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Back in October Microsoft unveiled a bold new vision for its Windows 10 operating system named the Creator’s Update, and mixed reality technology played a big part in it. Now, that revamp has finally been dated.
Microsoft will begin rolling out the latest iteration of its operating system April 11, and the company confirmed to UploadVR that mixed reality (MR) support will be included. It will be free for all Windows 10 owners. For consumers, that won’t mean much right now. The first

Beyoncé has everyone speculating what her latest photo montage/Instagram video showing off her very pregnant belly really means.A post shared by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on Apr 1, 2017 at 7:39pm PDT
Late Saturday, Beyoncé dropped "Date Night," a series of photos appropriately set to Pop That Thang by the Isley Brothers. After announcing she's expecting twins earlier this year, she may very well pop soon.
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Tesla announced today that it squeaked past its own quarterly production and delivery records with “just over” 25,000 cars delivered in the first quarter of 2017. The highlight so far this year is the Model X SUV, which is catching up to the Model S sedan in production. Tesla delivered about 11,450 SUVs in Q1 2017 — a 33% rise over the 8,700 it delivered in Q3 2016.Tesla said it expects to deliver about 50,000 cars in the first half of 2017, and today’s stats suggest it w

Everyone over the age of 27 who dreams of smizing with the stars—Tyra Banks has got your back.
The model and host of the majority of America's Next Top Model (hi Rita Ora) announced major changes for the show's 24th season. As casting begins, Banks confirmed that all ages will be allowed to enter. 
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“I've stood for diverse beauty and erasing cookie-cutter when it comes to what is deemed beautiful.  There have bee

Black smoke smothered Dubai's sky on Sunday after a fire broke out near the world's tallest building.
The desert metropolis looked almost apocalyptic as dark clouds rose from a high-rise tower complex being built alongside Dubai's biggest mall.
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No one was injured in the inferno, though three workers were rescued from inside the structure and taken to the hospital for examination, authorities said.Dramatic skyscraper blazes

GUEST: Amazon’s aim of transforming e-commerce standards, perhaps even from same day to same hour delivery via drones, continues to make headlines. But as drone technology develops at jet speed, there is a whole host of other industries outside of e-commerce that stand to be disrupted in 2017.
In fact, many are already in the midst of a drone-powered revolution: agriculture, cinema, event photography, and inspections (of roofs, bridges, cell towers, and other potentially dangerous, hard to

Vin Diesel, the action movie star known for his very smooth head and muscular build, has been immortalized forever in a bust made entirely of ham and a few slices of cheese.
YouTube video maker William Osman, known for his high tech projects usually involving robots and lasers, went all in with a user suggestion to laser cut ham into the shape of the Fast and the Furious star.
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This eventually morphed into a ham

Tina Fey isn't one to mince words—and she had some very important things to say on Friday night. 
The comedian took part in the American Civil Liberties (ACLU) Facebook Live telethon, fundraising alongside Amy Poehler, Tom Hanks, and more for the organization. During the nearly four-hour-long broadcast, Fey took the opportunity to speak to Donald Trump supporters—and specifically, to the college-educated white women voters among them. 
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Allow me to paint you a picture: It’s a brisk spring eve. The familiar scent of stale beer floods the air, while the floor beneath your shoes is faintly sticky from the same. 
Strangers from all walks of life surround you, beads of sweat forming on their brow. A generously illuminated stage lies ahead. Its inhabitants play a familiar tune. You know this tune. You all know it. It’s your favorite. Everybody is singing alongWhat a moment this is. 
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In one corner, the live-action adaptation of a Disney animated classic. In the other, that movie where Alec Baldwin voices a CG infant.
Beauty and the Beast has ceded its #1 box office berth — after just two weeks — to The Boss Baby, based on Sunday estimates. The two are close, but Baby is currently on pace for a domestic take of $49 million, compared to Beauty's $47.5 million.
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This could all change once

Each puzzle in Kami 2 looks like something you’d want to put on a wall — you almost don’t want to mess with it to find the solution. But Kami 2 is also more than just a pretty game. Its puzzles, a series of colorful, connected triangles, offer just the right balance between challenge and relaxation. It’s the kind of game that pairs perfectly with a morning cup of coffee.
Kami 2 starts out simple, perhaps a bit too much. The goal in each stage is to turn the patterned scre

GUEST: If someone came to you in 1992 and said, “Hey, there’s this thing called the Internet. Let me explain how billions and billions of dollars of value are going to be created in entirely new business models,” how would you have reacted? Well, maybe not, YOU, but most people?
The state of the blockchain (really, decentralization) industry is at a similarly nascent stage, and the opportunities are immense.
My friend, and leading blockchain industry analyst, William Mouga

John Draper, the legendary “phone phreaker” known as Cap’n Crunch, had surgery last week to deal with a degenerative spine disease, and his friends are raising money on GoFundMe for the medical bills.
Draper worked with others in the late 1960s to hack the AT&T phone system using a toy whistle that came from a Cap’n Crunch cereal box. The whistle emitted a tone at 2600 hertz, which happened to be the same one that AT&T used to reset its phone lines.
Draper became

Image: Library of CongressIn the early decades of the 20th century, millions of African-Americans began leaving the rural South for the urban North in a mass exodus known as the Great Migration.For many fleeing the disenfranchisement, segregation, and racist violence of the Jim Crow South, the industrial hub of Chicago, with growing opportunities in the meatpacking and railroad businesses, offered the best prospects for self-determination.New arrivals encountered territorial resistance from entr

Guy Ritchie is no one-trick-pony director, but he brings a uniquely identifiable vibe to every movie he makes. Quick cuts, artful fast/slow-motion, pop-heavy soundtracks — these are just some of the markers of a Ritchie movie.
The auteur filmmaker's sense of style is on full display in the latest and final trailer for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. The movie — which charts the titular king of legend's ascent to the throne — seems to mix the swords and sorcery tale with Ritc

I can't resist films that look as gorgeous and intimate as By The Sea. So even though it didn't get all-that-great reviews when it came out a little over a year ago, I had to watch it now that it's streaming on HBO.
The cinematography is just wonderful. And the film sets up a fascinating dynamic where one couple spends half the movie spying on another couple, letting you see two stories at once, all while the threat of the snoopers getting caught creates more and more tension.
It's one of the sm

No matter how perfect the internet makes Justin Trudeau out to be, he's only human. 
So when news broke last week that Matthew Perry beat up Canada's current prime minister  in elementary school, it was only natural that Trudeau would express the desire to exact a bit of revenge. 
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Trudeau responded to Perry's story with a simple tweet. 
"I've been giving it some thought, and you know what, who hasn't w

Intel was quiet about its technological advances for a while, and that made people wonder if Moore’s Law was slowing down. In 1965, Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip will double every year, and that prediction has held true.
And by living up to that prediction, the world’s biggest chip maker has helped deliver the wonders of the modern world, which delivers the same computing power in a smartphone today that took a giant mainframe

2017: A fresh start for everyone but the teens.
Apparently, some teenagers didn't get the memo that this year was going to be a better year for us all, and have already almost ruined it.
Here are 11 instances teens took things way too far and threatened our happiness in 2017.
When this kid got Ryan Reynolds' name tattooed on his butt because the actor 'liked' his tweet:@VancityReynolds if you like this i'll tattoo your name on my butt
— dustin (@poolspidey) March 5, 2017
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In case it wasn't already clear from the first trailer and the reports out of Cinemacon: The Mummy is a horror movie.
Universal's Tom Cruise-starring reboot ditches the playful antics of the Brendan Fraser-led Mummy movies in favor of a more serious treatment. This second trailer highlights plenty of action, but it also oozes with the creepy vibes you'd expect from a story about an ancient monster rampaging across the modern world.
The Mummy hits theaters on June 9. Read more...
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GUEST: When it comes to launching the next on-demand, social, consumer-focused app — your Facebooks, Instagrams, and Snapchats of the world — Silicon Valley has no equal. But mankind cannot live on social media alone, and no one is more familiar with that truth than those of us in the Midwest, where technology is less about sharing pictures of your lunch and more about growing the very ingredients on your plate.
While the Valley boasts more than 300 venture capitalists and, in 2015,

It's been more than two years since the last Parks and Recreation episode aired, but thanks to Netflix, the show is still as beloved as ever. If you believe hard enough, you can trick yourself into thinking the show is never over.
And thanks to Netflix, we were recently were engaging in our 40th watch-through of this great show (it's kind of always just on loop) when we remembered something — the last season of the show was set in 2017.
For the entirety of Parks and Rec prior to the last s

Beyoncé might have given us the best pregnancy announcement of 2017, but this couple comes in pretty close with a tribute to everyone's favorite public television painter: Bob Ross. 
To announce the Oct. 2017 due date of a little one, a couple posed as a scene inspired by the Ross-hosted TV series The Joy of Painting. Thankfully, a friend shared it to Reddit, inviting us all to witness this ingenious announcement. 
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Evan Orr needed physical therapy, but he found out the hard way that it wasn’t easy to do. Physical therapy is always a big part of rehabilitation, but no one wants to do the exercises. It’s hard to book an appointment with a good therapist. And it’s hard to know what is really working.
So Orr founded VRPhysio, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based company that enables patients to do physical therapy in VR. VR Physio is one of about 90 augmented reality and VR companies in Israel. The

Katie McEntire Wiatt has a simple mission: Fill the skies with women.
The teacher-turned-filmmaker is producing a documentary to inspire girls and young women to join aviation — a field that, like many science and technology careers, employs mostly men.
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Only about 6 percent of U.S. pilots are women, including commercial, private, student, and recreational pilots, Federal Aviation Administration data shows.
"Many barriers

1940A man walking in winter in the ruins of the synagogue on Wolborska street (destroyed by Germans in 1939).Image: Henryk Ross, Collection of the Art Gallery of OntarioWhen Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, they created walled-off ghettos in the larger cities to concentrate and imprison the Jewish residentsHenryk Ross worked as a news and sports photographer in the city of Lodz. Once in the city’s ghetto, he was employed by the Department of Statistics to shoot identification photos an

For the last few days, I’ve been watching the new Game of Thrones trailer on repeat. Before that, it was the spot for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. And there was a good amount of time a few years back when I played the third Force Awakens trailer for hours on end.None of this is because I felt the need to see Cersei puffing out a breath of frigid air over and over again, or because watching Johnny Depp phone in another cash-grab performance as Jack Sparrow will somehow

Floodwaters from three swollen rivers surged through a Colombian city this weekend, burying homes under an avalanche of mud and rocks.
Aerial survey footage by the Colombian Air Force shows the scale of devastation in Mocoa, the capital of the southwestern Putamayo province. 
SEE ALSO: Strange things are happening off the coast of Peru, and thousands are affected
Nearly 200 people were killed and another 220 people are feared missing, President Juan Manuel Santos said on early Sunday.
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Donald Trump is nothing if not unpredictable. Does he love Paul Ryan? Does he want the Speaker of the House to step down? Will the whole world be a barren wasteland by the time my future children are in 8th grade?
The Sims 3, on the other hand, is a formula. There is a way things go in the game, predetermined by equations and probabilities and others things too boring to talk about.
So I decided to create a Trump character in The Sims to see how he fared in a virtual environment.  I had thr

The numbers for the iPad aren’t good. Revenue and unit sales were both down again, as usual. But that does not mean Apple has given up on its tablet.
First Apple fleshed out the product line with two high-end iPad Pro models. Now it has gone and built a low-end version, with a fairly big 9.7-inch screen, a recent A9 chip, and a minimum of 32GB of storage.
Most importantly, it’s got a low, low starting price: $329. That price is so important to the identity of this product that it&rsq

On a cold morning in February 2015, a group of men left the spacious Google X headquarters in Mountain View, California, before daybreak. They traveled more than two hours east to some trailers parked in the middle of nowhere, on private ranch lands in California’s Central Valley.
The men were there to test experimental drones for Google’s celebrated research-and-development group, known as Google X (the group now calls itself simply “X”). The work was grueling and involv

Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a small but helpful update to Amazon QuickSight, its web-based business intelligence (BI) tool for visualizing data. Now it’s possible to export data from a visualization into a .CSV file, which people can use in other software, including spreadsheet apps like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.
Now when you’re inside a visualization of data in QuickSight and you’re interested in the underlying data,

Facebook's new "Stories" update is here, and it ruins the best part about the entire social network: Mindlessly plumbing your friends' lives without fear of getting caught.
When you watch a friend's Story — which exists for 24 hours and is comprised of one or more photos or short videos — that friend will know you're creeping. This is how Stories work on basically every platform that supports them (Snapchat, Instagram), but in the context of Facebook, it's kind of messed up.
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If you learn from the best, you'll become the best. That's the theory, anyway. 
The online education site MasterClass is all about finding your inner genius by learning from experts in their fields, even if it is only online. Want to learn tennis via video? Then who could be better than Serena Williams.
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While it's not offering extensive coding lectures like Khan Academy, MasterClass has upped their online class offerings with

That was fast. Bixby, Samsung’s new virtual assistant for the company’s new Galaxy S8 flagship smartphone, is now working on older Samsung phones running Android 7.0 Nougat.
But not officially. A person who goes by the handle takerhbk in a forum on the Android website XDA-Developers managed to get Bixby working on top of the S8’s launcher, which leaked earlier this week. And then takerhbk shared the Android Package Kit (APK) file for Bixby itself, alongside the APK for the laun

New York Post, is everything OK over there?
On Saturday night, the newspaper's push alerts became a little ominous, with rhetorical flourishes that evoked both the Bible and Nazi Germany. 
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"Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God," it wrote, according to screenshots posted on Twitter by bemused subscribers. It's an interesting take on the day's current affairs, but fair enough.
It followed that up w

Here's an April Fools' joke you'll like: Fans of the series Rick and Morty have been waiting more than one year, but Adult Swim finally aired a new episode of the show Saturday. 
Available to viewers in the U.S. and other "select locations," the Season 3 premiere is set to play on loop until midnight ET and PT as part of the channel's April Fools' prank. Viewers are advised to get their adult sci-fi fix of mad scientist Rick and his grandson Morty while they can.
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GUEST: Some of the world’s best-known brands have invested millions of dollars in information security. So have their adversaries. But malicious actors are counting on the fact that your defenses are operated mostly by humans and tend to be the same across the board.
When you moved into your neighborhood, did you change your locks or do you have the exact same ones as all your neighbors? Think about what could happen if a thief compromised just one of those shared locks? For some reas

GUEST: Everyone has heard the old anecdote about the frog in a pot of water. If you raise the water temperature slowly, the frog doesn’t notice or react to the change, eventually allowing itself to be boiled alive. That’s where we’re heading as a country when it comes to technological advances and the threat they pose to millions of jobs.
Seemingly every day we read new stories in the media about artificial intelligence, data, and robotics — and the jobs they threaten in

April Fools' Day: the best day of the year. Everyone is pranking one another, having a good time, laughing, and nobody is ever annoyed or angry in the slightest. 
It's the perfect day! 
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I love pranks and I am always down for a good one. But sometimes the pranks, unfortunately, do not go as planned. Here are four April Fools' Day pranks I pulled that went very wrong and I am very sorry for them.
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GUEST: By Christmas 2016, Amazon’s Alexa was in 4 percent of American homes. Apple’s Siri handles more than 2 billion voice queries each week. And approximately 20 percent of Google search queries on Android devices are executed by voice.
Increasing adoption of voice interfaces like these point to a fundamental shift in how we interact with our devices. In the span of just a few years, we’ve gone from the tyranny of the wired desktop mouse to mobile’s portable touchscreen

The latest Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales trailer has been released, and along with it we see one of our favorite (albeit transformed) faces of the franchise: Orlando Bloom aka William Turner. 
We only get a brief glimpse Bloom, but now that we've seen him, along with bits of Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem and, of course, Johnny Depp, the stage is set for the fifth installment of the franchise, which screened last week at Cinemacon to mostly positive response. 
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Microsoft today revealed it hired Liz Hamren from Oculus to head up marketing for mixed reality as the company begins to build out its efforts beyond HoloLens into a broad range of devices including VR headsets.
Hamren was the chief marketing officer at Oculus and joins Microsoft as corporate vice president of mixed reality marketing. She’ll be reporting directly to Yusuf Mehdi, the head of marketing for the Windows and devices group at Microsoft. In an internal email shared with Uplo

This April Fools' Day, one joke long in the making about Silicon Valley got kind of out of hand. 
An Indiegogo campaign for "Hub: the ultimate IOT smart device" got the attention of students at Yale University — so much so that some applied to work at the burgeoning campus startup. 
But the entire project was a joke, meant to mock smart home devices like Alexa and Google Home, along with the rest of the ever-proliferating internet of things. 
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