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Hey, everyone. This is Huckleberry, a good dog.Cute.Image:Twitter/@Mabel_HTXHuckleberry likes to hang out on the roof. This is fine, and Huckleberry does it all the time.
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Seriously, no worries: Huckleberry has simply learned to jump from his backyard onto the roof. (12/10, good job.) And according to a note posted by his human companions, he is not allowed in the backyard when no one is home — so Huckleberry always stays safe.Image:Twitter/@Mabel_ATXThank you so much

GUEST: Google’s 20 percent time is one of the most famous, and arguably successful, management practices of all time. In their 2004 IPO letter, Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin revealed that the policy of allowing employees to take time out of their core jobs to be creative and experimental had led to some of the company’s most successful products. AdSense, which now accounts for about 25 percent of Google’s total revenue, Gmail, Google Transit and Google News

Taylor Swift is very busy doing whatever she is doing right now, so she was not able to attend her fan Ashley's graduation party. But, according to Twitter, she did send the next best thing — flowers and a handwritten note.
Ashley — @AshSilv13 on Twitter — tweeted a photo of the gift on Saturday. "I INVITED TAYLOR TO MY GRADUATION PARTY AND SHE SENT ME FLOWERS AND THIS CARD," she wrote. 
SEE ALSO: Harry Styles is asked if his new song is about Taylor Swift and it gets supe

Adult Swim might not release its upcoming third season of Rick & Morty until later this summer, but to hold us over, it just dropped an entertaining clip that ties in with Alien: Covenant. In it, the show’s titular characters have some advice for the hapless employees of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation: an unhealthy amount of alcohol and drugs in your system could save your life.It’s not clear if this is a clip from the upcoming season, if it’s a weird marketing stunt, or if

Apple is reportedly planning to add a 10.5 inch iPad Pro to its lineup of tablets this year, and according to a new report from noted KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, it is likely to announce the device during this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, along with a touch-screen Siri speaker.Kuo has been predicting that Apple will release a trio of new iPads (a 12.9 inch iPad Pro 2, a new 10.5 iPad Pro and a low-cost 9.7 iPad) in 2017 since August. According to a report on MacRumors,

As we know, the internet loves hot people. And the latest hot person to capture its attention is South Korean president Moon Jae-in's new bodyguard.
To be fair, he is very handsome. Also, since he is a bodyguard, he is never photographed smiling, which makes him seem mysterious. Cool!
SEE ALSO: Justin Trudeau enchants the internet by putting on a jacket
Anyway, the internet is smitten. Some people have even gotten a head start on their fanfic, which is honestly commendable. The heart wants what

The firestorm of political outrage and intrigue following President Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey has led some to call for increased scrutiny and perhaps even official action regarding the move. But in Comey's own neighborhood, the response has been a lot more warm and fuzzy thanks to a local caring mom. 
SEE ALSO: White House refuses to deny Trump has recording devices and this is nothing like Nixon, not at all
As the former FBI official recovers from his sudden takedown at hi

Last May, Facebook tested out a temporary reaction to coincide with Mother’s Day. The purple flower (which stands for “thankful”), was the first such temporary reaction added after reactions were added to Facebook in February 2016. The company rolled out the icon once more, and has added several additional ways to express your gratitude for your mom.
Facebook announced that in addition to the reaction button, users can support a cause, send a personalized card, or add frames an

George Orwell got it wrong about Big Brother watching you. Instead, it’s lots of Little Brothers who are watching all of us via the Internet of Things — or making billions of everyday objects smart and connected.
That’s part of the premise behind the Ubisoft video game Watch Dogs 2, and it turned out to be prescient when it debuted back in December. At our recent GamesBeat Summit 2017, we went behind the headlines of hacking to look at what was real and what was fiction in the

With great influence comes great accountability.
Mark Geragos, the Los Angeles-based power attorney behind the leading class action suit against organizers of the infamous Fyre Festival, now says his firm is investigating whether social media "influencers" who hyped the disastrous event could be dragged into the ever-expanding web of lawsuits.
SEE ALSO: After the Fyre Festival disaster, maybe don't trust models like Bella Hadid when they sell you things
"One of the things we're toying with is go

Paris Jackson loves being naked and she doesn't need her fans' approval.
After the 19-year-old model, actress, and daughter of pop icon reportedly came under fire on social media after posting a photograph of herself tanning shirtless, Jackson shared her thoughts on nudity with her Instagram followers to silence her haters once and for all.
SEE ALSO: Michael Jackson's daughter just landed her first movie role
On Friday, to put the critics in their places, Jackson posted yet another photograph of

On the morning of May 5th, the Galveston Police Department were called to the American National Insurance Company’s 23-story skyscraper, where they found a horrifying sight: nearly 400 songbirds collided with the building overnight, killing all but three. In response, the building’s owners have decided to shut down the structure’s exterior lights for the remainder of the migratory season.Storms swept through the area on the night of May 4th, and the weather might have prompted

President Donald Trump is all about togetherness this weekend.
POTUS woke up, skipped his usual vicious Saturday morning tweetstorm, and instead, waited until the afternoon to tweet a simple, yet powerfully unifying two letters in the form of the word: "We."Image:screengrab/twitterNow, we're assuming this was an accidental tweet — which Trump, along with his Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, are very familiar with — because the message was promptly deleted.
President Trump has already pr

It's such an obvious idea, but it took a professional artist to think of it: use the FaceApp to give old world art portraits the smiles they deserve. 
SEE ALSO: Banksy claims responsibility for new Brexit mural in England
UK-based designer Olly Gibbs decided to take the app to the museum and apply its effects to classic paintings and sculptures and the results are sometimes hilarious and other times just a bit creepy. Went to a museum armed with Face App to brighten up a lot of the som

When Glu Mobile bought CrowdStar for $45 million in December, it picked up a game publisher that had rare success with female gamers through its Covet Fashion mobile game. And now, CrowdStar’s last independently produced title, Design Home, is proving to be another hit with women.
While Covet Fashion focused on clothes, Design Home is all about decorating your fantasy home. The free-to-play game has been downloaded more than 13.1 million times and generated booking

During the opening moments of Guy Ritchie’s frantic, sloppy fantasy-babble epic King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, viewers may wonder whether the theater somehow got the reels out of order. In an age of digital presentation, that shouldn’t be possible. But it’s otherwise hard to explain why the movie opens so abruptly, with an epic-scale battle that appears to be the climax either of Peter Jackson’s Return Of The King, or of a film adaptation of Shadow Of The Colossus.
Aud

GUEST: Recently, VentureBeat published a report about “New York City’s overhyped startup scene,” an article that used Yext’s then-impending IPO to make a case that a lack of flashy IPOs and exits somehow indicated New York’s tech and startup environment has not thrived. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
While New York may lack a blockbuster IPO, it’s ridiculous to base an entire city’s startup culture and success on IPOs. Other factors to ta

Microsoft surprised everyone with a new Windows 10 Story Remix feature earlier today. It's essentially a video editing tool that will let you merge together photos and videos with impressive 3D effects. It was one of the surprise additions to Microsoft's Build keynote, and now the company is allowing Windows 10 testers to experiment with the new app ahead of its debut in the Fall Creators Update later this year.
While Story Remix appeared to be a separate app on stage at Build earlier, Microsoft

RHA is releasing two new headphones this summer, the MA650 and the MA750, and they’re both inspired by Apple’s Beats X. Both headphones feature the flexible, contoured neckband popularized by Apple’s latest headphones, and both come with the usual slate of midrange headphone specs including aptX, noise isolation, and 12 hours of playback.
The MA650 features a 380.1 dynamic driver while there is a 560.1 dynamic driver in the MA750 (as well as over-the-ear hooks), likely making u

Over the past 24 hours, a ransomware program called WannaCry has shut down more than 75,000 computers across 99 countries, including a string of hospitals in the United Kingdom and critical gas and water utilities in Spain. But despite the massive scale of the attack, stopping new infections from the attack seems to have been as simple as registering a single web address.This morning, researchers announced they had found a kill switch in the code of the ransomware program — a single domain

People have been taking pictures for almost 200 years. But it’s tough not to recognize that the steps of image capturing are in the midst of a major revolution. Now, using Photoshop and digitally manipulating images is just as critical as initially clicking that shutter. With that in mind, learn how to take good pictures as well as what to do with them with the Ultimate Photography and Photoshop instruction bundle, which is on sale right now for just $24.99 (over 90 percent off) from

UK hospitals, Telefonica, FedEx, and other businesses were hit by a massive ransomware attack on Friday. Around 75,000 computers in 99 countries were affected by malware known as WannaCry, which encrypts a computer and demands a $300 ransom before unlocking it. The malware was able to spread thanks to flaws in old versions of Windows that were originally used by the NSA to hack into PCs before being made public by the Shadow Brokers group last month.
While Microsoft quickly issued fixes for the

Todd Hooper has shown up early at the virtual reality party. He started Vreal in Seattle to create a livestreaming platform for streamers to broadcast their gameplay in VR to spectators.
It’s like Twitch, the livestreaming platform for PC gamers, and it is one of the ways that virtual reality will become more social. I tried it out in a demo using an HTC Vive VR headset at Vreal’s headquarters, and I was greeted by a big panda. It was Bryan Chu, vice president of marketing at Vreal.

This week was a big one for Amazon as it announced the new touchscreen Echo Show. In case you missed it, my colleague Chaim Gartenberg rounded up five highlights of the announcement, including a $100 discount which I’ve highlighted below.
Along with the Echo devices, our other favorite tech deals of the week consist of a rare discount on the Sonos Play:1, three great headphone deals, and a Samsung Galaxy S8 promotion on T-Mobile.
Last call: Until end of day today, save $30 on the Amazon Ec

After weeks of pretty dedicating watching, I finally made it through Mad Men and understand what everyone was raving about for years. There are just so many impressive things about the show — its style, its characters, its vibrant depiction of the American ’60s and culture clash — but the thing that most impressed me is how its storytelling is perfectly focused yet feels so aimless and open, like it could go anywhere. And it often does.
When you start an episode or a season of

Two years ago, Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth put together a Kickstarter project that reissued NASA’s original 1974 design standards, which introduced the iconic “Worm” logo to the world. Now, the pair are back with a new project: a reissue of the 1977 Graphic Standards system for the Environmental Protection Agency.In 1970, the United States was ill: widespread pollution poisoned water and obstructed the air with smog. When President Richard Nixon established the EPA that year, i

Greg Spriggs likes to joke that if he were a better golfer, he would never have become a nuclear weapons physicist. But it’s a good thing he’s not professionally smacking golf balls right now, because Spriggs has an important mission. He’s working with film preservation expert Jim Moye to save decades-old films of nuclear blasts that are among the last, best sources of real-world information about nuclear explosions.The best way to test what happens when a nuclear weapon explod

FEATURE: We all know the San Francisco Bay Area is home to Silicon Valley, but a few cities and states around the country are trying to recreate the region’s success. In Nebraska, you have Silicon Prairie, then there’s Silicon Alley in New York City, Silicon Roundabout in London, and Silicon Beach in Venice, California. Many of these have popped up in just the past few years, and some states are beginning to realize the importance of supporting these new innovation hubs.
Among these

All-electric racing series Formula E heads back to the historic streets of Monte Carlo. The 20-car showdown will take place at 4PM local time on a little more than half of the circuit that Formula One runs in the Monaco Grand Prix. (Formula E’s layout skips the Grand Hotel hairpin and the famous tunnel, for example.)This will actually be the second time Formula E has raced in Monaco. The circuit hosted the seventh Formula E race ever in 2015, but that competition was mostly a bust after a

If it seems like Microsoft is de-emphasizing the importance of owning an Xbox console to play its games, that’s because the company cares way more about its digital platform and about a box that sits next to your TV.
Xbox Live, not Xbox One or even the souped-up Scorpio, is the central pillar of Microsoft’s gaming strategy, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said in a presentation to investors on Thursday. Spencer sees Xbox Live as the social network that kickstarts consumer interest i

So Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference came and went, and the computing giant unveiled a number of initiatives aimed at the software engineers and web developers of the world.
From Windows 10 to Cortana and bots, here’s a quick recap of everything announced at Build 2017.
Embracing the competition
A core theme to emerge from Build 2017 was Microsoft’s tacit acknowledgement that it needs to embrace competing platforms if it’s to thrive as a software and services

(Reuters) – A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday.
Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails that appeared to contain invoices, job offers, security warnings and other legitimate files.
The ransomware encrypted da