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It's been a big week for Drake. 
First the artist confirmed on multiple tracks off his album Scorpion that he is indeed a father. Now, one day after the new album's Friday launch, we've also learned that Scorpion broke a big streaming record: It earned the most streams on its very first day, on both Spotify and Apple Music. 
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Apple Music confirmed the broken record on Instagram, noting that Scorpion was stre

We're all tired of "Donald Trump tweeted more BS" stories, but the lie he dropped on Saturday is too much of a doozy to ignore.
"I never pushed the Republicans in the House to vote for the Immigration Bill, either GOODLATTE 1 or 2, because it could never have gotten enough Democrats as long as there is the 60 vote threshold," Trump tweeted on Saturday afternoon.
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Here. See it for yourself. His own words, from his own tweet.I never

This afternoon, Epic Games unveiled its latest in-game event in Fortnite: a rocket launch that appears to have opened up a dimensional rift. The launch was a one-time event that saw thousands of players logging into the game to watch what would happen. While many people took in the spectacular sight, some people missed out when they were killed mid-event.Now in its fourth season, Fortnite has exploded in popularity, which my colleague Nick Statt chalks up to its continually updated story in its

The Model 3 is a supremely important product for the future of Tesla. It’s what CEO Elon Musk says will help the company get out of the red, and it could also be the first widely-adopted all-electric car. And on the eve of one of the most important deadlines in the company’s 15-year history, the company is still figuring out the best way to build it.
Today marks the end of the second financial quarter of 2018, and it’s also the deadline that Musk set for Tesla to make Model 3s

On Saturday, people around the U.S. gathered for Families Belong Together marches in solidarity with the migrant parents and children who've been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
As the New York Times reports, there are more than 2,000 children in detention centers, and concrete plans to return them to their parents are few and far between. At Saturday's marches, protestors carried signs demanding swift action.&nbs

After days of teasing something big, Fortnite’s much-hyped rocket event finally arrived today. Unlike previous ceremonies, this occasion only happens once: if you weren’t in-game when it happened, you missed out on your chance to experience it. Fortunately, we strapped in and saw everything unfold first-hand.
An hour before the festivities, Fortnite’s island started gearing up for launch by animating the super villain lair near in-game location Snobby Shores that contained the

Fortnite's rocket launch may be over, but the memories linger.
Epic Games staged a one-time-only "Blast Off" event on SaturdayFortnite players that were lucky enough to be online and in-game at precisely 1:30 p.m. ET had the opportunity to witness a proper spectacle: A rocket launch.
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Seeing it firsthand was no easy task. Even at the best of times, Fortnite hits players with long waits and server queues when they're trying to join a game. And for

If you were going to bet on which technology might soon do the work of a stuntman, you’d probably guess CGI. It turns out robots have a shot, too — robots built by Disney.A new report from TechCrunch lays out the advances the company has made in the field of animatronics. These are the lifelike, usually static robots, designed to entertain the crowds at Disney theme parks and resorts. Think of the grog-swilling pirates carousing in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, or the recently

People drop and break their smartphones all the time, but a German engineering student named Philip Frenzel may have the solution to save everyone some time, money, and unneeded stress. Spotted by DesignBoom, Frenzel has created the mobile airbag, a case that senses when your phone is in free fall and releases metal prongs to protect it from damage.
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A student at Aalen University in Germany, Frenzel won an award from the German Mechatronics Society with

In an era when Marvel is showing everyone how blockbuster franchises are done, it's easy to forget that M. Night Shyamalan built a superhero universe out of nothing.
The twist-loving filmmaker's upcoming Glass is due for a major San Diego Comic Con presentation in Hall H — the big room — on July 20. To give fans a taste of what to expect, Shyamalan released the first poster for the Jan. 18, 2019 release on Friday.
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This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week.
The small African country of Swaziland celebrated its first ever LGBTQ pride on Saturday and no one, not even Donald J. Trump, can destroy this tiny bit of joy.
It wasn't an easy event to organize in Swaziland, a largely conservative country where anti-sodomy laws exist, according to the Daily Beast. Still, organizers pushed forward. 
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Drake has destroyed his own single-day streaming record on Apple Music, with his fifth album Scorpion pulling in more than 170 million streams in its first 24 hours, the company tells The Verge. More Life, Drake’s last project, held the previous record with 89.9 million streams in its first day. Apple says Scorpion now holds both the US and global streaming records for the service.Apple Music was in full promo mode for the release, inserting Drake easter eggs into Siri, and launching a si

Jimmy Fallon is starting a summer book club on The Tonight Show, and last night, he unveiled its first pick: YA fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi.Fallon announced the book club last week, and listed off five possible picks for viewers to vote on: Children of Blood and Bone, IQ23 by Joe Ide, The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, Providence by Caroline Kepnes and The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong. Audience members selected Adeyemi’s book by a wide margin.Image: Henry Hol

Listen, I don't need to tell you that things aren't great right now. There are separated families in desperate need of help, mass shootings are a regular occurrence, and a U.S. Supreme Court justice is retiring, among other terrible things happening right now. 
But we do have one (1) nice thing to discuss: The rescue of a little puppy named Toffee, who got stuck in a hole on Thursday.
SEE ALSO: Show your pup's personality with these easy style upgradesAccording to Alabama's WHNT, a team of

The second season of Westworld wrapped up last weekend, and I still find the show as infuriating and fascinating as ever. I think Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff is spot on here with how he contrasts the series to Lost — Westworld is all puzzle, no characters; so there’s a lot more riding on the puzzle being really good.
What’s frustrating is that, this season’s Ghost Nation episode “Kiksuya” showed just how strong of a show Westworld can be when it hones in on

Next Wednesday is July Fourth, one of the few summer holidays with decent sales. Whether you’re planning a huge barbecue or just taking the day to enjoy a rare weekday off from work, you may want to take some time to check out the tech deals happening around Independence Day this year.Retailers like Amazon, eBay, HP, and more are running sales on everything from smartwatches to 4K TVs. Most Fourth of July deals run through next weekend.
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Not officially a Fourth of July sale, Amazon

Just don't call it a Windows Phone.
Rumors of a dual-screen Surface have been kicking around for a little bit, but here's a surprising new detail: It's built for your pocket. That's what it sounds like, anyway. The revelation comes from an internal document obtained by The Verge, though Microsoft hasn't confirmed it.
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"It’s a new pocketable Surface device form factor that brings together innovative new hardware and softwar

The ceiling escape attempt: Great for action stars, less so for normal people. 
That's the lesson learned from this bananas CCTV footage taken from a Canadian convenience store where an attempt to evade local police ended with a hole in the ceiling. 
SEE ALSO: Broccoli coffee is a thing, in case you're not eating your vegetablesIn a clip obtained by CTV News (that Deadspin astutely noted seems "magnificently, almost suspiciously well-edited,") a man and a woman are under arrest for, pe

If you’ve spent much time on Twitter, there’s a good chance you’ve been exposed to “local Twitter.” The phenomenon has existed for years, but recently, it’s been clearly branded, and as the term has become more widespread, the general concept is being ushered into larger, more mainstream awareness.Providing a hard-stop definition of “local Twitter” is tricky; much like obscenity, you know it when you see it. Local is tweeting about how much you lo

Most people can hit the gym with a pair of run-of-the-mill Apple earbuds, have a light workout, maybe get a bit sweaty, and call it a day. You’re not most people. Your workouts are a perfect storm of intensity and activity. You don’t sweat, you rain. And you can’t settle for wimpy sound quality. 
For people like you, BlueAnt has created the PUMP Wireless HD Sportsbuds. Designed to deliver unrivaled performance during extreme conditions, this elite audio accessory is just w

Over the last couple of years, Paul Tremblay has consistently written some of the scariest stories that I’ve picked up. In A Head Full of Ghosts, a blue-collar Boston family contends with the abnormal behavior of their teenage daughter, who may or may not be possessed by a demon. In Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, a boy goes missing, and his mother begins to think that she’s seeing his ghost. In his latest novel, The Cabin at the End of the World, Tremblay spins out another ter

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If you were a queer kid growing up in the early '10s, Tumblr, not school, was where you found community.
Tumblr was home to some of the internet's gayest Disney Princess memes. It was where you went for the best transmasc fashion, queer Harry Potter fan fiction, lesbian spells, and sometimes even a little bit of love. Queer teens disproportionately used the platform, studies found. 
But Tumblr's finan

The DevOps approach has helped businesses all over the world speed up their development processes, deploy more frequently, and ensure a high standard of quality with every release. In other words? Be more successful.
In fact, businesses that hire for DevOps skills can often see a boost in deployment frequency and fewer failures. Despite this tremendous boon, the companies that have DevOps engineers on staff are still in the minority. While that’s bad news for them, it might be good news fo

After 30 years on the Supreme Court bench, Justice Anthony Kennedy will leave the nation's highest courthouse at the end of July.
With Kennedy's departure comes much uneasiness. One cause for concern is over the paramount climate decision Massachusetts v. EPA, in which Kennedy proved to be the deciding swing vote, as he often was. The worry is that with him gone, the ruling will be left imperiled. 
The case occurred after the EPA decided, in 2003, that it could not regulate heat-trapping gr

The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are back. And despite the era it's set in, the recently released Season 2 tells a story centered around women that — for better and worse — feels utterly timeless in its relatability.
Yet oddly, the events that have taken place between Season 1 and Season 2 make it almost feel like GLOW is returning to a different world than the one it premiered in. 
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Not cool. 
A combined task force of the Spanish Guardia Civil, the Austrian Federal Police, and Europol yesterday announced what they're calling "Europe's biggest ever LSD bust" and oh man in unrelated news I totally need to rethink my July 4 plans to just sit back and stare at fireworks for hours while contemplating life.
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According to the press release, the bust went down in the Spanish cities of Granada and Valencia, and re

Every summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention turns its attention to the disgusting state of American swimming holes — and their latest investigation traced thousands of infections back to lakes, rivers, and the ocean.A team of researchers analyzed 140 outbreaks that made nearly 5,000 people sick, and even killed two swimmers between 2000 and 2014. Public parks and beaches accounted for roughly two-thirds of the outbreaks, according to the CDC’s latest Morbidity and M