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Last December, Stranger Things star David Harbour said in an interview that the show likely wouldn’t return for its third season until sometime in 2019, and a recent faux commercial for a new mall in Hawkins hinted at a summer 2019 release. During a presentation at this year’s Television Critics Association press tour, Netflix executives confirmed a delay, but that it’ll be “worth the wait.”
During today’s TCA presentation, Netflix’s Vice President of O

Elon Musk has come up withs some interesting merchandise to promote his companies over the years: he recently sold Boring Company hats and then a branded flame thrower. Yesterday, his electric car company Tesla released a new product: a $1500 surfboard.Tesla already sells quite a bit of merchandise: hats, shirts, and even a kid-sized ridable car, and briefly, the surfboard. Electrek spotted this new offering when it went online last night, which was designed by Tesla’s design studio in &l

Julie Dillon is a rising star in the science fiction and fantasy community. Her gorgeous artwork has appeared in everything from the covers of novels from publishers such as Tor Books, Angry Robot, and Penguin, as well as for magazines such as Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and Uncanny Magazines. Now, she’s Kickstarting a new art book called Daydreamer’s Journey, a retrospective of the art that she’s produced over the course of her career.The project just passed its funding goal of

In March, YouTube revealed that it was releasing a dark mode for its mobile apps, starting with its iOS version. Now, Android users are beginning to get the feature on their apps.YouTube added a dark mode to its desktop site last year, and the company says that it became one of the most requested features for its apps. 9to5Google reports that the feature began rolling out yesterday, notifying users with a prompt. It also says that it can be turned on and off in the app’s settings.Continue

Google has promised to stop its Android phones from suggesting "my face" when its users text "sit on." 
Cory Doctorow came close to a disaster when he texted his kids' babysitter, "Hey! Are you free to sit" and Android's predictive text came up with "on my face." 
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"Needless to say, I have never entered that string into my Android device," he insisted in his tweet. I was SMSing our babysitter wit

For the last six years, Amazon has turned over the decision to greenlight some of its original shows to its customers, putting the pilots for its shows online for a popular vote. Yesterday, Amazon says that it is ending the practice in favor of its own metrics.At its presentation at the Television Critics Association yesterday, studio head Jennifer Salke says that while they’ll “never say ‘never’,” they’ve begun using their “own testing barometers and s

Beyoncé and Jay-Z's On the Run II tour has only been traveling for a few weeks but it's already blessed the world with iconic moments. From hilarious exchanges between the Carters to photographs of the twins, the fans are living. 
But perhaps one of the most important contributions the tour has given us? This glorious video of Barack and Michelle Obama dancing their hearts out at the latest stop. 
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It looks as though Amazon is thinking about reentering the phone market. During the company’s presentation yesterday at the Television Critics Association press tour — in which Amazon released a slew of updates regarding some of its upcoming television projects — Amazon Studio head Jen Salke was asked if the company was working on a new phone, according to TheWrap. She indicated that she’s not only seen a prototype with a new interface, but that she has one in her office

Amazon is planning a redesign of its mobile Prime Video interface. During the company’s presentation yesterday at the Television Critics Association press tour — in which Amazon released a slew of updates regarding some of its upcoming television projects — Amazon Studio head Jen Salke was asked if the company was working on a new phone, according to The Wrap. She indicated that she’s not only seen a prototype with a new interface, but that she has one in her office.
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On Sunday, Donald Trump tweeted.
Most of the time, the president's tweets are occasions for any day ending with the letter "y." But Sunday's missive was particularly notable for what he said. Or didn't say. Honestly, it was kind of confusing.
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Trump's tweet revealed the fact that he'd recently met with New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger at the White House. Their discussion apparently focused on the challenges

When a beloved video game series makes the shift to a free-to-play mobile experience, it’s not usually a reason to get excited. These transitions rarely go well. Because of this, I wasn’t expecting much from the absurdly named Shin Megami Tensei Liberation Dx2, a mobile spinoff of the beloved role-playing series that spawned the Persona games. It’s a franchise known for surreal and engrossing stories, and deep, complex battles — not exactly things free-to-play mobile gam

Over 300 inmates in Idaho successfully hacked tablets in an effort to transfer thousands of dollars of credit into their accounts. 
The tablets — made by company JPay — are intended for accessing music, ebooks, games and emails. But because of a loophole, inmates were able to use them to transfer a collective $225,000 into various accounts.
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As reported by the Spokesman-Review, 364 occupants of five differe

In 2016, Amazon Studios inked a $70 million deal with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner to produce The Romanoffs, an anthology show set in the modern day. At a TCA press tour event yesterday, the studio revealed a short teaser for the show, which announced that it will debut on October 12th.The teaser shows off a background of words in Cyrillic, and reveals a slew of actors associated with the project, including Aaron Echhart, Amanda Peet, Corey Stroll, Noah Wyle, and others. Weiner will direct al

In June, the country hit a boiling point after revelations that thousands of children had been separated from their parents as the Trump Administration implemented a new policy. It would criminally prosecute parents who entered the country illegally and place them in a federal prison, where children aren’t permitted. Later that month, the administration backtracked slightly, replacing the separation with indefinite family detention. The situation has invited comparisons to another dark pe

In June, the country hit a boiling point after revelations that thousands of children had been separated from their parents as the Trump Administration implemented a new policy. It would criminally prosecute parents who entered the country illegally and place them in a federal prison, where children aren’t permitted. Later that month, the administration backtracked slightly, replacing the separation with indefinite family detention. The situation has invited comparisons to another dark pe

It's no "covfefe," but really, can anything ever beat that?
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and Donald Trump's perhaps overly talkative lawyer, sent out a tweet on Sunday morning that quickly went viral. 
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It was clearly a mistake, and may now be serving as a helpful distraction for the beleaguered Giuliani. But it's prompted some first-class responses.
First, here's the tweet.You
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Amazon’s big Middle-earth-set show based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is slowly moving forward. During this week’s Television Critics Association press tour, the company says that it has brought on two writers, JD Payne and Patrick McKay to write and develop the series.The two writers are relative newcomers: both worked on the original script for Star Trek: Beyond and were part of the writer’s room for Godzilla vs. Kong, and are writing the upcoming sequel to Star Trek: Beyo

The "In My Feelings" challenge began as an innocent Drake meme and has now officially reached peak insanity. 
Doing the dance coined by @TheShiggyShow can now get you arrested, fined — and if you're as unlucky as Jaylen Norwood, it can also get you hit by a moving vehicle. 
SEE ALSO: Drake's moody tweet from 2012 has been brought back as a meme
In a video shared to his Instagram account, Norwood is seen jumping out of a car and doing the moves we have all come to love/hate. Only

Forget Shark Week, it’s Bark Week on Mashable. Join us as we celebrate all the good dogs, which we humans do not deserve.
When it all becomes too much, it's important to have an outlet. 
Sure, yoga is good, and reading a good book is nice. But we're here to talk about the greatest activity of all: looking at fluffy dogs. Not just regular fluffy dogs, either. We're talking very fluffy dogs. Like, dogs whose Embark tests would probably come back "100 percent cotton ball."
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Martin Jonasson is the developer behind some of the most acclaimed mobile games around: twofold, inc. and rymdkapsel. But his latest project, Holedown (available on the App Store and Google Play for $3.99), ditches the complicated puzzle and strategy aspects for a more approachable arcade experience that’s nearly impossible to put down.
Gameplay in Holedown is similar to last year’s free-to-play chartopper Ballz (created by the controversial Ketchapp Games, who created the viral hit

A Kickstarter project called Oddball aims to put a new spin on making music. Comprised of a ball about the size of a lacrosse ball and an accompanying app, the ball behaves as a percussion trigger, making noise whenever it’s bounced off a surface.
The idea with Oddball is that a sound can be assigned to it, and then that sound is played whenever the ball is bounced. Sensors inside the ball communicate with the app via Bluetooth, and then the sound plays through your phone speakers, headph

This post is part of Me, online, Mashable's ongoing series digging into online identities.
I was locked in my friends’ bathroom on the phone with my thesis adviser and staring at Reddit. It was snowing pretty hard and though there was a window with some theoretical light streaming in, I felt like I was under a blanket, the flashlight of my attention pointed at a screen that I refreshed and refreshed and refreshed. I was discussing the critical thesis component required for my graduate degr

Imagine, for a second, that you had one of those stress balls that you could squish in your palm whenever Trump said something about the environment that really frustrated you.
Now imagine that a tree popped out whenever you used it.
Treespond, a campaign that allows users to sponsor the planting of a tree in response to Trump's misleading commentary about climate change, launched earlier this weekTreepex, the nonprofit behind Treespond, hopes to harness your political frustration and turn it in

You know how they say people only use 10% of their brain? Yeah, it turns out, that’s total bullshit. 
We absolutely use most of our brain, almost all of the time. And there’s no magic key that unlocks an unused, possibly telekinetic reserve of mental power. There is, however, a set of techniques that can help you use your brain power faster and more effectively. It’s called the Become a SuperLearner: Speed Reading & Memory course, and while it won’t hel

Comfort is a very personal thing, especially when it comes to climate. What feels like a freezing cold office to you may be completely tolerable to your coworkers. 
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The sweltering heat that keeps you up at night might lull your spouse into a deep, snuggly sleep. In situations such as these, you can either be at the mercy of someone else’s preferences or create your own comfort with

Ying Zhou teaches a Geology 101 class to students at Virginia Tech, but after peering deeply into the subterranean world beneath the Yellowstone volcano, Zhou says she needs to modify her lesson plans — for Yellowstone, anyhow. 
Yellowstone is one of the most heavily-researched volcanoes in the world, and it's believed to be responsible for few mega-eruptions in the last two million years. Volcanologists understand its behavior quite well, and there's agreement that any sort of erupti

Arguably, Tom Cruise running his goddamn ass off is the glue that holds the Mission: Impossible franchise together. And now, we have math to prove it.
In celebration of the most recent addition to the franchise, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Rotten Tomatoes has crunched the numbers to find out exactly how much the man has sprinted throughout his nearly four-decade long career, and whether his running has a net positive effect for his films.
Spoiler alert: Tom Cruise's running sells more tickets