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Shazam will begin production in early 2018 and may be released in theaters by 2019, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The report pegs David F. Sandberg as the film’s director. The production will begin ahead of Batgirl, Flash, and the sequels to both Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman.
Shazam has been on DC’s film slate for a while, beginning with the 2014 announcement that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will play Shazam’s archrival, Black Adam. The Hollywood Reporter was

I really don’t know how many Android fans who’ve bought into Google’s ecosystem would favor CarPlay over Android Auto, but maybe Apple’s in-car software is your only choice. If that’s your situation, you can at least now stream from the Google Play Music iPhone app using Apple’s finger-friendly in-car software, as reported by 9to5Mac. The CarPlay version of Play Music is divided into four sections: Home, Recents, Music Library, and Stations. Home is where you&

Despite its rough start, I enjoyed the first Destiny. I wasn’t a ravenous fan or anything, but I put in a good amount of time. I even managed to beat one of the Raids.
Bungie did a good job improving its online multiplayer shooter after Destiny debuted in 2014 through various updates and expansions. Now, however, the time for iterative improvements are done. It’s time for Destiny 2, and ahead of its September 6 launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (a PC version follows October 24), I

Samsung has officially sent out invitations for an Unpacked event on August 23rd in New York City, where it will presumably reveal the next Galaxy Note device. While Samsung hasn’t quite outright confirmed the Note 8 will make an appearance, the invitation pretty blatantly confirms it between the “Do bigger things” slogan and the image of an S Pen.Save the date! August 23, 2017 #DoBiggerThingshttps://t.co/uSEvuV1QKN pic.twitter.com/9lbxtDtm0l— Samsung Electronics (@Samsun

How do budding film buffs, lacking experience or funding, start making movies? Traditionally, there have been a few ways to pull it off. They can follow the conventional wisdom and go to film school, spending a few years writing and fundraising before taking on their own projects. They can go the vocational route and find studio work, taking tech roles on other people’s movies before doing their own.
But now, it’s also possible to be a nerd, pick up a smartphone, and cut together a f

With net neutrality fresh on the minds of many in the United States, it seems that the data speeds at which Verizon Wireless customers can stream Netflix videos have quietly been capped in some instances. A tipster forwarded a tip directing The Verge to this Reddit thread, where numerous users have reported that they’re unable to reach download speeds any faster than around 10Mbps when connecting to Fast.com, a speed test tool that’s powered by Netflix’s own servers. The Verge

Christopher Nolan’s 10th film, Dunkirk, comes out tomorrow in a variety of formats including laser IMAX, 70mm IMAX, standard 70mm, 35mm, and, uh, normal. It stars Tom Hardy, World War II, beaches, jam, Harry Styles, and boats, and early reports say it is somewhere between “pretty good” and “the year’s most powerful movie.” I am looking forward to seeing it in New York City.This week, perhaps coincidentally, eight rankings of Nolan’s nine films were publi

Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a neural network that can, in theory, can “look” at an image and find the recipe for the food that’s depicted. It’s the latest addition to an increasing list of similar projects, following the likes of both Pinterest and, yes, Silicon Valley’s actually real hot dog-identifying app. 2017 is apparently the year of using the major advancements in AI to identify food.

Microsoft has reported a revenue of $23.3 billion in its Q4 2017 fiscal year for a total net income of $21.2 billion this year so far. LinkedIn contributed $1.1 billion to revenue during Q4, $125,000 more than it did in Q3, the first quarter LinkedIn showed up in Microsoft’s reports. Gaming revenue went up by 3 percent as Xbox sales remained strong post-E3.
Q4 was another strong quarter for cloud services, as it has historically been over the past year. Revenue in this category was up by 1

Instagram has long been the social network of choice for subtly showing off to your friends. If you’re most people, that means videos of your cool vacation or pictures of your perfect brunch. If you’re billionaire Jeff Bezos, though, your Instagram humblebrags tend to be a little more extravagant.
Bezos joined Instagram today
Case in point: Bezos just joined Instagram today, and he kicked off his account with a flyover preview of Blue Origin’s new rocket factory (complete with

The dream of long-lasting batteries is a little closer now that scientists have made progress on a big problem: a battery material that holds a lot of energy but breaks down quickly. They’ve found a way to use little “pulleys” to keep the material, silicon, intact.
Manufacturers are interested in making a battery component called the anode with silicon instead of graphite. Silicon can hold up to five times more energy — but it also expands up to 400 percent and then crack

We can't actually see or hear what's happening at the White House press briefings these days in real time, but at least we now know why the sessions are held off camera.
SEE ALSO: Twitter schools Rick Perry on basic economics after he speaks at a coal plant
Thursday's briefing included a section on "MAGAnomics." With graphics. For real. Not a joke. #MAGAnomics in the off-camera White House press briefing pic.twitter.com/kbL2qC2PLY
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) July 20, 2017Based on t

News broke Thursday of Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington being found dead in Los Angeles, and Twitter was quick to post photos, video, and devastated responses from fans to the singer's death. 
Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda was the first band member to respond to the news, noting that an official statement is forthcoming.
SEE ALSO: Linkin Park's Chester Bennington reportedly dead at 41Shocked and heartbroken, but it's true.An official statement will come out as soon as we have one.
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O.J. Simpson is about to be a free man (again). 
The former star football player became infamous while on trial for the 1995 murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a waiter named Ron Goldman. Though he was acquitted in that trial — which generated a media frenzy and an enormous public reaction — Simpson was later convicted of armed robbery and assault after leading a group in a robbery of a Las Vegas casino in 2007. (He claims he was only trying to get back memorab

Amazon’s Alexa-everywhere approach to its digital voice assistant means the company has aggressively been pushing its AI companion onto every app and inside every device it can. Starting next week, that ever-growing list will include every Android device, so long as the phone has Amazon’s main shopping app installed. Echo device owners began seeing notifications from Amazon noting the feature rollout, and the company confirmed to TechCrunch today that the feature is indeed coming thi

If there's one thing Star Wars has never been short on — besides magic and wonder! — it's the creatures that make the fictional universe come to life, a mix of the hideous and adorable that make it all feel so ... real.
SEE ALSO: Fresh 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' details revealed at Comic Con
It's with great fanfare, then, that the Star Wars crew has now introduced us to the "porgs," adorable creatures that occupy the island of Ahch-To where Rey finds Luke Skywalker as The Force Awake

The holographic chess match played between the droid R2-D2 and Chewbacca in Star Wars: A New Hope could become possible in the near future.
SEE ALSO: The world's first glasses-free holographic phone is coming, and it's not from Apple
Researchers from the University of Utah have developed an inexpensive way to create full-color 2D and 3D holograms. The scientists are able to produce brighter holograms than currently available and can be viewed at almost any angle, making them appear more realisti

It's been roughly eight years after the Scrabble knock-off Words With Friends launched. And now, the hit game's developer Zynga announced that it may develop a TV show focused around the competitive word game.
Why?
Zynga announced Wednesday that it is collaborating with MGM Television to develop a TV game show based on Words With Friends, and I'm here to tell them to stop.
SEE ALSO: Esports moving to TV means more video games have to reckon with themselves
Words With Friends, allegedly the most

People who opt into the regimens of self-assembly gourmet meals pushed by the likes of Blue Apron tend to be the kind of conscious consumers who care about how their fish was caught or their vegetables farmed.
Most of these companies offer food that lives up to those ideals, but they also deliver something else: lots and lots of tiny plastic bags, freezer packs, and styrofoam that ends up in the trash.
SEE ALSO: Sorry, Blue Apron: Amazon is already selling its own meal kits
The waste inherent to

With people still raging over NES Classic Edition's abrupt discontinuation, and hype through the roof for the upcoming SNES Classic Edition, it feels inevitable that a Nintendo 64 Classic Edition will be released in the future.
And now we might have our first clue that it could be coming. New trademark filings discovered by NeoGaf user Rösti could suggest Nintendo is working on (or considering working on) a miniaturized N64.
SEE ALSO: Tiny keychain-sized Game Boy is infinitely better than t

Amazon’s Alexa assistant is now able to control an even wider range of home appliances. Smart appliances from Sears and its Kenmore brand are joining the list of hardware that can be used through voice commands to Amazon’s Echo lineup of speakers and other Alexa-enabled devices. GE and Whirlpool have already integrated similar support across their respective products, and now “the full line of Kenmore smart appliances” — air conditioners, refrigerators, and more &md

Taraji P. Henson is back and she's bringing some serious action to our lives.
The Hidden Figures star is taking on the role of Mary — a badass, gun-wielding assassin whose life turns around after meeting a young boy — in the action-packed film Proud Mary, directed by Babak Najafi. And let's just say she seriously kicks ass in the trailer.
The film isn't coming out until 2018, but until then please revel in this fast-paced, suspense-building trailer set to the legendary musical track

Nazi zombies are back and they're looking scarier and bigger than ever.
Call of Duty: WWII is bringing the co-operative, undead-slaying game mode back to the series once again, pitting players up against waves and waves of zombies created by nazi scientists in a fight for survival (and to see how many rounds you can last). Judging by the new trailer shown at San Diego Comic-Con, it looks like there will be some new superpowered zombies to challenge zombie fans.
This version, appropriately calle

Not long ago, I had a visceral reaction when I read about how Muse writer Kat Boogaard accepted over 300 random LinkedIn requests. It reinforced my stance that I’d only accept them when they were accompanied by a short note.
No really, including a note as to why we should connect makes it so much easier to say yes. (And if you have no idea what to say in that note, here are a few templates.)
Why else would I turn you down? Here are a few more reasons:
1. You asked for way too much right of

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is looking pretty jacked lately, and like so many other fitness buffs, Bezos decided to join Instagram to show off his assets — but his first post isn't quite what you might expect from a fitness guru.
SEE ALSO: 4 private spaceflight companies you need to know about
Bezos' first post on Instagram is a video that pans around a beautiful building campus, which, as we discover, is the Blue Origin manufacturing facility in Cape Canaveral. The private space company hopes t

As kids we're taught bears are cute and cuddly creatures. We make them into stuffed animals and give them a cute name. Kids sleep with them.
The reality is that bears are predators capable of killing a human with minimal effort. They do not give a shit about your selfies. Plus, bears getting used to humans can be fatal for bears. They're wild animals that need to stay wild.
Philip de Roo was traveling through Algonquin Park in Canada when he noticed a commotion on the side of the road. A group

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, 41, was reportedly found dead Thursday morning in Los Angeles. His death was reportedly a suicide, per TMZ.A rep for the singer did not immediately respond to Mashable's request for confirmation. BREAKING: Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington dies at 41, Los Angeles County coroner says.
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 20, 2017SEE ALSO: Watch Chris Cornell's video for 'The Promise' and try not to cryno words. so heartbroken. RIP Chester Bennington.

Memories of Cecil the Lion and his untimely demise in 2015, at the hands of an American dentist on a hunting trip, are resurfacing after a national park in Zimbabwe reported Thursday that the famous lion's son was shot and killed.
SEE ALSO: Cecil the lion will live forever — as a Beanie Baby
Xanda, a 6-year-old lion living in Hwange National Park, was reportedly shot on a trophy hunt organized by a professional hunter, Richard Cooke, who has a Zimbabwe-based safari service listed online.&n

LG is launching a smaller version of the LG V20 called the Q8, and it seems to be fixing some of the biggest problems of its larger cousin, via Android Police.The LG V20 was an “everything-but-the-kitchen-sink” sort of phone, one that packed in tons of features like dual cameras, 32-bit quad DAC, and, of course, a second display right above the screen, although it was held back by a few issues, including the massive size of the device and lack of waterproofing (as noted by my colleag

With the John Wick-esque, high-precision gun ballet now pretty much established as Hollywood’s go-to action style for characters without superpowers, Empire’s Taraji P. Henson is taking the style back to the ‘70s. In the first trailer for Proud Mary, Henson plays the title character, a hit woman working for a mob family in Boston. She’s good at what she does, but it’s not long before a job goes bad and things go crazy.
Mary, like Wick himself, is a tough-as-nails ki

Carrot Weather is part of developer Brian Mueller’s series of useful productivity tool apps. If you’ve never used one of Mueller’s Carrot apps, there’s one core conceit to all of them: each app features an AI character named Carrot who, to put it simply, rather dramatically hates humans. Carrot Fitness, for example, will berate the user for missing workouts and not hitting goals while threatening to destroy mankind. Carrot To-Do will judge you as a “lazy meatbag&rdq

Winter has come to San Diego in the form of an elaborate Game of Thrones experience, which will allow you to leave Comic-Con feeling like the rightful ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. 
SEE ALSO: 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 premiere proves the ladies really are running the show
Taking place at a sprawling indoor space sandwiched between the Omni and Hard Rock hotels in San Diego's Gaslamp district, the HBO activation bestows a "dragonglass" RFID wristband (aka rockin' snap bracelet) upon its visi

President Donald Trump has a way of upending news cycles and his own agenda with a few early-morning 140-character messages tapped out on the Twitter app. 
Never before has a president used social media like this. Trump unleashes diatribes against enemies and friends, lashes out at news outlets and TV hosts, and chastises both Democrats and Republicans. 
SEE ALSO: Trump’s Tech Week did not make America great
We've rounded up six of his most consequential tweetstorms, below. 

Exactly 48 years ago Thursday — July 11, 1969 — Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended from the Apollo 11 capsule to become the first humans to ever walk on the moon.
And while the video of Armstrong and Aldrin actually stepping foot on the moon is one of the greatest moments in history, one video that doesn't get enough love is the one you see above from 2002. 
SEE ALSO: Get your own bag of (real) moon dust for just $4 million
On September 9, 2002, Buzz Aldrin decide he had

Facebook's newest priority isn't a shiny new technology or a funky new predictive algorithm. It's Groups, one of the earliest features on TheFacebook.com. 
These aren't your sophomore year of college Groups though. Facebook is pointing to a series of highly-engaged collectives that highlight why they believe that Groups will play an important part in the future of Facebook—and fulfill CEO Mark Zuckerberg's goal to "bring the world closer together."
It comes down to a particular word:

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A huge global effort shut down a pair of huge dark web marketplaces where transactions of drugs, firearms, and stolen data reportedly generated at least $1 billion.
SEE ALSO: A dark web marketplace went down, and oh boy did its customers freak out
The FBI, DEA, the Dutch National Police, and Europol worked to take down AlphaBay and Hansa, the largest and third-largest dark web markets, respectively. According to a press release from Europol, AlphaBay was home to "over 200,000 users and 40,0

When you’re looking for a new job, it’s essential to pare down exactly what you’re looking for. Similar to the college application process, you’ll probably need to do some soul searching before refining your list. You could admire a company that’s disrupting an industry, and at the same time, not be a good fit for working there.  
Startups are known to have unicorn success stories. We’ve all heard about companies going from working in a garage to billion

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If you've found yourself in a career rut, the best choice may just be to start from scratch and learn to code — no matter how many years of job experience you may have.
There’s so much new and evolving technology out there, and not enough people to run it. Plus, it's never been more affordable to learn the skills needed to land a job. In fact, you can get a lifetime membership to&nb

On the evening of July 15th, two Minneapolis police officers responded to a 911 call in the city’s upscale Fulton neighborhood. When the officers arrived, Justine Damond — a 40-year-old, white Australian woman wearing pajamas — emerged outside and stood next to the cruiser’s driver’s side window. She described the incident that caused her to call 911 — a possible sexual assault in the alleyway behind the home that she shared with her fiancé, whom she pl

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, an original opera about the Apple co-founder, opens at the Santa Fe Opera this week. The Ringer has a great interview with its creative team out today, and it includes two images of the show.The first (above), shows Garrett Soronson as Steve Wozniak and Edward Parks as Steve Jobs, presumably in the famous Apple I garage office / lab. The second shows Parks’ Jobs presenting the original iPhone in 2007.Photo by Ken Howard / Santa Fe Opera via The RingerThe sho