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Hope you were first in line at McDonalds today, Rick and Morty fans. Looks like that Szechuan sauce went fast.
The condiment became a cultural phenomenon after it was featured during the show's Season 3 premiere in April — such a phenomenon, in fact, that Mickey D's decided to release the now-iconic sauce for one day only: October 7. 
The promotion was set to begin at 2 p.m., and Rick and Morty fans across the country made plans to snag a packet of their own.
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GUEST: The past two decades have belonged to entrepreneurs. As innovative technologies continually reshaped our lives, ambitious founders became the icons of the age. Now, it’s intrapreneurs’ chance to share the spotlight.
If you’re unfamiliar with the term, intrapreneurship is similar to entrepreneurship except it occurs inside an existing company. Wired cited “intrapreneurship” as a new source of happiness at work and offered this definition: &ldquo

The Agents of SHIELD panel at New York Comic Con was pretty rowdy — and that was before Marvel debuted the first 20 minutes of the Season 5 premiere, which won't hit our screens until Dec. 1. 
In an attempt to extract some Season 5 footage from Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb, star Iain De Caestecker walked up to his boss and planted a big kiss on his lips, much to the hysteria of his castmates and the crowd. (Must've been some kiss.)
But making out became an inadvertent theme of the panel,

Friends, some great news: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend (and Luna) have adopted a small dog.
Teigen and Legend, who already have two Frenchies — Penny and Pippa — and one English bulldog — Puddy — welcomed this little nugget home Friday. And it looks like Luna is already a big fan. (Also, Luna has great posture.)
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The Federal Communications Commission yesterday granted Alphabet-owned Project Loon an experimental license to operate in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands for the purpose of helping the islands regain connectivity. The license extends from October 6th until April 4th, 2018, and it was granted to Ben Wojtowicz, a software engineer and member of Alphabet’s X lab who works on Project Loon.The helium balloons are expected to deliver emergency LTE cellular reception to allow residents and

Late Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump tweeted a cryptic statement that seemed to threaten war with North Korea. Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2017
...hasn't worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October

Atchafalaya Arcade is a pixelated love song to Louisiana made for the Game Boy. It presents three “virtual instruments” for the player to tinker with, creating chiptune musical scales and staticky beats. It’s one of the nominees this year at the IndieCade Festival, a gaming event that’s been showcasing independent games since 2005.
When I played Atchafalaya Arcade, it was at first cryptic. Developer Tammy Duplantis handed me a Super Nintendo controller and told me to

No longer will you need a pickup truck to successfully shop at Costco. 
The big-box store just launched CostcoGrocery, which will provide two-day delivery on dry goods. The two-day window makes it kind of like Amazon Prime—except you can probably get a better deal on a year's supply of toilet paper. Delivery is free for online orders over $75. 
Along with its two-day delivery service, Costco expanded a partnership with Instacart for same-day delivery on all kinds of products carr

Facebook and Apple have teamed up to bring a new, emoji-filled music recommendation feature to Facebook Messenger.
The Facebook messaging app was updated this week with an Apple Music bot that can recommend songs and playlists based on emoji.
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The new bot surfaces music recommendations based on your preferences — or whatever emoji you happen to be feeling that day. Send the bot an emoji and get back a selection of albums or playlists that match up.
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It's kind of hard to make gestures like cancelling a potentially tone-deaf panel land when you're also helping a major defense contractor polish up its image.
That's the situation Marvel found itself in as New York Comic Con kicked off on Friday with an announcement that the publisher had partnered with Northrop Grumman. The Virginia-based defense and aerospace technology firm is one of the U.S. military's biggest clients, specializing in everything from cybersecurity to weapons of war.
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GUEST: I live in the St. Louis area, so I’ve driven the flat stretch of Interstate 70 between St. Louis and Kansas City on several occasions. Along the way, there is a store called Ozark Land, where you can buy fireworks, ninja stars, retro candy, and a pocket knife with your name carved into it, which means my family and I stop there every time we make the 250-mile trip.
More than just the wonders of Ozark Land can be found along that stretch of I-70. There is also the University of Misso

Gerard Way, of My Chemical Romance fame, started his Young Animal imprint just over a year ago. The four books — Doom Patrol, Shade the Changing Girl, Mother Panic, and Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye — have delighted comics fans thus far, but they've also done some things that would raise anyone's eyebrows. 
You wouldn't think a punk rock cat-person, an alien possessing the body of a teenage girl, a socialite vigilante who has quite a problem with nuns, and a spelunking advent

New York Comic Con hit the Javits Center this week, and — as they do every year — cosplayers brought their A game.
From Beauty and the Beast to Rey to, of course, Wonder Woman, this year's cosplay crew took their creativity to new heights. (And that great natural lighting in the Javits Center lobby doesn't hurt, either.)
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Here are a few of our favorites ... so far.Image:Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
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Every few years, a Jeopardy! champion seizes the public's imagination. 
This time, it's Austin Rogers. The New York City bartender is on a nine-day winning streak, having raked in $332,400 as of Friday. 
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But more than the money, it's Rogers' trivia acumen, rhetorical flourishes, wild head of hair, and dance moves that are building up a major fanbase, much of which has rallied around the h

This might be a flashback to Google Glass. At an event in San Francisco this week, Google announced a new camera you can “clip” onto anything, called Clips. Say you want to take photos at a birthday party. Just attach the camera to the back of a chair and let the machine learning take over. The camera can identify people and even snap photos when there’s a smiling birthday-candle-blowing kidlet in the scene, recording your memory forever.
Which all sounds great, except for the

Writer-director S. Craig Zahler seems to think it’s pretty funny that people don’t know how to categorize his new film, Brawl in Cell Block 99. “All these reviews say, ‘It’s hard to classify it between the grindhouse and the arthouse,’” he chuckles. And he’s right, it is. But that isn’t a problem. For people who love to see some sophistication in their cinematic mayhem, it’s a major thrill.
The film recently had its American premiere at

By now, it’s hard not to come across some new car with a suite of technologies that force you to stay in your lane or not crash into the car you’re following.
Just a few years ago, these systems were most commonly found on luxury cars and were options that were rarely ordered. However, that’s rapidly changing as some of the most popular new cars are being offered with lane departure prevention, automatic forward braking and adaptive cruise control. Some of this is due to changi

Craig Barry is one of the esports true believers at Turner Sports. The executive vice president and chief content officer at Turner is one of the people running ELeague, the esports competition that is broadcast on TBS on television, as well as online.
Television is one of the last places you’d expect to find young millennials these days. But ELeague has drawn more than 9 million young viewers to TBS, and that means that esports is on the verge of becoming a mainstream pastime, just like t

A lot in Los Vegas, completely empty just days ago, has now been transformed into a healing garden — a place to take respite from trauma after Sunday's deadly mass shooting.
The garden was originally conceived by landscape designer Jay PleggenkuhlePer DTLV, Pleggenkuhle contacted the city of Las Vegas early this week to see if there was a space available. The city offered a piece of land originally intended to be a dog park.
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Fans who stayed out late to see the New York Comic Con panel for Marvel's Runaways got a treat on Friday night, when the Hulu premiered the series' first episode on the main stage in front of a packed audience. 
The response was rapturous, and it was clear that there were plenty of comic book fans in attendance since there were gasps and cheers in all the right places when the series paid homage to its source material. 
You can get a hint of what the show has in store from the first te

A big push for Nintendo of late has involved creating all-new franchises, like the colorful team shooter Splatoon or the wild fighter Arms. These games allow Nintendo to test out new genres, but also introduce brand-new worlds and characters, ones that are pretty far removed from Mario and Zelda. Arms, in particular, is a fascinating detour for the company, featuring a diverse lineup of surprisingly stylish fighters. And now the company is expanding on that world through a just-announced series

Hey Arnold! has been off the air for more than a decade, but it's finally back. A trailer for Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie aired at New York Comic-Con on Friday.  
Arnold is reunited with Helga, Gerald, and the rest of his '90s gang on a search through the jungle for his long-lost parents. And the gum shrine is there too. 
Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie is set to air on Nickelodeon on Nov. 24.  Read more...
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Don't talk the talk unless you can walk the walk. 
State Street Corp., the financial services firm behind the Wall Street statue of the "Fearless Girl," will pay $5 million after a Department of Labor investigation found the firm underpaid female and black executives. 
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The $5 million will go to 300 women who worked for the firm. State Street hasn't admitted any wrongdoing—inst

Millions of years ago during the early Jurassic period, a baby marine reptile called an ichthyosaur gorged itself on prehistoric calamari. Then, it died abruptly — its belly full of squid.Roughly 200 million years later, paleontologist Dean Lomax was examining this creature’s fossilized remains at the University of Birmingham’s Lapworth Museum of Geology when he realized he was seeing a few fossil firsts. The two-foot-long skeleton was the first fossilized newborn of its specie

According to tales of the Old West, a whole host of unfortunate souls have been known to make deals with the Devil. And that’s exactly what the nameless protagonist does in Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. It’s been nearly two years since Dim Bulb Games and Serenity Forge released an announcement trailer for their stylish narrative-driven exploration of Americana, and it’s finally getting ready for its debut. It will release in early 2018 for PC and Mac on Steam and then roll

I've been pretty skeptical while writing about trailers for the second Kingsman movie — I know the film's a satire, but its trailers always make the film seem to strike such a strange balance between buying into spy tropes and actually critiquing them. But I ended up watching the original Kingsman for the first time the other week, and suddenly I see why that is: that's exactly what the film is like, and it somehow pulls it off.
Kingsman (the original, at least) is primarily interested in

If you really care about frequent flier miles, you end up doing all sorts of crazy things. The simple stuff is buying special credit cards or organizing your flight schedule around high-mileage promotions — but soon you’re using dummy transactions to pump even more miles out of the card or buying an empty seat on a flight just because the miles are worth more than the cash. Once you get a taste for it, you spend an alarming portion of your time concocting more of these schemes, and s

With Google’s recent decision to remove the 3.5mm jack on its Pixel 2 devices, we’re going to have to all come to terms with the fact that most phones in the future will not have a standard headphone port. That means buying dongles, and buying dongles means shelling out exorbitant prices for tiny pieces of plastic just to make sure your gadgets work like they used to. Luckily, Amazon’s Basics line has a deal today that makes that slightly less painful for iPhone users, as point

Here’s some trivia about the world’s most popular trivia game. Trivia Crack has more than 300 million users. Those players have answered more than 77 billion questions, and they answer more than 2 million questions per minute. One user has answered more than 622,000 questions.
This mobile game was built in 2013 by a small group of people at Etermax in Buenos Aires, and it has put Argentina on the game industry map. I talked to Maximo Cavazzani, CEO of Etermax about the tremendous rea

There was an array of new hardware announced this week, such as the Google Pixel 2, the Sonos One speaker, and the Samsung Odyssey headset. While you can pre-order those today, you might be looking for deals on some other great tech that’s available right now.
Our favorites includes Amazon’s Sonos sale, discounts on 4K smart TVs, and two Samsung deals (Galaxy Tab 3 and Gear S3) ending today (Saturday, October 7th).EntertainmentSonos deals via Amazon: As mentioned earlier this week, s

Halloween is on the horizon, and those looking to free themselves from the confines of "normal" costumes—the witch hats, the cat ears, the (very warm) fabric pumpkin suits—might be tempted to tiptoe into Trump's America for their costume this year. 
They absolutely should not.
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Here's the thing about Trump-adjacent costumes: they are not funny. Much like allowing Sean Spicer a lighthearted appearance at the Emm

Halloween is on the horizon, and those looking to free themselves from the confines of "normal" costumes—the witch hats, the cat ears, the fabric pumpkin suits—might be tempted to tiptoe into Trump's America for their costume this year. 
They absolutely should not.
Here's the thing about Trump-adjacent costumes: they are not funny, but they are prevalent. Much like allowing Sean Spicer a lighthearted appearance at the Emmys, though, building yourself a cardboard podium and being

Miley Cyrus wrapped up "Miley Week" on The Tonight Show with a late night rite of passage: A truly jam-packed lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon. Seriously, this thing had it all: a Talking Heads impression, the splits, Courtney Love, even some ventriloquism in honor of this season's winner of America's Got Talent.
Hey, no one ever said Miley Week was going to be boring. Read more...
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After a demonstration of the Oculus Dev Kit 1 in 2013, game developer and comic publisher Square Enix started work on a research project dubbed “Project Hikari.” The project was an attempt to adapt comics into virtual reality, by not just making something that look like it was a comic come to life, but also to explore what a VR comic means.The company is demoing the project, Tales of the Wedding Rings VR —based on a Japanese comic of the same name minus “VR” —

UPDATE: Oct. 7, 2017, 8:11 p.m. EDT Hurricane Nate made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River at about 8 p.m. ET, as a Category 1 storm with 85-mile per hour winds, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm did not intensify as much as was forecast earlier in the day Saturday, but is still bringing life-threatening storm surge flooding to coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, along with damaging winds and heavy rain. 
The storm's fast movement — at nearl

Cosmic Top Secret is an autobiographical mobile game about the Cold War, but it’s far from a staid affair. Archival photos, film clips, and documents are nestled in an adventure game with tons of charming whimsy and personality. It’s developed in partnership between Klassefilm and Those Eyes, and it will be out in 2018 for Apple and Android devices and possibly for PC and Mac. It’s also one of the nominees at this year’s IndieCade Festival, an international games eve

If you're looking to do a reasonably-paced Game of Thrones rewatch, now is probably a good time to start. Liam Cunningham, who pays Davos Seaworth, told AM to DM Friday that the final season will begin production on Sunday.
As Ser Davos so kindly explained, Sunday and Monday will mark the official table reads for the final six episodes of Game of Thrones. For the week after that, the cast will rehearse, and then it's straight to filming. (Yes, it is okay to scream at this news.)
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April 28, 1943“Hep Cats in a Hurry — Hurry, Hurry, Hurry — Only 6000 Seats Left.”Image: Weegee/International Center of Photography, Courtesy: Daniel Blau, MunichAscher Fellig was born in what is now Ukraine in 1899 and moved with his family to New York in 1909, where he changed his name to Arthur.He worked as a photographer’s assistant and darkroom technician for several years before striking out on his own as a freelancer on the city streets, working out of a tiny

Google on Wednesday took the wraps off its new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones, the sequels to the first-ever Google-designed Android handsets. Both devices look sharp, minimal, and sport what the company says is one of the best mobile cameras on the market, with original Pixel buyers able to testify the device line’s prowess in the picture-taking department.But perhaps you’re still on the fence. Maybe you own an Apple product, and you’re simply fed up with iOS, or have no intent