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It's the afternoon of a day ending with "y," so you know Donald Trump has offended someone already.
Look no further than Trump's Fox News interview with Chris Wallace. A clip from that interview went viral earlier on Sunday when Wallace asked the president to respond to comments by Bill McRaven, the former Navy SEAL who oversaw the operation the ended in the death of Osama Bin Laden.
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McRaven had previously criticized Trump

Syfy renewed its urban fantasy show The Magicians for a fourth season in February, and announced that the next season would hit next January. This weekend, the network gave us a look at what to expect with the first full trailer for the upcoming season.The series is based on Lev Grossman’s The Magicians trilogy, in which a student named Quentin Coldwater (played by Jason Ralph) discovers that magic is real when he enters a magical school called the Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy.

At the beginning of the year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made changes to its website pages on fracking. 
A watchdog group known as the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative tracked those changes across the EPA’s site and just released a report documenting the group’s findings. The result of the changes has left an official U.S. government website looking more like an extension of the fossil fuel industry than a federal agency with a mission to protect the

Just in case you had any doubts, darts and farts do not mix well.
In fact, when the two become involved, things can get pretty ugly. Just ask Gary Anderson (Grown Man #1) and Wesley Harms (Grown Man #2,) professional dart players who recently accused each other of farting at the Grand Slam of Darts in England.
As The Guardian reported on Friday, after Anderson of Scotland beat Harms, a Dutch player, 10-2 in a match that earned him a spot in the quarter-finals, some foul-smelling accusations came

Comedian Steve Carell hosted Saturday Night Live last night, and Amazon’s announcement of the final selections for its secondary headquarters in Queens, New York and Crystal City, Virginia was the main focus of one sketch. In it, Carell portrayed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to explain the real reason why those two locations made the cut: to troll President Donald Trump.Carell uses the sketch to paint a picture of Bezos using his company and wealth to try and humiliate Trump: “Sure, he att

YouTube has just rolled out dozens of free-to-watch full-length feature films on its platform. The only catch is that the content is ad-supported.
First noticed by AdAge, YouTube began launching ad-supported Hollywood films under a “Free to watch” section on its Movies & Shows vertical. Films like Legally Blonde, The Terminator, Rocky, Hackers, and All Dogs Go to Heaven are listed on the page with a “Free with Ads” tag displayed under the title. Users can watch these

It seems like Netflix’s“House of Cards” had a real opportunity for a fresh start with season six.
Granted, the behind-the-scenes turmoil probably made this season particularly challenging: Production was already underway when “Star Trek: Discovery” actor Anthony Rapp came forward with allegations that Kevin Spacey made a sexual advance towards him when Rapp was only 14. In response, Netflix and production company Media Rights Capital halted production and ultimately

J.K. Rowling's big screen Wizarding World is hardly on death's door, but Warner Bros. can't be happy about Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald's opening weekend.
Sunday estimates point to a $62.2 million start for the newly released sequel, which hit theaters on Nov. 16. That's low. Low for a Wizarding World movie (and one that introduces a young and hot Albus Dumbledore, no less), and low for a November tentpole.
SEE ALSO: Critics agree 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald' spel

Shopping for the tech geek in your life can feel like a major challenge — but it doesn't have to be that way.
Instead of trying to find yet another gadgets for the tech geek in your life who seems to have everything, why not buy them one of these very low-tech tees? 
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Whether you're shopping for the engineer in your life, or just looking to pick up something fun for the office exchange, even the geekiest among us will a

Michelle Obama's Becoming book tour has been quite the hit so far, but at Saturday night's Washington, D.C. stop a special guest brought the event to a whole other level.
Michelle's husband, former president Barack Obama, strolled onstage with flowers in-hand to surprise his wife and the entire Capital One Arena audience.
And since his former White House advisor Valerie Jarrett was moderating the conversation, he decided to stay and chat for a bit about the book and his love for his wife. View t

One of the most exciting things about a new kind of device is how little we know about what it’s good for. At this point, we basically know what a smartphone can do, but the possibilities for a voice-activated, internet-enabled speaker are still more or less untested. There are lots of ideas, some good and some bad, and we’re still figuring out which is which.
A new report from the Reuters Institute suggests that the current round of news apps may be one of the bad ideas. The instit

Diane Greeneannounced on Friday that she was stepping down after three years running Google’s cloud business. She will stay on until the first of the year to help her successor, Thomas Kurian in the transition. He left Oracle at the end of September after more than 20 years with the company, and is charged with making Google’s cloud division more enterprise-friendly, a goal that has oddly eluded the company.
Greene was brought on board in 2015 to bring some order and e

In 1985, a hunter walking through Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire made a grisly discovery: a 55 gallon drum left deep in the woods, containing the bodies of two two skeletons, which investigators believed had been left in the woods for years. A subsequent investigation yielded little results until 2000, when a second barrel containing another pair of bodies was discovered, just a hundred meters away.Forensics experts determined that the first two bodies were of an adult femal

If you watched Saturday Night Live's Thanksgiving episode you know a mini reunion for The Office took place and it was glorious. But it wasn't alone.
Turns out Angela Kinsey and Kate Flannery, who played Angela and Meredith, respectively, on the show, were hanging out on Saturday night, too!
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Kinsey dropped by Flannery and Jane Lynch's "A Swingin' Little Christmas" show on Saturday night and blessed fans of The Of

Games age faster than just about any other medium. Even titles that are just a few years old can feel dated as newer, more user-friendly releases come out. This poses a tricky question when it comes to re-releasing classic games: do you keep them in tact, just as they originally were, or update them for modern players? If a couple of recent titles are any indication, the answer is to do both.
Let’s start with Nintendo. As part of its Switch Online service, the company offers NES games tha

Everyone who follows Chrissy Teigen on Twitter knows she loves The Office... including Melora Hardin, the actress who plays Jan Levinson on the show.
On Saturday night, while Luna was asleep and John Legend was performing, Teigen decided to spend her evening in bed, watching re-runs of The Office and tweeting. An extremely relatable thing she does quite often.
But this time, when Teigen tweeted a photo of Jan from her favorite episode, "Dinner Party," JAN REPLIED.
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A good Saturday Night Live sketch is funny. A great one is so funny that some hapless performer — usually, but not always, the guest host — breaks down and laughs. But a perfect SNL sketch? That's when everyone loses it.
That's exactly what happened here in this Space Thanksgiving sketch. The trouble started when someone kicked over a prop at the very beginning, prompting a giggle from Kenan Thompson. Then, everyone openly struggled with the tongue-twisting script, bringing on more l

Leave it to Amazon to begin Black Friday (November 23rd) shopping festivities early. Amazon has started cutting prices on several of its own devices, and it’s introducing more discounted products as November 26th gets closer. To attract shoppers, Amazon is offering free shipping during the holiday period for non-Prime members. Gone is the $25 purchase minimum.
As its daily Black Friday sales continue, we’ll be adding and removing items in order to reflect what’s currently avai

Joe Biden just welcomed a majorly cute addition to his family — a German shepherd named Major.
On Saturday, the former Vice President and his wife Jill officially adopted Major the rescue dog, who they've been fostering, from the Delaware Humane Association in Wilmington, Delaware.
SEE ALSO: Barack Obama and Joe Biden got lunch together, because some bromances never die
“We are so happy to welcome Major to the Biden family, and we are grateful to the Delaware Humane Association for t

Friends-giving is a sacred, made up, pre-holiday tradition for friends. Not strangers.
So when one couple made the mistake of inviting "a new neighbor" (Cecily Strong) and "a straggler" (Steve Carell) to dinner things got a little weird.
After realizing the two strangers knew the same "famous" and super NSFW Thanksgiving song, a sing-a-long erupted, dinner was ruined, property was stolen, and someone got stabbed.
NBD, but maybe consider adding "Thanksgiving songs" to the list of topics to avoid

This Saturday Night Live sketch works a lot better if you imagine Steve Carell is playing a dad version of his legendary Anchorman character, Brick Tamland.
Of course, Brick's ignorance was sweet and strangely wholesome. In contrast, Carell's SNL dad is more of a clueless doormat.
The most impressive thing about this sketch is how it makes 6-foot-2 Pete Davidson look like a high schooler. That's some real TV magic at work right there. Read more...
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The nests of Florida ants called Formica archboldi are adorned with the carcasses of their enemies — namely, the heads of other species known as trap-jaw ants. How Formica archboldi acquire these gruesome home accessories has perplexed scientists since the 1950s. But now, thanks to high-speed and time lapse videos, we have a better picture of this bizarre behavior.The study has been long in the making for Adrian Smith, the head of the Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Lab at the North C

Bookseller Barnes & Noble unveiled its latest Nook tablet earlier this month, the Nook 10.1”, which retails for $129.99. The device went on sale last week, and according to Good eReader the company is offering a couple of useful accessories for the first time: a charging dock and a keyboard,.These are the first official accessories that Barnes & Noble has released for its Nook devices, although there have been third-party docks and chargers for years. This new charging dock retail

Saturday Night Live's Captain Ed McGovern (Steve Carell) thought live streaming to children's classrooms across America from the International Space Station would be great. It was not.
After an unfortunate breach in the system left all the monkeys (and one cat) on-board frozen solid and flying around, things got a bit hectic.
And while we're pretty sure no amount of space puns or jokes could distract from a frozen Russian woman flying outside the spacecraft, that doesn't stop McGovern from tryin

Fact: A whole bunch of people on this planet are begging for a reboot of the beloved NBC comedy, The Office. One of the only holdouts, however, is Steve Carell — Michael Scott himself.
For this reason, four former cast members of The Office — Jenna Fischer, Ellie Kemper, Ed Helms, and Steve's wife Nancy — crashed his opening SNL monologue to demand he reconsider a revival.
Jenna Fischer, who played Pam, even went so far as to reveal the words her character said to Michael in th

Two weeks from now, the Swahilipot Hub, a hackerspace / makerspace / center for techies and artists in Mombasa, Kenya, is hosting a Pwani Innovation Week, “to stimulate the innovation ecosystem in the Pwani Region.” Some of its organizers showed me around Mombasa’s cable landing site some years ago; they’re impressive people. The idea of the Hub and its forthcoming event fills me with unleavened enthusiasm, and optimism … and a bleak realization that it’s bee

I’m only about halfway through about a half-dozen different video games at the moment, but I cannot stop playing Tetris Effect, a reimagining of the classic puzzle game for the PS4 from Rez Infinite and Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi. So much so that, after some long sessions with the game this past weekend, I found myself experiencing the titular hypnagogic phenomenon: when I closed my eyes on Sunday evening, I was seeing the game’s signature tetrominos falling into place.The ga

It's the most wonderful time of the year — for deals!
Black Friday is upon us, and ya'll knew Walmart was gonna give us reason to hold onto our turkey leg hats as we dive after some of the best deals.    
Feeding right into our gadget-loving hearts, we see plenty of worthwhile snags in the tech department (hint: now's definitely a good time to be in the market for a gaming system or TV.) There are also some great steals on everything from home goods and appliances, to kids t

Saturday Night Live saved its best Donald Trump jokes for guest host Steve Carell.
While the latest episode's cold open sketch ripped Trump's favorite propaganda network, Fox News, Carell put on a bald cap and transformed himself into Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos.
His three-minute message is ostensibly a broad overview of where Amazon is at now that its HQ2 locations in New York and northern Virginia have been selected. But really, this video is just an extended string of Trump burns, targe

It may seem counter-intuitive to gift someone interested in living a zero waste lifestyle more products, but reusable essentials are always worth the investment. 
Achieving zero waste is all about minimizing your carbon footprint by limiting the number of garbage you produce — and believe it or not, you need a few things to help make this possible.
SEE ALSO: How to start a zero waste lifestyle
From reusable water bottles, to cloth bags, and jars there are loads of items you can give s

Another week, another Saturday Night Live cold open serving up an is-it-real-or-isn't-it parody of Fox News.
The last one was a pre-Election Day reminder of the role Fox News played in making the distant and not-at-all-dangerous migrant caravan seem like a threat. This one has more of a Weekend Update feel, if Weekend Update featured morally bankrupt hosts like Jeanine Pirro (Cecily Strong) and Laura Ingraham (Kate McKinnon). The SNL writer's room is clearly having fun coming up with fake brands

European online contact lens supplier Vision Direct has revealed a data breach which compromised full credit card details for a number of its customers, as well as personal information.
Compromised data includes full name, billing address, email address, password, telephone number and payment card information, including card number, expiry date and CVV.
It’s not yet clear how many of Vision Direct’s customers are affected — we’ve reached out to the company with questions.

Turkey, bread crumbs, corn — these are just a couple of "gifts" your friends decided to leave on your floor after friendsgiving. And if you've got family coming over soon for Thanksgiving, you're going to have clean up again. Here's a pro tip from us to you: it's time to get a robot vacuum.
Lucky for you, we have just the deal.
The Ecovacs Deebot N79S robot vacuum is currently on sale for $139.99 on Amazon as the retailer's "Deal of the Day" ahead of Black Friday, making it $159.99 off the