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Day One is an iOS / macOS app that allows users to create enhanced journals. Your entries can include your writing, the weather that day, photos from your iPhone or iPad, and your step count. Up until now, your only option for viewing that journal was through the app, but starting this week in the US, the company is printing and shipping users’ journals as bound books.The journals start at $14.99 for 50 pages and go up to $49.99 for 400 pages. You can include a hardcover for $5 more. Day O

Reddit is making some big changes to the way individual communities can customize their look, and it has some users worried that subreddits are going to get a lot less interesting.
The operators of subreddits have long been given access to their community’s CSS — web styling information that lets them heavily customize the look of a page. But in “the coming months,” Reddit is going to stop offering that.
Instead, Reddit plans to create specific customization tools that&rs

Cloud file syncing and sharing service Dropbox announced on April 20 that it will shut down Hackpad, a collaboration-friendly application for taking notes and even maintaining wikis, on July 19. It started telling users to export their files a few weeks ago, a Dropbox spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email.
Dropbox acquired Hackpad in 2014 and open-sourced the code in 2015.
But the discontinuation of the Hackpad web app is only happening after Dropbox introduced its Paper collaborative noteta

Global warming has pushed the Arctic into a new state unprecedented in human history, with thinning and retreating sea ice, skyrocketing air and sea temperatures, melting permafrost, and glaciers that are shedding ice at increasing rates. 
All of these impacts and more may seem remote at first — after all, few of us live in Nunavut — but if you're a coastal resident anywhere in the world, from New York City to Dhaka, Bangladesh, what happens in the Arctic will affect you during

Perhaps the most widely agreed-upon assessment of 13 Reasons Why is that there's way too much Tony. That's not a dig at actor Christian Navarro, whose portrayal of the uncomfortably wise and ever-present character keeps him from being insufferable, but an online theory floating around this week accounts for all of that.
Tony is — wait for it — a ghost.
This theory is 100% not true, duh, and we'll prove it to you. 
SEE ALSO: '13 Reasons Why' will probably get a second season, and

As AMD is rolling out its latest video cards for gamers with the Radeon 570 and 580, the company is now also aiming a new GPU directly at professionals who work in graphically intensive fields.
The company revealed its new Polaris-powered Radeon Pro Duo, which it is aiming squarely at people who need far more power than even some of the most demanding high-end games. Like the previous Pro Duo, this new model has two GPU chips inside of it that work in unison with one another. It also has a

I wake up every morning and I ask myself: "Will this be the day that a Japanese telecom builds a drone that works as a floating spherical LED display?" Today, Docomo made my dreams a reality, as spotted by Engadget.
Docomo just announced what it calls the "world's first spherical drone display," which is basically a drone inside a spherical frame, with curved LED strips that spin rapidly to create the illusion of a spherical screen. The "resolution" is 144 pixels high and 136 pixels around the c

Facebook is listening. No, not to your phone calls — probably. They are listening to publishers. And yet, publishers are still wary of the technology company's power and its ability to help them succeed in the new media industry. 
SEE ALSO: Facebook is on a big listening tour for local media — and publishers are actually happy
Last week, Facebook held F8, its annual conference to tease all the cool stuff it's working on. Traditionally it has provided opportunities for developers

GUEST: The race is on. Tech giants like Google, Tesla and most car makers — from Toyota to Ford and Volvo — are betting billions to get intelligent self-driving cars on the road as soon as possible. Earlier this month, Apple became the 30th company to be granted permission to test autonomous vehicles on California by the state’s DMV. Even Amazon is reported to have created a team to understand how to best leverage the upcoming revolution. And Waymo (sister company of Googl

Inside what look like oversized ziplock bags strewn with tubes of blood and fluid, eight fetal lambs continued to develop — much like they would have inside their mothers. Over four weeks, their lungs and brains grew, they sprouted wool, opened their eyes, wriggled around, and learned to swallow, according to a new study that takes the first step toward an artificial womb. One day, this device could help to bring premature human babies to term outside the uterus — but right now, it h

Today, Perri Chase, a founder of Unroll.me who is no longer affiliated with the company, published a Medium post defending her co-founder and current CEO of the company, Jojo Hedaya after their company was found to be selling user data to Uber. In her post, Chase ineloquently explains that data collection shouldn’t shock users, and if it does, then “you have clearly been living under a rock.”
“Believe me we came up with this product to rid your inbox of unwanted emails, A

Google is testing a major leap in quality when casting a tab with video content from a Chrome desktop browser to your Chromecast. Ever since the streaming gadget was introduced, this has been a rather lackluster way of sending video to the TV from sources that don’t natively support Chromecast. (Hi, Amazon Video.) Tab casting can be laggy, drops frames, and never preserves the video’s original quality. That’s changing soon and you can try the new solution right now.Franç

REVIEW: Nearly two years ago, Sheryl Sandberg’s life changed significantly when her partner of 11 years, SurveyMonkey chief executive Dave Goldberg, died suddenly during a vacation in Mexico. As she grieved, Facebook’s chief operating officer began adapting to a life you never wish for. In a bid to regain some normalcy in not only her life, but also her children’s lives, Sandberg focused on “option B,” a new way of living that overcomes grief, adversity, and on

A new trailer for the upcoming Sonic Forces was released today, and it looks tentatively good. I use the word “tentatively” here, because if there's anything Sonic fans know, it's the feeling of disappointment that comes when promising games turn out to be stuffed with random features nobody asked for.The new footage gives us the first look at the Classic Sonic gameplay for Sonic Forces, as opposed to the Modern Sonic clip released back in March. The trailer confirms that Sega will b

Rockstar’s game are often called “open-world crime simulators,” but you could just as easily call Grand Theft Auto V “virtual tourism.”
A new video compares a few of the locales in GTA V’s Californian facsimile to the real world using the Google Earth app, and the results reveal a game setting that feels close to reality. YouTube channel Millennium (which probably has nothing to do with Lisbeth Salander), uploaded the video today that compares the Hollywo

After a long, confusing, fake news-filled 2016 election in which Donald Trump became President of the United States, Barack Obama was one of the many people to take shots at Facebook's role in spreading fake news.
But according to a new New York Times Magazine article published online on Tuesday, Obama didn't just complain about fake news, he also spoke directly to Mark Zuckerberg it. 
SEE ALSO: Here's how Facebook and GIPHY became friends again
In the article, titled "Can Facebook Fix Its

Only in Florida. 
Kenneth Keegan was driving with his two friends in Hudson, Florida on Sunday when they stumbled upon a bit of a dangerous scene. Instead of towing a boat with a trailer, this motorist  plopped their boat onto an overloaded cargo trailer with only a few straps haphazardly holding the boat in place.
"What the hell," someone can be heard saying in the clip, amazed at the stupidity. 
Just imagine if the SUV was forced to stop or turn quickly to avoid an accident.&nb

It's over, everyone. Capitalism has won and every single one of us bears the banner of defeat.
Burger King is now using video games to try to peddle their food into our gaping mouths, because nothing in this world is sacred. Undeterred by their failed 2008 advergame Sneak King, the fast food company is now hiring a team of gamers to play alongside us in online PlayStation games to sell us food.
We wish we were making this up, but alas. 
Burger King's latest video game venture is called Burg

Sometimes you hear something so beautiful that you just have to stop and enjoy it.
That's exactly what happened to this good dog in in Barcelona. The beautiful strains of the mellophone street performer were so enthralling to this golden retriever that it refused to leave until the performance was over, lying right down to better appreciate the music.
There's nothing like a dog with an appreciation for the arts. Read more...
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As Pablo Picasso once said, and as I now whisper to myself at my computer, "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." 
Including these videos of makeup being crushed into dust.
"Makeup Breakup" is the brainchild of beauty bloggers Kat and Hailey, who run the Beauty News YouTube channel. As far as we can tell, it's the first makeup destruction series of its kind — and the videos, in which Kat and Hailey steadily crush expensive blushes, eyeshadows, and stick foundations wi

It's probably not a good idea to tease things that are perfectly capable of eating you.
A man spotted an Asiatic lion in the Gir Forest National Park in India and got a little too wrapped up in watching the king of the jungle. In the clip, released in September of 2016, the man drives just a few feet away from a lion walking alongside the road. He's filming the whole thing, with his window down, no less. 
After teasing the lion with his car for a bit, the lion stops, stares at the man and

I've heard a lot about graphene and carbon nanotubes, but today was my first visit to the "molybdenum disulfide" Wikipedia entry. Researchers at Tu Wien in Austria have developed a microprocessor that uses 2D molybdenum disulfide as the semiconductor (via KurzweilAI).
"2D" materials are materials built out of a thin layer of atoms — sometimes they’re a single atom thick. There are a bunch of reasons this is a good idea for electronics: a chip that thin can be transparent, flexible, a

Remember when people were happy with their eyebrows and just kept them the way nature intended? Yeah, neither do we.
We just barely recovered from being introduced to "feather brows", and were hoping for some peace and normalcy in the beauty world while we healed. But, alas, beauty does not sleep and the Instagram community lets nothing slip through the cracks. 
SEE ALSO: Marlon Brando's extensive makeup routine and other things you didn't know about 'The Godfather'
Therefore, we have the p

Here’s some cool news for fans of DC Comics, as well as fans of the gradual splintering of the television experience: DC Entertainment will launch an unnamed “digital streaming service” next year, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The service will be home to the third season of Warner Bros.’ animated Young Justice series (the first two seasons aired on Cartoon Network from 2011 to 2013), as well as a new live-action adaptation of DC’s Titans comics. Details are sl

AT&T made waves today when it announced plans to launch a “5G Evolution” network in over 20 cities by the end of this year. According to the press release, customers with a Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus will be able to take advantage of a “5G Evolution” connection at “twice the speeds of [AT&T’s] 4G LTE network.”
And yes, what AT&T is referring to as “5G Evolution” may be faster than its current 4G networks, but calling it 5G is a meaning

When a person must be reminded that the United States enslaved and terrorized millions of black people for hundreds of years, that person has probably said something ignorant. Offensive, even. When that person is chairman of the Prince William County board of supervisors and wants to be governor of Virginia, that ignorance is a bit more ... notable. 
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart, a Republican, sent a tweet on Monday that most would consider, at the very least, ill-advised.

Here's one way to curb phone addiction. 
A Japanese company has created an iPhone case to help parents stop their kids from becoming too addicted to their phones.
SEE ALSO: iPhone App Shrinks Your Data & Your Monthly Bill
The case, called the Otomos, is fixed to the phone and cannot be removed without a special screw. 
Otomos pairs up with an app that allows parents to limit the child's daily phone usage. If the child exceeds their daily limit, the phone will automatically enter sl

Harry Styles will be hanging around the Late Late Show with James Corden for a week long residency beginning May 15 following the release of his debut solo album, so he'll need to pack a several silky floral shirts. 
Styles notably got the show's logo inked on his arm during a game of tattoo roulette when he stopped by in 2015, so there's no telling how this week could escalate.  Read more...
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Great news, fashionistas — your wildest denim dreams are about to come true.
Nordstrom is taking the super stylish trend of completely destroying normal jeans and then selling them as ~super unique~ items of clothing to a whole other level with *drumroll please* fake mud jeans!
SEE ALSO: Dear Topshop, stop trying to make clear plastic jeans happen. Love, the internet.
If you're asking yourself what in the world fake mud jeans are, you're overthinking this — for fake mud jeans are exa

Like the full-motion video game genre, Night Trap has been largely forgotten in the 25 years following its release. Yet this year, we saw the release of Late Shift, an entirely new full-motion video game. Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that Night Trap is ready to make its comeback. The controversial horror game that debuted on the Sega CD will be available on PS4 and Xbox One this spring.
Night Trap looks like a cheap slasher film, and its plays like one, too, with minimal input from t

It's prom season, which means all eyes are on the teens around the country that are either being incredibly extra with promprosals or falling down the stairs. 
But Milan Bolden-Morris, a 17 year old from Florida, drew attention to her prom experience for a very different reason. The high school senior showed up to the big night in a dress that paid tribute to the victims of police brutality.  
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Your trendy green juice: Now in gummy form.
Sugarfina announced Tuesday its new line of green juice gummies, made with spinach, lemon, apple, ginger, tumeric, and, of course, blue spirulina. It's candy, GOOPified.
SEE ALSO: If you like piñatas and cakes, you'll love candy-filled smash cakesImage:sugarfinaThe gummies — a collaboration with pricey cleanse retailer Pressed Juicery — come in green juice bottles and retail for between $3 (for a "shot") and $14 (for a 15.4 ounce hel

Yee-haw!
In an Instagram video posted yesterday, Modern Family star Sofia Vergara was trying to ride an inflatable bucking bull pool toy with very little successVergara tried several times to mount the beast but the pool water may have made the saddle too slippery.
Or she just doesn't have what it takes to be a real rodeo star. 
SEE ALSO: TiVo Debuts App to Help You Stop TV-Show CheatingIm getting very good at it😂🐃 #Ihaveallsummer😒
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When the 1997 animated movie Anastasia was officially sent to Broadway, millennials who grew up with it were thrilled. But the musical, which opened April 24, draws on more than just one cartoon musical; it also takes parts from a film from 1956 and from the true, terrifying events in Russian history.
Critics in the early performances found this array of inspirations to muddle the production, creating a show that never strikes the right tone or figures out exactly what it wants to be. For more a

In conjunction with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, today Google announced cuts to the prices of its Zync media rendering services that run on servers that Google offers through its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) public cloud.
Google acquired Zync in 2014 and launched a beta version of the service running atop Google infrastructure in 2015. Animators and visual effects artists could use render farms in on-premises data centers instead of relying on Zync, but public

Earlier today, Apple announced a new educational initiative which will see its Apple Stores transformed into veritable classrooms, under the name “Today at Apple.” The move will see Apple offer advanced classes on a variety of subjects, most centered around creativity, in all of its 495 retail outlets. In some markets, the company also intends to offer workshops lead by professional artists, photographers, and musicians. Today at Apple is part of Cupertino’s vision for it

GUEST: Ever been frustrated by the checkout process when buying something on your phone? Is your billing address not the easiest thing to thumb in? Did a hidden AutoFill demon suddenly overwrite what you tapped out, with your address from seven years ago? Can you not find the one required field that’s preventing you from submitting? (Spoiler: I often fall victim to all of these.)
A solution is on the way. A new interface paradigm  —  the conversational AI form 

Yesterday, Verizon announced a new gigabit internet plan that the company said would cost just $70 a month, which would have been an aggressively low price for that kind of speed.But, as it turns out, that $70 price tag is too good to be true. As Ars Techinca reports, it turns out that the ultra-low price is only for new customers who don’t have Fios already. Existing customers who have tried to upgrade were reportedly met with confusion, with some customers facing upgrade costs of up to $

Researchers in Philadelphia have successfully gestated premature lambs in sealed plastic bags outside the womb, giving some hope for critically premature human babies (and their parents) at some point in the future. According to the paper published in Nature Communications, the Biobag was the result of multiple tries at recreating a womb. The baby lambs — chosen due to physiological similarity to human infants — were placed into plastic sacks filled with lab-made amni

Back in January DJI acquired a majority stake in the iconic Swedish camera maker, Hasselblad. The two companies had worked together on some product integrations, and today they pushed the partnership further, releasing what they are calling “the first 100-megapixel integrated drone imaging platform.” The setup combines an M600 Pro drone, a Ronin MX gimbal, and a H6D-100c camera. The announcement was part of the NAB industry conference currently happening in Las Vegas.
The goal, says

Facebook wants to help you get out of your media bubble. 
The social network is testing a feature that will provide users with additional context when they see major stories in their News Feeds. This is yet another example of Facebook trying to figure out how to provide extra context and information to its users as it looks to curb the rise of fake news and misinformation.
SEE ALSO: Here’s how you create echo chambers on Facebook
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The State Department might start thinking a bit more about the #content it shows to the world. 
Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday that the department will consider reviewing in-house content after a recent article produced by a government content factory raised some ethics questions.
SEE ALSO: U.S. embassies are promoting Mar-a-Lago online and people are pissed
Produced by Share America, the State Department's in-house content churner, the article explained the history of Trump Organ

Blizzard is slapping Heroes of the Storm, splashing some water on its face, and telling it to get back in there.
Heroes of the Storm 2.0 is now live in North America, and it will roll out to other territories throughout the day. This relaunch of Blizzard’s multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) for PC change’s the free-to-play game’s reward systems and gives players a bunch of free heroes. 2.0 isn’t altering the actual game much — this is still a MOBA, so two teams

There wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that Disney was just gonna let it go.
Frozen was a massive smash hit from just about any angle, which meant a sequel was all but inevitable. Now, we finally know when it'll arrive.
SEE ALSO: The 10 best Disney villain songs
The studio has revealed that Frozen 2 will drop into theaters on November 27, 2019 – six years to the day after the first one debuted and got "Let It Go" permanently stuck in our heads for the rest of time.Frozen 2 is coming to

Another Overwatch star is crossing over to Heroes of the Storm.
Blizzard revealed a new character, the mech-riding D.Va, for its multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA). The announcement happened as Blizzard showed off Heroes of the Storm 2.0, which adds a new rewards system to the free-to-play game, in a stream. New content like this keeps players engaged and can attract new ones.
D.Va joins Overwatch’s Genji and Diablo II’s Cassia the Amazon as the newest characters. D.Va

Star Wars: Episode IX is coming sooner than we expected: Disney just moved the release date for the film up to May 24th, 2019, io9 reports.
Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) will direct the final installment of the sequel trilogy, set to follow The Last Jedi, which will be out at the end of this year. As io9 points out, the other two sequels were both scheduled for a Christmas release, but Episode IX will be the outlier arriving on Memorial Day. The Hans Solo standalone movie has also been given

Hold on to your hats — or give them some time, because the fifth untitled Indiana Jones movie will be strolling into theaters in 2020. That's one year later than planned — it's an election year, if you can even imagine such a thing.
SEE ALSO: The end is near for cinema. Go to the movies while there's still time
The latest Indiana Jones project with Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford was originally slated for July 19, 2019, but is now scheduled for July 10, 2020 (Jon Favreau's The Lio

Disney just can't wait to be king of the box office again.
The studio has announced a July 19, 2019 release date for their upcoming remake of The Lion King, to be directed by Jon Favreau. 
SEE ALSO: 'Beauty and the Beast' just put the big $B in box office
Favreau announced the big news on social media:🦁👑! pic.twitter.com/A8razyqtK8
— Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) April 25, 2017Donald Glover is already set for the lead role of Simba. James Earl Jones, who voiced Mufasa in

Mining nostalgia for capitalist pursuits doesn’t always mean bringing back timeless classics. Sometimes it means re-releasing games that only made sense in a certain time and place. The latter option best describes Sony’s latest effort to restore a retro game.
Above: The physical version of the PS4 game.Image Credit: Screaming Villains
Night Trap, the Sega CD live-action full-motion video game about a deadly sleepover, is coming to PlayStation 4 before the end of spring, accordi