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If there is any author that's making a splash at the movies this year, it's Stephen King.
Not only is an adaptation of his classic novel It scheduled to be released in September 2017, but another King adaptation just hit theaters too: The Dark Tower. 
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The movie (and the book series) follows Roland, the last gunslinger, as he attempts to protect The Dark Tower, which is the intersection of all the worlds in the un

Tech companies that have been taking a stand against Donald Trump in the press are silent where it counts—their earnings reports. 
Almost no major tech companies have mentioned President Donald Trump in their quarterly earnings reports as posing a risk to their businesses. Google, Facebook, Apple, and the rest might talk a big game about immigration and net neutrality, but when it comes to communicating risks to shareholders, Trump doesn't seem to be on their minds.
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Attention anyone who thinks Cheetos really aren't appreciated for the high-end delicacy they truly are: you've got some good news coming your way.
Cheetos is launching a two day pop-up restaurant in New York City called The Spotted Cheetah, and it will be run by none other than celebrity chef Anne Burrell.
SEE ALSO: Your bag of Cheetos could have $50,000 in it
The Spotted Cheetah will feature a three-course menu, beginning with starters like Purrfectly Fried Green Tomatoes and Cheetos Meatballs

LOL! It's August 8 and we still haven't shared our most hype-worthy gaming picks for the month.
Yes, the final days of summer are usually quiet, but there are still good things to look forward to this year. In fact: some of that good stuff is already here. Let's take a quick look at those first. 
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is out, and it's a gorgeous descent into madness from the combat wizards at Ninja Theory. Also o

Before former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer got booted/resigned, they wanted to be known by their boss as the bringer of good news.
According to Vice, who spoke to several unnamed officials, the two used to battle for the right to deliver a packet of good news clips and cable chyrons to the president at 9:30 a.m. and at 4:30 p.m. ET. 
SEE ALSO: Brilliant New York Post cover perfectly sums up Trump's White House
This practice is

Donald Trump issued a warning against Kim Jong-un that, well, sounded a lot like something Kim Jong-un would say. 
After news broke that U.S. intelligence officials believe North Korea has produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead, Trump warned Pyongyang not to threaten the United States. 
SEE ALSO: Trump bars transgender people from military, calls them a "disruption"
"They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen," he said Tuesday, which ... is terrifying. The

Get ready to meet some new faces at Liberty High13 Reasons Why just added seven new actors to Season 2: Chelsea Alden, Bryce Cass, Ben Lawson, Samantha Logan, Allison Miller, Kelli O’Hara and Anne Winters.
SEE ALSO: Study links '13 Reasons Why' to possible increase in suicidal thoughts
According to Variety, none of these actors will be series regulars, but don't expect that to limit their performances. Between them, they have a hefty list of TV credentials, and O'Hara is a casual Tony Awar

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, released today, has an interesting permadeath mechanic. The more you die, the closer you get to needing to restart the whole game, players are told.
Players are quickly realizing they need to be extra careful, which falls right into the developers' plans.
Warning: Mild Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice spoilers ahead.
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Instead of seeing a traditional Game Over screen, Hellblade players' deaths will be met with an

You can finally stop feeling bad about leaving your dog at home by itself — just turn on an audiobook and hit the road. 
Amazon's subsidiary Audible and "The Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan are teaming up to create an audiobook series made specifically for your dogSeriously. Soon you'll be able to start a book, sneak out of the house, and let your doggo enjoy a relaxing day at home all by itself.
SEE ALSO: Cesar Millan's rules when getting a new puppy
To any pet-free folks out there, this

While Daenerys basked in the smell of burnt Lannister flesh, you might've missed a sly hint about a new army poised to enter the Game of Thrones arena. And they could throw everything into chaos.
Before the battle in "The Spoils of War," during a seemingly innocuous conversation with Iron Banker Tycho Nestoris, Cersei offhandedly mentioned her desire to beef up her armies and navies, including making "overtures" to the Golden Company.
And looking at the damage her army took in the Field of Fire

Glen Campbell, a world-class, once-in-a-generation music virtuoso whose instrument just happened to be guitar and whose native style was radio-friendly country & western, has died. He was 81.
Campbell died at his Nashville, Tennessee, home after a long bout with Alzheimer's. His death was confirmed on his personal website and confirmed by his publicist.
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Cambell's biggest hit — "Rhinestone Cowboy"

If there's one thing that annoying people all across the internet can agree on, it's this: millennials will be the downfall of civilization. 
Of course, there's almost always no data to back up their very authoritative pronouncements, but that doesn't stop certain overinflated pontificators from crapping out their hot takes and blaming millennials for ruining everything from J. Crew to the great American dream to napkins (seriously). 
There are few sociological comparisons more meaning

Disney’s bombshell announcement today that it would be building its own branded direct-to-consumer streaming service, and ending its licensing deal with Netflix, came with another nugget of news: the previously announced all-new ESPN streaming service is launching next year. We first heard about this service last year, when Disney acquired a minority stake in BAMTech, the MLB-founded video juggernaut behind many of the most popular sports and TV streaming services.Disney is making a big pl

It's about time we had a new badass superhero thrown into the mix. 
Forget about Batman or Spiderman or even Superman — Twitter user @Manda_like_wine's daughter, Luca, has an idea for the hero to save us all.
Her name is Janet. And she is a green-haired vanquisher, ready to cut people in half with giant scissors at a moment's notice. Luca seems to have a very famous comic book in her future.My child went to art day-camp today. One project was to make a new superhero. This is what my c

Disney's future is becoming clearer—and that's going to mean developing its own platforms to reach consumers.
Step one—break off its relationship with Netflix.
Disney announced on Tuesday that it will pull its movies off Netflix in 2019, marking the end of a multi-year relationship that helped Netflix grow into a dominant at-home entertainment company.
Step two—start its own streaming platform.
Disney also said that it is planning its own Netflix-style service that will debut i

New to the parenthood scene: Harpist Joanna Newsom and her husband Andy Samberg recently welcomed their first child.
A rep for Samberg confirmed to Mashable that he and Newsom are now the parents of a baby girl, though the child's birth date and name are still unknown. 
SEE ALSO: Joanna Newsom taught Larry King to play harp because he needs a hobby
News that the couple was expecting was kept secret from the public during the duration of the pregnancy. 
As Us Weekly noted, Samberg expre

Disney will end its distribution deal with Netflix and launch its own streaming service, the company announced today. It intends to launch the service in 2019.
The move is a real blow to Netflix, which secured a valuable streaming deal with Disney back in 2012 — before streaming had really taken off. The deal only kicked into effect last year, so Netflix is barely seeing any benefit here.
At the same time, it’s a natural step for Disney, which has a huge library of valuable movies an

On April 28, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disabled the climate change section on its website, one of the federal government's largest online repositories of climate science and policy information. The website was taken offline ostensibly for edits to bring it in line with the Trump administration's new policies. 
But it's been more than three months, and there is still no new EPA climate change website. 
The old webpage, which is backed up online and was in existence for m

It’s always been a bit weird that San Francisco, the cradle of autonomous research, has been missing from the list of cities that boast their own self-driving ride-hailing services. Autonomous cars are prowling the streets of cities like Pittsburgh, Phoenix, and Singapore — and soon enough Boston — offering rides to ordinary people through services like Uber, NuTonomy, and Waymo. And poor San Francisco has been left out of the mix — until now.Cruise, the self-driving subs

Hype.
The Sept. 6 release of Destiny 2 is just a few weeks away at this point. Most of what's left to know about the game probably won't be clear until after the release. This new trailer for the sequel's updated Crucible — the PvP space — doesn't carry any major revelations.
Sure, there are some cool emotes and guns that we haven't necessarily seen before. But, really, this trailer is mostly here to amp up your excitement. Why else have Shaxx, the excitable Crucible Handler, narrat

Mazda is using diesel engine technology to save the gasoline engine, just as everyone else is trying to find the alternative fuel that will beat more stringent emissions standards around the world.
While it might sound like the Japanese company is making a backward move in an increasingly electrified automotive landscape, Mazda may have cracked what numerous automakers have spent years trying to figure out: allowing the use of the technology that has made diesel engines fuel efficient, without a

The Trump SoHo building in New York City saw quite the light display Monday night. 
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The Russian flag colors were blazing and Russian president Vladimir Putin even made an appearance with the caption, "Happy to help, bro."At Trump's Soho Hotel:#TheResistance #Resist #Trump #Putin #TrumpSoho #TrumpHotel #NewYork #NY #Soho #TrumpPutin #RussiaGate #GOP #MAGA pic.twitter.com/3LDFPiIMqM
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Much like a mighty dragon might shrug off a barrage of teeny, insignificant arrows, Game of Thrones has shaken off concerns that an episode leak might dent its ratings — the HBO hit just scored its most-watched episode yet with "The Spoils of War," despite the fact that the dramatic installment was illegally released online three days before it aired. 
Episode 4 of Season 7 scored 10.2 million viewers on Sunday night, beating the previous record set by the Season 7 premiere, "Dragonst

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There are many popular ways to express yourself in the 21st century (texting, snapping, fidget spinning) but one of the most enduring ways is YouTube. Everyone wants to be the next big thing, but with all the content out there, it’s hard to stand out.
That’s why you need an online course like the YouTube Mastery Bundle. Regardless of what kind of videos you’d like to make, thi

The weird food and booze trend has been pushed so far, we aren't even surprised anymore. 
With that said, we welcome the addition of fried chicken beer with open arms.
The Veil Brewing Company out of Richmond, Virginia, teamed up with Evil Twin Brewing in New York to create the Fried Fried Chicken Chicken beer, which contains a small amount of real fried chicken, because fried chicken is a national treasure. 
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Diplo (no, not James Van Der Beek) spoke to GQ recently about touring in Uganda and Ethiopia, but somehow the conversation steered towards Rihanna (like most conversations do, admit it). 
In the piece, Diplo shares that he's been pursuing a collaboration with Rihanna, but apparently, she's not here for it one bit. 
Not only did he reveal that she once called Diplo and Major Lazer's track "Lean On" house music (he "face-palmed so hard on that one"), she delivered some glorious shade wit

The leak of a federal climate science assessment to the New York Times on Monday should make you even more concerned about the fate of climate science and, well, facts, under the Trump administration. 
Leaking a scientific document is not a typical act by climate researchers, and comes at an unprecedented time, during which Washington has declared war against inconvenient facts, including climate science findings showing the reality of human-caused climate change.
The report — which i

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine today announced that it is suing Maine Gov. Paul LePage for deleting comments from his official Facebook page that disagree with his viewpoints. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two women who say they’ve had their accounts blocked from further commenting on Gov. LePage’s profile, claim the act is a form of censorship and violates the country’s free speech protections.
The ACLU of Maine originally sent a formal complaint letter to Gov.

Game of Thrones has already broken its own record for most-watched episode, after just setting a new one with the season 7 premiere a few weeks ago. According to HBO, 10.2 million viewers tuned in for season 7, episode 4, “The Spoils of War,” on Sunday night, beating out the 10.1 million who showed up for episode 1, “Dragonstone.” That number doesn’t include viewers who watched online or through an HBO app, which will almost certainly push that number even higher.
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It's a rare (and slightly terrifying) experience to witness a massive lightning strike just a few yards away. It's even rarer to capture said lightning strike on camera.
Per Storyful, San Antonio, Texas resident Christopher Aldrete managed both on Monday morning, capturing footage of lightning striking his neighbor's house during a thunderstorm that led to flooding in the area. 
As Washington Post deputy weather editor Angela Fritz explains, the sound of the strike — similar to the s

Facebook has killed yet another one of its Snapchat clones.
The social network quietly yanked Lifestage, the bizarre Snapchat-like app that was only for high schoolers, from the App Store last week. 
SEE ALSO: Snapchat is becoming the social network it never wanted to be
The app was launched less than a year ago but, like Facebook's many other attempts at replicating Snapchat, Lifestage never gained much traction with the teens it was hoping to lure away from Snapchat.
In fact, the app was

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Internet security is like car insurance: by the time you actually realize you need it, it's usually too late. (Ask our college-aged selves about that time we skipped a few payments and then accidentally rear-ended an ice-cream truck.)
While there are lots of ways to protect yourself online, a good place to start is with a VPN. 
A VPN, or virtual private network, routes your internet traffi

Apple started a massive trend, but now it might be about to deem it dead. Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has previously been a reliable source of Apple information, says that the company won’t release a rose gold iPhone 8. Instead, the phone will only be available in black, silver, and gold.MacRumors points out that this news fits with a leak earlier this week that showed off three models of the phone in those colors. The gold version does include some copper tones, though. The leak

Overwatch has dozens of amazing and inventive skins for its colorful cast of characters, but this year's Summer Games event has some of the best (and funniest) skins yet.
The Olympics-themed Summer Games event kicks off today and runs through Aug. 29, bringing back the soccer-esque Lúcio Ball game and new cosmetics like skins and sprays. Some of the skins are related to the Summer Games, but some are just summery, like Soldier: 76's Hawaiian BBQ get-up.
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HBO is the latest victim of a security breach that, so far, has resulted in the leak of unreleased episodes of several shows, scripts, internal emails, and personal information for the Game of Thrones cast. Accompanying the hack was a ransom video for HBO executives, which has now surfaced online.
The video, published by Mashable, is a five-minute screed addressed to HBO CEO Richard Plepler. An individual calling themselves “Mr. Smith” explains that they’ve “breached into

Pals, Monday night's The Bachelorette finale was wild.
Rachel sent home a crowd favorite, there was a very long, agonizing breakup, and it all culminated in an extremely windy, hollow-ish proposal that didn't seem quite right. We're here to clear up another thing, though:
Peter should not be the next Bachelor.
It just wouldn't make sense.
SEE ALSO: This is what 'The Bachelorette' would look like if all the contestants were Asian
I love Peter as much as the next person, but hear me out.Motivation

Austin’s annual Fantastic Fest is known for being a weird, raunchy, and shameless celebration of genre and horror movies, and this year’s lineup looks like it’ll continue that tradition. Festival organizers just announced the first wave of films slotted to play during the fest, several of which will be making their world or US premieres.The lineup so far includes 1922, a movie based on Stephen King’s 2010 novella about a teenager who murders his mother; Takashi Miike&rsqu

Razer’s suite of PC gaming accessories is instantly recognizable for its acid-green-and-black color scheme. And while more recent products have taken advantage of the company’s color-changing Chroma system that lets you switch up the glowing neon green for other colors, you’ve still been stuck with the black finish.
Fortunately, it seems Razer has heard your cry for more colors. It’s introducing new lines of some of its Chroma products that come in colors other than matte

Nintendo unveiled the Nintendo World Championships 2017 today, marking the competitive tournament's official return to the land of the living.
Nintendo World Championships 2017 is the third installment of the multi-game tournament; the first kicked off in 1990 and the second went down in 2015. The tournament in 2015 was a fun callback to the 1990 championships, but now that Nintendo is hosting another just two years later, this could mean that the Nintendo World Championships are here to stay.

“Getting an Uber” took on a new meaning today after federal drug enforcement agents announced the arrest of four men running a drug mill on Central Park West who were allegedly selling baggies of fentanyl and heroin stamped with the popular ride-hailing app’s logo.Gothamist has most of the details on the bust, but according to the DEA, the suspects were found in possession of “two large ziplock bags containing approximately three kilograms of a suspected fentanyl and hero