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Turns out, Captain America can rock one hell of a beard. And you don't have to just take our word for it anymore.
While Marvel Studios has yet to release any Avengers: Infinity War footage online, they have been giving out concept art posters at Comic-Con this weekend, and those posters offer an early peek at what our heroes will look like in action. 
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GUEST: There have been a lot of digital “next big things” in education over the years — everything from the Apple IIe to online learning. The latest is artificial intelligence education tech (AI Ed), and only time will tell what impact it ultimately has. But for something as important as education, now is the time to start talking about the benefits and challenges created by the AI-powered personalized learning systems that are making their way into classrooms.
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson says a lot of things on social media, including the occasional dad joke, but unless he's pranking us this time, we're about to see him star in a film with none other than Apple's digital assistant, Siri. 
SEE ALSO: This is the secret to how Apple is making Siri sound more human
"I partnered with #Apple to make the biggest, coolest, craziest, dopest, most over the top, funnest (is that even a word?) movie ever," wrote Johnson on his official Facebook page. "And I ha

On Saturday morning in Paris, a sperm whale appeared on the banks of the Seine river in Paris.
Whales, which thrive in the salty waters of the oceans, don't tend to end up 100 miles inland, washed up on the banks of fresh water rivers. Yet there it was: a whale in Paris.
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— Stéphanie Basquin (@ba_stephe) July 22, 2017
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Believe it or not but Nicki Minaj has something in common with the resident old in your life.
The queen of rap proved that she's still relatable in the most unexpected way when she publicly navigated her way around Snapchat on Sunday afternoon, and ended up asking fans for their tech help. 
SEE ALSO: Katy Perry's 'Swish Swish' video features Brazilian 'Butt Queen' meme star
The rapper posted a screenshot of her username on Instagram encouraging fans to follow her on the social media platfor

When Star Wars Battlefront II hits stores in November, it will present the Star Wars universe in a way that’s seldom seen: from the viewpoint of the Empire’s soldiers, who are fighting against the characters we usually root for. Next week, the game will get a prequel in Christie Golden’s Inferno Squad, which will unveil the origins of the game’s characters, and set after the events of Rogue One and A New Hope.Del Rey Books published a special San Diego Comic-Con edition o

GUEST: Before becoming a VC, I cofounded OnVista, a German finance portal. In my role as CEO I was once talking to a client and told him, “I’ve got to go now because I have a board meeting.” He said: “Poor you. In board meetings, I always feel like I am examined and fail.” I was surprised and said, “I love our board meetings because I always learn something new and leave better informed and with a clearer view on my business.” Truth is, I always enjoyed

San Diego Comic-Con is wrapping up, and it’s been a crazy week of news from across the entertainment industry. But in recent years, the show has become just as much about the big trailer reveals for upcoming blockbusters as it has been about panels for fans and, you know, actual comic books.Just in case you managed to lose track of a couple of the biggest announcements, we’ve rounded up all the biggest and best trailers from Comic-Con in one place for your viewing convenience. Dive o

Steve Jobs isn’t the only famous Apple figure that can be turned into movies (or an opera, evidently.) Tomorrow, your favorite bad listener voice assistant Siri will star in its own film featuring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. I wish I was kidding.
The movie, titled The Rock x Siri: Dominate The Day, is a collaboration between Johnson and Apple — think of it as an extended commercial similar to what the company did with Taylor Swift and Apple Music last year. Except instead

Supercell has just four games in the market, but it is the master of the $46 billion mobile games industry because those titles have generated a lifetime average of $1.15 billion in revenue on iOS alone, according to measurement firm Sensor Tower. It’s an astounding record, and that’s why a big spotlight is shining on Brawl Stars, a new mobile game that the Finnish company has soft launched in some regions.
It’s been a while since Supercell launched a game. Clash Royale formall

To put it lightly, Pokémon Go Fest, Niantic’s first in-person event for the game, did not go as planned. Roughly 20,000 fans came to Chicago’s Grant Park for the fest, which promised Trainers (the game’s name for players) a chance to catch a variety of pokémon, team challenges throughout the day, an exclusive medal to unlock, special rewards, and of course, the opportunity to meet and spend time with Pokémon Go community members from around the globe.Unfort

Watching things launch into space is awesome. Watching things launch into space from space is even more awesome.
The company Planet, which launches satellites into the Earth's orbit in order to take photographs of the planet, pointed one of its Dove satellite constellations — which is several satellites operating in a cluster — at a launch pad in Kazakhstan, capturing one of its rockets launching into the sky. The rocket was carrying 48 more satellites, which it successfully deploye

GM is giving developers a fast lane to make it easier to build connected car apps for infotainment systems. 
The automaker is offering up its next-generation infotainment software development kit (NGI SDK) to the general development community with a new twist: App makers will actually be able to test their creations IRL with the new Dev Client program.
The automaker claims it's the first time a car company is giving developers a shot to work on their apps in a real production vehicle this e

If you're working on a long editing project directly on YouTube, you now have a deadline. 
The Google-owned video platform announced on Friday it will shut down its built-in Video Editor feature on Sept. 20. 
The toolkit has been around since 2010, but has fallen on hard times. One of Google's community managers wrote in the YouTube Help Forum that the axing comes as a result of "limited usage of these features." As few as 0.1 percent of all creators use the built-in video editing tool

A major solar eclipse will be taking place on August 21, and NASA needs your help when it comes to collecting data. 
The GLOBE program, an educational initiative supported by NASA, has launched an app to encourage those along the path of the solar eclipse to help contribute their findings. With just a little bit of effort, you can participate in an actual scientific study.
SEE ALSO: New solar eclipse simulator shows you what to expect this summer
The solar eclipse will be seen across contin

On the first day of San Diego Comic-Con, director David Ayer took the stage before the massive crowd at Hall H. A year prior, he’d been there to promote Suicide Squad for Warner Bros., but this time he was discussing a different project: the $100 million fantasy-action film Bright. “What’s up, Hall H?” he shouted into the microphone. “This is the house of Netflix! This is Netflix right now, we’re here to represent Netflix!”
Shots fired.As Comic-Con winds

Any true Supernatural fan knows that even though the show doesn't have an official theme song, the CW hit has always had an unofficial anthem in Kansas' Carry On Wayward Son, which has appeared in every finale for the past 12 seasons.
In Hall H at Comic-Con on Sunday, fans got a live performance from the band, complete with massive wraparound video screens recapping the previous 12 years of the show.Read more...
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Spongebob Squarepants will have a stop-motion episode for the first time ever this October.
The talking, yellow sea sponge and his aquatic friends are throwing aside the their cartoon facades in the upcoming stop-motion Halloween special called "The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom," Nickelodeon announced at Comic-Con today.
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Prepare your best superhero landing; Deadpool is coming to Marvel Powers United VR.
Oculus Studios and Sanzaru Games’ four player co-op superhero sim was announced at D23 last weekend but with just three confirmed characters: Hulk, Captain Marvel, and Rocket Raccoon. To celebrate San Diego Comic-Con, though, Oculus announced that everybody’s favorite Merc with a Mouth is joining the fray. We’ve got seven minutes of gameplay in his shoes from our recent hands-on event, which you

They say art is a good outlet for expressing your thoughts and feelings, but since I’m not one to keep a notebook full of doodles, I have found peace within Passpartout: The Starving Artist, a recently released game where you make MS Paint-style drawings and sell them for your digital livelihood. The game is super simple: you start out in a garage with nothing but your canvas and small art stand, painting away until local Parisian passerbys stop to offer you money.
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The creator of The Simpson made his views on President Donald Trump clear this weekend when he led a crowd to chant "Lock him up!"
Matt Groening initiated a "Lock him up" chant aimed at Trump during a panel at Comic-Con Saturday, The Huffington Post reported, corralling hundreds of people to call for the arrest of the U.S. president. The chant was undoubtedly a reference to "Lock her up" chants from conservatives aimed at Hillary Clinton during Trump's 2016 election campaign.
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On the eve of a new HBO documentary, Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, the Kensington Palace Twitter account has released three photos of Princess Diana. 
The images show the late Princess of Wales with her sons Prince Harry and Prince William. This August will mark 20 years since her death in a traffic collision. 
SEE ALSO: No royal wants to be king or queen says Prince Harry
"The Duke and Prince Harry are pleased to share 3 photographs from the personal photo album of the late

Adam Savage loves space suits. When I interviewed him in March, he spoke about how safety equipment appealed to him, whether it was firefighter gear, the protective armor that bomb disposal personnels wear, or space suits of the fictional variety.For the last several years, Savage would attend San Diego Comic-Con dressed up in a costume that hides his identity, something he calls Adam Incognito. This year, one of the costumes he suited up in was one used in the production of Alien: Covenant.Afte

President Trump has an incredible plan for resolving America's healthcare crisis, and while it's short on details, it's absolutely bursting with happy adjectives.
Trump successfully pulled together multiple strings of words for a free association interview with  The New York Times this week. Central to that conversation was Trump's explanation of the American healthcare system, which he believes works exactly like a Burger King drive thru.
SEE ALSO: You're wrong, media: There's plenty of di

A shoebox-sized satellite caught a glimpse of a Soyuz rocket launch that sent 73 satellites flying into space last week. Snapping one photo every second, the tiny Dove satellite caught two and a half minutes of the Soyuz rocket’s flight — starting with liftoff.
The timing was serendipitous. San Francisco-based satellite company Planet learned only five hours before the launch that its Dove satellite could be in the right place at the right time to catch the rocket’s flight on c

EXCLUSIVE: Apple has long been dominant when it comes to the iPhone’s ability to monetize mobile games at higher rates than rival smartphones. But mobile analytics and marketing platform DeltaDNA has found in a study that rivals are closing the gap.
For a decade, the iPhone’s polished user experience has always made it the smartphone of choice for gamers, with each player generally spending more on games than an Android user does. But DeltaDNA found that smartphones like th

YouTube star Jake Paul issued a statement on Saturday announcing his departure from Disney Channel, and his role as Dirk Mann on the show Bizaardvark.
The 20-year-old social media fixture has been making headlines recently after a scathing news report showed how the home where he films elaborate YouTube videos—and the hordes of fans who know his address—was becoming too much for the neighboring community. 
SEE ALSO: Living near YouTube bro Jake Paul seems like hell on earth
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Soccer players often toe the line on fouling opponents to get the upper hand in a given moment, but usually that means holding someone back or grabbing their jersey, not biting them.
SEE ALSO: Abby Wambach reaches out to girl banned from soccer tourney because she looked 'like a boy'
During a Gold Cup quarterfinals match between the U.S. national team and El Salvador Wednesday, not one but two El Salvador players were caught biting U.S. players. The tournament organizer CONCACAF suspended both p

Captain Marvel isn’t due out in theaters until March 2019, but Marvel was quick to give the film its due during the studio’s Hall H panel at Comic-Con last night. One of the key details revealed during the presentation was that the movie will be a period piece set in the 1990s, a timeframe that will set it apart from most of the other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.It’s something of a strange move on its face, especially since one would expect to see Captain Marvel (Bri

Niantic Labs apologized for the technical problems that players had at Pokémon Go Fest in Chicago on Saturday, and it will offer a full refund to those who attended.
As the company held a celebration event for the launch of its legendary Pokémon in the popular mobile game, a large number of players attending the event couldn’t play. It shows that staging live events for a lot of people in a single place isn’t that easy to do.
“Although we were able to so

Former Doctor Who star Peter Davison is stuck in a weird, weird world where role models are gendered and the idea of a woman playing the Doctor is sad.
Unfortunately, you read that right. 
SEE ALSO: The next Doctor in 'Doctor Who' is a woman, and all the cool humans on the internet are thrilled
After news broke that Jodie Whittaker would take on the role as the 13th Doctor—making her the first woman to do so—Davison took the time before a Comic-Con panel to share his thoughts, w

GUEST: This summer, KPCB partner Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends report singled out healthcare as a sector ripe with opportunity. The report proposed that the healthcare market, driven by a number of converging technologies, is approaching a “digital inflection point” and is currently positioned for rapid growth.
This is an understatement.
Due to increasing digitization of inputs since 2013, the amount of global healthcare data has been increasing 48 percent year-on-year, ac

The first-ever Pokémon Go Fest wasn't all sunshine, rainbows, and catching Pokémon.
Attendees at the Pokémon Go Fest in Chicago on Saturday were met with a handful of problems upon arriving at the game's first-ever official event, which was meant to be a celebration of the game's first year and an opportunity for fans and players to meet each other and work together to earn unique in-game rewards.
SEE ALSO: Pikachu tastes like chocolate and bananas, apparently
Instead, playe

Game of Thrones has never been about giving readers or viewers what they most want. It’s author and screenwriters prefer to build fan expectations, then overturn them for narrative impact — and sometimes for pure shock value. And yet we fans maintain hope that at least a few of the characters will reach a satisfying, well-deserved ending. That’s why there’s Game of Thrones Hope Chest, a new weekly poll where we put all our hopes together in one place. We aren’t aski

"Kara Danvers was a mistake."
Those words were the biggest surprise of the Supergirl panel at Comic-Con Saturday, as the showrunners teased a Season 3 that looks certain to get as dark for the girl of steel as Season 3 of the The Flash did for that hero. "The theme of Season 3 is 'what does it mean to be human?'", said new showrunner Jessica Queller. "All of the characters will be exploring that question, especially Kara."
The Supergirl panel also confirmed that Calista Flockhart's Cat Gran

When Brad Pitt first mentioned his love of Frank Ocean in an interview with GQ, everything felt right in the world. 
Ocean officially embraced the beautiful bromance when he showed love back by wearing Pitt's face on a shirt—but things escalated to another level on Saturday night when Pitt showed up on stage in the middle of Ocean's set at Los Angeles' FYF Festival. 
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Pitt is seen sitting on the stage, clutching his phone dramatical

After rough start to Pokémon Go Fest, Niantic’s first in-person event for its breakout game, the company has announced that all registered attendees will automatically have the legendary pokémon Lugia added to their accounts. Prior to the event, the company teased that legendary pokémon are headed to the game, and the reveal for what specific pokémon is coming was supposed to happen in a form of a co-operative raid. That, of course, didn’t actually happen,

So, we got into work this morning and someone had slipped the working draft of President Donald Trump's speech for later this year when he pardons the Thanksgiving turkey. Apparently, he's writing it himself. I know, right??
Admittedly, this is very early for Trump to be planning out the annual presidential tradition, and he's not really known for writing his own speeches. But, we here at Mashable would be remiss if we didn't publish this revealing document.
What follows is Trump's draft speech

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When you call your product “the most advanced beer drinker’s device in the universe,” you’d better be able to deliver the goods. But barring the existence of some kind of beer teleporting device invented in a distant galaxy, you’ll be inclined to believe the slogan when you see The Beer Spike.
This keychain-sized tool is shaped like a railroad spike (“to symb

Walking around at San Diego Comic-Con, the booth for a small publisher known as Sunday Press stands out in the quieter half of the convention. Standing amidst retailers hawking bagged rarities and boxes of superhero comics, the books on display are distinctive: they’re massive — almost two feet to a side — and they bear names like Dick Tracy: Colorful Cases of the 1930s, White Boy in Skull Valley, Society Is Nix, Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip, and othe

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It’s hard to land a good job on Wall Street. You have to dress smart, act super confident, and watch the movie Wall Street over and over again. You also have to know so much about finance that it’ll make your head spin.
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With Game of Thrones ending in 2018, the great lords of HBO have masterminded several spinoffs. That's all fine and well, but what if we just put a Westerosi twist on known commodities? Imagine your favorite reality TV shows, but with a Game of Thrones twist.Honestly, once you start thinking about it it's hard to resist, so we came up with a few 10 and imagined how they'd play out.
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Americans are taught to be ashamed of their loose bowels — but there is no greater cathartic pleasure than telling someone your story of digestive woe. 
Truly, nothing feels better than eliciting other people's sympathy for your minor, passing medical ailments: for example, I am thrilled to announce to you all that I have a dentist appointment later today to examine my sore jaw. 
IWasPoisoned.com does something even better than that: it allows people the unique pleasure of identi