demon was first announce

Neil deGrasse Tyson took a break from sharing science facts and nerdy dad jokes on Sunday to blast Donald Trump in a raging tweetstorm. 
SEE ALSO: Maybe the GOP will finally get to kill Big Bird after all
Specifically, Tyson targeted Trump's proposed slashing of federal funding for programs that support the arts, education, and the EPA, which has long been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. The fastest way to Make a America Weak Again: Cut science funds to our agencies that

It was supposed to be a cute moment The Ellen DeGeneres Show show is known for. Instead, 5-year-old geography genius Nate Seltzer laid down some hot fire on President Donald Trump.
SEE ALSO: Stephen Colbert unravels Trump's ties to Putin with his handy dandy 'Figure-It-Out-A-Tron'
While answering a gamut of questions from Ellen about his self-drawn world map, he was asked who was standing inside Russia. And that's when little Nate dropped the big burn: "Trump."
Ok, so the kid's got well-timed j

How To Be Human is ending. Today is the very last column. I want to thank all of you for reading and for writing to me. I’m grateful so many of you entrusted me with your most difficult problems and thorniest, trickiest questions.
As I mentioned, this last column is going to answer the additional two questions from last week’s letter. Rather than reprint the whole letter, I’ll just include the questions themselves, because as much as I’m speaking to the letter writer, thi

GUEST: Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about blockchain being all hype. From institutions like the University of Pennsylvania to tech-focused investment conferences, the blockchain discussion has begun to veer into what is starting to sound like an apology from the industry about what blockchain hasn’t yet achieved. Instead of trying to use the game-changing technology in new ways, it seems like blockchain specialists are starting to cower under the weight of high expectations a

There are subtle ways to protest Donald Trump. Then there's putting up a billboard with mushroom clouds and dollar signs that look like swastikas.This happened today in Phoenix, AZ. My anti-Trump billboard at 1022 Grand Ave. Thanks to Hugh Gran for letting me use his dollar swastikas in my design! #antitrump #theresistance #resist #impeachtrump #dumptrump #trump #donaltrump #trump💩
A post shared by Karen Fiorito (@karenfiorito) on Mar 17, 2017 at 10:02am PDT
The billboard from artist Kar

Graeme Devine is one of the wizards of gaming, having started at age 14 in the heyday of Atari in the 1970s. He brought us CD-ROM games like The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour. He labored on early Quake games at id Software, and was the games evangelist at Apple as the iPhone was taking off.
He created games on his own for a while and then joined Magic Leap, the high-flying augmented reality smartglasses company, in 2013. Devine gave a talk on his vision for “mixed reality” games a

When Julia Ducournau’s debut feature, Raw, debuted at TIFF in September 2016, it caused a real stir — people supposedly fainted at one screening. Then again, it’s a horror movie at a prestigious film festival, so most of the showings were at midnight. Maybe a couple of viewers just passed out from exhaustion, or conked out following a $14 glass of sippy-cup wine. But that doesn’t matter. The myth around Raw, a body-horror coming-of-age story about a young veterinary stude

GUEST: Hardware startups seem to be “in” one minute and “out” the next in Silicon Valley. For years, venture capitalists wouldn’t go near hardware startups. They were, as Wired put it, “the ugly stepchild of venture capital.” This started to shift a couple years ago thanks to cheaper parts, rapid prototyping, and crowdfunding. However, the tide is turning once again. VC investments in hardware now seem to be slowing. We’re seeing a drop in funding

I hope you like seeing Disney's animated classics turned into live-action features. They're not going away anytime soon.
We have Beauty and the Beast to thank for that. Disney's flesh-and-blood (and CG) remake of the 1991 hit opened at the top of the domestic box office with an estimated $170 million. That's more than the animated feature earned during its entire theatrical run in the U.S., which ended at $145.9 million.
SEE ALSO: 'Beauty and the Beast' review: So, what do those extra 45 minutes

Cheerios' recent campaign to give away flower seeds was both wildly popular and, no surprise, controversial.
General Mills, maker of the O-shaped oat cereal, said it initially planned to dole out 100 million wildflower seeds to customers who requested them. 
The goal? Boost the ranks of North America's imperiled bees. Cheerios instead gave away 1.5 billion seeds, depleting its entire stockpile.
SEE ALSO: This pollinating bee drone shows the power of these endangered creatures
"In one week,

Viewers tuning into The Rachel Maddow Show on March 14 were disappointed to see, after much hype and 20 minutes of on-air build up, that an expected bombshell turned out to be a giant dud.
Maddow saw a surge of viewers to her program, following teaser tweets about obtaining President Trump's tax returns. Maddow eventually revealed two pages of Trump's 2005 tax return. The forms showed that Trump earned $150 million that year and paid $38 million in taxes. Maddow's source, financial journalist Da

The myriad ways in which video and audio impact our brains and bodies have long been studied by academia. But that research isn’t only taking place in university labs: at Dolby Laboratories, the company has been conducting its own internal research into how media can trigger reactions in human beings.On a recent tour through Dolby Laboratories in San Francisco, the audio and imaging company spent most of the day showing journalists the latest developments in its proprietary high-dynamic ra

We’ve already gotten a good look at the Samsung Galaxy S8, but a new leaked image of the device shows off the colors that it will be available in when it ships to consumers in April.The image comes from Evan Blass, who leaked the first images of the phone back in January. His new image reveals that Samsung’s next flagship phone will be available in three colors: Black Sky, Orchid Grey, and Arctic Silver.Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus (top to bottom) in black sky, orchid grey and arcti

Now Shaq is doing it.
Is it possible that current and former members of the NBA have mutually agreed to troll the planet — which is provably spherical in shape — with preposterous flat-Earth theories? The only other explanation is that they believe it, and just ... noNo.
SEE ALSO: Check out this glorious map of lightning striking around the globe
Retired NBA star and current media personality Shaquille O'Neal is the latest pro basketball player to assert that our definitely globe-sha

FEATURE: “It didn’t take a genius to realize that if I couldn’t find any useful online information for finding parking in San Francisco, then drivers in Paris, Shanghai, and thousands of other cities around the globe were probably also struggling with the exact same problem,” explained Eugene Tsyrklevich, founder and CEO of London-based parking platform Parkopedia, in an interview with VentureBeat.
It was way back in 2007, during the Web 2.0 conference in San Fr

When it first debuted more than a year ago, Oxenfree did the unthinkable: it made the constant babble of teenagers not only tolerable, but enjoyable. And now the creepy adventure is something you can play on your phone, as the previously console- and PC-exclusive game has come to iOS.
Oxenfree tells the story of a group of teenagers heading to a small island to party, with the goal of having a parent-free evening of drinking around a beach bonfire. But things eventually take a turn for the paran

There’s a ton of niche design objects that have been tossed up onto Kickstarter for funding, but every now and again, there’s one that will really catch your eye. Case in point, this high-end, designer ruler.
The Lindlund is billed as a ruler for creative types and designers. Its Swedish creators, Jens Marklund and Axel Lindmarker say that while they worked on various projects, they were often rotate through a bunch of specialty rulers, each with different measurements on them. &ldqu

GUEST: Magic Leap has drawn more than $1.4 billion in investment. There’s also some troubling reports regarding demos and delays that are getting a lot of press. I know a game designer who works there, and I still believe they could pull it off. But when a Google search for “magic leap fail” turns up about 670,000 results, one has to admit that the prospect of failure exists.
It’s not just Magic Leap who faces failure. The total shipments in 2016 for VR gear has disa

When William Joel and I were planning how we could follow up on our first episode of Gadget Earth, we realized that in or order to continue our quest to observe and record the behavior of gadgets in the wild and in captivity, we would first have to go back and start at the very beginning. So we set out to explore the world of the youngest gadgets: Botlings.
It turns out that Botlings must overcome the same kinds of challenges faced by many other small creatures. As they take their first tentativ

(Reuters) – Germany has raised its alert level against cyber attacks to “heightened readiness” ahead of parliamentary elections, saying government websites are already subjected to daily assault, newspaper Welt am Sonntag said.
“We are noticing attacks against government networks on a daily basis,” Arne Schoenbohm, president of Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), told the paper.
BSI is in close contact with election officials, political pa

(Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Saturday for Europe to set about standardizing rules on using data in Europe, ahead of a visit to the CeBIT technology fair in Hanover where digitalization is expected to be in focus.
“We want to create a digital single European market. That means we need to have legal situations that are as similar as possible in all European countries,” Merkel said in her weekly video podcast.
A key issue is determining who owns the data a

OPINION: Apple has a choice to make. Will it make its Apple Pencil stylus compatible with devices other than its high-end iPad Pro tablets?
I think it should.
In 2015, when Apple first unveiled the Pencil, people wondered why the stylus wouldn’t work with non-Pro iPads, let alone iPhones.
Then, in 2016, when Apple announced the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, people wondered why Apple didn’t make the phone capable of supporting the Pencil.
Now Apple is said to be planning its third iPad Pro. It

GUEST: Over the past year, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology have become hot topics, particularly when it comes to how they stack up against each other. Enthusiastic publications are treating these two as fiercely competitive technologies, while in fact, it’s much more likely there will be a place for both in our future.
AR and VR both provide next-level viewing experiences, allowing us to see things as if they’re right in front of us. The big difference betw

After months of delays, Drake has finally released his long-awaited project, More Life. Although the 22-track project premiered on OVO Sound Radio, Drake’s Beats 1 show, More Life will not be an Apple Music exclusive, as the project will be served to every major streaming service, including Spotify, and is available to purchase on iTunes.
More Life could shatter the weekly streaming record set by Views
This is the first project from Drake since 2015 that won’t be locked down to Apple