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Nearly two weeks after being hospitalized for a reported drug overdose, singer Demi Lovato has released a statement, asking for "time to heal and focus" and promising to "keep fighting."
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The statement, posted on Lovato's Instagram account, doesn't offer any specifics about the incident but does address the singer's open and ongoing battle with addiction. A post shared by Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) on Aug 5, 2018 at 1:53pm PD

Being alone on a cold alien landscape may seem like a sad way to pass six years, but for the Mars Curiosity rover, it's been a brilliant stretch. 
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Sunday, Aug. 5 marked the sixth anniversary of Curiosity's historic touchdown on the surface of Mars and the rover celebrated the way we all do: with a post on social media. I touched down on #Mars six years ago. Celebrating my 6th landing anniversary w

Vampire Weekend, you okay dudes?
The band, which announced on Saturday night that its fourth album is complete, certainly had a lot to celebrate during their Lollapalooza performance. And it seems when the members of Vampire Weekend get excited they just play "A-Punk" over and over.
That's right. To open their set, Vampire Weekend played the fan favorite song from the self-titled 2008 album Vampire Weekend, not one, not two, but THREE whole times in a row.
That's a lot of "say ohs."
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The revival of popular 1990s sitcom Murphy Brown has kicked off filming and we're beginning to learn more about the topical nature of the show, including plans to directly address the #MeToo movement and plenty about Donald Trump's attacks on the press.
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Speaking at the Television Critics Association summer press tour Sunday morning in Los Angeles, creator Dianne English confirmed that President Trump and his continue

Time spent online is largely time spent feeling jaded, with brief interruptions for grimaces (seeing a bad post) and half-smiles (seeing a good one). Rare is the content that can evoke a genuine feeling. And yet, there’s so much of it! Given that most of us are connected to the internet most of the time — desktops and laptops at work and school; smartphones at work and school and home and anywhere else that has a viable cellular connection — that means mindless boredom has rea

It's been a few months since it was announced that Donald Glover's heavily-anticipated Deadpool animated TV series, to be produced for FX, was being shelved. But we finally have a few more details about why that came to be, thanks to FX chief John Landgraf.
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Landgraf, the CEO of FX, was speaking at the Television Critics Association (TCA) summer press tour on Saturday when he put the blame squarely on

Star Wars: The Force AwakensAvatar. And now, introducing..Black Panther.
As of today, Aug. 5, 2018, the February hit from Marvel Studios has officially crossed the $700 million threshold at the U.S. box office. That's a huge achievement, one that only three movies in history — the three named above — can claim credit for.
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Star Wars is the big winner, having amassed an astonishing $936.7 million dur

The Venezuelan government says that President Nicolás Maduro survived an assassination attempt during a live speech on Saturday. The attack was reportedly carried out with a pair of drones laden with explosives, which detonated near his position.Maduro speaking at an event commemorating the 81st anniversary of the country’s National Guard in the nation’s capital, Caracas. Midway through his speech, a bang can be heard, after which Maduro and the people surrounding him look up

Hello, Song Of The Summer Committee? We know it's late in the season but have you heard this freaking Taylor Swift and Bryan Adams duet? Because it honestly might be a game changer.
In a ~Summer of 2018~ miracle, Swift brought the Canadian singer on stage in Toronto to tag team his 1984 jam, "Summer of '69." It was magical, to say the least, and according to Swift she was "losing it" as much as everyone else.
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CBS dropped a bomb on Saturday: Sir Patrick Stewart is returning to the Star Trek universe. Fandom collectively lost its shit after the announcement.
An upcoming CBS All Access series will explore the life and times of former U.S.S. Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard during his golden years. We don't know much about the story just yet beyond Stewart confirming that it's set two decades after Star Trek: Nemesis.
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Google introduced a new update to Google Maps: when you zoom all the way out, the Earth will no longer be displayed as a flat surface, but as a globe. It’s a change that allows the map to more accurately display the Earth.The search company highlighted the change on its Google MapsTwitter feed, saying that with the new 3D Globe Mode, “Greenland’s projection is no longer the size of Africa.” The change is only available on the desktop interface; it’s still flat in i

The tie Randy Moss chose to wear to his induction into the NFL Hall of Fame spoke volumes.
The star wide receiver-turned-NFL analyst for ESPN was one of eight new members welcomed into the Hall of Fame on Saturday. On the big day Moss chose to make a powerful statement with his tie, which displayed the names of 12 black men and women who were killed by police.
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The tie featured the names Greg Gunn, Tamir Rice, Akai Gurley, Pa

It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.
In a way, puzzle boxes are the purest type of game. They have a simple objective — open the box — and the actual game is figuring out how to do that. There isn’t really a tutorial or rules, just things you intrinsically pick up as you fiddle and poke at different

At San Diego Comic-Con last month, the USA Network went all out promoting their newest show, a series adaptation of the popular anarcho-dystopian Purge movie franchise, with a delightfully satirical “Purge City” activation. At the same time, away from the promo-heavy celebrations, though, the network was quietly putting its elder dystopian offering out to pasture: that Saturday, Deadline reported that USA had canceled totalitarian-alien-invasion drama Colony after just three seasons

If you wanna be a Spice Girl, you gotta get into character and buy tickets to a concert. Everyone, including actress Blake Lively, knows that.
Like many cool, music-loving girls in the late '90s, Lively dreamed of being a Spice Girl — Baby Spice, to be exact. And thanks to the occasionally magical powers of the internet, we have photographic proof.
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Kurt Russell stepped up to defend James Gunn on Saturday night.
He didn't go as far as saying "Disney must re-hire James," but it's clear that he feels Gunn was fired in error. Disney severed its business relationship with the Guardians of the Galaxy director in July after fringe alt-right interests resurfaced Gunn's old and admittedly controversial tweets from a decade ago.
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A planned film adaptation of Minecraft won’t come out as planned. The film was scheduled for release next May, with director Rob McElhenney (known for playing Mac on the FXX comedy Always Sunny in Philadelphia) at the helm. But according to TheWrap (via Polygon), McElhenney has left the project.
This isn’t the first time an adaptation of Minecraft has had trouble. Word broke that Warner Bros. first began work adapting the game in 2014, with Shawn Levy (Night in the Museum, Stranger

When Sybrina Fulton was asked to return to Sanford, Florida, the city where her son Trayvon Martin was fatally shot in 2012, she remembers refusing.
"I'm never coming there," she says in the new documentary series Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story. Fulton could barely brush her teeth or comb her hair — how could they ask her to set foot where her son died? 
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It’s been more than a couple of months since GDPR (the EU General Data Protection Regulation) came into force. The promise of giving the citizens back control of their personal data was brash and resonated with many of us, but apart from emboldening few data protection activists, the GDPR has not meaningfully changed the privacy status quo and hasn’t won us much control over our data. Over the last year — and for the foreseeable future — the GDPR is a boon to the consult

To master Adobe Creative Cloud is to check a monumental prerequisite off your design career list. But it’s easier said than done. This industry standard software suite is dense; some people spend years learning just one application. But with the Pay What You Want Adobe CC Lifetime A-Z Bundle, you can navigate the ins and outs of all the major Creative Cloud apps for whatever you can afford right now. 
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Everyone uses music to drown out background noise — whether because of a crying baby on a plane, loud chewing in the library, or neighbors disrespecting noise ordinances. Standard headphones pile your music on top of all that cacophony, usually covering it up, but really just fighting noise with more noise.
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But noise-cancelling headphones are much different. Switch them on and suddenly the baby, the loud chewer, and the raucous ne

You might already know that Pixar movies are Easter egg gold mines. The animation studio is famously self-referential — inspiring, for example, an elaborate fan theory suggesting that all of the films exist in the same universe.
But Pixar movies are also full of Apple references. Yes, the tech company.
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'Why Apple?' you wonder. Well, Pixar's massive success is often credited in part to Steve J

iOS 12 has truly been a treasure trove of both heating up the rumor mill and strongly hinting at upcoming devices.
Since last's September iPhone X unveiling, rumors have been swirling that a larger model, presumably the iPhone X Plus, was en route for 2018. Now, legendary iOS developer, Guilherme Rambo, has taken to Twitter to show off a sketch of the presumed iPhone.
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While digging through the latest iOS 12 beta, now up to v