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An Indonesian comic book artist has generated controversy over the inclusion of several references to a religious and political conflict within his home country. Ardian Syaf, currently the artist for X-Men: Gold, has been criticized for including the images, which have prompted Marvel to issue a statement saying that he would be disciplined and that upcoming reprints of the book will be altered.Written by Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow writer Marc Guggenheim, X-Men: Gold #1 hit stores earlier thi

Start your Monday morning off right by watching three astronauts return to Earth from the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko are scheduled to leave the ISS in a Soyuz capsule and then make the three-and-a-half-hour journey to our planet’s surface. Though if you want to watch these events unfold, it’s going to be an early-morning wakeup call; the astronauts are slated to enter the Soyuz around 12:40AM

Start your Monday morning off right by watching three astronauts return to Earth from the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko are scheduled to leave the ISS in a Soyuz capsule and then make the three-and-a-half-hour journey to our planet’s surface. Though if you want to watch these events unfold, it’s going to be an early-morning wakeup call; the astronauts are slated to enter the Soyuz around 12:40AM

If you have even a passing interest in Japanese video games, comics, art, or design, you really should be watching Toco Toco TV. The ongoing web series profiles notable creatives from Japan, with documentary-style shorts that usually run between 10 and 20 minutes. But in that relatively short runtime they pack in a lot. The most recent episode features enigmatic game designer Yoko Taro, director of Nier: Automata, and it delves surprisingly deeply into his creative process, explaining why his ga

Mindfulness is a hot commodity these days. The market around meditation and mental well-being has, in recent years, ballooned to more than $1 billion, with countless websites, YouTube series, mobile apps, and subscription services existing on top of your traditional in-person classes and studio memberships. With just a few finger taps or mouse clicks, you can find a whole world of self-help gurus and zen advisors that are eager to help you, oftentimes for free, enhance your self-awareness and be

Kobo Rakuten, the company that produces the Kobo e-reader, has announced that it has acquired Shelfie, an app that allowed users to catalog their personal libraries, and purchase discounted eBook editions based on the physical copies they already own.The deal includes “technology assets, IP, and the infrastructure on which the ecosystem runs,” according to Kobo, as well as the Shelfie team. Kobo says that it will integrate the platform into its Android and iOS apps, which will allow

Among the web’s many wonders is its ability to function as the world’s biggest megaphone. Drop any message into the Internet and it’s almost instantly amplified and projected far and wide. With that in mind, it’s pretty important you get that messaging just right… which you’ll be ready to do after you pick up the User Engagement & Marketing coursework bundle. And just to sweeten the deal, we want you to have it at any price you want to pay. Here’s

Vanderpump Rules is a festering sore of a TV show: it is gross and mean, it will never improve anyone’s health, and it is sickly fascinating enough to derail my train of thought for days at a time.The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills spinoff is about the waitstaff at a restaurant owned by Lisa Vanderpump. The restaurant is called SUR, which is an acronym for “Sexy Unique Restaurant.” Everyone on the show is extremely cruel, very unprofessional, and much older than you might gue

Emergency sirens around Dallas Texas activated late on Friday night, waking residents across the city for over an hour, prompting a flood of calls to the city’s 911 center. Officials from the city’s emergency management office have confirmed that there was no emergency, and that the system was breached by hackers.Sana Syed, the director of the city’s Public Information Office told reporters that the city’s 156 sirens were activated, and that “it does appear at this

The latest King Kong movie, Kong: Skull Island, is set in an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean where prehistoric animals have gotten very big — and loud. Aside from a giant ape that walks like a man, we have enormous ants that chirp like birds, and gigantic roaring lizards. The way these monsters look is often based on real animals. But what about the sounds they make? Are those accurate?We wanted to look into what a giant beast should sound like — whether it’s Godzilla, t

For years, Spotify’s ad-supported tier has been the easiest way to access an enormous catalog of free music on the internet. Now it’s the last of its kind — if you don’t count YouTube — and it’s not getting better.As part of its new licensing agreement with Universal Music Group, Spotify will allow artists to limit their new releases to its premium service for up to two weeks at their request. Similar deals with Sony Music Group and Warner Music Group will lik

Personal branding is all the rage right now. Everyone has a brand, but some of us are more skilled at realizing its potential than others. Entrepreneurs and online gurus alike (think Richard Branson, Lewis Howes, Gary Vaynerchuk or Neil Patel), actors, writers and public figures work hard to build a personal brand that replaces their business card and reinforces their influence and popularity in the public eye. But what exactly is a personal brand? Essentially, everything we do and say has an i

Alec Baldwin played two problematic, white American men on this week's Saturday Night Live. 
He first appeared as President Donald Trump in the show's cold open and later pulled double duty, playing both Trump and Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly in a scathing sketch addressing the sexual harassment allegations against the O'Reilly Factor host.
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Baldwin's O'Reilly opened the segment by promising to address "the

"And then Kendall Jenner comes up to a police officer and gives him a Pepsi, everybody celebrates, and ... no? Are you sure that's tone-deaf?"
Yeah. We're sure. We're all very sure.
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In a digital short at the top of Saturday Night Live, Beck Bennett plays the one person — the ONLY person — who was clearly not so sure that Kendall Jenner's Pepsi commercial was going to be a total catastrophe.
Bennett (below) is

Saturday Night Live is back, and that means the return of Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump.
Let's just say, the parody Trump was in an ebullient mood after his "amazing" week, capped off by airstrikes in war-torn Syria. 
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"I met with leaders from China, Egypt and Jordan; Gorsuch was confirmed; the media is saying nice things; and no one's talking about Russia. What a difference just 59 tomah

The couple behind the pins that said "I love you" in American Sign Language, made for the Women's March in January, are back with a new pin raising money for science and research.
Ahead of the "March for Science" on April 22 in Washington, D.C. and all over the world, Kate Lind and Nate Stevens of Pincause designed a new pin with illustrator Penelope Dullaghan. This one says "Science not silence," with a rocket ship launching into space.
"This is a critical time for not just the science communit

Real estate developers use a lot of clever techniques to sell apartments, but this is a new one: stomach-churning fear, with a splash of luxury. 
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Situated 40 stories above the city of Houston, with a glass bottom view of the street below, the sky pool at the Market Square Tower probably seemed like a good idea when the developers of this high rise came up with it. Market Square Tower offers a l

Apple's latest killer iPhone accessory, AirPods, are great earbuds and appear to be getting more popular by the day — but they really only let you do one thing: connect to your phone for wireless audio.
The AirPod case is a bit one-dimensional, too: it's sleek, and the fact that it stores some extra juice for your buds is handy, but it does little else when you're using your AirPods than take up space in your pocket.
Some new patents recently granted to Apple and unearthed by Patently Appl

When Yara Greyjoy reunited with her long-lost brother on Season 2 of Game of Thrones, the two did not recognize each other. They're ignorance didn't make the scene that followed — you know, the one involving fondling and a horse — any more comfortable to watch.
Well, turns out that moment was one of the scenes Gemma Whelan, who plays Yara, had to enact during her GoT audition.
There was one major difference, though: instead of Theon "working away on" Yara (Whelan's phrasing) in the

The outrage and shots being taken at Pepsi and Kendall Jenner for "that" commercial have mostly subsided, but there's still some some venom left in the failed pop culture moment, and it's packed with brand-melting shade. 
Someone took the Pepsi commercial and mixed it with the famous glasses effect from the 1988 science fiction classic They Live, to reveal the ugly truth behind the now infamous sugar water ad. 
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