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If you've seen the promos for Darren Aronofsky's mother!, you probably think you've got a pretty good idea of what to expect: some kind of haunted-house horror about a couple (Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem) whose blissful existence is upended by the arrival of some unexpected guests (Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer). 
SEE ALSO: The reviews for 'mother!' are in and WTF?!
And, well, that's not wrong, exactly. But it's really not even the half of it. What mother! actually turns out to b

In the world of global business, it’s likely you’re going to have to learn how to master the art of digital leadership at some point — whether that’s to manage an entire team of displaced freelancers, to communicate with other offices, or to outsource specific roles. The word virtual sounds pretty scary. Speaking to a friend of mine, he said the idea of a virtual workforce made him feel panicked about “a lack of control”, in other words, he envisioned an army

China is preparing to bring an end to the sale and production of fossil fuel vehicles, according to a report in Bloomberg. The country is aiming to use the ban as a way to encourage local automakers into developing electric cars.Speaking at an auto forum on Saturday, Xin Guobin, the country’s vice minister of industry and information technology said that regulators are working to come up with a timeline for phasing out the sales and production of the vehicles.China is the world’s lar

If there's anyone that can make the (at times stuffy) New York tradition of Fashion Week more bearable, it's Leslie Jones.
To cap off her birthday week, the comedian was front row at the Christian Siriano show at the annual gathering this weekend, and she was not afraid to let out all her excitement as models made their way down the runway. 
SEE ALSO: Leslie Jones is having an extremely good 50th birthday so far
Rather than stick to the normal solemn stare, Jones had those in attendance smi

Three years ago, and just a few years after Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died, Tim Cook unveiled what would be, to date, Apple's only new product category under his watch: The Apple Watch.
That was supposed to be Cook’s moment and it hit all the right notes: Innovation in a faltering category, an iconic location (the same place Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook 30 years earlier), and a little showmanship with a specially-constructed giant white box to demonstrate the new wearabl

Apple’s iOS 11 Golden Master — the final version of the software — leaked earlier this weekend, providing an avalanche of revelations about the products that the company is expected to announce on Tuesday, including the name of the next big iPhone, LTE connectivity for the Apple Watch, and animated emoji. There’s been some new revelations about the 3D face scanner, wireless charging, and an interesting fact about the Apple TV.Face ID
We’ve learned a bit about Face I

Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the Toronto International Film Festival.
As a director, George Clooney has a track record of making films that are exceptionally crafted, even if they haven’t all ended up being great at the end of the day. Movies like Good Night, and Good Luck and The Ides of March demonstrate his impressive skills as a storyteller, while other efforts like Lea

As Hurricane Irma flooded the streets of Miami on Sunday afternoon, voice after voice beeped to life in a Miami channel on the walkie-talkie app, Zello. 
One person said his food was wet, and asked if anyone might come help him evacuate. Another said he was compiling a database of people with boats and others willing to volunteer to any rescue effort. Others asked simple questions such as, "what category is the hurricane?" and "how's everybody doing in Miami?"
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Actor-turned-director George Clooney has a lot to say about the Hollywood aspirations of former White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
SEE ALSO: Steve Bannon imposter fools Breitbart editor into saying some pretty weird stuff
At the Toronto International Film Festival, Clooney told Vanity Fair that before his political days Bannon was a "schmuck who literally tried everything he could to sell scripts in Hollywood."
Clooney then brought up Bannon's unproduced 1990s screenplay, The Thing I Am

Horror movies don't usually land at the box office like this.
It, the New Line/Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King's classic novel, is expected to end its opening weekend with $117.2 million at the box office. That's a staggeringly huge figure for any movie to open with, and a basically impossible one — until now, apparently — for an R-rated horror movie.
SEE ALSO: Critics say 'It' is missing something, but will still scare you silly
For context: Prior to It, the top opening week

Sometimes, it takes more than 140 characters to get a thought across on Twitter: only a tweetstorm will do. The long threads have become pretty common in the last couple of years, and it looks like Twitter has developed a way to compose threads ahead of time, and publish them simultaneously.Someone passed along screenshots to Matt Navarra, Director of Social Media for The Next Web, (via Recode and Techcrunch) which he says were taken on an Android phone depicting the feature in action. The unlau

Between "braided" eyebrows and squiggle lips, you would think we have witnessed enough extreme trends to last a lifetime. But no—there's always room for more absurdity in the world of beauty. 
Illusion artist Dain Yoon proved that on Sunday when she uploaded an image of her nails—each finger adorned with a little face and, yep, hair. 
SEE ALSO: 'Braided' eyebrows are the latest absurd beauty trend that truly anyone can try
"Many people told me I should delete those [sic] my

Before the water rushes in, it disappears.
Tampa Bay, Florida, is expected to see potentially catastrophic flooding on Sunday as Hurricane Irma roars into the city, but Irma's vastness and intensely low pressure have vacuumed water away from parts of Florida's western coast ahead of the coming inundation. 
SEE ALSO: Hurricane hunters see 'stadium effect' inside Irma's eye
That doesn't mean there's going to be a tsunami in Tampa Bay, but it does show just how strong this storm is — and

Apple’s next iPhone event doesn’t start until Tuesday, but the internet has been set ablaze with new rumblings after a newly leaked final build of iOS 11 hit the web this weekend. The leak confirmed a lot of what we already knew, but there are a couple of new revelations worth talking about. Face ID Apple’s firmware leak references Face ID, which appears to be the official name for the advanced facial detection feature we talked about here. The leaked setup animation walks use

I lost my iPhone 7's original, pack-in headphone jack adapter in Arizona on a family trip. The main thing I use my iPhone for is listening to podcasts and audiobooks whenever I’m going from point A to point B, so obviously this was devastating.
My first attempt to solve the problem was to reject wires altogether and buy some Bluetooth headphones. But I hate the pairing process, especially when switching between phone and laptop, and I also don't like the fact that my day is ruined if I for

Virginia’s State Election Board decided to replace all of its direct-voting electronic voting machines following a recommendation from the state’s Department of Elections on Friday, according to Politico (via Engadget). The devices will be replaced by machines that “produce a paper trail.”Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines are terminals that allow voters to cast their vote with a touch screen or other electronic interface, which is tallied onto a computer.

Hillary Clinton opened up about her failed presidential campaign, how she handled losing to a reality TV star, and what that night was really like when she went in expecting to be the first female American president. 
SEE ALSO: Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump 'a creep' in election memoir
In a CBS Sunday Morning interview with anchor Jane Pauley (Clinton taped the segment Friday at her New York home), Clinton looked back at the past 10 months and shared some inside perspective of the cam

Usually, when we get AI systems to watch video games, we expect them to play the games afterward. That’s how computers have beaten everything from the board game Go to various Atari titles. But a group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are trying something different: they’re getting AI to learn how video games work instead.In a recent paper titled “Game Engine Learning from Video,” the team describes an AI system that can re-create the game engine of

In I Love You, Daddy, the new movie written (with Vernon Chatman), directed by, and starring Louis C.K., our lead character Glen has an enormous poster in his office that reveals exactly who his biggest idol is: a filmmaker named Leslie Goodwin (played by John Malkovich).
But you don't need a poster to tell you which director C.K. himself is channeling in I Love You, Daddy. It's all over the movie. You can see it in the towering skyscrapers, shot on 35mm in black and white, and hear it in the ol

Weeks after Hurricane Harvey dumped enough rain on Houston to turn it into an ocean, Hurricane Irma has driven parts of the Atlantic Ocean into downtown Miami. The city's Brickell neighborhood resembled a building-strewn sea as Irma powered into Florida, bringing wind gusts close to 100 miles per hour in the city. 
SEE ALSO: National Hurricane Center's headquarters is in Irma's path—but it's built to take a hit
Even without bearing its full force down on Miami, Irma turned Brickell in

Facebook's app is looking a lot different and, surprise surprise, not everyone is a fan.
The company showed off the redesign back in August, when it introduced its latest News Feed updates. But the revamped mobile app is still gradually rolling out to everyone, so many people are just starting to see it. 
SEE ALSO: The video chat app that should scare the hell out of Facebook and Snapchat
Predictably, as with most major Facebook updates, there's been a strong reaction even though the update

Bungie’s Destiny 2 has been out now for a few days, and players and critics alike are lauding it for a much improved narrative, a more respectful and thoughtful progression system, and an all-around superior game world with more activities to perform, neat gear to collect, and secrets to unearth. One aspect of the game that has been left largely unexplored is the Crucible multiplayer experience, which pits human players against others in a variety of strategic game modes.In my original imp

Add another news blooper to the "best of" list! 
BBC's Tom Donkin unfortunately had a hard time finding the right camera and on-set location to deliver some world news on Saturday. The newscaster was caught on television rushing from one side of the desk to another in an attempt to find the camera and deliver stories about Hurricane Irma—a hurricane which is no joke, despite how funny his scramble may have been. 
Donkin ended up blaming "wayward cameras" for the blunder, but hon

There is no other love like the love between this fan and George Clooney—a love so strong that it elicited a Photoshop battle on Reddit. 
The original image was uploaded to Reddit by sipping_mai_tais, and immediately sparked some impressive Photoshop skills. In the image, a woman is caressing Clooney's face, as one naturally does when presented the opportunity. Clooney on the other hand seems to be staring at her soul. Despite the throng of people, it's just two of them and pretty dam

Once upon a time, making a mixtape was a simple act of love. Those days are officially over. Now it’s an act of artificial intelligence.
There’s a new app that will generate a mixtape for you and your significant using AI and your photosCouple’s Mixtape, which was created by online suit rental company The Black Tux, analyzes pictures of any pair and spits out 10 to 15 songs it thinks will speak to the relationship.
I tried it using one of America’s most famous couples, Pr

Fears about the “existential threat of big tech” usually focus on autonomous weapons and how to control superintelligence before it has the power to control us. That’s not so for Franklin Foer, The Atlantic staff writer and former New Republic editor-in-chief. His new book World Without Mind is out this week, and it’s about a different type of existential threat.He thinks that the big tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon — are “destroying the

Tampa, Florida, has avoided a direct hit by a major hurricane since 1921. That luck appears likely to end on Sunday, and it may do so in disastrous fashion. 
Tampa-St. Petersburg is a rapidly-growing, low-lying metropolitan area of nearly 3 million, with a coastline that is highly vulnerable to storm surge flooding from a tropical storm or hurricane. If the forecast track of Hurricane Irma verifies, and the storm's center passes just to the west of the city, then onshore winds will pile up

Spotify’s Web Player no longer supports Safari, reportedly due to “recent updates” made to the browser, according to Engadget.
Users on Spotify’s community noticed the change earlier this week when they attempted to open the web player in Safari. They received a message that informed them that the browser no longer supports the Web Player, and directed them to another browser or the desktop player.The company’s system requirements page now states that it only suppor

If someone takes your iPhone, can they get your data too?
For years, Apple has been working to make sure the answer is no. The iPhone’s local storage drive has strong encryption, and without a passcode or a fingerprint, there’s no way to get past the lockscreen. If the phone powers down or goes 48 hours without a login, it locks down even further, requiring a passcode to restart. It’s a huge problem for phone thieves — and, as the San Bernardino case demonstrated, makes l

The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) are facing a communication crisis as families resort to social media to receive information on loved ones and the state of their homes in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
Media accounts of the record-breaking storm have focused largely on Florida, but comparably little attention has been paid the status of people and devastation in the USVI, which felt Irma as a Category 5 hurricane. Information on the territory’s three main islands — St. John, St.

As Hurricane Irma bears down on Florida, Tesla issued an over-the-air update to drivers in the state that unlocks the full battery capacity of its 60 kilowatt-hour Model S and X vehicles. The update provides those trying to escape the path of the storm with an additional 30 to 40 miles above the typical range of the vehicle, according to Electrek.
Tesla’s 60 and 60D vehicles offer a range of just above 200 miles on a charge. Faced with an order to leave, one Tesla owner contacted the compa

A $3,700,000 check is bound to elicit an elated facial expression from anyone. If it doesn't, can we really trust you? 
Sloane Stephens might just have had the best reaction to receiving her multi-million dollar check upon winning the U.S. Open this weekend. The 24 year-old's face lit up and her shock is relatable and probably the same exact face you would make if in this scenario.  
SEE ALSO: 4 sports enthusiasts who overcame astigmatism for the love of the gameMadison Keys, who came

Minbar, an international entrepreneurship organization, will host its first startup competition in Minneapolis this month highlighting businesses created by Somali entrepreneurs across the globe.
To be considered for the competition, startups must offer a product or service that promotes job opportunities and quality of life in Somalia. The company itself does not have to be located in Eastern Africa. Affinis Labs, the East Coast-based social innovation firm behind Minbar, said it will look

Crusader is towed out on Loch Ness.Image: Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesIn the 1930s and 1940s, British motorist John Cobb smashed a number of land speed records.After achieving a world-record speed of 394.19 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1947, Cobb sets his sights on the water.To design a vehicle capable of setting a water speed record, Cobb turned to engineer Reid Railton, who had crafted the streamlined Railton Mobil Special which conquered Bonneville

Apple’s newest iPhone is coming soon, and whether it ends up being called the iPhone 8, iPhone Pro, iPhone Edition, or something else, one thing is clear: this is shaping up to be one of the biggest updates Apple has ever made to its smartphone line.If you haven’t been following all the rumors swirling around the iPhone 8 over the last few months, don’t worry — we’ve rounded up all the biggest ones here, along with our best guess as to how likely they are to actuall

Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the Toronto International Film Festival.
As a screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin has developed such a signature voice and style that certain elements can simply be described with his name alone. Extended monologues of endlessly perfect prose and wordplay, rapid-fire banter as characters walk and talk, heroes with an overdeveloped sense of their own moral supe

I am who they call the Empress of Fall — a title I gave myself after purchasing approximately 300 plastic gourds from a basement Michael's. 
And as autumn approaches, here is my warning: if you dare to drink a cup of hot coffee before Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, I will absolutely erase you from my life.
Nothing matters more to me than this.
As temperatures drop by only a few degrees in my particular region of the U.S., I have borne witness to a number of incidents that have shaken me to m

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Gone are the days when Microsoft Excel held a monopoly over the spreadsheet world. Google Sheets has proven itself an equally powerful and versatile data management program. Plus, it’s available for free while Excel is most definitely not. 
SEE ALSO: How to make upwards of $1,000 a month by mining cryptocurrency
Sheets will undoubtedly become more popular and ubiquitous as time goes

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In a world where every new audio device to hit the market sports the same basic shape, one speaker dared to reject the tube and embrace the cube.
The Cube Bluetooth Speaker features one of the most striking designs this side of the galaxy, only matched by its out-of-this-world sound quality. (Yes, you just got double punned.)
SEE ALSO: Behold, a levitating Bluetooth speaker in the shape of the

GUEST: America’s agricultural sector faces an unprecedented crisis. Native honeybees, one of the most prolific pollinators in the animal kingdom, are dying off at an unprecedented rate from Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and threatening an ecosystem service worth about $15 billion.
Supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the RoboBees project looks to minimize the loss of this critical resource with new microbots that can mimic the pollinating role of a honeybee. But t

A couple weeks ago. I dived deep into the efforts of Jules Urbach, the visionary fast-talking CEO and co-founder of Los Angeles-based Otoy. The forward-thinking founder of the rendering company is perpetually working at technology’s cutting edge, and his latest efforts add a new wrinkle to his complex attempt to shape the future.
Urbach’s latest plan is to create a peer-to-peer network that can get owners of GPUs (graphics processing units) paid for letting their idle machi

GUEST: Conversational interfaces have become increasingly common in daily life, from consumer bots on Facebook to Alexa and Google helping us at home to Slack bots that make our working lives easier and more productive.
To understand more about the products helping shepherd conversational UI into the enterprise, I interviewed four companies that are preparing to pitch their products on stage at Slack’s Frontiers conference. We explored how they are changing the way businesses are run, usin