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Gal Gadot's got fans all over the world, and over the weekend she got to meet a very special one who's got a few fans of her own.
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At the Governors Awards on Saturday, the Wonder Woman star posted for a photo with Brooklynn Prince, the 7-year-old breakout star of The Florida Project. It looked every bit as aww-worthy as you'd expect..@ScottFeinberg this just happened @GalGadot and @thebrooklynnk meeting @AwardsDaily

Singles Day is like if Amazon Prime Day was a real national holiday. And this year, shoppers in China spent $25 billion in 24 hours. 
The 8-year-old e-commerce holiday promoted by Alibaba—Amazon's biggest competitor and an e-commerce force in China—started as an anti-Valentine's Day encouraging single people to buy gifts for themselves every Nov. 11. Now, it comes with crazy deals and nationally televised concerts. This year, Nicole Kidman and Pharrell Williams made appearances.

Stranger Things is an addicting experience that always seems to hit the right nostalgic senses in your brain that make you think, “let me throw away my entire weekend by binging this show.” 
SEE ALSO: The 'Stranger Things' cast has some strong feelings about the Season 2 ending
After you’ve devoured the second season you scour the internet for super fans like yourself. The ones who decided to finish the nine episode season in one sitting. 
Maybe you read some reviews,

Up until his death at the hands of US forces in 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki was a major voice for Islamic extremists, advocating for war and attacks against the US, and helped to inspire numerous terrorist attacks around the world. YouTube recently took the unusual step of removing tens of thousands of videos of the cleric, according to a report in The New York Times.Google removed hundreds of al-Awalaki’s videos in 2010 which directly advocated violence, following the conviction of Roshonara Ch

It might feel like Google is following Apple’s script right now: remove the headphone jack from your flagship phone, ship the phone with a depressingly bad dongle adapter, and announce a new pair of revolutionary Bluetooth headphones to divert the you-caused frustrations of your customers into additional retail transactions. But Google took things to a whole new level with the Pixel 2: it didn’t even include a cheap pair of USB-C headphones. For all I know, many Pixel 2 owners have n

Fiona the hippo, queen of the Cincinnati Zoo and our national daughter, has had a banner year.
She swam. She ate snacks. Friends, she lived her life. And she did it against all odds! It's true: Fiona, whose ears wiggle when she pops out of the water, is the only being on earth who had a pleasant 2017. And she deserved every second.
SEE ALSO: Fiona the Hippo’s Journey to Fame
Please join us as we celebrate some of her finest moments of 2017.
January 24: Fiona is born six weeks before her du

Sean Hannity's been reluctant to distance himself from Roy Moore. So now Hannity's advertisers are distancing themselves from him.
SEE ALSO: So many politicians gave the same terrible response to the Roy Moore abuse allegations
Keurig, Green Mountain Coffee (which is owned by the same company as Keurig), Realtor.com, 23andMe, and Nature's Bounty have all spoken up to say they have stopped or will stop advertising on The Sean Hannity Show. 
In addition, Eloquii stated that Hannity was "block

The extremist jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike six years ago. But until this month, he was the leading English-speaking jihadist recruiter through more than 70,000 videos posted on YouTube. 
Three-quarters of those videos are now gone from YouTube's archives, the New York Times reported Sunday. The Times called the move by YouTube a "watershed moment" for platforms that have facilitated terrorist recruitment online.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Airbnb

The very first thing audiences will see next weekend when the lights go down for Justice League is a logo for RatPac-Dune Entertainment – the financing company of disgraced Hollywood producer/director Brett Ratner.
Gal Gadot is reportedly saying enough is enough.
SEE ALSO: Please stop applauding Louis C.K. for doing the bare minimum
As Page Six reported this weekend, citing an unnamed "Hollywood source," the Wonder Woman star won't play the character again unless Ratner's association with

The holidays are soon to arrive and while most of us are looking forward to seasonal cheer, approximately 60 percent of us are also going to be stressed out and prone to the holiday blues. We’re lucky enough to have some technology that can help with that, and there’s no better time than right now to start planning. Everyone has mental health. And just like our waistlines, we tend to let our emotional state go during the holidays. Some 64 percent of those diagnosed with a mental ill

On Friday, BuzzFeed published a report with sexual harassment allegations against former DC Comics Group Editor, Eddie Berganza. On Saturday the publisher announced that Berganza has been suspended, pending a review of the allegations.In the report, three former company employees alleged that Berganza groped, kissed, or made otherwise inappropriate remarks and advances over a period of years, and that his actions were an open secret throughout the company. Despite complaints brought to DC’

Polly want a potty? 
Parrot potty training is a thing – and Japanese bird owners have apparently taken it to the next level with a potty that's just for parrots. It looks kind of like an ashtray with a bird-shaped perch attached.
SEE ALSO: Cops respond to calls for help, but it was just a dramatic parrot
The parrot potty pictures are labeled with a hashtag referring to Japan's unofficial Toilet Day, which falls on November 10.
As everyone knows (right?), the real Toilet Day falls on N

Ohio State crushed Michigan State yesterday—and they also crushed Apple. 
Ohio State fans perfectly executed a timely prank directed at the iPhone maker. During an O-H-I-O chant, when they would usually represent the "I," fans instead held up signs that read "A[?]." 
Yep, they replaced the "I" with the nonsense "A[?]"—just as Apple did with an autocorrect suggestion for iOS 11 users this week. 
Watch the prank below: 
OSU’s student section is the capital I &

Our houses are comfortable enough for the bugs that creep through our basements, scuttle across our kitchen floors, and crawl across our carpets, according to a team of entomologists from North Carolina State University and the California Academy of Sciences. Lots of different bugs live in the parts of our homes that have access to the outdoors, no matter how tidy they are, the team reported Friday in the journal Scientific Reports.The researchers picked up more than 10,000 bugs, both living and

Heroes of the Storm had a big 2017 thanks to a significant 2.0 update that gave players a more rewarding loot system. But a MOBA like Heroes must embrace continual evolution if it wants to stay relevant in a market with heavyweights such as Riot’s League of Legends and Valve’s Dota 2.
At this month’s BlizzCon, Blizzard announced two new heroes: Overwatch’s bow sniper Hanzo, and the Aspect of Life, the dragon Alexstrasza from World of Warcraft. More characters ca

Meet Quimera, the (maybe) chimera.
This striking creature looks like two cats in one. One side of her face is orange, with an amber eye; the other is black, with a blue eye.
SEE ALSO: Get your fluffy cat snuggles without the catA post shared by Quimera twofacedcat (@gataquimera) on Oct 11, 2016 at 8:41pm PDT
Though Quimera's name means "chimera" in Spanish, it's unclear if she's a real chimera (i.e., an individual made up of cells from two or more different embryos) or just a normal cat who happ

President Donald Trump was always against a merger between AT&T and Time Warner, and he's always hated CNN. So the appearance that he was using his position to force Time Warner to ditch CNN to close the $85 billion deal made a strange, vindictive kind of sense. 
Now, however, Trump is denying any attempts to exact revenge on his cable news nemesis. 
SEE ALSO: CNN fiasco reveals heated battle between AT&T and Trump
Trump said he “didn’t make that decision. That was

Pioneers of German Graphic Design is a weighty 400-page tome by Jens Müller, on how art, minimalism, and commerce spawned a new form of visual communication. The book, published by Callisto, is the definitive text on how German designers influenced and shaped modern day graphic design starting in the late 19th century, and it’s pure coffee table eye candy. A deeper read reveals how the culture highs and ultimate societal lows in 20th century Germany bled into every aspect of life, inc

GUEST: It’s the fall, and with it comes the end-of-the-year rush of big games. And as Microsoft and Sony ramp up their years-long fight for your attention, they’re spending a ton of bucks, too, accounting for 60 percent of October’s ad spend.
GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than seven million smart TVs, to bring you a monthly report on how gaming brands are spending. The results bel

The alarm clock has existed in a weird place since the advent of the smartphone — after all, why have a separate device on your nightstand for telling the time or waking you up in the morning when your phone already does that?
That hasn’t stopped companies from trying to reinvent the alarm clock for the connected era, and Circa, a new Kickstarter project from Circa Labs, seems like one of the nicer attempts at the idea.
Unlike some of the other smart alarm clocks out there, Circa doe

As mentioned in last week’s Good Deals post, Black Friday deals have begun early and you can already score major discounts on tech. This week, we’re featuring our favorite deals on home entertainment (including several big TV discounts), headphones, computing, DJI drones, and more.
Best Buy launched a ton of deals earlier this week with Black Friday pricing, including Beats by Dr. Dre Studio2 Wireless Over-the-Ear Headphones, which are down to $160. HP also released its Black Friday

Beyoncé is starring in the new remake of The Lion King, but did you know Cardi B auditioned first?
Saturday Night Live presented auditions from Cardi B, Kit Harington, Oprah, Eminem, Sterling K. Brown, Celine Dion, and plenty of other stars who could have appeared in the movie. It's amazing none of them got the parts they were going for.
Even John Oliver, who actually is in the remake, has an audition. Can't wait for summer 2019. 
(Editor's note: None of the celebrities named actual

I’m a huge fan of Lev Grossman’s Magicians novels, which are the basis for the Syfy show by the same name. The books are fantastic, and each installment — The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magicians’s Land — came with a beautiful map that detail some of the key locations in the story. For the first time, they’re now being offered for sale.In the first novel, a young man named Quentin Coldwater discovers that magic exists, and enrolls in a magical acade

Microsoft is planning to make a preview of its SteamVR integration available on November 15.
The preview should make hundreds of VR apps available on Steam playable on headsets from Acer, Lenovo, HP, Dell and Samsung. So far, Microsoft has only offered access to developers through closed access to a Steam app.
We recently reviewed the Acer VR headset and found it lacking in the content department, so this feature could have a huge effect on sales as manufacturers just started shipping

Trouva, an online marketplace that serves as home for offline boutiques, has raised $10 million in a series A round of funding led by BGF Ventures, with participation from Index Ventures and Octopus Investments, among other return investors.
Founded out of London initially as Streethub, Trouva launched in 2015 as a centralized hub for smaller independent merchants to showcase their wares to online shoppers, including men and women’s fashion, homewares, and more.
Above: Trouva
Online market

GUEST:Cybercrime is on the rise, and organizations across a wide variety of industries — from financial institutions to insurance, health care providers, and large e-retailers — are rightfully worried. In the first half of 2017 alone, over 2 billion records were compromised. After stealing PII (personally identifiable information) from these hacks, fraudsters can gain access to customer accounts, create synthetic identities, and even craft phony business profiles to commit various fo

Apple’s ARKit marks the start of a long journey for the company’s work with augmented reality technology, but the long-rumored AR headset the company may be working on may still be years away from release.
A new report from Bloomberg claims that Apple is aiming to have its AR headset ready in 2019 and possibly start shipping it in 2020. Citing sources “familiar with the situation”, the report notes that this headset will feature a brand new display and run on a