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Avengers: Infinity War is now out in theaters, the culmination of 10 years of superhero movies. Starting with Iron Man in 2008, the franchise’s 19 installments have built on one another to form a massive, cohesive story. That’s daunting 31 hours of story that set up this latest movie. Fortunately, YouTube supercut channel Burger Fiction has you covered with a 17 minute video that hits all the high points of the franchise.
Burger Fiction has made a number of these sorts of compilatio

Forget a smart speaker, soon you may be able to control your smart home with a few taps on your wall. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have developed a way to make your walls smart, at a cost of $20 per meter, as spotted by NBC News.
Dubbed Wall++, the researchers found that they could use conductive paint and a custom sensor board to create electrodes and turn a standard wall into a gesture-sensing touchpad and an “electromagnetic sensor to detect and track e

On Sunday, private space company Blue Origin will launch its third New Shepard rocket, according to founder Jeff Bezos. The launch is scheduled to take place at 9:30AM EDT / 8:30AM CDT, and will be live streamed.
This will be the eighth overall flight for the New Shepard, and the second flight for this particular vehicle. The first launched on April 29th, 2015 (three years ago tomorrow), but crashed. Blue Origin then successfully launched and landed its second New Shepard in November that year,

By now we’ve all heard that 5G is coming, and if you’re a mobile consumer you might be thinking, “so what?” Why should you care about the next generation of wireless network technology? Isn’t it just another iteration, bringing incremental changes that are no big deal? No. No, it isn’t. 5G technology is actually a great leap forward. For one thing, it’s fast — really fast. As in at least 10 times faster than 4G, and up to a 100 times faster a

Last week in this column, we featured a sale on Amazon’s smart home hubs, the Echo and Echo Dot, which were on sale for $84.99 and $39.99, respectively. This week you can get both of those devices, as well as the rest of the Echo family of devices, for even less. If you don’t mind refurbished, you can get an Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Plus and Echo Show for up to $20 off the usual refurb price. The best deal is probably on the Certified Refurbished Echo Plus for $109.99 (usually $129.99).

Here we go again. Another report, this time from CNET, claims Apple is working on a combo AR/VR headset that could launch as soon as 2020.
The tech site corroborates previously reported details on the top-secret headset such as its "T288" codename and purported use of a custom Apple chip. But the most interesting thing is its alleged performance. It sounds like it could blow away every existing AR/VR headset.
SEE ALSO: Apple's own version of Google Glass could launch as early as 2020
Up until no

Seattle is leading the way. 
The city is on the verge of tossing out old convictions for marijuana possession, and with legalization spreading across the country it's past time other cities and states follow suit. 
SEE ALSO: America's favorite hypocrite John Boehner will now lobby for marijuana
According to The Hill, officials are looking to vacate old possession charges which have dogged 542 people over the years. In a statement, Seattle's Mayor spoke to the necessity of trying to und

SPOILERS AHEAD for Avengers: Infinity War. This post discusses the end of the new movie in detail, so you should stop reading here if you haven't seen it.Whether or not you saw it coming, the explosive "basically everyone you love is dead now" ending to Avengers: Infinity War spells major implications for the events of Avengers 4.
Here's what we know: Thanos won, assembling the Infinity Gauntlet and completing his goal of wiping out half the population of the entire universe. He snapped his fin

Nothing says springtime like going back to Gilead with Hulu! If The Handmaid's Tale is a bit heavy to kick off your May watchlist, don't worry – we've got a few other suggestions, and a look at everything else Hulu has to offer this month.
Here's what's coming to Hulu in May.
SEE ALSO: Here's what the critics think of 'Handmaid's Tale' Season 2Top pick: I, Tonya
Though tragically overlooked by the Best Picture category at the Oscars, I, Tonya is well worth a rewatch when it arrives on Hulu

"Changing the world," the rallying cry of the technology industry, sounds like a concept bursting with optimism. But in reality, it's complicated.
SEE ALSO: Apple CEO embraces moral leadership of Silicon Valley
Take Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg's creation, built under the banner of "move fast and break things," certainly changed the world. But the creation of Facebook has also impacted democracy, privacy, communication, and even the nature of truth, in unforeseen ways; Facebook has since disavowed

When celebrities interact with each other, it can be fun and exciting. But sometimes it's not. That is also fine and weirdly interesting.
Yes, celebrities can just be normal people who comment on each other's Instagram posts like normal, boring people. That is, just like us, except we didn't star in Batman vs. Superman.
SEE ALSO: We've shortened the height of these attractive celebrities so you can scroll through them before your boss sees
To prove that celebrities can be just like us (!), we've

The Centre for Blockchain Technologies (CBT) at University College London (UCL) has announced that it is no longer associated with the IOTA Foundation. In a statement pinned on its website, CBT explained it has decided to cut ties with the cryptocurrency foundation in support of open security research and the ability of researchers to conduct their work unburdened by the possibility of legal threats. You can read the full statement as it appears on the CBT page below: UCL Centre for Blockchain

Easily lost amid the news of Gmail's biggest redesign in years was the revelation that the company also launched a new to-do list app to supplement Gmail's new productivity features.
Called Tasks, the app integrates with your Gmail inbox to make managing your to-do list easier.
SEE ALSO: How to upgrade to Google's new Gmail right now
Tasks, which is available for iOS and Android, is deceptively simple: you can create lists of to-do items and check them off once they're completed.
But the real po

Ever since Nick Fury first showed up at Tony Stark’s house to plug the Avengers Initiative at the end of 2008’s Iron Man, post-credit scenes have been a staple of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. Sometimes they’re just a little gag, a bonus for sitting through the credits, like the sequence of the Avengers silently eating shawarma together in a partially wrecked New York City takeout after the catastrophic fight in The Avengers, or the Howard the Duck cameo after Guardians of

If you’ve been a member of the cryptocommunity for more than a couple of weeks, you’ve probably heard the term ‘hard fork’ thrown around. A lot of people may be wondering, what that exactly means. Perhaps you’ve heard of the most popular hard fork, Bitcoin Cash, and you’ve got a brief idea of its meaning. The goal of this article will be to simplify the concept of a ‘hard fork’ in an easily understandable manner and help you dissect and digest the

Mark Zuckerberg has been immensely successful in capturing the popular imagination of budding and aspiring entrepreneurs around the world. Mr. Zuckerberg has become the quintessential image of what a successful entrepreneur can accomplish. The stories about the dreary Harvard dorm room coding sessions to his now famous grey sweatshirt attire, Zuckerberg personifies what a combination of ambition and talent can achieve. Though Facebook has been marred with plenty of controversies before, none of

Before Facebook, there was Echo.
Stacy Horn thought of it back in 1988. Back then, there were no VCs throwing money at dotcoms, because the Web as we know it didn’t exist. You could use it to chat in real-time, send emails to friends, and debate in threads about everything from politics to music. There was no slick interface, photos, or even colors — it was text only. You connected with a telnet client and entered text commands to navigate around. Still, by 1990, it got so popular, t

China is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, but it's also leading the world in clean energy investment and deployment. The growth in China's solar power sector, in particular, has been swift. 
According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, China added 53 gigawatts of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in 2017 alone, up from 30 gigawatts the year before. Part of the reason for this large increase? The Chinese government paid subsidies to developers of solar projects so as not to buil

One of VR’s most ambitious and longest-gestating projects is heading toward a beta launch on May 4, and its creator is looking for supporters on Steam and Patreon. NeosVR is a project from Tomáš “Frooxius” Mariančík and Solirax co-founder Karel Hulec that’s been in development for several years. It is a collection of tools to let people intuitively…Read More

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned that the current boom in artificial intelligence has created a “technology renaissance” that contains many potential threats. Writing in the company’s annual Founders’ Letter, published Friday, the Alphabet president struck a note of caution. “The new spring in artificial intelligence is the most significant development in computing in my lifetime,” writes Brin. “Every month, there are stunning new applications a

We live in a technological age — and there is no going back. For anyone looking to get ahead in their career, mastering certain skills is absolutely necessary.
SEE ALSO: Launching a startup? These are the 5 skills you need to have.
You don’t have to be Mark Zuckerberg for technical skills to be important in your career. No matter your industry, it’s vital that you stay on top of things or you’ll wind up as obsolete as the fax machine.
Here are eight of the most in-demand

We now live in an era where there are more gadgets in the world than there are people, which means more charging than you can handle. You know how much of a pain it is to have to fight to the death with your sibling, partner, roommate, or colleague over who gets to hog the outlet and charge their phone or tablet next.
SEE ALSO: This glow-in-the-dark MFi-certified charging cable is just $20
Keep the peace in your household or office by getting yourself the ZeroLemon 75W Desktop Charger with

This post is part of Mashable's Spring Cleaning Week. Just a little something to distract you from the eternal dread of constantly wiping all those fingerprints off your screen. 
It required a glass of wine. A big one.
On a weeknight, I settled down at my dining room table to do something no one should have to do, ever: Text all the names in my phone's contact list that I did not recognize. 
SEE ALSO: Do the decent thing and send one of these texts instead of ghosting
The idea was to r

We've all had to scoop our way through the poop pile that has been Kanye West's Twitter feed for the last week, now we're poop-scooping our way through his newest single.
After teasing a new single on Friday, West dropped a link to his website, which contained a stream to the new track "Lift Yourself." I'm going to drop a song with a verse that will bring Ebro the closure he's been seeking
The bars 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

It's never been easier to take phenomenal photos. As smartphone cameras improve, and professional-quality lenses abound at affordable prices, your food, kittens, tropical landscapes, and #nofilter selfies have never looked better. 
But if you want to take your photo-editing game to the next level, whether you're a professional photographer, designing posters for work, or photoshopping inappropriate things into Trump's mouth, the right monitor can make a huge difference in the quality of you

In response to stories about the 15-month jail sentence given to Eric Lundgren, Microsoft has written a strident blog post detailing its perspective on the case. The post, titled “The facts about a recent counterfeiting case brought by the U.S. government,” consists of several assertions drawn from the case itself, the email evidence that was submitted for it, and Microsoft’s own take.Microsoft’s corporate vice president of communication, Frank Shaw, begins by once again

So you've deleted your Facebook account and feel pretty good about it. But there's still that nagging feeling, that itch in the back of your mind, insisting quietly yet forcefully that you haven't escaped Mark Zuckerberg's data-slurping maw just yet. 
That would be Instagram. To be truly (well, sort of) free, you know deep down that you must delete Instagram, too. Thankfully, the company was just compelled (hat tip, GDPR) to release a new feature which enables you to download a bunch of you

This restaurant took it way too far after someone left a mediocre review.
Yesha Callahan had a rough experience after eating from La Porchetta, a restaurant in Sterling, Virginia. She ordered a burger, fries, and zeppoles for delivery to her apartment. 
"The delivery guy was quite friendly and asked if I could leave a review on Yelp," she wrote in the Root, "I said sure, and he went on his merry way."
But she was disappointed when she opened the styrofoam box and found "sorry-looking steak