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Can we just take a moment to appreciate how well these gorillas know their angles?
Ndakazi and Ndeze, two orphaned gorillas who were raised at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, posed for a selfie that went viral over the weekend. 
Standing upright behind ranger Mathieu Shamavu, the gorillas served nothing but face for the camera. That over the shoulder smize! That slight squat, just subtle enough to show off the gorilla's figure! These girls take better selfies than

The world is awash in '90s nostalgia — and it's even showing up in our passwords.
A new study from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has revealed the world's most easily hacked passwords, CNN reports. The top no-brainer passwords overall are impersonal number combinations, like 12345. But in the category of "bands," the most breached password is the name of the popular '90s pop-punk outfit, Blink-182. 
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Elon Musk said at an event on Monday that Tesla will someday allow drivers to select aggressive modes of its Autopilot driver assistance system that have a “slight chance of a fender bender.” Musk didn’t say when Tesla might roll out that option, only that the company would have to have “higher confidence” in Autopilot’s capabilities before allowing it to happen.“Do you want to have a nonzero chance of a fender bender on freeway traffic?” Musk ask

April showers bring May flowers — as well as lots and lots of Broadway show openings, as productions rush to premiere before the Tonys eligibility cutoff (end of April).
Happily, that means plenty of new shows to choose from right now if you're looking for a Broadway night out. There's something for everyone, whether you want a classic revival or a thought-provoking new work. 
That's where this guide comes in. Here's the show to watch if you want to...
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Facebook's latest attempt to crack down on election interference just hit a major obstacle.
The social network might be willing to exempt some European political parties from its rules about political advertising, the Financial Times reports. The concession came in a letter from Facebook's head of global affairs Nick Clegg to European Parliament president Antonio Tajani.
SEE ALSO: Facebook's plans for a 'high quality news tab' sure sound like a swipe at Apple News+
Ahead of next month's European

The Central Intelligence Agency will soon be launching an Instagram account, Director Gina Haspel said last week — and Instagram is helping them set it up.
On Thursday, Director Haspel addressed a crowd at the University of Auburn in Alabama and mentioned that the CIA would soon have a presence on Instagram. The agency already has Facebook and Twitter accounts where they thirst for young talent with memes, and Instagram would be the intelligence agency’s latest foray into social med

A stunning video shot during Monday's earthquake in the Philippines shows water cascading down the side of the building like an urban mega-waterfall.
The water reportedly sloshed out of a rooftop pool of the residential Anchor Skysuites in the Binondo district of Manila as the building swayed during the earthquake.
Accoring to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake registered as a magnitude 6.1, with the epicenter reported to be about 50 miles from Manilla. At least eight people have died, accord

Google has free food and nap pods—but several employees say it also has hostile managers. 
Meredith Whittaker and Claire Stapleton were both organizers of the Walkout for Real Change in November, during which 200,000 employees "walked out" to protest sexual misconduct, "golden parachutes" for the accused, and other forms of discrimination at Google. 
On Monday, the two Google employees sent out an internal letter detailing the ways management has allegedly retaliated against mult

It’s Earth Day, a day to appreciate the large chunk of rock that serves as our protective spaceship as it transports us through the Universe. Google is celebrating today by highlighting six strange creatures and organisms that also call this spaceship their home.Today’s Google Doodle animation takes people on a journey from the top of Earth’s atmosphere to our planet’s deepest caves where all kinds of diverse plants and organisms reside. The cartoon highlights creatures

The final season of Game of Thrones is in full swing, so you'd better make sure that you have somewhere to stream all the action (if not, prepare to be spoiled). If you hopped off the cable train long ago and keep all of your episodic television watching strictly portable, you deserve only the best laptop (or tablet) for optimal viewing — and we’ve found quite a few for you. 
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Last month, at an event to show off Tesla's newest electric car, CEO Elon Musk proclaimed, "This is the year of the solar roof and Powerwall."
It's a sentiment that might seem out of a place at a car reveal party, but Tesla's energy collection and storage systems are inextricably tied to its vehicles. The Powerwall is Tesla's wall unit, which serves as a giant battery to supply electricity for a home or electric car; the solar roof is made up of small solar panel-tiles that turn sunlight into el

It's been a few days since the Mueller Report was released into the world, and readers are taking to Goodreads to share some highly enlightening and entertaining reviews of what they've read.
There are multiple published versions of the report, with a few of them hitting Amazon's best-seller list even though you can download the whole thing for free [PDF]. 
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All of these reviews are scattered across a few diff

Roll call!
Avengers: Endgame is almost here, and with it comes the resolution to a story arc that started with Iron Man more than a decade ago. There have been 21 movies in total leading up to this point and a whole lot of characters to follow from each of them.
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Since virtually every single one will be showing up at some point or another in Endgame, we thought it might be helpful to step back for a moment and take stock. Wher

Tesla is about to hold an “Autonomy Investor Day” today at its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. The event was slated to start at 2PM ET (but is running a little late), and you can watch it above or at this link. The event comes two days before Tesla is due to report its financial performance for the first quarter of 2019, during which it is expected that the company will post a loss for the first time since the second quarter of 2018.The company has been pretty tight-lipped ab

Now that Easter weekend is over, we're officially on the fast track to summer. Opportunities to use chilly weather as an excuse for spending Friday night on the couch are dwindling — so you had better get that binge watching in now.
But hey, staying in to watch TV doesn't mean you're not productive: You could be streaming a yoga class, learning how to cook rice to host a party, or catching up on Stranger Things to catch the new season in July. In honor of Earth Day, there are a ton of must

Apple’s future beyond the iPhone increasingly involves software services, ranging from Apple Music and iCloud to its new TV Plus video offering and its News Plus magazine subscription. Yet a big factor in helping those cloud-based services operate across its nearly 1.5 billion active devices simultaneously is the company’s ongoing contract with Amazon, specifically Amazon’s cloud computing division. According to CNBC, Apple is one of Amazon Web Services’ biggest customer

Samsung has confirmed reports from earlier today that it is postponing the release of its $2,000 Galaxy Fold foldable phone only days before it was originally scheduled to go on sale. “We plan to announce the [new] release date in the coming weeks,” Samsung said in a statement.Earlier today, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Fold won’t hit shelves until sometime in May at the earliest, but Samsung is giving itself plenty of leeway with its non-committal timeframe. The

Rachel Lears's moving documentary Knock Down the House chronicles the merited campaigns of four progressive women candidates — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Amy Vilela, and Paula Jean Swearengin — during the 2018 midterm elections. 
The trailer above traces the poignancy of their run for Congress. We already know the ending to this story, but clearly, it's the journey that matters here.
Knock Down the House had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this

Between your laptop, tablet, phone, earphones, and smartwatch, charging them all at once is one giant headache. Combine your collection of gadgets with that of your roommate/s' or family's, and you probably embark on your own mini World War III when one of you starts hogging all the outlets in the house.
The only way to keep the peace at home? The ChargeHub X5+ Elite — a 5-port power station with wireless charging capability that can finally stop you all from fighting over outlets. You can

Microsoft employees have put forward a petition in defense of a trending GitHub repository they believe could be under threat of Chinese censorship. The repository, called 996.ICU, was established in late March by Chinese tech workers who were protesting extreme overwork. The stories name some of the biggest companies in China, including Alibaba, Huawei, ByteDance, DJI, Tencent, Vivo, and others.
The protest has enraged Chinese censors, and many local browsers are already blocking access to 996

Summer is coming.
As you plot the days you're planning on going to the beach to soak up the sun, thieves are also rubbing their hands in anticipation to soak up your valuables. Because as much as the beach is considered the prime destination for vacationers everywhere, it's also a top spot for pickpocketing. While you throw frisbees or get too immersed in your summer read, sneaky robbers are looking to swipe your stuff.
To protect your belongings, make sure to store them inside the SAFEGO instea

“I think it’s significant that I haven’t left the Bay Area,” says writer and artist Jenny Odell, who grew up in Cupertino and now lives in Oakland. Odell, who also teaches at Stanford University, is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (out now from Melville House).Many writers have sounded the alarm over our increasingly fractured attention, but Odell’s book is not about blocking the internet or retreating from Facebook. Odell does focu

The Samsung Galaxy Wearable app has been down for the past several days, with hundreds of users reporting log-in and update issues. The issue affects Samsung Gear and Galaxy Watch Active watches, with the app freezing on a white screen when users attempt to sign in on their phones.
A thread on Samsung’s community forums, which was started last Thursday, now spans 65 pages of users reporting problems with the app. The issue appears to affect several Android devices ranging from Google Pixe

The TV market is like the wild, wild west, but that doesn't mean you should wait until Black Friday sales tell you which one to get. Summer 2019 deserves movie streaming on a real TV — not a laptop.
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Instead of giving up size for price (or vice versa), Insignia makes it easy: This line of 4K TVs has Fire TV built in and is already hella affordable, but the 55-inch model

Many PC gamers claim that playing on a personal computer is the best way to experience video games in general due to their power, customization options, and library of titles across the web’s many game launchers. If that sounds good to you and you’re ready to jump into the PC gaming space, consider an option that you can take with you anywhere — treat yourself to a gaming laptop.
The Dell G3 gaming laptop is $250 off at Walmart — it’s a powerful device and a perfect

Bowers & Wilkins’ new Formation Suite, a luxury high-end audio system for the whole home, has officially launched today. It is comprised of five very expensive products — with designs that you’ll either love or hate — that can be wirelessly synced to each other a la Sonos. Each of the speakers in the Formation suite support high-quality 96kHz / 24-bit sound via wireless streaming, and Bowers & Wilkins touts that they feature a simplistic user interface to allow f

If you’ve been toying with the idea of at-home juicing, now is a good time to take the leap and commit. Fruits and veggies are coming back into season, so you have a plethora of fresh ingredients to choose from, plus right now Cuisinart’s juice extractor is on sale for $114.99 at Walmart, down from $149.
The juicer features a three-inch feed tube that can easily handle whole fruits and vegetables, cutting down your prep time. The die-cast and stainless steel mechanism makes for quiet

UPDATE: April 22, 2019, 1:07 p.m. ET: This story was updated to include the news that Samsung confirmed it was delaying the launch of the Galaxy Fold.
Welp, it looks like U.S. customers will have to wait a bit longer for the Samsung Galaxy Fold.
On Monday morning, the Wall Street Journal reported that Samsung plans to delay the April 26 U.S. release of its foldable phone until "at least next month." Later, Samsung confirmed that it was delaying the launch, and will announce the new date "in the

Nearly every gaming peripheral is equipped with RGB lighting, and Logitech’s G gaming brand is no different. Last year, the company redesigned its Logitech Control Center (LCC) app, which allows you to fully control its gaming equipment, and it gave the app a new name in the process: the Logitech G Hub.If you are a fan of RGB lighting, then here’s how to control the LED technology, which Logitech calls LightSync, in your peripherals. This guide also covers how to apply color presets

Of all the great houses in Game of Thrones, House Stark is the one best known for adhering to a sense of honor. They are a strong, stalwart house who prize justice and fairness, and compared to families like the Martells, Tyrells, and Lannisters they're the least scheme-y nobles in Westeros. 
On the one hand, that's great! House Stark are the good guys and every story needs those. On the other hand, that honor has been the cause of death of every dead Stark on the show. 
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