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On Thursday, the subscription service MoviePass decided to stop supporting several high-profile AMC Theatres locations in major cities. The move came after months of squabbling between the two companies, during which AMC detailed its concerns with the service’s long-term implications, while MoviePass rocketed to 1.5 million subscribers.
Today Ted Farnsworth, CEO of the data analytics firm Helios & Matheson — which purchased a majority stake in MoviePass in 2017, setting off the

Air travel can really take a toll on your body, so it's not uncommon for people to take a few moments and stretch their legs in the aisle during a flight. But when a little stretch becomes straight up yoga, things have gone too far. 
A woman was spotted practicing her yoga poses mid-flight on a commercial plane with almost no regard for the people around her. When your pose places your rear end directly in front of some poor person's face with an aisle seat, you've crossed a line.
At the en

In what may be the sweetest heist of the century, a squirrel in Aurora, Colorado, was just spotted lugging around a stolen frosted Danish. 
The pastry was almost half of the size of its captor, but the squirrel carried it through a parking lot, determined to get away. 
"He was looking for a cup of coffee I think," said the person who took the video. But before it could enjoy its sugary treasure, a larger squirrel stole it and ran off. 
The pastry thief is still at large.  Rea

This review was originally published in March 2017, when the film opened at SXSW in Austin, Texas. It is being republished to coincide with the film’s limited theatrical release on January 26th, 2018. It will be available on streaming rental and VOD platforms on February 20th, 2017.It’s easy to read Like Me as a fatalistic commentary on social media. Kiya, the film’s star, is a teenage YouTuber who makes the antics of personalities like PewDiePie seem quaint. In the film&rsquo

GUEST: It feels like a page out of a science-fiction book: self-driving cars shuttling people around with little or no input from passengers. And yet, here we are. Self-driving technology is already a reality, and it’s improving every day thanks to machine learning and owner input.
We’re not quite at the point of ditching drivers altogether, but that time may come sooner rather than later. Experts predict that self-driving vehicles could be the norm by the 2040s. Some people, like Te

It’s a milestone year for the 2018 Grammy Awards, the 60th annual ceremony celebrating the year’s best songs, albums, producers, performers, and other aspects of the music industry. This year’s show is particularly noteworthy because it features a far more diverse list of nominees than previous years. This is largely due to the fact that the Grammys allowed online voting for the first time, making it possible for far more of the roughly 13,000 voting members to easily sound of

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If you were an early investor in Bitcoin, you may remember that the now volatile cryptocurrency was once comparable to the honeymoon phase of a fun, new relationship. You watched your earnings increase on the daily, read constant pro-Bitcoin headlines, and felt smart for investing. However, it now feels lik

I've got a gift for all you schadenfreude junkies out there: a man fumbling with, then dropping, an extremely expensive bottle of alcohol.
Originally posted on a Facebook page called Ibiza Club News (party on!), several outlets have referred to the bottle as Champagne worth $42,000. That, unfortunately, is probably not true — the general consensus among commenters seems to be that it's a Jeroboam (3-liter bottle) of Veuve Cliquot rosé. Even after club markups, it would likely sell f

Lady Bird, the coming-of-age movie that won the Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy and for a few perfect weeks had a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, is pretty much this decade's magnum opus.
It's hard to believe that the Oscar contender could get any better, but Twitter user @laterchalemet did just that. In their incredible work of art, @laterchalemet replaced all of the dialogue in Lady Bird with their own anguished yelling. I now present to you, the Lady Bird trailer, but I sc

Epic Games‘ MOBA project, Paragon, is ending as the studio focuses on Fortnite. Paragon will shut down on April 26. Epic Games is offering refunds for all purchases from both platforms, PlayStation 4 and PC.
Paragon launched in Early Access in March 2016, with an open beta starting in February 2017. The multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game was similar to hits in the genre like Dota 2 and League of Legends. But Paragon had a third-person perspective, similar to Smite. Unlike Smite, P

LADY BIRD WAS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF 2017, BUT HOW MUCH BETTER WOULD IT BE IF EVERYONE SCREAMED THE WHOLE TIME?NOW WE HAVE AN ANSWER (SORT OF), THANKS TO TWITTER USER @LATERCHALAMET, WHO TURNED THE MOVIE’S POIGNANT TRAILER INTO THE CAR CRASH EQUIVALENT OF A POOR FLUTE COVER:
I now present to you, the Lady Bird trailer, but I scream every word... pic.twitter.com/4W0BfwTZz9— toni ▽ (@laterchalamet) January 26, 2018BUT WHY STOP THERE? IF YOU LOVE SHRIEKING VERSIONS OF COMPASSIO

The recent disclosure of Facebook’s media trust survey caused a lot of hand-wringing about its brevity and format. To wit:Three hundred billion dollars and this is the best Facebook could come up with for a survey https://t.co/1ExwYk0qyk— Matthew Knell(@MatthewKnell) January 23, 2018I have no qualms about the length of the survey. The longer a survey takes to complete, the less time participants spend per question and the higher the drop-off rate. Less time spent per question leads

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team met with Facebook as part of its investigation into Russia meddling in the 2016 election, according to a report from Wired. The team reportedly interviewed at least one person on Facebook staff who did work related to Trump’s presidential campaign.The Trump campaign embraced Facebook
Mueller’s team is tasked with searching for any potential links between the campaign and Russia. It’s unclear what information the special counsel&rsquo

The best thing about Vine — which has been dead now for over a year, and yet the wound still feels fresh, as every abysmal, boring, and rude day online rips the scab off anew — was the six-second time limit. The constraint forced an effervescent comedy style that was jarring, nonsensical, and constantly surprising. Nothing needed to make sense, and in fact it was nearly impossible to make it make sense, and all that mattered was timing and panache.That legacy, thank goodness, lives

The team behind HQ Trivia, the smash hit mobile app where you answer multiple choice questions in hopes of siphoning away venture capital funding, today announced it was removing the $20 cash-out minimum. The announcement, made on Twitter ahead of today’s 3PM ET / 12PM PT game, should provide some relief to winners of the game who’ve had money stuck in their accounts because their particular jackpot didn’t reward enough cash.The $20 limit was always a puzzling move, and it led

Apple’s chip manufacturer TSMC today broke ground on its first 5-nanometer fabrication facility in Taiwan, promising that 5-nanometer chips will be commercially available in 2020, with 3-nanometer chips planned for 2022. The tiny new processors will guarantee that future smartphones continue to shrink while offering superior performance and battery life to today’s models.
First shown in physical form by IBM and Samsung last June, the 5-nanometer chip process is capable of squeez

Apple has announced the next update to Logic Pro X, its professional music production and recording program. The v10.4 update’s key feature is the inclusion of what Apple calls smart tempo, which allows for automatic tempo detection across the entirety of a project. The update also comes with a variety of new plug-ins, sound libraries, and loops.
Logic’s new smart tempo is probably going to be of most interest to musicians. With smart tempo, you can record naturally into the program

The idea of being able to update your car’s infotainment system may have sounded like a good one when it was first introduced nearly a decade ago. Automakers gradually introduced upgradable operating systems and cars with Wi-Fi, with some like Tesla going so far as to introduce over-the-air updates to add features and improve system response times without owners ever having to visit the service department.But with all of the convenience that brought, connected cars may change the way we p

Facebook is rolling out a new Gaming Creator Pilot Program, which is aimed toward boosting broadcasters on its platform. It will be hosting a summit this weekend to show over 40 content creators what kind of tools and services it’s offering as part of the initiative.
The pilot program draws resources from across the company, including Oculus and Instagram, both of which will have a presence at this weekend’s event. Facebook’s head of games partnerships Guy Cross says that the g

Facebook is continuing to move into game streaming with a new program designed to attract notable creators to the social network. Today the company revealed its “gaming creator pilot program,” which it says is a “concerted effort” to work with streamers and tailor Facebook to better suit their needs. Among the program’s goals are helping streamers build communities on Facebook, creating new tools specifically for live streaming games, and utilizing other Facebook p

This was a big week in browser news: Google launched Chrome 64 and Mozilla released Firefox 58 in the span of just over a day. But the timing isn’t what’s interesting (both browsers get new versions every six weeks or so) — except for the fact it coincided with Mosaic’s 25-year anniversary — it’s the significant additions and improvements that point to a bigger trend. The browsers wars are heating up again.
I pay close attention to browser updates. It’s

Washington’s state legislature is moving quickly towards banning the sale of devices containing “difficult or impossible to remove” batteries, Motherboard reported today. With a potential start date of January 1, 2019, the ban is a standout element in Representative Jeff Morris’ Fair Repair Act bill, aimed at helping consumers avoid planned technology obsolescence. If passed, the bill would require portable devices to be more easily repairable, rather than dispo

One reason Facebook struggles to earn our trust is because at the individual level, no one at the company can tell us why we’re seeing what we’re seeing in the News Feed. The company can talk about the content of the feed in general terms — mostly posts from friends and family, ranked by how close Facebook believes you to be with them — but were an engineer to browse your feed alongside you, they couldn’t explain why the posts appeared in the exact order they did.

PRESS RELEASE:Dominode Is Developing a Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Platform for Verified Identity, Regulatory Compliance and License Management Blockchange Ventures Funds Acceleration of Product Development and OperationsBOCA RATON, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–January 26, 2018– Dominode, a developer of verified identity solutions for regulated industries, has closed on a $1.3 million venture capital investment from New York-based Blockchange Ventures.
This press release features multi

I’m not a Monster Hunter pro. Monster Hunter: World, which is out now for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, is the first time the series has captured my attention. It’s a fantastic action role-playing game that’s fun to play alone or with friends.
But now that I’m a slightly more seasoned hunter, I wished I knew earlier some basics before heading out. So, before you get started on your own adventure, take heed of these early lessons that will get your hunting career started wit

Amazon just released the list of 20 cities that might become the host of their next office HQ2, and your city likely wasn’t on it. Yes, Amazon HQ2 is expected to bring 50,000 jobs with an average annual compensation of more than $100,000, a huge boost to any economy. But this will not be the last opportunity for cities outside of the coasts to attract a large enterprise. In fact, Amazon is only the tip of a very large iceberg. Now is the time to reflect on what your city needs to do for wh

Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke would have turned 100 years old in 2017. Over the course of his long career, he left a legacy that science fiction authors still follow, by putting a premium on the scientific realism in his stories. A new anthology aims to honor the late author’s legacy by collecting a series of stories. Each story will have exactly 2,001 words, a reference to his most famous work, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The team behind the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award &mdash

Every week, a slew of new music videos hits the web. Watching them at your desk is not time theft because you deserve it; think of it as a nice reward for surviving another work week. But what if you don’t have time to watch every video — maybe you have a deadline, a hungry pet, or other grown-up concerns. In consideration of your schedule, Lizzie and Kaitlyn bring you a series called One Video. Each week we’ll tell you “one video” you need to watch, why, and for h

Sony’s gaming service is having a rough week as PlayStation Network outages continue into Friday. PS4 and PS3 players around the world have taken to social media to complain about encountering errors when trying to use PSN, and Sony has confirmed the problems on its status site.
“You may have some difficulty launching games, applications, or online features,” reads Sony’s status page. “Our engineers are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, and we thank

Is the next $10 billion game company acquisition right around the corner, or have all of the investors and acquirers moved on the more fruitful markets of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain?
Gaming has been around forever and it has grown into a $116 billion industry, according to market researcher Newzoo. It continues to have a rich cycle of startups, which grow up to disrupt bigger companies and then are acquired by the master strategists. Platform companies hover over the market, as they

If the reports are true, a Facebook video chat device named Portal is set to arrive in May that could help reshape the Facebook experience in the years ahead.
It would likely be one of the first pieces of consumer hardware from Building 8, Facebook’s secretive hardware research group that lost its director late last year. If Facebook brings a device like Portal to market, it could lean on some of Facebook’s AI smarts and other advantages over competitors that offer digital assis