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Toyota Supra fans, you were not having visions. There really is a new Supra coming, which Toyota obliquely confirmed in the press release for the new GR Supra Racing Concept that’s being shown off at the Geneva Motor Show. Sad news is, it doesn’t look like Toyota brought the road version along for the ride.
If you booked a ticket or a hotel (or both), though, the Supra Racing Concept is a pretty decent consolation prize. (Plus, there’s... lots of other awesome cars there.) And

Who needs probable cause when you have geeks? 
That appears to be the thinking of the FBI, which has been working with Best Buy's computer repair service Geek Squad for at least a decade. And we're not talking about geeks fixing Bureau computers. 
SEE ALSO: The FBI has a 'huge' problem with your smartphone
Instead, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the law enforcement agency has paid Geek Squad employees to act as informants and report potentially i

Universal just announced Jurassic World Alive, a Pokémon Go-like game that lets players create their own dinosaur collections using augmented reality. Set to launch this spring, the game will be available on iOS and Android, and users can pre-register now.  
SEE ALSO: Someone added googly eyes to illustrations of dinosaurs, and they look a lot better
The basics will sound familiar to Pokémon Go fans: it's a location-based game that allows players to discover dinosaurs by explo

In November 2017, President Donald Trump called the hunting of elephants for their trophy tusks a "horror show."
It appeared that Trump, who lacks stable policy positions on many issues, strongly opposed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) decision to allow African elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia to be imported into the U.S. Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke then decided to put the decision to allow trophy imports into the U.S. "on hold."
Nearly four months later, that ho

Target announced today that it’s going to expand Drive Up to almost a thousand stores in the US this year. Its Drive Up program allows customers to have their online orders on the Target app brought out to their cars by a store team member minutes after arriving.
The company first tested the service last fall near its headquarters in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul region. Target declined to elaborate what specific cities the service is expanding to. Target suggests the service is useful for t

The iTunes LP format is on its last legs.  
Apple has announced that it will no longer accept new LP submissions to the iTunes store after March 2018, in an email to music industry workers obtained by Metro.
An LP is an interactive album format that allows users to view multimedia elements as they play music. It was often used to bundle extra features into purchased content. 
SEE ALSO: Your old devices won’t be able to connect to iTunes soon
"Apple will no longer accept new submi

If it's a geeky thing from the '80s or '90s, Ready Player One is here to take a giant dump on it.
A newly spotted batch of posters for the March 29 film from Steven Spielberg amount to visual remixes. Each one resembles the poster from a Gen X classic like Beetlejuice or The Lost Boys, only it swaps in a bunch of Ready Player One characters.
SEE ALSO: Spielberg on 'Ready Player One' and the future: 'Virtual reality will be a super drug'
It's not clear how they're officially connected to the movi

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There are plenty of online courses that will teach you things like coding languages, cryptocurrencies, and how to establish your own start-up. But if you have expert knowledge in a specific field or area of interest, then you may want to create your own online course. (Pro tip: It would make an excellent si

Say you’re a fan of the muscular-looking Mercedes-AMG GT, but it’s woefully impractical for carrying your two kids or any sort of cargo. There’s a solution now in the form of the Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe.
Quite clearly a rival for the Porsche Panamera, the GT 4-Door is said to be the first “family” model from the performance arm of Mercedes-Benz, following the SLS and GT two-doors. Not that Mercedes is starved for sleek four-doors boasting huge helpings of hors

Love is a force of nature.
That was the tagline hinting at the touching yet heartbreaking journey of Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist in 2005's Oscar-winning film, Brokeback Mountain. The sentence speaks for itself: Love cares not for boundaries of gender, race, creed, or anything else. It can't be bottled, it can't be contained.
SEE ALSO: Here's the new 'Frozen' song that's gonna get stuck in your head for the next million years
As one eagle-eyed internet user observed on Monday, the same "Love is

There is no victory sweeter than landing a great branding partnership.
Lucasfilm announced Tuesday that it will be partnering with six different companies to promote the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, including Denny's, Nissan, Esurance, General Mills, Symantec, and (best of all) Solo cups.
SEE ALSO: We just saw the 'Solo' trailer, and we need to talk about Lando
The partnership between Solo and Solo is probably one of the more obvious brand pairings of the past 100 years, and it's even bet

This drone marriage proposal didn't go as planned. 
When this amateur drone pilot set up his craft in Bruarfoss Falls, a picturesque blue waterfall in Iceland, he expected a beautiful video of his proposal. Instead, the drone fell 55 seconds in, just as he was getting to it.
"Just as I got down on my knee, the drone crashed to the ground, missing all the action," the YouTube description reads. 
She still said yes! Read more...
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The marketing brains behind Solo: A Star Wars Story would like you to know they have wed the film’s name in branding matrimony with the most obvious pun you, me, or they could think of: Solo cups, the No. 1 choice for college kids playing beer pong and people who can’t remember which box their dishes are packed in.Walt Disney Studios is currently threatening Star Wars fans with “an extensive worldwide promotional campaign” that, in addition to Solo, will include Denny&rs

 Two major car manufacturers, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and Volkswagen, announced today they will begin to offer free Apple Music subscriptions of up to six months to customers purchasing new vehicles with CarPlay starting on May 1, 2018. The offers are meant to help boost Apple Music subscribers, and arrive shortly after rival Spotify filed to go public.
In the U.S., FCA will offer… Read More

Huawei is releasing the Mate SE in the US today as a rebranded version of the company’s recent Honor 7X phone, according to Android Police. The 7X was announced back in December and designed to offer a modern, reduced-bezel design at more budget prices.Now, eagle-eyed observers may note that Huawei already released the Honor 7X in the US back in February, but that phone wasn’t actually the same 7X released everywhere else in the world. It featured just 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage

Trekking across the flat, largely empty plains of Midwestern America is exhausting. There isn’t much to see, and while the occasional car passes me by, no one seems willing to pick me up — which may have something to with the fact that I’m a giant skeleton with a rucksack over my shoulder. But I press on, the twang of some uplifting folk tunes in my ears, and eventually stumble across a seemingly abandoned farmhouse. Good thing, too, because it starts to rain. But when I head

The most iconic character from the 1960s TV series Lost in Space wasn’t any of the humans on board the Robinson family spacecraft, but rather the talking robot that would famously yell “Danger, Will Robinson!” whenever Will Robinson was in, uh, danger. But while the classic iteration kind of looked like a space trash can, Netflix’s new TV series reboot has decided to go with something a bit more humanoid. The latest trailer for the upcoming show does feature the bot&rsqu

Sonos will soon once again supports Audible streaming on its smart speakers after abruptly removing the audiobook service two years ago. The company mistakenly published an announcement page and then took it down, but Android Police copied it here.
“We’re actively working to bring Audible to Sonos, but this feature is not yet available. This blog post was published erroneously,” a spokesperson for Sonos clarified, noting that there is no specific timeline to share as to when s

23andMe can now sell genetic tests for cancer risk directly to consumers, after being cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration. Their kit will test for three mutations known to predispose people to developing cancer — but there are hundreds more that it won’t take into account.This is the first time the FDA has approved a direct-to-consumer genetic test for these three particular mutations on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. (In the past, the FDA approved DTC genetic kits for condit

Aston Martin, like many carmakers around the globe, has pledged to add electric technology to its cars in the near future. After getting off to a rocky start, thanks to a busted partnership with sinking Chinese tech conglomerate LeEco, the British automotive company seems ready to refocus its effort around something new by resurrecting its Lagonda sub-brand and turning it into a marque for electric luxury cars.Today at the Geneva Motor Show, Aston Martin showed off an initial concept that sets

Apple has confirmed to The Verge that it will stop taking new iTunes LP submissions as of this month. The format, which was launched in 2009, was a way for users to buy albums with bundled elements, like videos, liner notes, or bonus tracks.
Earlier today, UK-based website Metro claimed to have a leaked internal email from Apple sent to music producers titled “The End of iTunes LPs.” The email supposedly stated that “Apple will no longer accept new submissions of iTunes LPs af

Let’s dispense with the hyperbole: Croatia’s Rimac Automobili built a very, very fast car that they’d like to show you. It is an all-electric hypercar called the Concept Two that debuted today at the Geneva Motor Show. It claims to have a 1,914-horsepower engine that enables a 0 to 60 mph acceleration in 1.85 seconds. That would make it one of the quickest cars in existence, quicker than the next-generation Tesla Roadster with its comparatively sluggish 0–60 in 1.9 secon

The very best way to get directions is to have a very loyal dog leading you, and now thanks to a partnership between Odate city in Japan and Google, parts of the city can be toured from the viewpoint of a very fluffy Akita.
Odate is part of the Akita prefecture, the birthplace of Akita dogs. The dogs are an important part of the city’s history — Shibuya station even has a bronze statue of Hachiko, an Akita famous for his loyalty to his owner (he continued to wait for him at the trai

 A new micro VC fund backed by a host of well-known names in the Estonia tech scene is de-cloaking this week. Dubbed “Superangel“, the new fund is targeting a final closing of €20 million but has already raised €12 million. It will make pre-seed and seed investments of between €50,000 and €250,000 on average per company, up to €2 million including follow-on… Read More

Mercedes’ futuristic headlights are going to be included in a limited quantity of Mercedes-Maybach S-Class cars, Daimler announced today.Mercedes first demoed an LED grille back in 2015 in its F 015 research car, but these new digital lights are supposedly more precise than the multibeam LED headlamps. Each smart HD quality headlamp has over one million pixels and can control where and how much light is thrown in front of the car. They have sensors that control the level of brightness so

In the days after the Parkland shooting, users flocked to Wikipedia to learn about guns. When users searched for “AR-15” — the style of gun used during the shooting — they were directed to the page for the “Colt AR-15.” The page was viewed more than 200,000 times on the day after Parkland, a hundred times its usual traffic. But those users didn’t find much information about mass shootings or political efforts. In fact, the Colt AR-15 page made no mentio

The Bugatti Chiron is a lot of car: 0 to 100 km/h in less than 2.5 seconds, 16 cylinders with four turbochargers, a total power output of 1,500 horsepower, and a $3 million price tag. But now Bugatti is saying less is more with the Chiron Sport.Announced on Tuesday at the Geneva Motor Show, the Chiron Sport follows a typical pattern of introducing a variation of a product that’s been around for a couple of years, as the standard Chiron has. The Sport keeps the same engine (a “16&rdq

Google is officially rolling its Lens out to Android phones that have Google Photos installed. This means users will be able to scan things through the app to receive information, like a dog’s breed or a flower type. Users can also create a contact from a business card or identify a landmark. Certain phones will eventually be able to access Lens through the Google Assistant, too, including flagships from Samsung, Huawei, LG, Motorola, Sony, and HMD / Nokia. Google says Lens is rolling out

Mobile spam calls have been a nuisance for years, but over the last few months, it’s felt to me like there’s been a surge of them. I get between four and six calls daily, and a quick survey of friends shows that I’m not alone. Every waking day brings with it a new barrage. Robocallers have upped their game by masking their spam with local, genuine-looking phone numbers. Sometimes their nonsense is amusing — like when you get a threatening voicemail about your impending a

Emergency room visits due to opioid overdose grew by 35 percent in 16 states over the past year, according to the emergency room data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Today’s data covers July 2016 to September 2017 and comes from theCDC’s Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program, which collects information on both fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses. Though overdose-related ER visits varied by region, the number increased for every demographic

Microsoft is once again tackling privacy concerns around Windows 10 today. The software giant is releasing a new test build of Windows 10 to Windows Insiders today that includes changes to the privacy controls for the operating system. While most privacy settings have been confined to a single screen with multiple options, Microsoft is testing a variety of ways that will soon change.
There have been some concerns that Windows 10 has a built-in “keylogger,” because the operating syst

Google is offering resources to the US Department of Defense for a “pilot project” to analyze drone footage using artificial intelligence. The collaboration was first reported in a story by Gizmodo, which noted that some Google employees had been “outraged” by the news after it was shared in an internal mailing list last week.
Details regarding what Google is actually providing to the DOD are not clear, but we know the work is part of Project Maven — a Pentagon res