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Fed up Toronto residents managed to push the city into fixing a sinkhole by passive aggressively planting tomatoes in it. 
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A huge pothole has marred Poplar Plains Road "for months now," according to CityNews reporter Brandon Rowe.
Fed up with the city's slow progress on getting it fixed, the gardeners of Toronto banded together and planted tomatoes in the pothole. No this isn’t a community garden! Some fed up r

Jennifer Lopez knows what the people want, and what the people want are romantic comedies.
On Friday night's Tonight Show, Lopez talked to host Jimmy Fallon about her upcoming film Second Act, in which she stars as a woman who enters the corporate workforce in her forties, per Entertainment Weekly. She'll act opposite Milo Ventimiglia of This Is Us and Gilmore Girls fame. 
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After gushing over "heartthrob" Ventimiglia, Lopez and Fall

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra's engagement went Instagram official, and the internet can't handle it.
Jonas reportedly popped the question a month ago on Chopra's 36th birthday. The couple didn't make the official announcement until Saturday morning, however, after a traditional engagement ceremony in Mumbai. 
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Jonas and Chopra both posted adorable photos from their Roka ceremony — one of the tradition

Dozens of people in the Southeast U.S. were treated to a special cosmic show in the wee hours of Friday morning.
An exceedingly bright fireball meteor streaked above that part of the country at about 1:19 a.m. ET on Friday, and it was caught in the act by NASA's all sky cameras in Alabama. 
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"Early results indicate the fireball, which was at least 40 times as bright as the Full Moon, was caused

Netflix has canceled The Break With Michelle Wolf and The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale; neither of the talk shows will make it to a second season. Their brief runs are the latest example of Netflix’s struggle to deliver a show in this format that can draw eyes and maintain regular viewership. The company ended Chelsea Handler’s weekly talk show — its first real foray into the genre — last October after two seasons. Chelsea initially aired three nights each week befo

Crafty zookeepers are keeping a set of newborn panda twins alive by switching them out every day. 
Although twins aren't uncommon, when pandas have multiple babies they tend to devote all of their attention to only one of their cubs, leaving the other to starve. 
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But these zookeepers have managed to get new panda moms to care for both babies by rotating them out, tricking the pandas into believing they

This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week.
Forget for a moment our current government drama, and savor this lovely palette cleanser in the form of Antoni Porowski from Queer Eye holding a wombat. 
The QE food expert shared a delightful Boomerang of the pair enjoying a beautiful moment together. In the clip, the wombat chills on the avocado chef's lap, and Antoni looks like he's about to melt.Wooly wombat ❤ᥧ

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Unicorn exits are taking flight.
With the IPO window wide open, an apparent record number of venture-backed companies privately valued over $1 billion have launched public offerings this year. Crunchbase data shows 23 unicorn IPOs globally so far in 2018, well outpacing full-year totals for 2016 and 2017.
Collectively, th

For Ariana Grande, the song "get well soon" off her new album sweetener is a deeply personal one, inspired in part by the 2017 Manchester terrorist attack at one of her concerts that left 22 people dead. 
In a Friday interview with Ebro Darden on Apple Music's Beats 1 radio, Grande spoke through tears about the song and her experiences following the attack.But early in the interview, Grande notes that the song isn't just about Manchester. 
"It's also about personal demons and anxiety,

It’s Summer Lovin’ Week here at Mashable, which means things are getting steamy. In honor of the release of Crazy Rich Asians, we’re celebrating onscreen love and romance, looking at everything from our favorite fictional couples to how Hollywood’s love stories are evolving. Think of it as our love letter to, well, love.
Entertainment fans love love, but this Romance Week we wanted to take a moment to appreciate the TV couples that didn't make it. Where would any of our r

On Thursday, it looked as though Google was starting to roll out a redesigned version of its vital Android Messages app. The update featured some visual changes like getting rid of the blue bar at the top and switching over to the company’s Google Sans font. It also included a dark mode as an alternative to the default, so-much-white look.But late last night, as Reddit users were quick to notice, Google reverted back to the old Android Messages design — even for those who had alread

Harrowing new footage released by California's firefighting agency Cal Fire reveals the massive fire tornado that led to the death of a firefighter on July 26.
The fire tornado was part of the Carr Fire that's engulfed 223,610 acres of land in Northern California so far. A report from Cal Fire breaks down the details surrounding the fiery phenomenon.
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Per the report, the tornado "was a large rotating fire plume that was roughly 1,00

This upcoming week feels like the last big back to school push from retailers. We’re seeing Amazon devices drop down to near-Prime Day 2018 prices. Bose noise-canceling headphones, which are excellent study buddies, have had enjoyed a week-long $50 discount. There’s a whole lot more to see, whether you’re looking for portable tech or gear to fill out your entertainment center.
Starting with a big deal on a high-end graphics card, B&H is offering a discount on the GeForce G

When the internet created the Slender Man, it did not realize it had made manifest the fears of a whole generation adrift in the digital age.
Faceless, amorphous, and boundless, the tall black-suited figure sprang from the crowdsourced anxieties of our online hivemind. Countless internet urban legends existed before and after him. But Slender rose above all, his empty face an uncanny reflection of the virtual void we summoned him from.
Recently Hollywood tried to capitalize on his internet pheno

Minor spoilers ahead for Crazy Rich Asians.
With the new romantic dramedy Crazy Rich Asians, based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan, Warner Bros. is making a rare venture into films with an all-Asian cast. But the Asian romantic comedy is already a wildly popular genre that’s spawned a variety of online fan communities, and it comes with its own set of heavily used tropes, such as buffoonish gangsters who hold the female lead for ransom, or a male lead who gets into a car accident a

No matter how upside down the world becomes, there's always room to find love.
At least that's what Stranger Things star David Harbour is hinting at when it comes to Season 3 of the Netflix phenomenon. 
More specifically, Harbour teased fans about the undeniable chemistry between his character Hopper and Winona Ryder's Joyce during a Q&A at an Emmy nomination celebration event on Friday.
So, what can we expect from the newest season when it drops in 2019? In a word: heat.
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HBO’s adaptation of the classic graphic novel Watchmen is officially coming to small screens. After ordering a pilot episode last year, the network has picked up the show for a full first season, which will debut in 2019.Along with the announcement of the series pickup and roughly when we’ll be able to expect the show, the network announced the cast for the series, which will include Regina King (Southland), Jeremy Irons (Justice League), Tim Blake Nelson (Wormwood), and more.Nothin

HBO’s adaptation of the classic graphic novel Watchmen is officially coming to small screens. After ordering a pilot episode last year, the network has picked up the show for a full first season, which will debut in 2019.Along with the announcement of the series pickup and roughly when we’ll be able to expect the show, the network announced the cast for the series, which will include Regina King (Southland), Jeremy Irons (Justice League), Tim Blake Nelson (Wormwood), and more.Nothin

We all love our computers a lot (most of the time). But what if you could give your favorite gadget an actual hug? That’s where pillow company Throwboy comes in, with a Kickstarter for its lineup of “Iconic” gadget pillows that look oddly similar to some of Apple’s most famous products over the years.Throwboy is extremely careful to never mention the words “Apple,” “Mac,” or “iPhone” anywhere on its Kickstarter page, but the pillows ar

When everyone's a passenger instead of a driver, the car experience really starts to change.
As we take more and more Lyft and Uber rides — and eventually once autonomous cars drive us around — the purpose of the car will transform. The space once centered on getting us from point A to point B is already becoming yet another portal to sell us stuff.
SEE ALSO: New smart car feature alerts you if you leave something in the back seat
Services like Cargo and Vendy bring products like gum

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The Cat S61 is an interesting phone, which is a label that doesn't fit too many phones these days. However, the software needs work, and the price tag is too high for what it offers.
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It’s Summer Lovin’ Week here at Mashable, which means things are getting steamy. In honor of the release of Crazy Rich Asians, we’re celebrating onscreen love and romance, looking at everything from our favorite fictional couples to how Hollywood’s love stories are evolving. Think of it as our love letter to, well, love.Spoilers ahead for To All the Boys I've Loved Before, though if you've ever seen a romcom before, you can probably guess how it ends. 
There's a lot

You probably have no idea how recycling works.
Most Americans — who recycle nearly 87 million tons of waste each year — likely think that the plastic and paper thrown into those special blue bins gets sorted by some nebulous government agency and automatically becomes an environmentally-friendly product.
But that's not how it works. Recycling, first and foremost, is a business.
When recycled goods get picked up by the state's waste management corporation, they are taken to a Material

On Thursday afternoon, a critical meeting at Google was derailed by a handful of tweets. Employees who had been pressing top executives for answers about the company’s plans to build a censored search engine and news app for the Chinese market appeared to have finally gotten their wish. Google cofounder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai had taken the stage to address employees’ concerns. “We’ll definitely be transparent as we get closer to actually having a plan of recor

Between your tablet, e-reader, smartphone, and every other smart gadget on the market, you have a lot of devices you use on a daily basis. The problem is, you only have a limited number of outlets and USB ports and don’t have enough time to charge each item one by one. It’s even worse when you live with someone who has just as many — if not, more — gadget as you.
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Turns out, all you really need is Okra’s Desktop Univers

It can be overwhelming for a newbie who has never dealt with code before to dive into game development head first, but the Complete Unity Game Developer Bundle (on sale for only $39) is beginner friendly and will guide you through game creation from start to finish.
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Across seven courses and over 200 lessons, you'll get to explore the different facets of making a game, beginning with animation and ending with monetization. You'll learn procedural cont

Congress has never made a law saying, “Corporations should get to decide who gets to publish truthful information about defects in their products,”— and the First Amendment wouldn’t allow such a law — but that hasn’t stopped corporations from conjuring one out of thin air, and then defending it as though it was a natural right they’d had all along. Some background: in 1986, Ronald Reagan, spooked by the Matthew Broderick movie Wargames (true s

It’s been a hell of a week for Tesla CEO Elon Musk: federal investigations, allegations of drug trafficking, and a tearful interview with the biggest newspaper in the world. So why not cap the week with an interview with popular You Tuber and avowed Tesla fan (and Model S owner) Marques Brownlee to talk Model 3 production, technology, science, and basically everything not having to do with this off-the-rails news cycle.
The interview, which MKBHD promoted as “the most important vide

Netflix isn't known for being quick to cancel or even do much quality control with its glut of original content.
But the streaming service confirmed that the company would not be ordering additional episodes of The Break with Michelle Wolf. The move comes as a bit of an unpleasant surprise, considering the cancellation is happening a mere four months after the variety show debuted on May 27.
Reportedly The Joel McHale Show is being cancelled, too, after only a 19-episode run that started back in

U.S. officials sent out a warning after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was attacked with explosive drones in a failed assassination attempt.
The Aug. 4 attack targeted Maduro while he was giving a speech in Caracas. He was unharmed but seven soldiers were hurt. It raised concerns worldwide that commercial drones could be used to harm people. 
SEE ALSO: A hacker tried selling stolen military drone documents for $200
ABC News obtained a bulletin from the FBI, Department of Homeland Secur

Valve has created its own Twitch competitor, and it’s launching it today just in time for The International tournament. Steam.tv is Valve’s new streaming site, and it’s currently dedicated to the company’s Dota 2 game. Valve’s launch of Steam TV comes just as The International, an annual Dota 2 e-sports tournament, is about to begin on August 20th. The International is the biggest e-sports tournament in the world, thanks to its massive prize fund of over $24 millio

Valve has accidentally revealed it’s working on improving its Twitch-like Steam broadcasting feature. Steam.tv briefly came online on Friday, revealing Valve’s new streaming site that appears to be dedicated to the company’s Dota 2 tournament. “We are working on updating Steam Broadcasting for the Main Event of The International, Dota 2’s annual tournament,” explains a Valve spokesperson to The Verge. “What people saw was a test feed that was inadverten