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The New York City Police Department is using a new software system called Patternizr, which helps officers search through “hundreds of thousands” of case files, according to a report in The Washington Post.
The report says that the software was developed in house, and allows analysts to search across a wide range of files to look for patterns or similar crimes. Previously, they would have had to have gone through physical files. In one example, officers used the system to connect tw

Donald Trump supporters are turning to a Yelp-like restaurant review app in search of safe spaces.
Dubbing the society-wide repulsion to the president's signature red hats as "MAGAphobic," Trump fans are using the app "63red Safe" as a guide to conservative-friendly restaurants. The Daily Beast reports that the app's users rate businesses based on if the owners "make political social media posts" and if customers are allowed to carry weapons. 
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Good news everyone: The jaguar who attacked a woman taking a selfie will live. 
The woman reportedly crossed over a barrier near the jaguar enclosure at the Wildlife World Zoo in Arizona on Saturday to take a photo with the cats when one reached out and slashed her arm. Paramedics took her to a nearby hospital to treat the non life-threatening injuries, according to a statement from the zoo. 
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Apple is giving users some extra cash when they transfer money to their Apple ID account, as spotted byMacRumors. Through March 14th, users who transfer money from their debit or credit cart to their account will get a 10 percent bonus credit.
Users can add money to their accounts if they dig into their phone’s settings: you first must go into settings, then to iTunes & App Store. From there, you click on your Apple ID, and then View Apple ID. Finally, on that screen, you can click on

One of Mark Zuckerberg's earliest allies in Silicon Valley says the Facebook CEO's recent privacy manifesto is little more than a PR stunt that won't solve the company's most serious problems.
Speaking at SXSW, Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor and and onetime advisor to Zuckerberg, called the CEO's recent promise to rebuild Facebook as a "privacy-focused" platform "a very effective public relations move that once again is deflecting us away from the core problem."
McNamee, who once coun

YouTubers have found a new way to make fun of TikToks without getting hit by copyright claims, and it makes cringeworthy videos actually funny.
Reaction video culture thrives off of making fun of TikTok. Since the app was Musical.ly, YouTubers garnered millions of views from curating bad lip syncs and pointing out how embarrassing they are, from the overtly sexual, sped-up dancing to the bizarre song selection. But thanks to copyright takedowns, YouTubers who make these videos ether risk losing

Nobody loves staring at a bright white screen all day, which is why dark versions of popular apps are useful for people whose eyes need a break. Workplace communication tool Slack has finally joined the ranks of apps that offer a dark mode — but there's a catch. 
SEE ALSO: How to unlock Facebook Messenger's hidden 'Dark Mode'
Dark mode for iOS and Android Slack users is only available in beta for the present moment. If you're not already in the Slack beta, it's not hard to sign up &md

Whatever people might think of Saturday Night Live these days, it's still a badge of honor for celebrities to host an episode of America's most popular sketch comedy show. 
On March 30, Killing Eve's Sandra Oh will become the second Asian-American woman to host the show, after rapper/actor Awkwafina became the first in late 2018. 
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Oh's most recent gig is her SAG and Golden Globe–winning performanc

Palmer Luckey’s Anduril Industries has won a contract on the Pentagon’s controversial AIprogram, Project Maven, reports The Intercept. Since founding the company in 2017, Luckey has focused on the defense industry, building advanced systems that could be used for border surveillance.Project Maven is a controversial artificial intelligence program that uses machine learning to sort through millions of hours of drone footage to help systems distinguish people from their surroundings.

Spoiler warning: This review reveals major plot points from season 1 of American Gods, and lays out season 2 storylines.
Neil Gaiman’s 2007 novel American Gods tells the story of awesome, magical beings brought low by the loss of faith and the cold realities of the modern age. Now the same tragic fate has struck Starz’s American Gods TV adaptation, which returned for season 2 on March 10th. Conflicts about the show’s budget and adherence to Gaiman’s story led showrunners

Remember Rod Blagojevich? My memory of the former Illinois Governor is the coverage of his case from The Daily Show as Jon Stewart made a long-running gag of exaggerating his name. In 2008, Governor Blagojevich was arrested and charged with corruption after a long-running investigation, and was eventually impeached and removed from office. A new podcast from WBEZ Chicago, Public Official A, delves into the events that led to Blagojevich’s removal from office, and why his name has been in

Jordan Peele changed the horror game and won an Oscar for 2017's Get Out, so there was a lot of pressure on Us, his new horror film that debuted at SXSW. 
SEE ALSO: Jordan Peele's 'Us' will haunt you, and not just in the ways you'd expect
Peele described Get Out as a "social horror" movie, and the consensus among critics is that while Us tackles different elements of societal horrors, the overarching themes of the movie play more into the personal. 
Here's what the critics are saying.

If I had a dollar for every genuinely funny tweet that was tweeted, I'd probably reach billionaire status, a la Kylie. 
Instead of money, we get laughter, which is arguably better than money. Just kidding. Unlike most of our bank accounts, though, funny tweets are bottomless.
We must warn you: laughter could occur from viewing these tweets. If you're trying to remain stoic at your desk while pretending to work right now, these carefully selected gems might blow your cover. 
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Apex Legends is the hottest game of the moment, skyrocketing to 50 million registered players in its first month of existence. Its combination of lightning-quick action and squad-focused gameplay has made it not only a popular game to play, but an exciting one to watch as well. Apex regularly dominates the Twitch charts, often topping mainstay Fortnite. So it’s no surprise that Apex Legends is primed to become the next big e-sport.
Over the last few weeks, established e-sports teams have

Disney's rebooted DuckTales doesn't just draw from the beloved '80s animated series for inspiration; it also pulls ideas from companion pieces as well.
In 1989, at the height of the original series' popularity, video game publisher Capcom released a side-scrolling DuckTales game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Much like the show that inspired it, the game was a hit, and one that's proven to be an enduring success in more recent years, following a remastering of the original game.
One of t

Captain Marvel is a hit.
The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened Friday, and it's currently angling toward a U.S. opening weekend total of $153 million. Once you add in all the other regions that hosted a Captain Marvel opening, that number shoots up to a $455 million take worldwide.
Assuming the weekend estimate bears out (or is exceeded), Captain Marvel's $153 million weekend is enough to make it the third-highest opening ever for the month of March, behind Beauty and the Beas

Last month, my astrology app told me to investigate the debt industry.
This mysterious but oddly pointed instruction was a far cry from the veiled, flowery language I'd seen on other zodiac sites. It was direct. It was concise. And, especially because I'd just paid my student loan bill, it was kind of eerie.
I'm not the only one who's been weirded out by Co – Star's push notifications. Though the feature hasn't been rolled out to all the app's users (yet, at least), those who h

Facebook has sued two Ukrainian men for allegedly using quiz apps to scrape Facebook users’ private data and inject advertisements into their News Feeds. The lawsuit, filed Friday, accuses Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov of running a years-long hacking scheme.Between 2017 and 2018, they enticed users to install malicious browser plugins promising horoscopes or “character and popularity” tests, apparently infecting around 63,000 Facebook users’ browsers. Sluchevsky a

A few good deals kicked off today. Since it’s March 10th, or “MAR10” day as Nintendo would call it, Nintendo Switch digital games featuring the plumber are $39.99, and you can find the following titles for $20 off of their usual prices:Super Mario Party (Amazon, Walmart)
Super Mario Odyssey (Amazon, Walmart)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Amazon, Walmart)
Mario Tennis Aces (Amazon, Walmart)
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Amazon)If you don’t yet own a Nintendo Switch, buying a con

One of the sadder parts of the new Star Wars trilogy is the fact that OG buddies Luke Skywalker and Han Solo never got to meet up before Han's untimely death in The Force Awakens. 
Actors Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford, however, are alive and still friends even after being killed off in the series that made them famous. 
Hamill, who is an unyielding delight on Twitter, posted a picture of himself and Ford hugging and captioned it "What a Han/Luke reunion might have been like," and with

Pretty much every movie casting is up to the scrutiny of Twitter these days, and Saturday Night Live leaned hard on parsing the logic of the hordes in a new sketch called "Can I Play That?" 
Three actors hear a role and have seconds to decide if they're allowed to take it, and seeing as Idris Elba is a contestant....yes, there's a Bond joke.  Read more...
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In case the viral Momo hoax wasn't scary enough, Saturay Night Live imagined a world where the human-bird hybrid sculpture that has terrified children across the world had a doppelgänger in a popular chicken restaurant's mascot. Sure, Bok Bok may look like Momo and creep around like Momo... and pop up in unexpected places like Momo, but she's definitely not Momo. 
Right?  Read more...
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Gwyneth Paltrow's wellness company Goop is famous for selling super expensive products whose benefits and ingredients aren't always backed up by science. 
Since Paltrow was in New York City for a Goop summit, she stopped by Saturday Night Live to put in a surprise appearance on Weekend Update as a Goop supervisor. She poked a little fun at her own work, riffing on the notion that nobody who works for the company knows what any of their products do or contain, like at all. Read more...
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New York congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes that people should welcome robots taking their jobs — but not the economic system that can make it financially devastating. During a talk at SXSW, an audience member asked Ocasio-Cortez about the threat of automated labor. “We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work,” she said in response. “We should be excited by that. But the reason we’re not excited by it is becau

Pete Davidson kicked off his Weekend Update segment on the latest Saturday Night Live with a comment that got a shocked response from the show's live audience: "If you support the Catholic Church, isn't that the same thing as being an R. Kelly fan?"
The rest of the segment actually moved away from Kelly's specific case to focus more on the growing phenomenon of "problematic faves." You know, celebs whose behavior — in whatever horrible form it might take — makes it hard to carry on a

After the obsessive internet sleuthing that followed Serial Season 1, the prospect of re-examining Adnan Syed's conviction for the murder of Hae Min Lee sounded exhausting. 
And yet, roughly five years later, The Case Against Adnan Syed, which premieres Sunday night on HBO, delivers shocking new revelations on a story many true-crime fans know better than the back of their hands. Hae was found murdered in her car in 1999, leading to the conviction of her boyfriend Adnan a year later. In 201

Cities are noisy places, and a team of scientists believe that sensors, artificial intelligence, and some generous volunteers can help solve the problem. Sounds of New York City (SONYC) is asking citizen scientists to listen to 10-second sound clips collected by sensors around the city and identify what they hear.Users are presented with a spectrogram visualization of the audio and a menu of options (“small-sounding engine,” “dog barking,” “ice cream truck”)

The latest Saturday Night Live cold open skipped D.C. humor for a change, focusing instead on R. Kelly's explosive interview with Gayle King. The disgraced pop star made headlines on Wednesday when a CBS This Morning interview devolved into tearful and openly aggressive as Kelly unsuccessfully tried to play the victim card.
This cold open is just a straight riff on King's 80-minute sitdown. It covers the interview's big moments and takes... let's call it an unsympathetic view of Kelly, an allege

 
Today is March 10, also known as MAR10 Day (get it?), and to celebrate Nintendo is offering a Nintendo Switch console plus your choice of Mario game for only $329.99. Usually, you would expect to spend closer to $350 if you bought the game and console separately. Offer is only valid through March 16 or while supplies last.
Already own a Nintendo Switch? You can still celebrate since the same bundled games featuring your favorite animated plumber are discounted down to $39.99. Select